From "The Pitt" to "Andor" to "Adolescence," these 10 TV shows took our breath away in 2025.

It may be tough choosing among so many great shows, but we've ranked the top 12 comedies ever produced by HBO across its decades-long history.

Veep is one of the rare comedy shows that retained a consistent level of quality throughout its run, as it chose to end at just the right moment. David Mandel took over as showrunner starting with the fifth season, and developed a more cynical approach that engaged with the ramifications of putting someone like Meyers in power.

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The intrigue of the Emmy race over most of the last decade has been largely over who between longtime awards juggernaut HBO and plucky upstart Netflix will come up on top. Barring a rare outlier, like FX’s record showing at the 2024 Emmys,

Love & Death garnered a less-than-ideal Rotten Tomatoes score of 63%, but there is something about this story that continues to draw viewers like moths to a flame. It is easy to compare two shows based on the same source material,

Many of the year’s best series seemed to be in conversation with one another, including “Severance,” “The Pitt,” “Andor,” “Pluribus,” “The Lowdown” and others.