
Fans Pick the Best TV Shows of the Last 25 Years
In celebration of Rotten Tomatoes’ 25th anniversary, we asked our fans to submit their top TV shows released in the past 25 years, and boy did they deliver! Sure the usual suspects made it to the top — iconic series like Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, and The Office — but we also had some surprising results. Fan-favorite sci-fi thriller series Dark managed to crack the Top 10, while The Big Bang Theory beat out other sitcoms like Ted Lasso, Parks and Recreation, and How I Met Your Mother.
Be sure to check out the list of the Critics Pick the Best TV Series of the Last 25 Years, too – you might be surprised by some of their choices. And check out what fans picked for their Best Movies of the Last 25 Years.
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Synopsis: Mild-mannered high school chemistry teacher Walter White thinks his life can't get much worse. His salary barely makes ends meet, a situation not likely to... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, RJ Mitte
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Synopsis: George R.R. Martin's best-selling book series "A Song of Ice and Fire" is brought to the screen as HBO sinks its considerable storytelling teeth into... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke
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Synopsis: Tony Soprano juggles the problems of his fractious family with those of a "Family" of a different sort - the mob. He sees a therapist... View Full Synopsis
Starring: James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli
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Synopsis: This U.S. adaptation -- set at a paper company based in Scranton, Pa. -- has a similar documentary style to that of the Ricky Gervais-led... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Steve Carell, Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer
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Synopsis: Mysteries unravel in a small Midwestern town in the 1980s, involving supernatural forces, secret experiments and one strange girl.
Starring: Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard
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Synopsis: He wasn't always Saul Goodman, ace attorney for chemist-turned-meth dealer Walter White. Six years before he begins to represent Albuquerque's most notorious criminal, Goodman is... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Michael Mando, Patrick Fabian
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Synopsis: This series looks at the narcotics scene in Baltimore through the eyes of law enforcers as well as the drug dealers and users. Other facets... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Dominic West, John Doman, Frankie Faison, Wood Harris
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Synopsis: Although he has no plans to step aside as the head of Waystar Royco, the international media conglomerate controlled by his family, aging patriarch Logan... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Hiam Abbass, Nicholas Braun, Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin
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Synopsis: The survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 were 1,000 miles off course when they crashed on a lush, mysterious island. Each person possesses a shocking secret,... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Naveen Andrews, Nestor Carbonell, Emilie de Ravin, Michael Emerson
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Synopsis: When two children go missing in a small German town, its sinful past is exposed along with the double lives and fractured relationships that exist... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Oliver Masucci, Karoline Eichhorn, Jördis Triebel, Louis Hofmann
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Synopsis: Brave men and women act heroically to mitigate catastrophic damage when the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant suffers a nuclear accident on April 26, 1986.
Starring: Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson, Paul Ritter
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Synopsis: Mensa-fied best friends and roommates Leonard and Sheldon, physicists who work at the California Institute of Technology, may be able to tell everybody more than... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg
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Synopsis: An American football coach is hired to manage a British soccer team; what he lacks in knowledge, he makes up for in optimism, determination and... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Jason Sudeikis, Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, Jeremy Swift
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Synopsis: In 1960s New York, alpha male Don Draper struggles to stay on top of the heap in the high-pressure world of Madison Avenue advertising firms.... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Jon Hamm, John Slattery, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones
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Synopsis: Leslie Knope, a midlevel bureaucrat in an Indiana Parks and Recreation Department, hopes to beautify her town (and boost her own career) by helping local... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Amy Poehler, Aziz Ansari, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza
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Synopsis: The world is divided into four nations -- the Water Tribe, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation and and the Air Nomads -- each represented... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Zachery Tyler, Mae Whitman, Jack De Sena, Dee Bradley Baker
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Synopsis: Britain is a mixture of despair and hedonism in 1919 in the aftermath of the Great War. Returning soldiers, newly minted revolutions and criminal gangs... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Natasha O'Keeffe, Paul Anderson, Sophie Rundle
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Synopsis: Joel and Ellie must survive ruthless killers and monsters on a trek across America after an outbreak.
Starring: Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Gabriel Luna, Isabela Merced
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Synopsis: Superheroes are often as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians, and sometimes even as revered as gods. But that's when they're using their powers... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty
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Synopsis: This series, originally broadcast on HBO, tells the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army. Based on interviews with... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston, Rick Gomez, Scott Grimes
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Synopsis: After the fall of the Galactic Empire, a lone gunfighter makes his way through the outer reaches of the lawless galaxy.
Starring: Pedro Pascal, Katee Sackhoff, Carl Weathers, Giancarlo Esposito
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Synopsis: Based on the comic book series written by Robert Kirkman, this gritty drama portrays life in the months and years that follow a zombie apocalypse.... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Lauren Cohan, Josh McDermitt
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Synopsis: Ted has fallen in love. It all started when his best friend, Marshall, drops the bombshell that he plans to propose to longtime girlfriend Lily,... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris
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Synopsis: A young chef from the fine dining world comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop after a heartbreaking death in his family.... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ayo Edebiri, Abby Elliott
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Synopsis: In this contemporary version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective stories, Dr. John Watson is a war vet just home from Afghanistan. He meets the... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Andrew Scott, Vinette Robinson

