1. Breaking Bad
2. The Wire
3. Mad Men
4. Succession
5. Fleabag
6. Game of Thrones
7. Veep
8. 30 Rock
9. Curb Your Enthusiasm
10. Atlanta
11. The Office (U.S.)
12. Arrested Development
13. Girls
14. Friday Night Lights
15. Six Feet Under
16. The Office (U.K.)
17. The Americans
18. I May Destroy You
19. Chernobyl
20. The Crown
21. The White Lotus
22. Lost
23. The Comeback
24. Deadwood
25. The Leftovers
26. Black Mirror
27. Better Call Saul
28. Band of Brothers
29. Key & Peele
30. Severance
31. Survivor
32. Andor
33. Enlightened
34. Schitt’s Creek
35. True Detective — Season 1
36. The Pitt
37. Battlestar Galactica
38. Homeland
39. Watchmen
40. Adolescence
41. Louie
42. Hacks
43. Peaky Blinders
44. BoJack Horseman
45. Happy Valley
46. Broad City
47. Twin Peaks: The Return
48. House of Cards
49. Normal People
50. Parks and Recreation
51. The Good Place
52. Downton Abbey
53. Stranger Things
54. The Bureau
55. Insecure
56. Nathan for You
57. I Think You Should Leave
58. Chappelle’s Show
59. PEN15
60. Peep Show
61. RuPaul’s Drag Race
62. Slow Horses
63. The Thick of It
64. Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
65. Mare of Easttown
66. The Rehearsal
67. The Handmaid’s Tale
68. Ozark
69. Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
70. The Shield
71. Beef
72. Squid Game
73. Barry
74. The Bear
75. Ted Lasso
76. Somebody Somewhere
77. Modern Family
78. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
79. The Good Wife
80. How to with John Wilson
81. The Queen’s Gambit
82. Better Things
83. Justified
84. Planet Earth
85. The Great British Baking Show
86. Shōgun
87. Reservation Dogs
88. Dexter
89. Baby Reindeer
90. Eastbound & Down
91. Catastrophe
92. The Night Of
93. Station Eleven
94. The Diplomat
95. House M.D.
96. Halt and Catch Fire
97. Community
98. The OA
99. Gilmore Girls
100. Scandal

This crap is always so subjective, but I'm dismissing this list entirely because it doesn't have Firefly.

Deadwood at 24!?!? Fuck the New York Times. That's inexcusable.

Edit:
Also, The Wire is better than Breaking Bad, as is Better Call Saul, which they put at 27. And The Bear at 74!? I hate this list.

I think I first heard this from the late Gordon of PC World. He used to say these types of lists were made not to be accurate but to intentionally rile people up for engagement. Of course, being the troll he liked to be, he also admitted to doing it.

I thought Deadwood should be higher too, at least in the top 20, if not 15.

Fleabag at #5? I have only heard of the show in passing, I tried multiple times to watch it, never was able to get into it.

Edit: I meant top 15, if not top 10.

They took the sky from me...

Same, I chalked up Fleabag to "it just must not be intended for me," because I didn't enjoy it. Like it if you like it, wasn't for me. But calling it the 5th best show of the 21st century is wild.

no venture bros = opinion discarded

not to mention how laughable the attempt it makes to be international. just commit to american tv.

That's the real scandal here. It's the most rewatchable show I've ever seen. The biggest tragedy is we won't know what Rusty and Billy were doing right before stepping out of Grover Cleveland's Presidential Time Machine.

Oh thank you!

i am officially putting a thumbs up emoji for your user. and ugh. no firefly.

Fun to compare to the community tally,

No "Succession", but I suspect there is some recency bias there. Because it's a recent show people think, "well it's great, but is it all time great?"

No Fleabag, Veep, 30 Rock, Curb, Atlanta, etc which are all comedy shows. The community does have "Community" and "Arrested Development", but every other comedy is animated. I think it's hard to think of a comedy as "the best".

As someone who loves firefly and is actually planning to start a rewatch later tonight...it's really not that good of a show...

The Good Place should be much higher.

I disagree. I actually held of rewatching for a long time to get as much as possible the feel for seeing it anew again. Finally did it last year and wow. I mean we likely have differences in experience and opinion but literally each line of dialogue was often so good to me. I practically wanted to cry. its more than the story and I realize its common folk fare but its so rare to get a cast that jives so well along with scripts and characterizations that just meld. I am someone who is not going to put citizen cane in a best move ranking though.

What the fuck where Supernatural? I would omit a few of these and they are missing some damn good shows. No WestWorld either, or Reacher, Jack Ryan. This list has like 6 shows I enjoyed and Justified should be higher. Also missing Expanse. Just missing a lot and has lot of shit to.

Ya know what? When you're right you're right.

Specifically, I would agree that the characters are pretty great and work very well together.

The rest, I would say is about mid for a TV show, but TV shows have also fallen off pretty hard since then. There's a decent amount of campiness, which strongly contrasts with how firefly superfans tend to describe it. The fan base definitely affected my previously stated opinion. It's a pretty good show, but it's not a great show that I would expect to see on a top x list.

No Firefly? Ugh

Ok good, I saw that and was like "do I have to try Fleabag again?" but now after seeing your comment and the one above it, I think we're just not Fleabag people, and that's okay.

Most of my favorites are present, but that is all so entirely subjective. It seems like it is basically just a couple people ranking what they've watched lately.

It seems there was a Bias towards anything that wasnt a drama.

For some reason the idea that you could laugh and smile occasionally makes a show worse to these idiots.

Yeah the list is garbage for a lot of reasons. But this show is absolutely belonging of love it doesnt get.

By the way, Happy Spanakopita!

This list was pointless. It really pushed the idea that it needs to be a drama or "premier" television first and then feels like they realized they were doing it and dumped a bunch of stuff they remembered after that fact towards the bottom, mostly pushing just recent shows they remember.

Like seriously no Scrubs?
Avatar the Last Airbender?
Planet Earth?
Top Gear?

Items with far more cultural impact than Pen15.
So this is a me opinion piece at best.

They're right on Slow Horses being on the list. Criminally underrated show, every single person I've introduced it to got instantly hooked.