A comedy hero for our times: Donald Glover shines as Earnest "Earn" Marks, a Princeton drop-out back in his hometown, trying to start his life over as a hip-hop manager. Glover's brainchild Atlanta stands as the most ambitious, outrageous, surreal and riotous thing to hit TV all year. Earn runs wild with his rapper cousin Paper Boi as well as stoner philosopher king Darius, who’s always up for a baked debate about whether Malcolm X is secretly still alive ("Nobody's seen the body since the funeral") or why black people don’t know who Steve McQueen is. (Darius does, but as he explains, "Yeah well, I'm Nigerian.") Atlanta digs into sex, money, race and fatherhood with truly fearless flair. As a big Community fan who’s been memorizing Glover's facial tics since Troy met Abed, I thought I already had a clear idea what a genius this guy is. I didn't. Here's to Season Two – Atlanta can't rise again fast enough.
2. 'The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story' (FX)
3. 'Stranger Things' (Netflix)
4. 'Black Mirror' (Netflix)
5. 'Full Frontal With Samantha Bee' (TBS)
6. 'The Americans' (FX)
7. 'Game of Thrones' (HBO)
8. 'Fleabag' (Amazon)
9. 'Orange Is the New Black' (Netflix)
10. 'Last Week Tonight With John Oliver' (HBO)
11. 'Transparent' (Amazon)
12. 'Veep' (HBO)
13. 'Difficult People' (Hulu)
14. 'Better Things' (FX)
15. 'BoJack Horseman' (Netflix)
16. 'Broad City' (Comedy Central)
17. 'Horace and Pete' (LouisCK.net)
18. 'You're the Worst' (FX)
19. 'Lady Dynamite' (Netflix)
20. 'High Maintenance' (HBO)
Good list, but I don't really understand why they snubbed network TV. There are a few shows out there that deserve recognition IMO (This Is Us, HTGAWM, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Last Man on Earth, etc.)
Good list, but I don't really understand why they snubbed network TV. There are a few shows out there that deserve recognition IMO (This Is Us, HTGAWM, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Last Man on Earth, etc.)
Not ST higher than the 2nd best season of GoT