The original post: /r/television by /u/Yeygermeister on 2026-02-20 19:18:32+00:00.
Every “greatest TV shows” list is shaped by the taste of whoever wrote it. So I removed the human curator entirely.
The yTV Guide aggregates scores from 5 independent platforms — IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes (critics + audience), Metacritic, and Trakt — into one composite score. No editorial board. No personal top-10 reshuffled into a listicle. Just math.
Every show also carries an Intensity rating (1=Chill → 5=Relentless) — so you know whether you’re getting a cozy background watch or a show that’ll keep you staring at the ceiling at 2am.
A few rankings the data produced that I know will start debates:
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The Wire is #7, not #1.
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Game of Thrones is #71 — Season 8 really did that much damage across every platform.
Also — no anime on the list. That was a deliberate data-infrastructure decision, not a quality judgment. Happy to explain why if anyone asks.
Full interactive list + published methodology (formula, weights, tiebreakers, how missing Metacritic scores are handled): y-list.com/tv
What do you think is the biggest “too high” / “too low” on the list?