One thing we can all be thankful for this year: that the best Australian TV shows of 2020 had already wrapped and were ready to air before production plunged into a six-month COVID-19 hiatus. Here are the 10 homegrown highlights that made the last 12 months just a little bit more bearable – enjoy them while you can, because next year’s top 10 may struggle to get beyond five or six entries.
10. Hungry Ghosts
Season: one
Three generations of a Vietnamese-Australian family are still traumatised by the events of the Vietnam War, and their anguish isn’t helped when a vengeful spirit is released during the Hungry Ghost Festival, when dead ancestors rise as phantoms to visit the living.