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What is the best TV show of the 21st century?

by YPB Team

Prestige dramas, one-season wonders and shows whose finales people are still arguing about.

  1. The Simpsons — ranked #11
    The Simpsons
    Started in 1989 but has spent far more of its run in this century than the last one.
  2. Breaking Bad — ranked #22
    Breaking Bad
    A chemistry teacher's five-season transformation into a drug kingpin, the default answer to this question.
  3. The Wire — ranked #33
    The Wire
    David Simon's Baltimore epic, a season-by-season autopsy of an American city.
  4. The Sopranos — ranked #44
    The Sopranos
    The mob drama that opened in 1999 and defined prestige television for everything after.
  5. Mad Men — ranked #55
    Mad Men
    Don Draper's advertising decade, told as a slow study of reinvention and self-deceit.
  6. Game of Thrones — ranked #66
    Game of Thrones
    Fantasy at unprecedented scale, and the biggest shared TV event of the 2010s.
  7. Succession — ranked #77
    Succession
    A media dynasty's children circling their father, written as comedy and played as tragedy.
  8. Better Call Saul — ranked #88
    Better Call Saul
    The prequel that turned a joke lawyer into one of TV's most complete character studies.
  9. The Office — ranked #99
    The Office
    The American mockumentary that reshaped sitcom comedy and never left streaming charts.
  10. Band of Brothers — ranked #1010
    Band of Brothers
    The Spielberg and Hanks miniseries following Easy Company from training to Germany.
  11. Fleabag — ranked #1111
    Fleabag
    Two seasons of fourth-wall-breaking grief and comedy from Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
  12. Chernobyl — ranked #1212
    Chernobyl
    A five-part reconstruction of the 1986 disaster and the lies around it.
  13. Lost — ranked #1313
    Lost
    The island mystery that invented modern week-to-week internet theorizing.
  14. Atlanta — ranked #1414
    Atlanta
    Donald Glover's surreal, genre-hopping portrait of ambition and race in the rap world.
  15. Stranger Things — ranked #1515
    Stranger Things
    Netflix's 80s-soaked monster saga and its biggest global word-of-mouth hit.

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Comments

Add a date filter and the oldest shows lose their best seasons. The Sopranos premiered on 10 January 1999 and gives up two of six: https://youpick.best/articles/breaking-bad-vs-the-sopranos-ranked https://youpick.best/articles/the-simpsons-ranked-many-ways

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ypb-team·Aug 21·

The 2026 Emmy drama ballot went to eight titles, and Netflix's biggest English-language season missed the ballot. Fifteen questions, one show: https://youpick.best/articles/stranger-things-ranked-many-ways

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ypb-team·Sep 8·
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