Year-End Lists

Sophie Gilbert: 24 Best TV Shows of 2017, as published by The Atlantic

[see also 2018]

New Shows

• Alias Grace
• American Vandal
• Big Little Lies
• Dear White People
• The Deuce
• Godless
• GLOW
• The Handmaid’s Tale
• The Keepers
• National Treasure

Returning Shows

• Better Things
• BoJack Horseman
• The Crown
• Game of Thrones
• The Good Place
• Halt and Catch Fire
• Insecure
• The Leftovers
• Stranger Things
• Twin Peaks: The Return

Honorable Mentions

• Mindhunter
• The Mayor
• Big Mouth
• I Love Dick

Maureen Ryan: 20 Best TV Shows of 2017, as published by Variety. See also her extensive honorable mentions, of new and returning shows.

[see also 2021 • 2018 • 2016]

1. The Leftovers
2. One Day at a Time
3. The Good Place
4. Halt and Catch Fire
5. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
6. Jane the Virgin
7. Better Things
8. Alias Grace
9. American Vandal
10. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
11. Into the Badlands
12. Superstore
13. The Handmaid’s Tale
14. Insecure
15. Big Little Lies
16. Top of the Lake: China Girl
17. Black-ish
18. Wynonna Earp
19. One Mississippi
20. Mary Kills People

Jen Chaney: 10 Best TV Shows of 2017, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

1. Big Little Lies
2. The Leftovers
3. BoJack Horseman
4. The Good Place
5. Halt and Catch Fire
6. Stranger Things
7. Better Call Saul
8. Master of None
9. Twin Peaks: The Return
10. Better Things

Hank Stuever: 20 Best TV Shows of 2017, as published by The Washington Post

[see also 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2016]

1. Twin Peaks: The Return
2. The Handmaid’s Tale
3. The Vietnam War
4. Big Little Lies
5. Feud: Bette and Joan
6. Insecure
7. Better Things
8. GLOW
9. The Young Pope
10. Godless

Close to making the list

• Big Mouth
• The Crown
• The Deuce
• Game of Thrones
• The Good Fight
• Loudermilk
• One Day at a Time
• Patriot
• Stranger Things
• This Is Us

Slant Magazine: 25 Best TV Shows of 2017

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2019 • 2018 • 2016]

1. The Leftovers
2. Dear White People
3. Twin Peaks: The Return
4. Better Things
5. The Deuce
6. BoJack Horseman
7. GLOW
8. The Girlfriend Experience
9. American Gods
10. Mindhunter
11. Big Little Lies
12. The Good Place
13. Master of None
14. The Handmaid’s Tale
15. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
16. The Americans
17. Rick and Morty
18. Better Call Saul
19. One Mississippi
20. Silicon Valley
21. Stranger Things
22. Broad City
23. Insecure
24. Black Mirror
25. She’s Gotta Have It

IndieWire: 10 Best TV Shows of 2017

[see also 2022 • 2010s • 2018 • 2016]

1. The Leftovers
2. Better Things
3. Twin Peaks: The Return
4. The Handmaid’s Tale
5. BoJack Horseman
6. Dear White People
7. Halt and Catch Fire
8. Better Call Saul
9. Master of None
10. American Vandal

Rob Sheffield: 20 Best TV Shows of 2017, as published by Rolling Stone

1. Twin Peaks: The Return
2. The Young Pope
3. The Leftovers
4. The Good Place
5. The Deuce
6. Patton Oswalt: Annihilation
7. Rick and Morty
8. Insecure
9. Stranger Things
10. Game of Thrones
11. Master of None
12. Difficult People
13. Halt and Catch Fire
14. Better Things
15. The Vietnam War
16. Curb Your Enthusiasm
17. Riverdale
18. Legion
19. Better Call Saul
20. I Love Dick

Alison Herman: 10 Best TV Shows of 2017, as published by The Ringer

[see also 2023 • 2016]

1. The Young Pope
2. Twin Peaks: The Return
3. The Leftovers
4. The Keepers
5. Big Little Lies
6. Riverdale
7. Halt and Catch Fire
8. BoJack Horseman
9. The Good Place
10. Rick and Morty

Lara Zarum: 16 Best TV Shows of 2017, as published by The Village Voice

[see also 2018]

1. Big Little Lies
2. The Leftovers
3. Better Things
4. Alias Grace
5. Broad City
6. The Good Place
7. Search Party
8. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
9. One Day at a Time
10. The Vietnam War

Honorable mentions

• Superstore
• GLOW
• Younger
• American Vandal
• The Deuce
• Girls

Matt Zoller Seitz: 10 Best TV Shows of 2017, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2016]

1. Twin Peaks: The Return
2. The Leftovers
3. Better Things
4. The Get Down
5. BoJack Horseman
6. The Deuce
7. The Young Pope
8. Samurai Jack
9. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
10. The Carmichael Show