Honest TV Show Reviews, Ranked Without Hype
Find your next series through spoiler-free reviews, head-to-head ELO rankings, and honest long-form analysis from a lifelong TV enthusiast.
Featured Reviews
A fresh selection from the archive, rotated daily.
The Shield: Vic Mackey's Problems Don't Stay Solved
The Shield combines relentless police-drama tension with accumulating consequences. Michael Chiklis and Walton Goggins lead an exceptional seven-season crime story.
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The West Wing: Great Company in the Corridors of Power
The West Wing reviewed: Aaron Sorkin's dialogue, Martin Sheen's Bartlet and a superb ensemble make government engrossing, funny television. Spoiler-free.
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The Queen's Gambit: Brilliant at Chess, Less Certain Everywhere Else
The Queen's Gambit makes competitive chess absorbing through Anya Taylor-Joy's Beth Harmon, an excellent small cast and beautifully judged period design.
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Tokyo Vice: Learning Who You Can Ask
The Att reviews Tokyo Vice: patient crime reporting, Ken Watanabe’s wary detective and an absorbing journey through the city’s newspapers, police and nightlife.
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Stranger Things: There's Still Something in the Woods
Stranger Things blends small-town mystery, friendship and supernatural horror. My spoiler-free review looks at what works across its first four seasons.
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Peaky Blinders: By Order of the Shelbys
A spoiler-free Peaky Blinders review after rewatching all six seasons and The Immortal Man: Cillian Murphy, the Shelby family and a story worth returning to.
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The current top twenty from our head-to-head ELO leaderboard.
| Rank | Show | ELO | Watchlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Sopranos | 1934 | |
| 2 | Game of Thrones | 1922 | |
| 3 | The Shield | 1900 | |
| 4 | Gomorrah | 1869 | |
| 5 | Black Mirror | 1864 | |
| 6 | Peaky Blinders | 1845 | |
| 7 | Mad Men | 1828 | |
| 8 | Suburra: Blood on Rome | 1827 | |
| 9 | The Wire | 1825 | |
| 10 | The Last Kingdom | 1802 | |
| 11 | Homeland | 1800 | |
| 12 | Breaking Bad | 1800 | |
| 13 | Fargo | 1799 | |
| 14 | Dexter | 1790 | |
| 15 | Oz | 1784 | |
| 16 | Stranger Things | 1783 | |
| 17 | Better Call Saul | 1777 | |
| 18 | Tokyo Vice | 1774 | |
| 19 | Boardwalk Empire | 1773 | |
| 20 | Band Of Brothers | 1768 |