Welcome to The Indiependent’s Top TV of the Decade! In our 15th and final feature, James Nash explores why Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag is his show of the year, the decade, and the century. What more could possibly be said about the series that took the world by storm earlier this year? Yes, Fleabag is extraordinary. It’s […]Read More
Welcome to The Indiependent’s Top TV of the Decade! In today’s feature, Holly Patrick takes a look at an arguably underrated sit-com, Zooey Deschanel’s New Girl… Good American sitcoms were hard to come by in the noughties. Then in 2011, Jess Day (Zooey Deschanel) moved into a loft with some strangers in Los Angeles. New Girl […]Read More
Welcome to The Indiependent’s Top TV of the Decade! TV Editor James Nash dives into the hit BBC One crime-drama, Happy Valley… Sally Wainwright’s Happy Valley is not just bleak – it’s violently bleak. Both series of the hit BBC One drama never shied away from the brutality of the crimes committed, or the psychological effect […]Read More
Welcome to The Indiependent’s Top TV of the Decade! Today, Tommy Farrell takes a look at the hilarious Veep, starring the brilliant Julia Louis-Dreyfus… During the Obama years Veep’s task was uncomplicated. It was an inherently political show but it was operating in relatively straightforward times; there was no #MeToo movement, Donald Trump was just […]Read More
Welcome to The Indiependent’s Top TV of the Decade! Deputy Opinion editor Jacob Fleming explores the cult-hit anime, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure… This popular manga written by Hirohiko Araki had received a number of poor film and TV adaptations before David Production released the rights to produce their own anime. With this, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Phantom […]Read More
Welcome to The Indiependent’s Top TV of the Decade! Our Deputy Film Editor, Ed Budds, dives into the first season of the hit crime-drama, True Detective… When we talk about True Detective in this ‘Top TV of the Decade’ discussion, it’s pretty vital to establish early on that we are mostly referring to the show’s […]Read More
Welcome to The Indiependent’s Top TV of the Decade! In this feature, Jack Roberts discusses the intoxicating reunion series of David Lynch’s seminal Twin Peaks… Is it future or is it past? After 25 years of fan theories, cult followings and cherry pies washed down with damn fine coffee, 2017 saw the return of Mark […]Read More
Welcome to The Indiependent’s Top TV of the Decade! Our very own TV Editor, James Nash, takes a look at one of most good-hearted shows of the 2010s, The Good Place… What do we owe to The Good Place? As it turns out, a great deal. Mike Schur’s philosophical sit-com begins with a woman, Eleanor […]Read More
Welcome to The Indiependent’s Top TV of the Decade! In this feature, Libby Briggs looks at the longevity of beloved US sitcom, It’s Always Sunny… Now the longest running US sitcom ever, FXX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia has been making us laugh for a whole 14 years. With such dark comedy at the heart […]Read More
Welcome to The Indiependent’s Top TV of the Decade! Our new Deputy Opinion Editor, Jacob Fleming, tells us why Mike Schur’s Parks and Recreation made his list… Unpopular Opinion: Parks and Recreation (Parks & Rec) is better than US rendition of The Office. Yeah, I said it. I am aware I’m cheating a little here, […]Read More
Welcome to The Indiependent’s Top TV of the Decade! Emma Morgan takes a look at Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan’s The Trip… Part sitcom, part travel programme, part restaurant review, The Trip is an unusual but engaging showcase of the talents of two of our best loved comedians. Beginning with a restaurant tour of the […]Read More
Welcome to The Indiependent’s Top TV of the Decade! Christopher Burns takes us through why Donald Glover’s Atlanta made his list… As its creator once put “I’m not making a TV show, I am making an experience”, Atlanta has transformed over the course of its two seasons. Donald Glover’s show about four African-Americans finding their […]Read More
Welcome to The Indiependent’s Top TV of the Decade! In this feature, Emma Reilly looks at the enduring, subversive Adventure Time… First airing on Cartoon Network in 2010 and airing its final episode in September 2018, Adventure Time is often seen as a nostalgic childhood favourite for many people, but also as a current favourite […]Read More
Welcome to The Indiependent’s Top TV of the Decade! In this feature, Tommy Farrell explores why Mad Men is one of his favourites… AMC’s sprawling, meticulously produced, decade-spanning epic revolved around Don Draper, one of the Golden Age of Television’s greatest anti-heroes. The complexity and richness of his character – as well as Jon Hamm’s […]Read More
Welcome to The Indiependent’s Top TV of the Decade! Writers across all sections of the paper are contributing to this 20-part feature, discussing their favourite shows from 2010 – 2019 – will yours make the list? Regular Opinion contributor Emma Penney kicks us off with Netflix’s Lovesick… Lovesick first hit our screens in 2014 under […]Read More
