The best new TV series of 2014 (so far)

In June, The A.V. Club’s Tournament Of Episodes exhaustively catalogued and accurately identified (with no room for further debate) the finest television episodes of the 2013-14 season, declaring The Good Wife’s “Hitting The Fan” the absolute best. Because that feature partially pulled from the past six-plus months of television, to once more exhaustively catalog and accurately identify (with no room for further debate) 2014’s best TV would be redundant. In an effort to keep things fresh and to avoid all redundancies, The A.V. Club instead presents this list of the series debuts that caught our fancy during the year to date. While some new favorites haven’t aired enough episodes to merit inclusion (sorry, The Leftovers—check back in December), here’s a handful of shows whose first seasons deserve appreciation, catch-up binges, and a season pass in 2015.

The 100 (The CW)