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As we emphasized tirelessly when we dropped our lists for the best movies and TV shows of 2015 (both really good lists! Go read them!), there was almost too much to chose from. Especially when it came to television, the amount of quality programming exceeded the amount that one human could probably watch. So in a sense, our "Best of" lists are summaries and amalgamations of how the Complex staff came down on the big and small screen products this year, but they in no way fully encapsulated everything we were fucking with.
Which is why we had to bring you this—a breakdown of every Pop Culture staff members' (and a few former staff members' and frequent contributors') personal year-end preferences. Just check out the variation in these lists and you'll get an idea of how heated our discussions on 2015's movies and TV got.
Also, sorry but not sorry about forcing you to expand your queue again.
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Andrew Gruttadaro
Twitter: @andrewgrutt
Movies
1. It Follows
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
3. Ex Machina
4. The Big Short
5. Furious 7
6. Creed
7. Anomalisa
8. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
9. The Hateful Eight
10. Chi-Raq
TV Shows
1. Mr. Robot
2. Mad Men
3. The Jinx
4. Broad City
5. Fargo
6. Master of None
7. Game of Thrones
8. Inside Amy Schumer
9. The Carmichael Show
10. Silicon Valley
Kerensa Cadenas
Twitter: @kerensacadenas
Movies
1. Carol
2. Queen of Earth
3. Diary of a Teenage Girl
4. Magic Mike XXL
5. Tangerine
6. 45 Years
7. Mad Max: Fury Road
8. Anomalisa
9. Creed
10. The Boy Next Door
Honorable Mentions: It Follows, Ex Machina, Girlhood, Spotlight
TV Shows
1. Transparent
2. You're the Worst
3. Master of None
4. UnReal
5. Jessica Jones
6. The Jinx
7. Broad City
8. Mad Men
9. Jane the Virgin
10. Looking
khal
Twitter: @khal
Movies
1. The Peanuts Movie
2. Creed
3. Straight Outta Compton
4. Montage of Heck
5. Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives
6. Going Clear
7. Ant-Man
8. Deep Web
9. Goodnight Mommy
10. Avengers: Age of Ultron
TV Shows
1. Jessica Jones
2. The Leftovers
3. The Jinx
4. Broad City
5. The Carmichael Show
6. Better Call Saul
7. Black Jesus
8. Inside Amy Schumer
9. Master of None
10. WWE Total Divas
Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
Twitter: @kristenyoonsoo
Movies
1. Carol
2. Arabian Nights, Volumes I, II, III
3. The Forbidden Room
4. Queen of Earth
5. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
6. Mad Max: Fury Road
7. Mistress America
8. It Follows
9. 45 Years
10. The Clouds of Sils Maria
Honorable Mention: Magic Mike XXL
TV Shows
1. Jessica Jones
2. Mad Men
3. Jane the Virgin
4. Hannibal
5. Broad City
6. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
7. You're the Worst
8. Master of None
9. Criminal Minds
10. iZombie
Ian Servantes
Twitter: @ian_servantes
Movies
1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2. Ex Machina
3. Mad Max: Fury Road
4. Straight Outta Compton
5. Going Clear
6. Spotlight
7. Beasts of No Nation
8. The Revenant
9. Furious 7
10. Montage of Heck
TV Shows
1. Mr. Robot
2. The Leftovers
3. Mad Men
4. Master of None
5. Show Me a Hero
6. Broad City
7. Better Call Saul
8. Louie
9. Inside Amy Schumer
10. The Walking Dead
Catie Keck
Twitter: @catiekeck
Movies
1. Queen of Earth
2. Room
3. Felt
4. Going Clear
5. Ex Machina
6. Magic Mike XXL
7. The Clouds Of Sils Maria
8. Carol
9. Spotlight
10. The Visit
TV Shows
1. The Jinx
2. Veep
3. The Leftovers
4. Making a Murderer
5. Mr. Robot
6. Hannibal
7. Broad City
8. Mad Men
9. American Horror Story: Hotel
10. Jessica Jones
Brian Formo
Twitter: @BrianFormo
Movies
1. Carol
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
3. Arabian Nights, Volumes I, II, III
4. Clouds of Sils Maria
5. Taxi
6. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
7. Mistress America
8. Magic Mike XXL
9. 45 Years
10. Creed
TV Shows
1. Silicon Valley
2. Mad Men
3. Transparent
4. Jessica Jones
5. Louie
6. The Affair
7. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
8. Inside Amy Schumer
9. Fargo
10. UnReal
Frazier Tharpe
Twitter: @The_SummerMan
TV Shows
1. The Leftovers
2. Mad Men
3. Game of Thrones
4. Hannibal
5. Fargo
6. Mr. Robot
7. black-ish
8. Louie
9. Justified
10. You're the Worst
[Ed. note: Frazier only saw blockbusters and overrated Oscar Bait this year, so here's the 10 best episodes he watched instead.]
1. Mad Men - "Person to Person"
2. The Leftovers - "International Assassin"
3. Game of Thrones - "The Dance of Dragons"
4. Louie - "Untitled"
5. You're the Worst - "Spooky Sunday Funday"
6. black-ish - "Parental Guidance"
7. Daredevil - "Cut Man"
8. iZombie - "Blaine's World"
9. The Walking Dead - "JSS"
10. Better Call Saul - "Five-O"
Eric Eidelstein
Twitter: @ericeidelstein
Movies
1. Carol
2. 45 Years
3. Queen of Earth
4. Hard to Be a God
5. Anomalisa
6. TIE: The Tribe & Son of Saul
7. Tangerine
8. Phoenix
9. Mad Max: Fury Road
10. Mistress America
TV Shows
1. Mad Men
2. Please Like Me
3. The Americans
4. Transparent
5. BoJack Horseman
6. Master of None
7. Rectify
8. Catastrophe
9. Casual
10. Penny Dreadful
Erik Abriss
Twitter: @AbrissErik
Movies
1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Sicario
3. Tangerine
4. Creed
5. The Big Short
6. Ex Machina
7. Results
8. White God
9. The End of the Tour
10. What We Do in the Shadows
TV Shows
1. The Leftovers
2. Nathan For You
3. black-ish
4. The Jinx
5. Master of None
6. Rick & Morty
7. True Detective (Yeah, you heard me.)
8. Kroll Show
9. Show Me a Hero
10. Man Seeking Woman
(Honorable mention goes to The Carmichael Show. I can’t wait to see what that show does with a full season.)
Saloni Gajjar
Twitter: @saloni_g
Movies
1. Spotlight
2. The Martian
3. Mad Max: Fury Road
4. The Big Short
5. Room
6. Carol
7. Inside Out
8. Trainwreck
9. Results
10. Everest
TV Shows
1. Game of Thrones
2. The Americans
3. Orphan Black
4. The Mindy Project
5. Jane the Virgin
6. Master of None
7. Fargo
8. Jessica Jones
9. Transparent
10. How to Get Away With Murder