# 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century

Browse the New York Times 100 best TV shows of the 21st century, with descriptions, genre and year filters, and US streaming links.

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Original ranking: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/arts/television/best-tv-shows-21st-century.html
Publisher: [Made by Aqua](https://madebyaqua.com/).

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## 1. Breaking Bad

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-1
- Years on air: 2008-2013
- Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

A chemistry teacher facing cancer starts cooking meth with a former student, and gradually becomes a ruthless drug kingpin.

- [Watch on Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/70143836)

## 2. The Wire

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-2
- Years on air: 2002-2008
- Genres: Crime, Drama

A wide-angle portrait of Baltimore told through police, drug crews, schools, politics, the docks, and the media.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/show/1bc3aff5-0d6a-4c0b-8ed0-5716ca30ab3b)

## 3. Mad Men

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-3
- Years on air: 2007-2015
- Genres: Drama

Advertising executives in 1960s New York sell dreams while navigating ambition, identity, marriage, and a rapidly changing America.

- [Watch on AMC+](https://www.amcplus.com/shows/mad-men/episodes--1002350)

## 4. Succession

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-4
- Years on air: 2018-2023
- Genres: Drama, Family

The dysfunctional Roy family fights over control of a global media empire as its aging patriarch refuses to let go.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/show/a8484031-f244-4661-9fb7-0932bd1ba872)

## 5. Fleabag

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-5
- Years on air: 2016-2019
- Genres: Comedy, Drama

A sharp, self-destructive London woman speaks directly to the audience while dealing with grief, sex, family, and intimacy.

- [Watch on Prime Video](https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0OB9NDUVQKFRSYRSCHT2A784TI?tag=100besttvshow-20) (affiliate link)

## 6. Game of Thrones

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-6
- Years on air: 2011-2019
- Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Noble families battle for power across a brutal fantasy continent while an ancient supernatural threat grows in the north.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/show/4f6b4985-2dc9-4ab6-ac79-d60f0860b0ac)

## 7. Veep

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-7
- Years on air: 2012-2019
- Genres: Comedy

An ambitious U.S. vice president and her chaotic staff stumble through Washington politics, ego, incompetence, and constant crisis.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/show/37cb4217-c710-4166-8e9f-352a61f2cd3a)

## 8. 30 Rock

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-8
- Years on air: 2006-2013
- Genres: Comedy

A TV comedy writer tries to manage eccentric stars, network executives, and her own messy life behind the scenes of a sketch show.

- [Watch on Peacock](https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/tv/30-rock/6240863759978157112)

## 9. Curb Your Enthusiasm

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-9
- Years on air: 2000-2024
- Genres: Comedy

A fictionalized Larry David turns tiny social annoyances into spectacularly awkward conflicts through stubbornness and terrible judgment.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/show/18a0993f-209a-4653-8f94-f3fb8422e678)

## 10. Atlanta

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-10
- Years on air: 2016-2022
- Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music

Two cousins try to build a rap career in Atlanta while moving through money problems, race, fame, and surreal everyday life.

- [Watch on Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/series/atlanta-3529d0f1-acaf-476d-8be3-66cd6bf12530)

## 11. The Office (U.S.)

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-11
- Years on air: 2005-2013
- Genres: Comedy

A mockumentary about employees at a mundane paper company, led by a painfully inappropriate but oddly lovable regional manager.

- [Watch on Peacock](https://www.peacocktv.com/stream-tv/the-office)

## 12. Arrested Development

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-12
- Years on air: 2003-2019
- Genres: Comedy, Family

The one responsible member of a formerly rich family tries to hold everyone together after his father is arrested.

- [Watch on Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/70140358)

## 13. Girls

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-13
- Years on air: 2012-2017
- Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Four young women in New York stumble through work, relationships, money, friendship, and adulthood with uncomfortable honesty.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/show/2262487a-fc52-4543-901d-c07d92ad8844)

## 14. Friday Night Lights

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-14
- Years on air: 2006-2011
- Genres: Drama, Sports

High-school football becomes the center of life in a small Texas town, following players, families, coaches, and community pressure.

- [Find on Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/search?q=Friday%20Night%20Lights)

## 15. Six Feet Under

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-15
- Years on air: 2001-2005
- Genres: Comedy, Drama

A family running a Los Angeles funeral home confronts death every day while struggling with love, resentment, identity, and change.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/show/8b7307e8-1034-426f-b01a-06c832e436ea)

## 16. The Office (U.K.)

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-16
- Years on air: 2001-2003
- Genres: Comedy

The original mockumentary follows an ordinary British office ruled by David Brent, a boss desperate to be funny and popular.

- [Watch on BritBox](https://www.britbox.com/US/season/The_Office_S1_b00jd69h)

## 17. The Americans

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-17
- Years on air: 2013-2018
- Genres: Drama, Espionage

Two Soviet spies live as a married American couple near Washington, D.C., balancing dangerous missions with increasingly real family ties.

- [Watch on Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/series/the-americans-6deba130-65fb-4816-acb1-aea5eb940f0f)

## 18. I May Destroy You

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-18
- Years on air: 2020
- Genres: Comedy, Drama

A young writer in London reconstructs what happened after a sexual assault and reexamines consent, friendship, memory, and identity.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/show/a15b4064-4899-4381-bdf1-676986137ee1)

## 19. Chernobyl

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-19
- Years on air: 2019
- Genres: Drama, History

A dramatization of the 1986 nuclear disaster, the people who tried to contain it, and the institutional failures behind the catastrophe.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/show/396999a6-3fff-4af3-802b-10c46d10deff)

## 20. The Crown

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-20
- Years on air: 2016-2023
- Genres: Drama, History

A dramatized history of Queen Elizabeth II's reign, focusing on the monarchy, politics, duty, marriage, and public life.

- [Watch on Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/80025678)

## 21. The White Lotus

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-21
- Years on air: 2021-present
- Genres: Comedy, Drama

Wealthy guests and resort workers collide during luxurious vacations where privilege, resentment, sex, and money slowly turn poisonous.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/show/14f9834d-bc23-41a8-ab61-5c8abdbea505)

## 22. Lost

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-22
- Years on air: 2004-2010
- Genres: Adventure, Drama, Supernatural

Survivors of a plane crash are stranded on a mysterious island filled with strange science, hidden groups, and supernatural secrets.

- [Watch on Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/series/466b3994-b574-44f1-88bc-63707507a6cb)

## 23. The Comeback

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-23
- Years on air: 2005-2014
- Genres: Comedy

A fading sitcom actress lets a reality-TV crew film her attempted comeback, exposing humiliation, vanity, and the cruelty of show business.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/show/3235a74a-6fad-4a3a-875d-ef16b1be82e8)

## 24. Deadwood

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-24
- Years on air: 2004-2006
- Genres: Crime, Drama, Western

In a lawless 1870s mining town, settlers, criminals, businessmen, and politicians build a society through violence, negotiation, and greed.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/show/065d80dc-68c4-4770-8f7b-00279f91c6da)

## 25. The Leftovers

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-25
- Years on air: 2014-2017
- Genres: Drama, Science fiction, Thriller

After 2% of humanity suddenly vanishes, the people left behind struggle with grief, faith, cults, and the need for meaning.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/show/ce812085-7871-413f-8ceb-8c423f853427)

## 26. Black Mirror

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-26
- Years on air: 2011-present
- Genres: Drama, Science fiction, Thriller

Standalone stories explore how technology can amplify human obsession, cruelty, loneliness, status anxiety, and unexpected moral choices.

- [Watch on Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/70264888)

## 27. Better Call Saul

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-27
- Years on air: 2015-2022
- Genres: Crime, Drama, Legal

A struggling lawyer slowly transforms into Saul Goodman while his relationships and moral compromises pull him toward the criminal world.

- [Watch on Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/80021955)

## 28. Band of Brothers

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-28
- Years on air: 2001
- Genres: Action, Drama, War

A miniseries following Easy Company from paratrooper training through major World War II campaigns in Europe.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/show/6a0a0227-f567-46ba-9a2d-04374c5f6193)

## 29. Key & Peele

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-29
- Years on air: 2012-2015
- Genres: Comedy

Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key perform fast, inventive sketches about race, masculinity, pop culture, language, and social behavior.

- [Watch on Paramount+](https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/key-and-peele/)

## 30. Severance

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-30
- Years on air: 2022-present
- Genres: Drama, Mystery, Science fiction

Office workers undergo a procedure that completely separates their work memories from their outside lives, creating two selves in one body.

- [Watch on Apple TV](https://tv.apple.com/us/show/severance/umc.cmc.1srk2goyh2q2zdxcx605w8vtx)

## 31. Survivor

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-31
- Years on air: 2000-present
- Genres: Adventure, Reality

Contestants live in harsh conditions, compete in challenges, form alliances, and vote one another out for a cash prize.

- [Watch on Paramount+](https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/survivor/)

## 32. Andor

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-32
- Years on air: 2022-2025
- Genres: Espionage, Science fiction, Thriller

A reluctant thief becomes part of the growing rebellion against the Galactic Empire in a grounded Star Wars espionage drama.

- [Watch on Disney+](https://www.disneyplus.com/browse/entity-faba988a-a9f5-45f2-a074-0775a7d6f67a)

## 33. Enlightened

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-33
- Years on air: 2011-2013
- Genres: Comedy, Drama

After a public breakdown and spiritual retreat, a corporate employee returns determined to become a better person and change her company.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/show/54a39750-7cff-41a2-9f4b-0ab00ada5025)

## 34. Schitt's Creek

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-34
- Years on air: 2015-2020
- Genres: Comedy

A wealthy family loses everything and must rebuild its life in a tiny town they once bought as a joke.

- [Watch on Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/series/schitts-creek-a2e7a946-9652-48a8-884b-3ea7ea4de273)

## 35. True Detective (Season 1)

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-35
- Years on air: 2014
- Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Two Louisiana detectives revisit a ritualistic murder investigation that consumed their lives over seventeen years.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://www.max.com/shows/true-detective/9a4a3645-74e0-4e4d-9f35-31464b402357)

## 36. The Pitt

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-36
- Years on air: 2025-present
- Genres: Drama, Medical

A real-time-style hospital drama follows doctors and nurses through one intense shift in a crowded Pittsburgh emergency department.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/shows/pitt-2024/e6e7bad9-d48d-4434-b334-7c651ffc4bdf)

## 37. Battlestar Galactica

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-37
- Years on air: 2005-2009
- Genres: Drama, Science fiction, War

Humanity's survivors flee robotic Cylons in a military fleet while searching for Earth and questioning identity, faith, and survival.

- [Watch on Paramount+](https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/battlestar-galactica/)

## 38. Homeland

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-38
- Years on air: 2011-2020
- Genres: Drama, Espionage, Thriller

A brilliant but unstable CIA officer suspects a rescued American POW may have been turned by terrorists.

- [Watch on Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/series/homeland-d5779fa8-8bac-419b-8539-38a8cfeb1505)

## 39. Watchmen

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-39
- Years on air: 2019
- Genres: Action, Drama, Science fiction

Decades after masked vigilantes changed history, a detective investigates a conspiracy involving racism, police, power, and inherited trauma.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/show/f3a51e09-2662-40e0-a96b-4a571f149da4)

## 40. Adolescence

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-40
- Years on air: 2025
- Genres: Crime, Drama

A family is shattered when a teenage boy is arrested for the murder of a classmate, forcing everyone to confront how it happened.

- [Watch on Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/81756069)

## 41. Louie

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-41
- Years on air: 2010-2015
- Genres: Comedy, Drama

A fictionalized comedian navigates parenting, dating, embarrassment, and existential anxiety in loosely connected stories set in New York.

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## 42. Hacks

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-42
- Years on air: 2021-2026
- Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

A legendary Las Vegas comedian and a young writer form a prickly partnership that evolves into rivalry, mentorship, and genuine attachment.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/shows/hacks/67e940b7-aab2-46ce-a62b-c7308cde9de7)

## 43. Peaky Blinders

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-43
- Years on air: 2013-2022
- Genres: Crime, Drama, History

In post-World War I Birmingham, gang leader Tommy Shelby expands his criminal empire while battling rivals, police, and his own trauma.

- [Watch on Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/80002479)

## 44. BoJack Horseman

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-44
- Years on air: 2014-2020
- Genres: Animation, Comedy, Drama

A washed-up sitcom star who is also a horse tries to revive his career while repeatedly sabotaging himself and the people around him.

- [Watch on Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/70300800)

## 45. Happy Valley

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-45
- Years on air: 2014-2023
- Genres: Crime, Drama

A tough police sergeant in northern England confronts violent crime while carrying deep personal grief connected to a dangerous local man.

- [Find on AMC+](https://www.amcplus.com/search?query=Happy%20Valley)

## 46. Broad City

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-46
- Years on air: 2014-2019
- Genres: Comedy

Two broke best friends in New York turn jobs, dating, drugs, and everyday disasters into chaotic adventures.

- [Watch on Paramount+](https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/broad-city/)

## 47. Twin Peaks: The Return

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-47
- Years on air: 2017
- Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Supernatural

Twenty-five years after the original series, Dale Cooper's story resumes in a strange, dreamlike expansion of the Twin Peaks universe.

- [Watch on Paramount+](https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/twin-peaks-the-return/)

## 48. House of Cards

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-48
- Years on air: 2013-2018
- Genres: Drama, Thriller

A ruthless Washington politician and his equally ambitious wife manipulate, betray, and scheme their way toward greater power.

- [Watch on Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/70178217)

## 49. Normal People

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-49
- Years on air: 2020
- Genres: Drama, Romance

Two Irish teenagers from different social backgrounds repeatedly come together and drift apart as they move from school into adulthood.

- [Watch on Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/series/normal-people-57048262-2ca5-41ee-9b57-53bb9b9e1596)

## 50. Parks and Recreation

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-50
- Years on air: 2009-2015
- Genres: Comedy

An relentlessly optimistic local-government employee and her oddball colleagues try to improve their small Indiana town.

- [Watch on Peacock](https://www.peacocktv.com/stream-tv/parks-and-recreation)

## 51. The Good Place

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-51
- Years on air: 2016-2020
- Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Supernatural

A woman wakes up in the afterlife and realizes she may not belong there, leading to a comic exploration of ethics and what makes people good.

- [Watch on Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/80113701)

## 52. Downton Abbey

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-52
- Years on air: 2010-2015
- Genres: Drama, Family, Romance

An aristocratic English family and its servants face love, scandal, war, inheritance, and social change in the early 20th century.

- [Watch on Peacock](https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/tv/downton-abbey/7560296579355862112)

## 53. Stranger Things

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-53
- Years on air: 2016-2025
- Genres: Drama, Horror, Science fiction

Kids in a small 1980s town encounter secret experiments, psychic powers, and a terrifying parallel dimension after a boy disappears.

- [Watch on Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/80057281)

## 54. The Bureau

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-54
- Years on air: 2015-2020
- Genres: Drama, Espionage

French intelligence officers manage undercover agents and long-term false identities, where professional secrecy corrodes private life.

- [Find on AMC+](https://www.amcplus.com/search?query=The%20Bureau)

## 55. Insecure

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-55
- Years on air: 2016-2021
- Genres: Comedy, Drama

Two Black women in Los Angeles navigate friendship, work, dating, ambition, and self-doubt while trying to figure out adulthood.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/show/2eeaa373-3bd1-47b5-a904-d0b6b5117601)

## 56. Nathan for You

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-56
- Years on air: 2013-2017
- Genres: Comedy, Reality

Nathan Fielder offers small businesses absurd, elaborate marketing schemes while keeping a perfectly straight face.

- [Watch on Paramount+](https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/nathan-for-you/)

## 57. I Think You Should Leave

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-57
- Years on air: 2019-present
- Genres: Comedy

Short, aggressively awkward sketches push ordinary social situations into bizarre arguments, meltdowns, and unforgettable nonsense.

- [Watch on Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/80986854)

## 58. Chappelle's Show

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-58
- Years on air: 2003-2006
- Genres: Comedy

Dave Chappelle uses sketches and stand-up to satirize race, celebrity, politics, media, and American culture.

- [Watch on Paramount+](https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/chappelles-show/)

## 59. PEN15

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-59
- Years on air: 2019-2021
- Genres: Comedy

Two adult creators play their own awkward 13-year-old selves among real teenage actors in a painfully accurate middle-school comedy.

- [Watch on Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/series/pen15-8c87035d-2b10-4b10-a233-ca5b3597145d)

## 60. Peep Show

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-60
- Years on air: 2003-2015
- Genres: Comedy

Two dysfunctional London flatmates narrate their selfish, anxious thoughts directly to the audience while repeatedly ruining their lives.

- [Watch on Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/series/peep-show-6c41fe11-ae9b-4c22-bf66-16b159961e28)

## 61. RuPaul's Drag Race

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-61
- Years on air: 2009-present
- Genres: Reality

Drag performers compete in fashion, acting, comedy, and performance challenges to become America's next drag superstar.

- [Watch on Paramount+](https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/rupauls-drag-race/)

## 62. Slow Horses

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-62
- Years on air: 2022-present
- Genres: Drama, Espionage, Thriller

Disgraced MI5 agents dumped in a dead-end department keep stumbling into real conspiracies under their brilliant, filthy, insulting boss.

- [Watch on Apple TV](https://tv.apple.com/show/slow-horses/umc.cmc.2szz3fdt71tl1ulnbp8utgq5o)

## 63. The Thick of It

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-63
- Years on air: 2005-2012
- Genres: Comedy

British government ministers and staff scramble through scandals and policy disasters while terrifying spin doctor Malcolm Tucker attacks everyone.

- [Watch on BritBox](https://www.britbox.com/us/show/The_Thick_of_It_b006qgrd)

## 64. Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-64
- Years on air: 2013-2018
- Genres: Documentary, Food, Travel

Anthony Bourdain travels beyond tourist routes to understand places through food, politics, history, and conversations with local people.

- [Browse on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/)

## 65. Mare of Easttown

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-65
- Years on air: 2021
- Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery

A small-town Pennsylvania detective investigates a murder while her own family life and community relationships are falling apart.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/show/c1517b80-50ab-4733-8208-ae2c2765c0e7)

## 66. The Rehearsal

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-66
- Years on air: 2022-present
- Genres: Comedy

Nathan Fielder helps people rehearse difficult real-life situations through increasingly elaborate simulations that blur planning and reality.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/show/609d8b4c-f0a6-4a5d-b9d3-bb0f2e207efb)

## 67. The Handmaid's Tale

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-67
- Years on air: 2017-2025
- Genres: Drama, Science fiction

In a totalitarian America, fertile women are forced into reproductive servitude while one handmaid struggles to survive and resist.

- [Watch on Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/series/the-handmaids-tale-565d8976-9d26-4e63-866c-40f8a137ce5f)

## 68. Ozark

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-68
- Years on air: 2017-2022
- Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

A financial adviser moves his family to the Ozarks to launder money for a cartel, pulling them deeper into violence and corruption.

- [Watch on Netflix](https://netflix.com/title/80117552)

## 69. Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-69
- Years on air: 2005-2012
- Genres: Documentary, Food, Travel

Bourdain explores cities and countries through their food, bars, street life, and people, with a skeptical and personal point of view.

- [Browse on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/)

## 70. The Shield

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-70
- Years on air: 2002-2008
- Genres: Crime, Drama

A corrupt but effective Los Angeles police unit fights criminals while committing crimes of its own and trying to avoid exposure.

- [Watch on Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/series/4094ad25-76a0-4ebc-a577-106c22737dbc)

## 71. Beef (Season 1)

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-71
- Years on air: 2023
- Genres: Comedy, Drama

A road-rage incident between two strangers escalates into an obsessive feud that wrecks both of their lives.

- [Watch on Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/81447461)

## 72. Squid Game

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-72
- Years on air: 2021-2025
- Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Desperate people compete in deadly versions of children's games for an enormous cash prize while wealthy spectators watch.

- [Watch on Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/81040344)

## 73. Barry

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-73
- Years on air: 2018-2023
- Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama

A depressed hitman discovers acting in Los Angeles and desperately tries to leave murder behind, but his past keeps following him.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/show/179bdb1c-83f8-4ab7-87ef-47ce3b566a13)

## 74. The Bear

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-74
- Years on air: 2022-2026
- Genres: Comedy, Drama, Food

A gifted chef returns to Chicago to run his family's chaotic sandwich shop, where grief, ambition, and kitchen pressure collide.

- [Watch on Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/series/the-bear-c8cfbf97-1efd-4329-9d2c-162d385b49d7)

## 75. Ted Lasso

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-75
- Years on air: 2020-present
- Genres: Comedy, Drama, Sports

An upbeat American football coach is hired to manage an English soccer club despite knowing almost nothing about the sport.

- [Watch on Apple TV](https://tv.apple.com/show/ted-lasso/umc.cmc.vtoh0mn0xn7t3c643xqonfzy)

## 76. Somebody Somewhere

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-76
- Years on air: 2022-2024
- Genres: Comedy, Drama

A woman back in her Kansas hometown after loss finds friendship, music, and a community of outsiders who help her reconnect with life.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/show/f1e64d9c-cd12-4254-b980-7442ab8d82d3)

## 77. Modern Family

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-77
- Years on air: 2009-2020
- Genres: Comedy, Family

Three connected households navigate parenting, marriage, aging, and everyday chaos in a mockumentary-style family sitcom.

- [Watch on Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/series/modern-family-883c414c-34a3-4fcc-b50a-0ad5a184c977)

## 78. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-78
- Years on air: 2005-present
- Genres: Comedy

Five deeply selfish friends run a terrible Philadelphia bar and turn every petty scheme into a moral and practical disaster.

- [Watch on Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/series/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-2171423f-3326-4dfa-b193-b40494e60109)

## 79. The Good Wife

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-79
- Years on air: 2009-2016
- Genres: Crime, Drama, Legal

After her politician husband is disgraced, a lawyer returns to work and rebuilds her professional and personal identity.

- [Watch on Paramount+](https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/the_good_wife/)

## 80. How To with John Wilson

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-80
- Years on air: 2020-2023
- Genres: Comedy, Documentary

A shy New Yorker films ordinary city life while trying to explain simple tasks, wandering into funny, strange, unexpectedly moving human stories.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/show/2a73975c-0315-4741-888f-d9779fb3adb5)

## 81. The Queen's Gambit

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-81
- Years on air: 2020
- Genres: Drama

An orphaned chess prodigy rises through the competitive chess world while struggling with addiction, loneliness, and pressure.

- [Watch on Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/80234304)

## 82. Better Things

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-82
- Years on air: 2016-2022
- Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family

A working actress raises three daughters in Los Angeles while caring for family and trying to preserve a life of her own.

- [Watch on Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/series/better-things-70d330d1-cb23-403f-b3b6-f8f392c4ce5e)

## 83. Justified

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-83
- Years on air: 2010-2015
- Genres: Crime, Drama, Western

A quick-drawing U.S. Marshal returns to his Kentucky hometown and clashes with criminals who often share his history.

- [Watch on Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/series/justified-2faf68df-e153-4e47-b117-a048427b250f)

## 84. Planet Earth

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-84
- Years on air: 2006
- Genres: Documentary, Nature

A landmark wildlife documentary explores Earth's habitats with spectacular photography of animals, landscapes, and natural behavior.

- [Browse on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/)

## 85. The Great British Baking Show

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-85
- Years on air: 2010-present
- Genres: Food, Reality

Amateur bakers compete in a friendly tent through weekly cake, bread, pastry, and dessert challenges.

- [Watch on Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/80063224)

## 86. Shogun

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-86
- Years on air: 2024-present
- Genres: Adventure, Drama, History

In 1600 Japan, an English sailor becomes entangled in a powerful lord's political struggle and a complex cross-cultural relationship.

- [Watch on Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/series/shogun-5422a5f9-e4f1-475e-9217-65e8249388d0)

## 87. Reservation Dogs

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-87
- Years on air: 2021-2023
- Genres: Comedy, Drama

Four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma dream of leaving for California while dealing with friendship, grief, family, and community.

- [Watch on Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/series/reservation-dogs-5a310c23-e2db-4c9f-a66c-27c2fee43d92)

## 88. Dexter

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-88
- Years on air: 2006-2013
- Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery

A Miami blood-spatter analyst secretly lives as a serial killer who targets other murderers while trying to appear normal.

- [Watch on Paramount+](https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/dexter/)

## 89. Baby Reindeer

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-89
- Years on air: 2024
- Genres: Comedy, Drama

A struggling comedian's encounter with an obsessive woman becomes stalking, forcing him to confront trauma and his own complicated choices.

- [Watch on Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/81219887)

## 90. Eastbound & Down

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-90
- Years on air: 2009-2013
- Genres: Comedy, Drama, Sports

A washed-up, arrogant baseball pitcher returns to his hometown and tries to reclaim the fame he believes he deserves.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/show/c1d74e1b-1abc-4b8f-95e5-3ff4f2e3bfde)

## 91. Catastrophe

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-91
- Years on air: 2015-2019
- Genres: Comedy, Romance

An American man and an Irish woman become a couple after an unexpected pregnancy, then discover how messy marriage and parenting can be.

- [Watch on Prime Video](https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0NHJ857Z1UWRBWDBA5R61ESDLF?tag=100besttvshow-20) (affiliate link)

## 92. The Night Of

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-92
- Years on air: 2016
- Genres: Crime, Drama, Legal

A New York student wakes after a night with a stranger to find her murdered, and the justice system closes around him.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://www.hbomax.com/show/64c9bde2-1bef-4c8b-91fa-3f3c4e2ec9c3)

## 93. Station Eleven

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-93
- Years on air: 2021-2022
- Genres: Adventure, Drama, Science fiction

After a pandemic destroys civilization, survivors rebuild lives through art, memory, friendship, and a traveling Shakespeare troupe.

- [Watch on HBO Max](https://play.hbomax.com/page/urn:hbo:page:GYZWoOQ6F9cLDCAEAAABP:type:series)

## 94. The Diplomat

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-94
- Years on air: 2023-present
- Genres: Drama, Thriller

A career diplomat unexpectedly becomes U.S. ambassador to Britain and must manage international crises, Washington politics, and a difficult marriage.

- [Watch on Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/81288983)

## 95. House

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-95
- Years on air: 2004-2012
- Genres: Drama, Medical, Mystery

A brilliant, abrasive doctor solves baffling medical cases while battling addiction, authority, and his own isolation.

- [Watch on Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/series/house-ed64adb8-e1bf-490c-84b7-6c16c6d3cce3)

## 96. Halt and Catch Fire

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-96
- Years on air: 2014-2017
- Genres: Drama

Engineers and entrepreneurs chase the personal-computer and internet revolutions of the 1980s and 1990s while repeatedly reinventing themselves.

- [Watch on AMC+](https://www.amcplus.com/shows/halt-and-catch-fire--1002226)

## 97. Community

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-97
- Years on air: 2009-2015
- Genres: Comedy

A fake lawyer enrolls at a chaotic community college and forms a study group that becomes an unconventional family.

- [Watch on Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/series/community-200c56d4-124c-41a1-b7d2-688f86f432bf)

## 98. The OA

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-98
- Years on air: 2016-2019
- Genres: Drama, Mystery, Science fiction

A missing blind woman returns years later with her sight restored and tells a strange story involving captivity, near-death experiences, and other dimensions.

- [Watch on Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/80044950)

## 99. Gilmore Girls

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-99
- Years on air: 2000-2007
- Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

A fast-talking single mother and her teenage daughter navigate love, school, family expectations, and life in a quirky Connecticut town.

- [Watch on Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/70155618)

## 100. Scandal

- Website: https://100besttvshows.madebyaqua.com/#show-100
- Years on air: 2012-2018
- Genres: Drama, Thriller

A Washington crisis manager fixes scandals for powerful clients while becoming entangled with the White House and its secrets.

- [Watch on Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/series/scandal-ef4342b5-3fb0-4b30-8fae-285347967776)

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