There aren’t many good TV shows in modern times but the three TV programs I highlight below stand out as three of the best TV shows of the 21st century to this point.
The first series I want to suggest that you check is The Wire which was a HBO program which lasted for 5 seasons from 2002 through 2008. Each of those five seasons takes a look at the city of Baltimore, Maryland from a different perspective. It’s a wonderful TV show not only as a series that pulls viewers in (like the other two shows in you will find below I can remember watching 4 or 5 episodes in one day) but also as a show that makes great points about the US.
I do not want to get into what these points are, because I think the show itself makes them much better than I could in an article like this one. But I will share that one of the things I really enjoy about The Wire is how it blurs the lines between the “good guys” and the “bad guys.” The Wire is realistic in portraying people as having positive and negative features rather than as either simply all good or all bad.
The next series is the only one of the these three that still has more new episodes to come and that’s Dexter starring Michael C. Hall. This is a show that I didn’t think I would really like when I first heard about it so I was reluctant to check it out. I’m very glad that I did. It has ended up among my favorite shows of all time. Yes, it is definitely twisted (Dexter is a serial killer) but it is twisted in a very cool way.
The third show I want to recommend as a great TV series of the century is the one I’ve been most obsessed with recently and that is because it has only recently ended! You can now order the complete collection of Lost and that is definitely the way to go since this is a show that must be viewed from start to finish without any skipping around.
What I really like about this mysterious show is that it’s “one big story” where each show is an important part of the whole that leads into the next one. Watch it from the beginning and avoid all spoilers.