One of the strongest ways that time has become a malleable force that’s untethered us from our own sense of reality is the sheer number of TV shows released in a given year. There are some series that feel like they last aired new episodes in 2015, while others have completely disappeared from the public consciousness despite existing for mere months.
Such is the way of modern television. As a result, we’ve decided to keep track of all the 174 seasons of TV we’ve reviewed so far this year. Some shows have fared better than others, but a majority of these are recommendations.
Each review is organized by the letter grade (A+ to F) that accompanies each of them. Some series have prompted follow-ups after pivotal episodes or finales, but the links below will take you to initial season reviews of all the shows listed.
It’s worth noting that these reviews were based on various numbers of episodes per season. (Due to the nature of production, sometimes only a handful of episodes are available before a show’s premiere — other times, the whole season is ready to be previewed.) So, with that context, let us offer our best attempts at an overview for the year in TV.
(For those looking for a more in-depth look at the top-tier 2019 programming, see our lists of the Best New Shows and Best TV Shows of the year so far.)
Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Andrew Scott in “Fleabag”
Amazon
A
Fleabag — Season 2 [Amazon Prime Video]
Tuca & Bertie — Season 1 [Netflix]
Aidy Bryant and Lolly Adefope in “Shrill”
Allyson Riggs / Hulu
A-
A Black Lady Sketch Show — Season 1 [HBO]
Big Mouth — Season 3 [Netflix]
BoJack Horseman — Season 6, Part 1 [Netflix]
Broad City — Season 5 [Comedy Central]
Brooklyn Nine-Nine — Season 6 [NBC]
David Makes Man — Season 1 [OWN]
Dublin Murders — Season 1 [Starz]
The Good Fight — Season 3 [CBS All Access]
High Maintenance — Season 3 [HBO]
Joe Pera Talks With You — Season 2 [Adult Swim]
Magic for Humans — Season 2 [Netflix]
Mindhunter — Season 2 [Netflix]
On Becoming a God in Central Florida — Season 1 [Showtime]
One Day at a Time — Season 3 [Netflix]
The Other Two — Season 1 [Comedy Central]
Rick & Morty — Season 4 [Adult Swim]
A Series of Unfortunate Events — Season 3 [Netflix]
Sex Education — Season 1 [Netflix]
Sherman’s Showcase — Season 1 [IFC]
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt — Season 4 [Netflix]
Undone — Season 1 [Amazon Prime Video]
Wayne — Season 1 [YouTube Premium]
You’re the Worst — Season 5 [FXX]
Chris O’Dowd and Rosamund Pike in “State of the Union”
Marc Hom / Courtesy of Sundance Institute
B+
Alternatino with Arturo Castro — Season 1 [Comedy Central]
Big Little Lies — Season 2 [HBO]
Carmen Sandiego — Season 1 [Netflix]
Catastrophe — Season 4 [Amazon Prime Video]
Dear White People — Season 3 [Netflix]
The Good Place — Season 4 [NBC]
Green Eggs and Ham — Season 1 [Netflix]
I Think You Should Leave — Season 1 [Netflix]
Into the Badlands — Season 3 [AMC]
Killing Eve — Season 2 [BBC America]
The Magicians — Season 4 [Syfy]
The Punisher — Season 2 [Netflix]
The Righteous Gemstones — Season 1 [HBO]
The Society — Season 1 [Netflix]
South Side — Season 1 [Comedy Central]
State of the Union [SundanceTV]
The Twilight Zone — Season 1 [CBS All Access]
Veronica Mars — Season 4 [Hulu]
Weird City — Season 1 [YouTube Premium]
Andrew Koji, “Warrior”
HBO/ David Bloomer
B
Bosch — Season 5 [Amazon Prime Video]
The Boys — Season 1 [Amazon Prime Video]
City on a Hill — Season 1 [Showtime]
The Crown — Season 3 [Netflix]
Dickinson — Season 1 [Apple TV+]
Frankie Drake Mysteries — Season 1 [Ovation]
Friends from College — Season 2 [Netflix]
Gentleman Jack — Season 2 [HBO]
Grace and Frankie — Season 5 [Netflix]
The Handmaid’s Tale — Season 3 [Hulu]
Hanna — Season 1 [Amazon Prime Video]
His Dark Materials — Season 1 [HBO]
Impulse — Season 2 [YouTube Premium]
Limetown — Season 1 [Facebook Watch]
Living with Yourself [Netflix]
Luther — Season 5 [BBC America]
Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries [Acorn]
Nancy Drew — Season 1 [The CW]
No One Saw a Thing [SundanceTV]
On My Block — Season 2 [Netflix]
Star Trek: Discovery — Season 2 [CBS All Access]
Stranger Things — Season 3 [Netflix]
True Detective — Season 3 [HBO]
What We Do in the Shadows — Season 1 [FX]
Why Women Kill — Season 1 [CBS All Access]
The Widow [Amazon Prime Video]
Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men [Showtime]
Lake Bell and Dax Shepard in “Bless This Mess”
ABC/John Fleenor
B-
Abstract: The Art of Design — Season 2 [Netflix]
After Life — Season 1 [Netflix]
Arrested Development — Season 5, Part 2 [Netflix]
Black Monday — Season 1 [Showtime]
Bless This Mess — Season 1 [ABC]
Cobra Kai — Season 2 [YouTube Premium]
The Enemy Within — Season 1 [NBC]
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel — Season 3 [Amazon Prime Video]
The Politician — Season 1 [Netflix]
Servant — Season 1 [Apple TV+]
Wu-Tang: An American Saga [Hulu]
Yellowstone — Season 2 [Paramount Network]
Ian McShane and Ricky Whittle in “American Gods”
Jasper Savage / Starz
C+
American Gods — Season 2 [Starz]
American Horror Story — Season 9 [FX]
Black Mirror — Season 5 [Netflix]
The End of the Fucking World — Season 2 [Netflix]
Good Omens [Amazon Prime Video]
Human Discoveries — Season 1 [Facebook Watch]
Miracle Workers — Season 1 [TBS]
Raising Dion — Season 1 [Netflix]
Truth Be Told — Season 1 [Apple TV+]
Aiden Gillen in “Project Blue Book”
Ed Araquel / History
C
Carnival Row — Season 1 [Amazon Prime Video]
For All Mankind — Season 1 [Apple TV+]
Love, Death & Robots [Netflix]
Mad About You — Season 8 [Spectrum]
Project Blue Book — Season 1 [History]
Proven Innocent — Season 1 [Fox]
The Umbrella Academy — Season 1 [Netflix]
Avan Jogia and Beau Mirchoff in “Now Apocalypse”
Katrina Marcinowski
C-
Dead to Me — Season 1 [Netflix]
L.A.’s Finest — Season 1 [Spectrum]
Marvel’s Jessica Jones — Season 3 [Netflix]
The Morning Show — Season 1 [Apple TV+]
Now Apocalypse — Season 1 [Starz]
Lana Condor and Benjamin Wadsworth in “Deadly Class”
Katie Yu/SYFY
D+
Almost Family — Season 1 [Fox]
Deadly Class — Season 1 [Syfy]
D-
13 Reasons Why — Season 3 [Netflix]
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