Donald Glover manages his rapper cousin; the series that could be anything each week.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge talks to the camera through grief and a hot priest; two perfect seasons.
How the Rebellion was built, without a Jedi in sight; the Star Wars series for adults.
A washed-up sitcom horse in Hollywood; the cartoon about depression that got better every season.
Elizabeth II from 1947 to 2005, with the cast replaced every two seasons.
A motorcycle club in California as Hamlet; Charlie Hunnam and Katey Sagal.
A drunk scientist and his grandson across the multiverse; Dan Harmon's nihilist cartoon.
Jack Bauer in real time, one season per day; the split screen and the clock.
A CIA analyst convinced a returned POW is a terrorist; Claire Danes and the first two seasons.
Kate Winslet as a Pennsylvania detective in a town she cannot leave; the hoagie and the accent.
Rich guests at a luxury resort and a body by the finale; Hawaii, Sicily, Thailand.
Office workers whose memories are split between work and home; Lumon and the Waffle Party.
A pizza boy frozen until the year 3000; the Simpsons team does science fiction.
Rowan Atkinson through four eras of English history; the last scene of Goes Forth.
Peter Falk's rumpled detective, "just one more thing", with the murderer shown first.
Two legionaries through the fall of the Republic; HBO and the BBC's expensive Caesar.
A smuggler crew in a space western cancelled after fourteen episodes; the cult that got a film.
Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews and a teddy bear at Oxford and Castle Howard; eleven hours of Waugh.
Larry David plays Larry David, improvised, for twelve seasons of social crimes.
One year at a Michigan high school in 1980; eighteen episodes and every future star.
Malcolm Tucker swears his way through Whitehall; Armando Iannucci before Veep.
A bounty hunter and Grogu across the outer rim; Star Wars as a western.
Five friends in London through the AIDS years of the 1980s; Russell T Davies.
Elisabeth Moss as Offred in Gilead; Atwood's novel and beyond.
Humanity inside three walls against giants who eat people; the anime that ended in 2023.
Four Native teenagers in Oklahoma trying to get to California; the first all-Indigenous writers' room.
The Cheers psychiatrist hosts a Seattle radio show with his brother and father; the best-written sitcom.
Monterey mothers, a school fundraiser and a death; Kidman, Witherspoon and Streep.
Colin Firth in a wet shirt; the BBC Austen that defined the genre.
Anthology of near-future tech nightmares; "San Junipero" and "White Bear".
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