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.
So much could have gone wrong here: a half-hour adult Showtime comedy gets shifted to the youth-oriented CW and extended to an hour. And that's not even the crazy thing about Rachel Bloom's "screwed-up" rom-com: it's also a musical. Yet the highly original newcomer has impressed critics much like last year's CW breakout hit, Jane the Virgin.