Apple TV Plus produced one of the best TV shows of 2022 in the form of Pachinko, based on the award-winning novel of the same name
The bevy of year-end, best TV shows of the year lists that always proliferate around this time can sometimes be fun conversation-starters, as critics and writers take a completely subjective look back at what everyone was bingeing over the prior 12 months. Subjectivity aside, though, we can’t stress this next point enough:
Any of this year’s best TV shows lists that don’t include the 8-episode Pachinko on Apple TV Plus — one of the most breathtaking, masterful works of art to ever grace the small screen — are woefully and utterly incomplete. These lists can have whatever else on them that the writer wants, from Better Call Saul to Andor, The White Lotus, and House of the Dragon … I don’t care. Go nuts.
But I’m still swooning over the beauty and masterful storytelling of Pachinko, which absolutely belongs on each and every one of these TV rankings.
