Year-End Lists

Kelly Lawler: 10 Best TV Shows of 2017, as published by USA Today

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

1. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
2. The Good Place
3. Big Little Lies
4. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
5. Insecure
6. BoJack Horseman
7. One Day at a Time
8. The Handmaid’s Tale
9. Jane the Virgin
10. Game of Thrones

Margaret Lyons: The 10 Best Shows That Ended in 2017, as published by The New York Times

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

1. The Leftovers
2. Please Like Me
3. American Crime
4. Halt and Catch Fire
5. Girls
6. Downward Dog
7. Orphan Black
8. Underground
9. Playing House
10. Sweet/Vicious
10. Switched at Birth

James Poniewozik: 10 Best TV Shows of 2017, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2016]

• American Vandal
• Better Things
• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
• The Deuce
• The Good Place
• Halt and Catch Fire
• Lady Dynamite
• The Leftovers
• One Day at a Time
• Twin Peaks: The Return

Paste Magazine: 25 Best TV Shows of 2017

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1. The Leftovers
2. The Good Place
3. The Americans
4. The Handmaid’s Tale
5. Twin Peaks: The Return
6. Insecure
7. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
8. The Deuce
9. Halt and Catch Fire
10. Better Things
11. Jane the Virgin
12. Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
13. BoJack Horseman
14. Big Little Lies
15. Black-ish
16. The Vietnam War
17. Game of Thrones
18. Catastrophe
19. Master of None
20. Legion
21. One Day at a Time
22. Sweet/Vicious
23. The Crown
24. American Gods
25. Search Party

Highlark: 31 Best TV Shows of 2017

1. Better Things
2. The Leftovers
3. Catastrophe
4. Insecure
5. Master of None
6. The Americans
7. Better Call Saul
8. Veep
9. Dear White People
10. Fargo
11. The Good Place
12. The Deuce
13. Mr. Robot
14. Twin Peaks: The Return
15. Game of Thrones

Runner Ups

• Mindhunter
• Silicon Valley
• Broad City
• Big Little Lies
• BoJack Horseman
• Shameless

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 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2015]

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 2021 • 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 2023 • 2022 • 2019 • 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

IndieWire: 10 Best TV Shows of 2016

[see also 2022 • 2010s • 2018 • 2017]

1. BoJack Horseman
2. Veep
3. The Americans
4. Better Call Saul
5. You’re the Worst
6. The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
7. Atlanta
8. Rectify
9. Catastrophe
10. Mr. Robot