Lady Dynamite to BoJack Horseman: how mental health on TV got real
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Lady Dynamite and BoJack Horseman pulled no punches with portrayals of the differing, complex sides of mental health disorders
From Taboo to Mindhunter: how TV drama washed away toxic masculinity
They were tarnished – but they were real. Like bad boy Tom Hardy in Taboo, men dug deeper to become more fragile and tormented in the best shows of 2017
How Donald Trump has blown the White House drama out of the water
The 50 best TV shows of 2017: No 1 The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale stars on playing Janine and Serena Joy: 'I wanted to give Offred a hug'
The 50 best TV shows of 2017: No 9 The Vietnam War
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s masterwork unpicked every element of the American military disaster, from its seeds in 19th-century French colonialism to its cultural legacy today
The transgender drama kept its radical edge by focusing on the younger generation of the Pfefferman family – pointing a way forward after off-screen concerns threatened to derail its trailblazing run
The countdown reaches its peak with a sci-fi dystopia that chimed with the real threat of Donald Trump, followed closely by superlative police drama, true-crime milestones, peril at sea, and the comic adventures in wrestling
