# The best TV shows of 2016

The year of Stranger Things, The Crown, Westworld, Fleabag and Paquita Salas: the 2016 shows picked by the Vaya Tele editors at Espinof, among new series and returning seasons, plus the American Film Institute's list.

- 513 votes · 15 items
- Oct 11, 2019 · Jesús Martínez Chávez
- https://even.best/en/l/4373/the-best-tv-shows-of-2016

## Top 15

1. **Stranger Things** (48 · ▲52 ▼4) — The Duffer brothers and nostalgia for eighties cinema: the year's surprise phenomenon.
2. **The Crown** (40 · ▲42 ▼2) — What inheriting the crown meant for a 25-year-old woman.
3. **The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story** (40 · ▲42 ▼2) — The O. J. Simpson trial, with a superb Sarah Paulson.
4. **Westworld** (35 · ▲38 ▼3) — HBO's big launch: a Wild West theme park with androids.
5. **The Americans** (31 · ▲33 ▼2) — Soviet spies in the Washington suburbs.
6. **Fleabag** (30 · ▲35 ▼5) — Phoebe Waller-Bridge: the comedy revelation of the year.
7. **Game of Thrones** (29 · ▲34 ▼5) — The sixth season, full of memorable moments.
8. **Better Call Saul** (22 · ▲27 ▼5) — The second season, with Kim taking centre stage.
9. **BoJack Horseman** (21 · ▲25 ▼4) — The third season and its silent underwater episode.
10. **This Is Us** (18 · ▲24 ▼6) — Family stories mixing emotion and jumps in time.
11. **Better Things** (16 · ▲22 ▼6) — Pamela Adlon, based on her own life as a mother and actress.
12. **The Young Pope** (15 · ▲19 ▼4) — Paolo Sorrentino and Jude Law as a young, unpredictable pope.
13. **The Night Of** (13 · ▲20 ▼7) — A young man accused of murder in New York; 90 on Metacritic.
14. **Paquita Salas** (10 · ▲16 ▼6) — Los Javis and Spanish TV's best-loved talent agent.
15. **Person of Interest** (7 · ▲15 ▼8) — The end of an outstanding series about a machine that sees everything.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.