Gallery: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2014

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    HBO
    01

    Game-of-Thrones

    You'd think we were on to *Game of Thrones* by now, and the sadistic sport of keep-away it likes to play with its viewers. Nope. (Expand gallery to full screen to find out why we loved each show.)
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    Broad City

    Whatever *Broad City*'s Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson are smoking, it's working. The debut season of their stoner duo Comedy Central show was faster, funnier, and funkier than anything we'd ever seen from the pair in their online offerings. And every minute was gold.
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    Comedy Central
    03

    Inside-Amy-Schumer

    For its second season, Amy Schumer took her promising eponymous show from LOL-worthy to essential viewing. She used her platform to provide belly laughs and blue humor alongside staggeringly bold social commentary.
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    HBO
    04

    Last-Week-Tonight-with-John-Oliver

    When John Oliver left *The Daily Show* to front his own weekly program on HBO, it wasn't immediately obvious what to expect. What could he bring to differentiate the HBO series from his old show? The answer, it turned out, was a sense of perspective.
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    Fox
    05

    New Girl

    *New Girl* was in dire straits this year. The end of Season 3 wasn’t handled well, and it was received even worse. It was starting to look like the show had always just been a serialized romantic comedy that was potentially overstaying its welcome. It reset and rebounded in a big way this fall.
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    06

    The Knick

    Full Disclosure: We're suckers for historical fiction. But *The Knick* added *science* (specifically early 20th century medicine) and that pretty much secured it a place in our hearts forever.
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    CBS
    07

    The Good Wife

    *The Good Wife* started as a legal drama about the beleaguered wife of a philandering politician, but quietly transformed not only into one of the most technologically savvy shows on television, but the best drama on network TV.
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    Amazon
    08

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    HBO
    09

    True-Detective

    A southern gothic murder mystery noted for its grandiloquent writing and eye-popping direction, *True Detective* wowed everyone this year, especially us.
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    HBO
    10

    Veep

    Calling comedy "smart" is as backhanded a compliment as it gets. It's code for airless, for rarefied, for prizing gentility over blood and bone and pain. Then came *Veep*, and "smart comedy" became "fucking smart comedy."
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