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.)
Underground
Season two of Underground raised the stakes even higher as the remaining members of the original runners finally made it North only to discover that freedom had dangers and pitfalls of its own. The show introduced new characters, most memorably Harriet Tubman, and saw the effect of betrayal and greed plague the group in different ways.