16. The Rookie – It tweaks the police procedural formula for maximum effect.

15. Stumptown – Based upon the Greg Rucka comicbook, this boasts one of the best casts on network TV.

14. I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson – This is absurd sketch comedy at its best.

13. Evil – This twisty and topical religious procedural from Robert and Michelle King (The Good Wife, Braindead, The Good Fight), is about a team sponsored by the Catholic Church who investigates various potential miracles, possessions, and the like.

12. Jett – Blood and boobs abound in this vehicle for Carla Gugino, who plays the titular master thief.

11. The Good Fight – I still can’t believe this show based an entire season around the pee tape. Season three continued to unabashedly tackle each and every hot-button social and political topic with wit, insight, and irreverence.

10. Baskets – This was just one of many great shows that reached the end of its run this year. This beautiful, crazy concoction overflowed with off-beat humour and humanity. Zack Galifianakis’s dual central performances of twins Chip and Dale were so good it was truly hard to remember it wasn’t two different actors.

9. The Good Doctor – This could have just been a show about a misunderstood and under-estimated autistic doctor who continually saves the day with his “magical powers.” Thankfully, it’s not this at all. Rather, it’s an immensely thoughtful, consistently surprising exploration of empathy.

8. The Good Place – As it headed towards its series finale, this superb show continued to burn through more plot in a single episode than most do in an entire season.

7. Mindhunter – As long as Netflix keeps making this amazing series, I’ll keep subscribing. The level of craft on display here is off-the-charts.

6. Unbelievable – Unbelievable somehow makes a thoroughly unpleasant subject (in this case, a serial rape case) immensely watchable. Actually, it’s not much of a mystery why. The writing and directing are great, and the acting – by Toni Collete, Merritt Wever, and Kaitlyn Dever – is some of the best of the year.

5. Mr. Robot – This ended its inventive, aesthetically daring, often-times exhilarating, sometimes frustrating run with its best season, and one of the most satisfying finales, I’ve ever watched.

4. Chernobyl – This was the feel-bad program of the… well, maybe forever. I had to take long breaks between chapters, and I fast-forwarded through all the stuff in the fourth episode that had to do with the liquidation of the irradiated animals, but damn if this show didn’t manage to be as compelling as it was depressing and grim.

3. GLOW – Even though I loved the first two seasons of GLOW, I was absolutely not prepared for just how good the third season was. And it just kept getting better and better as it went along. Unlike so many shows that devise these intricate, season-long plotlines, GLOW came to all but abandon its central narrative device (the wrestling) and instead focused on its greatest asset: its indelible cast of characters.

2. The Deuce – I’m not entirely sure why I love this show as much as I do. I mean, I’ve loved everything David Simon’s every done (The Wire, Generation Kill, Treme, Show Me a Hero), but this show, that ostensibly charts the rise and fall of the porn industry in New York, was something extra special. Maybe it’s because, like the third season of GLOW, there really wasn’t much overall plot. Ultimately, it was just about a bunch of wonderfully written and realized, mostly hapless characters who sought to eke out their livings on the fringes of acceptable society. I was deeply affected by almost every one of them.

1. Watchmen – What can I say that hasn’t already been said? Damon Lindelof, he of the decade’s best show The Leftovers, took one of the most important and influential comicbooks ever written and somehow turned it into one of the best-ever single seasons of TV.