From 'Breaking Bad' to 'Game of Thrones', The Hollywood Reporter has put together an extensive list of the 50 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century and we're breaking down where some of your favorites landed on the list!
00:00From Breaking Bad to Game of Thrones, The Hollywood Reporter critics have put together an extensive list of the 50 best TV shows of the 21st century.
00:08And right now, we're breaking down where some of your favorites landed on the list.
00:13First up at number 50, we have Sex and the City.
00:16Sex and the City may have technically debuted in the 90s, but the groundbreaking HBO dramedy defined the early 2000s.
00:23THR says the show inspired a generation of millennials who imprinted themselves on the show at a young age
00:28and dreamed of moving to Manhattan to live a life of glamorous brunches and shopping sprees.
00:34However, the show actually highlighted their struggles.
00:36No one fantasizes about being lost in their 30s and beyond.
00:40Audiences were always meant to relate to and learn from these complex women.
00:44Oh, a burger broke up with me on a Post-it.
00:47On a Post-it?
00:48Uh-huh, uh-huh.
00:50Yep.
00:51Read it and weep, my friends.
00:54I'm sorry I can't.
00:55Don't hate me.
00:57At number 30, we have Game of Thrones.
01:00THR says no show defined the 2010s better than Thrones.
01:04Co-creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss crafted a darkly sociopolitical high-fantasy literary adaptation
01:10that brought sex, gore, and climate disaster to a genre typically populated with frolicking elves and wise dragons.
01:17Adding, say what you will about the disappointingly rushed final season,
01:20at least Benioff and Weiss actually concluded a story that author George R.R. Martin likely never will.
01:26Bringing it all the way to number 16, we have Breaking Bad.
01:46THR notes that few transformations are more breathtaking than the one undertaken by Walter White,
01:52played by Bryan Cranston, who starts Breaking Bad as a struggling chemistry teacher and ends it as a legendary drug kingpin.
01:59Breaking Bad delivers delicious twists and high-wire thrills,
02:02all wrapped up in a portrait of wounded masculinity as damning as it could be alluring.
02:07I am the danger.
02:09A guy opens his door and gets shot, and you think that of me?
02:12No.
02:13I am the one who knocks.
02:15Cracking the top three, at number three, we have Succession.
02:18In a show like Succession, with such morally corrupt characters,
02:21there is no one to root for, no thing to root for.
02:24All of it is seemingly bad.
02:25And yet, as THR calls it, the show's dazzling virtuosity draws us in in spite of ourselves.
02:31Take a step back, and Succession starts to look like a skeleton key for understanding how and why our capitalist society feels broken.
02:39It'd be unbaringly upsetting if it weren't so bleakly hilarious.
02:42Or is it the other way around?
02:44I'm gonna build something better.
02:47Something faster, lighter, meaner, wilder.
02:50And I'm gonna do it from in here, whether you are, you f***ing pirates!
02:59At number two, The Sopranos.
03:02The show that created the formula that ushered in the modern golden age of television,
03:07Tony Soprano became the ultimate antihero to root for.
03:10Without him, there is no Don Draper, Walter White, Vic Mackey, or countless other complicated protagonists.
03:16THR notes,
03:17Perhaps there is no HBO as we know it today without the cinematic revolution The Sopranos brought to the small screen.
03:24Did you do it?
03:25No.
03:26Did you f***ing do it?
03:27No.
03:29Did you f***ing do it?
03:30I said no!
03:32Now get your f***ing hands off.
03:34And to find out which show landed the coveted number one spot, head to the article on THR.com.
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