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Tuesday, September 29th, 2026

Live Poll: Best 21st Century TV Show Not on The New York Times List

These 21st century TV shows have an IMDb rating of 8.5 or higher and at least 200 000 votes but are not on the recent New York Times list of the greatest TV shows of the 21st century. Which one of these TV shows do you think most deserved to be on the list?

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls4113356864/

Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/QZwi8gkDNy4EpVzPeVj_Nw/

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2 days ago

Please edit:

These 21st century TV shows have an IMDb rating of 8.5 or higher and at least 200 000 votes but are not on the recent New York Times list 

or

These 21st century TV shows with an IMDb rating of 8.5 or higher and at least 200 000 votes are not on the recent New York Times list 

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@Peter_pbn​ 

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Rome, Daredevil, Mindhunter, Vikings and Mr. Robot are all better than some of the shows that made it.

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@Jessica​ 

Thanks.

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To be true, I was a little baffled that there isn't Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad on the list. Also no Black Mirror, Monster, or Stranger Things. These were the most thrilling TV Series for me. So there are left Boardwalk Empire, Dark, Mr. Robot. I must admit that I don't want to decide between them. Boardwalk Empire and Dark may have a little fortune by me. But still then it's undecidable. :)

What's going on with New York Post? I guess they have too less time to watch out for burners!

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@Breumaster​ 

Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones are among the Top 25:

https://www.imdb.com/poll/xKkxcuHQ5gapH2Ds3fcF3g/

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@Jessica​ 

That doesn’t follow from this poll alone, though. Many people will be wondering about that.

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And before you ask: I don’t read the New York Post, Washington Post, XYZ Post, or whatever. To me, they’re all just “the same” important newspapers. They’re completely faceless to me, and I don’t associate anything with them. That’s why every single one of these polls just feels like the same poll to me, only with a different masthead. And that’s also why I don’t mentally connect one poll with another. I vote and then delete it from my memory as “yet another one of those”, because to me, it’s essentially the same poll in a different font.

To be honest, whenever someone mentions some highly praised rag in the headline, I automatically switch to “oh, not another one of those” mode internally.

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