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  • 12/27/2023
From an emotional zombie drama and an anti-capitalist satire to multiple highly anticipated series finales, here are THR's critics' picks for the Best TV Shows of 2023.

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00:00 From an emotional zombie drama and an anti-capitalist satire to multiple highly
00:04 anticipated series finales, here are THR's critics' picks for the best TV shows of 2023.
00:10 THR TV critics Daniel Feinberg and Angie Han each broke down their respective top 10 lists for the
00:17 year, and while each distinct, there was some overlap. For Feinberg, his top 10 list included
00:23 some buzzy shows like HBO's The Last of Us at No. 10, Hulu's The Bear at No. 8, and Netflix's
00:29 Wrestlers at No. 4. Han's top 10, meanwhile, included The Bear at No. 7, Peacock's Mrs.
00:34 Davis at No. 5, and Max's The Other Two at No. 4. And now, onto the top 3, which was unanimous.
00:41 At No. 3, we have Netflix's Beef. Feinberg said, "No show captured 2023's undercurrent of unfocused
00:48 discontent with the intensity, empathy, and underlying humor of Lee Sung-jin's eight-episode
00:54 Beef." Han noted, "It's the show's understanding of the existential anguish propelling its
00:59 characters, and the clear-eyed tenderness with which creator Lee Sung-jin excavates the experiences
01:04 and sources of that pain, that made this drama-comedy-thriller not just one of the most
01:09 purely entertaining watches of this year, but possibly also the most cathartic."
01:13 At No. 2, HBO's Succession. Han said, "Succession didn't just keep its audience on the knife's edge
01:19 between repulsion and sympathy, it made that balancing act its very foundation,
01:24 all the way through a thunderous ending that felt at once shocking and inevitable."
01:29 Feinberg noted that the final season had "all the usual acting suspects shine,"
01:33 as well as "a reminder that one of the show's core messages has always been
01:37 that nobody knows how to hurt you like your family."
01:40 And at No. 1, FX and Hulu's Reservation Dogs. Han noted, "The already ambitious Reservation Dogs
01:46 grew even fuller and richer in every direction, nudging its young leads into the future while
01:51 simultaneously digging into histories both personal and communal."
01:55 Meanwhile, Feinberg stated that the Hulu series completed its "elegant three-season evolution
02:00 from a raucous comedy about four indigenous teens desperate to leave their rural Oklahoma
02:04 reservation into TV's most soulful half-hour about the value of community and intergenerational
02:10 connection."
02:11 To read more on THR Critics' best TV shows of 2023, head to THR.com.
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