Just when you thought the post-Peak TV glacier of shows had melted into a puddle of mediocre algorithm-feeders, the medium snapped back to form in 2025. We may not be in the midst of a new golden age ...

Sci-fi was (mostly) the name of the game this past year, from Xenomorphs to Body Snatchers to K-2SO... This is IGN's Best TV ...

In real life, 2025 has been a chaotic year. We've navigated the beginning of a divisive presidential term, the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, witnessed a pope from Chicago get elected, a ...

Television. We watch way too much of it here, but we’re okay with that. We’re not aiming to be critics and we’re not aiming to make history here. We judge what we think is the best of the year not off ...

HBO has had a reputation for creating the best shows on TV for decades. HBO Max may have diluted the brand, but that reputation is largely intact. Some shows like And Just Like That have proven to be ...

In cultural criticism, every year ends the same way—with a deluge of top 10 lists for every imaginable art form, as though music and literature and film and TV and theater and dance all produce ...

December is upon us, which means it's time to take stock of the year in TV. And what a year it was. From long-running series celebrating landmark final seasons, to new players making their mark on the ...

The weather's colder, the days are shorter, and we're starting to think about all the resolutions we won't keep in 2026: Must be time for TVLine's annual list of the best TV shows of the year! In the ...