What is the best TV show of the 21st century?
Prestige dramas, one-season wonders and shows whose finales people are still arguing about.
1The Simpsons
Started in 1989 but has spent far more of its run in this century than the last one.
2Breaking Bad
A chemistry teacher's five-season transformation into a drug kingpin, the default answer to this question.
3The Wire
David Simon's Baltimore epic, a season-by-season autopsy of an American city.
4The Sopranos
The mob drama that opened in 1999 and defined prestige television for everything after.
5Mad Men
Don Draper's advertising decade, told as a slow study of reinvention and self-deceit.
6Game of Thrones
Fantasy at unprecedented scale, and the biggest shared TV event of the 2010s.
7Succession
A media dynasty's children circling their father, written as comedy and played as tragedy.
8Better Call Saul
The prequel that turned a joke lawyer into one of TV's most complete character studies.
9The Office
The American mockumentary that reshaped sitcom comedy and never left streaming charts.
10Band of Brothers
The Spielberg and Hanks miniseries following Easy Company from training to Germany.
11Fleabag
Two seasons of fourth-wall-breaking grief and comedy from Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
12Chernobyl
A five-part reconstruction of the 1986 disaster and the lies around it.
13Lost
The island mystery that invented modern week-to-week internet theorizing.
14Atlanta
Donald Glover's surreal, genre-hopping portrait of ambition and race in the rap world.
15Stranger Things
Netflix's 80s-soaked monster saga and its biggest global word-of-mouth hit.
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