As I look back on the last year in television, I think this might be the best year of TV ever. There were so many quality shows that I had to expand my usual top ten list to fifteen. I believe, with so many channels and providers offering original content, we are in a golden age of television. I hope that highlighting my favorites, you might give one of them a try and find a new favorite yourself.
To stake the obvious, I didn’t watch every TV show so this is an incomplete sampling. There are only so many hours in the day. Without further ado, here are my favorite television shows of 2017.
After traveling abroad, Dev (Aziz Ansari) returns to New York to take on challenges in his personal and family life, a new career opportunity, and a complex, developing relationship with someone very meaningful to him.
1) Master of None
The Final Season of The Leftovers premieres Sunday, April 16 on HBO. It's HBO. Connect with HBO Online: Find HBO on Facebook: http://Facebook.com/HBO Follow @HBO on Twitter: http://Twitter.com/HBO Subscribe to HBO on Youtube: http://Youtube.com/HBO
2) The Leftovers
Watch the official trailer for The Handmaid's Tale, coming only to Hulu April 26, 2017.
3) The Handmaid’s Tale
Game of Thrones Season 7 premieres 7.16.17 on HBO. #GoTS7
4) Game of Thrones
Mr. Robot returns for season_3.0 on 10.11.17 on USA Network. " Subscribe to Mr. Robot: http://po.st/PAiNAW " Who Is Mr. Robot? http://po.st/hv97bQ About: MR. ROBOT follows Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek), a young cyber-security engineer who becomes involved in the underground hacker group fsociety, after being recruited by their mysterious leader (Christian Slater).
5) Mr. Robot
Two black women deal with their own real-life flaws while attempting to navigate different worlds and cope with an endless series of uncomfortable everyday experiences. Catch up on Insecure Season 2 now on HBO. Starring Issa Rae, Yvonne Orji, and Amanda Seales. #Insecure Subscribe to the HBO YouTube Channel: https://goo.gl/JQUfqt Don't have HBO?
6) Insecure
Official Big Little Lies Trailer - 2017 HBO Series Starring Shailene Woodley, Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman Subscribe Now: http://goo.gl/KKBrix Who knows what lies out there beneath the surface. Based on the best selling book, Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern, Alexander Skarsgård, Adam Scott, James Tupper, Zoë Kravitz star in HBO's limited series "Big Little Lies," coming 2017.
7) Big Little Lies
The second season of Better Things premieres Sep. 14
8) Better Things
It's hard to imagine a bright future, but we must. Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror is now streaming on Netflix. Watch Black Mirror on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/70264888 SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/29qBUt7 About Netflix: Netflix is the world's leading Internet television network with over 100 million members in over 190 countries enjoying more than 125 million hours of TV shows and movies per day, including original series, documentaries and feature films. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on nearly any Internet-connected screen.
9) Black Mirror
We are all worth fighting for. Sense8 Season 2 is now streaming on Netflix. Watch Sense8 on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/80025744 From renowned creative geniuses Lana Wachowski, Grant Hill ("The Matrix," "Cloud Atlas") and J. Michael Straczynski (Clint Eastwood's "Changeling,' "World War Z"), Sense8 is centered around eight characters, from different parts of the world, who experience a violent vision, and soon find themselves mentally connected by the experience.
10) Sense8
Legion follows David Haller, a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he's confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and visions might be real.
11) Legion
Better Call Saul returns on Monday Feb 15th at 10 p.m on AMC. you should watch it.
12) Better Call Saul
Guts, glitter, glory... Are you ready to GLOW? Inspired by the short-lived but beloved show from the 80s, GLOW tells the fictional story of Ruth Wilder (Alison Brie), an out-of-work, struggling actress in 1980s Los Angeles who finds one last chance for stardom when she's thrust into the glitter and spandex world of women's wrestling.
13) Glow
Why would a dead girl lie? 13 Reasons Why is now streaming only on Netflix. Based on the best-selling books by Jay Asher, the Netflix Original Series 13 Reasons Why follows Clay Jensen (Dylan Minnette) as he returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch.
14) 13 Reasons Why
Orphan Black season 5 premieres Saturday, June 10 at 10/9c on BBC America. The clone sisterhood has been through it all together. From assassinations, detrimental illnesses, monitors and accidental murders to suburban drug fronts, kidnappings, male clones and biological warfare - there isn't anything this lot hasn't experienced.
15) Orphan Black
What are your favorites? Did I leave one of your favorites off the list? Let me know in the comments. I’m always looking for suggestions.
Look for my favorite video games of 2017 list next week. Then, the week following, I will post my top 10 movies list.
Until next week…