The Best TV Shows of 2017 Those cuts included, but were not nearly limited to: “Better Call Saul,” “BoJack Horseman,” “The Carmichael Show,” “Catastrophe,” the final season of “Girls,” “Insecure,” “Legion,” “Master of None” and “Mindhunter” — and that’s just A through M. “The Americans,” one of TV’s best dramas, aired what felt more like the first half of a double final season. Affable and human, it’s the mirror-world version of terrible-twosome shows like “You’re the Worst” or “Catastrophe.” ‘Call My Agent!’ (Netflix) A show-business comedy about a boutique talent agency in Paris that seems to represent every French actor you’ve ever heard of, “Call My Agent!” is polished to a high shine and features the best as-themselves cameos — by a roster that includes Nathalie Baye, Isabelle Adjani and Juliette Binoche — since “The Larry Sanders Show.” ‘Norsemen’ (Netflix) A deadpan spoof of bloody, bawdy historical-ish dramas like “Vikings” and “Game of Thrones,” the Norwegian “Norsemen” puts contemporary words and ideas in the mouths and brains of 8th-century marauders to hilarious effect. Television seemed at times to be dreaming, serving up ambitious hallucinations like “Legion” and “The Young Pope” as well as surrealistic curiosities like “At Home with Amy Sedaris.” The second season of Maria Bamford’s first-person comedy was the disorienting tops, using fractured storytelling to capture the experience of living and working with bipolar disorder from all angles. ‘Line of Duty’ (Hulu) Hulu had a banner year for British shows with “Harlots” and “National Treasure,” but the fourth season of this perennial procedural favorite makes the list for Thandie Newton’s tightly wound performance as a detective suspected of cooking evidence. The show followed the early days of personal computers, and despite occasional struggles to make forgone conclusions feel like real points of drama — are people really going to want to use “the internet?” — it always found deeper and more human stories beyond the clickety-clackety keyboards.
