It's purely my personal choice, don't take it too seriously. I'm betting you didn't see half these shows, and you've got your own list which is totally different to mine. So be it. we've already looked at..
Shows that Lost It, weren't any good, or I See The Title I Forget The Show
My Top TV of 2022, 40 to 21
My Top TV of 2022, 20 to 11
Here comes my TV OF THE YEAR 2022 - The Top 10
10 - This Is Going To Hurt
Adam Kay should be very pleased to find himself being played by Ben Wishaw. This adaptation went more from drama than comedy, probably because it's only doctors who find this gruesome stuff funny, or have to laugh or else they'll kill themselves. A fascinating insight into the world of medicine that should put anyone off ever becoming a doctor ever again.
9 - She Hulk Attorney At Law
The amount of money Marvel spend on these shows, I'm delighted to find that the only one to make my top ten was the one that cost the least. It's all about good writing, and this comedy managed to get it right from the start. I confess I'd never read the comics, She Hulk arriving just as I was growing out of Marvel comics. But if they ever manage to do Howard The Duck as satisfyingly as they did this, then childhood me will be very happy.
8 - The Outlaws 2
For the second series to be as good, or even better, than the first, appearing so swiftly after it, is quite remarkable. A comedy drama series set in Bristol never deserved to be this good.
A fabulous end to this exceptional series. A comedy with all new actors from an all new writer, covering subjects that hadn't been touched before, and managing to be serious as well as laugh out loud funny. One of television's best comedies ever, history will record.
6 - Your Honor
One of those nice finds that comes up, on Now TV I think, that nobody'd told you about and you took a punt on. Adapted, interestingly, from an Israeli TV series, it builds fabulously from its inciting moment through twists that you never see coming, to a great end. A hidden gem.
5 = Ghosts 4
5 = Ghosts US
Two very different takes on the same show. The original UK team delivered 6 excellent episodes, getting the comedy spot on, and managing to mine the drama and pathos beautifully. I was originally critical of the US remake, which is inevitably in a different style, but with its 18 episodes to play with, it's very much become its own thing. The UK is still best, as watching old episodes reminds you every time, but the US series would be a favourite even if it were the only one.
4 - Inventing Anna
It's interesting to find true stories take up four of my top ten shows, and 3 of my top 4, this year. I guess, when they're done well, they can be stranger than fiction. The story of Anna Delvey wasn't one that I'd heard before, and its glimpse under the lid of New York society is fun. You're still left wondering about the motives and/or gullibility of most people involved.
3 - The Devil's Hour
This shouldn't have worked. Indeed, in Inside Man, this show's executive producer Steven Moffat took tropes from this show and made total nonsense of them. But this was remarkable. From a new writer, Tom Moran, you get a story which you think is one thing, then it turns out to be something else.
2 - Maid
Based on a true memoir of a single mum who worked as a maid, you wouldn't think there was much to happen here. And then everything does. Just one of the shows in my chart that includes incredible child acting, this also has the novel spin of the lead actor and the woman who plays her mum, being real life daughter and mum, Margaret Qualley and Andie McDowell.
1 - Pistol
I was totally drawn in by this retelling of the Sex Pistols story. Even though the casting as unlikely in so many cases (though I love Johnny and Malcolm, most are far too pretty), and they story plays fast and loose with the truth (Chrissie Hynde didn't, it seems, play as big a part as is shown, for example), still I have a romantic attachment to the period and mythos (my own Prince Of Denmark Street is, of course, set at the same place and time) and loved this from start to finish. John Lydon felt very differently about it, as you'd expect.
So there we have my TV of the year. What was yours? I'm on Twitter and Facebook if you want to share.
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