See which Disney+ and Hulu shows make the list as part of the 5-day reveal by The New York Times
Get ready to rearrange your Watchlist to accommodate more top-notch TV shows. As The New York Times reveals ”The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century,” we’re compiling a list of the confirmed picks that you can stream right now on Disney+ or Hulu.
About The New York Times’s “The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century”
The New York Times’s “The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century” was chosen by hundreds of stars, showrunners, and industry insiders. Beginning September 21st, and over the course of five days, The New York Times will announce 20 shows each day until all 100 have been revealed.
While we’re highlighting Disney+ and Hulu shows to stream from their list, you can see all 100 selections in The New York Times’s complete coverage.
Picks From “The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century” On Disney+ & Hulu
Let’s get to the good stuff. See how many you’ve already watched, which you want to rewatch, and which shows you want to stream now for the first time. Your next small-screen obsession could be hiding in this list.
Broad City
Broad City, HuluRanking: 46th
A bottle of wine tastes just as good when you pay for it with all pennies. That’s a fact. And no matter what the city throws at twenty-somethings Abbi and Ilana, these broads are all in. Catch the totally fresh series based on the acclaimed digital shorts.
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Normal People
Normal People, HuluRanking: 49th
In a school in a small-town west of Ireland, Connell (Paul Mescal) is a well-liked, good looking and athletic football player. Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) is a proud, intimidating and unpopular loner who actively avoids her classmates and challenges teachers’ authority. Sparks fly between the two when Connell comes to pick up his mother Lorraine (Sarah Greene) from her job at Marianne’s house and a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers, one they are determined to conceal from their peers. A compulsive modern love story, Normal People sees the pair weave in and out of each other’s lives and explores just how complicated intimacy and young love can be.
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The Good Place
The Good Place, HuluRanking: 51st
From Michael Schur, executive producer of Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Parks and Recreation comes a smart, unique new comedy that follows Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the afterlife where she comes to realize that she hasn’t been a very good person.
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PEN15
PEN15, HuluRanking: 59th
PEN15 is middle school as it really happened. Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle star in this adult comedy, playing versions of themselves as thirteen-year-old outcasts in the year 2000, surrounded by actual thirteen-year-olds, where the best day of your life can turn into your worst with the stroke of a gel pen.
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Peep Show
Peep Show, HuluRanking: 60th
Welcome to the private world of two very ordinary weirdos. Peep Show is a British narrative comedy series seen through the eyes of the core characters.
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The Handmaid’s Tale
The Handmaid’s Tale, HuluRanking: 67th
Adapted from the classic novel by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly the United States. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by a twisted fundamentalism in its militarized “return to traditional values.” As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred (Elisabeth Moss) is a Handmaid in the Commander’s household, one of the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate the world. In this terrifying society, Offred must navigate between Commanders, their cruel Wives, domestic Marthas, and her fellow Handmaids, where anyone could be a spy for Gilead, all with one goal: to survive and find the daughter that was taken from her.
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Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
Anthony Bourdain: No ReservationsRanking: 69th
Best-selling author and culinary adventurer Anthony Bourdain uncovers the best cuisine around the world. At each location, Tony dives headfirst into life’s colorful and rich pageant, bringing his intellectual curiosity, empathy, wit and boundless appetite.
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FX’s The Shield
FX’s The Shield, HuluRanking: 70th
Breaking the conventional formula of the cop genre, FX’s The Shield plays out in a tough, morally ambiguous world in which the line between good and bad is crossed every day. It focuses on the tension between a group of corrupt but effective cops led by Detective Vic Mackey, a captain with the burden of bringing them down as well as reducing crime in her district, and a City Councilman out for his own political gain.
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FX’s The Bear
FX’s The Bear, HuluRanking: 74th
FX’s comedy series The Bear is about food, family, the insanity of the grind, the beauty of Sense of Urgency and the steep slippery downsides. As the young chef Carmy fights to transform both The Original Beef of Chicagoland and himself, he works alongside a rough-around-the-edges kitchen crew that ultimately reveal themselves as his chosen family.
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Modern Family
Modern Family, HuluRanking: 77th
Today’s American families come in all shapes and sizes. The cookie cutter mold is a thing of the past, as it becomes quickly apparent in the bird’s eye view of ABC’s half-hour comedy, which takes an honest and often hilarious look at the composition and complexity of modern family life.
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FX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
FX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, HuluRanking: 78th
FX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia features Mac, Dennis, Charlie, Sweet Dee and Frank, five ne’er-do-wells who own and operate Paddy’s Pub in Philadelphia. Their constant scheming usually lands them in a world of hurt, yet they never seem to learn from their mistakes. As they say, some things never change. So prepare for more depraved schemes, half-baked arguments, and absurdly underhanded plots to subvert one another.
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FX’s Better Things
FX’s Better Things, HuluRanking: 82nd
FX’s Better Things centers on Sam Fox (Pamela Adlon), a single, working actor with no filter raising her three daughters, Max (Mikey Madison), Frankie (Hannah Alligood) and Duke (Olivia Edward) in Los Angeles. She’s mom, dad, referee and the cops. Sam also watches out for her mother, Phil (Celia Imrie), an English expatriate, who lives across the street. Sam is flawed and fierce with her love for her daughters, and her own mother as well, sometimes heaping the love on when she feels guilty. Sam’s just trying to earn a living, navigate her daughters’ lives, have fun with a friend or two and also, just maybe, squeeze in some private time once in a while.
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FX’s Justified
FX’s Justified, HuluRanking: 83rd
At the explosive center of the action, Western-style, gun-slinging U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens confronts murder, drugs, bank heists, mobsters, crime families, corrupt politicians, and even his own tumultuous past – and never backs down. His ultimate adversary is the cunning, complex outlaw Boyd Crowder, but the real wild card is Ava Crowder, the mysterious woman torn between the two men and both sides of the law. From creator Graham Yost and based on legendary author Elmore Leonard’s crime novella “Fire in the Hole,” it all leads to a perfectly unexpected final showdown.
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FX’s Shōgun
FX’s Shōgun, HuluRanking: 86th
An original adaptation of James Clavell’s novel, FX’s Shōgun is set in Japan in the year 1600 at the dawn of a century-defining civil war. Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him. When a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village, its English pilot, John Blackthorne, comes bearing secrets that could help Toranaga tip the scales of power and devastate the formidable influence of Blackthorne’s own enemies, the Jesuit priests and Portuguese merchants. Toranaga’s and Blackthorne’s fates become inextricably tied to their translator, Toda Mariko, a mysterious Christian noblewoman and the last of a disgraced line. While serving her lord amidst this fraught political landscape, Mariko must reconcile her newfound companionship with Blackthorne, her commitment to the faith that saved her, and her duty to her late father.
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FX’s Reservation Dogs
FX’s Reservation Dogs, HuluRanking: 87th
From Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, FX’s Reservation Dogs is a half-hour comedy that follows the exploits of four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma. Filmed on location in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, the series is a breakthrough in Indigenous representation on television both in front of and behind the camera. Every writer, director, and series regular on the show is Indigenous. This first-of-its-kind creative team tells a story that resonates with them and their lived experiences, and invites audiences into a surprisingly familiar and funny world.
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House
House, HuluRanking: 95th
Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) is devoid of anything resembling bedside manner and wouldn’t even talk to his patients if he could get away with it. Dealing with his own constant physical pain, he uses a cane that seems to punctuate his acerbic, brutally honest demeanor. While his behavior can border on antisocial, House is a brilliant diagnostician whose unconventional thinking and flawless instincts afford him widespread respect. An infectious disease specialist, House thrives on the challenge of solving medical puzzles in order to save lives. He has assembled an elite team of young experts to help him unravel these diagnostic mysteries: neurologist Dr. Eric Foreman (Omar Epps); immunologist Dr. Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison); and intensevist Dr. Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer). House has a good friend and confidant in oncology specialist Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), with whom he consults with on a regular basis.
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Community
Community, HuluRanking: 97th
Disbarred lawyer Jeff Winger enrolls in a local community college. While there, he forms a study group who eventually learn more about themselves than their course work.
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Gilmore Girls
Gilmore Girls, HuluRanking: 99th
Welcome to Stars Hollow, Connecticut, a charming, small, and slightly off-center town known for green lawns, clapboard houses, and enough quirky characters to fill every hayride, parade, and picnic for miles. It’s here that we meet headstrong 32-year-old Lorelai Gilmore, who carves out a comfortable, warm, caffeine-filled life for herself and her equally willful teenage daughter, Rory. But when Rory’s attention turns from dreams of private school and Harvard to thoughts of boys and adolescent self-reliance, single mom Lorelai begins noticing more of her own rebellious youth, only 16 years ago, in Rory.
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Scandal
Scandal, HuluRanking: 100th
Olivia Pope, the former head of media relations to the President of the United States, leaves the White House to open her own firm. She and her team use their legal smarts and connections to manage crises, save reputations, and diffuse what could be considerable scandals in Washington, D.C. Though they handle controversy professionally, this crew has a few scandals among them as well. Olivia has had an affair with the President, and though they still long to be together, their careers come first and make romance all but impossible.
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