Let’s take a look at what ANN readers think are the best (and worst) shows of the season, based on the polls you’ll find on our daily streaming reviews and the Your Scores page that includes the latest simulcasts.
Remember, these rankings are based on people’s ratings individual plot of current seasonrather than the overall quality or popularity of the series. Only films that are legal to stream in North America and popular enough will be ranked, so the bottom of the list might represent “watchable” rather than “terrible.”
Series lacking enough user votes will not be eligible for ranking.
See notes Learn more.
Last week we were comparing all the last episodes
The 2026 winter season has now concluded during the week of March 26-31. But a lot of the series ended last week, so we’ve added an extra “final” week where all the final episodes will be ranked against each other. Through this, we can see which series ends strong and which series ends weak. It means “last episode”. The column repeats the last episode from March 19-25 or March 26-31. And “last week’s change” is the difference in position between the “last episode”. Column and penultimate episode.
This ranking excludes some season finale episodes that aired in April:
To your eternity #twenty two. For the sake of completeness, we will update this ranking as episodes are reviewed and rated in the coming days.
Episode rankings for the last few episodes
This chart records weekly ranking changes, along with the actual ranking of this week’s episodes. While some episodes are solid, others fluctuate wildly in their rankings based on the strength of each episode. When a series has no episodes for a given week, the previous week’s episodes are used as placeholders. The first episode of each series is considered part of the first week, even if it does air in the second week.
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2026 Winter Series Cumulative Rankings
Each week’s rankings take into account the scores from episodes from previous weeks. The last episode is repeated in “The Last Episode”. Column, indicating the number of votes for the last episode of each episode is counted twicewhich intentionally pushed for a series that ended strong. This partly makes up for the fact that the first episode of each series has more votes, which favors series that start strong.
These are the final standings, winners and losers for the 2026 Winter Season.
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notes
Disclaimer: Rankings are simply an average of opinions and are published for entertainment and information purposes only. ANN makes no claim to be statistically significant or free from spam.
Ranking is calculated using the following formula ranking methodunrated titles are considered Abstain rather than below the rated title. this approximately Meaning if 60% of all people who rate A and B prefer A, then A will be ranked higher than B.
Ranking shows relative quality (A is better than B), rather than absolute Quality (B is good/bad). While the titles are ordered from “best” to “worst,” sometimes the difference between first and tenth place can be very small. So if your favorite product is near the bottom of the list, don’t take it personally. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad show, it just means that ANN readers, on averageprefer the ones above.
If a series has no episodes in a given week, we will use viewership data from the previous week’s episodes to calculate weekly rankings. This doesn’t officially count as a position in the rankings (it has no impact on cumulative rankings), but it makes it easier to compare weeks if they each have the same number of ranking series.
It should be noted that long-running series (and sequels) have an advantage in that only people who liked the series are still watching it, and they are likely to rate each episode highly. But if a series like this is experiencing low-quality filler arcs, then the season will receive a lower ranking, which is not indicative of the true overall quality of the series. Conversely, fewer people rate a show, so it’s less likely there will be enough votes to qualify for a ranking.