BBC's 100 Greatest Television Series of the 21st Century

A wide-angle portrait of Baltimore told through police, drug crews, schools, politics, the docks, and the media.

Advertising executives in 1960s New York sell dreams while navigating ambition, identity, marriage, and a rapidly changing America.

A chemistry teacher facing cancer starts cooking meth with a former student, and gradually becomes a ruthless drug kingpin.

A sharp, self-destructive London woman speaks directly to the audience while dealing with grief, sex, family, and intimacy.

Noble families battle for power across a brutal fantasy continent while an ancient supernatural threat grows in the north.

A young writer in London reconstructs what happened after a sexual assault and reexamines consent, friendship, memory, and identity.

After 2% of humanity suddenly vanishes, the people left behind struggle with grief, faith, cults, and the need for meaning.

Two Soviet spies live as a married American couple near Washington, D.C., balancing dangerous missions with increasingly real family ties.

The original mockumentary follows an ordinary British office ruled by David Brent, a boss desperate to be funny and popular.

The dysfunctional Roy family fights over control of a global media empire as its aging patriarch refuses to let go.

A washed-up sitcom star who is also a horse tries to revive his career while repeatedly sabotaging himself and the people around him.

A family running a Los Angeles funeral home confronts death every day while struggling with love, resentment, identity, and change.

Twenty-five years after the original series, Dale Cooper's story resumes in a strange, dreamlike expansion of the Twin Peaks universe.

Two cousins try to build a rap career in Atlanta while moving through money problems, race, fame, and surreal everyday life.

A dramatization of the 1986 nuclear disaster, the people who tried to contain it, and the institutional failures behind the catastrophe.

A dramatized history of Queen Elizabeth II's reign, focusing on the monarchy, politics, duty, marriage, and public life.

A TV comedy writer tries to manage eccentric stars, network executives, and her own messy life behind the scenes of a sketch show.

In a lawless 1870s mining town, settlers, criminals, businessmen, and politicians build a society through violence, negotiation, and greed.

Survivors of a plane crash are stranded on a mysterious island filled with strange science, hidden groups, and supernatural secrets.

British government ministers and staff scramble through scandals and policy disasters while terrifying spin doctor Malcolm Tucker attacks everyone.

A fictionalized Larry David turns tiny social annoyances into spectacularly awkward conflicts through stubbornness and terrible judgment.

Standalone stories explore how technology can amplify human obsession, cruelty, loneliness, status anxiety, and unexpected moral choices.

A struggling lawyer slowly transforms into Saul Goodman while his relationships and moral compromises pull him toward the criminal world.

An ambitious U.S. vice president and her chaotic staff stumble through Washington politics, ego, incompetence, and constant crisis.

Sherlock Holmes and John Watson solve intricate crimes in modern London, where brilliant deductions collide with dangerous obsessions.

Decades after masked vigilantes changed history, a detective investigates a conspiracy involving racism, police, power, and inherited trauma.

An anti-corruption police unit investigates fellow officers, uncovering misconduct, cover-ups, and connections to organized crime.

High-school football becomes the center of life in a small Texas town, following players, families, coaches, and community pressure.

An relentlessly optimistic local-government employee and her oddball colleagues try to improve their small Indiana town.

Four young women in New York stumble through work, relationships, money, friendship, and adulthood with uncomfortable honesty.

Troubled detectives pursue disturbing cases in an anthology crime drama about obsession, violence, and the cost of uncovering the truth.

The one responsible member of a formerly rich family tries to hold everyone together after his father is arrested.

After her politician husband is disgraced, a lawyer returns to work and rebuilds her professional and personal identity.

A body on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden forces two very different detectives to investigate a crime that crosses national borders.

Ordinary people become entangled in extraordinary crimes in an anthology of murder, dark humor, and Midwestern small-town life.

An aristocratic English family and its servants face love, scandal, war, inheritance, and social change in the early 20th century.

A miniseries following Easy Company from paratrooper training through major World War II campaigns in Europe.

In a totalitarian America, fertile women are forced into reproductive servitude while one handmaid struggles to survive and resist.

A mockumentary about employees at a mundane paper company, led by a painfully inappropriate but oddly lovable regional manager.

An unexpected election victory makes Birgitte Nyborg prime minister of Denmark, testing her ideals, political alliances, and family life.

A wealthy family loses everything and must rebuild its life in a tiny town they once bought as a joke.

Two dysfunctional London flatmates narrate their selfish, anxious thoughts directly to the audience while repeatedly ruining their lives.

A criminal mastermind recruits a team of thieves for an audacious heist, where hostages, police negotiations, and personal loyalties complicate the plan.

A fake lawyer enrolls at a chaotic community college and forms a study group that becomes an unconventional family.

After a financial scandal destroys her savings, lawyer Diane Lockhart joins a Chicago firm and confronts volatile cases and political upheaval.

A brilliant but unstable CIA officer suspects a rescued American POW may have been turned by terrorists.

Surgeons at a Seattle hospital balance demanding medical cases with friendships, romances, rivalries, and personal crises.

An anthology of darkly comic stories, each set behind a door numbered nine, moves between everyday awkwardness, suspense, and horror.

French intelligence officers manage undercover agents and long-term false identities, where professional secrecy corrodes private life.

Engineers and entrepreneurs chase the personal-computer and internet revolutions of the 1980s and 1990s while repeatedly reinventing themselves.

Five films explore the lives, struggles, and resilience of West Indian communities in London from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Shaun, Lol, Woody, and their friends navigate adulthood, trauma, and changing relationships in three stories set in 1986, 1988, and 1990.

Parisian talent agents scramble to protect their agency while juggling demanding actors, professional rivalries, and complicated personal lives.

A tough police sergeant in northern England confronts violent crime while carrying deep personal grief connected to a dangerous local man.

A corrupt but effective Los Angeles police unit fights criminals while committing crimes of its own and trying to avoid exposure.

A group of scientists and their friends navigate relationships, work, and daily life, where academic brilliance rarely solves social problems.

A young American becomes pope, unsettling the Vatican with his uncompromising beliefs, unpredictable decisions, and troubled past.

The disappearance of children in a German town exposes connections between four families and a mystery stretching across generations.

Cora escapes slavery in the American South through a reimagined Underground Railroad, searching for freedom while being relentlessly pursued.

A ruthless Washington politician and his equally ambitious wife manipulate, betray, and scheme their way toward greater power.

A young airbender and his friends travel through a world divided by elemental powers, seeking to end a war and restore balance.

A woman wakes up in the afterlife and realizes she may not belong there, leading to a comic exploration of ethics and what makes people good.

Performers in New York’s ballroom scene build chosen families while pursuing recognition and confronting discrimination and the AIDS crisis.

Two friends search the English countryside with metal detectors, hoping to find buried treasure while navigating quieter hopes and disappointments.

A woman serving a prison sentence for a past crime enters a community shaped by friendships, rivalries, and the failures of the prison system.

A small-town Pennsylvania detective investigates a murder while her own family life and community relationships are falling apart.

Drag performers compete in fashion, acting, comedy, and performance challenges to become America's next drag superstar.

Kids in a small 1980s town encounter secret experiments, psychic powers, and a terrifying parallel dimension after a boy disappears.

Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer races to stop escalating threats in a thriller whose episodes unfold in real time.

Humanity's survivors flee robotic Cylons in a military fleet while searching for Earth and questioning identity, faith, and survival.

After a public breakdown and spiritual retreat, a corporate employee returns determined to become a better person and change her company.

A fast-talking single mother and her teenage daughter navigate love, school, family expectations, and life in a quirky Connecticut town.

A landmark wildlife documentary explores Earth's habitats with spectacular photography of animals, landscapes, and natural behavior.

Fans of a mysterious graphic novel discover a conspiracy that puts them in the path of a ruthless organization.

A police detective investigates crime and political conspiracies in 1920s Berlin, a city alive with nightlife and growing instability.

A reckless scientist takes his anxious grandson on adventures across planets and dimensions, leaving chaos in their family and beyond.

An anthology revisits notorious American criminal cases, examining the people involved and the social forces surrounding them.

Copenhagen detective Sarah Lund investigates complex murders that draw her into political intrigue and the private lives of grieving families.

FBI agents interview imprisoned serial killers to develop criminal profiling, testing a new approach to understanding and investigating murder.

A brilliant, abrasive doctor solves baffling medical cases while battling addiction, authority, and his own isolation.

A documentary traces O.J. Simpson’s rise, murder trial, and legacy through the intersecting histories of race, celebrity, and American justice.

A group of mothers in a wealthy California coastal town hide private struggles beneath polished lives, until a death exposes their secrets.

Two Black women in Los Angeles navigate friendship, work, dating, ambition, and self-doubt while trying to figure out adulthood.

Two Irish teenagers from different social backgrounds repeatedly come together and drift apart as they move from school into adulthood.

The rise of Colombian drug cartels and the pursuit of Pablo Escobar unfold through a crime drama about power, violence, and the drug trade.

Ted Mosby tells his children how he met their mother, retracing years of friendship, romance, and misadventures in New York.

A fading sitcom actress lets a reality-TV crew film her attempted comeback, exposing humiliation, vanity, and the cruelty of show business.

A missing blind woman returns years later with her sight restored and tells a strange story involving captivity, near-death experiences, and other dimensions.

A Miami blood-spatter analyst secretly lives as a serial killer who targets other murderers while trying to appear normal.

Five deeply selfish friends run a terrible Philadelphia bar and turn every petty scheme into a moral and practical disaster.

Artificially intelligent hosts in an immersive theme park begin to question their world and the people who control it.

A young mayor faces fierce resistance to a court-ordered housing plan, exposing racial and political divisions in Yonkers, New York.

Musicians, cooks, and other residents rebuild their lives in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina while trying to preserve the city’s culture.

A fictionalized comedian navigates parenting, dating, embarrassment, and existential anxiety in loosely connected stories set in New York.

A brilliant but troubled London detective investigates violent crimes while struggling with his own anger and dangerous personal connections.

An American man and an Irish woman become a couple after an unexpected pregnancy, then discover how messy marriage and parenting can be.

An empathetic criminal profiler forms a disturbing bond with psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter while investigating a series of brutal murders.

A successful lawyer abandons her New York career to follow an old boyfriend to California, confronting romance and mental health through musical comedy.

A boy with inherited magical powers grows up among alien guardians, learning about friendship, identity, and his family’s complicated past.

An orphaned chess prodigy rises through the competitive chess world while struggling with addiction, loneliness, and pressure.