# Your favorite five shows from the last five years **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 22, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-five-shows-from-the-last-five-years/1025952 "2025-12-22T16:26:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-five-shows-from-the-last-five-years/1025952/1 "2025-12-22T16:26:46Z")
In order, what are your five favorite shows of the last five years? To qualify, it either has to be currently on the air, or the finale must have aired in the last fiver years. For me: 1. Slow Horses: darkly funny; Gary Oldman is brilliant. 2. Mrs. Davis: themes similar to Pluribus, a woman rejects the utopia presented to her as too good to be true. 3. Reservation Dogs: really funny and sad and funny some more. 4. Succession: another dark comedy, makes Slow Horses look like a Mr. Rodgers episode in comparison. 5. The Expanse: just brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-five-shows-from-the-last-five-years/1025952/2 "2025-12-22T16:42:34Z")
1. Andor 2. The Mandalorian 3. Star Trek: Picard 4. Star Trek: Lower Decks 5. Law & Order (revival) ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-five-shows-from-the-last-five-years/1025952/3 "2025-12-22T16:43:04Z")
Ghosts Elsbeth The Pitt High Potential Doc Martin. Side note: there is an American version of Doc Martin starting next month. It’s called Best Medicine. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-five-shows-from-the-last-five-years/1025952/4 "2025-12-22T17:05:07Z")
1. Severance 2. Fargo (despite season 4) 3. Better Call Saul And my two guilty pleasures.. 4. Squid Game 5. Money Heist. I’m sure I’m forgetting a bunch that I might have liked more than the above. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-five-shows-from-the-last-five-years/1025952/5 "2025-12-22T17:10:41Z")
1. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia 2. What We Do in the Shadows 3. Resident Alien 4. Poker Face 5. Better Call Saul ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-five-shows-from-the-last-five-years/1025952/6 "2025-12-22T17:31:48Z")
> [@dirtball](#): > > Resident Alien Oh, I forgot Resident Alien. Put that at the top of my list, or close to it. Remove High Potential. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-five-shows-from-the-last-five-years/1025952/7 "2025-12-22T17:33:34Z")
Clarkson’s Farm Slow Horses Reservation Dogs Peacemaker What We Do In The Shadows ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-five-shows-from-the-last-five-years/1025952/8 "2025-12-22T17:56:03Z")
1. The Pitt: Just superb all around. Was my first medical drama… tried to watch others after it, but nothing else comes close. 2. [Scavengers Reign](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21056886/): Sci-fi ecology with really interesting world-building. 3. White Lotus: Rich people schadenfreude is always fun 4. Russian Doll: Short but funny and well-acted 5. [Love, Death, Robots](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9561862/): I feel like this has taken over what Black Mirror used to be. Can’t wait for more. ---
**Author:** ![Meatwater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meatwater/32/20074_2.png) [@Meatwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatwater)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-five-shows-from-the-last-five-years/1025952/9 "2025-12-22T18:05:48Z")
1. It’s Always Sunny: Longtime favorite. 2. Peacemaker: Hyped for the start of Gunn’s DCU. 3. Severance: IFYKYK 4. Attack On Titan: Exceptional storytelling and strong allegory for Israel/Palestine 5. Twisted Metal: More people need to see this, it is such dumb fun! HM: Ted Lasso, Fallout, Smiling Friends ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-five-shows-from-the-last-five-years/1025952/10 "2025-12-22T18:17:36Z")
1. Severance 2. Fallout 3. Better Call Saul 4. Andor 5. WandaVision It was VERY hard trimming this to just five, there have been some great shows on TV lately. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-five-shows-from-the-last-five-years/1025952/11 "2025-12-22T18:23:55Z")
No particular order - Letterkenny/Shoresy - What We Do In the Shadows - Somebody Somewhere - Taskmaster - Joe Pera Talks With You ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-five-shows-from-the-last-five-years/1025952/12 "2025-12-22T19:21:02Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Somebody Somewhere I forgot this show, it was amazing. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-five-shows-from-the-last-five-years/1025952/13 "2025-12-23T07:24:26Z")
Better Call Saul The Boys Taskmaster (although the earlier series were funnier) Ripley Detectorists (they brought it back for a one off in 2022) Just missed out because they finished in 2019 or early 2020: - Bojack Horseman Chernobyl ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-five-shows-from-the-last-five-years/1025952/14 "2025-12-23T20:18:19Z")
> [@Author\_Balk](#): > > The Pitt Good one. > [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Fargo (despite season 4) Season 5 is the only one that qualifies. 4 is close, but as you indicated , not the best. > [@dirtball](#): > > Resident Alien It declined, but yeah, pretty damn good. I will add- The Rookie. and The Brokenwood Mysteries.