According to The Hollywood Reporter, these are the ten best television shows of the last decade.

  1. The Sopranos
  2. The West Wing
  3. Curb Your Enthusiasm
  4. The Shield
  5. Damages
  6. Mad Men
  7. 30 Rock
  8. 24
  9. Lost
  10. Modern Family

Of all these, I’ve only seen four of them more than once. Am I out of touch with television? Possibly. I own a television but I get no reception of any kind on it, not even the local channels. Therefore, let me give you my top show of the decade and a runner up.

The show of the decade is…

Battlestar Galactica

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Why? Because it’s a reboot/remake (they dominated our decade), because it’s about the event that defined our decade and the resulting quagmires, because it went to those dark places (the middle of season 2 still haunts me), because it rocked. This is without a doubt the best show of the decade.

And my runner up?

Veronica Mars

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Why? Because the first season was a near perfect season of television, because Kristen Bell owned it, because it’s a teen based high school noir powered by a revenge core that took teens seriously and nobody has done it better since, and lastly because it rocked!

And did I mention how cute the lead is?

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Just sayin’.

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