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• Olivia Sanabia • Abby Donnelly • Aubrey Miller • Judah Bellamy • Catia Ojeda • Andrew Burlinson • • Composer(s) Zack Ryan Country of origin United States Original language(s) English No. Of seasons 2 No. Of episodes 26 Production Executive producer(s) Andrew Orenstein Co-executive producers: Joanna Lewis Kristine Songco Producer(s) Pixie Wespiser Cinematography Mark Doering-Powell Running time 23–27 minutes Production company(s) Pictures in a Row Grasshopper Lane Entertainment Distributor Release Original network Picture format HDTV Audio format Stereo; 5.1 Surround Original release January 15, 2015 ( 2015-01-15) – present Just Add Magic is an American live-action family television series, loosely based on by Cindy Callaghan. It was produced. A pilot was produced in 2015 and the series commissioned for a full season the following year. Amazon renewed the series for a second season in June 2016 after it 'set a record as the most successful Amazon Original Kids premiere weekend in terms of U.S. Prime Video streams and hours.'

Although Amazon has not yet confirmed a third season, the actors have indicated that they are filming more episodes. Contents • • • • • • • • • Premise [ ] Amateur preteen chefs Kelly, Darbie, and Hannah, discover an ancient while searching for Kelly's brother in the attic. The recipes they find inside have strange names like 'Shut'em Up ' and 'Healing ' and require unusual ingredients, such as 'Cedronian ' and 'Taurian '. When Kelly's brother eats a bite of the shortcake and can no longer talk, the three friends realize they are dealing with. After Darbie cannot stop talking, they also realize the spells come with a consequence. Kelly, Darbie, and Hannah investigate how the magical recipes work and face the temptations of using magic to help overcome the everyday challenges of being girls.

But Kelly has one overriding goal: Find the magical recipe that will fix her grandmother's mysterious illness, even if it means crossing creepy Mamma P or scary Ms. Cast and characters [ ] • Olivia Sanabia as Kelly Quinn • Abby Donnelly as Darbie O'Brien • Aubrey Miller as Hannah Parker-Kent • Judah Bellamy as Jake Williams • Catia Ojeda as Terri Quinn • Andrew Burlinson as Scott Quinn • as Grandma Becky Quinn • as Ida 'Mama P' Perez • Ellen Karsten as Ms. Gina Silvers Guest starring [ ] • as The Traveler • as Chuck Hankins Series overview [ ] Season Episodes Originally released First released Last released 13 January 15, 2015 ( 2015-01-15) January 14, 2016 ( 2016-01-14) 13 October 14, 2016 ( 2016-10-14) January 12, 2017 ( 2017-01-12) Episodes [ ] Season 1 (2015–16) [ ] No.

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In season Title Directed by Written by Original release date 1 1 'Just Add Magic' Nancy Cohen, Joanna Lewis & Kristine Songco January 15, 2015 ( 2015-01-15) Three friends, Kelly, Darbie, and Hannah discover a cookbook in the attic, whose recipes have magical effects. Kelly's grandmother is seemingly confused; she rarely speaks or does anything active, but no one seems to know why. 2 2 'Just Add Brains' Andrew Orenstein January 14, 2016 ( 2016-01-14) The girls make Brain Boosting Bolognese to help with school and to understand the cookbook. But being know-it-alls has an unfortunate downside.

The girls learn that the cookbook is seemingly infinite: trying to read through it they never seem to get any nearer to the last page. Also, three pages are torn out and missing, and the cookbook sometimes flips to a page on its own when the girls express their wish to accomplish a specific purpose. The girls learn that Kelly's grandmother, Mama P, and Ms. Silvers were once young friends just like Kelly, Hannah, and Darbie, and that a strange woman named The Traveler gave them the cookbook. 3 3 'Just Add Dogs' Joe Nussbaum TBA January 14, 2016 ( 2016-01-14) To find a lost dog, the three friends cook up Lost and Found-ue, but end up attracting everything that has been lost in the neighborhood. The three missing pages from the cookbook float into Kelly's bedroom.

One of the items they return is a silver charm bracelet to Ms. Silvers, who says that it has been missing for many years. Later, she opens one of the charms and plants a seed from within it. 4 4 'Just Add Mom' TBA John-Paul Nickel January 14, 2016 ( 2016-01-14) Wanting more information from Mama P, the girls make Bitter Truth Truffle. However, Kelly's mom eats one first. Kelly goes out with her mom to keep her from causing problems with her truth-telling.

Hannah and Darbie both eat a truffle and find that telling the truth to each other isn't so bad, although they agree that without Kelly, they probably wouldn't be friends. Jake comes over, and unable to lie, they tell him all about the book and magic. They make him promise not to tell anyone. They get Mama P to eat a truffle, but before they can ask her anything, she eats a second one, which ends the spell's effect on her. Mama P cooks a spell and tries to leave town, but a mysterious wind prevents her from crossing the town border.

5 5 'Just Add Jake' Joe Menendez Lauren Thompson January 14, 2016 ( 2016-01-14) Not believing in magic, Jake mentions the cookbook to Mama P, and she steals it. Download App Sms Banking Bri Gratis. But when she tries to look through it, all the pages go blank. The girls try to convince Jake that magic is real by trying out three random magical recipes on him, so that he'll help them get the cookbook back. 6 6 'Just Add Birthdays' Sarah Carbiener & Erica Rosbe January 14, 2016 ( 2016-01-14) Kelly and Hannah make a cake for Darbie when they forget her birthday.

They also make cookies with carob chips Mama P gave them several episodes earlier. Those who eat the cookies start acting much younger than normal. 7 7 'Just Add Mama P' Elodie Keene Andrew Orenstein January 14, 2016 ( 2016-01-14) Convinced Mama P knows more than she's letting on, the girls whip up some Mind Peering Peppermints. They hear nothing suspicious in her thoughts, which leads them to trust her.

They try to read Ms. Silvers's mind, and she immediately turns to them and tells them not to try it.

8 8 'Just Add Besties' Joe Nussbaum Luisa Leschin January 14, 2016 ( 2016-01-14) Mama P mentors Kelly's magic cooking skills, while Darbie and Hannah try to get a reclusive author's autograph by cooking a spell that makes her their BFF. Mama P makes Kelly organize all the ingredients in her secret room, and then curses her and challenges her to overcome it without resorting to the cookbook. After a false start in which she invents a new spell, she does overcome the curse. The BFF spell works too well, and Darbie and Hannah's attempt to end the spell fails. When they describe what they did, Kelly intuitively knows how to end the spell, and does. Mama P tells Ms.

Silvers that Kelly has 'the gift' just like her grandmother did, and Ms. Silvers warns Mama P not to make her curse Kelly the way she cursed Mama P. 9 9 'Just Add Do-Overs' John-Paul Nickel January 14, 2016 ( 2016-01-14) The girls learn that long ago The Traveler gave Mama P, Ms.

Silvers, and grandma each a morbium root seed; morbium makes any recipe a thousand times more powerful. Mama P says hers is long gone, but the girls realize that Ms. Silvers's was in the charm bracelet they returned to her. Hannah takes a piano lesson from Ms. Silvers to try to recover the seed, but things go wrong: Kelly's brother breaks a lamp while under Kelly's care, Darbie's school project goes wrong, and Ms. Silvers catches Hannah and kicks her out. So the three girls cook up a 'do-over' spell that resets time so they can try again.

On the third try Darbie's school project is a great success, Kelly realizes that her brother is acting out because he wants to spend time with her, and Hannah finds that Ms. Silvers's charm bracelet is empty, but also finds a scrapbook filled with newspaper clippings about bad things that have happened around town.

Mama P tells the girls that it is a listing of the curses Ms. Silvers has enacted.

10 10 'Just Add Memories' Vanessa Parise Lauren Thompson January 14, 2016 ( 2016-01-14) Grandma, Mama P, and Ms. Silvers all have photos of Chuck Hankins, a boy from when they were young. The girls find that he went missing a long time ago. Kelly cooks a Pho-get Me Not spell to examine her memories of the day her grandmother got sick, hoping to find some clue as to what caused it, but eating the Pho-get Me Not makes her lose time and memories. She sees that her grandmother wanted to talk to her that day, but that she was too busy to talk to her grandmother.

She sees that when her grandmother was driving her to a basketball tryout, Ms. Silvers walked up holding a box of ingredients that the girls later found in the attic. Willie Thompson, a man the girls helped previously, tells Hannah that Chuck disappeared from a Ferris Wheel, and that Chuck was dating Ms. Silvers, but that he went out with Grandma. The girls trade notes, and learn that on her last good day, Kelly's grandmother went to the Cedros Forest. 11 11 'Just Add Camping' Keith Samples Sarah Carbiener & Erica Rosbe January 14, 2016 ( 2016-01-14) Suspecting a clue to Kelly's grandmother's malady hides deep in the forest, the girls set up a Father/Daughter camping trip. While there they face their fears, and then meet The Traveler, who tells them that magic can heal Kelly's grandmother if they are willing to pay the price.

Later, the book flips open to a recipe that can break any curse, but the negative consequences will make things much worse. 12 12 'Just Add Pluots Part 1' Joe Nussbaum Luisa Leschin January 14, 2016 ( 2016-01-14) The girls consult with Mama P about the recipe that will break the curse. At first she says it's too dangerous, but then she suggests that making more and having many people eat the results will dilute the negative consequences over all of them. Hannah gets Kelly grounded by her parents, worried that the magical price will be too high. Kelly escapes grounding by cooking a spell to make Darbie look like her. Hannah and Kelly argue at Mama P's, and Hannah realizes that all the things in the scrapbook would benefit Mama P, not Ms.

She meets Ms. Silvers and they discuss Mama P's plans. Silvers reveals that she too is cursed: outside her house, no one can hear her play music. Darbie tries to stop Mama P, but Mama P locks Darbie in her secret ingredient room and eats the first bite of the magic recipe, so her curse will be broken, rather than Kelly's grandmother's. Kelly goes home and gets yelled at by her mother, but manages to give her grandmother what she thinks is the first bite.

13 13 'Just Add Pluots Part 2' Joe Nussbaum Andrew Orenstein January 14, 2016 ( 2016-01-14) In 1965, Rebecca Quinn (Kelly's grandmother) is on the Ferris Wheel with Chuck. He takes a bite of a candy apple, and disappears. The three girls argue. Qwel Certification more. Gina Silvers says the spell was just supposed to keep Chuck away from magic. Ida Perez (Mama P) asks if Rebecca got the Morbium seed back, saying that Chuck stole it. Rebecca promises Gina that they'll get Chuck back.

In the present, Kelly's dad lets Kelly go to the Pluot Festival because they are sending his mother away to New York for treatment and he wants the family to be together. Silvers shows up at the Pluot festival, but won't get involved and advises Hannah to abandon her friends and run away to avoid the consequences.

Jake and Hannah free Darbie, and mix a magic protection protein shake. At the Pluot Festival, Kelly refuses to drink the shake and pours it out. She gives her grandmother what she thinks is the last bite of the recipe, but it does nothing. Mama P goes on stage and tells off the town. Jake gives Kelly his shake, so she can be protected.

Mama P eats the actual last bite, and the entire town freezes in place except for the girls and Mama P – and Ms. The two old women bicker about who is to blame. Mama P and Ms. Silvers tell the girls that Kelly's grandmother isn't innocent either – that after they cursed each other, she threw the book over a waterfall to get rid of it, in effect making their curses permanent. Mama P steals Jake's bike to ride out of town, and Ms.

Silvers leaves. The girls consult the book, which opens itself to a blank page, which the girls take to mean they need to create their own spell to break the curse. They go to Mama P's ingredient room and realize that they need the properties of three different ingredient families, but mixing them would modify those properties, so they make a layer cake, with each layer producing its own effect. As they bake, the recipe magically appears in the book, in their handwriting. They name it Last Ditch Layer Cake.

As the girls are about to serve the cake, Ms. Silvers shows up with ground Morbium root and tells the girls she was going to use it to break her own curse, but they need it to strengthen the spell. They express confidence in their work and say they don't need it. They eat the cake, and the town starts up. In addition, Grandma is back to normal and Ms. Silvers plays piano on stage and everyone can hear her. Grandma tells them that she didn't want Kelly and the girls to be endangered by the book, but The Traveler said that the cookbook was no longer hers to give back, because it belonged to the girls.

She tried to get rid of the book, tearing out the three pages, but the spell she cast backfired, and in effect she cursed herself. Grandma and Ms.

Silvers realize that if their curses are broken, Chuck's might be as well, and if he's back, no one is safe. The Ferris Wheel stops, and a young man in a leather jacket with rolled up jeans steps off and walks away through the crowd, unnoticed. Season 2 (2016–17) [ ] No. In season Title Directed by Written by Original release date 14 1 'Just Add Halloween' Andrew Orenstein October 14, 2016 ( 2016-10-14) 15 2 'Just Add Summer' Joe Nussbaum Luisa Leschin January 12, 2017 ( 2017-01-12) The Miso Soup spell has no effect, so instead Kelly cooks a 'Settle The Beef' spell in an effort to get Chuck to get to them so he can settle his beef with Grandma. However, the spell warns that if the beef is not settled, a bigger problem will arise.

Kelly gives the spell to Grandma but after she asks Kelly not to do magic, Kelly does not tell her that the sandwich containing the Settle the Beef was magical. Immediately after eating the sandwich, their neighbor Willie comes over and expresses his anger at Grandma for not inviting her to her wedding. They settle their disagreement. At home, Kelly's mom expresses her anger about Grandma getting the 'first ice cream' with Kelly, Darbie asks Grandma not to cheer so much at her basketball games, and Buddy is angry Grandma washed his lucky jersey and claims that is why they lost their most recent game. Later, Grandma is visited by Ms. Silvers who claims she will never forgive Grandma for how she used her Morbium, the magical seed the traveler gave each of them.

Then Mama P comes all the way back from her job in Paris and expresses her anger at Grandma as well. She says the only one she regrets her behavior towards is Jake. Kelly realizes the bigger problem in question is the three of them, who just can't seem to be happy. There is a knock on the door, and it opens to reveal Chuck. 16 3 'Just Add Chuck' Joe Nussbaum John-Paul Nickel January 12, 2017 ( 2017-01-12) Chuck seems not to remember anything, although the OC's (Original Cooks) refuse to believe anything he says. While they confer, Chuck runs away. Kelly, Darbie, and Hannah cook a trust spell to get Chuck to trust them, but the riddle warns to be sure their 'friend needs it more.'

They help Chuck adjust to modern life, but Kelly loses all of her trust and is suspicious of everything, including Darbie's father's new friend Amy, and Hannah herself. Without her trust she confronts Grandma about how Ms. Silvers claimed she misused her Morbium. The girls manage to restore Kelly's trust, but in doing so bring back some of Chuck's memories.

They explain to Grandma that Kelly was under a spell. Grandma claims Chuck stole her Morbium, but the girls realized she was lying. 17 4 'Just Add 1965' Keith Samples Lauren Thompson January 12, 2017 ( 2017-01-12) Darbie suspects her parents may be getting back together. The girls use a 'What If These Walls Could Talk' spell to watch what happened the day the OC's prepared the Can't Recall Caramel and try to figure out why Chuck disappeared.

However, everything appears to be normal. The OCs make plans to meet up at a restaurant after the Pluot festival.

The girls go there and see them confer about Chuck disappearing. They begin to argue, but bring up nothing suspicious. Later, Darbie uses the spell to see if her parents are truly getting back together but she discovers that they think she's 'getting the wrong idea' and that her father is dating Amy, the woman at the park. Darbie is furious and upset. Meanwhile, Chuck saves Buddy from a car, earning Kelly's parents gratitude.

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Whitney Friedlander 44. Creator: Sam Esmail Stars: Rami Malek,, Portia Doubleday, Carly Chaikin Network: USA Despite the structural problems plaguing the series’ frustrating second season, ’s Elliot Alderson (Emmy winner Rami Malek) remains one of the most seductive characters on television. To set an hour-long drama more or less inside its own protagonist’s head is a bold gambit, and Elliot, his philosophical narration roiling beneath his placid surface, is a convincing guide through creator Sam Esmail’s tumult of hallucinations, memories, delusions and dreams. If the draw in Season One was its (rarely seen on TV) anti-capitalism, Season Two witnesses emerge as a claustrophobic portrait of a young man’s psychological extremes, and that it works at all is thanks mostly to our desire to understand the cryptic, complicated, always compelling Elliot.

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As a result, both its characters and its stories became grander, more operatic and expressionistic. By its third season, Boardwalk Empire found its voice, finally living up to the promise of its Scorsese-directed premiere.

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Garrett Martin 39. Creators: Stars:Giovanni Ribisi, Marin Ireland, Shane McRae, Peter Gerety, Margo Martindale Network: Amazon In Sneaky Pete, Giovanni Ribisi plays Marius, a conman who, in a moment of tragicomic brilliance, fakes a bank robbery (albeit with a real gun and by scaring the bank customers) in order to avoid being killed by his pursuers. When he’s released from prison three years later, after listening to his cellmate Pete’s non-stop stories of his long-lost family, Marius assumes Pete’s identity. The result is a series whose humor is based on the interplay between truth and fiction, what is real and what is fantasy, and the gradual understanding of what constitutes “family”: Sneaky Pete’s revelations are unlikely to earn commendation from the Family Research Council, but for those of us who understand that families comprise people who love each in whatever structure works for them, it’s the ultimate show about family. Lorraine Berry 38. Creators: Stars: Chris Colfer,, Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison, Kevin McHale, Amber Riley, Cory Monteith Network: Fox isn’t exactly known for creating reality based shows. So no you didn’t go to a high school where the glee club could put together multiple Broadway level productions complete with costumes, special effects and elaborate sets each week.

But Murphy understood teens. Glee spoke to the football jock and popular girl who always felt like they were pretending.

It spoke to the gay teen who wished he could sing “Single Ladies” on the football field and the overachiever who would settle for nothing less than a Tony winning career. You didn’t have a teacher like Sue Sylvester () because she would have been fired. But you definitely had a teacher who terrorized students the way she did. And if you were lucky you had a teacher who believed in you the way Mr. Schuester(Matthew Morrison) believed in his students. The series could be maddening (you could create a whole show with the characters Glee forgot about) and the plot twists were often ridiculous, but when Glee soared you never wanted to stop believin’. Amy Amatangelo.

Creators: Paul Weitz, Roman Coppola, Stars: Gael Garcia Bernal, Lola Kirke, Bernadette Peters, Malcolm McDowell Network: Amazon Based on the salacious memoir by noted oboist Blair Tindall about the down-and-dirty world of the New York classical music scene, Mozart in the Jungle plays like a rock-and-roll tell-all where the players are equipped with violins and woodwinds instead of guitars and drums. Acting as Tindall’s stand-in is Hailey Rutledge (Lola Kirke) an ambitious, if reserved oboist who finds herself thrust into the high-stakes, cutthroat world of a major New York symphony orchestra in the months before its season-opening performance. Kirke’s charming and grounded character provides a nice anchor when paired with the show’s more outlandish performances, which includes turns from Saffron Burrows, Bernadette Peters and Malcolm McDowell. The series’ true star, however, is Gael Garcia Bernal as the ensemble’s eccentric and flamboyant new conductor who struggles to reconcile his experimental tendencies with the symphony’s more rigid, conservative structure.

While it may lack the emotional depth and complexity of a Transparent, Mozart in the Jungle is the kind of fun and vibrant experience that one would have no trouble binging in a day or two. Mark Rozeman 34.

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And M sent him to work at a piping firm in the Midwest with an extra digit in his social security number? What if the American version of a Bond film replaced the car chases, femme fatales and slick gadgets with the dark humor of, mixing deep ennui with side-splitting moments of levity? That’s Patriot in a nutshell.

The stakes are high—keeping nuclear weapons out of the hands of an Iranian extremist leader—but everything depends on our hero, John Tavner, (Michael Dormer) first navigating the mid-level corporate world of industrial piping. Josh Jackson 32.

Creator:Kurt Sutter Stars:Charlie Hunnam, Katey Sagal, Mark Boone Junior, Dayton Callie, Kim Coates, Tommy Flanagan, Ryan Hurst, Johnny Lewis, William Lucking, Theo Rossi, Maggie Siff, Ron Perlman Network: FX Take the hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold archetype, replace the hooker with a rough-around-the-edges bike club set in the ironically named town of Charming, Calif., add a conscience and things always going wrong, and you have the basic setup for Sons of Anarchy. Kurt Sutter’s gang of motorcycle-riding brothers and their lovingly nicknamed “old ladies” constantly find themselves in hot water trying to do the right thing while bending the rules just a little which turns into bending the rules a lot. Having the town chief of police in their back pocket, along with Charlie Hunnam as the conflicted vice-president of the club who is carrying on his father’s legacy doesn’t hurt, either. It would be really easy to make the show’s motorcycle club reminiscent of a gang of pirates on bikes, pillaging and plundering with a complete lack of morals, but Sutter resists that temptation and makes the gray area of right and wrong the driving force behind each episode and each decision. Patty Miranda.

Creator: Tom Fontana Stars: Kirk Acevedo, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Christopher Meloni, George Morfogen, Rita Moreno, Harold Perrineau, J. Simmons, Lee Tergesen, Eamonn Walker, Dean Winters Network: Certainly a “water cooler show” if there ever was one, Oz made waves with its violence and sexual content early on and its equally deep and disturbing storytelling once people got over the fact that it was set in a maximum security prison.

It’s probably safe to say that there’s an entire subset of former viewers out there who think of every prison and prison caricature in terms of what they saw on Oz, from the racial gangs to the unpredictable violence and stress of daily living. A truly ensemble cast was one of the selling points for the large and ambitious series, which showed that an adult-content drama could still turn great ratings.

The fact that it was on a premium network was essential, allowing a much deeper (and more realistic) depiction of the horrors of incarceration in the United States. Jim Vorel 30. Creators: Ben T. Best, Jody Hill, Danny R. McBride Stars:, Katy Mixon Network: I feel like a lot of people dismiss as vulgar shock comedy, a TV version of the fratty comedies that proliferated over a decade ago after the success of the Farrelly brothers and American Pie. Jody Hill and ’s vision is far deeper and pointed than that, though, parodying not just sports or Southern culture but the type of unhealthy masculinity that underpins so much of American culture. It has more in common with the best work of Adam McKay and Will Ferrell, but it’s darker and edgier than Stepbrothers or Talladega Nights, more violent and more truthful.

It’s one of the few comedies I can think of where I was often afraid of what was about to happen, like I was watching a horror film or thriller. The first season in particular was a modern masterpiece, but the show remained on point throughout its four seasons. Garrett Martin. Creators:, Eric Overmyer Stars: Khandi Alexander, Kim Dickens, India Ennenga,, Melissa Leo, Wendell Pierce, Jon Seda, Steve Zahn Network: When the show tried to tell big stories to address big problems, it could occasionally drag. But when it chose to focus intently on the ordinary events of life, the parades and shows and meals and everything else that we fill our time with, there was a wonderful glorification of the city’s people. Characters didn’t need to be doing anything particularly vital, like solving crimes or stirring up trouble, to be important. The historical bent of the show was actually a perfect match for this ordinariness, simply because political and social events are always happening in the background and making up the backdrop of our lives.

The Wire was one of the best plotted shows in the history of television, but the moment tried to replicate any of this formula, always seemed to stumble. But the many crowd-pleasing moments throughout the show felt earned. Sean Gandert 28. Creators: Howard Gordon and Evan Katz Stars:, Carlos Bernard, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Dennis Haysbert, Elisha Cuthbert, James Morrison, Kim Raver Network: Fox It can be hard to recommend 24, the style and spirit of which, with its split screens and ticking clocks, suggest nostalgia for a moment in which the ends were seen—on TV as in government—to justify the means.

Of course, this destructive moral calculus was no more convincing in November 2001, when 24 debuted, than it is now: Robert Cochran and Joel Surnow’s counterterrorism thriller may seem outdated, but prescient critics recognized from the start that its treatment of torture, among other topics, reflected a discomfiting willingness to sacrifice our values at the altar of expedience. This isn’t to suggest that 24 never manufactured superb television—I remain staunch in the belief that Jean Smart’s performance as unstable First Lady Martha Logan, in the series’ fifth season, is one of last decade’s finest, opening with camp and ripening into courage—or to deny that I, too, once found it wildly entertaining. (Ages ago, before I had my wisdom teeth removed, I rented a season’s worth of DVDs at Blockbuster and devoured them in a single, painkiller-fueled weekend. It was glorious.) It’s simply to admit that 24 niggles, and to suggest that this is why it remains worth seeing: When cultural historians reflect on America in the first years of the 21st century, 24, in particular the damaged patriotism of ’s unforgettable Jack Bauer, will likely be a primary source. Matt Brennan 27.

Creator: Stars: Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet,, Alex Karpovsky Network: I believe is one of the foremost badasses of our artistic culture, and as far as that goes, I’m already very much. The one thing I really love about Girls is that it refuses to conform to identity politics. There are times when Dunham can be a wonderful spokesperson for female power, and there are times when she pisses off the feminists. There are times when she seems like the best liberal around, and others when liberals want to burn her at the stakes and aren’t afraid to write endless think pieces. This is not because Dunham is trying to aggravate anybody, but because she tells her story so honestly, and so relentlessly, that anyone who wants her to conform to a prevailing ideology will inevitably be disappointed;she’s too fluid to be molded into an emblem.

Girls is absolutely refreshing and absolutely bold, and Dunham has become so powerful and popular that she doesn’t need to pull any punches. The stories of Hannah and Shoshana and Marnie and Jessa exist to reflect something real, and something instinctual, and it originates with a brilliant artist who, we can only hope, will stay unrepentant until the angry mob finally runs her off with their sharpened pitchforks. Shane Ryan 26. Creator: Graham Yost Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Walton Goggins Network: FX Award-worthy guest stars (Margo Martindale, Mykelti Williamson, and Neal McDonough) were the rule not the exception on this show.

Combine that with the best ensemble on television (anchored by Timothy Olyphant, and Joelle Carter), firecracker writing from show-runner Graham Yost with a dependable stable of wordsmiths, and the feature-film quality direction and cinematography from Francis Kenny, Michael Dinner and others, and what do you get? An instant classic that improbably translates Elmore Leonard’s twisted humor, Western deconstruction and damaged psyches into hour-long gems episode after episode. Jack McKinney.