Guardian: Best TV of 2014

The Guardian's top TV of 2014, as voted for by its television writers and reviewers

Best TV of 2014: No 10 – Fargo

What could have been a disappointing movie rehash turned out to be a brilliantly original, superbly cast masterpiece.

Best TV of 2014: No 9 – Game of Thrones
             

The fourth season of HBO’s epic fantasy series wasn’t without flaws, but it took chances with the source material and created some iconic, heart-stopping moments.

Best TV of 2014: No 8 – Peaky Blinders

This story of Birmingham gangsters avoided the curse of the second series with new characters, torrid family melodrama and a sense of its own greatness.

Best TV of 2014: No 7 – True Detective

The noir-ish HBO series, starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, was a rare serial killer story that favoured strangeness over gore, and viewers were hooked on the mystery.


Best TV of 2014: No 6 – Grayson Perry: Who Are You?

             
It’s been an excellent year for drama, but one documentary truly stood out, as the potter met a wide variety of people from all over Britain and turned them into art.

Best TV of 2014: No 5 – The Trip to Italy
     

Was the Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon vehicle a travelogue, a comedy, a food show, scripted reality, or something else entirely? Or was it simply as good as television gets?

Best TV of 2014: No 4 – The Good Wife

The political and legal drama hit extraordinary new heights in its fifth season, with a shock move that suggested anything was possible.

Best TV of 2014: No 3 – The Honourable Woman

With uncanny prescience, The Honourable Woman scrutinised the biggest issues through the most intimate human experiences. Who could ask for more from television?


Best TV of 2014: No 2 – Line of Duty

The second series of Jed Mercurio’s brutal cop corruption thriller saw Keeley Hawes giving the performance of a lifetime as DI Lindsay Denton.

Best TV of 2014: No 1 – Happy Valley

With some of the most psychologically perceptive writing and acting that TV has ever seen, this was no ordinary police fiction.

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