The 20 most notable new TV shows this fall, ranked from worst to best

Critic score: 96%

Audience score: 92%

Description: A true-crime satire that explores the aftermath of a costly high school prank that left twenty-seven faculty cars vandalized with phallic images.

Critic score: 91%

Audience score: 80%

Description: A look at life in New York City during the 1970s and '80s when porn and prostitution were rampant in Manhattan.

Critic score: 88%

Audience score: 64%

Description: A struggling hip-hop artist runs for mayor to promote his mixtape and wins the election.

Critic score: 86%

Audience score: 60%

Description: Ten years before Kirk, Spock and the Enterprise, the USS Discovery discovers new worlds and lifeforms as one Starfleet officer learns to understand all things alien.

Critic score: 76%

Audience score: 79%

Description: In a world where mutated humans are treated with distrust and fear, an institute for mutants battles to achieve peaceful co-existence with humanity.

Critic score: 75%

Audience score: 61%

Description: The early life of child genius Sheldon Cooper, later seen in "The Big Bang Theory" (2007).

Critic score: 74%

Audience score: 75%

Description: A skeptic is forced to work with a firm believer of the paranormal on unexplained occurrences in Los Angeles.

Critic score: 71%

Audience score: 67%

Description: The lives of the elite Navy SEALs as they train, plan and execute the most dangerous, high-stakes missions our country can ask.

Critic score: 68%

Audience score: 93%

Description: Kevin, a down-on-his-luck man, is tasked by God with a mission to save the world.

Critic score: 65%

Audience score: 100%

Description: When the Menendez brothers were tried on national TV for brutally killing their parents in Beverly Hills, their story became a national obsession. Now, the first edition of this anthology series delves into the players, the crime and the media circus, detailing the day-to-day battles of the trial and unveiling the shocking truth of what really went down when the cameras stopped rolling.

Critic score: 64%

Audience score: 80%

Description: An overworked television producer and single mother is in the middle of a fractious separation when her young daughter goes missing in the middle of the night. Both her world and her controversial police series implode.

Critic score: 62%

Audience score: 80%

Description: A comedy examines one man's life over a 50-year span. It explores three distinct periods in his life - as a 14-year-old in 1991, a 40-year-old in present day and a 65-year-old in 2042.

Critic score: 50%

Audience score: 85%

Description: Follows two of America's wealthiest families as they feud for control over their fortune and their children.

Critic score: 37%

Audience score: 89%

Description: Shaun Murphy, a young surgeon with autism and Savant syndrome, is recruited into the pediatric surgical unit of a prestigious hospital.

Critic score: 31%

Audience score: 21%

Description: The boundaries between military discipline and human desire are tested on a U.S. Army base that houses an elite unit of helicopter pilots trained to perform clandestine international and domestic missions. The drama unfolds in the present as well as in flashbacks to a failed mission involving one of the first female pilots in the unit, ultimately uncovering layers of personal and government/military secrets and leading to a season-long plan to rescue a group of MIA soldiers.

Critic score: 27%

Audience score: 83%

Description: A tech innovator creates a cutting-edge crowd-sourcing hub to solve his own daughter's murder, as well as revolutionizing crime solving in San Francisco.

Critic score: 20%

Audience score: 91%

Description: "The Orville" follows the crew of the not-so-functional exploratory ship in the Earth's interstellar fleet, 400 years in the future.

Critic score: 17%

Audience score: 16%

Description: "9JKL" follows a time in Mark Feuerstein's adult life when he lived in apartment 9K in the building he grew up in, sandwiched between his parents' apartment, 9J, and his brother, sister-in-law, and their baby's apartment, 9L, and his attempts to set boundaries with his intrusive, but well-meaning family.

Critic score: 8%

Audience score: 51%

Description: An isolated community of super humans fight to protect themselves.