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Aug 22, 2024 · Debate over TV’s best shows will rage eternal, but what we’ve found here at Rotten Tomatoes is that not every season of those “best” series are created equal. Some of the best series of all time ran long enough to see their season scores land all over the map, so we decided to collect the best of the best and rounded up the seasons with perfect 100% Tomatometer scores.
- Dear White People
Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full...
- Downton Abbey
Rated: 4/5 Sep 15, 2017 Full Review John Anderson America...
- Cowboy Bebop
Hands down one of the best anime series I have ever seen!...
- Bates Motel
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- Sons of Anarchy
Jan 16, 2019 Full Review Seth Freilich Pajiba I get that...
- Silicon Valley
Too many greats to name, one of the best ensemble casts ever...
- High Maintenance
Alison Herman The Ringer High Maintenance allowed itself to...
- The Twilight Zone
"The Twilight Zone" was the brainchild of Emmy Award-winner...
- Dear White People
Dec 20, 2023 · 2011-present. Everyone has their favorite, to such an extent that maybe “Black Mirror” installments ought to be titled like “Friends” episodes: “The One Where People Can Replay Their ...
- 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...
- Pride and Prejudice.
- I Love Lucy. It's rare that a show can stand the test of time, and I Love Lucy has been able to do just that. The sitcom first aired in 1951 and still manages to amass new fans, which is completely understandable as the series is just that good.
- Jeopardy! Game shows have been a TV staple since its earliest days, but few have ever reached the height of popularity as Jeopardy! The quiz show where questions are answers became an institution behind its legendary host, Alex Trebek.
- Sex and the City. Sex and the City owes its success to launching at the perfect time and in the perfect place. The series about four 30-something women navigating life and love in New York City captivated the attention of fans around the world, quickly embedding itself in the cultural lexicon.
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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.
94 Louie (2010-2015) 95 Luther (2010-2019) 96 Catastrophe (2015-2019) 97 Hannibal (2013-2015) 98 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015-2019) 99 Steven Universe (2013-2020) 100 The Queen's Gambit (2020) Read ...
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Sep 25, 2023 · 24. Freaks and Geeks. Created by Paul Feig and executive produced by Judd Apatow, two of some of the many geniuses to shape comedy in the 21st century, the single season of Freaks and Geeks still ...
