Best of the tens?

[beer_good_foamy]

So here's a thing. A while back, me and some friends, all bitter old Buffy fans, decided to get drunk and put together a list of the best TV series of the 2010s. And to make it interesting, we used a format based on the podcast Screendrafts, which means that rather than vote together on a common list we all agree on (and which would be boringly predictable), each of us got to pick 4 pre-determined spots on the top 24 list which we then revealed in ascending order, which means this list gets a little... creative, and much more focused on personal favourites.

So, the list:

The criteria: The show had to have its first episode air between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2019.
...That's it. That's the criteria. Drama, sitcom, animated, reality, US, international, love all serve all.

24. Dark
23. What We Do In The Shadows
22. The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
21. Pappas pengar
20. New Girl
19. Barry
18. Person of Interest
17. Orange Is The New Black
16. Justified
15. The Leftovers
14. BoJack Horseman
13. Mr Robot
12. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
11. Stranger Things
10. Fargo
9. Orphan Black
8. Vera
7. Derry Girls
6. Billions
5. The Americans
4. You're The Worst
3. Treme
2. The Good Place
1. She-Ra And The Princesses of Power

Now, the fun part of this format is that there are some dark horses here, some that ended up in positions they probably wouldn't on an aggregated list, and some heavy hitters that missed out completely. We had a lot of discussions afterwards and came to some conclusions, for instance:
- Nobody who'd seen the last two seasons really missed Game of Thrones
- Everyone loves Rick And Morty but hates the toxic fandom so much they left it off out of spite
- Most agreed Killing Eve would have been there if the third season hadn't sucked so bad
- Everyone's a fucking idiot, and how dare you play my #2 pick at #14, and are you kidding me, and...
- Everyone had a huge number of favourites they wanted to put around #10, nobody could say for sure they had a personal #1
- None of us had seen all these shows, but most of us thought we had some homework to do. (Which I'm ashamed to say I haven't done as much of as I should, hence putting this up here to kick my own ass a little bit.)

Questions? Comments? Guesses on which four spots are mine...? :)

Comments

[beer_good_foamy]

Stranger Things was...okay....For me it was kind of a take-it-or-leave-it series, even though I did stick with it through the end to see what happened. I think it was more because I felt sympathy for Eleven than love for the story in general.

I'm probably with you on that. It would have been perfect as a one-season stand-alone, but as watchable as it is, it feels like it bought into its own story and is just delivering as much 80s nostalgia as it can cram in.

O.M.G., do I loooooove The Good Place ! I never knew Ted Danson had such a range!

IKR? That scene in the season 1 finale, that laugh... I can't think of any show that did so well turning its entire premise upside down in one single shot, making you realise you've been watching a completely different show than you thought.

I do love Black Mirror, it's just so very uneven, especially the later seasons. I tried to watch Sex Education but then they cast a Swedish actor I just can't stand as the mother's boyfriend and... nope. Charité sounds interesting, I'll have to give that a watch, thanks! (I do speak German, so I'm always looking for good German content to keep the language alive...)

I haven't watched Fleabag, I don't think any of us who did this list have (it's kind of difficult to get hold of here), so I can't really say anything about the content of it. I'm really curious to watch it, though, especially considering how much I loved s1 of Killing Eve.