The Worst New TV Shows of 2022

– December 15, 2022

What were the biggest television duds of the past year? In the gallery on this page we rank the lowest-scoring first-year primetime TV series (including limited series and specials) debuting in the United States between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2022. Shows are ranked by Metascore (an average of grades from top professional critics on a 0-100 scale) prior to rounding based on scores from December 13, 2022 and must have at least 4 reviews from professional critics to qualify.

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45 #9: First Kill (Netflix)

Victoria Schwab adapted her own short story for this eight-episode teen vampire series that tried to freshen up a formula established by countless CW series with a star-crossed interracial lesbian romance. But critics found it formulaic, clunky, repetitive, and inferior to its predecessors, and Netflix canceled the show two months after it began streaming.

“First Kill could have been a fun teen supernatural series. But its storytelling is so clumsy it’s just very hard to watch.” —Joel Keller, Decider

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