# The Guardian's best TV shows of 2022

The top 20 of the Guardian's 50 best TV shows of 2022, led by The Bear.

- 6 votes · 20 items
- Feb 23, 2023 · Sabine Müller
- https://even.best/en/l/1364/the-guardian-s-best-tv-shows-of-2022

## Top 20

1. **The Bear** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 1. A top chef takes over his brother's sandwich shop in Chicago.
2. **Hacks** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 4. A veteran comic in Las Vegas and her young writer.
3. **House of the Dragon** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 12. The Game of Thrones prequel (HBO).
4. **Pachinko** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 15. A Korean family over four generations (Apple TV+).
5. **The White Lotus** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 16. Season two, in Sicily.
6. **Somewhere Boy** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 18. A boy raised shut off from the world (Channel 4).
7. **Sherwood** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 2. James Graham's drama about killings in a Nottinghamshire mining village (BBC).
8. **Severance** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 3. Employees whose work and home memories are split (Apple TV+).
9. **The Responder** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 5. Martin Freeman as a response cop in Liverpool (BBC).
10. **Big Boys** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 6. Jack Rooke's comedy about two freshers (Channel 4).
11. **Better Call Saul** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 7. The final season.
12. **Industry** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 8. Young bankers in London, season two.
13. **Derry Girls** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 9. The final season of the Northern Irish teenagers.
14. **This Is Going to Hurt** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 10. Ben Whishaw as a junior doctor, from Adam Kay's book (BBC).
15. **Top Boy** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 11. Drug dealing in east London (Netflix).
16. **Yellowjackets** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 13. A girls' football team crashes in the wilderness.
17. **Atlanta** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 14. The final seasons of Donald Glover's show.
18. **Mo** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 17. Mo Amer as a Palestinian refugee in Houston (Netflix).
19. **Station Eleven** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 19. From Emily St. John Mandel's pandemic novel.
20. **Bad Sisters** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 20. Sharon Horgan's black comedy about five sisters (Apple TV+).

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.