# The best TV shows of the 2010s

Prestige TV's golden decade: the shows critics rated highest, from Metacritic's decade ranking via Looper, Den of Geek and Mental Floss.

- 537 votes · 15 items
- Apr 20, 2024 · mangareader_lost
- https://even.best/en/l/3666/the-best-tv-shows-of-the-2010s

## Top 15

1. **Breaking Bad (2008-2013)** (50 · ▲54 ▼4) — The crime drama critics most often call the best of the decade.
2. **The Leftovers (2014-2017)** (44 · ▲47 ▼3) — Top of Metacritic's decade ranking.
3. **Mad Men (2007-2015)** (42 · ▲46 ▼4) — Don Draper and 1960s advertising.
4. **Fleabag (2016-2019)** (34 · ▲36 ▼2) — Phoebe Waller-Bridge breaks the fourth wall.
5. **Game of Thrones (2011-2019)** (27 · ▲32 ▼5) — The fight for the Iron Throne.
6. **Better Call Saul (2015-2022)** (23 · ▲26 ▼3) — How Jimmy McGill became Saul Goodman.
7. **The Americans (2013-2018)** (20 · ▲26 ▼6) — Soviet spies as a suburban family in the 1980s.
8. **Veep (2012-2019)** (19 · ▲28 ▼9) — Julia Louis-Dreyfus as vice president.
9. **Atlanta (2016-2022)** (19 · ▲27 ▼8) — Donald Glover's surreal Atlanta.
10. **BoJack Horseman (2014-2020)** (19 · ▲24 ▼5) — A washed-up sitcom horse and depression.
11. **The Good Place (2016-2020)** (19 · ▲24 ▼5) — A comedy about ethics in the afterlife.
12. **Succession (2018-2023)** (18 · ▲24 ▼6) — The Roy family fights over a media empire.
13. **Parks and Recreation (2009-2015)** (18 · ▲24 ▼6) — Leslie Knope and Pawnee's parks department.
14. **Hannibal (2013-2015)** (18 · ▲23 ▼5) — Mads Mikkelsen as Hannibal Lecter.
15. **Fargo (2014-)** (11 · ▲18 ▼7) — Noah Hawley's anthology inspired by the Coens.

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