The funny thing about the current TV landscape is that we have more “perfect TV shows” than ever, and we still spend half our time wondering what to watch. Since 2010, something has changed and we’re still processing it. Streaming cracked the model wide open, cable started swinging at the fences, and suddenly, the medium went from background noise to a place serious storytellers wanted to tinker with. A five-episode miniseries about a Soviet nuclear disaster could win 10 Emmys and become the highest-rated show in history, and a show about four Indigenous teenagers stealing chips on an Oklahoma reservation could get snubbed at the Emmys for three years. It would be the best thing, anyway.

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