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- ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ The first of several movie-to-TV projects on this list. This one is a spinoff rather than an adaptation, though, since Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi have appeared on the show in the roles they played in the 2014 vampire rockumentary film.
- ‘Oz’ Before The Wire, before The Sopranos, there was Oz, the canary in the coal mine for the idea of scripted dramas existing outside the broadcast network ecosystem.
- ‘The Good Fight’ For seven seasons, The Good Wife was a fine example of how loftier creative ambitions could be smuggled into the formula of a broadcast network procedural drama.
- ‘The Odd Couple’ The 1968 film version of Neil Simon’s play about a mismatched pair of divorced middle-aged friends sharing an apartment was a beloved, Oscar-nominated, box office hit.
- Community. NBC. 2009-15. The half-hour comedy is a format built around comfort and familiarity, and while “Community” had those trappings — a quirky ensemble, a relatable setting, a will-they-won’t-they storyline — the Dan Harmon series was best when it got weird.
- Hannibal. NBC. 2013-15. Somehow, showrunner Bryan Fuller tricked NBC into airing an avant-garde homoerotic romance between Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) — practicing psychiatrist, preening aesthete, noted gourmand — and Will Graham (Hugh Dancy), an FBI profiler who could inhabit the mindset of a sociopath.
- Homeland. Showtime. 2011-20. Carrie Mathison has all the hallmarks of an unreliable narrator — except she’s usually right. That was what made “Homeland’s” first two seasons so compelling: The CIA agent played masterfully by Claire Danes ought to have been a superspy, but the very mania that lent her a special insight also clouded her judgment, and made her appear untrustworthy to superiors.
- Top Chef. Bravo. 2006-present. As a genre, reality has a largely lowbrow reputation. Not so with “Top Chef,” the Bravo tentpole that’s evolved over 20 seasons into the Rolls-Royce of food television.
Robert and Michelle King's legal drama follows Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies), who put her flourishing legal career on hold to support her husband's (Chris Noth) political...
- Treme
- Dear White People
- Rescue Me
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- The Good Wife
- Pushing Daisies
- Extras
- Enlightened
- Wu-Tang Clan: of Mics and Men
- Wonderland
- Series Metascore: 84 - Highest-rated season: 1 HBO's mini-series "Treme"is set in New Orleans post-Katrina, where residents grapple with the hurdles of rebuilding. The cast includes Wendell Pierce, Melissa Leo, Kim Dickens, Clarke Peters, and John Goodman.
- Series Metascore: 84 - Highest-rated season: 2 "Dear White People" is a comedy following students of color as they handle racism at a mostly white Ivy League college. It started on Netflixin 2017.
- Series Metascore: 84 - Highest-rated season: 3 Denis Leary plays a troubled firefighter in "Rescue Me," as he and the rest of his New York City firehouse crew face issues of life and death. It ran for seven seasons on FX.
- Series Metascore: 84.2 - Highest-rated season: 3 Larry David stars in HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" as a caustic curmudgeon, based on himself, as he manages to irritate and antagonize friends and strangers on a regular basis. David also created "Seinfeld," making hundreds of millions of dollars from the show's syndication rights.
- Series Metascore: 84.3 - Highest-rated season: 2 Julianna Margulies heads the cast of "The Good Wife," which also includes Christine Baranski, Alan Cumming, Josh Charles, and Chris Noth. She plays the wife of a disgraced and imprisoned politician going back to work as an attorney. It was loosely inspired by the case of former New York Gov. Eliot ...
- Series Metascore: 84.5 - Highest-rated season: 1 "Pushing Daisies" is a comedy about a pie maker who can bring the dead back to life, a talent that carries certain drawbacks and helps solve murder cases. It ran for two seasons on ABC.
- Series Metascore: 84.5 - Highest-rated season: 2 Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant created, produced, and starred in "Extras" on the BBC, a deadpan comedy of actors landing roles as extras while trying to build their careers. The pair also created the original British version of "The Office."
- Series Metascore: 84.5 - Highest-rated season: 2 Laura Dern plays the lead in "Enlightened," a show about a self-destructive employee who moves from the top rung to the bottom at a company and tries to repair her havoc-filled life while plotting revenge. Set in a cookie-cutter California suburb, it features Diane Ladd, Dern's real-life mother who...
- Series Metascore: 85 The four-part series "Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men" follows the career of the hip-hop stars, with interviews, performances, and archive footage. It shows their talent helping them emerge from the violence and poverty of their New York home.
-Series Metascore: 85 -Highest-rated season: 1 Filmed like a documentary, "Wonderland" is a drama set in a fictional hospital, based on Bellevue in New York City, that specializes in psychiatric care. It was canceled in 2000 by ABC after just eight episodes. The show was hailed by some critics for its unflinching approach and criticized by others f...
May 6, 2024 · The 100 best TV shows of all time you have to watch. Crime thrillers, sitcoms, sci-fis and period epics: the finest scripted TV ever made, as selected by Time Out critics. Edited by. Phil de...
Jun 26, 2021 · 100. 'Ozark' - IMDb user rating: 8.3. - Years on the air: 2017–present. Fans of Jason Bateman in Arrested Development may have been surprised at first—and then likely blown away—by his dark,...
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