Top 22 HBO Series of the 2000s

Prestige dramas that rewired television sit beside cult comedies and one-season wonders that never got their due. Mob bosses, morticians, Marines and a washed-up pitcher all want the top spot.

1. 1
   Six Feet Under

   Alan Ball's 2001-2005 drama about the Fisher family and their Los Angeles funeral home.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Generation Kill

   The 2008 miniseries following a Marine recon battalion during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
   946pts
3. 3
   The Wire

   David Simon's 2002-2008 Baltimore crime drama, each season dissecting another city institution.
   946pts
4. 4
   Curb Your Enthusiasm

   Larry David's largely improvised comedy of social faux pas, launched in 2000.
   862pts
5. 5
   Entourage

   The 2004-2011 comedy about rising movie star Vincent Chase and his Queens friends in Hollywood.
   819pts
6. 6
   The Sopranos

   David Chase's 1999-2007 drama about New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano and his therapy sessions.
   819pts
7. 7
   Flight of the Conchords

   The 2007-2009 musical comedy about a hapless New Zealand folk duo in New York.
   801pts
8. 8
   True Blood

   Alan Ball's 2008-2014 Southern Gothic vampire drama set in Bon Temps, Louisiana.
   801pts
9. 9
   In Treatment

   The 2008-2010 drama built from therapist Paul Weston's weekly sessions with his patients.
   732pts
10. 10
    John Adams

    The Emmy-sweeping 2008 miniseries starring Paul Giamatti as the second US president.
    655pts
11. 11
    Angels in America

    Mike Nichols's 2003 miniseries of Tony Kushner's play about AIDS in Reagan-era America.
    655pts
12. 12
    Big Love

    The 2006-2011 drama about a polygamist Utah businessman and his three wives.
    655pts
13. 13
    Deadwood

    David Milch's profane 2004-2006 Western set in a lawless South Dakota mining camp.
    568pts
14. 14
    Oz

    Tom Fontana's brutal 1997-2003 prison drama set in the Emerald City unit of Oswald State.
    568pts
15. 15
    The Comeback

    Lisa Kudrow's 2005 cringe comedy about a fading sitcom actress chasing a reality-show return.
    468pts
16. 16
    The Corner

    The Emmy-winning 2000 miniseries about a Baltimore family caught in the drug trade.
    468pts
17. 17
    Sex and the City

    The 1998-2004 comedy following Carrie Bradshaw and her three friends through Manhattan dating life.
    468pts
18. 18
    Rome

    The lavish 2005-2007 historical drama of the fall of the Roman Republic seen through two soldiers.
    468pts
19. 19
    Band of Brothers

    The 2001 World War II miniseries following Easy Company from D-Day to the war's end.
    353pts
20. 20
    Eastbound & Down

    Danny McBride's 2009-2013 comedy about washed-up, foul-mouthed pitcher Kenny Powers.
    353pts
21. 21
    Da Ali G Show

    Sacha Baron Cohen's 2003-2004 HBO run of prank interviews as Ali G, Borat and Bruno.
    218pts
22. 22
    Carnivale

    The mystical 2003-2005 Dust Bowl drama of a travelling carnival and a battle between good and evil.
    0pts

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