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counting down our picks for the top ten
TV moments of 2016
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this list we're focusing on the moments
from fictional or hosted television that
left the biggest impact on audiences in
2016
that means we're excluding live events
covered on television like sports news
or concert events so in case you haven't
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number 10 prison all along mr. robot but
sometimes you need a reason to gain
control the first season of mr. robot
proved that no viewer should assume they
know the answers nothing is what it
seems and you're bound to be surprised
communication is key Elliot the second
season validated that notion as its
seventh episode gave us one of the
year's best twists up to this point our
only interactions with protagonist
Elliot Alderson were dull affairs in
confined claustrophobic spaces a small
room a basketball court a diner
meanwhile the rest of the cast had been
busy fighting off a crippling worldwide
hack the show's dynamics just didn't
make sense until it was revealed that
Elliot was in fact in prison this
stunning revelation opened up a world of
questions and reminded fans to always
question what they see you know you
haven't been staying with your mother
right
number nine make donald drumpf again
last week tonight with John Oliver
because it turns out the name Trump was
not always his family's name one
biographer found that a prescient
ancestor had changed it from and this is
true drunk yes a comedy series is an
unlikely source of journalistic
greatness but John Oliver and his last
week to night team have the unique
ability to critically inform while
maintaining excellent comedy standards
while it was great when it rained
raisins
Oliver's best moment came when he gave
America one of the most painfully and
lightning yet horrifyingly funny reports
on then primary candidate Donald Trump
and his tiny hands stole Bruns root beer
falling off the shelf in a gas station
mini-mart in a scathing 20-minute
indictment Oliver took the internet by
storm revealing that Trump's ancestral
last name is actually drunk
he then implored his fans and the
country to make Donald Trump again
believing that the guttural last name
better reflects the Donald and what he's
like on the inside incidentally when we
own it I will have the best word number
eight who say is death
orange is the new black we call for
backup a show that walks the tightrope
between comedy and drama orange is the
new black brought fans to tears when it
killed off one of its most beloved
characters caught in a prison
demonstration
Suzanne krazee-eyez Warren begins
panicking becoming uncontrollable and
completely losing her faculties when she
sees a prison guard restraining crazy
eyes who say tries to get the guard to
let her calm Susanne down but in an
instant it's poussey who's on the ground
trapped beneath the weight of the guard
as things unfold around them Susanne
violently attacks the guard but who say
is left helpless and tragically she
eventually dies
it's an undeniably raw powerful and
all-too-real moment
number seven Dre explains police
brutality blackish
well I will be in my room doing my
Spanish homework before my teacher tases
me what that is not funny and no this is
important we're all going to sit and
watch it together though at its core a
sitcom blackish assumed a far more
powerful tone when it chose not to shy
away from the real-world problems of
2016 by addressing police brutality
towards the black community in an
argument with his wife over what to
teach their children regarding police
interactions
Anthony Anderson's Dre passionately
illuminates a painful reality of being
black in America remember when he got
elected and we felt like maybe just
maybe we got out of that bad place and
made it to a good place
citing the delicate hope that permeated
the african-american community after
Barack Obama's election in 2008 Dre
holds back tears as he explains to his
wife that their children must know that
they live in a world that is constantly
trying to steal that hope away is the
real world though and our children need
to know that that's the world that they
live in
number 6 Frank gets shot house of cards
put your hand up on the wall sir put it
on the wall after a criticized third
season house of cards returned with a
bang for season four audiences were
stunned when midway through the season
former investigative reporter and
Underwood victim Lucas Goodwin shot
Frank in an assassination attempt I came
out here to try to listen to what you
want to say but if all you gonna do is
scream
it's a complete shock to audiences and
everyone around president Underwood and
the scene turns chaotic in an instant
flipping the season on its head with
Frank subsequently in a coma
Claire suddenly has a platform to
influence again at the executive level
but of course in addition to those major
turns of events viewers also had to
suffer the tragic loss of Frank's loyal
Secret Service agent Edward Meechum
there has been an attempted
assassination of the president President
Frank Underwood has been shot number 511
kills the demagogue on stranger things
set in the 80s with the style and pace
of a Spielberg movie stranger things is
full of human experimentation horror and
a parallel world we're willing to bet
that a lot of you guys went just as gaga
over it as we did and rightfully so
although the show was full of ego tastic
moments 11 defeating the demagogue in
was definitely the highlight the show
supernatural hero the mysterious 11 or L
says goodbye to her best friend Mike
before sacrificing herself to destroy
the terrifying monster overcoming her
fears and saving the group
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the season 1 finale manages to give
audiences satisfaction and closure while
leaving the mystery open for what's to
come
number four what door Westworld what's
behind this door what door created by
Jonathan Nolan and Lisa joy for HBO this
binge session waiting to happen has kept
viewers in shock and awe since day one I
know things will work out the way
they're meant to
as things progressed we started to
wonder which of the humans was going to
be revealed as a host but we were as
surprised as Teresa to learned that it
was the lovable and sympathetic Bernard
Lowe
what is this brother
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doesn't look like anything to me unaware
of his robotic status or even his
motivation bernard lures his one-time
lady friend into a deadly trap set by
Westworld demigod and creator Robert
Ford by the end of this scene we're not
only struggling with the fact that
Bernard is a host but Teresa's death and
the reveal of Ford as a true villain
also have us questioning the nature of
our reality should be getting back
Bernard we have a great deal of work to
do the new story
number three Marcia's breakdown American
crime story 2016 saw the debut of FX's
much hyped crime anthology series with
the premiere season covering the trial
of the century the People vs OJ Simpson
although the series was chock-full of
great performances including those from
Cuba Gooding jr. John Travolta and David
Schwimmer one of the year's most
incredible acting displays with Sarah
Paulsen's portrayal of Marcia Clark I am
offended by mister cochran's remarks as
a woman and as a mother in the show's
sixth episode Paulson was tasked with
capturing Marcia's complete breakdown
after being ridiculed both in court and
in the media unfairly targeted and
vilified for little more than a haircut
Paulson creates a moving depiction of a
person buried underneath the weight of
the world and I'm not a public
personality this isn't what I do I don't
know how to do this number 2 Ramsay
Bolton is defeated Game of Thrones you
suggested one on one combat didn't you
sometimes on Game of Thrones a beloved
character dies and we collectively mourn
sometimes a beloved character comes back
to life and we collectively cheer and
sometimes a character's so despised gets
his comeuppance that we collectively
yell suck it it's hard to nail down a
single moment from the penultimate
episode of season 6 as the episode is
mainly comprised of one of the best
battle sequences ever a sequence we can
mark as the moment television equalled
cinemas ability to create massive aw
inspiring spectacles but of course the
sweetest moment of all was when the
northern bastards meet face to face and
there was no doubt that the good guys
were finally going to earn a win before
we unveil our number one pick here are
some honorable mentions I doctored the
copies I paid the kid at the shop to lie
for me it is insane how you got every
detail exactly right
Harrison looks on the outside to be your
average teenager he goes to school plays
video games even listens to music in his
room but there's one difference I'm a 35
year old white man Harrison born Antoine
smalls has transracial identity
identifying as Harrison Boothe a 35 year
old white man from Colorado number one
negan kills Glenn The Walking Dead back
to it you can breathe you can blink you
can cry
hell we were all doing that fans of The
Walking Dead comic book have long
awaited the arrival of its most brutal
villain negan this one our pants yet
making his first appearance at the tail
end of season six
negan didn't really make his mark until
the season 7 premiere when he started
dispatching cast members faster than
anyone was prepared for holding Rick's
group hostage negan first kills Abraham
your
that in itself was brutal but what
landed negan on this list was what
happened a few moments later when he
also murdered Glenn in front of a
bawling Maggie
negan caves in Glenn's skull leaving his
wife and his fans horrified
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