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.
Netflix's second of five planned Marvel shows stars Krysten Ritter as the titular character, who has a few more flaws than the usual Marvel superhero. That gives the show—part action series, part noir-ish detective thriller—a welcome complexity, and it has quickly become critics' favorite small screen entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.