Timeout Talks: The best entertainment of 2017

Lorde's second album Melodrama was one of the biggest of the year, earning the number two spot on our list of the top albums of 2017. Photo / Greg Bowker

It's been a huge year in the world of entertainment. Granted, that statement could be applied to any year - but in 2017, current events instilled music, movies and TV with a new level of urgency.

The amount of music, movies and TV being released every year is nothing short of colossal - and this year, the amount of high-quality content was staggering. We've spent the past few weeks dissecting our picks for the best albums, movies and TV shows from 2017, which we managed to whittle down to our final lists in our best-of issue of Timeout.

In this week's podcast, we discuss our reasoning - and debate some of our choices.