I agree with all of this, but it's also a show I find a hard time emotionally connecting to, because everything about it feels so…calculated? I can't quite put my finger on it. It just seems like a show more concerned about its visuals and its "vibe" than character or even story.

It's 100% a recency bias thing, and it seems to be worse with comedies than dramas. It seems like Game of Thrones can have as shitty of a season as it wants and still be a lock for the top 20.

I'm still 2 episodes behind, but I'm glad to see other people who don't think Fargo is A Gift From Our Television Lords. I think it's a fine, good show but all of these "BEST TV SHOW IN YEARS" accolades seem ridiculous to me.

I think pretty much all shows airing in the first half of the year suffer from recency bias. Like, if you switched Fargo and The Americans' airdates I fully expect that Americans would be the one topping year-end lists.

This looks pretty accurate to me. In addition to Schumer and OITNB I could see Black-ish being a darkhorse, just because it's gotten a surprising amount of love on other year-end lists.

Nathan for You and Broad City feel way too low to me, but at the same time I can't argue with much of what I expect will make the top 20. End of year lists are hard!

Much like Nielson ratings, year end lists are becoming irrelevant in an era where everything is so niche-based and there's so much great content out there. Any of the shows on this list could be someone's #1 choice and no one would bat an eye. That wasn't the case even 5 years ago.

Yeah, I know we've been bulding up to "Peak TV" for a while but this year it really feels like the number of shows just exploded. I think it's because Netflix and Amazon doubled down on content, Hulu got into the mix, and a lot of previously unreliable networks seemed to step up their game in quality (Lifetime, CW,…

I think Parks had a better final season, but Community had a better finale.

I don't think it's just streaming shows. I think there's just SO MUCH TV that early in the year stuff feels like so long ago. I think Parks & Rec and Broad City would be higher if they aired in the second half of the year, and remember how much hype Better Call Saul had? It's still making lists, but it feels like a…

I don't know about overrated, but I think these lists mostly go off of hype, and the hype of Broad City in 2014 definitely felt a lot bigger than the hype of Broad City in 2015. I think a lot of people were just catching up with it around list time last year, whereas now it hasn't been in people's minds since March.

Broad City falling from 2 to 33 with a season that was even better than its first feels…wrong. But at the same time, I can't really argue with any of the choices I'm expecting to be in the top 20. Lists are hard!

So this has to be one of the darkest episodes of a network television sitcom ever, right? Even shows that were more comfortable with darker elements like Arrested Development and Community didn't go quite this far. I think you'd have to go back to MASH to reach this level.

Yeah, it has to be his, but you have to wonder why they didn't cover it up or something. Doesn't seem like it'd be that hard, and it was pretty weird considering he was supposed to be a tween.

At this point I'll be somewhat disappointed if every season doesn't end in a disastrous Vernon and Becca party.

Yeah, and I was seriously frustrated at what seemed to be an unrealistic "well, this guest star's contract is up" break-up for Edgar and Dorothy, to the point where I was thinking "c'mon, real people don't act that way." When Dorothy said that exact line, I was kinda floored.

As per usual, the Hitfix list is boring as fuck and filled with not-as-good-as-critics-think "sad white dude" dramas.

Honestly, that's kind of how I feel about Fargo. It's a good show but all of these "best show on TV" accolades feel so overblown (though it's only #10 here). Sometimes it feels like critics exclusively pay attention to dark cable dramas when there's so much more good TV out there.

Black-ish is really good! Maybe not top 10 good, but it's one of the best network comedies right now. That sounds like faint praise but it's actually a very enjoyable show overall.

I like that we've gotten to a place where both types of shows can survive and are appreciated. In the '00s there was an influx of these types of shows that died fast because the audience just wasn't there for it, so people sort of went over-the-top in their hatred of "TV comfort food." (And justifiably so given how…