What were your favorites this year?

For me...


1. "The Handmaid's Tale" (Hulu)


2. "The Leftovers" (HBO)


3. "Big Little Lies" (HBO)


4. "Legion" (FX)


5. "Sense8" (Netflix)


6. "Mr. Robot" (USA)


7. "Master Of None" (Netflix)


8. "Stranger Things" (Netflix)


9. "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" (The CW)


10. "Great News" (NBC)

1. Rick and Morty
2. Unbreakable Kimmy Schimdt
3. The Good Place
4. Game of Thrones
5. Planet Earth 2
6. Vice Principals
7. Stranger Things
8. Bojack Horseman
9. Attack On Titan
10. Curb Your Enthuisiasm

I'll ammend this as I remember more.

I think I've never watched less full seasons than this year.

Those I remember watching and in order.

1. Big Little Lies
2. Curb Your Enthusiasm
3. Game of Thrones
4. Younger

Top ten? Jesus. Where do you all find the time?

1. Back
2. Curb Your Enthusiasm

While considering my top ten, I want to highlight a few of the year in television's disappointments/misfires:

The most painful is Top of the Lake: China Girl, a belated, confused, and frequently inert follow-up to a masterful first season. I expected so much more from Jane Campion and Elisabeth Moss. It plays as a random of medley of observations on feminism and motherhood wanly disguised as a detective story, one with an uninteresting solution and an absurd amount of it's-a-small-world-after-all coincidences.

Bloodline, third and final season. A (at its best) supremely atmospheric and well-acted drama which never truly rediscovered its center after the death of Ben Mendelsohn's electrifying quasi-antagonist. This rushed, shrug-worthy conclusion has fleeting moments of intrigue and poignancy, but it uses its characters poorly and features myriad perplexing turns of events. One almost feels they should not have bothered.

The Last Man on Earth, season four. I still have significant affection for this series and its key players, but it is very badly treading water, and the characters' tics and interactions have grown stale. The promising involvement of Kristen Wiig went nowhere of note.

The Walking Dead, season eight. All-out war is an all-out bore. Death-by-baseball-bat-or-monologue Negan is no longer menacing so much as wearying and excruciating. The cyclical debates regarding mercy and morality in a post-apocalyptic world have never felt more redundant and repetitive. Fear the Walking Dead is a far superior and more nuanced series at this point.

I think I only have like two. I'm behind on a lot.

1. 13 Reasons Why
2. Big Little Lies

I watch very little new TV, but I'll nominate one new show and one returning show that I did watch and enjoy:

The Orville
Outlander

Game of Thrones (A)
Marvel's The Punisher (A)
Narcos (A-)
Big Little Lies (A-)
Marvel's Stranger Things (A-)
The Defenders Season 1 (B-)

That's about all i've seen.

Wow a top 10? I might have actually seen enough this year to fill out this list, but I'm really going to have to think about this one.

1. Mindhunter
2. Marvel's The Punisher
3. Stranger Things
4. Legion
5. Narcos
6. The Deuce
7. American Vandal
8. Big Mouth
9. Mr. Mercedes
10. Future Man

1. Nathan for You
2. Game of Thrones
3. Better Call Saul
4. Big Little Lies
5. The Handmaid's Tale
6. Rick and Morty
7. Curb Your Enthusiasm
8. Stranger Things
9. Survivor
10. Jane the Virgin

1. The Leftovers: season 3 (HBO)
2. The Young Pope (Sky Atlantic/HBO)
3. The Deuce: season 1 (HBO)
4. Fargo: season 3 (FX)
5. Mr. Robot: season 3 (USA)
6. Alias Grace (CBC/Netflix)
7. The Handmaid's Tale: season 1 (Hulu)
8. Legion: season 1 (FX)
9. Outlander: season 3 (STARZ)
10. Peaky Blinders: season 4 (BBC Two/Netflix)

If you followed TV as closely as film, the amount of groupthink and anti-hype in TV critics nowadays might make your head explode

I'll just do top 5

1. Halt & Catch Fire (it has one of the best series finale and quite heartbreaking)
2. Legion
3. American Gods
4. Fargo
5. Handmaid's Tale