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.
An English pilot shipwrecked in 1600 Japan and Lord Toranaga; the Emmy record-breaker.
The Marines from Guadalcanal to Okinawa; the harder companion to Band of Brothers.
Two KGB sleeper agents as a Virginia couple in the Reagan years; the best spy series.
Twelve episodes of John Cleese running a Torquay hotel badly; "don't mention the war".
The Shelby gang in 1920s Birmingham with razor blades in their caps; Cillian Murphy.
Tina Fey runs a sketch show under Alec Baldwin's executive; the fastest joke rate on television.
A station at a wormhole and the Dominion War; the Trek that did serialised drama first.
Tulsa 1921 and a masked police force; Damon Lindelof's sequel to the comic.
A Korean War field hospital for eleven seasons; the finale is still the most watched episode ever.
Don Draper and a Madison Avenue ad agency through the 1960s; seven seasons of slow change.
An anthology in the Coens' Minnesota; each season a new decade and a new crime.
The last human fleet flees the Cylons; the sci-fi series that was really about the war on terror.
Dunder Mifflin, Scranton; nine seasons of Michael Scott, Jim and Pam.
How Jimmy McGill became Saul Goodman; the Breaking Bad prequel many rate higher.
Oceanic 815 crashes on an island with a hatch and a smoke monster; the mystery that changed TV.
David Brent at Wernham Hogg in Slough; twelve episodes and a Christmas special that invented the form.
Rust Cohle and Marty Hart in Louisiana; the six-minute tracking shot and "time is a flat circle".
Mulder and Scully, the truth out there, and the monster-of-the-week format.
A family funeral home in Los Angeles; the finale is the one everyone cites.
Vic Mackey's corrupt strike team in LA; the first cable anti-hero and the best finale.
Al Swearengen and the founding of a lawless gold town, in Shakespearean profanity.
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