We have certainly been in a golden age of television, enough that I was able to make two top 10 lists from 2014’s TV offerings. I mean this might just be because I seemed to have watched about 90% of the TV shows that were put on the tube, but more so that 2014 just seemed to be a particularly great year for TV.As I was putting the list together, I had to make some hard decisions. The first of which was how would would I rank the shows that I had watched recently, cause in the past few days I’ve been making a mad dash (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Affair, Outlander, Jane the Virgin were all finished within a day of me writing this) vs. the shows that have ended or were cancelled (Enlisted *cries*). Another consideration was whether to split these into two lists, which was easy to figure out and it was super easy to not include several shows that people always accuse me of liking more than I do. So what did I finally come up with? Well out of the shows that were chosen 6 out of the 20 shows are comedies, 14 of the 20 shows have a female lead character, there’s four horror shows, and The Good Wife reigned supreme for the second year running. Anyways here’s my top 10 new and returning TV shows.

New

1. Penny Dreadful
2. Looking
3. Outlander
4. Enlisted
5. Jane the Virgin
6. Silicon Valley
7. The Strain
8. The Affair
9. The Lottery
10. Bitten

Returning Shows

  1. The Good Wife
  2. In the Flesh
  3. Orphan Black
  4. Veep
  5. Devious Maids
  6. Game of Thrones
  7. House of Cards
  8. Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
  9. Being Human
  10. The Witches of East End