Best TV Shows of 2001
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Band of BrothersTen hours of small-unit history told without a single manufactured hero.Read the review
The Office (UK)Fourteen episodes, no redemption arc, and a boss the show refuses to let you forgive until it costs him something.
Six Feet UnderA show about a funeral home that is really about how badly people avoid the subject.
24Television's great ticking clock: Kiefer Sutherland's Jack Bauer races each day in real time, thrilling for five seasons and running on formula after that.
ScrubsA hospital comedy funnier than it needs to be and sadder than it lets on, right up until the ninth season.
SmallvilleTen years of a young man refusing to put on the suit, and one genuinely great Lex Luthor.