00:002018 is just about over.
00:02Any last words?
00:03Just a few about the year's wild world of television.
00:06Oh, hey.
00:08I got bottom.
00:09That's one way to look at it.
00:11Shameless rounds out number 10 for the year's top TV.
00:14Fans of the long-running Showtime dramedy
00:16had to say goodbye to Cameron Monaghan in October
00:18and will bid a tearful farewell to Emmy Rossum
00:21at the end of season nine.
00:26Yeah, I know, right?
00:28Nine of the top 10 were returning series,
00:31including Netflix's controversial Teen Weeper
00:3313 Reasons Why at number nine,
00:36History's Brutally Badass Vikings at number eight,
00:39and American Horror Story at number seven.
00:42The eighth season, which was subtitled Apocalypse,
00:45may have been a crossover with Murder, House, and Coven,
00:48but it also shared a common haircut
00:50with a recent episode of Grey's Anatomy.
00:52You seem weirdly good at that.
00:54Does she?
00:55The Shondaland perennial favorite turns 15 seasons old
00:58this year, and at number five,
01:00it's still as McSteamy as ever.
01:02Head in the gutter.
01:04I like it.
01:05Tell me more.
01:05Now, there is one newbie on the top 10
01:07that had everyone rubbernecking at Netflix
01:10throughout October.
01:12The Haunting of Hill House dropped mid-October,
01:15just in time to fill our Halloween
01:17with plenty of new nightmares.
01:27The second season of The Handmaid's Tale kept us in suspense
01:30long enough to lock the number four spot.
01:32Let this be a lesson to you.
01:34While Westworld's second season hit number three
01:36by serving up baffling intrigue with a side of Old West violence.
01:40You're in my dream.
01:42Although it technically premiered in the final days of 2017,
01:45the fourth season of Black Mirror dominated conversation
01:48in January 2018, especially the Star Trek-inspired USS Callister
01:53episode that revealed the creepier side of Jesse Plemons.
01:57Welcome aboard.
01:58And in the top spot is The Walking Dead,
02:00which aired the back half of season eight,
02:03ending the all-out war with Negan,
02:05as well as the first half of season nine,
02:07in which Rick Grimes was whisked away by a helicopter
02:10and a jazzy tune.
02:12Drifting down the spaceway
02:14by the beat that drifts her down.
02:16For more on the top TV shows,
02:18as well as interviews with their stars,
02:20like Westworld's Jeffrey Wright,
02:22Yvonne Strahovski of The Handmaid's Tale,
02:24or Finn Wittrock from American Horror Story,
02:27check out imdb.com slash best dash of.
02:30And stay tuned to imdb.com slash imdbrief
02:34for more of what's trending on IMDb.
