Hidden Gem TV Shows on Metacritic Critics
Brilliant series most people have not found yet. Every title here is rated by at least 5,000 people across every site, enough to trust the score, but by fewer than the 100,000 our main rankings ask for, so none of them can appear there. Ranked by Metacritic Critics alone; the MEANRANK score beside each title is what every site together makes of it.
1
The Larry Sanders Show
A
81
2
Homicide: Life on the Street
A
88
3
My So-Called Life
A
87
4
My Brilliant Friend
A
88
5
Somebody Somewhere
A
88
6
The Hollow Crown
A
82
7
Better Things
A
84
8
Rectify
A
87
9
Everybody Hates Chris
A
81
10
Back to Life
A
82
11
The Responder
A
81
12
Pachinko
A
88
13
Catastrophe
A
86
14
PEN15
A
83
15
Ed
B
79
16
Felicity
B
75
17
The Baby-Sitters Club
B
79
18
American Crime
A
83
19
I May Destroy You
A
81
20
Rescue Me
A
83
21
Transparent
B
78
22
Treme
A
84
23
The Deuce
A
81
24
Pushing Daisies
A
84
25
The Lowdown
A
80
26
I'm a Virgo
B
78
27
Colin from Accounts
A
84
28
Undeclared
A
82
29
Insecure
A
82
30
Nashville
B
78
31
Dear White People
C
63
32
Ramy
A
81
33
All Creatures Great & Small
A
86
34
We Are Lady Parts
B
79
35
Sports Night
A
86
36
Forever
A
80
37
Masters of Sex
B
77
38
Interview with the Vampire
A
82
39
Extras
A
83
40
Evil
B
77
41
Dying for Sex
B
79
42
Brockmire
A
81
43
NYPD Blue
A
82
44
P-Valley
A
81
45
Northern Exposure
A
81
46
L.A. Law
B
75
47
GLOW
B
79
48
Dark Winds
A
80
49
Broad City
A
81
50
The Chair Company
B
79
51
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
A
80
52
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
A
85
53
Blue Lights
A
83
54
Industry
B
78
55
The Affair
B
76
56
Top of the Lake
B
73
57
Men of a Certain Age
A
81
58
The Missing
A
83
59
Casual
A
80
60
Furious
A
83
61
Call the Midwife
A
80
62
This Way Up
A
81
63
The Newsreader
A
85
64
Ghosts
A
85
65
Absolutely Fabulous
A
83
66
The Good Fight
B
76
67
The Studio
A
80
68
Documentary Now!
A
81
69
Girls5eva
B
78
70
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
A
83
71
The Hour
A
82
72
Death by Lightning
A
81
73
Difficult People
B
77
74
Being Human
B
78
75
One Hundred Years of Solitude
A
85
76
Star City
A
80
77
Endeavour
A
83
78
Lovecraft Country
C
68
79
Joan of Arcadia
B
79
80
Manhattan
A
82
81
Margo's Got Money Troubles
B
79
82
Speechless
B
75
83
Enlightened
B
78
84
ER
B
76
85
Black Lightning
C
67
86
Dharma & Greg
B
72
87
Party of Five
B
78
88
In the Flesh
A
85
89
State of the Union
B
79
90
Life on Mars
A
84
91
Gavin & Stacey
A
84
92
How to Get to Heaven from Belfast
B
78
93
Rogue Heroes
A
83
94
Damages
A
83
95
The Knick
A
84
96
Party Down
A
82
97
The Great
B
78
98
UnREAL
B
79
99
Search Party
B
78
100
Black Doves
C
69
The Larry Sanders Show
A
81
2
Homicide: Life on the Street
A
88
3
My So-Called Life
A
87
4
My Brilliant Friend
A
88
5
Somebody Somewhere
A
88
6
The Hollow Crown
A
82
7
Better Things
A
84
8
Rectify
A
87
9
Everybody Hates Chris
A
81
10
Back to Life
A
82
11
The Responder
A
81
12
Pachinko
A
88
13
Catastrophe
A
86
14
PEN15
A
83
15
Ed
B
79
16
Felicity
B
75
17
The Baby-Sitters Club
B
79
18
American Crime
A
83
19
I May Destroy You
A
81
20
Rescue Me
A
83
21
Transparent
B
78
22
Treme
A
84
23
The Deuce
A
81
24
Pushing Daisies
A
84
25
The Lowdown
A
80
26
I'm a Virgo
B
78
27
Colin from Accounts
A
84
28
Undeclared
A
82
29
Insecure
A
82
30
Nashville
B
78
31
Dear White People
C
63
32
Ramy
A
81
33
All Creatures Great & Small
A
86
34
We Are Lady Parts
B
79
35
Sports Night
A
86
36
Forever
A
80
37
Masters of Sex
B
77
38
Interview with the Vampire
A
82
39
Extras
A
83
40
Evil
B
77
41
Dying for Sex
B
79
42
Brockmire
A
81
43
NYPD Blue
A
82
44
P-Valley
A
81
45
Northern Exposure
A
81
46
L.A. Law
B
75
47
GLOW
B
79
48
Dark Winds
A
80
49
Broad City
A
81
50
The Chair Company
B
79
51
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
A
80
52
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
A
85
53
Blue Lights
A
83
54
Industry
B
78
55
The Affair
B
76
56
Top of the Lake
B
73
57
Men of a Certain Age
A
81
58
The Missing
A
83
59
Casual
A
80
60
Furious
A
83
61
Call the Midwife
A
80
62
This Way Up
A
81
63
The Newsreader
A
85
64
Ghosts
A
85
65
Absolutely Fabulous
A
83
66
The Good Fight
B
76
67
The Studio
A
80
68
Documentary Now!
A
81
69
Girls5eva
B
78
70
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
A
83
71
The Hour
A
82
72
Death by Lightning
A
81
73
Difficult People
B
77
74
Being Human
B
78
75
One Hundred Years of Solitude
A
85
76
Star City
A
80
77
Endeavour
A
83
78
Lovecraft Country
C
68
79
Joan of Arcadia
B
79
80
Manhattan
A
82
81
Margo's Got Money Troubles
B
79
82
Speechless
B
75
83
Enlightened
B
78
84
ER
B
76
85
Black Lightning
C
67
86
Dharma & Greg
B
72
87
Party of Five
B
78
88
In the Flesh
A
85
89
State of the Union
B
79
90
Life on Mars
A
84
91
Gavin & Stacey
A
84
92
How to Get to Heaven from Belfast
B
78
93
Rogue Heroes
A
83
94
Damages
A
83
95
The Knick
A
84
96
Party Down
A
82
97
The Great
B
78
98
UnREAL
B
79
99
Search Party
B
78
100
Black Doves
C
69