Not long ago the New York Times asked five hundred people in the entertainment industry to pick their favourite shows made in the 2000s. They then published a top-100 list based on the results. I, being me, quantified my own consumption of the shows listed on it. Here are the highlights, followed by a visualization.

• ✔️I have watched 49 of these top 100 shows. But I’ve watched 15 of the top 20, and 33 of the top 50.
  • Note: I counted these as “watched” if I have watched all episodes of the show to date.
• ▶️I am currently watching two: I’m halfway through The Americans and I’m a few episodes behind on Slow Horses.
• 🛑I have partially watched seven:
  • Girls (I watched most of season one, but only parts of the subsequent seasons)
  • Survivor (I watched the first season or two decades ago, but nothing since)
  • Happy Valley (I’ve only watched one season but certainly plan to watch the rest)
  • House of Cards (I watched the first few seasons but fell off somewhere before the Kevin Spacey news broke. I’m honestly not sure if I’ll ever go back and finish it.)
  • RuPaul’s Drag Race (I’ve watched only a handful of seasons)
  • The Handmaid’s Tale (I watched maybe half the first season; I stopped because Lindsay did, but then she continued on without me later and I never went back to it)
  • It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (I watched the first several seasons, but certainly not all of them)
• 📅There are 24 series on the list that I have not watched, but want to. That should keep me busy for a while.
• ❌There are 18 series on this list which I’m — for the most part — not opposed to watching, but have little interest in. The only one of these in the top 20 is Lost.
  • I could in theory have counted Lost in the “partial” category since I watched the first few episodes, but I can’t even remember them.
  • Included in this category are series where I’ve seen random episodes because someone had it on while I was in the room, like Broad City, Dexter, House, Gilmore Girls, or Scandal.