_Once again, we here at tvDownload forwent the traditional “Best of” lists for television, and instead are taking things yearbook-style: we’ve asked several contributors to help us pick

shows, characters and actors that fit into the superlative model, and will be rolling out the awards through the holiday season. Today’s nominees are for BIGGEST HEART, MOST MUSICALLY

INCLINED, and CUTEST COUPLE THAT NEVER WAS._ BIGGEST HEART DREW GRANT: I’m at the part of the year where my brain is officially slush. Like I’m looking at this category–which I suggested!–

and wondering what the fuck I was thinking. “Biggest heart?” What does that even mean? Someone super charitable? Forgiving? Nice? After the disaster that was 2016, does “Biggest Heart” even

REBECCA BUNCH, _CRAZY_ _EX-GIRLFRIEND_ I don’t believe in destiny or fate unless Rachel Bloom sings about it. TOM BATTEN: You could debate whether JOHN STONE’s motives in helping Naz on _THE

NIGHT OF_ were careerist or altruistic, but that he went back and took that cat out of the kill shelter, allergies be damned, makes him a total hero. VINNIE MANCUSO: WUN WUN THE GIANT from

_GAME OF THRONES_. I know what you’re thinking. Because Wun Wun is a giant, he literally has the largest heart on television. This is true, but also fuck you this man (giant) is a hero. Two

bastards got into a squabble over Westeros’ draftiest vacation home and Wun Wun didn’t complain, he just flung horses and smashed bodies until he was so filled with arrows he died. Davos

Seaworth’s septuagenarian ass survived _Game of Thrones_‘ biggest battle, _somehow_, but Wun Wun didn’t make it because Wun Wun put Jon Snow’s army on his back while Jon was busy drowning in

a mud puddle. Sweet plan, Jon! I will never get over this.  NOAM COHEN: GARNET, _STEVEN UNIVERSE_. _SU_ may be a show involving sentient gems from another planet, but at the center is a

story about raising a son, with Garnet as its beating heart. She’s also quite literally made of love. (spoilers!) EMMA FRASER: The KIDS FROM _STRANGER THINGS_ and their commitment to

friendship which resulted in a collapsed on top of each other hug that not only showed their heart, but made mine swell by about three sizes. JAKE FLORES: THE RED DEATH from _THE VENTURE

BROS_. Sometimes we all need an entirely flayed man with a terrifying red skull for a head to sit us down and give us a Mr. Belvedere style pep talk about never giving up. I wish this dude

was around right now to talk me through writing jokes about TV at 6 in the morning before riding off on a Ramsey Bolton dream unicorn. JOSHUA DUDLEY: I don’t know how you could give this to

anyone but KIMMY SCHMIDT. When life hands her lemons, she hands life the biggest goofiest grin you’ve ever seen. DANA SCHWARTZ: _THE CROWN_. Okay, hear me out. I know _The Crown_ seems to

be, well, almost the opposite of biggest heart. The more accurate descriptor would be coldest, stiffest, most constrained heart. After all, these are the people who cast out the abdicated

king for marrying a divorcee, who keep Margaret away from the man she wants to marry, who see Phillip “I didn’t realize I would be marrying the Queen of England, I guess” Mountbatten as

husband material. But beneath layers and layers of gilded finery, there’s Queen Elizabeth, the beating heart that made this beautiful show one of my favorites of 2016. MOST MUSICALLY

INCLINED VICTORIA EDEL: RACHEL BLOOM. Not only is _Crazy Ex-Girlfriend_ one of the best television shows, but the songs also stand on their own. “You Stupid Bitch” is a great shower jam,

FYI. DREW GRANT: I’m totally going to be the outlier here with my pick of _CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND_. So let’s get more specific: Santino Fontana as Greg Serrano on _Crazy Ex-Girlfriend_. To get

even more specific, Greg’s swan song and nothing else, ever. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-tAiOVMYFY] NICK ROSS: _MARVEL’S LUKE CAGE_ Music was the heart and soul of this show.

Finally, a superhero show I could bob my head to. Plus, that Notorious B.I.G. poster. NOAM COHEN: _STEVEN UNIVERSE_. This season’s musical episode, Mr. Greg, was a work of genius, but the

songs peppered throughout the series are consistently the cleverest and most touching on TV. Love me some Rachel Bloom, but she doesn’t touch the genius of _SU_‘s songs. DANA SCHWARTZ:

_STEVEN UNIVERSE_. Rebecca Sugar consistently writes the sweetest, most memorable melodies on television. I spent full days playing “It’s Over, Isn’t It?” on repeat. This show makes me want

to get a ukulele. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T5rCSmduaY] EMMA FRASER: ISSA’S “BROKEN PUSSY” RAP has been stuck in my head on and off since I watched the _INSECURE _pilot and

2016 is the year where inappropriate songs become ear worms. See also _Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s _super catchy “I Gave You a UTI.”    LORRAINE DUFFY MERKL: _SUPERSTORE_’s _Dina_ (Lauren Ash) She

sang a song (in Spanish no less) in season one’s third episode, “Shots & Salsa”, and I can’t believe they don’t let her do so every episode. VINNIE MANCUSO: THE OLD-TIMEY PIANO

THING-A-MAJIG FROM _WESTWORLD_. It’s my opinion that the saloon piano had the most fully-realized, richest character arc on this entire show. It started off familiar, even comforting — is

that a jaunty cover of “Paint it Black” I hear? How delightful! — and then descended into autonomous madness, until it was playing Radiohead, nothing but Radiohead, and not even clever

Radiohead. Fucking “Paranoid Android” on-the-nose-ass Radiohead. I can’t prove it (_yet_) but I firmly believe this was a crucial part of Robert Ford’s plan. And it all started, with a

villain named saloon piano. JAKE FLORES: THE CASIO KEYBOARD from _STRANGER THINGS. _I would rewatch _Stranger Things _with just like, the pre programmed auto play button on this thing.

Imagine Joyce Byers at maximum anxiety, clutching a ball of tangled up Christmas lights, the camera slowly pans out of the Byers residence, and the Keyboard Cat song plays. It would still be

pretty good. 2016 sucked for humans but it was great for synthesizers. CUTEST COUPLE THAT NEVER WAS VINNIE MANCUSO: First off, I really, really have to call into question the fact that this

was a real high-school superlative. Like, can you imagine if the last thing to happen your senior year was your classmates agreeing _en masse_ that you blew your chance to fuck someone? But

anyway, my pick is TREVOR NOAH and TOMI LAHREN. Two star cross’d lovers — he, the South-African host of a liberal-leaning comedy show and she, the blonde, screeching embodiment of your

uncle’s Facebook comment history — separate but for a single interview, and then no more. VICTORIA EDEL: GREG AND REBECCA, _CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND_. They almost had it all. It’s probably for

the best that they didn’t. DREW GRANT: MARCIA CLARK and CHRIS DARDEN, as represented by Sarah Paulson and Sterling K. Brown in _THE PEOPLE V. O.J. SIMPSON_. Yes, I realize this is my second

Sarah Paulson GIF IN THIS ARTICLE. But come on guys, how can you not love the fact that this show posited that O.J. got away with murder in part because the prosecution was just TOO full of

sexual tension? EMMA FRASER: MARCIA CLARK and CHRIS DARDEN on _THE PEOPLE V. O.J. SIMPSON: AMERICAN CRIME STORY_. Never did I expect that this show would be one where I would yell “KISS HIM”

but then Chris and Marcia happened. There was late night dancing in the office, defending haircuts and a hotel corridor moment with so much eye banging. Sadly no actual banging. TOM BATTEN:

 The funniest episode of the latest season of _YOU’RE THE WORST _saw brother’s-in-Law VERNON and PAUL lost in the woods, discussing their failings as men and husbands, their difficult lives

with their complicated wives, and fantasizing about running away to Mexico. They don’t end up going, but what a spin-off that would have been. NICK ROSS_: KEVIN CAN WAIT_ and AUDIENCES More

like Kevin can’t. DANA SCHWARTZ: SUPERGIRL and THE FLASH. Come on, just admit that with their gorgeous hair and perfect faces, these two would be an adorable blur alongside each other.

Especially if it means more crossover episodes. VICTORIA EDEL: GREG AND REBECCA, _CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND_. They almost had it all. It’s probably for the best that they didn’t. NOAM COHEN: 

SHERLOCK and JOAN WATSON, from_ ELEMENTARY_. Their interplay is adorable, but somehow they still avoid the will-they-won’t-they cliche of most shows. I think the show may actually go the

distance without ever getting its leads together, which is awesome. LORRAINE DUFFY MERKL: _YOUNGER_’s LIZA MILLER (Sutton Foster) and CHARLES BROOKS (Peter Hermann) There’s an attraction and

mutual respect, but will he still find her alluring when he realizes she’s not a fawning 20-something? JAKE FLORES: HILLARY CLINTON FROM _BROAD CITY_ and AMERICA. Ah yes, America, the one

that got away. We were rooting for you two to make it work, but in love and _Stranger Things_, the crazy ones like America always go with some dangerous idiot.