The 10 Best TV Performances of 2024
From Vince Vaughn to Kevin Kline, Rashida Jones to Allison Janney, these are the actors who leapt off the small screen this year
Logic dictates that you’re far more likely to find a great TV performance in a great TV show than in a not-so-great one. What’s perhaps more impressive is when great performances poke through in spite of the show around them being just OK, if not outright bad. Every year, we try to recognize some of these performances, where talented actors make the most of their own material, even if they can’t address everything else that makes a show work.
So, as we come together to discuss the best TV acting of 2024, it’s a mix of greatness within greatness, and greatness within… less than greatness. One of the performances discussed below came in a series that made our list of the 10 best shows of 2024. Others were from shows that just missed that list, or didn’t really come close. But they’re all deserving of a round of applause. In alphabetical order: