The 20 Best TV Shows of 2022
Get 'em while they're hot10. Evil (Paramount+)Evil upgraded its opening theme for Season 3; the new one whirls like a top spinning off its axis, or maybe like Dante descending the circles of hell. That's the show. Robert and Michelle King's freaky procedural is both a frantic journey to a dark place and a straight-up banger, a thrilling blend of doom, absurdism, and joy. Its third season was its first to be written entirely for streaming, and this year's episodes were more playfully profane than ever, not that Evil needed four-letter words to be shocking. The shrunken head in the toilet would have been enough. Season 3 delivered a Vatican mafia, haunted plumbing as a metaphor for problems in the home, matrilineal violence in the Bouchard family tree, Andrea Martin whacking invisible demons with a shovel, a poignant unrequited gay love story featuring Wallace Shawn as a priest who came back from the dead, and a whole host of visions and temptations for David (Mike Colter), still one of the most beautifully written men on TV. And then it really knocked the wind out of you. -Kelly Connolly
