20 legendary TV shows of the 2000s that you want to watch even now

To set the mood

Clinic

Drama, comedy.
USA, 2001–2010.
Duration: 9 seasons.
IMDb: 8, 4.

John Dorian and Christopher Turk are young doctors who are about to undergo an internship at the Sacred Heart Clinic. They will have to learn medical wisdom and overcome life difficulties under the supervision of the charismatic Dr. Cox, who is not so easy to please.

How I Met your mother

Comedy, melodrama, drama.
USA, 2005–2014.
Duration: 9 seasons.
IMDb: 8, 4.

Young architect Ted diligently searches for true love, but fails after failure. He believes that sooner or later he will still meet that one, one and only girl, and so far nothing prevents him from having fun with friends and doing crazy things.

The Big Bang Theory

Melodrama, comedy.
USA, 2007–2018.
Duration: 12 seasons.
IMDb: 8, 3.

The life of two physicists - "botanists" Leonard and Sheldon flows quietly and measuredly. They study science, and in their free time, they avidly watch TV shows and play board games with their geek friends. Everything changes dramatically when a new neighbor, pretty beauty Penny, moves into the apartment next door.

Black's Bookstore

Comedy.
Great Britain, 2000-2004.
Duration: 3 seasons.
IMDb: 8, 5.

A funny sitcom about the owner of a small bookstore Bernard Black, who hates the whole world, and his friends: the clumsy but good-natured madman Manny and the lonely alcoholic Fran.

Geeks

Comedy.
UK, 2006–2013.
Duration: 5 seasons.
IMDb: 8, 6.

After a successful interview bluff, Jen, a middle-aged loser with absolutely no computer skills, is appointed head of the IT department. She will have to improve relations between two unsociable IT people sitting in the basement, and the rest of the company. It turns out she's very bad, but funny.

Mighty Bush

Musical, fantasy, comedy.
UK, 2003-2007.
Duration: 3 seasons.
IMDb: 8, 4.

Concentrated insane series about the antics and psychedelic adventures of two crazy zoo workers. Howard Moon and Vince Noir talk about their daily lives, travels and meeting extraordinary people.

Office

Comedy.
USA, 2005–2013.
Duration: 9 seasons.
IMDb: 8, 8.

A soulful series about the life of an American office selling paper. It is headed by Michael Scott, the worst boss imaginable. With his ridiculous jokes and strange inventions, he terrorizes all employees, making them constantly feel awkward.

About life dramas

Desperate Housewives

Drama, melodrama, comedy.
USA, 2004–2012.
Duration: 8 seasons.
IMDb: 7, 5.

Exemplary families living in the quiet streets of the American town of Fairview keep many secrets. One day the sleepy idyll of the suburb is disturbed by an egregious event: one of the neighbors suddenly commits suicide. To find out what happened and who is to blame, four desperate housewives undertake.

Dr. House

Drama, detective.
USA, 2004–2012.
Duration: 8 seasons.
IMDb: 8, 8.

Gregory House is a desperate misanthropist and a genius diagnostician who can cope with even the most intricate medical mystery. Every day, a team of doctors under his leadership encounters new patients, diagnoses them and saves lives, resignedly enduring all the crazy antics of the eccentric boss.

Gossip

Drama, melodrama.
USA, 2007–2012.
Duration: 6 seasons.
IMDb: 7, 4.

The life of rich teenagers from the Upper East Side is constantly agitated by the scandalous gossip - a mysterious blogger who knows every single secret of spoiled kids. Popular students of the Manhattan School Serena, Chuck, Blair and Nate are constantly under her supervision. For their quarrels, partings and intrigues, the audience will have to watch.

Madmen

Drama.
USA, 2007–2015.
Duration: 7 seasons.
IMDb: 8, 6.

A stylish series about the everyday work of an advertising agency located in the heart of New York. Don Draper and his creative team come up with advertising slogans and campaigns for respectable clients, along the way trying to deal with problems in their personal life.

Californication

Drama, comedy.
USA, 2007–2014.
Duration: 7 seasons.
IMDb: 8, 3.

The successful and famous writer Hank Moody is going through hard times. His wife left him, relations with his daughter went wrong, and besides, over the past five years, he has not written a single line. Out of despair, Hank leads an extremely riotous lifestyle, but he does not lose hope of returning everything to its place and reuniting with the lost family.

Breaking Bad

Thriller, drama, crime.
USA, 2008–2013.
Duration: 5 seasons.
IMDb: 9, 5.

Fifty-year-old chemistry teacher Walter White learns from a doctor about a disappointing diagnosis - lung cancer. He perfectly understands that the financial situation of his family is far from ideal, so he decides to earn extra money while he can still. Together with his former student Jesse, he builds a real methamphetamine laboratory, which he soon turns into a real production.

About science fiction and the paranormal

Stay alive

Science fiction, fantasy, thriller, drama, detective.
USA, 2004-2010.
Duration: 6 seasons.
IMDb: 8, 4.

An airliner flying over the Pacific Ocean crashes and falls on a desert island. Miraculously, only a few crew members manage to survive in a terrible plane crash, whose main task is to stay alive until help arrives.

Smallville

Science fiction, drama, melodrama.
USA, Canada, 2001–2011.
Duration: 10 seasons.
IMDb: 7, 5.

One day, the Kent family discovers a little boy among the wreckage of a spaceship and decides to adopt him. Soon it is discovered that the boy has superpowers, which he is forced to hide from everyone. This is a series about the teenage years of Clark Kent, who would later become known to the world as Superman.

Supernatural

Horror, Fantasy, Thriller, Drama.
USA, 2005–2018.
Duration: 13 seasons.
IMDb: 8, 5.

Brothers Sam and Dean Winchesters travel across America in search of their missing father. Along the way, they fight supernatural evil spirits and try to solve the mystery of the death of their mother, who died under very mystical circumstances.

Firefly

Science fiction, action, drama.
USA, 2002-2003.
Duration: 1 season.
IMDb: 9, 1.

A cosmic western set in the distant future, when people have already mastered a new star system. A team of desperate smugglers roam the Universe on the Firefly interplanetary spacecraft and periodically get into trouble of varying severity.

About criminals and police

Dexter

Thriller, drama, crime, detective.
USA, 2006–2013.
Duration: 8 seasons.
IMDb: 8, 7.

Dexter Morgan is a forensic scientist at the Miami Police Department and a serial killer with a special philosophy. He only hunts for those criminals who managed to escape justice. Dexter is smart and elusive, but one day a mysterious someone appears, almost equal to him in terms of brutal skill.

Bones

Drama, melodrama, comedy, crime.
USA, 2005–2017.
Duration: 12 seasons.
IMDb: 7, 9.

Anthropologist Temperance Brennan and Seeley Booth, a talented FBI agent, begin work on a series of unsolved cases. All the bones were left of the victims, but this is not a reason to stop the investigation.

Wiretapping

Thriller, drama, crime.
USA, 2002-2008.
Duration: 5 seasons.
IMDb: 9, 3.

A police team from Baltimore is trying to solve a drug case and expose the local mafia. Detective James McNulty, using special wiretapping equipment, attempts to bring people involved in crimes to the surface, but suddenly faces a serious problem: bureaucracy and corruption within the police department.