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The Best of the Best TV Shows, Vol. 9
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The Best of the Best TV Shows, Vol. 9

In this Retro series, a longtime professional art critic and a former professor of digital culture ranks the best television programs of this century—from network to cable and web series to streaming.

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Jan 05, 2024
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Black Sails' brings pirate history to television in realistic, impossible  detail | The GATE
ABOVE: Black Sails (Amazon Prime, 2014).

{Note: Listings are alphabetical by category. All the shows below are worthwhile, but tastes do vary—caveat lector, cave videntium, and caveat emptor. Starred shows (⭐) are “the best of the best of the best.” You can watch the Top 50 Television Opening Credits of This Century here.}

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