The Best TV Valleys of 2024

Some years, TV climbs new pinnacles. It reaches for new heights. Words like peak and summit and precipice get thrown around. But it’s important to remember that in between those peaks, other natural features can be just as beautiful in the literal and metaphorical landscape of this treasured medium. I speak, of course, of valleys.

For every peak there is a valley, and the TV of 2024 is full of them. It’s easy to think of a valley as a nadir or a depression. In...