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The rules for the Power Rankings are simple: Any current series on TV qualifies, whether it’s a comedy, drama, news program, animated series, variety show or sports event. It can be on a network, basic cable, premium channel, Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, YouTube or whatever you can stream on your smart TV, as long as a new episode was made available within the past week (ending Sunday) —or, in the case of shows released all at once, it has to have been released within the previous four weeks.

The voting panel is composed of Paste Editors and TV writers with a pretty broad range of tastes. Happy viewing!

For the Week of May 9th:

Honorable Mention: Atlanta (FX), Bosch: Legacy (Prime Video), Julia (HBO Max), The Man Who Fell to Earth (Showtime), Outer Range (Prime Video), Russian Doll (Netflix)

10. The Flight Attendant

Network: HBO Max
Last Week’s Ranking: Honorable Mention
This Week: We’re really loving Cassie’s mind palace this season.

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After an exceptionally fun but sometimes silly first season, The Flight Attendant returns for Season 2 with a new case, a new location, and a new set of problems for Cassie (Kaley Cuoco) to overcome as she embraces her new life as a flight attendant and official civilian operative of the CIA. But in a surprising twist, it isn’t actually the spycraft that makes the show worth watching this time around. The show’s dedication to exploring Cassie’s personal growth as she attempts to maintain her sobriety amidst the chaos of her life makes for a deeper and more emotionally resonant show in Season 2, and The Flight Attendant is all the better for it. —Kaitlin Thomas [Full Review]

9. We Own This City

Network: HBO (streaming the next day on HBO Max)
Last Week’s Ranking: 4
This Week: How does a police system get so broken? Well….

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Based on the non-fiction book of the same name by former Baltimore Sun crime reporter Justin Fenton, We Own This City showcases not only the corruption within a unit of the Baltimore Police Department but the tireless work of the FBI agents who broke the real life scandal in 2017, and the Department of Justice lawyer that tries to repair one of the most corrupt law enforcement agencies in the country. Even though it has some issues, David Simon’s latest work is a captivating by the story of how a criminal justice system has failed its citizens. Provocative, powerful and with first rate performances, We Own This City is the next generation of The Wire fans have long craved. —Terry Terrones [Full Review]

8. Gentleman Jack

Network: HBO (streaming the next day on HBO Max)
Last Week’s Ranking: 6
This Week: Can Anne Lister run my life please?

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To observe, at any point, Suranne Jones striding into the frame as Anne Lister is a magnificent gift. Brilliant, confident, and without a moment to spare on any nonsense (“keep up!”) Lister is a force to be reckoned with. Gentleman Jack remains just as jaunty and charming as its formidable lead in its second season, which again runs for eight episodes and loosely follows the true events of Lister’s life as chronicled among the five million words of her diaries. About a sixth of those words were coded, though, as Lister was involved in many relationships with other women in 1830s England, and even married one of them—Anne Walker (Sophie Rundle)—the aftermath of which is the focus of Season 2.

These new episodes also make for an unexpected comfort watch. They are intimate and welcoming, with cozy settings by crackling fireplaces, and warm interiors of carriages and estates upon the misty Yorkshire Dales. Some of the plots are more interesting than others, but even at its most intense, the series is never designed to be too upsetting. It’s like we the viewers are Anne Walker to Gentleman Jack’s Anne Lister—it knows we are prone to anxiety and melancholy, and therefore handles us lovingly and carefully, only providing what we can take on. And like Walker, it’s hard—even when faced with faults—not to fall in love. —Allison Keene [Full Review]

7. The Wilds

Network: Amazon Prime Video
Last Week’s Ranking: Not Eligible
This Week: Now with boys!

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The Wilds is the kind of show that makes you think magic might be real. Or, if not magic, then at least magicians.

In its first season, the twisty, stranded-teen mystery series on (Amazon) Prime Video was tasked not only with getting its audience invested in the lives of nine extremely different young women, but also with getting us to keep track of all their fraught, emotionally complex journeys across three different timelines. More than that, it had to drop enough meaningful crumbs about Gretchen Klein’s (Rachel Griffiths) sociopathic masterplan to keep us breathlessly chasing her machinations through 10 increasingly convoluted episodes, without dropping so few that we might just decide to bail. That creator Sarah Streicher and her team pulled it off? I’m telling you: magicians.

And now that they’re back for a long awaited Season 2, not only are all the same asks from the first season still in play—nine(ish) girls, multiple timelines, and a villainous plan only Gretchen Klein knows the limits of—but, with the introduction of the control group of nine(ish) boys that Leah (Sarah Pidgeon) discovered in the bunker in the final moments of Season 1, those asks have effectively doubled. And just in case you’re worried you’ll resent these nine new boys for taking screen time away from the seven(ish) girls we were left with at the end of the first season, let us assure you: You absolutely will not. Neither will you resent all the narrative parallels to that first season in all the paces Gretchen puts “her boys” through. Because as it turns out, the benefit of The Wilds treading so much of the same glittering narrative water this season is that all that familiarity gives viewers a rock-steady structure to hold onto as they work to make sense of what is now an even twistier games of cat-and-mouse.

That said, fair warning: The season does end with another cliffhanger. But all (we hope) that means is, a Season 3 pick-up is right around the corner. —Alexis Gunderson [Full Review]

6. Ten Percent

Network: Sundance Now / BBC America / AMC+
Last Week’s Ranking: Not Eligible
This Week: Bonus points for using real celebrities like Kelly Macdonald, who was hilarious.

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Based on the French series Call My Agent, this comedy follows agents at the London-based Nightingale Hart agency (the “ten percent” refers to their cut of any deal their clients make). Richard (Jim Broadbent) and Sheila (Maggie Steed), who started Nightingale Hart decades ago, are constantly adjusting to the ever-changing entertainment world. Richard’s son Jonathan (Jack Davenport) gets frustrated with his dad’s archaic ways (like his insistence on driving into the city) while Rebecca (Lydia Leonard) has very little tolerance for her assistants. The series is a charming delight and, in an added bit of veracity, is full of guest stars playing themselves; in the premiere Dan (Prasanna Puwanarajah) has to deliver difficult news to Kelly Macdonald. Keep an eye out for Helena Bonham Carter, Olivia Williams, Dominic West, Emma Corrin, Himesh Patel, David Oyelowo, and Jessica Oyelowo as well. —Amy Amatangelo

5. Better Call Saul

Network: AMC (streaming on AMC+)
Last Week’s Ranking: 1
This Week: Directed by Rhea Seehorn!

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As Better Call Saul has inched ever closer to the world of Walter White and the events of Breaking Bad, the series has simultaneously gotten more tense and more exhilarating. In Season 6 (the show’s last, split into two parts) everything feels like it is ratcheted up to 1,000—because it is. From Kim’s (Rhea Seehorn) continued descent into morally gray areas and Jimmy’s (Bob Odenkirk) surprise at how far Kim is willing to go, to Nacho’s (Michael Mando) precarious existence and Lalo’s (Tony Dalton) dangerousness, we’re not just on the edge of our seats as we watch the final episodes play out—we’re sprawled out on the floor trying to remember to breathe. And we wouldn’t have it any other way. —Kaitlin Thomas [Full Review]

4. Under the Banner of Heaven

Network: Hulu
Last Week’s Ranking: 3
This Week: Mare of Easttown by way of Terrance Malick.

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Based on the popular true crime novel of the same name, Under the Banner of Heaven will likely introduce a whole new generation to the horror of the Lafferty murders—in which a young mother and her baby were brutally murdered by her Mormon fundamentalist brothers-in-law—and spark renewed interest in the darker corners of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and its history. But while the show is unflinching in its honesty about the dangers of religious fanaticism and the horrors of violence done in (any) God’s name, it’s also a thoughtful look at what it means to believe in something enough to trust that it can not only withstand scrutiny, but that such questioning ultimately makes one’s faith stronger in the end. Andrew Garfield shines as everyman detective Jeb Pyre, who must balance his devout belief in the church he’s dedicated his life to with the horror slowly unfolding in front of him as their case continues to pull back the curtain on some of that church’s darkest secrets. —Lacy Baugher Milas [Full Review]

3. Barry

Network: HBO (streaming the next day on HBO Max)
Last Week’s Ranking: 2
This Week: Absolutely (and rightfully) roasted the press this week.

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It is exceptionally rewarding to see a show that goes all-in for half an hour in a way that mixes action, emotional resonance, horror, and humor in such a satisfying way. Which is, of course, what Barry has been doing all along.

But the show also makes clear at the start of Season 3 that Barry Berkman (Bill Hader) is not a hero. He’s a deeply troubled man, or as he is asked early in the first episode, “are you a psycho?” Maybe.

In this way, Barry continues to impress in how it weaves so many different themes and tones into an exceptional TV tapestry, managing to comment on serious topics alongside absurdist hijinks. There is a silliness to Barry, but also a soul—and a lot of darkness. Even when the show reaches unbelievable narrative heights, there is an intimacy that continues to ground it. It’s up close, personal. It relishes in making us uncomfortable, and then backs off just enough for us to take a deep breath before the next thrillingly unpredictable round.

In addition to second rounds, Barry Season 3 is all about second chances. There are various seeds of revenge being planted, but also the powerful idea that forgiveness must be earned. Where Barry or Barry goes next is an exciting, if trepidatious mystery. But both the man and the show are earning every step. —Allison Keene [Full Review]

2. Girls5eva

Network: Peacock
Last Week’s Ranking: Not Eligible
This Week: The sparkling series is back and full of BPE

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Here’s the thing about Girls5eva: You are either an Xennial woman who will feel so seen by every single moment of the series that it will be impossible for you to not text every line to your friends and hum “BPE” regularly, or… you aren’t. That’s not to say that Girls5eva isn’t an extremely fun and witty satire of the music industry that could easily be enjoyed by anyone interested in a tightly-packed half-hour comedy. But if you are its niche target demographic, there’s no expressing the heights of its excellence.

That specificity, of a time, a place, a people, is what makes Girls5eva so wonderfully dense and rewarding to watch. Like the group itself, it knows what it wants to say and it makes no apologies for it. The songs remain great and catchy (I’ll never stop singing that theme song at every opportunity), and from top to bottom the series winningly mixes together low-key humor with laugh-out-loud moments.

Grounding it, though, it that show allows its characters to grow—which is the real crux of Season 2. The women finding new, adult roles for themselves in this girl group is part of that, along with the joy of success on their own terms. But it’s also about their growth as people. And yet, the show never makes that feel forced or lame; how could it, when the culmination of their efforts is the song “Big Pussy Energy”? They’re discovering their own power, and some of their own foibles, and they are owning all of it. That’s BPE, folks—and you don’t want to miss it. —Allison Keene [Full Review]

1. Star Trek: Strange New Words

Network: Paramount+
Last Week’s Ranking: Not Eligible
This Week: The series feels both nostalgic and new—ambitious in the way the best versions of the series have been.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is an absolute blast, and a big reason for its success is that it’s deeply rooted in the DNA of the Star Trek mythos. It’s full of compelling characters, and its episodic format serves as one of several bridges that link it to The Original Series. Allowing viewers to see the action aboard the Enterprise from multiple perspectives is refreshing. Smart, addictive, and flat-out fun, Strange New Worlds is the best Star Trek series since The Next Generation, and acts as a faithful love letter to the original. Old fan or new, this is a trek you’ll certainly want to take. —Terry Terrones [Full Review]

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