From a single set of ballots, we’ll publish two sets of results. The first will include The Sopranos. The second will be strictly shows that premiered in the 21st century, removing The Sopranos from ballots and adjusting everything below it on those ballots up one position.
Submission Format:
An unnumbered list of your top 20 TV shows of the 21st century. If you include The Sopranos in your list you can add a 21st show, in which case for the second tally, The Sopranos will be removed and everything below it on your list will be bumped up one position.
Starting with the top show, submit your list of 20 (or 21) shows with each show on its own line. The order of your list is the ranking. The first show on your list will get 20 points; the last show will get 1:
Yellowstone
Yellowjackets
Better Call Saul
iCarly
Hannah Montana
Etc.
Pro Tip: Naming the show exactly as it appears in the list in the next post will prevent duplicate entries such as US Office, The Office (US), The Office (U.S.), The Office (U. S.), etc. that will mess with the final tallies. My spreadsheet recognizes The Office and Office as the same, but can’t account for all of the different ways the same show could be named.
Use this link to PM your list to @TVShows by Monday October 5th, 8pm Eastern Time.
Below is a list of shows that appeared on The New York Times list, and that have been nominated by UPers. You may select any 21st century show for your list, whether it appears here or not. This list is just to remind you of shows you might wish to consider.
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!
American Horror Story
Andor
Animal Kingdom
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Arrested Development
Ahsoka
Atlanta
Baby Reindeer
Band of Brothers
Banshee
Barry
Baskets
Battlestar Galactica
Beef
Better Call Saul
Better Things
Black Mirror
Blue Eye Samurai
Blue Planet
Bluey
Boardwalk Empire
BoJack Horseman
Breaking Bad
Broad City
Brooklyn 99
Catastrophe
Chappelle’s Show
Chernobyl
Community
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dark
Deadwood
Devs
Dexter
Dollhouse
Downton Abbey
Eastbound & Down
Enlightened
Euphoria
Firefly
Fleabag
Friday Night Lights
Frontier
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
Humans
I May Destroy You
I Think You Should Leave
Industry
Insecure
In with the Devil
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Justified
Key & Peele
Last Week Tonight
Loki
Lost
Louie
Mad Men
Maniac
Mare of Easttown
Mindhunter
Modern Family
Mr. Robot
Narcos
Narcos: Mexico
Nathan for You
New Girl
Normal People
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Orange is the New Black
Ozark
Parks and Recreation
Party Down
Peaky Blinders
Peep Show
PEN15
Penny Dreadful
Person of Interest
Planet Earth
Project Greenlight
Reservation Dogs
Review
Ripley
Rick and Morty
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Scandal
Schitt’s Creek
Sense8
Severance
Shameless
Sherlock
Shogun
Shrinking
Silicon Valley
Silo
Six Feet Under
Slow Horses
Somebody Somewhere
Spiral
Squid Game
Star City
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Wars: The Bad Batch
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Star Wars Rebels
Station Eleven
Sterling Point
Stranger Things
Succession
Survivor
Task
Taskmaster
Ted Lasso
The Agency
The Amazing Race
The Americans
The Bear
The Book of Boba Fett
The Bureau
The Chair Company
The Comeback
The Crown
The Dark Wizard
The Day of the Jackal
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 Knick
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 Righteous Gemstones
The Shield
The Thick of It
The Three Body Problem
The Traitors
The White Lotus
The Wire
The Young Pope
Thursday Night Football
True Blood
True Detective
True Detective — Season 1
True Detective — Season 2
True Detective — Season 3
True Detective: Night Country
Twin Peaks: The Return
Unorthodox
Veep
Veronica Mars
WandaVision
Watchmen
You can choose how to interpret best show however you see fit. If you submit True Detective Season One instead of just True Detective, it is less likely other submissions will match yours so it will not score very high overall.
Deciding whether to vote based on a show’s peak versus it’s overall strength is a decision that should be left to each individual to choose for themselves.
You can submit as few or as many shows as you’d like. I’m pretty sure it won’t break the spreadsheet either way. With too few shows you’re just leaving unclaimed points on the table; with too many shows the extras will just get ignored
Tagging @Devil in case he has two shows he wants to submit
I’m just taking your list and putting it in a spreadsheet without looking at it, so whatever you have on it as your best shows will make the final list
I asked the new Opus model to make a top 20 foe me and this is what it came up with:
The Wire
Twin Peaks: The Return
Deadwood
On Cinema at the Cinema
The Rehearsal
The Chair Company
I Think You Should Leave
Chernobyl
Show Me a Hero
True Detective Season 1
The Office (U.K.)
Atlanta
The Deuce
Better Call Saul
Hannibal
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
The Night Of
Joe Pera Talks with You
Fargo Season 2
Pretty good! Thinking of submitting as is but I really didn’t think that much of The Night Of.
