20 Best TV Shows Of 2016 

12. BoJack Horseman

Best TV Shows 2016
Netflix

BoJack Horseman should be just one of the weirdest shows on TV, and little else. And while it's certainly weird - the series focuses on the life of a talking horse, and his friends who range from human waster to a pink Persian cat - it's also one of the funniest, smartest, and deepest shows around.

Netflix's animated sitcom continued to go from strength-to-strength in Season 3, which put BoJack on the Oscar trail for his star turn in Secretariat. Even just on that level, it gave us a witty, well-judged satire on the annual awards season nonsense.

It operated on many more levels though, taking us deeper into BoJack's past and present psyche. How he screws up relationships, the people around him, and any chance he might have of being happy. It's a serious mediation on fame and depression, it just also happens to be an absurdly hilarious one too, and it gave us one of the absolute greatest episodes of the year.

Best Episode: Fish Out Of Water

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NCTJ-qualified journalist. Most definitely not a racing driver. Drink too much tea; eat too much peanut butter; watch too much TV. Sadly only the latter paying off so far. A mix of wise-old man in a young man's body with a child-like wonder about him and a great otherworldly sensibility.