{"id":125935,"date":"2020-11-21T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T01:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/best-television-dramas-ranked\/"},"modified":"2020-11-21T01:00:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T01:00:26","slug":"the-10-best-tv-dramas-of-the-21st-century-so-far-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/11\/21\/the-10-best-tv-dramas-of-the-21st-century-so-far-ranked\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Best TV Dramas Of The 21st Century (So Far), Ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Television had been around for decades at the turn of the 21st century, but it didn\u2019t hit its stride as a medium for storytelling until antiheroes like Tony Soprano and Walter White came along<\/a> with their complex, serialized storylines. This ushered in the so-called \u201cGolden Age\u201d of television, sometimes called \u201cPeak TV,\u201d and audiences were treated to some of the greatest TV series ever produced during this time.<\/p>\n

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The best TV dramas have broken down the conventions of episodic television and some of them can feel more like a giant movie cut up into bite-sized chunks than a traditional TV show.<\/p>\n

10 <\/span>Lost<\/h2>\n
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The mysteries of the island on which the survivors of the Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 plane crash were marooned kept TV viewers on the edge of their seats for six years. Lost<\/em> was deservingly one of the most popular dramas on the air throughout its run.<\/p>\n

The muddled finale episode let down the series\u2019 standing as a complete work, but there was no way a Lost<\/em> finale was going to please everyone and, on the whole, it\u2019s still a great show.<\/p>\n

9 <\/span>Sherlock<\/h2>\n
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Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat\u2019s Sherlock<\/em> brought Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson into the modern era. The show\u2019s feature-length episodes have brilliantly re-contextualized the classic Arthur Conan Doyle mysteries for the present day.<\/p>\n

Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman anchor the show in the roles of Holmes and Watson, nailing each character in addition to sharing palpable on-screen chemistry.<\/p>\n

8 <\/span>The Leftovers<\/h2>\n
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Although it was cut unfortunately short by its low viewership, The Leftovers<\/em> is one of the most intriguing and well-crafted shows in recent memory. It\u2019s set in a world in which 2% of the global population has mysteriously vanished.<\/p>\n

The apocalypse in The Leftovers<\/em> doesn\u2019t devastate civilization like the zombie uprising of The Walking Dead<\/em>; instead, the series focuses on the psychological ramifications. The world looks the same, but the mentality is different.<\/p>\n

7 <\/span>The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/h2>\n
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Elisabeth Moss has made for a captivating lead as Offred in Hulu\u2019s small-screen adaptation of Margaret Atwood\u2019s dystopian masterpiece The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em>. Atwood herself has been involved in translating her story to the screen.<\/p>\n

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Touching on plenty of timely issues, The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em> has been one of the most socially significant shows of the past few years, even if its second and third seasons couldn\u2019t quite live up to the first.<\/p>\n

6 <\/span>Game Of Thrones<\/h2>\n
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David Benioff and D.B. Weiss\u2019 small-screen adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire<\/em>, Game of Thrones<\/em>, disappointed fans with a disjointed, half-baked final season<\/a> that rushed through its plot points.<\/p>\n

But before perhaps the most notoriously bad final season ever broadcast, Game of Thrones<\/em> was one of the greatest shows on the air for seven years.<\/p>\n

5 <\/span>Better Call Saul<\/h2>\n
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Spin-offs don\u2019t always work out in television. In fact, they usually don\u2019t. Most spin-offs are a shallow attempt to cash in on a successful series and rarely manage to hold a candle to their predecessor. But against all odds, Vince Gillian, Peter Gould, and co. have satisfied Breaking Bad<\/em> fans with their prequel series Better Call Saul<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Chronicling the origins of Breaking Bad<\/em>\u2019s criminal underworld through the story of Walter White\u2019s devious \u201ccriminal\u201d lawyer<\/a>, Better Call Saul<\/em> is almost as great as the flagship show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

4 <\/span>Mad Men<\/h2>\n
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The advertising industry might not sound like the basis for a riveting TV drama, but Matthew Weiner proved it could be across seven seasons of Mad Men<\/em>, the \u201860s-set saga of ad man Don Draper.<\/p>\n

Jon Hamm delivered a star-making performance as Draper, while supporting turns by Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Christina Hendricks, and January Jones helped to bring the writers\u2019 impeccable work to life.<\/p>\n

3 <\/span>The Wire<\/h2>\n
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Despite being a scripted drama, The Wire<\/em> often feels more like a documentary. David Simon and his writers all came from a background in journalism, and were well-equipped to expose the institutionalized corruption in Baltimore across five seasons of television.<\/p>\n

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Each season of The Wire<\/em> focuses on a different part of the city, from the police to the press to the local government to the education system, for a rounded portrait of the American city<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2 <\/span>Breaking Bad<\/h2>\n
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Inspired by television\u2019s M.O. of resetting a show\u2019s premise every week so that the characters never change and they can run for 100 episodes, Vince Gilligan set out to make a show about change<\/a>. At the beginning of Breaking Bad<\/em>, Walter White is a mild-mannered chemistry teacher who\u2019s diagnosed with lung cancer. By the final season, he\u2019s a drug lord with more money than he knows what to do with.<\/p>\n

The web of lies between the characters of Breaking Bad<\/em> and the high-stakes world they inhabit made the show as addictive as Heisenberg\u2019s pure blue meth.<\/p>\n

1 <\/span>The Sopranos<\/h2>\n
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Although The Sopranos<\/em> technically premiered in 1999, it spent the majority of its run in the 21st century and its influence lasted long after its controversial series finale. James Gandolfini\u2019s lead performance as Tony Soprano consists of some of the most incredible acting ever captured on film.<\/p>\n

Inspired by Goodfellas<\/em>, David Chase made a show about the mob that focuses more on the mundane aspects of their daily life than the violent aspects. In exploring Tony\u2019s psyche, Chase made something universally relatable that transcends its gangland setting.<\/p>\n

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