The Best 130 TV Shows (2000-2025)

Ranked by overall quality (and, of course, reflecting my personal preferences), as long as at least one episode was after January 1, 2000. 

Comedies

1. Curb Your Enthusiasm
2. Frasier
3. The Good Place
4. Arrested Development
5. Parks and Recreation
6. The Office
7. Modern Family
8. 30 Rock
9. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
10. Black-ish
11. Veep
12. Freaks and Geeks
13. Flight of the Conchords
14. Chappelle's Show 
15. The White Lotus
16. Key & Peele 
17. Spin City
18. Ted Lasso
19. Silicon Valley 
20. Everybody Loves Raymond
21. Californication 
22. Friends
23. The Mindy Project
24. Happy Endings
25. Master of None
26. Atlanta 
27. Shrinking
28. Dave 
29. Episodes
30. Playing House
31. The Studio
32. Hacks
33. Platonic
34. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
35. Ramy
36. New Girl
37. Lovesick 
     
    Dramas
    1. Breaking Bad
    2. Succession
    3. The Wire
    4. The Sopranos
    5.  The Americans
    6. Game of Thrones
    7. Friday Night Lights
    8. West Wing
    9. Deadwood
    10. Better Call Saul
    11. Ozark
    12.  Fargo
    13.  Big Love
    14. Dexter
    15.  This is Us
    16.  The Crown
    17.   True Detective
    18.  Homeland
    19. Peaky Blinders
    20.  Mad Men
    21.   Sons of Anarchy
    22.  Boardwalk Empire
    23. The Bear
    24.  Treme
    25. Oz
    26. The Shield
    27. Downton Abbey
    28. The Man in the High Castle
    29. Halt and Catch Fire
    30. Rome
    31. The Affair
    32. Justified
    33. Damages
    34. House of the Dragon
    35.  Law & Order: SVU
    36. Bloodline
    37. 24
    38. The Leftovers
    39. Hell on Wheels
    40.  Bosch
    41.  The Mandalorian
    42.  Narcos
    43.  For All Mankind
    44.  Shogun
    45.  Goliath
    46. The Tudors
    47. The OC
    48. The Good Wife
    49. Snowfall
    50. The Boys
    51. The Fall
    52. Fallout
    53. Handmaid’s Tale
    54. Big Little Lies
    55. Glow
    56. Pachinko
    57. The Pitt
    58.  Broadchurch

     Limited Series/One Season

    1. The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story
    2. Watchmen
    3. Mare of Easttown
    4. Escape at Dannemora
    5. Zero Zero Zero
    6. Chernobyl
    7. Hatfields & McCoys
    8. The Plot Against America
    9. Dopesick
    10. Beef
    11. Adolescence
    12. The Night Of
    13. The Night Manager
    14. When They See Us
    15. Station Eleven
    16. Obi-Wan Kenobi
    17. Fosse/Verdon
    18. The Offer
    19.  Black Bird
    20. Queen’s Gambit
    21. Waco
    22. The Outsider
    23. Under the Banner of Heaven
    24. We Own This City
    25. Normal People
    26. The Spy
    27. Presumed Innocent
    28.  Defending Jacob
    29. The Undoing
    30. Pam and Tommy
    31. Bodyguard

    Miniseries 

    1. Band of Brothers
    2.  John Adams
    3.  Elizabeth I
    4.  The Pacific