The BEST shows of 2022
Every show that aired an episode in 2022, ranked
We've compiled the average episode rating for every TV show episode aired in 2022 to compile this list of best shows!
#1 - Critical Role
Voice actor Matthew Mercer leads a group of fellow voice actors on epic Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. These familiar voices bring the audience into the full experience of D&D, allowing imaginations to soar as the characters embark on adventures. This is Critical Role!
View Episode Rankings#2 - The Chosen
A groundbreaking historical drama based on the life of Jesus and those who knew him. Set against the backdrop of Roman oppression in first-century Israel, the series shares an authentic and intimate look at Jesus' revolutionary life and teachings.
View Episode Rankings#3 - Heartstopper
Teens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love in this coming-of-age series.
View Episode Rankings#4 - The Owl House
An animated fantasy-comedy series that follows Luz, a self-assured teenage girl who accidentally stumbles upon a portal to a magical world where she befriends a rebellious witch, Eda, and an adorably tiny warrior, King. Despite not having magical abilities, Luz pursues her dream of becoming a witch by serving as Eda's apprentice at the Owl House and ultimately finds a new family in an unlikely setting.
View Episode Rankings#5 - Extraordinary Attorney Woo
Brilliant attorney Woo Young-woo tackles challenges in the courtroom and beyond as a newbie at a top law firm and a woman on the autism spectrum.
View Episode Rankings#6 - Kaguya-sama: Love Is War
The proudly privileged top two students of an elite school each makes it their mission to be the first to extract a confession of love from the other.
View Episode Rankings#7 - Attack on Titan
After his hometown is destroyed and his mother is killed, young Eren Yeager vows to cleanse the earth of the giant humanoid Titans that have brought humanity to the brink of extinction.
View Episode Rankings#8 - Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
In modern-day Paris, there's a teen junior high school girl named Marinette Dupain-Cheng and her classmate, Adrien. When evil arises, Marinette transforms into Ladybug while Adrien transforms into Cat Noir. However, neither know each other's secret identities. Together, they fight to protect Paris against the mysterious villain Hawk Moth.
View Episode Rankings#9 - The Incredible Dr Pol
With more than 19,000 patients, Dr. Pol has seen it all. Specializing in large farm animals, this senior is anything but retiring as he takes an old-school, non-nonsense approach to veterinary medicine. Unflappable and unstoppable, this doc routinely puts in 14-hour days and is a legend in his community. This new series travels with him across rural Michigan to care for every family pet and head of livestock in need of his expertise and kindness.
View Episode Rankings#10 - The Rehearsal
Nathan Fielder gives people a chance to rehearse for their own lives in a world where nothing ever works out as expected.
View Episode Rankings#11 - Ranking of Kings
Unable to hear, speak, or wield a sword, Prince Bojji doesn’t seem like a typical heir to the throne—and his kingdom agrees. But his fateful encounter with Kage, a shadow on the ground, gives him his first true friend. The two set off on a grand adventure and, together, form a bond that can overcome any obstacle...even being king.
View Episode Rankings#12 - The Offer
Oscar-winning producer Al Ruddy’s never before revealed experiences of making the iconic 1972 film The Godfather that Francis Coppola directed and adapted with Mario Puzo.
View Episode Rankings#13 - Primal
Primal features a caveman at the dawn of evolution. A dinosaur on the brink of extinction. Bonded by tragedy, this unlikely friendship becomes the only hope of survival in a violent, primordial world.
View Episode Rankings#14 - Pit Bulls and Parolees
Pit bulls are eager to please, faithful and enthusiastic friends and pleasant with children according to credible canine organizations. But they have fallen from grace. Now often associated with gang members, dog fighting and attacks. That's about to change. Animal Planet introduces you to this dog's greatest ally, and she's not a man - she's a fiery red-headed leading lady, and she's determined to end the needless hostility toward pit bulls. Meet Tia Maria Torres - 49-year-old mother, top pit bull trainer and founder and owner of Villalobos Rescue Center - the country's largest rescue facility for pit bulls.
View Episode Rankings#15 - The Glory
Years after surviving horrific abuse in high school, a woman puts an elaborate revenge scheme in motion to make the perpetrators pay for their crimes.
View Episode Rankings#16 - The Legend of Vox Machina
The series follows a seven-member group of second-rate, drunken adventurers, who are on a journey to save the world from terrifying monsters and dark magical forces, only to discover they become a family in the process.
View Episode Rankings#17 - Celebrity Juice
Tabloid focused quiz show based on the nation's obsession with all things celebrity.
View Episode Rankings#18 - World Trigger
A gate to another world opens in Mikado City, and monsters called Neighbors emerge. Border Defense agent Osamu Mikumo fights them with his 'Trigger.'
View Episode Rankings#19 - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
It is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kindhearted boy who sells charcoal for a living, finds his family slaughtered by a demon. To make matters worse, his younger sister Nezuko, the sole survivor, has been transformed into a demon herself. Though devastated by this grim reality, Tanjiro resolves to become a “demon slayer” so that he can turn his sister back into a human, and kill the demon that massacred his family.
View Episode Rankings#20 - Mob Psycho 100
Middle schooler Shigeo looks normal, but he's secretly a formidable psychic whose powers threaten to break free unless he represses his emotions.
View Episode Rankings#21 - 1883
Follow the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. A stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America’s promised land—Montana.
View Episode Rankings#22 - My Hero Academia
A superhero-loving boy without any powers is determined to enroll in a prestigious hero academy and learn what it really means to be a hero.
View Episode Rankings#23 - Better Call Saul
See the rise of Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, but hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and often against Jimmy, is ‘fixer’ Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy's evolution into Saul Goodman, the man who puts the word ‘criminal’ in ‘criminal lawyer’.
View Episode Rankings#24 - Chainsaw Man
Following a betrayal, a young man left for the dead is reborn as a powerful devil-human hybrid after merging with his pet devil and is soon enlisted into an organization dedicated to hunting devils.
View Episode Rankings#25 - Peaky Blinders
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
View Episode Rankings#26 - House of the Dragon
The story of House Targaryen, 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones.
View Episode Rankings#27 - Young Justice
Teenage superheroes strive to prove themselves as members of the Justice League.
View Episode Rankings#28 - The Chi
A relevant, timely and distinctive coming-of-age story following a half dozen interrelated characters in the South Side of Chicago.
View Episode Rankings#29 - The Capture
Can you really believe what you see? An ambitious young DCI enters the terrifying world of deepfake technology as the fabric of reality starts to fray.
View Episode Rankings#30 - Heartland (2007) (CA)
Life is hard on the Flemings' ranch in the Alberta foothills where abused or neglected horses find refuge with a kind, hard-working family. Debts abound and the bank is about to foreclose. Can they keep the ranch running?
View Episode Rankings#31 - Car S.O.S.
We Brits love our cars but, just like any relationship, sometimes things can get a little rusty. Meet master mechanic Fuzz Townshend and radio and TV presenter Tim Shaw, a petrol-head pair who undertake dramatic automobile interventions across the UK, hoping to return some much-loved motors to their former glory. With a tight deadline to turn each job around without the owners knowing, find out how these neglected classics fell in need of a little loving care – and what Fuzz and Tim can do to get them back on the road.
View Episode Rankings#32 - This Is Us
A heartwarming and emotional story about a unique set of triplets, their struggles and their wonderful parents.
View Episode Rankings#33 - Strictly Come Dancing
Dazzling routines, outrageous sets, flamboyant costumes and the occasional dance dis-aaa-ster.
View Episode Rankings#34 - Good Bones
Mother and daughter duo Karen E Laine and Mina Starsiak are on a mission to revitalize their hometown of Indianapolis one property at a time. They’re buying up run down homes and transforming them into stunning urban remodels. With Mina’s real estate know-how and Karen’s no-nonsense legal background, these ladies are unstoppable in getting a property they want and enlisting their family’s help with demo and construction. When it comes to exciting new homes in the city of Indianapolis, it all comes down to the ladies of “Good Bones.”
View Episode Rankings#35 - SPY x FAMILY
Master spy Twilight is the best at what he does when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions in the name of a better world. But when he receives the ultimate impossible assignment—get married and have a kid—he may finally be in over his head! Not one to depend on others, Twilight has his work cut out for him procuring both a wife and a child for his mission to infiltrate an elite private school. What he doesn't know is that the wife he's chosen is an assassin and the child he's adopted is a telepath!
View Episode Rankings#36 - Diesel Brothers
Follow Heavy D, Diesel Dave and their crew at Dieselsellerz.
View Episode Rankings#37 - Guy's Grocery Games
Guy Fieri sends four talented chefs running through the aisles in a high stakes, high skills, grocery store cooking competition. The chefs are hit by real-world challenges like finding workarounds when all the essential ingredients are suddenly "out-of-stock" or having to create a masterpiece when you can only cook with "5 items or less" or on a $10 budget. In the end, the food does the talking, as the last chef standing has the chance to make some serious dough!
View Episode Rankings#38 - All Creatures Great & Small (2020)
The numerous adventures of a friendly staff at a country veterinarian practice in 1930s to 1940s Yorkshire.
View Episode Rankings#39 - Shoresy
This “Letterkenny” spin-off sees the foul-mouthed, chirp-serving, mother-loving Shoresy join the Sudbury Bulldogs of the Northern Ontario Senior Hockey Organization (The NOSHO) on a quest to never lose again.
View Episode Rankings#40 - Power Book IV: Force
Tommy Egan leaves New York behind and plans to take on Chicago, using his outsider status to break all the local rules and rewrite them on his quest to become the biggest drug dealer in the city.
View Episode Rankings#41 - Power Book II: Ghost
The journey of some of Power's most controversial characters.
View Episode Rankings#42 - The Expanse
Two hundred years in the future, in a fully colonized solar system, police detective Josephus Miller is given the assignment to find a missing young woman, Julie Mao. Joining his task is James Holden, former first officer of an ice freighter who is involved in an incident caused by the tense relationship between Earth, Mars and the Belt. Far from their struggles in space, United Nations executive Chrisjen Avasarala works to prevent war between Earth and Mars. Soon the three find out that the missing woman is connected to a vast conspiracy that threatens all humanity.
View Episode Rankings#43 - Pachinko
This sweeping saga chronicles the hopes and dreams of a Korean immigrant family across four generations as they leave their homeland in an indomitable quest to survive and thrive.
View Episode Rankings#44 - 1923
The next installment of the Yellowstone origin story introduces a new generation of the Dutton family and explores the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition, and the Great Depression all plague the Mountain West, and the Duttons who call it home.
View Episode Rankings#45 - The Last Kingdom
England, 872. A Saxon man, raised by Danes, must choose a side and play his part in the birth of a nation, alongside the man who would become known as King Alfred the Great.
View Episode Rankings#46 - Westworld
Westworld is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.
View Episode Rankings#47 - Gentleman Jack
Halifax, 1832. Rejected by aristocratic Vere Hobart, Anne Lister returns to her shabby ancestral home, Shibden Hall, determined to restore its fortunes and find herself a wife.
View Episode Rankings#48 - Swamp People
Deep in the heart of Louisiana lies America's largest swamp–a million miles of inhospitable bayous, marshes and wetlands where nature rules and humans struggle to tame it. Many of its inhabitants are the hardened descendants of French refugees who were forced out of Canada in the 18th century and settled in this harsh yet majestic environment. Today, these people are known as the Cajuns, a group renowned throughout the world for their flavorful cuisine, distinctive music and vibrant culture. Resilient, self-reliant and fiercely independent, the Cajuns of the Atchafalaya Swamp still carry on many of their ancestors' trades and traditions.
View Episode Rankings#49 - Nightwatch
Follow the men and women who keep the citizens of New Orleans safe during the night. Ride along with the police officers, the firefighters, and the paramedics as they tackle the evils of the night.
View Episode Rankings#50 - Gold Rush: Mine Rescue with Freddy & Juan
A gold mining veteran with more than 40 years of mining under his belt, Freddy Dodge has earned the name “Gold Guru.” After proving himself to be an invaluable gold recovery expert on GOLD RUSH, Freddy is taking his tool belt on the road to stop struggling mine owners from striking out.
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