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2018 in TV

  • Jodie Comer as Villanelle in Killing Eve.

    Euan Ferguson’s best TV of 2018

    My Brilliant Friend, Killing Eve and Save Me were among the highlights in a vintage year for drama
  • James Norton (McMafia), Robin Wright (House of Cards) and Sean Penn (The First)

    Sorry episodes: the most disappointing TV shows of 2018

    From the squandered promise of Who Is America? to the glacial pacing of McMafia, this year featured plenty of turkeys that failed to take flight
  • Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh in Killing Eve

    The 50 best TV shows of 2018: the full list

  • Composite image showing (clockwise from top left) Informer, Keeping The Faith, Patrick Melrose, and My Beautiful Friend

    'Sublime on every level': your top TV of 2018

  • Compilation of TV shows form 2018

    Sadcoms to bad mums: what made TV tick in 2018

    Bloodshed, brainwashing and a boatload of Brits … here are the unlikely trends of the year
  • Jodie Comer … ‘There was something very freeing about playing her.’

    The chic assassin: Jodie Comer on playing Killing Eve’s Villanelle

    Her nonchalant psychopath transformed Pheobe Waller-Bridge’s blood soaked drama into our TV show of the year. The actor on why we’re obsessed with violent women – and why she wants to punch herself in the face
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    The 50 best TV shows of 2018: No 1 – Killing Eve

    Shocking, gory and very funny, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s spy-v-assassin thriller was a high-wire act of misdirection that subverted stale genre expectations

  •  Charles Dance in The Little Drummer Girl.

    Filthy rich agents: how shadowy elites conquered TV in 2018

  • Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes in Bodyguard.

    From #MeToo to Apu: Lucy Mangan on 2018’s biggest TV controversies

  • Composite image showing stills from (clockwise from top left) Atlanta, Derry Girls, Insecure, Doctor Who, Inside No. 9, and Bojack Horseman

    The best TV episodes of 2018, from Inside No 9 to Maniac

  • A Very English Scandal: Norman Scott (Ben Whishaw), Jeremy Thorpe (Hugh Grant)

    The 50 best TV shows of 2018: No 2 – A Very English Scandal

  • Composite image showing (clockwise from top left) Jamie Demtriou as Stath in Stath Lets Flats, Rahul Mandal, winner of The Great British Bake Off 2018, Patricia Clarkson as Adora Crellin in Sharp Objects an African Painted Wolf in Dynasties, and Ma Anand Sheela in Wild Wild Country

    From Bake Off's Rahul to Love Island's Adam: TV heroes and villains of 2018

  • Bodyguard: Richard Madden as David Budd

    The 50 best TV shows of 2018: No 3 – Bodyguard

  • Episode 101<br>Patrick Melrose Benedict Cumberbatch

    The 50 best TV shows of 2018: No 4 – Patrick Melrose

    David Nicholls turned Edward St Aubyn’s books into a heart-wrenching account of abuse and addiction, carried by a majestic Benedict Cumberbatch
  • Jeremy Strong and Brian Cox in Succession.

    The 50 best TV shows of 2018: No 5 – Succession

    The year’s guiltiest pleasure was an engrossing prestige TV melodrama that cannily critiqued end-times capitalism
  • Righteous angst … Saoirse Jackson in Derry Girls.

    The 50 best TV shows of 2018: No 6 – Derry Girls

    The year’s breakout British comedy surfed a tidal wave of poignancy – and nostalgia – and its subject matter couldn’t have been more timely
  • Christine Baranski in The Good Fight

    The 50 best TV shows of 2018: No 7 – The Good Fight

    Christine Baranski stormed through a breezily brilliant legal drama that delivered a cathartic howl against Trump’s America
  • A hinterland of moral and political complexity … Michaela Coel in Black Earth Rising.

    The 50 best TV shows of 2018: No 8 – Black Earth Rising

    Hugo Blick tore up the TV rulebook with a pulsating drama that forced us to reflect on Rwanda’s horrifying chapter in modern history
  • Darius (Lakeith Stanfield), Earn (Donald Glover) and Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry).

    The 50 best TV shows of 2018: No 9 – Atlanta

    In a busy 2018 for Donald Glover, arguably his most impressive feat was the surreal second season of this ambitious examination of African-American life
  • Amy Adams as Camille in Sharp Objects.

    The 50 best TV shows of 2018: No 10 – Sharp Objects

    A career-best Amy Adams was the ace in Jean-Marc Vallée’s almost deliberately inaccessible follow-up to Big Little Lies
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