These Shows Are Considered the Greatest Television Series of the 21st Century

The Good Place

This is yet another heavenly sitcom a la Mike Schur, who is responsible for hits like Parks and Rec, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and the U.S. adaptation of The Office. The series documents the plight of four people navigating interpersonal relationships and moral philosophy in the afterlife. Also, Ted Danson plays a demon.

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The More You Know

  • A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
  • Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.
  • The brain is the fattest organ.
  • The Nobel Committee declined to award the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948 because "there was no suitable living candidate." This was meant as tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, who was assassinated earlier that year without receiving the Prize.
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