{"id":3379,"date":"2026-07-01T16:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=3379"},"modified":"2026-07-01T16:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:39:09","slug":"the-best-tv-shows-of-2026-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=3379","title":{"rendered":"The Best TV Shows of 2026 (So Far)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tWe\u2019re halfway through 2026, and the year has already delivered a plethora of brilliant television shows \u2014\u00a0sitcoms and medical dramas, horror and fantasy, period pieces and contemporary social commentary. With the hazy days of summer upon us, now is the perfect time to catch up on any shows you\u2019ve been contemplating, or may have missed entirely. <em>Variety<\/em> TV critics Aramide Tinubu and Alison Herman have both selected their 10 favorite shows \u2014 presented here unranked, and in alphabetical order \u2014 from the first half of 2026, ranging from the soapy, 1980s-set U.K. delight \u201cRivals\u201d to the sensual and extremely bloody \u201cThe Vampire Lestat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=3377\">\u2018Lucy Lost\u2019 Review: A Winsome Family Animation With Welcome Narrative Complexity<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Aramide Tinubu\u2019s Top 10<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>The \u2018Burbs (Peacock)<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tInspired by the 1989 film starring Tom Hanks, Peacock\u2019s horror comedy, \u201cThe \u2018Burbs,\u201d is the perfect mix of fun and terrifying. Created by Celeste Hughey, the show follows married couple Samira (an exceptional Keke Palmer) and Rob (a charming Jack Whitehall), new parents who leave behind their life in the city for a fresh start with their newborn son in Rob\u2019s childhood home. But the suburb of Hinkley Hills isn\u2019t exactly what Samira expected. She\u2019s the only Black person in the neighborhood, and the abandoned old Victorian sitting directly across the street gives her the creeps. What\u2019s worse, Samira begins to think that Rob is hiding things from her. Brilliantly written, with winning performances and an engaging mystery at the center, \u201cThe \u2018Burbs\u201d is dark, hilariously funny and totally bizarre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Half Man (HBO)<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\u201cBaby Reindeer\u201d creator Richard Gadd\u2019s latest series, HBO\u2019s \u201cHalf Man,\u201d is a riveting and profound examination of masculinity and the broken prisms through which men see themselves. A devastating watch, the show spans three decades and chronicles the friendship between two brothers, bound not by DNA, but by time and circumstance. The series follows Niall Kennedy (Mitchell Robertson, and later Jamie Bell), a shy and sensitive man, and his brother Ruben Pallister (Stuart Campbell, then later a barely recognizable Gadd), whose entire being is steeped in violence and hypermasculinity. The pair form an intense alliance, fortified by secrets, obligation and obsession in their teen years, and their relationship spills over into adulthood. Violent and disturbing, the series showcases how deeply hurt men create prisons of their own making.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>The House of the Spirits (Prime Video)<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tPrime Video\u2019s \u201cThe House of the Spirits\u201d is a dazzling and gut-wrenching adaptation of Isabel Allende\u2019s acclaimed 1982 novel. The series chronicles three generations of women in the Trueba family, bound by destiny and by the decisions of the violent, tyrannical men who attempt to keep them under their control. The series opens in the 1970s amid a terrifying military coup, when Alba (Rochi Hern\u00e1ndez) returns to her family home and digs through her late grandmother Clara\u2019s (Dolores Fonzi) old trunk. Diving into Clara\u2019s old journals, the audience is transported back to the 1920s, to Clara\u2019s childhood, before moving forward five decades. Much more than an epic family saga, \u201cThe House of the Spirits\u201d is a beautiful and fascinating watch about the mindless choices of men and how they shape the lives of the women around them for decades to come.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Imperfect Women (Apple TV)<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tApple TV\u2019s enthralling thriller \u201cImperfect Women,\u201d based on Araminta Hall\u2019s novel of the same name, follows the lives of three longtime friends whose twisted lies and sinister deceptions undo their friendship forever. Set in present-day Los Angeles, the series opens as Eleanor (Kerry Washington) is called in by the police to identify the body of her best friend, Nancy (Kate Mara), who has been found murdered. From there, Eleanor and her other best friend, Mary (Elisabeth Moss), try to uncover what happened to Nancy. Flashing back in time, the series explores the women and their unusual bond, highlighting the many secrets and lies they\u2019ve kept from each other. More than a mystery, the series is an intricate portrait of friendship and womanhood, one that also enforces how important it is for women to unlearn the habit of keeping broken men\u2019s secrets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Jury Duty: Company Retreat\u00a0 (Prime Video)<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tPrime Video\u2019s breakout hoax sitcom, \u201cJury Duty,\u201d proved it\u2019s not a one-hit wonder with its second iteration, \u201cCompany Retreat.\u201d Hilarious and completely endearing, this season follows Anthony Norman, who is hired as a temporary assistant for the (unbeknownst to him) fictional family-owned hot sauce brand, \u201cRockin\u2019 Grandma\u2019s\u201d. Though Anthony has agreed to be a part of a \u201cRockin\u2019 Grandma\u2019s\u201d documentary, he has no clue that this entire experience is staged. As he works to make the annual company retreat a success, Anthony deals with his eclectic co-workers, hijinks, a secret romance and everything in between. As with its 2023 predecessor, \u201cJury Duty: Company Retreat\u201d soars because of its wholesome depiction of humanity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Rivals (Hulu)<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tA wholly delicious dark comedy, Hulu\u2019s \u201cRivals\u201d is the perfect soapy adaptation of Jilly Cooper\u2019s \u201cRutshire Chronicles\u201d novels. The series is set in the fictional town of Rutshire, England and follows the intense rivalry between legendary television executive Lord Tony Baddingham (David Tennant), the managing director of media company Corinium, and his former show host, Declan O\u2019Hara (Aidan Turner). After quitting Corinium in spectacular fashion, Declan has teamed up with millionaire and notorious rake Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell) to create their own television enterprise, Venturer. They have also poached Tony\u2019s producer and longtime lover, Cameron Cook (Nafessa Williams), further igniting his ruthlessness and vengeance. Though the narrative is centered on the rivalry between Corinium and Venturer, the series also expands outward, immersing us in the world around these television executives while delivering jaw-dropping twists, steamy sex scenes and intricate business espionage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Star City (Apple TV)<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tApple TV\u2019s long-running series \u201cFor All Mankind\u201d offers viewers an alt-history of the space race in which the Soviet Union beat America to the moon. Now, with the creative team\u2019s spinoff, \u201cStar City,\u201d an intense, immaculate paranoid thriller, creators\u00a0 Matt Wolpert, Ben Nedivi and Ronald D. Moore go behind the Iron Curtain to explore their alternative universe through the perspective of the Soviet space program. Teeming with intrigue, the series opens in 1969, the day Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov (Sam Wilkinson) lands on the moon. From there, viewers are introduced to the Soviet Space Program Chief Designer (Rhys Ifans), as well as the cosmonauts and their loved ones, who are under constant surveillance. Though this is a world rife with ingenuity, it is also one on the verge of consuming itself and its genius because of the government\u2019s tyranny and ghastly rigidity. \u00a0A riveting, thought-provoking drama, \u201cStar City\u201d showcases the bloody, horrific costs of what it takes to be first in the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>The Testaments (Hulu)<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tA stunning follow-up to the acclaimed \u201cThe Handmaid\u2019s Tale,\u201d Hulu\u2019s return to Gilead in \u201cThe Testaments\u201d is an exemplary coming-of-age tale about girlhood, survival, rage and friendship. Set four years after the War of Massachusetts, the series follows 16-year-old Agnes MacKenzie (Chase Infiniti), who has lived a life of affluence as the daughter of a Gilead commander. A pupil at the preparatory school run by Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd, reprising her Emmy-winning \u201cHandmaid\u2019s Tale\u201d role) that prepares young women, called \u201cPlums,\u201d to become Gilead wives, Agnes is content to prepare for the marriage market. But the arrival of Daisy (Lucy Halliday), a Gilead outsider, shatters everything Agnes thought she knew about her life and the world around her. Deeply disturbing and beautifully acted, \u201cThe Testaments\u201d is a stellar examination of how patriarchy underestimates the power of female connection, often to its peril.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Young Sherlock (Prime Video)<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tThe iconic detective Sherlock Holmes has been depicted in popular culture ad nauseam, yet Matthew Parkhill\u2019s adaptation for Prime Video, with Guy Richie in the director\u2019s role, delivers a spin on the titular character that fans have never seen previously. Set in late 19th-century England, 19-year-old Sherlock (Hero Fiennes Tiffin) is no polished detective. Instead, he\u2019s a troublemaker struggling to find a path for himself. However, when his new job at Oxford University connects him with scholarship student James Moriarty (a winning D\u00f3nal Finn), the pair team up to track down a missing relic. Over eight fast-paced episodes stuffed full of secrets, mysteries and some hilarious one-liners, audiences get acquainted with this new version of Sherlock and the very first mystery that enables him to flex his investigative skills.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Your Friends &amp; Neighbors (Apple TV)<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tIn Season 1 of the Apple TV dramedy, former hedge fund executive Andrew \u201cCoop\u201d Cooper (Jon Hamm) coped with losing both his prestigious position and his family by literally stealing valuable items and keepsakes from his friends and neighbors in his affluent New York suburban community. Season 2 of the Jonathan Tropper show gets more textured, unveiling a new level of wealth and affluence, and why rich white men continue to win. Back to his old games of thievery and deception to keep up appearances, Coop is doing well. That is, until his world is upended once again when he finds himself in the crosshairs of his new billionaire neighbor, Owen Ashe (a perfectly cast James Marsden). Fully outlandish yet tender and heartfelt, \u201cYour Friends &amp; Neighbors\u201d is completely off the wall and totally outstanding.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=3375\">\u2018Got Milk?\u2019 Docuseries, Looking at Impact of Iconic Marketing Campaign, Acquired by Documentary+ (EXCLUSIVE)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Alison Herman\u2019s Top 10<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>The Audacity (AMC)<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tEven tech titans need therapy. That\u2019s how JoAnne (Sarah Goldberg), a humble Palo Alto shrink, ends up in the middle of a tug-of-war between male egos inflated by a messiah complex and billions of dollars. Duncan Park (Billy Magnussen) has money, but he wants the approval of the reclusive investor Carl Bardolph (Zach Galifianakis) more \u2014\u00a0so he blackmails JoAnne, their mutual psychologist, into giving him tips. Created by \u201cSuccession\u201d alum Jonathan Glatzer, \u201cThe Audacity\u201d is more interested in Silicon Valley\u2019s mental quirks than its technical accomplishments, because they mark the industry\u2019s true contributions to the world. The AMC drama is a heady, sharp, deliciously acted take on our current overlords. If we can\u2019t beat \u2018em, at the very least we can heap scorn upon \u2018em.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>DTF St. Louis (HBO)<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tSteven Conrad writes in a language all his own. Yes, the emotionally stunted adults of the HBO miniseries \u201cDTF St. Louis\u201d conduct their extramarital affairs in English. But they talk to one another like overeager children, gushing \u201cI love it and stuff\u201d or protesting with a \u201cno way, Jose.\u201d The pursuit of childlike innocence through an open-minded exploration of kink is a counterintuitive project; no wonder Conrad packages it in the mystery of what happened to David Harbour\u2019s Floyd Smernitch, an ASL interpreter who ends up dead in the Kevin Kline Community Poolhouse. The love triangle between Floyd, his wife Carol (Linda Cardellini) and local weatherman Clark (Jason Bateman) is gradually filled in via flashbacks, but the world creator, writer and director Conrad builds is so intriguing \u2014\u00a0despite the banal suburban setting \u2014\u00a0that we\u2019re hooked right away.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins (NBC)<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tThe mockumentary sitcom is an overused device, but a screen presence as singular as Tracy Morgan\u2019s can give a crowded genre new life. Reuniting with his \u201c30 Rock\u201d colleagues Robert Carlock and Sam Means, who co-created the NBC half-hour, Morgan stars as the title character, a disgraced football player hoping filmmaker Arthur Tobin (Daniel Radcliffe) can help salvage his reputation. Morgan\u2019s Reggie is as zany and compulsively likeable as the performer, and he\u2019s bracketed by an ensemble all equally capable of handling executive producer Tina Fey\u2019s signature joke-a-minute cadence. Erika Alexander and Precious Way are especially great as Reggie\u2019s past and present partners. If these two very different women \u2014 one businesslike, one bubbly \u2014\u00a0can agree Reggie deserves an image rehab, then who are we to disagree?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Industry (HBO)<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tHBO\u2019s London-set finance drama took a big risk by abandoning its premise at the end of Season 3. Then again, \u201cIndustry\u201d is a show <em>about <\/em>risk-takers, chief among them the self-made maverick investor Harper Stern (Myha\u2019la), now steering her own fund. So maybe it shouldn\u2019t be a surprise that the bet placed by creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay paid off handsomely with a maximalist, melodramatic reinvention. In taking on Tender, a fraudulent fintech startup led by the Ripley-esque Whitney Halberstram (Max Minghella), Harper found her perfect foil; in pushing her erratic aristocrat of a husband Henry Muck (Kit Harington) to jump aboard a sinking ship, heiress Yasmin Kara-Hanani (Marisa Abela) prompted her own moral downfall. Headed into its final season, \u201cIndustry\u201d has pulled off a shocking moral reversal that also feels rooted in the histories of characters we\u2019ve come to know intimately. What more could we ask from longform storytelling?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (HBO)<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<br \/>The first \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d spinoff, \u201cHouse of the Dragon,\u201d is as dour and depressing as a show about a family destroying both itself and an entire continent probably should be. But that also makes the second a breath of fresh air. \u201cA Knight of the Seven Kingdoms\u201d features shorter episodes, a lighter tone and a radically reduced scale, qualities that combine to make Westeros <em>fun <\/em>the way transportive fantasy often can be. Crucially, though, there\u2019s also an emotional anchor: the chemistry between Peter Claffey\u2019s title character, an aspiring knight who fashions himself Ser Duncan the Tall, and Dexter Sol Ansell\u2019s Prince Aegon Targaryen, who yearns to escape his toxic royal family and live as an anonymous commoner. The Dunk and Egg of George R.R. Martin\u2019s novellas are now flesh-and-blood humans we\u2019re deeply invested in. Season 2 can\u2019t come soon enough \u2014\u00a0and thanks to a less onerous production schedule than \u201cHouse of the Dragon,\u201d it will.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Lord of the Flies (Netflix)<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<br \/>William Golding\u2019s classic novel is so ingrained in the culture it\u2019s a universal shorthand for man\u2019s brutality unmasked. How, then, could a Netflix adaptation give the story fresh life? By casting a group of child actors who give the tragedy of marooned schoolboys turning on each other tremendous weight. These kids won\u2019t feel like discoveries for long: Dave McKenna, who plays the nerdily vulnerable Piggy, will soon star in Greta Gerwig\u2019s \u201cNarnia: The Magician\u2019s Nephew,\u201d while Lox Pratt will graduate from one blonde bully (the brutal ringleader Jack) to another (Draco Malfoy in HBO\u2019s \u201cHarry Potter\u201d series). But for now, writer Jack Thorne\u2019s scripts give these young performers a platform to make a parable feel as immediate and personal as a first-person account.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Neighbors (HBO)<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tThis HBO docuseries is exactly what it says on the tin: a series of case studies in real-life neighbors nearly coming to blows. It\u2019s a simple idea that contains a lot of big ideas about the American dream and even bigger characters who prove that truth really is stranger than fiction. From Montana to Florida, San Diego to Manhattan, nothing gets people riled up like a perceived threat to their domestic bliss. Directors Dylan Redford and Harrison Fishman mostly capture our divided nation through standalone vignettes, but the finale truly takes flight with a full-length story of an unrepentant nudist contemplating a move to a more like-minded community. If hell is other people, \u201cNeighbors\u201d is an exquisite kind of torture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>The Pitt (HBO Max)<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tExpectations couldn\u2019t be higher for the second season of a show that swept the Emmys and has been credited with no less than reviving the weekly procedural for the streaming era. Somehow, though, \u201cThe Pitt\u201d managed to exceed them. Season 2 of the HBO Max medical drama followed the slow-motion implosion of Dr. Michael \u201cRobby\u201d Robinavitch (Noah Wyle), the attending emergency physician whose time on the front lines of our overburdened healthcare system has taken a potentially deadly toll. Rather than an external crisis like the mass shooting that served as the climax of Season 1, the conflicts facing the cast in Season 2 are often internal \u2014 a testament to how much we\u2019ve come to know these characters. But the ensemble is still growing, and new additions like the analytical Dr. Al-Hashimi (Sepideh Moafi) quickly earn their place over the course of one grueling day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>The Vampire Lestat (AMC)<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tThe artist formerly known as \u201cInterview With the Vampire\u201d has reinvented itself alongside its namesake (Sam Reid), who\u2019s decided to process his centuries of trauma by hijacking a rock band and taking them on the road. There\u2019s no show on TV that felt more like a musical \u2014\u00a0big feelings, big tonal swings \u2014 without technically being one than \u201cInterview,\u201d so \u201cThe Vampire Lestat\u201d is more of a natural progression than a radical break. It\u2019s still a thrillingly unorthodox take by creator Rolin Jones on the works of Anne Rice: a gay, interracial, nocturnal romance that\u2019s now thrown original songs and incest into the mix. Reid is more than ready for his close-up, but Jennifer Ehle is an excellent new addition as Lestat\u2019s mother, fledgling, and well\u2026other things, too. After all, taboos are for mortals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Widow\u2019s Bay (Apple TV)<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\nHorror and comedy prove natural playmates in \u201cParks and Rec\u201d alum Katie Dippold\u2019s fictional New England town, a cursed island governed with feverish denial by well-meaning mayor Tom Loftis (Matthew Rhys). The horrors that beset Widow\u2019s Bay are an eclectic mix of haunted houses, killer clowns, masked madmen, epic storms and gnarled sea hags; the tension of every scare is only heightened by not knowing if the payoff will be a shriek or a laugh. Kate O\u2019Flynn is the surprise breakout as Tom\u2019s assistant Patricia, whose social insecurities fuel the cult horror of the series\u2019 standout fourth episode, but every denizen of Widow\u2019s Bay has something to contribute, from Chris Fleming\u2019s kooky drug dealer to Stephen Root\u2019s grizzled true believer. Widow\u2019s Bay may not be the next Martha\u2019s Vineyard, per Tom\u2019s dream \u2014\u00a0it\u2019s really something even better.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=3373\">\u2018The Sopranos\u2019 Creator, Former James Bond Casting Director, and Producers of \u2018Nomadland\u2019 and \u2018Hurt Locker\u2019 Headline Karlovy Vary Industry Discussions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Variety&#8217;s TV critics select the 20 best shows of 2026 so far, from Star City to Widow&#8217;s Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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