Year-End Lists

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

Alan Sepinwall: 21 Best TV Shows of 2016, as published by Uproxx

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

1. Horace and Pete
2. The Americans
3. O.J.: Made in America
3. The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
4. BoJack Horseman
5. Rectify
6. Atlanta
7. Veep
8. Fleabag
9. Better Call Saul
10. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
11. Halt and Catch Fire
12. Orange is the New Black
13. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
14. Better Things
15. Girls
16. American Crime
17. Transparent
18. Catastrophe
19. Game of Thrones
20. Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Daniel D’Addario: Top 10 TV Shows of 2016, as published by Time Magazine

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2018]

1. The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
2. The Girlfriend Experience
3. The Americans
4. Late Night with Seth Meyers
5. Atlanta
6. O.J.: Made in America
7. Better Call Saul
8. Veep
9. Speechless
10. Love

The Playlist: 30 Best TV Shows of 2016

[see also 2023 • 2010s • 2018]

1. Atlanta
2. The Girlfriend Experience
3. Rectify
4. Transparent
5. The Americans
6. BoJack Horseman
7. Togetherness
8. Fleabag
9. The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
10. Girls
11. Stranger Things
12. The Night Of
13. Search Party
14. Silicon Valley
15. Westworld
16. The Good Place
17. Orange is the New Black
18. Catastrophe
19. Game of Thrones
20. Jane the Virgin
21. Broad City
22. Baskets
23. Halt and Catch Fire
24. Black Mirror
25. Horace and Pete
26. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
27. London Spy
28. The Crown
29. Lady Dynamite
30. The Night Manager

Hank Stuever: 20 Best TV Shows of 2016, as published by The Washington Post

[see also 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

1. O.J.: Made in America
2. Veep
3. The Americans
4. Transparent
5. The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
6. Atlanta
7. Quarry
8. The Night Of
9. The Crown
10. Billions

What almost made the list

• American Crime
• Better Things
• Fleabag
• Game of Thrones
• Good Girls Revolt
• Insecure
• Silicon Valley
• Stranger Things
• This Is Us
• Underground

Entertainment Weekly: 10 Best TV Shows of 2016

[see also 2017]

1. O.J.: Made in America
2. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
3. The Americans
4. The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
5. Atlanta
6. Better Things
7. Rectify
8. The Good Place
9. Search Party
10. Westworld
11. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
12. American Crime
13. Black-ish
14. Mr. Robot
15. Documentary Now!
16. Better Call Saul
17. Roots
18. Lady Dynamite
19. Stranger Things
20. Horace and Pete

Paste Magazine: 25 Best TV Shows of 2016

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

1. The Americans
2. Stranger Things
3. Atlanta
4. BoJack Horseman
5. Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
6. The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
7. Veep
8. Better Call Saul
9. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
10. Halt and Catch Fire
11. Westworld
12. Fleabag
13. Game of Thrones
14. Black Mirror
15. Silicon Valley
16. Last Man on Earth
17. Transparent
18. Steven Universe
19. Rectify
20. American Crime
21. Documentary Now!
22. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
23. The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore
24. Jane the Virgin
25. Insecure

Alison Herman: 10 Best TV Shows of 2016, as published by The Ringer

[see also 2023 • 2017]

• Atlanta
• The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
• BoJack Horseman
• Transparent
• High Maintenance
• Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
• Halt and Catch Fire
• The Girlfriend Experience
• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

The A.V. Club: 30 Best TV Shows of 2016

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

1. The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
2. Atlanta
3. The Americans
4. Better Call Saul
5. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
6. Halt and Catch Fire
7. Veep
8. BoJack Horseman
9. O.J.: Made in America
10. The Good Place
11. Westworld
12. Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
13. Rectify
14. Documentary Now!
15. Insecure
16. You’re the Worst
17. Game of Thrones
18. Silicon Valley
19. Lady Dynamite
20. Fleabag
21. Jane the Virgin
22. The Night Of
23. Better Things
24. Stranger Things
25. Search Party
26. Black-ish
27. Girls
28. Black Mirror
29. Horace and Pete
30. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

James Poniewozik: 10 Best TV Shows of 2016, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

• The Americans
• Atlanta
• BoJack Horseman
• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
• Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
• High Maintenance
• Horace and Pete
• The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
• Rectify
• Transparent