The 2017 Uproxx TV Critics Poll

Continuing a tradition that began in the HitFix days, we asked 55 critics for lists of both their 10 favorite overall shows of the year and their 10 favorite new shows. (Then, when we put them all together, a 1st place choice was worth 10 points, 2nd place 9 points, etc.) Peak TV really hit home in the poll this year: where in the 2016 overall poll, 103 different shows got at least one vote, this year 146 different shows got named by at least one critic. (Interestingly, the increase in new shows getting at least one vote was only from 67 to 70.)
20 41 points
This Is Us

If This Is Us proved anything this year, it’s that people love to cry. NBC’s best-performing drama began the year with Randall (Sterling K. Brown) going on one final trip with his biological father William (Ron Cephas Jones), while this fall’s episodes put Randall and siblings Kevin (Jutin Hartley) and Kate (Chrissy Metz) through the wringer in the present, and parents Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) and Rebecca (Mandy Moore) in the past.

Critics who voted for this show