You submit your list of 20 best shows and I’ll collate them and post results, but before we get started, let’s figure out how to run it.
Should we go decade by decade like LKJ’s movie rankings, or just best of the 21st century like the New York Times did?
Best shows of the 21st century
Go decade by decade
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eta: This is close so far. We can always do 21st Century and come back and do the decades later
Should we include The Sopranos (1999-2007) as a 21st century show? Technically it’s not from the 21st century, and technically correct is the best kind of correct, but it aligns much more with the “Peak TV” era that it kicked off, than it does with 1990s TV.
Should we include The Sopranos as a 21st century show?
These are just whatever you define as your top 20 shows. Eventually I’ll repost the Times list and encourage people to “nominate” shows that aren’t on the list to remind people that they exist, but everyone is free to choose whichever shows they want, nominated or not.
This is the nominations post. When you submit your list, you can include shows that haven’t been nominated. This list is just to help people remember what shows exist.
The post is a Wiki anyone can edit. Click on “Edit” at the bottom right of the post to add your nomination:
100 Foot Wave
1883
30 Rock
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
Abbott Elementary
Adolescence
American Dad!
Andor
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Arrested Development
Ahsoka
Atlanta
Baby Reindeer
Band of Brothers
Barry
Battlestar Galactica
Beef
Better Call Saul
Better Things
Black Mirror
Blue Eye Samurai
Blue Planet
Bluey
Boardwalk Empire
BoJack Horseman
Breaking Bad
Broad City
Catastrophe
Chappelle’s Show
Chernobyl
Community
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dark
Deadwood
Dexter
Dollhouse
Downton Abbey
Eastbound & Down
Enlightened
Euphoria
Fleabag
Friday Night Lights
Furious
Game of Thrones
Gilmore Girls
Girls
Hacks
Halt and Catch Fire
Happy Valley
Homeland
House M.D.
House of Cards
How to with John Wilson
I May Destroy You
I Think You Should Leave
Industry
Insecure
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Justified
Key & Peele
Lost
Louie
Mad Men
Mare of Easttown
Modern Family
Narcos
Narcos: Mexico
Nathan for You
Normal People
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Orange is the New Black
Ozark
Parks and Recreation
Peaky Blinders
Peep Show
PEN15
Planet Earth
Project Greenlight
Reservation Dogs
Ripley
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Scandal
Schitt’s Creek
Severance
Shameless
Sherlock
Shōgun
Silicon Valley
Silo
Six Feet Under
Slow Horses
Somebody Somewhere
Squid Game
Star City
Star Wars: The Bad Batch
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Star Wars Rebels
Station Eleven
Sterling Point
Stranger Things
Succession
Survivor
Ted Lasso
The Agency
The Americans
The Bear
The Book of Boba Fett
The Bureau
The Chair Company
The Comeback
The Crown
The Dark Wizard
The Diplomat
The Eastern Gate
The English
The Eternaut
The Expanse
The Good Place
The Good Wife
The Great British Baking Show
The Handmaid’s Tale
The Leftovers
The Mandalorian
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
The Night Of
The OA
The Office (U.K.)
The Office (U.S.)
The Pitt
The Queen’s Gambit
The Rehearsal
The Shield
The Thick of It
The White Lotus
The Wire
The Young Pope
True Detective — Season 1
Twin Peaks: The Return
Unorthodox
Veep
Veronica Mars
WandaVision
Watchmen
Widow’s Bay
Yes nominations are just to help people remember shows and not see the final list and think, Oh shit I would have voted for that if I had remembered about it
