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Every IndieWire TV Review from 2020, Ranked by Grade from Best to Worst

At this point, we’re almost legally obligated to start off TV roundups with some variation on this idea that there’s a lot of TV out there, but it really is impossible to keep up with everything. And calling attention to it doesn’t make it any less true!

So, given that TV time is reaching astronomical heights in 2020, how does one find something to watch, let alone focus on just the best of the best? That’s where we come in.

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Keeping track of the dizzying amount of television we’ve reviewed so far in 2020 is a task in and of itself, so we’ve tried to make it as easy as possible. Below, we’ve gathered each of our 2020 TV reviews, each with a season number and the network/service where the new episodes first aired for U.S. audiences. Hopefully, this will help you decide what streaming service to spend your dollars on and on what show to spend your precious time.

Every review is organized by the letter grade it received, on our scale of A to F. All links take you to our initial reviews, though ongoing series might have more than one episode review to read. It’s also important to note that reviews were made with a particular amount of episodes on-hand. Some networks provided the entirety of their seasons for review, while others only revealed one or two episodes for review purposes.

With that in mind, let’s look at what’s kept us captivated (and bewildered) so far in 2020 [Note: This list is up-to-date as of December 28, 2020]:

A

Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children [HBO]

Better Things – Season 4 [FX]

City So Real [National Geographic]

The Crown — Season 4 [Netflix]

The Good Fight — Season 4 [CBS All Access]

I May Destroy You [HBO]

The Midnight Gospel [Netflix]

Mrs. America [FX on Hulu]

My Brilliant Friend — Season 2 [HBO]

Normal People [Hulu]

P-Valley — Season 1 [Starz]

A-

A.P. Bio — Season 3 [Peacock]

Archer — Season 11 [FXX]

BoJack HorsemanSeason 6, Part 2 [Netflix]

Better Call SaulSeason 5 [AMC]

Cheer [Netflix]

Cherish the Day — Season 1 [OWN]

Corporate — Season 3 [Comedy Central]

Cosmos: Possible Worlds [NatGeo]

Dark — Season 3 [Netflix]

Devs Season 1 [FX]

The Eric Andre Show — Season 5 [Adult Swim]

Everything’s Gonna Be Okay — Season 1 [Freeform]

The Good Lord Bird [Showtime]

How To with John Wilson — Season 1 [HBO]

Insecure — Season 4 [HBO]

Kidding — Season 2 [Showtime]

Last Chance U — Season 5 [Netflix]

The Last Dance [ESPN]

The New Pope [HBO]

PEN15 — Season 2 [Hulu]

Ramy — Season 2 [Hulu]

Sanditon [PBS]

Save Me — Season 2 [Peacock]

Sex Education — Season 2 [Netflix]

Tiger King [Netflix]

Trigonometry — Season 1 [HBO Max]

Unorthodox [Netflix]

We Are Who We Are [HBO]

What We Do in the Shadows — Season 2 [FX]

B+

At Home with Amy Sedaris — Season 3 [truTV]

Baroness Von Sketch Show — Season 5 [IFC]

Billions — Season 5 [Showtime]

Brockmire — Season 4 [IFC]

Central Park — Season 1 [Apple TV+]

Curb Your Enthusiasm — Season 10 [HBO]

Dare Me — Season 1 [USA]

Dirty Money – Season 2 [Netflix]

The Eddy [Netflix]

The Expanse — Season 5 [Amazon Prime Video]

Fargo — Season 4 [FX]

Gentefied – Season 1 [Netflix]

Hanna — Season 2 [Amazon Prime Video]

High Fidelity Season 1 [Hulu]

Homeland — Season 8 [Showtime]

I Am Not Okay With This – Season 1 [Netflix]

I Hate Suzie — Season 1 [HBO Max]

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark [HBO]

Lenox Hill [Netflix]

Little America — Season 1 [Apple TV+]

Love Fraud [Showtime]

Lovecraft Country — Season 1 [HBO]

McMillions [HBO]

Medical Police — Season 1 [Netflix]

Middleditch & Schwartz [Netflix]

Night on Earth [Netflix]

Perry Mason — Season 1 [HBO]

Pure — Season 1 [HBO Max]

The Queen’s Gambit [Netflix]

Room 104 — Season 4 [HBO]

Search Party — Season 3 [HBO Max]

The Sinner — Season 3 [USA]

Solar Opposites — Season 1 [Hulu]

Star Trek: Discovery — Season 3 [CBS All Access]

Ted Lasso — Season 1 [Apple TV+]

Trying — Season 1 [Apple TV+]

Twenties – Season 1 [BET]

A Wilderness of Error [FX]

The Wilds — Season 1 [Amazon Prime Video]

Year of the Rabbit Season 1 [IFC]

B

Barkskins [National Geographic]

The Boys — Season 2 [Amazon Prime Video]

Brave New World [Peacock]

Bridgerton — Season 1 [Netflix]

Criminal: UK — Season 2 [Netflix]

Deutschland 89 [Sundance]

The Flight Attendant — [HBO Max]

Frayed — Season 1 [HBO Max]

Hunters Season 1 [Amazon Prime Video]

I Know This Much Is True [HBO]

Legendary — Season 1 [HBO Max]

Moonbase 8 — Season 1 [Showtime]

Ozark — Season 3 [Netflix]

The Reagans [Showtime]

The Ripper [Netflix]

Space Force — Season 1 [Netflix]

Star Trek: Picard — Season 1 [CBS All Access]

Tales from the Loop — Season 1 [Amazon Prime Video]

Teenage Bounty Hunters — Season 1 [Netflix]

This Is Us — Season 5 [NBC]

Three Busy Debras [Adult Swim]

Vick [ESPN]

The Walking Dead – Season 10 [AMC]

We Are the Champions [Netflix]

B-

Altered Carbon – Season 2 [Netflix]

Avenue 5 — Season 1 [HBO]

Babies [Netflix]

Belgravia [Epix]

Betty — Season 1 [HBO]

Breeders – Season 1 [FX]

The Cost of Winning [HBO]

Council of Dads — Season 1 [NBC]

Crossing Swords — Season 1 [Hulu]

Duncanville Season 1 [Fox]

The Haunting of Bly Manor [Netflix]

Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults [HBO Max]

Industry — Season 1 [HBO]

Killing Eve — Season 3 [BBC America]

Lance [ESPN]

neXt — Season 1 [Fox]

Outer Banks — Season 1 [Netflix]

Outlander – Season 5 [Starz]

The Outsider — Season 1 [HBO]

Run — Season 1 [HBO]

Saved By the Bell — Season 1 [Peacock]

Stateless [Netflix]

The Third Day [HBO]

The Trial of Christine Keeler [HBO Max]

The Twilight Zone — Season 2 [CBS All Access]

Vida — Season 3 [Starz]

World on Fire [PBS]

C+

Awkwafina is Nora from Queens — Season 1 [Comedy Central]

Black Monday — Season 2 [Showtime]

Black Narcissus [FX]

Blood & Water [Netflix]

The Comey Rule [Showtime]

Cursed Films [Shudder]

Dave – Season 1 [FXX]

Defending Jacob [Apple TV+]

Deputy — Season 1 [Fox]

Dispatches From Elsewhere – Season 1 [AMC]

Hollywood [Netflix]

Home Before Dark — Season 1 [Apple TV+]

Letterkenny — Season 9 [Hulu]

Little Fires Everywhere [Hulu]

Making the Cut [Amazon Prime Video]

The Mandalorian — Season 2 [Disney+]

Noughts + Crosses — Season 1 [Peacock]

Queen Sono – Season 1 [Netflix]

Sex Next Door [Quibi]

Snowpiercer — Season 1 [TNT]

Soulmates — Season 1 [AMC]

A Suitable Boy [Acorn]

Upright — Season 1 [Sundance Now]

Westworld – Season 3 [HBO]

Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist — Season 1 [NBC]

C

Amazing Stories – Season 1 [Apple TV+]

Away — Season 1 [Netflix]

The Comedy Store [Showtime]

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels [Showtime]

Raised by Wolves — Season 1 [HBO Max]

A Teacher [FX on Hulu]

The Umbrella Academy — Season 2 [Netflix]

Unsolved Mysteries [Netflix]

Upload — Season 1 [Amazon Prime Video]

Utopia — Season 1 [Amazon Prime Video]

Your Honor [Showtime]

C-

The Alienist — Season 2 [TNT]

Big Sky — Season 1 [ABC]

Dead to Me — Season 2 [Netflix]

Devils — Season 1 [The CW]

Grand Army [Netflix]

Hightown — Season 1 [Starz]

Homecoming — Season 2 [Amazon Prime Video]

Indebted — Season 1 [NBC]

Intelligence — Season 1 [Peacock]

The Walking Dead: World Beyond [AMC]

We Hunt Together [Showtime]

Woke — Season 1 [Hulu]

D+

Love Life — Season 1 [HBO Max]

The Politician — Season 2 [Netflix]

Ratched — Season 1 [Netflix]

Social Distance [Netflix]

The Stand [CBS All Access]

D

Hoops — Season 1 [Netflix]

Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich [Netflix]

Marvel’s Helstrom — Season 1 [Hulu]

Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker [Netflix]

The Undoing [HBO]

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