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.
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.
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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.
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Day 5: A Very Bad Time to Feel Tired
The Att reviews Day 5, the survival thriller where sleep kills: an inventive what-if premise, flawed survivors and an unfinished two-season run.
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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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Westworld: A Beautiful Place to Ask Terrible Questions
Westworld turns a luxury Western playground into unsettling science fiction. A superb opening, remarkable performances and an unfinished four-season journey.
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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.
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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 |