Over 500 influential stars, showrunners and other notable names in the world of TV vote for The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century for the New York Times. The Top 10 Best TV Shows: 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 (nytimes.com/interactive/2026…)

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White people over hype breaking bad.. it doesn’t seem intriguing at all.
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Where’s insecure ?
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Game of Thrones was just tits and a dragon.
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no abbott???

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why is squid games on this list
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Mad Men at #3 is so deserved. No explosions, no crime empire, just people talking in offices and it's still more gripping than most thrillers
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i don’t see desperate housewives psych how to get away with murder the originals the vampire diaries teen wolf orange is the new black???
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Ozark at 68 is criminal
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Where’s the sopranos I don’t see it on the list?
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Breaking Bad is briliant if you're a retarded 13-year-old boy
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game of thrones at 6 means those 500 voters skipped the last season on purpose
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Buffy didn’t even make the list this is criminal
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Where the fug is The X-Files?
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The sopranos not being here is mind boggling lmao, most of the show was filmed in the 21st century
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breaking bad at #1 nobody's arguing with, but fleabag over game of thrones is starting fights in group chats tonight. no sopranos in the top 10 either, crazy
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What’s so special about Brwaking bad for it to hit the first position ?
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Dark should be in Top 10
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Squid game.. Rupaul drag race.. but not the real Masterpiece?
Taylor Swiftieeeeee
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24 not on this list? Yeah gg's
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Where tf is soparnos and why is nobody talking about it??
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Who wrote this shit rating? I certainly didn't have a vote on this. There's some real crap at the top.
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Influential stars lol…Notice no Taylor Sheridan show got in …so jealous and petty . Girls lmao
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Breaking Bad at #1? IJBOL, also no Big Bang Theory or F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
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Community should be higher and public opinion of The Good Place continues to baffle me. I enjoyed it but 51 is fucking crazy considering all the sitcoms that don’t even have a place on the list. HIMYM, Friends, and TBBT were all immensely popular for a reason.
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Where the FUCK IS THE SOPRANOS?!?!!
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Better call Saul is better than Breaking Bad. Also no Entourage? Sopranos? Boardwalk Empire? Sex & the City? Seinfeld?
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the absence of Sopranos from the list, nevermind the absence from the #1 spot, feels like deliberate attack
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You don't fuck with no Gravity Falls no Avatar the Last Airbender no Infinity Train no Invincible no Scavenger's Reign no Common Side Effects no Adventure Time no anime AT ALL no nothing?
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The Blacklist should be in the top 5
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The OA being on the list I know that’s right they need to bring that show back I’m still so annoyed it got cancelled
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We are only 25 years into this century. The next 25 years will overhaul this list. The next 75 years will turn this list into a completely different list of TV shows. There might be only a handful of shows from the early 21st century that might still hold top spots by year 2100
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neither twin peaks or ugly betty is on this list i call bs
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Black Sails is not here so this list is trash
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Forgot someone?
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arrested development so close to making top 10
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