12 Superhero Shows Where Every Episode Is a Masterpiece

Superhero TV gets a bad rap, and honestly? Some of it is deserved. But if you write off the genre entirely, you'd be missing some of the most imaginative, ambitious, flat-out weird television of the last decade. Marvel's WandaVision turns grief into its engine: Elizabeth Olsen's Wanda kidnaps a New Jersey suburb and reshapes it into rotating sitcom fantasies, while Kathryn Hahn steals every scene as nosy neighbor Agnes.

The show thrives by staying deliberately small, using practical sets and contained stories to let character unraveling take center stage. HBO's The Penguin treats Gotham like a crime drama first, with Colin Farrell disappearing into the role and Cristin Milioti matching his chaos.

Loki pairs Tom Hiddleston with Owen Wilson's Mobius at the Time Variance Authority to probe free will and identity, and Netflix's Daredevil grounded its street-level story in Hell's Kitchen, anchored by Charlie Cox's earnest Matt Murdock and Vincent D'Onofrio's monstrous Wilson Fisk.

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