TV's Best, Worst And Most Of 2021 (Part 1)

TVLine's Year in Review continues with some highly specific best and worst awards for 2021 television. Scroll through the gallery below to see our picks for the most underrated performances, guiltiest pleasures, best single episodes and much more!

Most Underrated Performance by an Actress (Drama)

Alexandra Daddario, The White Lotus

Best Performance on a Bad Show

Annaleigh Ashford, Impeachment: American Crime Story

Best Reality Show Judge

Ariana Grande, The Voice

Worst Reality Show Judge

Ashley Tisdale, The Masked Dancer

Best Performance by an Animal

Cannoli, B Positive

Most Underrated Performance by an Actress (Comedy)

Folake Olowofoyeku, Bob Hearts Abishola

Worst Green Screen

Dragging the Classics: The Brady Bunch (Paramount+)

Best Death Scene

Principal McVey gets decapitated, Chucky (Season 1, Episode 5 — and it had a great needle drop, too!)

Best Performance Opposite Oneself

Dave Burd, Dave (Season 2, Episode 9)

Most Unnecessary Death

Dean (played by Okieriete Onaodowan), Station 19

Best New Character on an Established Drama

Sister Andrea (played by Andrea Martin), Evil

Worst Wig

Every one of 'em on Netflix's Firefly Lane

Most Underrated Drama

For All Mankind (Apple TV+)

Best Single Episode (Comedy)

"Pete's Wife," Ghosts (Season 1, Episode 6)

Best Comedy Duo

Deborah and Ava, Hacks

Biggest Guilty Pleasure (Comedy)

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (Disney+)

Most Underrated Performance by an Actor (Drama)

Jacob Latimore, The Chi

Biggest Guilty Pleasure (Drama)

La Brea (NBC)

Most Improved Drama

Law & Order: SVU (NBC)

Best Cliffhanger

Loki's in a different TVA timeline!, Loki

Most Improved Comedy

Love, Victor (Hulu)

Most Underrated Performance by an Actor (Comedy)

Martin Freeman, Breeders

Worst Old-Age Makeup or Prosthetics

Mildred Gunning (played by Alex Essoe), Midnight Mass

Best Opening Credits

Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)

Biggest Acting Revelation (Drama)

Paola Lázaro, The Walking Dead

Best New Character on an Established Comedy

Rahim (played by Anthony Keyvan), Love, Victor

Best Ensemble

Reservation Dogs (FX)

Biggest Acting Revelation (Comedy)

Rose Matafeo (HBO Max's Starstruck) and Hannah Einbinder (HBO Max's Hacks)

Biggest Guilty Pleasure (Reality)

Selling Sunset (Netflix)

Most Underrated Comedy

Starstruck (HBO Max)

Best Single Episode (Drama)

"All the Bells Say," Succession (Season 3, Episode 9)

On-Screen Couple With Zero Chemistry

Bradley (Reese Witherspoon) and Laura (Julianna Margulies), The Morning Show

Best Costumes

The Nevers (HBO)

Most Disappointing Show

The Stand (Paramount+)

Worst Reboot, Revival or Sequel Series

The Waltons' Homecoming (The CW)

Best Performance in a Reality Competition

"Freedom" by Victor Solomon, The Voice Season 20 finale

(Watch it here.)

Best Casting of Younger Counterparts

Yellowjackets (Showtime)

Cancellation That Hurt the Most

Lovecraft Country (HBO)

Best Reboot, Revival or Sequel Series

Leverage: Redemption (IMDb TV)

Lamest Cameo

Don Cheadle, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

Funniest Scene

Hawkeye shoots Pym Arrow, Hawkeye

Most Convoluted Story Arc

The Forces, The Flash

Biggest Tearjerker

Nic's honor walk, The Resident (Season 5, Episode 3)

(Watch it here, if you have tissues handy!)

Best Monologue

Red eulogizes Glen, The Blacklist (Season 8, Episode 6)

(Watch it here.)

Best (Mostly) Silent Episode

"The Boy From 6B," Only Murders in the Building (Season 1, Episode 7)