Among the year-end business I'm working on right now is a list of the top TV shows of the last decade. In some ways it's actually easier than my year-end top-ten list, because it's really the creme de la creme—if a show doesn't immediately come to mind, it probably shouldn't be on the list.
But there's one big dilemma: what to do with "border shows," series that aired episodes in both the 1990s and the 2000s—Freaks and Geeks, The Sopranos, Sex and the City, The West Wing, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Daily Show, and so on.
Here are a few possible rules for dealing with these shows. Tell me which you prefer, or suggest your own:























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