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20. Game of Thrones

Originally: Game of Thrones
Broadcasting Body: HBO (in Israel on yes, HOT and Cellcom TV)
Years: 2011-2019

The last season of "Game of Thrones" has become a mess on its back, allowing us to push it into 20th place without risking too much readers' rage. In fact, this ending was just another symptom of a severe deterioration that began in season five when the source material upon which David Benioff and Dan Weiss, George R.R. Martin's books, ended, so it was clear that they did not really know how to make a reasonable and logical story, But wow, as much as they know how to process an existing story.

"Game of Thrones" is the big series of the decade, and its impact on television during which is most significant. With unprecedented investment and production values, including a huge budget for effects and hundreds of actors, extras and production workers spread across a wide range of locations around the world - "Game of Thrones" has finally anchored the convention that the small screen doesn't fall into its fabric screen capabilities. The series featured more and more amazing spectacles, including fire-spitting dragons and giant battles, and the huge series budget opened the door for more TV pieces that enjoyed this bounty. Each season of "Game of Thrones" has been watched and performed better than before. A rare matter in itself, which runs counter to the increasing fragmentation in a world where audience attention is spreading across more content.

It was the combination of everything. The song of fire and ice became a series with dragons and red witches, but even more so it was a series about real people in this world, unforgettable characters made of skin and tendons (Arya Stark, Theon Greyjoy, Jamie Lannister, Hodor and many others), With tragic love stories (John and Egrit are still some of the most beautiful and sad TV couples ever). And, of course, the jaw-dropping twists have provided hanging mounds of discussion and commentary in text and video, and in a climate where a large number of viewers do so with a smartphone in hand, most of these moments have gone viral. Following "Game of Thrones," the bellowing element of beloved characters has become the enchanting bread of television dramas, even ones that don't tend to be particularly deadly, and even some comedies. All of this, some crappy seasons can't be taken from the Game of Thrones either.

Valar Morgulis: Will there be another series like "The Game of Thrones"?

(Ido Isaiah)

Jaw dropping twists. "Game of Thrones" (Photo: PR)

Game of Thrones Season 3 Episode 9, The Red Wedding (Photo: HBO, PR)

19. Catastrophe

Originally: Catastrophe
Broadcasting Body: British Channel 4 (in Israel on HOT)
Years: 2015-2019

Starting with the first episode of "Catastrophe," in which an American man gets pregnant by an Irish woman during his vacation in London, Rob Delaney's and Sharon Horgan's comedy has been a chronicle of mishaps dropping the sky on her heroes. Still, everything is balanced in this wonderful series. Never exaggerated, always human, always real, and always always laughing.

But the series is not just the total of fateful events - the loss and breakup and the disgust and addictions - but a sober and witty look at the most brutal moments of marital existence, small and large. "That's how I feel about the idea of ​​having sex with you these days: On paper it sounds amazing, but if you start it tonight, say, I'll just be upset," Rob Sharon said in the fourth episode of last season. "But I still have the affection when I look at you. Maybe that's enough." And in response, annoyed Sharon simply said, "Damn, that's really enough!"

Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan created characters in their portraits, and over the course of four seasons they conveyed a whole philosophy, full of intelligence and cynical about what it means to be together. All the time, they displayed a wonderful chemistry that was also felt in the difficult moments of their television characters, laughing at each other's jokes, looking and feeling like a real couple, about its ups, downs and catastrophes.

(Ido Isaiah)

That's really enough. "Catastrophe" (Photo: PR)

Catastrophe (Photo: PR)

18. The remaining

Originally: The Leftovers
Broadcasting Body: HBO (in Israel on HOT, yes and Cellcom TV)
Years: 2014-2017

It's been a multi-decade decade for Damon Lindloff, who started with a crazy cast after one of the most belated television history finale, "Lost," and ends with one of the acclaimed 2019 series, "The Guards." In the middle stands his least observable work, but one whose fans are devout and will undoubtedly star in many of the decade's parades - "The Remains." Despondent, enigmatic drama and most of the time a beautiful depiction of a world in which two percent of the world's population disappeared.

Grief, crisis of faith and nihilism intertwined, but the power of the "remaining" lay not only in its beautiful symbols and clever preoccupation with the labels she drew for herself, but in the powerful moments she produced. Like Lindloff's previous series, the new outline was an enigma wrapped in romance, which at the same time allowed her to show emotion and strike, touch one hand and fool the other.

The "remaining" has always sought to blend the loss with the desperate attempt to make up for it, accept it, settle it, defy it. How do you like and reconnect with people who can disappear at any moment? How do children get this way? But here, life goes on. Increases and crises of faith have been the wind in the "remaining" sails throughout her short life, and occasionally Lindloff has made it clear to us what her safe beach is: the grace of connecting humans. No wonder, then, that so many of its viewers swear by its name.

(Ido Isaiah)

grace. "The remaining" (Photo: PR)

Remaining Season 2 (Photo: PR)

17. Snap

Originally: The Deuce
Broadcasting Body: HBO (in Israel on HOT, yes and Cellcom TV)
Years: 2017-2019

One would think that a series like a man like David Simon, one of the best regarded series ever, would easily scare viewers, or at least buzz. What's more, unlike "The Covert," which is made up of dozens of unfamiliar players, stands in front of the "duo" two top-tier players, James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhall. What’s more, the issue she dealt with - the rise of porn in New York in the 1970s and 1980s, and in the context of sexual and women’s exploitation issues - was so resonant with the rise of the MeToo movement. And yet, the "duo" swam under the radar most of the time, ending her life as the decade's underrated series, one that has received scant reference even among TV critics, and probably won't hurt too many decades.

With us, too, she would have reached a higher position had it not been for her very flawed third season, which brought to the forefront the didacticism that Simon sometimes violates (the mini-series "Need a Hero" is a prime example of this). And yet, the "duo" was wonderful. David Simon's best and most complete work after "The Hidden," and you could even say that it is accessible, including an unusual and exciting ending to tears. The spotlight that referred to a very specific moment in recent history presented it with no whining. Rife with violence and anger and despair and too many moments that choke the throat, but at the same time full of life and funny and with open arms and without judgment all the marginalized types who find their place nowhere else. A series that personified the women and men behind and around the sex industry, portrayed the camaraderie and magic between exploitation and despair. Reviving life in the once-great apple, the dangerous, edgy, containing city, between its walls, its tenants found an alternative home and family.

(Ido Isaiah)

The underrated series of the decade. "Snap" (Photo: PR)

The snap (Photo: from "The Snap", PR)

16. Louis

Originally: Louie
Broadcasting Body: HBO (in Israel on yes)
Years: 2010-2015

Before becoming the poster boy from the wrong side of MeToo, Louis CK was for a few moments the funniest man in the world. His stand-up shows were so successful that he began selling them directly to viewers through his website, with no middlemen. He did the same with anyone who ended up starring the latest TV show, "Horace and Pete."

But the truth is that even before the scandal burst into starring, "Louis" was not a particularly popular program. Her ratings were low, and despite the buzz of visitors buzzing around her was exhausting. Everyone who followed her discovered a comic masterpiece, one of the greatest of the last decade, with countless moments of "What the hell have I seen now?" Brilliantly engineered into the episodes - with or without the faint plot that connects the seasons. The magic moments in the series are never-ending, for example, watch the scene again where Louis CK assures Robin Williams that if he dies earlier he will be at his funeral.

Louie's products were not always easy to digest, and his stand-up shows weren't always funny either. But "Louis" was not really a comedy as it was not a drama - it was a one-man show whose life made us identify with, despise, or dread him. It had divorces and questionable parenting, an unsuccessful voyage in the bachelorette world at an advanced age, and mostly loads of small, human moments (like the moment you have to go to the middle of the street) that made it an incredibly human series. That is before we talked about the monologues that were barely concerned about being fat, gay or just a woman in the United States. It sounds ironic in retrospect, but it still works.

But since the inappropriate sexual things he did, it's hard to fathom that person's open insides. In fact, it could be argued that the way he made us fall in love with his obviously imperfect character on the show is the main reason he became the poster boy for MeToo. Harvey Weinstein did much more terrible deeds, but he didn't break our hearts like Louis.

(Fellow Salon)

The poster boy. "Louis" (Photo: PR)

Louis Season 5 (Photo: PR)

15. Girls

Originally: Girls
Broadcasting Body: HBO (in Israel on yes)
Years: 2012-2017

There are moments when Lina Dunham sounds like the most American girl in the world: she loves to exaggerate, wrap every point in dozens upon dozens of blank words, throw up casual terms and an up-to-date author to talk, talk about her emotions to the point of exhausting and generally, sanctify self-interest and become Same for art. It is very easy to see how she gently walks on the border between genius and Obrated, but she is less his own person here. The art she did create was able to completely cut off all the realtors around, and speak directly to a nascent and meaningful age group who thought she had nothing to look for on TV.

Those hipster millennials who are a little independent and a little spoiled, a little sober and a little naive, a little conscious and a little clueless, a little cranky and a little tired, a little ideological and a little brainy, and they're the ones who are going to run the world. This is probably the oldest way of putting it, but "girls" managed to accurately reflect the "spirit of the period" and, on the other hand, to laugh at her with gentle cynicism, to look her in the eyes and look at her from the side. The right attachment to Judd Uptao and HBO gave it a grunge form that allowed it to grow in a protected space and evolve into a real cultural phenomenon, the literal voice of a generation and all. And despite all her problems, and there were quite a few of them, she was able to remain unique and rare throughout, communicating with her audience in an almost telepathic and desirable level of engagement that needed to be a kind of genius to create.

(Ophir Artzi)

On the border between genius and Obrated. Lina Dunham, "Girls" (Photo: PR)

Girls Season 6 Episode 3, Lina Dunham (Photo: PR)

14. Strange things

Originally: Stranger Things
Broadcasting Body: Netflix
Years: 2015 - Today

There is a pleasing irony in the fact that "Strange Things" is a product of Netflix - a technology giant that has transformed our old TV, with its preset broadcast schedule and nowhere, into an endless, customized playground. Against the backdrop of sophisticated high-tech algorithms, "strange things" is precisely the ultimate expression of longing for the simple and old. While millions around the world sipped it in one weekend, many of them did so by pinching the heart for unattached times, with no blue whites and no permanent availability. A time when you could hop on the bike with friends and go on an adventure without knowing where to take us. Moreover, this sense of physical camaraderie of friends in the real world is all that the Social Generation secretly enjoys.

The Dapper brothers have very smartly captured this nostalgic pain, making it a wonderful gesture for a period that has been neglected in the past. A lot of weird things were born in the Eighties, but every scene of "Weird Things" echoes how much of this decade was brimming with creativity, emotion and imagination, cynical and devoted to authenticity. As the seasons progressed, the series knew how to embrace the changes in its heroes and the world around them, and become a great maturation story against the loss of that beautiful innocence upon which its first season was built. Few series that knew how to frame such a specific period in human life, and the fact that "weird things" knew how to do this while focusing on a bunch of teenagers (and not, say, 1960s publishers) is just another to her credit.

(Ilan Kaprov)

13. Broad City

Originally: Broad City
Broadcasting Body: Comedy Central (in Israel on HOT)
Years: 2014-2019

When my father and Ilana broke up with each other in tears on the Brooklyn Bridge in the final episode of the series, it was a very exciting moment, except that during all those minutes they stood by a toilet they found on the street and carried with them to Ilana's apartment. It was a combination of meaning and, well, toilet humor, that captured the essence of "Broad City." It has always been a subversive series. The one that allowed her characters to be who they are and in doing so has validated millions of women around the world to be them. In Broad City, women were allowed to fart and shit, to be queer and seamstress, to raise armpits, to hide drugs in vagina, to celebrate in a blue dress their flabby ass and the fact that they once infiltrated a man in the back. They endeared their identity in every aspect - feminine, social, New York, liberal, and of course Jewish.

Disturbed, wonderful, and creative as my father and Ilana's adventures were, they were always rooted in reality. Their New York was not a fantasy where twenty-something women lived in spacious apartments, but one whose lives were often cramped and forced to live with roommates and deal with bedbugs, rats, pervers and other animals. But above all was the connection between the two women. It was a real, close friendship at times (already in the first scene in the Ilana series talking to my father on time while sleeping with Lincoln), and one that can honestly be defined as one of television's greatest love stories. It would be hard not to miss her.

(Ido Isaiah)

We will be greatly missed. Broad City (Photo: PR)

Broad City (Photo: PR)

12. Mr. Robot

Originally: Mr. Robot
Broadcasting Body: Comedy Central (in Israel on HOT)
Years: 2015-2019

Few have clung to "Mr. Robot" over the years, and this is evident in both the scanty and the lazy buzz. Both were strong at the start of the series, including even winning Peabody and Golden Globe awards and Emmy nominations, including Best Drama Series and Best Actor, Remy Malek. But then came the second season and wasted much of the goodwill of most viewers. Sam Ismail, the creator of the series, had a tendency to be too embarrassed by his own ideas, stretching them far beyond the moment the point was understood.

All this criticism is correct. But even in her debilitating moments, "Mr. Robot" was one of the brightest, boldest series on screen, and anyone who retired from it simply lost out because the climax was still ahead of her. Sometimes the series seems to be a huge playground for Ismail. This manifests itself in both deceptive and layered writing and so meticulously directed (Ismail himself directing every episode since season two), which builds beautiful and underwhelming frames, and occasionally breaks the pattern with special episodes - one all in one single whip, one all without words and so on.

"Mr. Robot" is one of the series that perfectly captures the teenage state of existence. An age so noisy, so diminishing. The economic crisis that has further lowered the ceiling for most of us and raised it for when few others; The social networks that illustrated how lonely we are are engineering our frames on Instagram to provide a semblance of animals in gray prose. The protagonist Elliott Alderson, a genius hacker with a personality split trying to overthrow the world's largest corporation, was lonely and depressing, but with every secret revealed about him, it turned out to be far beyond that, and according to the series, well beyond what it initially seemed. The fourth and final season, which is airing these days, presents an amazing episode every week for an incredible episode, and after all the gloom and awful price charged by Elliot and those around her, she presents something new we so much need in this era: hope.

(Ido Isaiah)

The teenage existential condition. "Mr. Robot" (Photo: PR)

Mr Robot (Photo: PR)

11. Fargo

Originally: Fargo
Broadcast Body: FX (yes, HOT, Cellcom TV and Netflix in Israel)
Years: 2014 - Today

The nature of parades in general and such comprehensive parades in particular is a shortcut and bottom line, a phenomenon that makes it more difficult to engage in any series - more and more anthologies like Fargo. Her seasons differ significantly in their level, until it is almost an insult to compare the second and exemplary for the first time and the rather stupid ones. Still, the line that connects all of its parts is the sheer respect it has for the art of storytelling. It's no coincidence that she constantly clashes with the original cohesion of the film directed by the Cohen brothers: "The following story is based on real events." Noah Howley, the brilliant creator behind her, explores a vast array of story styles and produces a great television experiment: Do we need truth to believe the characters in front of us?

This experiment begins to bear fruit as Fargo moves away from its source material (criminals of the measles) and engages in characters and stories that capture them for a while. The violent and suspicious 1970s in the establishment and 2016 that sparked the post-truth era are where Fargo becomes an extraordinary work. History and fiction mingle with each other, characters searching for themselves in a chaotic world, and through the screen of violence are beautiful and exciting human moments. Howley's impressive aesthetic of symbolism and historical references makes the stories on the surface laden with deep and deep layers. In other words: "Fargo" is the kind of rare work that rewards viewership, in the form of great stories that have slipped beneath the surface of the main story.

(Ilan Kaprov)

Outstanding creation. Fargo (Photo: PR)

Fargo (Photo: PR)

10. The Crown

Originally: The Crown
Broadcasting Body: Netflix
Years: 2016 - Today

If there is one series that is really wasted on the binge format, this is "The Crown." In contrast to the marathon and smear culture and the "13 hour movie" directed by Netflix, "The Crown" stays true to the episodic format that makes every episode of it a work in its own right, and much of the time it's about works of glory. Those who go back to interesting historical events that really require us to dig through them for a week until the next chapter arrives, deprive them of not only Queen Elizabeth's technical preoccupation with the rest of the royal family, but their mood.

With great sensitivity, the "crown" depicts the lives of the people raised, the golden cage they are born into. Attempts to pull the rope into individuality are repeatedly shown to be futile, and if there is any success, the "Crown" makes it clear that it is a victory for its own sake. It is a full of humanity, full of tragedies and evidences, that takes place within a huge budget (valued at $ 130 per season) that illustrates the richness and splendor of the monarchy. The dissonance between the rahab and their being flesh and blood. People who love, hate, diminish, die, and have flaws, all the while being bound to ancient traditions and restrictions, to old-fashioned tracts they bring to the public.

The "Crown" is very cleverly written, endowed with a subdued and high-nuanced game by some of the great players in the United Kingdom, loaded with breathtaking whips. She consistently breaks down the queen's built-in one-dimensionalism and gently manages it with beauty. It has it alone to justify the institution of royalty.

(Ido Isaiah)

Full of human intimacy. "The Crown" (Photo: PR)

"The Crown" Season 1 Episode 10 (Photo: PR, PR)

9. Atlanta

Originally: Atlanta
Broadcasting body: FX (yes in Israel)
Years: 2016 - Today

In September 2009, when "Community" came to delight our lives, Donald Glover moved from his backstage position as a screenwriter in the Rock 30 Writers Room to a first real acting role. He was excellent in the cute, silly Troy role and frequently stole the show, but who then thought it would become one of the most significant people of this decade in so many different hats.Including the childish rapper Childish Gambino, who provided the iconic "This is America".

Like that huge hit, "Atlanta," which Glover created and starred in, is a series that requires us to become acquainted with the black community's daily life. It began in the first season with more absurd directions, more state of mind than linear creation. One that prefers to get us into the mindset and the lives of the heroes, less to tell a story. In the second season, she suddenly became a perfectionist, hilarious, exciting, surprising, sometimes even scary, tainted with a destabilizing feeling that anything could happen. Not only in the episode of "Teddy Perkins," in which Darius (Keith Stanfield) strays into the estate of a deceased and crazy artist, but also when Piper Boy (Brian Tyree Henry) is lost in the woods in another episode or when Van (Zeezy Bits) is left alone in a remote room with a stranger. This space is called "Atlanta." Funny short stories that are scary and surprising and sad that come together into one complete work - versatile, but one - about people looking for their way.

(Ido Isaiah)

Tends to perfection. "Atlanta" (Photo: PR)

Atlanta Season 2 (Photo: PR, PR)

8. Veep

Broadcasting Body: HBO (in Israel on HOT, yes and Cellcom TV)
Years: 2012-2019

HBO's satirical comedy probably included the perfect on-screen comic cast, perhaps except for the seventh-place ensemble. Pageant Julia Louis-Dreyfus justified every mother given to her for her role here, Kevin Dunn wonderfully provided the ranks of faculty head Ben Caperty, Timothy Simmons made Jonah Ryan a perfect example of a Washington idiot, and so were Sam Richardson (Sweet Richard Splett), Matt Walsh (as Mike McClintock of the Culles), Gary Cole (as the tree-lumbering Kent Davidson) and many others. Everyone, with the most witty writing available, introduced Washington and its actors to the nude, illustrating that dumbbells and failures run the government.

At the end of the fourth season of "Veep," her genius creator, Armando Yanucci, decided he was a bitch. The reins passed to David Mendel, a Seinfeld man and "calm down." Resume is impressive, but in practice under his hands "Veep" has become much more cartoonish and clumsy. A sort of rougher humor and a new reality to deal with - Trump's rise and politics in the real world suddenly turned satire into their pale shadow. And even so, in her last "Veep" seasons, she was one of the funniest and smartest series to tune the screen, a testament to her ultimate strength, and despite the level decline over the years, she shot again to the end, culminating in a tremendous final episode that could quietly enter the Pantheon finale.

(Ido Isaiah)

One of the funniest and smartest onscreen series. Veep (Photo: PR)

Veep Season 6, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tony Hale, Anna Kalamsky, Reed Scott, Sam Richardson (Photo: PR)

7. Department of Gardens and Landscape

Originally: Parks and Recreation
Broadcasting Body: NBC (in Israel in HOT)
Years: 2009-2015

It's amazing to see that the "Gardens and Landscapes Department" has survived seven almost innocent seasons. The sitcom that was a spin-off for "The Office" and then not really, whose first and middle season only numbered six episodes, whose ratings were so tepid that season-long filmmakers corrected a wonderful finale in case it was canceled - finally survived six years. In the process, he portrayed the tremendous ensemble on television: starring Amy Poehler, Nick Offerman and Chron Swanson, one of the greatest and most comedic characters in the comedy, Rob Lowe, Adam Scott, Rashida Jones, Aziz Ansari and Aubrey Plaza, and of course Chris Pratt, -Star ("Guardians of the Galaxy," "Jurassic World"), but anyone who hasn't seen him here - including in the series' mascots - doesn't know how funny this man is.

All of these characters worked in the Peony, Indiana Department of Landscape and Landscape Service. A fictitious city, but alive and breathing, full of colorful and delusional characters, high-detail and super-crazy, much like the Simpsons' Springfield. The Hwy town had unique, local corporations, TV and radio shows, a pony in love with everyone (Lil Sebastian XIV), a world-end cult worshiping Alien Zorp, a murderous history of the Wamapoki tribe documented in spectacular murals and more. The headlines for good companies and unique traditions have flown into the real world, headed by a Valentine's Day dedicated to women's fraternity every year before Valentine's, February 13; or "Treat Yo 'Self," a day devoted entirely to extravagant treats.

We met series creator Mike Shore twice on this march - once with "Brooklyn Nine Nine" (88th place) and once with "The Good Place" (33th). "Garden and Landscape Department," though it lost steam in the latter part of its life, was the first embodiment of Shore's good-natured approach, his heartfelt humor, and human love. It is such an important voice, and that is why it continues to succeed and thrive - it is simply necessary. Always. Not only as part of a genre that has grown into sophisticated meta or sad comedies and other subtypes that we have come across in this decade and this parade, including Shore's own, but within a frightening and uncertain world where it is unclear. As in her life, so is their aftermath, the "Gardens and Landscapes Department" is an island of funny and captivating optimism, contagious but not sticky, essential and comforting.

(Ido Isaiah)

Good heart is needed. "Department of Gardens and Landscape" (Photo: PR)

Department of Gardens and Landscapes, Amy Poehler (Photo: PR, PR)

6. The Americans

Originally: The Americans
Broadcasting Body: FX (in Israel on yes)
Years: 2013-2018

In 2013, when "Americans" rose to the background, no one thought the Cold War was relevant to our lives anymore. The espionage drama followed two KGB agents planted in the US and started a family there, but it took place in a completely different era, the 1980s, when the tension between the superpowers was so palpable that at one point they reached a nuclear war. By the time the "Americans" ended five years later, the political climate was changing from end to end. Suddenly the fact that her heroes were Russians in hiding exploiting the United States for their benefit aligned with the reality of the late 21st century.

But "Americans" did not need reality to be realistic. It was her greatness and beauty that described this occurrence in nuance while focusing on the impossible emotional, mental and physical prices that heightened such an extreme situation. Pioneers in important ideological service or heart-beating powers, depending on how you look at it. The "American" legs have always been on the ground, with no explosions, glowing women or cocktail parties. The intelligence was gray and dandy, the sex and the action purposeful. With all the tension and intrigue and action that goes with the very concept, a huge part of its power revolves around much more personal and human issues. Parity, family, friendship, loyalty - how all the most essential things in life are measured under this veil, an ideological service for a noble cause.

(Ido Isaiah)

Greatness and beauty. "The Americans" (Photo: PR)

Americans (Photo: PR)

5. Breaking line

Originally: Breaking Bad
Broadcast Body: AMC (Israel in yes)
Years: 2008-2013

There is something just about that in the division that this decade's finale forces a "breakthrough." A series whose first two seasons aired in the previous decade, and thematically fits more with its preoccupation with white anti-Hiro - but it was the current decade that got its ever-improving part. "Breaking Bad" was not a perfect series, far from it. After five seasons, it was clear that this story was about a chemistry teacher who turns into a drug baron to settle for a few smaller episodes. Far too much time, characters who have gone nowhere, horrible treatment for her women. Up until the fourth season, its structure was mostly half a season of arachnid construction, metaphors and symbols, and then half a season of pressing the pedal that illustrated how overwhelming, exciting, and blood-curdling it could be.

And in the end, even years later, a memorable "breakout." One of the big phenomena of the beginning of the decade, and the biggest benefit of Netflix's growing power. More and more viewers joined her because of her accessibility on the streaming platform, and unlike the constant trend of decay over the years, the "Breaking Line" crowd has only grown over time. Everyone got to see how Walter White (Brian Cranston in the role of Magnet) is becoming monstrous and how Jesse Pinkman's heart forms a perpetual beacon of light against him. Everyone got to see Jesse having to take care of Gail, Walter crawling around his house and bursting with hysterical laughter, Hector's ultimate revenge on Gus, the train robbery, "Ozinamandias," from the good episodes of the decade. The heights that "Breaking Line" has transcended may not forget its harsh moments, but they are engraved in the days of the series, this decade and television in general, and this should add a finale that can compete for the best title in the teens - and probably win.

And after all, it was not even the best piece of the world of "Breaking Bad," but about it in the next ranking.

(Ido Isaiah)

The monster and the light. "Breaking line" (Photo: PR)

Breaking Bad, Season 5 (Photo: Frank Ockenfels / AMC, PR)

Trust Sol

Originally: Better Call Saul
Broadcasting Body: AMC (Israel in HOT, yes Cellcom TV and Netflix)
Years: 2015 - Today

There are quite a few creators in this march who are responsible for more than one big-weight series over this decade, but only one, Vince Gilligan, has really provided two dizzying series one after the other. The "break-break" improvement curve throughout her life, the one that made her such a great piece, simply continued with the spin-off. "Trust on Sol" - whose plot takes place several years before the original events, with Sol Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) still operating under his original name, Jimmy McGill - far less bombastic and engaging than "Breaking Bad." But the way she took a character who was essentially a comic respite and made her a touching creature with a great history and inner world is the epitome of television mediums. So much so that in our annual marches in recent years "Nearby on Sol" has twice conquered the summit (on seasons 2 and 3).

Like the mother series, "Relying on Sol" also describes the hero's metamorphosis from a good person to someone who is not, and as it does under an imminent sense, an invisible buffer where things will stop, in this case a "breakthrough" plot and Sol's character as we knew it Same name. And there is also the future, in black and white, after Sol escaped into a new, quiet and suffocating life, under a third name, Gene Takovich. All these points in his life reflect the essence of "Rest on Sol": the story of a man who must do the right thing, but his nature always warrants him. And in the midst of the people closest to him, his strict and critical brother Chuck (Michael McKean) and his brilliant girlfriend Kim (Ray Seahorn) who makes him want to be a better person. These rope strokes produce wonderful dramatic highs throughout the series.

Knowing that Jimmy’s endings are around the corner and that the future that we have already seen is about to happen, makes the close and quiet of “Close on Sol” perfect and complete. Everything is backed up with a fantastic display of professionalism - an amazing game for everyone, beautiful photography, brilliant editing and directing that manage to convey a story even for long, wordless minutes. Craft of constant play between light and dark.

(Ido Isaiah)

The embodiment of the degrees of medium. "Rest on Sol" (Photo: PR)

Rest on Sol, Season 4 Episode 10 (Photo: AMC, PR)

3. Flybg

Originally: Fleabag
Broadcasting Body: BBC (Israel on Amazon Prime Video)
Years: 2016-2019

Every year, more and more content is released, more and more series that make television lovers' lives a constant pursuit. The possibilities are widening, the density is only increasing, no one is really enough to see all the series everyone tells him he must see. Somehow above this noise she rose and married "Fliebag" this year. The series, which was created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge for the BBC originally, follows a young, wild and lost woman trying to get by in London against the backdrop of a tragedy she has experienced. She did this through frequent sexual encounters, excessive masturbation, emotional abuse of her partner, lectures on feminism, and particularly complicated relationships with her father and sister.

In 2016, when her first season came out - which should also be the only one, and then probably would have settled in a good spot on our mini-series parade - her attention did not go far beyond her homeland in the United Kingdom. But then in 2019 the second season came and threatened to damage the integrity of its predecessor, but did the unbelievable and transcended it. Through the masses of content that we have on every side, "Flybag" has carved through and occupied its place on the summit. In one of the Emmy Ceremony's justifiable moves throughout the ages, this year's best series won one of its two significant awards - the Best Comedy of the Year, by the way, defeating the latest season of "Veep." So did the comic actress and other categories.

not to. Really this is a one-off piece. A wonderfully written, witty, very funny and touching piece. The protagonist's character creates instant intimacy with us from the moment she breaks the fourth wall, and right through the end of the series (not expected to be a third season, at least not in the next few years), so much so that we become an integral character in her life, but with plot twists Brilliant ones that raise "Fliebag" a few degrees each time. Make it clear that she is not just another witty series about a lost young woman in a big city, which is a good thing in itself, but far more lofty.

Divine Comedy: We didn't expect the second season of "Flybag" to be so perfect

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One-time creation. "Flybag" (Photo: PR)

Playbag Season 2, Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Photo: PR, PR)

2. Manometer

Originally: Mad Men
Broadcasting Body: AMC (in Israel in HOT)
Years: 2007-2015

During this decade, four of the seven seasons of "Mad Men" aired. All but one - the fourth, which also includes the most beautiful episode of the series, "The Suitcase" - were actually a sign of decay and material fatigue. And even so, even with a little repetition or slight shuffling, "Mad Men" was one of the most beautiful, profound and exciting series of this decade. The class in 2015 is basically the era of another era, the television golden age in the United States. The one that began with "The Sopranos" in 1999, the place where Matthew Weiner, creator of "Mad Men," and largely brought to the front of the screen the affluent white anti-hero, through which he dismantled the American dream.

"Mad Men" did so, going back to the 1960s, on the verge of a huge change after decades of repression, the cradle of popular culture as we know it today. A time when white and patriarchal America was forced to bend, if only slightly, to obscure populations that until then were almost unpopular. It is quite amazing how this approach predicted the diverse and contained content - whether indispensable or cynical - that took over after the "Mad Men" on television and changed it forever.

"Mad meter" was slow, poetic, and meticulous. Almost every sentence said there was a number of strata and meanings, the costumes and the design reflected moods and every episode had a theme that tied things up. If "The Sopranos" at least provided action while doing similar things, "Mad Men" would not really be. Although she had quite a few plot lines and memorable moments, her main characters are her main characters, touchstones for their time and place. The hero Don Draper (John Hame), a man with a broken and conflicted identity, much like America. Peggy Olsen (Elizabeth Moss), the copywriter who put her career ahead of everything else without apologizing. Joan Holloway (Christina Hendricks), who has cast humanity in the form of beautiful curvaceous beauty. And conquering Roger Sterling (John Slathery), Betty Draper (January Jones), Pete Campbell (Vincent Carthizer) and many others - all helped create a beautiful, multi-layered work.

(Ido Isaiah)

Beautiful, deep and exciting. "Man Meter" (screenshot)

Man, the suitcase (Photo: screenshot)

1. Bojak Horsman

Originally: Bojack Horseman
Broadcast Body: Netflix
Years: 2014-2020

As happened in quite a few iconic series over the years, the greatness of "Bojak Horsman" was not apparent in its beginning. On the face of it was another banal satire about Hollywood, with not very beautiful animation and particularly sharp humor, in a world of talking animals living and working alongside humans as worthwhile. The protagonist, Bojak Horsman (in Will Arnett's voice), is a horse, an aging and self-centered past player who lives on the fumes of fame and royalties from his fame as a trite family sitcom star in the late Eighties and early Nineties. His opponent from time to time is also a Golden Retriever, Mr. Pinatbatter (Paul F. Thompkins). His agent is a cat, Princess Caroline (Amy Sedris). His biographer, Diane (Allison Berry), and a young man who settled with him at home, Todd, (Ark. Paul), are human beings.

Quite quickly, even before the end of the first season, it is evident that "Bojak Horsman" adds more and more layers to what she presents to us. Comedy got into a good rhythm, as in the way of animation it was loaded with background and front roofs and quick captions that we had to click for Fawz. Her fondness for tongue-in-cheek cast Doctor-Horse magic (in Hebrew this comparison sounds even better) with the twisted and rhyming monologues that are often placed in Princess Caroline's mouth, and mostly through the assimilation of mass - but mass - animal jokes. The beetle band was made up of beetles, Diane's family has a real black sheep but she herself is the family's black sheep, the cinematic classics "Squirrel Six" and "Catblanca", the TV series "Coalhapornication", Crocodile in Crocs shoes and so on.

It happens at such a murderous pace and with a constant blend of sophisticated and silly-but-funny humor that there's no escape from it. Bojack Horsman's adherence to her jokes is admirable, including ones that span entire seasons - whether it's turning Hollywood into "Hollywood" after Bojak stole the letter D from the sign, whether it's the signs that Mr. Pinatbatter invokes and always full For mistakes that Dayan didn't make clear to the phone and many others like them.

But of course, however great, this series is far more than its comedy layers. Heroine is a direct sequel to the hero of the second spot in this march and what he represented. A new phase in the evolution of the self-destructive anti-hero, and a new phase in the entire animation medium, accessible by the dramatic potential of illustrated heroes. "Bojak Horsman" speaks in her characters as she emphasizes thousands of small jokes and comments about their animals, but makes them human as few of the series can. It deals with regrets, anxieties, depression, the desire to change, fantasy, life, human connection.

Funny as it may be, it features one of the saddest episodes of this decade, which is why the mere sight of a starry sky may bring tears to my eyes. And she's always experimenting with the way she tells stories. Everyone likes to point to "Churu for Free" (a complete monologue by Bojak in his mother Beatrice's wake) from season five as the best episode of the series, but for me "The Arrow of Time" from season four, also about his mother, is the biggest illustration of what makes "Bojak" for a masterpiece. A heartbreaking and witchy episode brought through the mother's shitty eyes (in her voice Wendy Malik) and sheds light on what made Beatrice Beatrice and Bojack Bojack. Generations of scarred that had nothing but scarred others.

Although there is great darkness in "Bojak Horsman," the great love that Raphael Bob-Wexberg, the creator of the series, and a fellow artist with whom (including designer Lisa Hannavelt) meddle on everything, bridges drama and comedy, paving their paths with compassion. When the last episodes arrive in January 2020, it might not even be exaggerated to expect them to end with a beam of light.

(Ido Isaiah)

Humanity like few of the TV series. "Bojak Horsman" (Photo: PR)

Bojak Horsman Season 4 (Photo: PR)

The full list

Part One

100. Modern Family
99. Thirteen Reasons
98. Narcus
97. Big Little Lies
96. The Walking Dead
95. Homeland
94. Big Bang
93. Hannibal
92. Happiness Valley
91. Childish

90. Men of this age
89. Bob's Burgers
88. Brooklyn Nine Nine
87. Burn code
86. Arrange me
85. Lake Edge
84. Bates Motel
83. Legion
82. Fat Diary
81. Jessica Jones

Second part

80. Broadchurch
79. Spartacus
78. Space
77. Black Sails
76. The Knick
75. Utopia
74. Archer
73. Childrens Hospital
72. Novel
71. Twin Peaks

70. Virgin Jane
69. All for the Good
68. American Horror
67. UnREAL
66. The Mad Exit
65. Kill Eve
64. Kimi Schmidt
63. The 100
62. The Empire of Crime
61. Inside Amy Schumer

third part

60. South Park
59. Mind Hunter
58. Who lives in Hill Hill
57. Bright
56. Calm
55. Downton Estate
54. Cobra Kai
53. Worst There
52. Mozart in the Jungle
51. The Bridge

50. Black Mirror
49. Episodes
48. American Crime
47. Transform
46. Insecure
45. GLOW
44. Turn a Man into a Killer
43. Good Things
42. Private Justice
41. Derry Girls

Part IV

40. Westworld
39. The Best of Battle
38. Silicon Valley
37. This New Black Orange
36. Wonderful Mrs. Meisel
35. Sherlock
34. End of Fucking World
33. Good Place
32. Barry
31. Heirs

30. American Hooligan
29. True Detective
28. Specialist on Nothing
27. Big Mouth
26. Key & Peele
25. House of Cards
24. Rick and Morty
23. Community
22. Story of Slave
21. The Good Wife

Part Five

20. Game of Thrones
19. Catastrophe
18. Remaining
17. Snap
16. Louis
15. Girls
14. Strange Things
13. Broad City
12. Mr. Robot
11. Fargo

10. The crown
9. Atlanta
8. Veep
7. Department of Landscape and Landscape
6. The Americans
5. Breakthrough
4. Adjacent to the Sol
3. Fliebg
2. Med Man
1. Bojak Horsman

Decade of the limited series of the decade

20. Crazy
19. Query
18. Flint, Michigan
17. Good news
16. Incredible
15. Brainless
14. Sharp objects
13. Chernobyl
12. When they see us
11. Gap Year

10. Very Wild Land
9. The Jinx
8. Wolf Hall
7. Godless
6. The Blue Star 2
5. Responsible Adult
4. Olive Kitridge
3. Terriers
2. OJ Simpson: Made in America
1. The Pacific

The full parade

Like every parade, the one in front of you reflects something relative and partial, in part because of the vast amount of content of this decade. The raters - Ido Isaiah, Ilan Kaprov, Ophir Artzi, Amit Slonim, Natalia Yermin, Ophir Sagarsky, Pini Eskel and Hadar Torowitz - chose the decade series with a mix of quality, importance and love, not necessarily in this order. Since there is a difference between series that run over time and those that are initially limited to a certain number of episodes, the parade does not include mini-series. This is also why we chose not to include series that started in 2019, despite our great love for much of it. At this point, the fabric of the teenage years is unclear, and we will probably meet many of them in the next decade, and certainly in December, in this year's series parade.