Best TV Shows of 2017
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
DarkThe rare time-loop show whose rules hold under audit, and whose grief holds up just as well.Read the review
MindhunterTwo agents and a tape recorder, shot with more care than most feature films.
OzarkJulia Garner and Laura Linney turn a money laundering thriller with a repetitive plot into one of the best dramas Netflix has made.
GLOWA sharp, generous comedy about a cheap 1980s wrestling show, powered by Alison Brie and Betty Gilpin's feud and cut off a season before its planned ending.
Babylon BerlinThe most expensive German series ever made spends the money where you can see it, and Weimar Berlin has never looked this alive or this doomed.
GodlessScott Frank's western is gorgeous and patient to a fault, and its town of widows is more interesting than the outlaw feud it keeps cutting back to.
CastlevaniaThe game adaptation that proved Netflix could sell grown-up animation, at its best when Dracula is a grieving widower rather than a monster.
The Handmaid's TaleA ferocious first season followed by years of Gilead escape attempts running on a loop.
Big MouthA filthy and surprisingly kind cartoon about puberty with a voice cast in top form, stretched over eight seasons until it ran short of new things to say.
The Marvelous Mrs. MaiselA 1950s housewife talks her way into stand-up in a lavish, fast-talking period comedy; Rachel Brosnahan dazzles even when the story circles.