# The best TV shows of 2017

The year of The Leftovers' finale, Twin Peaks: The Return, The Handmaid's Tale and Big Little Lies: the 2017 shows that topped the critics' tally at CriticsTop10 and Variety's critics' lists.

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- Nov 26, 2025 · sketchbook_philly
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## Top 14

1. **The Leftovers** (62 · ▲66 ▼4) — Season 3: the finale of Damon Lindelof's series, number one on many critics' lists.
2. **Twin Peaks: The Return** (59 · ▲68 ▼9) — David Lynch and Mark Frost go back to the town 25 years later.
3. **The Handmaid's Tale** (51 · ▲55 ▼4) — Elisabeth Moss in Margaret Atwood's Gilead.
4. **The Good Place** (41 · ▲46 ▼5) — Michael Schur's afterlife comedy, with its big twists.
5. **Big Little Lies** (40 · ▲45 ▼5) — Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon and a death in Monterey.
6. **Better Things** (37 · ▲43 ▼6) — Pamela Adlon as a single mother of three in Los Angeles.
7. **The Deuce** (31 · ▲37 ▼6) — David Simon and the birth of the porn industry in seventies New York.
8. **Insecure** (31 · ▲35 ▼4) — Issa Rae and her friends in Los Angeles.
9. **Halt and Catch Fire** (28 · ▲33 ▼5) — The final season of the drama about the personal computer boom.
10. **Master of None** (27 · ▲36 ▼9) — Season 2: Aziz Ansari in Italy and New York.
11. **GLOW** (25 · ▲34 ▼9) — Women's wrestling on TV in the 1980s.
12. **BoJack Horseman** (25 · ▲34 ▼9) — Season 4 of the animated series about a washed-up sitcom star.
13. **Mindhunter** (17 · ▲27 ▼10) — David Fincher and the FBI agents who interviewed serial killers.
14. **The Crown** (8 · ▲21 ▼13) — Season 2 of Netflix's series about Elizabeth II.

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