Best TV Shows of 2016
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
WestworldA first season of real philosophical nerve, followed by three seasons of increasingly expensive noise.Read the review
AtlantaA rap-management premise used as cover for thirty loosely related short films, most of them superb.
FleabagTwelve half hours that use the camera as a confession and then take it away.
The CrownThe most expensive workplace drama ever made, about a woman who is not allowed to say what she thinks.
The Night OfEight hours of process, cell blocks and paperwork, and the most frightening thing in it is how ordinary the machine is.
Stranger ThingsAn expertly assembled nostalgia machine that keeps mistaking bigger for better.
Vice PrincipalsDanny McBride and Walton Goggins burn down a high school over two seasons, and critics never quite forgave the first one.
The Good PlaceA network sitcom about moral philosophy that gets funnier the more seriously it takes the philosophy.
InsecureThe best written friendship on television, plus an ongoing romance the show keeps resetting for another season.
Luke CageHarlem is the best character here, and the show throws away its best villain at the halfway mark.