To say that 2017 was Elisabeth Moss’s year is an understatement. She knocked four incredible projects out of the park: The Square, the Palme d’Or winner at this year’s Cannes Film Festival; Top of the Lake playing the tortured yet determined Detective Griffin; Mad to Be Normal as the wife of a famously nutty psychiatrist; and of course, in The Handmaid’s Tale, where she perfectly embodied the enslaved narrator Offred, a role that garnered the actress a well-deserved Emmy and a Golden Globe.

Director Guillermo del Toro fulfills our adolescent fantasies of being swept away by a sexy beast. A. Very. Sexy. Beast.

Recognized as the best trailer—ever—the moment it came out, it showcases the evocative and riotous dialogue of screenwriter/director Martin McDonagh and reveals what we already knew: Frances McDormand is a true badass.

Fantastic climax… and the movie’s only half way over.

Not only does Charlize kick ass, she does it in high heels.

We suspect the role of the angry, vengeful, righteous mother was written specifically, for this formidable actress.

A powerful battle cry for civil and human rights is heard loud and clear in this boots on the ground doc about the protests in Ferguson, MO following the killing of a young black man, Mike Brown, at the hands of the local police.

The Handmaid’s Tale, which swept the Emmys and the Globes, sparked a fire in feminists everywhere—especially in the current political climate—making this one of the most talked about series in 2017.

Big Little Lies deftly utilized music as a storytelling tool. From Frank Ocean and Alabama Shakes to Leon Bridges and Neil Young, Big Little Lies has one of the best TV soundtracks ever assembled.

Without a doubt, Claire and Jamie in Outlander are the sexiest couple on television. These star-crossed lovers wouldn’t let war, strife, or hundreds of years across time stop them from meeting up and having some of the hottest sex we’ve ever seen.

Jamie, the Scottish highlander, is a smoking hot stud muffin. Not since the glory days of Sean Connery have we hungered for a hunk in a kilt.

We love Bacon, and we love “Dick.” Need we say more?

One of the hottest shows on TV, Sense8 returns this year for a final, feature-length special, which will serve as the grand climax, er, finale. Hopefully, it has another orgy scene like that one time…

As wife beater Perry White, Alexander Skarsgard perfectly embodies the classic “secret” abuser: handsome, white, rich, and always on the edge of violent rage. He deserves all of the awards he’s being given.

Artist/provocateur Dick is hot and aloof, exactly what Chris, a frustrated filmmaker, needs to go off the deep end. Her palpable desire and his calculated unawareness of it, are crazy, sexy, and cool.

So Good by Zara Larsson delivers the glittery goodness with its infectious hooks and pop sensibility that will make you beg for more. The 20-year-old Swedish singer brings a lot of sex appeal, as she boasts about the empowerment of her vagina, which as the song suggests, is “so good, so good, so good, so good!”

Being a teenager is hard enough, but growing up when no one wants to accept you as the person you are can be even harder. Logic’s very thoughtful music video for “1-800-273-8255” – which is the phone number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline – is an emotional breakthrough for gay teens in America.

American singer/songwriter Jason Derulo had a hot and sexy 2017 with hit singles like “Educate Ya” with Pitbull and “Swalla” featuring Nicki Minaj and Ty Dolla $ign. Derulo is also one of Provokr’s Bad Boys of Music.

Instead of making a highly sexualized music video, director Petra Collins took her inspiration from horror movies for “Fetish” by Selena Gomez. The result is a bizarrely beautiful piece of visual art that is filled with suggestive and metaphorical imagery.

The Cuban-American singer/songwriter Camila Cabello gave two sultry performances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon over the span of a few months in late 2017 and early 2018 and both were smoking hot! Cabello has a knack with making you feel that she’s just performing for you and on The Tonight Show, she did it twice with the songs “Havana” and “Never Be the Same.”

Portugal. The Man. released their breakthrough album Woodstock during the summer of 2017. The album’s lead single “Feel It Still” was the band’s first #1 hits song on the Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart.

Thom Browne’s mens runway show was a creepy procession of male clones wearing platform hooves, tweed caps and gray suits that were proportionally bizarre and stitched like Frankenstein.  The look was finished with comical white face paint, black lipstick and large round gray spectacles.

Eckhaus Latta enlisted a diverse group of 30 something couples to not only wear their spring 2017 collection, but to have real sex in front of the camera for the photographer Heji Shin.  Now that’s provocative!  “For us, it was really important to think of sex as something really natural and not something fabricated, hyper-sexualized, or taboo,” Mike Eckhaus said.

Jeremy Meeks is hands down the sexiest male model of the year.  This bad boy was especially beautiful and steamy walking in Philipp Plein’s pool side resort show!

Kylie Jenner under the creative direction of Nick Knight, along with photographer Britt Lloyd, have created Sheer, the sexiest fashion video of the year.   Set to Travis Scott’s ‘Goosebumps’ featuring Kendrick Lamar, watching this gave us goosebumps.

Like’s Tom Ford’s latest fragrance, Tom Ford’s Spring-Summer runway show was ‘Fucking Fabulous’.  The collection was confident, expertly cut, and when paired with a plunge-front, backless jumpsuit on Mica Argañaraz, it was all drop dead sexy……. beyond even his Gucci shows of old.

Nick Knight is the master of sexy fashion videos and should never stop making these incredible assaults on our senses. The luxury streetwear label’s designer Mathew Williams and Nick Knight take us on a thrilling night ride through London on a motorcycle paired with sexual explorations. The black and white is stupendous, magical and sexy and the song makes it only more impactful and eerie.

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG: AMONG FRIENDS at MoMA was a brilliant and exemplary illustration of an artist who reshaped post-war art practices. It was a truly stunning and breathtaking display of his work.

Rei Kawakubo/Comme Des Garçons: Art of the In-Between at the Met wins for its mind-bogglingly deconstruction and reconstruction of traditional fabrics, colors, and garments, which resulted in something entirely surreal and remarkable.

Kara Walker was a powerhouse in 2017 with her critically-acclaimed exhibition at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. that directly criticized the recent rise of white supremacy, Trump, and the repetition of violent histories.

RAGHUBIR SINGH’S AT THE MET was an education in light, portraiture, street photography, and color from a master. The images of India will stay with you a lifetime.

Slow Hands by Niall Horan; Alexander Izquierdo; John Ryan; Julian Bunetta; Ruth Anne Cunningham; Tobias Jesso Jr. With a line like, “I just wanna take my time, we could do this all night,” this song seduces us hands down.

Emil’s debut graphic novel, the diary a 10-year-old trying to solve a murder, is visually stunning and emotionally mining, and ultimately a tour de force.

The cover perfectly illustrated the daring new novel about money, sex, and power.