Top 10 TV Series of 2022: From 'Dahmer' to 'Yellowjackets'
A roundup of the ten best TV series of 2022, as selected by Artribune, covering a range of genres and platforms. The list includes Ryan Murphy's 'Dahmer' on Netflix, which garnered nearly 200 million viewing hours in its first week; HBO's 'House of the Dragon,' a prequel to 'Game of Thrones' shot at Warner Bros.' Leavesden Studios; Apple TV+'s 'Pachinko,' adapted from Min Jin Lee's novel; Sky's 'This England,' starring Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson; Disney+'s 'The Bear,' set in a Chicago sandwich shop; Apple TV+'s 'Severance,' a dystopian workplace drama; Netflix's 'Extraordinary Attorney Woo,' about an autistic lawyer; Peacock's 'A Friend of the Family,' based on a true kidnapping; HBO Max's 'The Last Movie Stars,' directed by Ethan Hawke and produced by Martin Scorsese, about Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward; and Sky Atlantic's 'Yellowjackets,' a survival horror series about a girls' soccer team stranded in Ontario.
Key facts
- 'Dahmer' on Netflix logged nearly 200 million viewing hours in seven days.
- 'House of the Dragon' was the first production at Warner Bros.' Leavesden Studios in southeast England.
- 'Pachinko' is based on Min Jin Lee's novel and produced by Theresa Kang.
- 'This England' stars Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson and covers the first COVID-19 wave in the UK.
- 'The Bear' follows chef Carmen Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White) in Chicago.
- 'Severance' reunites Ben Stiller and Patricia Arquette.
- 'Extraordinary Attorney Woo' features an autistic lawyer with a passion for whales.
- 'A Friend of the Family' recounts the kidnapping of Jan Broberg in the 1970s.
- 'The Last Movie Stars' uses lost audio tapes of Paul Newman, voiced by George Clooney and Laura Linney.
- 'Yellowjackets' is set in Ontario and follows a girls' soccer team after a plane crash.
Entities
Artists
- Ryan Murphy
- Evan Peters
- George R.R. Martin
- Min Jin Lee
- Michael Winterbottom
- Kenneth Branagh
- Jeremy Allen White
- Adam Scott
- Ben Stiller
- Patricia Arquette
- Ethan Hawke
- Martin Scorsese
- Paul Newman
- Joanne Woodward
- George Clooney
- Laura Linney
- Jan Broberg
- Theresa Kang
Institutions
- Netflix
- HBO
- Warner Bros.
- Leavesden Studios
- Apple TV+
- Edizioni Piemme
- Sky
- Disney+
- Peacock
- HBO Max
- Sky Atlantic
- NOW
- Artribune
Locations
- Milwaukee
- United States
- southeast England
- United Kingdom
- Italy
- Chicago
- Idaho
- New York
- Broadway
- Ontario
- Canada