Donald Glover manages his rapper cousin; the series that could be anything each week.
Four Native teenagers in Oklahoma trying to get to California; the first all-Indigenous writers' room.
Gary Oldman as the flatulent head of MI5's rejects; le Carre with jokes.
An English pilot shipwrecked in 1600 Japan and Lord Toranaga; the Emmy record-breaker.
A comedian and his stalker, from the true story of Richard Gadd; the Netflix surprise of 2024.
Five friends in London through the AIDS years of the 1980s; Russell T Davies.
Connell and Marianne from Sligo to Trinity College; Sally Rooney's novel in twelve half-hours.
Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell by candlelight; Hilary Mantel on the BBC.
Colin Firth in a wet shirt; the BBC Austen that defined the genre.
Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews and a teddy bear at Oxford and Castle Howard; eleven hours of Waugh.
Derek Jacobi as the stammering emperor and Sian Phillips as Livia; the BBC's 1976 Rome.
Two legionaries through the fall of the Republic; HBO and the BBC's expensive Caesar.
Peter Falk's rumpled detective, "just one more thing", with the murderer shown first.
Rod Serling's anthology of twists, 1959 to 1964; "Time Enough at Last".
Lucille Ball and the chocolate factory; the sitcom that invented the three-camera format.
A Korean War field hospital for eleven seasons; the finale is still the most watched episode ever.
The Cheers psychiatrist hosts a Seattle radio show with his brother and father; the best-written sitcom.
The Boston bar where everybody knows your name; eleven seasons of Sam and Diane, then Rebecca.
County General in Chicago for fifteen seasons; George Clooney and the steadicam trauma bay.
Sorkin's Bartlet administration and the walk-and-talk; the fantasy of competent government.
A maximum-security prison in Emerald City; HBO's first drama and the model for everything after.
Two percent of the world vanishes and the rest cannot cope; the series about grief without answers.
Tulsa 1921 and a masked police force; Damon Lindelof's sequel to the comic.
Amy Adams returns to her Missouri hometown to cover child murders; the last scene after the credits.
Kate Winslet as a Pennsylvania detective in a town she cannot leave; the hoagie and the accent.
Monterey mothers, a school fundraiser and a death; Kidman, Witherspoon and Streep.
Elisabeth Moss as Offred in Gilead; Atwood's novel and beyond.
Zombies in Joseon-era Korea and a crown prince investigating; Netflix's Korean period horror.
Debtors play children's games for a fortune and their lives; the most watched Netflix series.
The Professor and his Dali-masked crew inside the Royal Mint of Spain; "Bella Ciao".
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