The best TV shows of 2023 to binge-watch: from Happy Valley to The Last of Us
From comedy to prestige drama, this has been a vintage year for television. With so many to choose from we run through our top 25 of 2023, all of which are worth bingeing if you have missed out on them...
25) Barry - season 4
One newspaper called this the best show on television. Following the travails of a hitman who accidentally starts taking an acting class, the comedy became increasingly dark and experimental. While it didn’t take everyone with it, this was a genuinely maverick show and we are sad that this is the last we'll see of it, even if it did end in a brilliantly fitting way.
Barry season 4 is available to buy on Apple TV+, Prime Video and Sky Store
24) Fellow Travelers
Glossily produced, gorgeously acted, sexy as hell and unbearably sad, this drama, based on and expanded from Thomas Mallon's novel of the same name, follows the course and consequences of a decades-long love affair that begins between two men working in the US State Department at the height of McCarthyism. Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey plays the idealistic Tim Laughlin beautifully, while Matt Bomer, as his swaggering but closeted lover Hawkins 'Hawk' Fuller, delicately explores the conflicted masculinity of a gay military hero whose emotional survival tactics have eroded his capacity for love.
Fellow Travelers is available to stream on Paramount+
23) The Woman in the Wall
Nobody plays tormented characters quite like Ruth Wilson, and once more she gives a masterful performance in this shattering – and occasionally oddly funny – drama. Wilson plays Lorna, a woman who suffers from an extreme form
