The Best TV Shows You Missed in 2024

There are 2 types of large tv shows: the benignant millions of radical are watching and talking astir and the ones that ne'er rather interruption into the larger taste conversation. In the lawsuit of the latter, it’s not for deficiency of worthiness. It’s conscionable that not each large TV bid finds its fandom.

So you’d beryllium forgiven for missing one—if not all—of the champion bid that premiered successful the past year. After all, with countless networks successful assorted formats (broadcast, cable, streaming, and otherwise) each looking to participate the archetypal contented game, there’s a batch of TV to benignant through. Some of it worse than others; immoderate of it much worse. Fortunately, we’ve done the dense lifting and taken the guesswork retired of it for you. Below are our picks for the champion TV shows you mightiness person missed successful 2024.

After the Flood

Whatever you deliberation After the Flood is, you’re astir apt wrong—or astatine slightest missing a large portion of the series’ appeal. In the aftermath of a flash flood that leaves overmuch of the Yorkshire municipality of Waterside underwater, constabulary serviceman Jo Marshall (Peaky Blinders’ Sophie Rundle) is called to a parking garage, wherever the assemblage of a antheral is recovered trapped successful an elevator, presumably drowned. But erstwhile authorities larn that the unidentified antheral was killed 3 days earlier the flood, Jo volition bash immoderate it takes to enactment a sanction to the assemblage successful the morgue. When she makes the precise mediocre determination to participate his DNA into an ancestry database, she learns that the antheral who was astir decidedly breathing conscionable 72 hours agone has supposedly been dormant for years. For Jo, who is conscionable weeks from giving birth, it’s a contention to find the slayer earlier motherhood arrives. And, successful doing so, discovering that not everyone—even those closest to her—are who oregon what they accidental they are. Good quality for those who bash springiness it a watch: After the Flood has already been renewed for a 2nd season.

Criminal Record

Peter Capaldi plays against benignant arsenic Daniel Hegarty, a seasoned detective nearing the extremity of an awesome vocation whose bequest could beryllium connected the line. When an anonymous tipster delivers immoderate shocking accusation that casts uncertainty connected the verdict successful a high-profile, decades-old lawsuit Hegarty worked on, he’d alternatively ideate helium got everything close the archetypal clip around. What helium wasn’t counting connected was detective June Lenker (Cush Jumbo) receiving the aforesaid accusation and mounting retired to retrace Hegarty’s steps, which puts the 2 astatine utmost odds. The ever-captivating Capaldi has recovered a fantastic sparring spouse successful Jumbo. A 2nd play is already successful the works.

Diarra From Detroit

Diarra Brickland (Diarra Kilpatrick) is simply a teacher coming retired of a achy divorcement who yet feels similar she mightiness beryllium acceptable to reenter the dating scene—or astatine slightest person a small amusive connected Tinder. What she wasn’t expecting to find was Chris (Shannon Wallace), a antheral with superior soulmate potential. When she stops proceeding from him altogether aft 1 glorious nighttime together, Diarra insists that helium indispensable person gone missing, arsenic there’s nary mode helium would shade her … right? Her closest friends are skeptical, but Diarra goes all-in connected uncovering her man—and soon finds herself entangled with Detroit’s highly unsafe transgression underworld. Did we notation that it’s a comedy? Kilpatrick is simply a unit of quality successful this BET+ series, which she created and produces (alongside Kenya Barris).

Lost Boys & Fairies

We cognize that Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer isn’t the last connection connected quality. But it does accidental thing that Lost Boys & Fairies has a cleanable 100 percent people (based connected conscionable a half-dozen critics’ reviews, but still). After astir a decennary together, Gabriel (Sion Daniel Young) and Andy (Fra Fee) determine that they are acceptable to marque the leap into parenthood. But arsenic they officially statesman the adoption process, Gabe—whose ain puerility was marked by trauma owed to the decease of his parent and a strained narration with his homophobic father—worries that helium whitethorn not beryllium capable, oregon worthy, of being a loving parent. It’s a powerful, poignant reminder that the ties that hindrance tin besides interruption us.

Manhunt

Even if you weren’t paying attraction during your third-grade past class, you astir apt cognize the precise basics astir the assassination of Abraham Lincoln astatine the hands of John Wilkes Booth. But Manhunt is not astir service-level history; rather the opposite. It reveals the lengths Lincoln’s adjacent person and caput of warfare Edwin Stanton (Tobias Menzies) went to successful bid to seizure Booth. Series creator Monica Beletsky, who has antecedently served arsenic a writer-producer connected Fargo, The Leftovers, Parenthood, and Friday Night Lights, is meticulous successful her attack to getting the details conscionable close (which is definite to delight immoderate statesmanlike past buff).

MaryLand

Becca (Suranne Jones) and Rosaline (Eve Best) are once-close sisters who person grown isolated implicit the years, arsenic time, space, and circumstances person changed them both. When their parent is abruptly recovered dormant connected the Isle of Man, they indispensable travel together—however briefly—to place her assemblage and person it transported backmost to Great Britain, wherever their begetter is waiting for her. While some sisters are confused arsenic to what their parent was doing connected the land successful the archetypal place, they soon travel to larn astir the galore buried chapters of their mother’s past that brought her to this place. Jones (Gentleman Jack) and Best (House of the Dragon) are ne'er amended than erstwhile it’s conscionable the 2 of them, being sisters, for amended oregon worse.

Monsieur Spade

Clive Owen joins the agelong database of formidable actors, from Humphrey Bogart to Tom Wilkinson, to inhabit the relation of Sam Spade—Dashiell Hammett’s famed backstage detective. In this case, Monsieur Spade takes spot successful the aboriginal 1960s, 2 decades aft the events of The Maltese Falcon, and Spade has made the determination to discontinue to the picturesque municipality of Bozouls successful the South of France. But erstwhile a radical of nuns are brutally murdered astatine a adjacent convent, Spade volition request to enactment his detective chapeau connected erstwhile again successful bid to lick the crime.

My Lady Jane

With a code that’s somewhat reminiscent of The Great, Gemma Burgess’ My Lady Jane reimagines the beingness of Lady Jane Grey (Emily Bader) done a somewhat supernatural lens. Yes, successful this mentation of 16th period England, shapeshifters abound—which lone ups the quirkiness. At its heart, however, My Lady Jane is astir the budding romance betwixt Jane and Lord Guildford Dudley (Edward Bluemel), whom Jane’s parent has arranged for her to marry. Sadly, 8 episodes are each we’re going to get of this series, arsenic Amazon announced its cancellation aft conscionable 1 fabulous season.

The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh

Lost prima Naveen Andrews gets to marque usage of his stellar comedic chops successful this darkly humorous communicative of the American Dream gone wrong. When what seems similar a stellar concern accidental arises, Pradeep household patriarch Mahesh (Andrews) moves his household from India to America, wherever civilization daze is the slightest of their problems. By the clip we conscionable the family, they’ve been surviving successful Pittsburgh for 2 years—and are recounting their communicative to a brace of national agents (Pete Holmes and Romy Rosemont) from the US Immigration and Naturalization Service, arsenic they’re besides suspected of perchance burning down the location of their snobby neighbors (Megan Hilty and Ethan Suplee). The astir astonishing portion of each is that the communicative is partially based connected the existent beingness of creator Vijal Patel.

Sugar

The tiny surface has been bully to Colin Farrell this year, astir notably with the occurrence of The Penguin. But 5 months earlier helium resumed his relation arsenic Oz Cobb, the Oscar-nominated histrion went neo-noir for Sugar. In the stylish crime-drama Farrell plays John Sugar, a backstage detective who is hired to analyse the disappearance of a big-time Hollywood producer’s granddaughter portion battling immoderate idiosyncratic demons of his own. If you’ve heard thing astir the show, you astir apt cognize that there’s a twist (more than 1 of them, really). A 2nd play has already been confirmed.

Renegade Nell

Sally Wainwright has ne'er been known arsenic a creator of “family-friendly” fare—unless your kids deliberation that binge-watching Happy Valley is an all-ages affair. But that she is the originative unit down Renegade Nell makes consciousness erstwhile you ticker adjacent conscionable the archetypal episode. After being framed for murder, Nell Jackson (Louisa Harland) becomes 1 of England’s astir feared highwaywomen. It’s each a bluff, of course, but Nell comes to recognize that the champion mode to wide her sanction is to thin into the notoriety surrounding her and person a small amusive with it. Harland is simply a joyousness to ticker (even erstwhile you cognize there’s nary Season 2 connected the menu).