The 16 best Netflix original shows of 2016, according to critics

Average critic score: 63/100

Audience score: 8.2/10

Netflix description: Their gift of telepathic communication made them targets for extermination. But it's the one thing keeping them alive.

Note: Sense8's first season came out in 2015, but Netflix released a Christmas special so it was eligible.

Average critic score: 67.5/100

Audience score: 8.1/10

Netflix description: The Rayburns seem to have the perfect life in their lovely Florida town. But nobody's perfect — especially the Rayburns.

Average critic score: 69/100

Audience score: 7.6/10

Netflix description: In 1977 New York City, the talented and soulful youth of the South Bronx chase dreams and breakneck beats to transform music history.

Average critic score: 71.5/100

Audience score: 8.8/10

Netflix description: A boyhood accident blinded him. But now he can "see" even better. And he doesn't like what's going on in Hell's Kitchen.

Average critic score: 72/100

Audience score: 7.5/10

Netflix description: It's awkward. It's impossible. It's infuriating. And it may just be the best thing that's ever happened to them.

Average critic score: 72/100

Audience score: 5.5/10

Netflix description: This eclectic, star-studded anthology follows diverse Chicagoans fumbling through the modern maze of love, sex, technology, and culture.

Average critic score: 76/100

Audience score: 9.0/10

Netflix description: When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.

Average critic score: 77/100

Audience score: 8.8/10

Netflix description: First they got coke. Then they got money. Now the Colombian cartels want the power. Let the drug wars begin.

Average critic score: 77/100

Audience score: 8.4/10

Netflix description: Is it true that absolute power corrupts absolutely? Congressman Frank Underwood absolutely intends to find out.

Average critic score: 79/100

Audience score: 8.4/10

Netflix description: A hoodie-wearing, unbreakable ex-con fights to clear his name and save his neighborhood. He wasn't looking for a fight, but the people need a hero.

Average critic score: 79/100

Audience score: 8.7/10

Netflix description: He's a half-horse, half-man, has-been TV star who drinks a bit too much. He's really got a lot going on right now.

Average critic score: 80/100

Audience score: 7.8/10

Netflix description: What's a Midwest girl to do after she's spent the last 15 years trapped underground? Move to New York City, of course.

Average critic score: 81/100

Audience score: 8.7/100

Netflix description: This drama follows the political rivalries and romance of Queen Elizabeth II's reign and the events that shaped the second half of the 20th century.

Average critic score: 84.3/100

Audience score: 8.2/10

Netflix description: Piper Chapman doesn't deserve her prison sentence. Of course, every one of her fellow inmates thinks the same thing.

Average critic score: 85/100

Audience score: 6.7/10

Netflix description: Comedian Maria Bamford stars in a series inspired by her own life. It's the sometimes surreal story of a woman who loses — and then finds — her s**t.