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The 12 Best TV Performances of 2024


These actors found fresh depths in returning characters or introduced us to new ones with confidence and style.

Clockwise from top left: Andrew Scott, Marisa Abela, Tadanobu Asano, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jacob Anderson, Bridget Everett, Dakota Fanning, Richard Kind, Alia Shawkat, Vince Vaughn, and Anna Sawai. When Abby Winfield walks into a book party for her very famous, very wealthy author mother-in-law, she scans the room and declares, “Jesus, it looks like Lily Pulitzer projectile vomited all over this place.” Dakota Fanning delivers this line with just the right splash of mean-girl snark, demonstrating the degree to which she understands that this series, about a gilded family grappling with a tragic death that takes place in the middle of a Fourth of July wedding weekend, is a dark comedy about how fucking ridiculous all these people are. Abby is shifty, prowling the Winfields’ Nantucket estate with wide-open, judgy eyes in one moment, then switching to ingratiate herself to the latest addition to the family, Eve Hewson’s Amelia, with enough shy warmth to make you think she actually has integrity after all.

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