Variety’s chief TV critics came in the form of documentaries about pop culture and politics, an erudite music series and a surprisingly sharp teen comedy, and not one but two series about the culture of food.
And even consensus choices underscore how wildly diffuse the landscape is right now: “Hacks,” a raucous character study, couldn’t be more different from “The Underground Railroad,” an auteurist vision of American trauma and tradition, in every quality but one: That, given the time and space of the streaming universe, both shows seemed to nail precisely what their respective creators were going for.Both of those shows were new in 2021, as were the No.
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