Average Metacritic score: 95 Razor-edged satire of late-night talk TV from people with an ear for truth and a taste for blood. — St. Louis Post-DispatchAverage Metacritic score: 94.5 Combining dark comedy and psychological drama, the show achieves a fresh tone to match its irresistibly winning concept. — The New York TimesAverage Metacritic score: 91.8 It slowly develops into an engrossing look at the methodical nature of police work and the limits of individualism. — TimeMetacritic score: 90 As complicated and layered as life itself, 'The Night Of' is an instant classic. — TV InsiderMetacritic score: 87 It's a smart and often funny look at young people looking for love and professional satisfaction in Los Angeles, which is about as common a genre as TV has to offer these days. But taken in the totality of the TV landscape, Rae's voice is one that wasn't being heard and that voice is what makes 'Insecure' stand out, not necessarily as better than the Emmy winners or critical favorites in the field, but as gratifyingly distinguishable. — The Hollywood ReporterAverage Metacritic score: 86.3 Silicon Valley is a comedy, certainly, and a very funny one, but it doesn't spend all its time reminding you of the fact. — LA TimesMetacritic score: 86 Audience score: 9.3 It doesn't even look like a TV miniseries — it's more like 10 theatrical films that do an amazing job re-creating battles. — Deseret NewsAverage Metacritic score: 86 Audience score: 9.2 To call 'Deadwood' great television doesn't begin to do it justice. — Seattle Post-IntelligencerMetacritic score: 86 Audience score: 7.7 Certain moments may verge on cliche (and once in a while, the dialogue is a little corny), but overall, 'The Pacific' is crafted and acted with such loving devotion that it's hard to find fault with its sincerity and sentimental forays. — Chicago TribuneMetacritic Score: 86 Audience score: 7.6 A dark character drama, it’s a show for viewers who enjoy a deep dive into a culture, one that in this instance, happens to be ugly and exploitative. -Pittsburgh Post-GazetteMetacritic score: 86 Audience score: N/A Manages to be outrageous and innovative at the same time. — New York Daily NewsAverage Metacritic score: 85.4 An insanely funny romp thanks to its unique storytelling technique and an inspired performance by the star. — Chicago TribuneAverage Metacritic score: 85.1 The show beautifully depicts a massive game of musical chairs, a world at war with doom ever present just across the border. — The Boston GlobeMetacritic score: 85 It's like a procedural drama, about the drama of procedure — it isn't ever dry. There are some superbly mounted, loud, crowded big scenes — [David] Simon is a great orchestrator of chaos — but there is an intensity to the quieter, more private moments as well. I wouldn't trade it for a bushel barrel of tortured detectives or all the kings and queens in Westeros. — LA TimesAverage Metacritic score: 84.5 Audience score: 8.5 The most original and brilliant show on television. — The New RepublicAverage Metacritic score: 84.5 Audience score: 7.2 A black comedy working many shades of gray, 'Enlightened' is about dark mornings of the soul and the fool's-golden glow of the new convert, and it measures the weight of the world with an eccentric scale. — SlateAverage Metacritic score: 83.1 The series reserves its most blistering humor for the universal narcissism on display, always distracting from the real work at hand. — Slant MagazineAverage Metacritic score: 82.3 From scene to scene, 'Treme' is novelistic in the best sense — a long, complex, involving story that takes a while to settle into, but that you can't put down and don't want to end. — SalonAverage Metacritic score: 81.2 Like a good whiskey, it's rough and smooth in all the right ways. By a few episodes in, you'll want to order it by the case. — TimeAverage Metacritic score: 81 Audience score: 8.3 None of this would work without compelling characters. Fortunately, 'The Leftovers' has bunches of them. — The AV ClubAverage Metacritic score: 81 Audience score: 7.8 It's a dark and astonishing gem of a show, with a bravely skillful cast juggling the petty obsessions of the workplace with Much Bigger Issues. — LA TimesMetacritic score: 81 Audience score: 6.2 'High Maintenance' stands out, not just because it's on the front end of what is apparently a reefer TV trend, but because it's so precisely made and has such an ambling, open heart. — VultureMetacritic score: 80 This is a rare TV union where cast, writers, and directors appear to be of a single comedic mind; the humorous results speak for themselves. — LA Times