1. BETTER CALL SAUL
ne of TV’s most visually gorgeous, carefully plotted, emotionally involving sagas ended this year, with the finale of prequel Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould’s lawyer show about the inevitable perversion of justice surpassed even its predecessor, thanks largely to superb lead performances by Bob Odenkirk and Rhea Seehorn as two characters trying to be good people who can’t find a way to be good together. For was the most fundamentally humanistic drama of its time.