2000s

Larry David plays Larry David, social assassin, in outlined improvisation. The Seinfeld co creator took etiquette pettiness to HBO...

David Brent, Slough paper merchant, with the documentary camera as confessional and curse. Gervais and Merchant built the mockumen...

Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry, from Toccoa training to the Eagles Nest. Hanks and Spielberg followed their 1998 war film ...

Real time: 24 episodes, 24 hours, Jack Bauer against the clock. Kiefer Sutherland as the agent as national aching id, with split s...

Baltimore as institutional tragedy: the drug trade, the docks, city hall, the schools, the press. Simon, a Baltimore Sun reporter,...

Vic Mackey and the Farmington strike team. Michael Chiklis corrupt cop charisma won the first Best Drama Emmy for basic cable, bre...

The Bluth family fortune collapses and the only sane son narrates the wreckage. Hurwitz layered jokes on jokes: callbacks, foresha...

Space western: Mal Reynolds and his Browncoat crew scrape by on the edge of the system. Fox aired episodes out of order and cancel...

The camp: Deadwood 1876, gold, saloons, and Shakespeare in the mud. Milch wrote iambic profanity, Ian McShane as Al Swearengen bec...

Oceanic 815 crashes on an island, and a mystery box opens. The Abrams pilot was the most expensive ever at the time and drew over ...

The twelve colonies fall, fifty thousand survivors flee, and the Cylons look human now. Moore reimagined the 1978 camp as politica...