Centuries from now, a visitor from another world may find this post among the detritus of data within a hard drive excavated from the ruined wasteland left behind by our once-dominant species. Maybe it won’t be space aliens, but whatever terrestrial species next evolves the mix of sapience, wanderlust and grip strength that allowed us to conquer the globe. Maybe it’ll even be distant humans, reconstructing the history lost in the fall.
If so, we hope that this – the tenth (!!!) annual Sundae TV Awards – can stand as a testament to a very human fact: that as humanity slipped deeper and deeper into the ever-widening gyre of the torment nexus, deranging ourselves and destroying each other, we also produced and watched a lot of damn good television.
These, as far as we’re concerned, are the best shows of the most recent TV season (June 2025 – May 2026). As well as the classic drama and comedy awards, we also have two awards for reality, variety and documentary television, including game shows, professional wrestling and whatever Eric Andre is doing at any given minute. We picked our winners by consensus, so only shows we both watched were eligible to win, but we each picked a runner-up, regardless of whether the other has seen it.
You can find each of our full slates of nominees at the bottom of the post. We recommend checking them out if you’re looking for recommendations.
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