Hidden Gem TV Shows on Metacritic

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 alone; the MEANRANK score beside each title is what every site together makes of it.

200 results
1 Homicide: Life on the Street 88/100 · 126 votes · 1993–1999 · 6 ratings A 88 2 The Thick of It 88/100 · 99 votes · 2005–2012 · 5 ratings A 88 3 Rectify 87/100 · 1.2K votes · 2013–2016 · 6 ratings A 87 4 Pachinko 87/100 · 258 votes · 2022–2024 · 6 ratings A 88 5 My So-Called Life 87/100 · 51 votes · 1994–1995 · 6 ratings A 87 6 My Brilliant Friend 86/100 · 230 votes · 2018–2024 · 6 ratings A 88 7 Foyle's War 85/100 · 24 votes · 2002–2015 · 5 ratings A 86 8 Pushing Daisies 85/100 · 120 votes · 2007–2009 · 8 ratings A 84 9 Somebody Somewhere 85/100 · 115 votes · 2022–2024 · 6 ratings A 88 10 The Wonder Years 85/100 · 72 votes · 1988–1993 · 6 ratings A 81 11 Mystery Science Theater 3000 85/100 · 71 votes · 1988–1999 · 6 ratings A 87 12 Catastrophe 84/100 · 325 votes · 2015–2019 · 6 ratings A 86 13 The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance 84/100 · 218 votes · 2019 · 6 ratings A 85 14 Everybody Hates Chris 84/100 · 174 votes · 2005–2009 · 7 ratings A 81 15 Extras 84/100 · 122 votes · 2005–2006 · 8 ratings A 83 16 Undeclared 84/100 · 23 votes · 2001–2002 · 6 ratings A 82 17 Better Things 83/100 · 387 votes · 2016–2022 · 6 ratings A 84 18 Ed 83/100 · 23 votes · 2000–2004 · 4 ratings B 79 19 Party of Five 82/100 · 20 votes · 1994–2000 · 5 ratings B 78 20 The Deuce 82/100 · 291 votes · 2017–2019 · 7 ratings A 81 21 Rescue Me 82/100 · 158 votes · 2004–2011 · 6 ratings A 83 22 Endeavour 82/100 · 56 votes · 2012–2023 · 7 ratings A 83 23 The Knick 81/100 · 384 votes · 2014–2015 · 8 ratings A 84 24 American Crime 81/100 · 306 votes · 2015–2017 · 6 ratings A 83 25 Party Down 81/100 · 127 votes · 2009–2023 · 7 ratings A 82 26 Call the Midwife 81/100 · 80 votes · 2012 · 6 ratings A 80 27 The Wrong Mans 81/100 · 45 votes · 2013–2014 · 6 ratings A 82 28 Southland 81/100 · 315 votes · 2009–2013 · 6 ratings A 86 29 Treme 81/100 · 220 votes · 2010–2013 · 6 ratings A 84 30 Life on Mars 81/100 · 63 votes · 2006–2007 · 7 ratings A 84 31 All Creatures Great & Small 81/100 · 46 votes · 2020 · 6 ratings A 86 32 Ghosts 81/100 · 45 votes · 2019–2023 · 6 ratings A 85 33 GLOW 80/100 · 453 votes · 2017–2019 · 8 ratings B 79 34 Damages 80/100 · 300 votes · 2007–2012 · 6 ratings A 83 35 The Missing 80/100 · 192 votes · 2014–2016 · 6 ratings A 83 36 Feud 80/100 · 180 votes · 2017–2024 · 6 ratings A 80 37 Please Like Me 80/100 · 133 votes · 2013–2016 · 6 ratings A 87 38 Terriers 80/100 · 114 votes · 2010 · 6 ratings A 85 39 One Hundred Years of Solitude 80/100 · 61 votes · 2024–2026 · 5 ratings A 85 40 Felicity 80/100 · 49 votes · 1998–2002 · 5 ratings B 75 41 Halt and Catch Fire 80/100 · 526 votes · 2014–2017 · 7 ratings A 82 42 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 80/100 · 354 votes · 2015–2019 · 6 ratings A 83 43 In the Flesh 80/100 · 143 votes · 2013–2014 · 6 ratings A 85 44 Mr Inbetween 80/100 · 132 votes · 2018–2021 · 7 ratings A 85 45 Absolutely Fabulous 80/100 · 51 votes · 1992–2012 · 6 ratings A 83 46 The Practice 80/100 · 28 votes · 1997–2004 · 4 ratings B 78 47 Masters of Sex 79/100 · 485 votes · 2013–2016 · 7 ratings B 77 48 Longmire 79/100 · 472 votes · 2012–2017 · 7 ratings A 80 49 Broad City 79/100 · 442 votes · 2014–2019 · 7 ratings A 81 50 Widow's Bay 79/100 · 231 votes · 2026 · 5 ratings A 86 51 PEN15 79/100 · 139 votes · 2019–2021 · 6 ratings A 83 52 Manhattan 79/100 · 138 votes · 2014–2015 · 6 ratings A 82 53 The Hour 79/100 · 88 votes · 2011–2012 · 6 ratings A 82 54 A Young Doctor's Notebook & Other Stories 79/100 · 75 votes · 2012–2013 · 5 ratings B 77 55 The Responder 79/100 · 55 votes · 2022–2024 · 6 ratings A 81 56 Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun 79/100 · 45 votes · 2020 · 5 ratings A 80 57 Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip 79/100 · 34 votes · 2006–2007 · 6 ratings A 80 58 You're the Worst 79/100 · 371 votes · 2014–2019 · 6 ratings A 83 59 Pose 79/100 · 216 votes · 2018–2021 · 7 ratings A 82 60 UnREAL 79/100 · 209 votes · 2015–2018 · 6 ratings B 79 61 Boss 79/100 · 162 votes · 2011–2012 · 6 ratings A 82 62 Farscape 79/100 · 158 votes · 1999–2003 · 7 ratings A 81 63 Review 79/100 · 113 votes · 2014–2017 · 6 ratings A 85 64 Better Off Ted 79/100 · 79 votes · 2009–2010 · 6 ratings A 84 65 Men of a Certain Age 79/100 · 78 votes · 2009–2011 · 6 ratings A 81 66 Switched at Birth 79/100 · 60 votes · 2011–2017 · 5 ratings B 78 67 Murder, She Wrote 79/100 · 47 votes · 1984–1996 · 5 ratings B 79 68 Northern Exposure 79/100 · 46 votes · 1990–1995 · 5 ratings A 81 69 Flowers 79/100 · 25 votes · 2016–2018 · 6 ratings A 84 70 Dharma & Greg 79/100 · 24 votes · 1997–2002 · 4 ratings B 72 71 The Affair 78/100 · 420 votes · 2014–2019 · 8 ratings B 76 72 Nashville 78/100 · 284 votes · 2012–2018 · 6 ratings B 78 73 Ramy 78/100 · 158 votes · 2019–2022 · 6 ratings A 81 74 Gomorrah 78/100 · 156 votes · 2014–2021 · 8 ratings A 82 75 Flight of the Conchords 78/100 · 104 votes · 2007–2009 · 8 ratings A 84 76 ER 78/100 · 91 votes · 1994–2009 · 6 ratings B 76 77 Back to Life 78/100 · 64 votes · 2019–2021 · 6 ratings A 82 78 The Baby-Sitters Club 78/100 · 37 votes · 2020–2021 · 6 ratings B 79 79 Gavin & Stacey 78/100 · 33 votes · 2007–2010 · 6 ratings A 84 80 Interview with the Vampire 78/100 · 431 votes · 2022–2024 · 6 ratings A 82 81 The Larry Sanders Show 78/100 · 224 votes · 1992–1998 · 6 ratings A 81 82 Tokyo Vice 78/100 · 164 votes · 2022–2024 · 8 ratings A 80 83 Awake 78/100 · 160 votes · 2012 · 6 ratings B 78 84 Casual 78/100 · 145 votes · 2015–2018 · 6 ratings A 80 85 Faking It 78/100 · 125 votes · 2014–2016 · 5 ratings B 77 86 Deadloch 78/100 · 37 votes · 2023–2026 · 5 ratings A 83 87 State of the Union 78/100 · 32 votes · 2019–2022 · 6 ratings B 79 88 On Becoming a God in Central Florida 78/100 · 31 votes · 2019 · 6 ratings B 76 89 American Vandal 77/100 · 239 votes · 2017–2018 · 7 ratings A 80 90 The Studio 77/100 · 209 votes · 2025 · 5 ratings A 80 91 Mozart in the Jungle 77/100 · 201 votes · 2014–2018 · 6 ratings A 82 92 I May Destroy You 77/100 · 155 votes · 2020 · 6 ratings A 81 93 The Hollow Crown 77/100 · 68 votes · 2012–2016 · 6 ratings A 82 94 Colin from Accounts 77/100 · 62 votes · 2022–2026 · 6 ratings A 84 95 Scrubs 77/100 · 62 votes · 2026 · 6 ratings A 83 96 Death by Lightning 77/100 · 56 votes · 2025 · 5 ratings A 81 97 Last Tango in Halifax 77/100 · 25 votes · 2012–2020 · 6 ratings A 83 98 Transparent 77/100 · 555 votes · 2014–2019 · 6 ratings B 78 99 Looking 77/100 · 191 votes · 2014–2015 · 6 ratings A 82 100 My Lady Jane 77/100 · 183 votes · 2024 · 5 ratings A 82