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Variety: The 100 Greatest TV Performances of the 21st Century
Posted on 2/13/25 at 12:35 pm
Posted on 2/13/25 at 12:35 pm
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Suffice it to say that this list is meant in the spirit of fun, but it was undertaken with seriousness; Variety staffers debated first the performances we might want on the list and then their placement over the course of many months. We started with certain parameters. In order to define the pool of shows we were working with, we limited ourselves to scripted series that began on or after January 1, 2000. (The years we list on each entry are the years the performance were given, not the years the show ran.) Simon Cowell, for instance, may have given the performance of a lifetime over his seasons of “American Idol,” but scripted TV, it seemed apparent to us, is just a different beast. And Sarah Jessica Parker, James Gandolfini and Sarah Michelle Gellar may have delivered era-defining work well into the 2000s on “Sex and the City,” “The Sopranos” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” but — unfortunately! — there had to be a cut-off somewhere. Starting the clock in the year 2000 focused our attention on work that happened in the wake of the prestige-TV boom that those three shows helped to kick off.
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1. Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer, “Veep”
HBO, 2012-2019
2. Jeremy Strong as Kendall Roy, “Succession”
HBO, 2018-2023
3. Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson, “Mad Men”
AMC, 2007-2015
4. Lisa Kudrow as Valerie Cherish, “The Comeback”
HBO, 2005, 2014
5. Bryan Cranston as Walter White, “Breaking Bad”
AMC, 2008-2013
6. Michael Kenneth Williams as Omar Little, “The Wire”
HBO, 2002-2008
7. Carrie Coon as Nora Durst, “The Leftovers”
HBO, 2014-2017
8. Andre Braugher as Capt. Raymond Holt, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”
Fox, 2013-2018; NBC, 2019-2021
9. Rhea Seehorn as Kim Wexler, “Better Call Saul”
AMC, 2015-2022
10. Sandra Oh as Dr. Cristina Yang, “Grey’s Anatomy”
ABC, 2005-2014
11. Michaela Coel as Arabella Essiedu, “I May Destroy You”
HBO, 2020
12. Steve Carell as Michael Scott, “The Office”
NBC, 2005-2011, 2013
13. Regina King as Angela Abar/Sister Night, “Watchmen”
HBO, 2019
14. Michael Chiklis as Vic Mackey, “The Shield”
FX, 2002-2008
15. Keri Russell as Elizabeth Jennings, “The Americans”
FX, 2013-2018
rest of the list
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Posted on 2/13/25 at 12:40 pm to RLDSC FAN
Won't read any further after seeing Michael Scott at #12 and below someone on Brooklyn 99.
Posted on 2/13/25 at 12:41 pm to RLDSC FAN
No Matthew McConaughey from S1 of True Detective? GTFO
Posted on 2/13/25 at 12:44 pm to RLDSC FAN
These Variety lists are always shitty
Posted on 2/13/25 at 1:27 pm to RLDSC FAN
That’s a pretty strong list. The top 10 could pretty much be a mix and match I probably would have flip-flopped Bryan Cranston and Julia Louis-Dreyfus otherwise no complaints
Posted on 2/13/25 at 2:07 pm to RLDSC FAN
How tf is James Gandolfini not in the top 3 for his role as Tony Soprano?
Edit: holy shite, they don't have him in the list AT ALL. WHAT A JOKE.
Edit: holy shite, they don't have him in the list AT ALL. WHAT A JOKE.
This post was edited on 2/13/25 at 2:17 pm
Posted on 2/13/25 at 2:18 pm to RLDSC FAN
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1. Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer, “Veep”
HBO, 2012-2019
Amazing show and character but definitely not the best tv performance of the 21st century. For female characters alone Keri Russell in the Americans was better.
Posted on 2/13/25 at 2:21 pm to RUFshreve
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How tf is James Gandolfini not in the top 3 for his role as Tony Soprano?
Posted on 2/13/25 at 2:25 pm to RLDSC FAN
I've seen a lot of bad lists out there and none of them are going to make everyone happy, but that is one of the worst I've ever seen.
I have a lot of complaints with the list but one of the more baffling ones is having Sarah Goldberg as Sally Reed on “Barry” on there. Barry or NoHo Hank for sure deserve to be on there but Sally was just an awful character. Completely unlikable. Makes no sense.
I have a lot of complaints with the list but one of the more baffling ones is having Sarah Goldberg as Sally Reed on “Barry” on there. Barry or NoHo Hank for sure deserve to be on there but Sally was just an awful character. Completely unlikable. Makes no sense.
Posted on 2/13/25 at 2:26 pm to RUFshreve
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Edit: holy shite, they don't have him in the list AT ALL. WHAT A JOKE.
Show started in 1999 (that is hard believe its 26 years old), they started at 2000.
Posted on 2/13/25 at 2:32 pm to lsutigersFTW
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That’s a pretty strong list. The top 10 could pretty much be a mix and match I probably would have flip-flopped Bryan Cranston and Julia Louis-Dreyfus otherwise no complaints
Seriously? You think Kendall is the 2nd best TV performance in the last 25 years? The guy was about the 5th best acting performance out of his own family in that show
Lame, annoying, try hard character. This post was edited on 2/13/25 at 3:40 pm
Posted on 2/13/25 at 2:39 pm to iwyLSUiwy
Well his name is Jeremy first off and I said the top 10 was solid but slightly interchangeable. He certainly qualifies to be top 10. Dude was incredible in that show and was incredible in that Apprentice movie.
Posted on 2/13/25 at 2:58 pm to RLDSC FAN
DEI hires making DEI lists are a hell of a drug.
Posted on 2/13/25 at 3:13 pm to RLDSC FAN
McConaughey when asked why he didn’t complain about being omitted
Posted on 2/13/25 at 3:22 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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Makes no sense.
Bruh, you know why it DOES make sense.
Posted on 2/13/25 at 3:37 pm to RLDSC FAN
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And Sarah Jessica Parker, James Gandolfini and Sarah Michelle Gellar may have delivered era-defining work well into the 2000s on “Sex and the City,” “The Sopranos” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” but — unfortunately! — there had to be a cut-off somewhere
Posted on 2/13/25 at 3:50 pm to lsutigersFTW
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He certainly qualifies to be top 10. Dude was incredible in that show
He really wasn't. It was a good but overrated show and his performance was just a bumbling idiot that was completely overacted on his part. He was laughable at times. Just based on acting and better characters Brian Cox/Logan, Kieran Culkin/Roman and Matthew MacFadyen/Tom were much better performances were all better on that show alone, much less considering every show in the past 25 years.
The fact that in the article they say they hotly debated on which character was their favorite between 5 different cast members should tell you that they were just set on putting some Succession cast member at that spot regardless. When it's debatable if he's even the best one in the show, he's not a #2 greatest performance..
Posted on 2/13/25 at 4:13 pm to RLDSC FAN
See a lot of women on that Top 10.
Checks out.
I think 90% of Variety writers are women.
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Variety
Checks out.
I think 90% of Variety writers are women.
Posted on 2/13/25 at 5:35 pm to RLDSC FAN
Time for variety to generate some clicks !
Toss out a baity list and watch it burn
Toss out a baity list and watch it burn
Posted on 2/13/25 at 5:40 pm to RLDSC FAN
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8. Andre Braugher as Capt. Raymond Holt, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”
Fox, 2013-2018; NBC, 2019-2021
Not even Braugher's best police officer
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