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Book Riot - The Podcast

The Best TV Shows of the 21st Century [Teaser]

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

Arts, News Commentary, News, Books, Tv & Film

4.3965 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca discuss the idea of prestige TV as the literary fiction of visual media, dissect The Hollywood Reporter's list of the 50 best shows of the 21st century, and dive into their own favorites. Join us on Patreon for access to early, ad-free listening and all bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/bookriotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.4

you hear in the show. Here we go. All right. So I guess in a medaway we are

0:27.9

taking clickbait with this particular episode because we are engaging with I'd say we're using we were successfully baited

0:35.9

yeah we're gonna use as a substrate the Hollywood reporter's most recent list of the

0:41.1

50 best shows of the 21st century. We're going to use at the

0:44.7

backbeat. We're going to improvise on top of it. I'm not really interested. I

0:48.0

haven't seen all these shows and you've seen more of them than I have. I assume

0:51.8

you haven't seen every single one of these no

0:54.6

But it gives us a chance to talk about TV together we both like TV we have not dissimilar taste in TV that we've seen different things and there's some overlap

1:01.9

So it gives us a chance to talk about our favorite shows of the last

1:05.0

end years, I guess.

1:08.0

We're looking at 24, 23-ish years.

1:10.0

Their parameters are at least it had to have some seasons happen after 2000 but you didn't get credit for the

1:16.1

seasons that happened before 2000 I don't know it's a little abstruse I get it yeah

1:20.4

You have to make up arbitrary rules when you're doing stuff like this.

1:23.0

Yeah, I understand and you could draw it in different ways.

1:26.0

I think it's interesting to talk about it's, and again, it does capture the beginning, and dare I say, golden era of the prestige TV situation.

1:37.0

I think it certainly does.

1:38.0

And this looks, this list, if you would have showed me this list when I was 17,

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