Keith Uhlich: 10 Best TV Shows of 2016, as posted by The BBC

1. The Girlfriend Experience
2. The X-Files
3. O.J.: Made in America
4. Black Mirror
5. BoJack Horseman
6. The Fall
7. Better Call Saul
8. Game of Thrones
9. And Then There Were None
10. The Americans

David Wiegand: 12 Best TV Shows of 2016, as published by The San Francisco Chronicle

[see also 2017]

1. Atlanta
2. The Night Of
3. This Is Us
4. The OA
5. Westworld
6. Stranger Things
7. Speechless
7. The Good Place
8. Insecure
9. Lady Dynamite
9. One Mississippi
10. The Crown

Sonia Saraiya: 20 Best TV Shows of 2016, as published by Variety

[see also 2018, 2017]

1. Atlanta
2. Silicon Valley
3. The Girlfriend Experience
4. Halt and Catch Fire
5. Fleabag
6. The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
7. Better Call Saul
8. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
9. Insecure
10. BoJack Horseman
11. Rectify
12. Frontline
13. Black Mirror
14. The Real O’Neals
15. Lemonade
16. Veep
17. Superstore
18. The Crown
19. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
20. Lady Dynamite

Maureen Ryan: 20 Best TV Shows of 2016, as published by Variety

[see also 2018, 2017]

1. Jane the Virgin
2. Rectify
3. The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
4. Black-ish
5. The Americans
6. One Mississippi
7. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
8. Atlanta
9. Insecure
10. Better Things
11. Halt and Catch Fire
12. Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
13. Catastrophe
14. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
15. O.J.: Made in America
16. Fleabag
17. Transparent
18. Stranger Things
19. Superstore
20. Marvel’s Agent Carter

Slant Magazine: 25 Best TV Shows of 2016

[see also 2018, 2017]

1. Atlanta
2. The Americans
3. BoJack Horseman
4. The Girlfriend Experience
5. Silicon Valley
6. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
7. Horace and Pete
8. Better Call Saul
9. Transparent
10. The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
11. High Maintenance
12. Black Mirror
13. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
14. Girls
15. American Crime
16. The Night Of
17. Broad City
18. Easy
19. South Park
20. American Horror Story: Roanoke
21. Jane the Virgin
22. Bob’s Burgers
23. Insecure
24. Happy Valley
25. Orange is the New Black