# The best TV shows of 2014

True Detective, The Leftovers, Fargo and Transparent: the 2014 shows at the top of the French press's year-end lists, from AlloCiné to Chro, Télérama and CineChronicle.

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## Top 14

1. **True Detective** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Season 1: Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in Louisiana; number one for Chro and Les Inrocks.
2. **Game of Thrones** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Season 4, number one for AlloCiné's editors.
3. **Broadchurch** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A child's death in a small Dorset town.
4. **Silicon Valley** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Mike Judge and a data compression start-up.
5. **The Leftovers** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Damon Lindelof and the world after 2% of humanity vanishes.
6. **Fargo** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Noah Hawley takes the Coens' world to Minnesota.
7. **Transparent** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jill Soloway: a father who becomes Maura.
8. **Mad Men** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Season 7, part one; number one for Télérama.
9. **Sherlock** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Season 3: Holmes returns after the fall.
10. **The Affair** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — An affair told from both lovers' points of view.
11. **Orange Is the New Black** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Season 2 of Netflix's prison series.
12. **House of Cards** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Season 2: Frank Underwood aims higher.
13. **The Good Wife** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Season 5 and its shocking episode.
14. **The Missing** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A child goes missing on holiday in France.

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.