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Quarter centuries are funny thingscause for reflection and sweeping, possibly premature judgments about what weve lived through.
AtVogue, weve already looked back atthe greatest fashion moments of the quarter century.
So why not extend our gaze across the culture as well?
Lord knows there are more than enough movies and books and memes and music to recollect.
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Perhaps the richest field is TV?
But heres our claim: These are shows of the last quarter century that loom large atVogue.
Why not spend much of thenextquarter century rewatching them?
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Liam Hess
How to watch: Stream it onMax.
You dont usually recall where you were when a certain show aired.
Chloe Schama
How to watch: Stream it onHulu.
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This French espionage drama isthe21st century spy show I measure all others by.
Incomparable stuff.Taylor Antrim
How to watch: Buy episodes onFandango at Home.
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How to watch: Stream it onMHz Choice.
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When it aired in 2016,Fleabagfelt like a bolt from the blue.
It was a bittersweet goodbye, but its two perfect seasons will be forever undiluted.
Chloe Schama
How to watch: Stream it onPrime Video.
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I sporadically lived in Belfast whileGame of Throneswas filming around Northern Ireland.
Location tours, themed escape rooms, and babies called Arya continue to this day.
There was jolting violence and savage satire and melancholy that clung to you.
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Hader directed every episode of the incredible final season four and made the show entirely his own.
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No one would argue thatSuccessionis one of the defining shows of the last quarter century.
It turns out we very much did.
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Nothing compares to it.
Hannah Jackson
Full disclosure: Ive always been obsessed with lost eras and yesteryears subculturesthe more recent the better.
Come for the spot-on wardrobe, interiors, and period dialogue; stay for the epic clash of civilizations.
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Corey Seymour
How to watch: Stream it onAMC+.
If for some ludicrous reason you have never seen this show, youre in for a ride.
Texas forever.Corey Seymour
How to watch: Purchase episodes onPrime VideoorFandango at Home.
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after the doctor delivers a cancer diagnosis.
Come on Jill, lets put things into perspective, Terry says, feebly.
Its me thats got the cancer.
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(The only hitch?
LH
How to watch: Stream it onPeacock.
The United States government inspires no shortage of film and television, butVeepis the gold standard.
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Youll never hear Okie dokie Annie Oakley the same way again.
But it was only ever going to be about the Bristol lot, right?
(If that sounds a little bleak, rest assured the show was also uproariously funny.)
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(Yes, its all very meta.)
Youll laugh, youll cringe, and in the shows final episode, you might even cry.
The show can at times feel like a tone poem, at others a family drama.
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But across it all, it isa portrait of all the tangled threads of caregiving.
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