More like a miniseries, but HBO’s Chernobyl. Some of the best television I’ve ever seen.

As a scifi buff: Battlestar Galactica, and The Expanse were excellent. Nightsky was also a really good watch even though it was slow moving, and was more about relationships than SciFi

Obligatory Firefly mention.

The Wire. It’s the best piece of visual media ever created. Not only is it the best portrayal of the inner city drugs trade but also the decaying institutions and social structures that allow it to flourish, and the corrupting influence of dirty money.

It also is consistently the best written show on TV and is grounded in it’s reality better than anything else. Half the cast were complete unknowns, in many cases plucked from the streets of Baltimore itself and there are standout performances all across it’s vast and diverse cast.

It’s a little slow to get going, the first few episodes have a lot of ground to cover to get the viewer up to speed, it also makes no effort to ease the viewer in, with a lot of jargon, slang and some very thick accents to content with, there’s also no “previously on the wire” to go over key points from earlier episodes so it definitely requires more participation from the viewer than most TV but it’s all the better for it.

I am surprised that I’m the first to mention Bojack Horseman here.

This series is for you if you want to cry out your mental health problems

The Good Place. Funny, compelling, I cried through the final episode. It also doesn’t waste your time, things will happen mid-season that any other show would have dragged out for the season finale.

arrested development

• A&E’s Nero Wolfe
• Agatha Christie’s Poirot (with David Suchet)
• The Expanse
• Star Trek: TNG
• Fleabag (season 2 is a masterpiece, and I don’t throw that word around)
• For All Mankind
• Archane (season 1 is another masterpiece)
• Penny Dreadful (it dips in quality in the later seasons, but worth it for the Frankenstein’s monster story alone)

EDIT:

• Coupling (UK) - Thr first two seasons
• Keeping Up Appearances
• IT Crowd

Fringe. Best Sci-Fi ending that wraps back around to an episode that broke the show open. The last season getting there is kind of rough. But the first 4 seasons are solid.

The Good Place

Penny Dreadful

Community

Andor is the best piece of Star Wars media and the best TV show I’ve ever seen. You don’t need to like Star Wars. I don’t know if seeing Star Wars would even increase your enjoyment. I think seeing Rogue One would probably be good but otherwise just jump in. No space wizards or laser swords or destiny or whatever. It’s so adult and grounded. I can’t believe Disney let them make this.

Mr Robot

Farscape

Avatar: the Last Airbender.