From April to June, Carrie Coon had one of the most remarkable stretches any TV actress has ever had. Full stop. Every Sunday night, she could be seen grappling with loss and experiencing alienation in foreign hotel rooms as she wrapped a three-season run as Nora Durst on HBO's confounding The Leftovers. And then there she was every Wednesday, boasting a chirpy Midwestern accent and grappling with a world run amok (and occasional alienation in foreign hotel rooms), as Gloria Burgle in the third season of FX's Fargo. That's two regular roles on two all-time great TV dramas, simultaneously. The characters were united by an insatiable desire for truth in a modern world in which facts, and sometimes basic technology, can so often be baffling and elusive. Coon's 2017 highlight reel includes two wildly different and equally heartbreaking scenes involving automatic water dispersal, and I'd hate to have to choose between her Leftovers sprinkler-system catharsis and her Fargo bathroom-faucet Zen for overall effectiveness. Whatever darkness 2017 provided, it also gave us The Spring of Carrie Coon. — Daniel Fienberg