Top 20 Television Shows of 2017

by The Stranger
Whichever precious metal you prefer to describe the age of television in which we are currently operating—gold, platinum, you name it—it's worth reflecting on the degree to which the quality of TV programming has caught up to its cultural magnitude.
For a long time, TV didn't need to be good to dominate our leisure time. It just had to be there, and on. Scholars and sociologists wrote alarmist books about its malignant influence. Intellectual types scoffed at its obvi