LOS ANGELES — After the eye strain, the greatest occupational hazard of being a TV critic is people asking what's good on television. It's a question I typically find impossible to answer on the spur of the moment, as a show will run out of my head as soon as a review is filed in order to make room for the next one. (I buy time by responding, "What do you like?"). It is only at this reflective season of the year that I can stop, look back and list them.

Every year, television has its ups and downs, its ebb and flow, depending on a host of reasons I will only ever vaguely understand. I will take this opportunity to say that there are way too many psychological thrillers on way too many platforms nowadays, but there are always more than enough shows to praise — and as always, I include only

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