Year in TV · 2024 · Ranked
Best TV of 2024, Ranked by IQ Score
2024 in television, ranked on TVI's published rubric, not on Emmy nomination count or streaming-platform marketing budget. The titles that earned their year on intellectual quality.
2024 produced one of the strongest single-year slates in prestige TV memory, and like 2024 in film, the rubric reads the slate slightly differently than the consensus discourse did. Shogun is the year's high-water mark by a substantial margin. The limited-series category is exceptionally deep.
Anchor picks: Shogun (190) is the year's masterwork, a methodology-Masterclass-tier production that did historical-period drama with the structural discipline the form rarely receives. Baby Reindeer (153) is the limited-series breakthrough that the rubric reads as more structurally substantive than the discourse acknowledged. The Day of the Jackal (148), Ripley (147), and Industry (145) anchor the middle Stimulating-tier band. Disclaimer (139) is the Alfonso Cuarón limited series that the rubric reads with more patience than the consensus did.
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