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.

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Homeland: Eight Seasons of Suspicion

My Homeland review after watching all eight seasons: Claire Danes, Carrie and Saul, and a spy thriller that keeps finding reasons to stay.

Rome: Great Men, Dirty Streets and Two Soldiers in the Middle

The Att reviews Rome, HBO’s richly inhabited historical drama, with Kevin McKidd and Ray Stevenson at the heart of its politics, loyalties and everyday trouble.

MobLand: Tom Hardy Makes the Trouble Worth Watching

Tom Hardy is MobLand's strongest reason to watch. My season-one review weighs its enjoyable gangland tension against uneven writing, accents and character logic.

Squid Game: Simple Rules, Impossible Choices

Squid Game makes its deadly contests matter by making the contestants matter first. A review of the original season's tension, performances and cruel bargains.

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.

1883: A Western Prequel Done Right

My review of the complete 1883 series: a beautiful, harsh Western with Isabel May, Sam Elliott and a Dutton family worth following.

Top-Ranked TV Shows

The current top twenty from our head-to-head ELO leaderboard.

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Rank	Show	ELO
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