The 11 best TV shows of 2021
Year-end lists are my least favorite thing. Seriously. I'd rather watch Maury Povich while eating bland supermarket hummus on wilted celery than commit to 10 shows. (Or, in this case, 11.) It's so ... final. With that in mind, please consider the below a sampling of all the shows that challenged the darkness of the pandemic and democratic crisis with boundary-pushing humor, drama, fantasy, science fiction and everything else they had in their creative arsenal.
'Reservation Dogs' (FX/Hulu)
Hulu's dramedy about Indigenous teens living on an Oklahoma reservation breaks so many television norms that it should win the Emmy for outstanding disruption, if there were such a thing. It's the first domestic TV series for which the writers and directors are all Indigenous, with a predominantly Indigenous cast and crew and an Indigenous showrunner, Sterlin Harjo, at its helm. But it's the dream-like delivery of the story — shot entirely in the Muscogee Nation — and its eccentric characters that give "Reservation Dogs"
