Pajiba's March Madness Bracket: The Best Show of the 21st Century?

By Dustin Rowles | TV | March 15, 2018 |

By Dustin Rowles | TV | March 15, 2018 |

Hello, and welcome to Pajiba’s 2018 March Madness bracket, wherein we will determine what the best show of the 21st Century is. It’s pretty simple. There are 64 shows. You all vote in 32 polls. Winners move on to the next round.

There is one key difference between this and some other March Madness polls. I’m not pitting 1 seeds versus 16 seeds, for instance. In coming up with the pairings, I tried to find similarly themed shows to pit against each other, which should make some of the decisions very painful for you. It should also mean fierce competition even in the first round, where we will see a few favorites gets knocked off early.

That’s part of the fun.

A few notes: If one of your favorite shows is not among the 64, I don’t care. If you feel that one of the shows listed among the top 64 should not be in competition, again, I don’t care. Also, to be eligible, a show only needs to have aired at some point during the 2000s, even if the majority of that show ran in the 1990s. (Freaks and Geeks, for instance, aired in 1999-2000. It qualifies).

Beyond that, please have fun, and I hope that having 32 polls on one page doesn’t crash your browser!

1. Mike Schur

2. R-Rated Animated Sitcom

3. Tina Fey

4. One-Season Wonder

5. Damon Lindelof

6. Mobsters

7.

8. Cruelly Knocking Out a Favorite in the First Round (HBO Edition)

9. Long-Running Animated Sitcom

10. Steve Moffat

11. Sci-Fi Drama

12. Clear Eyes, Full Hearts

13. Dan Harmon

14. Netflix Superhero

15. Late Night

16. 90’s Sitcom Holdovers

17. HBO Comedy

18. Problematic Leads

19. Hurwitzian

20.

21. Netflix Sci-Fi

22. Western

23. Uncomfortable Comedy

24. Damaged Relationships

25. Fantastic Writing

26. Elisabeth Moss

27. Shows About Death

28. Shows that Start with H

29. Shows Set in High School

30. Sketch Comedy

31. Female Ensembles

32. Comfort Sitcoms