James Poniewozik

Our poll of the best shows of the 21st century explores how TV built on, and moved on from, one of the last great shows of the 20th.

The long, odd two-night TV production hoped to reach a select audience of die-hard voters (if football didn’t intercept them).

The Hulu crime drama, which just finished its first season, is Elizabeth Meriwether’s latest story of complicated women and ineffable emotions.

“The Great American Road Trip” sends the transportation secretary and his family on a wholesome, dull tour, with a lot of help from their sponsors.

Steven Conrad (“Patriot”) brings his oddball sensibility to the limited-crime-series genre for HBO.

“The Shards” and “Sterling Point” offer different angles on that most status-conscious of genres, the teen drama.

The pleasures of watching the TV show of the summer as a bandwagon fan.

The classic story (and recent culture-war object) remains wholesome but makes room for people who called the prairie home before the Ingalls family.

After a run of dazzling and frustrating ambition, the series closes with a pared-down menu and a touch of sweetness.

On the one hand, the 250th anniversary has given us presidential blood sport. On the other comes a show about star-spangled nothing.