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Check Out Our List of 2017's Best TV

There was seemingly no end to the amount of incredible storytelling on TV this year.

The thing is: who the hell can watch all of that television? More importantly, is it all worth it? There are definitely more binging options than there are hours in the day. We've done the hard work for you, with hopes that you can spend your precious free time watching quality TV instead of crap.

The staff here at Nateflix presents our favorite TV series of 2017.


TOP COMEDY SERIES

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The Mick

SEASONS 1 & 2

A hard-living aunt is forced to take care of her wealthy sister's spoiled kids after the mom flees the country to avoid criminal charges.

Standout Episode: S01 E14 - "The Heater"

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Search Party

SEASON 2

When Dory discovers that her friend, Chantal has gone missing, she becomes obsessed with finding out what happened.

Standout Episode: S02 E10 - "Psychosis"

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Review

SEASON 3

Critic Forrest MacNeil eschews film, food and art to give his take on real-life experiences in this series.

Standout Episode: S03 E03 - "Cryogenics; Lightning; Last Review"

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Wet Hot American Summer

Ten Years Later

The campers and counselors of Camp Firewood meet ten years after their last day at camp.

Standout Episode: E07 - "Dance"

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Brockmire

SEASON 1

A famed major league baseball announcer who suffers an embarrassing and very public meltdown live on the air after discovering his beloved wife's serial infidelity decides to reclaim his career and love life in a small town a decade later.

Standout Episode: S01 E01 - "Rally Cap"

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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

SEASON 12

Was this really Glen Howerton's final season as Dennis Reynolds?

Standout Episode: S12 E06 - "Hero or Hate Crime?"

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American Vandal

SEASON 1

A satirical true crime mystery ala Serial or Making a Murderer. A high school is rocked by an act of vandalism, but the top suspect pleads innocence and finds an ally in a filmmaker.

Standout Episode: S01 E01 - "Hard Facts: Vandalism and Vulgarity"

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Broad City

SEASON 4

Abbi and Ilana explore a slightly darker and more cynical - but no less funny - side of their lives in Tr*mps America.

Standout Episode: S04 E07 - "Florida"

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Rick & Morty

SEASON 3

Every episode of this cosmic cartoon is its own golden age of science fiction, devouring eons of genre tropes and philosophical conceits into a tight sitcom runtime.

Standout Episode: S03 E03 - "Pickle Rick"

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Curb Your Enthusiasm

SEASON 9

After a 6 year hiatus Larry David's 9th season reigns supreme. You're welcome.

Standout Episode: S09 E10 - "FATWA"


TOP DRAMA SERIES

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Game of Thrones

SEASON 7

The penultimate season of the epic fantasy series may not have been it's best but it still earns a spot among the years finest programs. Fewer episodes and a drastically accelerated pace may have hindered things but there's still plenty of tits and dragons to enjoy.

Standout Episode: S07 E07 - "The Dragon and the Wolf"

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Godless

LIMITED SERIES

Notorious criminal Frank Griffin and his gang of outlaws are on a mission for revenge. Much of the action takes place in the literal no-man's-land of La Belle, a town run almost entirely by women courtesy of a silver-mine collapse that killed off their husbands. If you're not a sucker for Westerns, boy, are you going to love Godless anyway.

Standout Episode: S01 E07 - "Homecoming"

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Master of None

SEASON 2

Creator and star Aziz Ansari's award winning series about an Indian-American trying to make it in showbiz. Now living in Modena, Italy Dev serendipitously meets a girl who he makes a real connection with only to have his future date plans go array when a thief steals his mobile phone.

Standout Episode: S02 E02 - "Le Nozze"

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Ozark

SEASON 1

A Chicago-based financial advisor, Jason "The Everyman" Bateman, secretly relocates his family to the Missouri Ozarks when his dealings with a drug cartel go awry. Think Bloodline meets Breaking Bad.

Standout Episode: S01 E01 - "Sugarwood"

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Stranger Things 2

It's 1984 and the gang is still reeling from the terror of the demagorgon and the secrets of Hawkins Lab. The slow-building sophomore season balances moments of humor and a nostalgic sweetness against a growing horror that's all the more effective thanks to the show's full-bodied characters and evocative tone.

Standout Episode: S02 E09 - "The Gate"

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Westworld

SEASON 1

Explore a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged without consequence.

Standout Episode: S01 E10 - "The Bicameral Mind"

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San Junipero (Black Mirror)

SEASON 3

In a seaside town in 1987, a shy young woman and an outgoing party girl strike up a powerful bond that seems to defy the laws of space and time. The sci-fi romance was the breakout episode of Black Mirror’s third season for many reasons: superlative performances from stars Mackenzie Davis and Gugu Mbatha-Raw; perfectly executed ’80s nostalgia; a fascinating hypothetical about the ethics and opportunities of technologically assisted immortality.

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Better Things

Season 2

In a terrific year for television, the second season of Pamela Adlon's Better Things has been perhaps the most terrific series out there. Directing every episode and grounding its complex emotional beats through a rock-solid, thought-through performance, Adlon comes as close to a pure auteur as TV gets. That her story is one imbued with both sadness and light makes Better Things one of television’s very best shows—in any genre.

Standout Episode: S02 E09 - "White Rock"

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The Leftovers

SEASON 3

A one-of-a-kind, utterly committed work of art and philosophy, the series finale proved itself a powerful statement about humanity. If it had a message, it was that grief creates madness but also can inspire love, that inner peace lies somewhere between faith and reason, and that the human search for meaning can result in unthinkable betrayal and incredible forgiveness. The devestating final season cements its status as one of televisions all-time greats.

Standout Episode: S03 E08 - "The Book of Nora"

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Halt and Catch Fire

SEASON 4

When HaCF premiered three years ago, the tech-focused drama was easy to dismiss. It seemed like a garden-variety Mad Men riff, stocked with familiar characters and an unsexy premise—a bunch of geeks trying (and inevitably failing) to invent the future. But as the series enters its fourth and final season, those who initially wrote it off have had the pleasure of seeing themselves proven wrong. The show’s tech backdrop is merely a casing for its real engine: complex, nuanced, and strikingly human relationships. The character-driven drama culminates in an optimistic ode to the early internet age that's bound to stand the test of time. The most underrated show on television was something truly special, even if a lot of viewers never came to realize it.

Standout Episode: S04 E09 - "The Search" + E10 - "Ten of Swords"


TOP DOCUMENTARY / REALITY SERIES

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Below Deck: Mediterranean

BRAVO

Chief Stew Hannah and the rest of the crew are in for some drama on the high seas. A guilty pleasure

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The Island with Bear Grylls

LIMITED SERIES

Adventurer Bear Grylls abandons 13 people on a remote, uninhabited Pacific island for a month.

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Homestead Rescue

SEASON 3

Marty Raney says he's seen the best of the American spirit while working on Discovery Channel's "Homestead Rescue." The gritty reality TV star, whose show is currently in its second season, has traveled across the United States helping people who want to homestead.

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Survivor

SEASON 35

Americas greatest social experiment is as thrilling and dramatic as ever in it’s 35th season. Outwit. Outplay. Outlast.

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LA '92

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

A look at the events that led up to the 1992 uprising in Los Angeles through stunning and rare archival footage.

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Hate Thy Neighbor

VICELAND

With the far-right on the rise in the US and Europe, comedian Jamali Maddix goes on a tour to confront groups spreading hate across the world. This is not an ordinary survey of the state of hate, but a genuine attempt to befriend those groups and understand why they think the way they do.

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Jungletown

VICELAND

A group of idealistic students and charismatic entrepreneurs commit themselves to create what they call "the world's greatest sustainable modern town" in a Panamanian jungle. Viceland's Jungletown is a reality show for people too cool to ever willingly watch a reality show, much less to admit publicly to watching a reality show.

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