Mad Men and cultural phenomenons like Friday Night Lights. But we were also enjoying a Golden Age of Feel Good Television, before antiheroes and tragic storylines started to completely dominate the TV landscape.
TV history from 2000 through 2010 is this unique, special unicorn of entertainment, when there was room for Walter White and the Gilmore girls, when Buffy was slaying vampires and redefining pop culture feminism while The West Wing was changing how high brow people thought a network TV drama could be.
It was when most of the shows that have been getting buzzy reboots were just buzzy first-run hits or under-the-radar cult classics in the making.
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