It’s been a big year, bingers, but we’ve managed to whittle down our top TV picks for 2016 down to a list of ten.
The Binge host Laura Brodnik was joined by Mamamia entertainment journalist Jessica Clark to discuss the best shows to hit our screens this year.
Jessica Clark’s Top Five 2016 TV Shows
Listen to Laura and Jess debate the best and worst TV shows of 2016 on The Binge.
1. Survivor Australia
"I wish there was more gross food but I was so sucked in and there was a little bit of a twist at the end - twist endings at the end of a reality TV show gets me every single time."
Where you can watch: Channel 10's Ten Play portal here.
2. Game Of Thrones Season Six.
"Any show that can get me searching through Reddit and scouring the internet for fan theories... It's weird. I get Game Of Thrones obsessed for those 10 weeks of my life."
Where you can watch: Foxtel's HBO channel.
3. Westworld
Westworld is a bit of a sci-fi meets western wonderland. Key cast performances to look out for include Evan Rachel Wood and Thandie Newton.
Where you can watch: Foxtel's HBO channel.
4. Stranger Things
"If you haven't seen it then I don't know what you've been doing this whole year."
Where you can watch: Netflix.
5. Have You Been Paying Attention
"It's one of those news current affairs shows that really takes the piss out of itself... It's just amazing."
Where you can watch: Channel 10's Ten Play portal here.
Laura Brodnik's Top Five
Where you can watch her: sparkling down the red carpet, out-binging your best binge and not turning up to pub trivia despite repeated invitations.
1. Orange Is The New Black.
"It was so sad, it was so funny, the characters' story lines were so good. I know that's a lot of descriptive words but I just can't get into it."
Where you can watch: Netflix.
2. The Night Of
"I have to say, I have never been so fricken tense watching a tv show in my whole life."
Where you can watch: HBO Show.
3. Stranger Things
"Shout out to Winona Ryder because she was phenomenal in this."
Where you can watch: Netflix.
4. The Mindy Project
"It's the perfect thing to watch over Christmas because it's so light and it's so laugh out loud funny... It's the rom-com for the people who are sick of watching rom-coms."
Where you can watch: Presto.
5. Cleverman
"It's probably the best Australian TV show of the year. It's kind of mythical drama that drew upon a lot of Aboriginal dream time culture. It was a really original idea."
Where can you watch: ABC iview.
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Top Comments
Goliath, The Night Of, War and Peace
My personal favourite was the UK cop show "No Offence"; although I have a funny feeling might have been first shown in 2015 ... ?
Deep Water (Australian) was also really good, particularly with the follow-up documentary about the real-life events which inspired it.