I May Destroy You was one of the most exciting of 2020. Natalie Seery / HBO
It has been a momentous year for everything we consider TV.
A pandemic, civil rights reckoning, streaming war and presidential election shook up the industry in a dozen different ways. It blurred lines between genres, platforms and story forms, while also encouraging us to develop our own, deep rabbit holes of favorite media. So when our team of four critics sat down to figure out what we liked most onscreen this year, we each had a lot of stuff on our lists no one else did.
All four critics agreed that Michaela Coel s series
I May Destroy You was one of the most exciting of 2020. Natalie Seery/HBO
It has been a momentous year for everything we consider TV.
A pandemic, civil rights reckoning, streaming war and presidential election shook up the industry in a dozen different ways. It blurred lines between genres, platforms and story forms, while also encouraging us to develop our own, deep rabbit holes of favorite media. So when our team of four critics sat down to figure out what we liked most onscreen this year, we each had a lot of stuff on our lists no one else did.