Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic As part of Variety’s 100 Greatest Shows of All Time issue, we asked writers on our staff to name their favorite cult shows — series that may lack the clout, the following, or the prestige to quite notch an entry on our list, but ones for which our writers have a special fondness. Here are seven shows that are, to us, the greatest. Alias So the central mythology, about the mystical inventor Milo Rambaldi, came to little as the show went on. No big deal.