Russell Murray

"The Office" is the unfortunate kind of long-running series where the series' highest-highs are about as memorable as the show's lowest-lows. Exceptional episodes like "Dinner Party," "Casino Night," and "Goodbye, Michael" have been picked apart as much as Dunder Mifflin's most embarrassing efforts (we still haven't forgotten "The Farm"). It's hard to think of a sitcom more culturally digested than "The Office" — and yet, in the decade of debates that have taken place since the series finale, some of its greatest episodes remain overlooked.

Apple TV has built a distinct identity around its limited-series catalog. Like other streamers, they draw on popular contemporary literature for inspiration, turning best-selling page-turners into must-watch television. The divergence, represented in their best work, lies in the execution.

These 15 shows like Young Sherlock capture the same mix of period thrills, sharp wit, and morally complex characters, from Peaky Blinders to Penny Dreadful.

Over the past decade, A24 has built a reputation as one of the dominant art-house producer-distributors in American cinema. Its impact on television is less celebrated.

In an age of endless content catalogs and online discourse, television shows in the 2020s either end too soon or go on way too long. Far rarer do we get the space to reflect on how the last few years of the Golden Age of TV successfully brought quite a few of its landmark shows to a satisfying end.

"Invincible" has quickly earned a reputation as one of the greatest superhero television shows ever made — it's also one of the most violent. For the most part, the Prime Video series isn't injecting the extreme level of gore and brutality out of nowhere. Almost every death (or near-death) has a direct predecessor in the original Image Comics series. Robert Kirkman, who scripted and co-created the source material with artists Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley, serves as the TV adaptation's creator, executive producer, and co-showrunner (alongside Simon Racioppa).

The 2010s produced plenty of acclaimed television, but shows like Rectify, Legion, and The Leftovers still deserved much bigger audiences than they found.

If there's one thing that kept "The Walking Dead" going as long as it did, it was perhaps the morbid desire among fans to see how the characters they loved would inevitably die. With the surprising death of Sophia Peletier in Season 2, the hit AMC series made it clear that no one was safe from the inescapable dangers of its zombie apocalypse. That sense of unpredictability quickly became one of the show's defining qualities, ensuring that even seemingly indispensable characters never felt completely secure.

The Western is one of the most oversaturated, predictable, and aesthetically exhausted genres on television, and it has been for the majority of the medium's existence. Any network or producer who wants to make a new show in this space has one episode to prove why they're different from 70 years of cowboy capers — these 15 TV pilots do exactly that.

Plenty of TV shows from the Golden Age of Television tried to stand out by killing their darlings. "The Sopranos" is arguably — and somewhat strangely — the most striking of them, largely because of how often the series made death feel mundane. In contrast to the operatic mob films that were popular throughout the latter half of the 20th century, David Chase's acclaimed HBO drama portrayed lethal violence as unglamorous, chaotic, and regularly anticlimactic. Many of its major characters died suddenly and without the dramatic benefit of a grand final shot or line of dialogue.