15 Best New TV Series of 2015
Below, we rank the 15 highest-scoring (and thus best-reviewed) new TV shows to debut in the U.S. during the 2015 calendar year. Shows must have at least 15 reviews from professional critics to qualify for the list. Specials, TV movies, and one-time miniseries are excluded from this list.
Note that Metascores are based on reviews at the time of each show's debut, which generally reflect just the pilot and perhaps a few subsequent episodes (though cable networks generally provide more episodes in advance to critics). Shows are ranked by Metascore prior to rounding.
This year's best-reviewed broadcast network newcomer is an anthology series from TV veteran and recent Oscar winner (for 12 Years a Slave) John Ridley. The first season, with an ensemble featuring Felicity Huffman, Regina King, Timothy Hutton, and Lili Taylor (among others), centered on a racially charged murder in the California farm town of Modesto. Those actors will return next week for a second season, though they will be playing different characters in a story revolving around a sexual assault at an Indiana high school.
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