Louise gets the flu and has a loopy fever dream. “Bob’s Burgers,” season premiere, Sunday, 7:30 p.m. (This, of course, ties in with the show’s most beloved motif: food.) At one point, near a broken patch of sidewalk a child places a sign that says, “caution: hole.” It’s a sign most of the characters could themselves wear: “Warning: I am an endless fount of want.” Season 1 of “Transparent” is, very generally, about gender and one’s mind Season 2 is much more about sex and one’s body Season 3 is about desire, and how desire frequently links our bodies to our minds. It picks up a few months after Season 2’s finale, and assumes a familiarity with those story lines - a little brush-up might help. The third season of Jill Soloway’s masterpiece is somehow even more tender, and even more actualized, than the first two.

‘The Underground Railroad’: Barry Jenkins’s transfixing adaptation of the Colson Whitehead novel is fabulistic yet grittily real.

‘Succession’: In the cutthroat HBO drama about a family of media billionaires, being rich is nothing like it used to be.

‘Dickinson’: The Apple TV+ series is a literary superheroine’s origin story that’s dead serious about its subject yet unserious about itself.

‘Inside’: Written and shot in a single room, Bo Burnham’s comedy special, streaming on Netflix, turns the spotlight on internet life mid-pandemic.

Here are some of the highlights selected by The Times’s TV critics: Television this year offered ingenuity, humor, defiance and hope.

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