Below, we collect every year-end Top Ten list published by major TV critics and publications. This page will be updated throughout December and January whenever new lists are published; be sure to check back frequently.

Critics pick the best TV shows of 2014

Added in last update (1/7): PopMatters

Added in previous update (1/3): IGN, Philadelphia Daily News, Uncle Barky, Under the Radar, Us Weekly, We Got This Covered, Wired

Below is our updated running tally of the TV shows most frequently mentioned by individual critics in their year-end Top Ten lists. Note that if a critic ranks more than the standard 10 shows, we will not include titles ranked 11th or worse. In case of a tie for first or second, each show will receive the full points for that position. Our points system works as follows:

3 points for each 1st place ranking

for each 1st place ranking 2 points for each 2nd place ranking

for each 2nd place ranking 1 point for being ranked 3rd - 10th, or for being included on an unranked list

Individual critic top ten lists

Below are the 68 individual top ten lists used to calculate the standings above. Some critics may list ten shows without ranking them in order; such lists are displayed below, without numbers, in alphabetical order.

AFI (AFI jury selections)View article The Americans (FX)

Fargo (FX)

Game of Thrones (HBO)

How to Get Away With Murder (ABC)

Jane the Virgin (CW)

The Knick (Cinemax)

Mad Men (AMC)

Orange Is the New Black (Netflix)

Silicon Valley (HBO)

Transparent (Amazon)

Akron Beacon Journal Rich Heldenfels View article The Americans (FX) Masters of Sex (Showtime) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) Mad Men (AMC) Gotham (Fox) The Good Wife (CBS) Justified (FX) You're the Worst (FX) Scandal (ABC) Doctor Who (BBC America)

Associated Press Frazier Moore View article Black-ish (ABC)

Fargo (FX)

Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce (Bravo)

Gotham (Fox)

Jane the Virgin (CW)

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO)

Nixon's the One (online)

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC)

Transparent (Amazon)

True Detective (HBO)

A.V. Club Staff consensus View article Hannibal (NBC) Broad City (Comedy Central) The Americans (FX) True Detective (HBO) The Good Wife (CBS) Fargo (FX) Mad Men (AMC) Transparent (Amazon) You're the Worst (FX) Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO)

Matthew Gilbert View article Transparent (Amazon) The Good Wife (CBS) Olive Kitteridge (HBO) The Americans (FX) Veep (HBO) Fargo (FX) Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO) Broad City (Comedy Central) Shameless (Showtime) The Knick (Cinemax) Boston Globe Sarah Rodman View article Game of Thrones (HBO) Fargo (FX) Masters of Sex (Showtime) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Fox) The Affair (Showtime) True Detective (HBO) Mad Men (AMC) Parks and Recreation (NBC) Key and Peele (Comedy Central) Jane the Virgin (CW)

Chicago Reader Staff consensus View article Black-ish (ABC)

Bob's Burgers (Fox)

Broad City (Comedy Central)

Jane the Virgin (CW)

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO)

Nathan for You (Comedy Central)

Olive Kitteridge (HBO)

Review (Comedy Central)

Transparent (Amazon)

True Detective (HBO)

Cleveland Plain Dealer Mark Dawidziak View article Justified (FX) The Roosevelts (PBS) True Detective (HBO) Fargo (FX) The Walking Dead (AMC) Sherlock (PBS) Game of Thrones (HBO) House of Cards (Netflix) Penny Dreadful (Showtime) Gotham (Fox)

Complex Staff consensus View article Transparent (Amazon) Hannibal (NBC) The Knick (Cinemax) Broad City (Comedy Central) Fargo (FX) True Detective (HBO) Game of Thrones (HBO) Mad Men (AMC) Veep (HBO) Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO)

The Daily Beast Kevin Fallon View article The Good Wife (CBS) Transparent (Amazon) Veep (HBO) Fargo (FX) Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) Hannibal (NBC) Broad City (Comedy Central) The Comeback (HBO) Mad Men (AMC)

Denver Post Joanne Ostrow View article The Good Wife (CBS) Game of Thrones (HBO) Homeland (Showtime) Transparent (Amazon) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) Olive Kitteridge (HBO) True Detective (HBO) The Affair (Showtime) The Americans (FX) The Roosevelts (PBS)

Digital Spy Staff consensus View article True Detective (HBO) Hannibal (NBC) Happy Valley (Netflix) Fargo (FX) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Fox) Sherlock (PBS) Game of Thrones (HBO) The Leftovers (HBO) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) In the Flesh (BBC America)

Entertainment Weekly Jeff Jensen & Melissa Maerz View article Transparent (Amazon) Rectify (Sundance) Fargo (FX) Please Like Me (Pivot) Louie (FX) Inside Amy Schumer (Comedy Central) Mad Men (AMC) Game of Thrones (HBO) The Good Wife (CBS) Hannibal (NBC)

Film School Rejects Kate Erbland View article True Detective (HBO) Fargo (FX) Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO) Game of Thrones (HBO) Mad Men (AMC) The Comeback (HBO) The Late Show With David Letterman (CBS) Transparent (Amazon) The Americans (FX) The Flash (CW)

The Globe and Mail [Toronto/Canada] John Doyle View article The Americans (FX)

The Colbert Report (Comedy Central)

Fargo (FX)

How to Get Away With Murder (ABC)

The Leftovers (HBO)

Mad Men (AMC)

Olive Kitteridge (HBO)

Rectify (Sundance)

Strange Empire (CBC)

True Detective (HBO)

Grantland Andy Greenwald View article The Americans (FX) You're the Worst (FX) Transparent (Amazon) The Honourable Woman (Sundance) The Knick (Cinemax) The Bridge (FX) Game of Thrones (HBO) Veep (HBO) Banshee (Cinemax) Too Many Cooks (Adult Swim)

Dan Fienberg View article Fargo (FX) Review (Comedy Central) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) Mad Men (AMC) Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO) Rectify (Sundance) The Americans (FX) Hannibal (NBC) Shameless (Showtime) Game of Thrones (HBO) HitFix Alan Sepinwall View article The Leftovers (HBO) The Americans (FX) Transparent (Amazon) Review (Comedy Central) Fargo (FX) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) Rectify (Sundance) Hannibal (NBC) Mad Men (AMC) True Detective (HBO)

The Hollywood Reporter Tim Goodman View article Fargo (FX) The Americans (FX) True Detective (HBO) Mad Men (AMC) The Honourable Woman (Sundance) Louie (FX) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) Transparent (Amazon) Game of Thrones (HBO) The Walking Dead (AMC)

Huffington Post Maureen Ryan View article The Americans (FX)

Enlisted (Fox)

Happy Valley (Netflix)

Jane the Virgin (CW)

Orange Is the New Black (Netflix)

Penny Dreadful (Showtime)

Rectify (Sundance)

Review (Comedy Central)

Transparent (Amazon)

You're the Worst (FX)

IGN Matt Fowler View article Hannibal (NBC) True Detective (HBO) Game of Thrones (HBO) The Leftovers (HBO) Transparent (Amazon) Fargo (FX) Review (Comedy Central) Penny Dreadful (Showtime) Rectify (Sundance) Person of Interest (CBS)

Indiewire Liz Shannon Miller and Ben Travers View article Mad Men (AMC) True Detective (HBO) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) Veep (HBO) The Leftovers (HBO) Parks and Recreation (NBC) Fargo (FX) The Comeback (HBO) House of Cards (Netflix) BoJack Horseman (Netflix)

Josh Bell View article The Americans (FX) Mad Men (AMC) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) Fargo (FX) You're the Worst (FX) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Fox) Jane the Virgin (CW) The Knick (Cinemax) Faking It (MTV) Masters of Sex (Showtime) Las Vegas Weekly

Jeff Korbelik View article True Detective (HBO) Fargo (FX) The Missing (Starz) Game of Thrones (HBO) House of Cards (Netflix) Sherlock (PBS) The Good Wife (CBS) The Walking Dead (AMC) Justified (FX) Transparent (Amazon) Lincoln Journal Star

Robert Lloyd View article Bee and PuppyCat (Cartoon Hangover) AND Over the Garden Wall (Cartoon Network)

Black Jesus (Adult Swim)

Broad City (Comedy Central)

Cubed (Above Average)

Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways (HBO)

Jane the Virgin (CW)

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO)

The Missing (Starz) AND The Honourable Woman (Sundance)

Powerless (PBS) AND Happiness (PBS)

True Detective (HBO) Los Angeles Times

Minneapolis Star Tribune‎ Neal Justin View article Fargo (FX) Transparent (Amazon) Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO) Boardwalk Empire (HBO) Broad City (Comedy Central) The Good Wife (CBS) Silicon Valley (HBO) Louie (FX) BoJack Horseman (Netflix) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Fox)

National Post [Canada] David Berry View article The Americans (FX) Bob's Burgers (Fox) Broad City (Comedy Central) Fargo (FX) Hannibal (NBC) Key and Peele (Comedy Central) The Knick (Cinemax) Kroll Show (Comedy Central) Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO) Louie (FX)

New York Daily News David Hinckley View article Mad Men (AMC) Sons of Anarchy (FX) Downton Abbey (PBS) Faking It (MTV) Boardwalk Empire (HBO) Fargo (FX) The Blacklist (NBC) True Detective (HBO) Manhattan (WGN) The Walking Dead (AMC)

The New York Times Mike Hale View article The Americans (FX)

Bron [Broen] (Hulu)

Fargo (FX)

Happy Valley (Netflix)

Homeland (Showtime)

The Knick (Cinemax)

Louie (FX)

Masters of Sex (Showtime)

Mozart in the Jungle (Amazon)

The Walking Dead (AMC)

Newsday Verne Gay View article Game of Thrones (HBO) Olive Kitteridge (HBO) Mad Men (AMC) Homeland (Showtime) The Roosevelts (PBS) Fargo (FX) Transparent (Amazon) True Detective (HBO) The Good Wife (CBS) Masters of Sex (Showtime)

David Bianculli (Fresh Air) View article The Good Wife (CBS) Justified (FX) The Walking Dead (AMC) The Roosevelts (PBS) Fargo (FX) True Detective (HBO) The Colbert Report (Comedy Central) The Daily Show With Jon Stewart (Comedy Central) Homeland (Showtime) Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO) AND Louie (FX) NPR Eric Deggans View article Fargo (FX) True Detective (HBO) Transparent (Amazon) Black-ish (ABC) Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) Gotham (Fox) AND The Flash (CW) The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC) Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways (HBO) Doctor Who (BBC America)

Omaha World-Herald Micah Mertes View article The Good Wife (CBS) Rick and Morty (Adult Swim) Mad Men (AMC) Parks and Recreation (NBC) Fargo (FX) Person of Interest (CBS) The Flash (CW) True Detective (HBO) You're the Worst (FX) Louie (FX)

The Oregonian Kristi Turnquist View article Fargo (FX) True Detective (HBO) Game of Thrones (HBO) Homeland (Showtime) Mad Men (AMC) The Roosevelts (PBS) The Affair (Showtime) The Good Wife (CBS) The Americans (FX) Transparent (Amazon)

Paste Staff consensus View article True Detective (HBO) Mad Men (AMC) Fargo (FX) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) Silicon Valley (HBO) Game of Thrones (HBO) Parks and Recreation (NBC) Transparent (Amazon) Veep (HBO) Louie (FX)

People (Uncredited) View article How to Get Away With Murder (ABC) Transparent (Amazon) True Detective (HBO) Outlander (Starz) The Good Wife (CBS) The Mindy Project (Fox) The Affair (Showtime) Broad City (Comedy Central) Happy Valley (Netflix) Fargo (FX)

Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray View article The Americans (FX)

Fargo (FX)

Game of Thrones (HBO)

The Good Wife (CBS)

The Honourable Woman (Sundance)

Jane the Virgin (CW)

Olive Kitteridge (HBO)

Orange Is the New Black (Netflix)

Sherlock (PBS)

True Detective (HBO)

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen View article Fargo (FX) The Good Wife (CBS) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) Episodes (Showtime) Silicon Valley (HBO) Transparent (Amazon) Survivor's Remorse (Starz) Game of Thrones (HBO) Sherlock (PBS) How to Get Away With Murder (ABC)

PopMatters Staff consensus View article Transparent (Amazon) Justified (FX) True Detective (HBO) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) The Americans (FX) Hannibal (NBC) House of Cards (Netflix) Girls (HBO) Comedy Bang! Bang! (IFC) Orphan Black (BBC America)

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico View article True Detective (HBO) Fargo (FX) Hannibal (NBC) The Americans (FX) The Missing (Starz) The Knick (Cinemax) Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO) Olive Kitteridge (HBO) Veep (HBO) You're the Worst (FX)

The Salt Lake Tribune Scott D. Pierce View article The Good Wife (CBS) Game of Thrones (HBO) Jane the Virgin (CW) The Big Bang Theory (CBS) Fargo (FX) Parenthood (NBC) The Mindy Project (Fox) Mad Men (AMC) How to Get Away With Murder (ABC) Sleepy Hollow (Fox)

San Jose Mercury News Chuck Barney View article Fargo (FX) True Detective (HBO) Game of Thrones (HBO) The Good Wife (CBS) The Americans (FX) Masters of Sex (Showtime) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) Transparent (Amazon) Silicon Valley (HBO) The Affair (Showtime)

ScreenCrush Ryan McGee View article You're the Worst (FX) Review (Comedy Central) Enlisted (Fox) Remaining shows listed in alphabetical order:

The Americans (FX)

The Good Wife (CBS)

Jane the Virgin (CW)

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO)

Orange Is the New Black (Netflix)

Penny Dreadful (Showtime)

Rectify (Sundance)

Sioux City Journal Bruce R. Miller View article Fargo (FX) Mad Men (AMC) Veep (HBO) True Detective (HBO) Getting On (HBO) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) The Normal Heart (HBO) Jane the Virgin (CW) The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC) Gotham (Fox)

Slant Staff consensus View article The Americans (FX) Mad Men (AMC) Hannibal (NBC) Louie (FX) The Knick (Cinemax) House of Cards (Netflix) Transparent (Amazon) Broad City (Comedy Central) Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO) Homeland (Showtime)

Slate Willa Paskin View article Broad City (Comedy Central) True Detective (HBO) Transparent (Amazon) Srugim [Israel] The Good Wife (CBS) You're the Worst (FX) High Maintenance (Vimeo) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) The Americans (FX) Louie (FX)

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Gail Pennington View article Fargo (FX) The Walking Dead (AMC) Game of Thrones (HBO) Parks and Recreation (NBC) Mad Men (AMC) True Detective (HBO) The Affair (Showtime) Transparent (Amazon) Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO) Masters of Sex (Showtime)

The Star-Ledger (NJ.com) Vicki Hyman View article Fargo (FX) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) Outlander (Starz) Mad Men (AMC) The Missing (Starz) True Detective (HBO) Penny Dreadful (Showtime) The Affair (Showtime) Homeland (Showtime) Game of Thrones (HBO)

Tampa Bay Times Michelle Stark View article The Good Wife (CBS) You're the Worst (FX) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) Broad City (Comedy Central) The Americans (FX) The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC) Veep (HBO) Transparent (Amazon) Fargo (FX) Black-ish (ABC)

Thompson on Hollywood! Matt Brennan View article Mad Men (AMC) Transparent (Amazon) The Knick (Cinemax) Broad City (Comedy Central) The Americans (FX) Please Like Me (Pivot) Masters of Sex (Showtime) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO) Gotham (Fox)

Time James Poniewozik View article Transparent (Amazon) The Americans (FX) The Good Wife (CBS) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) Fargo (FX) Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO) Broad City (Comedy Central) Louie (FX) High Maintenance (Vimeo) Silicon Valley (HBO)

TV Guide staff View article Hannibal (NBC) Transparent (Amazon) True Detective (HBO) Fargo (FX) Veep (HBO) The Affair (Showtime) Louie (FX) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) The Good Wife (CBS) Mad Men (AMC) TV Guide Matt Roush View article Fargo (FX) The Good Wife (CBS) Jane the Virgin (CW) Game of Thrones (HBO) The Roosevelts (PBS) The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC) The Americans (FX) Transparent (Amazon) The Normal Heart (HBO) AND Olive Kitteridge (HBO) The Affair (Showtime)

Tim Surette View article Game of Thrones (HBO) Fargo (FX) The Americans (FX) Manhattan (WGN) Rectify (Sundance) The Missing (Starz) Person of Interest (CBS) Review (Comedy Central) Broad City (Comedy Central) True Detective (HBO) Kaitlin Thomas View article Veep (HBO) The Americans (FX) Hannibal (NBC) Fargo (FX) Rectify (Sundance) Jane the Virgin (CW) Shameless (Showtime) Game of Thrones (HBO) Looking (HBO) Playing House (USA) TV.com Jen Trolio View article The Americans (FX) Fargo (FX) Veep (HBO) Game of Thrones (HBO) Silicon Valley (HBO) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) Parks and Recreation (NBC) Playing House (USA) Trophy Wife (ABC) @midnight (Comedy Central)

Uncle Barky Ed Bark View article Fargo (FX) Game of Thrones (HBO) The Americans (FX) True Detective (HBO) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) Masters of Sex (Showtime) Olive Kitteridge (HBO) Mad Men (AMC) The Roosevelts (PBS) Real Time With Bill Maher (HBO)

Under the Radar Staff consensus View article The Walking Dead (AMC) The Leftovers (HBO) Fargo (FX) Louie (FX) Game of Thrones (HBO) Portlandia (IFC) Doctor Who (BBC America) True Detective (HBO) The Newsroom (HBO) Sherlock (PBS)

Us Weekly John Griffiths View article The Good Wife (CBS) Mad Men (AMC) True Detective (HBO) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) The Americans (FX) Veep (HBO) The Walking Dead (AMC) You're the Worst (FX) How to Get Away With Murder (ABC) Homeland (Showtime)

Village Voice Inkoo Kang View article Transparent (Amazon) Game of Thrones (HBO) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO) Mad Men (AMC) Inside Amy Schumer (Comedy Central) Olive Kitteridge (HBO) Veep (HBO) Bob's Burgers (Fox) 30 for 30: The Price of Gold (ESPN)

Vox Todd VanDerWerff View article The Americans (FX) Hannibal (NBC) Transparent (Amazon) Rectify (Sundance) Broad City (Comedy Central) Rev. (Hulu) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) The Leftovers (HBO) You're the Worst (FX) Person of Interest (CBS)

Vulture Matt Zoller Seitz View article Hannibal (NBC) Olive Kitteridge (HBO) Private Violence (HBO) Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO) The Missing (Starz) The Americans (FX) Mad Men (AMC) True Detective (HBO) Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (Fox) The Roosevelts (PBS)

The Wall Street Journal Dorothy Rabinowitz View article The Roosevelts (PBS) Homeland (Showtime) Olive Kitteridge (HBO) True Detective (HBO) The Americans (FX) The Honourable Woman (Sundance) Manhattan (WGN)

Washington Post Hank Stuever View article The Americans (FX) Fargo (FX) Game of Thrones (HBO) The Walking Dead (AMC) Transparent (Amazon) The Good Wife (CBS) Silicon Valley (HBO) Olive Kitteridge (HBO) The Roosevelts (PBS) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix)

We Got This Covered Staff consensus View article Fargo (FX) Hannibal (NBC) Mad Men (AMC) The Americans (FX) Game of Thrones (HBO) True Detective (HBO) Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO) The Leftovers (HBO) Louie (FX) Olive Kitteridge (HBO)

Wired Staff consensus View article Game of Thrones (HBO) Broad City (Comedy Central) Inside Amy Schumer (Comedy Central) Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO) New Girl (Fox) The Knick (Cinemax) The Good Wife (CBS) Transparent (Amazon) True Detective (HBO) Veep (HBO)