The votes are in and Time Out’s top ten streaming shows and TV series of the year has been revealed.
Coming in at number one is Disney+’s adaptation of James Clavell’s period novel Shōgun. The 1600s-set epic, starring a breakout Cosmo Jarvis as an English sailor caught up in Japanese dynastic conflict, and The Last Samurai’s Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai as a warlord and his highborn interpreter, won a record-breaking 18 Emmys.
Following behind is the magnificent second season of BBC period drama Wolf Hall, The Mirror and the Light. Starring Mark Rylance, it charts the downfall of Tudor grandee Thomas Cromwell under the cruel, capricious reign of Damian Lewis’s Henry VIII. (It airs on PBS in the US from March 23, 2025.)
Apple TV’s consistently brilliant spy thriller Slow Horses, Netflix’s overnight smash Baby Reindeer and Sky Atlantic’s high-gloss assassin thriller The Jackal also make the top ten.
The list in full:
- Shōgun (Disney+)
- Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light (BBC/PBS)
- Slow Horses season 4 (Apple TV+)
- One Day (Netflix)
- The Jackal (Sky Atlantic/Peacock)
- Baby Reindeer (Netflix)
- Colin From Accounts season 2
- Black Doves (Netflix)
- The Boys season 4 (Prime Video)
- Ripley (Netflix)
And head here for the full list for all 40 shows on our best of 2024 list.
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