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What shows would you recommend most from that time period?

That's a large time span to cover. Is this for fun or for "catching them up to cultural speed" type of hypothetical situation?

Either. Not many shows stayed culturally relevant for that long though. Even GoT made a big splash and now everybody basically forgot it existed.

No but there are so many jokes and memes and general references that we don't even notice that a person who time warped forward would be so confused by.

House (first 4 seasons), Criminal Minds, Battlestar Galactica, Star Wars: Clone Wars and Rebels, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Supernatural (first 5 seasons), 12 Monkeys (underrated and great), Andor, Game of Thrones (minus last two season),

If we can include things that started earlier, Doctor Who.

To understand the 00s? The Office.

Hannibal, Chernobyl, The Good Place

This made me feel so fucking old. I thought of a few but I searched them up and most of them came out over twenty years ago. Time sucks.

Heh, same.

Nobody watched it at the time as far as I can tell, but "The Booth at the End". Absolutely some of the best, tightest, most riveting ensemble and character writing I've ever seen, it's a short 2-season miniseries and you can knock it out in a weekend. I think it's on amazon but just pirate it, the commercials absolutely ruin the razor-sharp tension. (Please, please, I beg you. I beg all of you. The premise is a mysterious man in a dinner will grant a wish if you perform an unrelated task. The theme is How far are you willing to go to get what you want. It's absolutely immaculate.)

If it jives with your sense of humor and you're okay with shows going to a darker place, absolutely watch Bojack Horseman. The writing is just fucking phenomenal on every level, it does not miss. It gives the same long-running brutally honest character study of very complicated people sometimes doing a lot of real harm as Breaking Bad does, without being such a bleak fucking downer. Bojack has animal puns and likable characters who aren't totally destroyed by the end. And Aaron Todd is also there!

If you're okay with kids stuff, Avatar the Last Airbender and Steven Universe are genuinely both worth the hype. Really solid plot and character arcs that don't talk down to their audiences, fun along the way and so empathetic and affirming. Neither is a perfect series but they're damn great.

Seconding Chernobyl and The Good Place, for two opposite tones that are both just astonishingly well-done and will hold your heart in their hands.

YES The Booth at the End hhhh

Kevin Can F**k Himself

The Office and Breaking Bad because culturally they still have a lot of relevance. I'd also recommend How I Met Your Mother for similar reasons.

American Vandal as a glimpse of what youth culture has been like as compared to a pre-internet/social media laced world

Chopped because it's an easy answer for reality tv, food culture, US competition and good luck not binging

I May Destroy You to remember how far we've come in regards to rape culture and how much more we still have to go

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