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The Wire: All the Pieces Matter

The Wire builds an extraordinary portrait of Baltimore from patient police work, street-level survival and institutions that reward the wrong things.

The Offer: Making a Film Nobody Could Agree On

The Offer turns the making of The Godfather into hugely enjoyable Hollywood drama, led by Miles Teller, Matthew Goode and Juno Temple.

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.

Game of Thrones: The Family Business of Ruling the World

Game of Thrones remains an extraordinary fantasy drama: superb characters, dangerous politics and enormous scale, despite the rush of its later seasons.

Suburra: Blood on Rome — A City Worth Fighting Over

Suburra combines Roman beauty, criminal ambition and an absorbing central friendship. One of the strongest recommendations for fans of subtitled crime drama.

Absentia review: a solid thriller carried by Stana Katic

A spoiler-free Absentia review after all three seasons: Stana Katic carries a solid thriller with a convincing central performance and modest ambitions.

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