10 Most Perfect Sitcoms of the Last 15 Years, Ranked

Image via NBC Published Oct 28, 2026, 8:06 PM EDT Jennie Richardson is a TV Features and Lists Writer for Collider, and a graduate student pursuing an MFA in Fiction Writing. In other words, she really loves stories. Sign in to your Collider account The last 15 years have been a real treat for TV fans, from those who love a suspenseful drama that will keep them on the edge of their seat the whole time, to those who love a cozy comedy series that will have them cracking up throughout. 2011-on has seen the premiere of a number of phenomenal series that are now considered to be some of the all-time best, from The Leftovers, to The Americans, to Succession. For sitcom fans, the 2010s and 2020s (so far) saw the premiere of some truly fantastic series, from hangout comedies, to fantasy comedies, to workplace comedies. These shows delivered uniquely hilarious and flawed characters, fantastic one-liners that fans still quote to this day, and some of the greatest TV episodes in sitcom history. Among these series, the very best of these are the ones that stayed consistently excellent throughout. These are the most perfect sitcoms of the last 15 years, ranked. 10 'Adults' (2025–Present) Image via FX FX's Adults is just two seasons in, but already, it stands out as one of the best sitcoms of recent years. The hangout comedy follows a tight-knit group of friends who all live together in one of their parents' house in Queens: Anton (Owen Thiele), Issa (Amita Rao), Samir (Malik Elassal), Billie (Lucy Freyer), and their newest addition, Paul Baker (Jack Innanen). Each episode sees the friends getting up to hilarious antics like accidentally letting a local "stabber" into their house, and trying to get rid of a raccoon after they've all just taken acid that will hit in a half hour. Adults already has two phenomenal seasons, as well as a fantastic bonus prequel episode that shows how everyone met Paul Baker before the start of the series. The show has unique and memorable characters, both among its main cast and its recurring side characters. It also has a sharp sense of humor and deeply compelling character dynamics, and there's no doubt that Adults will only continue to keep getting even better if renewed for more seasons. 9 'Superstore' (2015–2021) Image via NBC Superstore is a workplace sitcom that follows the employees of a chain superstore called Cloud 9, at one of the store's locations in St. Louis, Missouri. Unlike with many other workplace sitcoms, the employees of this Cloud 9 do not love their jobs. They are coworkers rather than a family, and none of them are particularly passionate about what they do. They also have to regularly deal with frustrating customers and absolutely bizarre situations occurring in the store. As such, Superstore is absolutely hilarious and entertaining for the duration of its six seasons. Despite their less than ideal work circumstances, the Cloud 9 employees form real bonds with one another, and they push back against unfair rules and difficult working conditions to help each other. Superstore has a fantastic ensemble cast of quirky and nuanced characters, and its unique angle on the workplace sitcom is really compelling and memorable. 8 'Schitt's Creek' (2015–2020) Image via CBC Television Schitt's Creek follows the wealthy and famous Rose family: video store mogul Johnny (Eugene Levy), former soap opera star Moira (Catherine O'Hara), and their two very spoiled adult children, David (Dan Levy) and Alexis (Annie Murphy). The Roses' lives are upended when all of their fortune is embezzled by someone they trusted, and all they have left to their names is a small Canadian town called Schitt's Creek that Johnny once bought for David as a joke. Until they can get back on their feet, the Roses uproot their lives and move to Schitt's Creek in the hopes of eventually selling it. They stay together in adjacent motel rooms, and they struggle to adjust to this very abrupt change in their lifestyles. Soon, though, they start to plant roots in Schitt's Creek, making real friends and starting jobs that they hadn't initially planned on. Schitt's Creek is a heartfelt, laugh-out-loud funny sitcom, and it is absolutely flawless from its pilot episode to its perfect finale. 7 'Happy Endings' (2011–2013) Image via ABC Happy Endings is a hangout sitcom that follows six extremely close longtime friends who all live in Chicago: Penny (Casey Wilson), Max (Adam Pally), married couple Brad (Damon Wayans Jr.) and Jane (Eliza Coupe), and engaged couple Dave (Zachary Knighton) and Alex (Elisha Cuthbert). The friends may have other areas in their lives that they want to improve on, but they're content with their core friend group, and they hang out every single day. Then, the group's entire dynamic is upended when Alex leaves Dave at the altar to run off with someone she barely knows. Now, the six of them have to figure out how to still all be friends in the wake of Alex and Dave's messy breakup. The result is a wildly funny, wonderfully strange sitcom. Happy Endings is packed with jokes upon jokes in every episode, and its core group is particularly memorable for their codependency and bizarre habits, like regularly-occurring group insult pile-ons. Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which Iconic Fandom Should You Join? Harry Potter · Lord of the Rings · Star Wars · Star Trek Eight honest questions about how you actually are: what you put on when you need cheering up, how deep you go into the things you love, what you argue about, what you keep on your shelf. Answer them and we will tell you where you belong. Four of the biggest fandoms on earth are taking new members, and they could not be more different from one another. ⚡Harry Potter(Wizarding World) 💍Lord of the Rings(Middle-earth) ⚔️Star Wars(A Galaxy Far Away) 🖖Star Trek(The Final Frontier) FIND YOUR PEOPLE → 01 What do you put on when you need cheering up? Nobody is brave about this one. AThe same thing I have watched a hundred times. BSomething long, slow and beautiful. CSomething big and loud with a great score. DOne clever episode of something hopeful. NEXT QUESTION → 02 How deep do you go into something you love? There is no shallow end here, only different deep ends. AI know every character and all the gossip. BI have read the appendices and studied the maps. CI have a ranked opinion on every instalment. DI want to know how the world actually works. NEXT QUESTION → 03 What do you and your friends actually argue about? Every fandom has one argument it has been having for years. AWhich one of us is which type. BWhether the adaptation got it right. CWhether the new stuff ruined the old stuff. DWhether the right thing was actually done. NEXT QUESTION → 04 How do you feel about a room full of strangers? Every one of these comes with a very big room. AGreat, and I will know everybody by the end. BFine, as long as they take it seriously. CBrilliant, especially if there is something to dress up for. DHappy, provided the conversation is interesting. NEXT QUESTION → 05 Where would you rather spend a week? Pick on instinct rather than on budget. AAn old castle somewhere rainy. BMountains, long walks, no phone signal. CA desert with an unbelievable night sky. DA city built around a university. NEXT QUESTION → 06 What do you believe about people, mostly? All four of these stories have an answer, and they disagree. AMost of them turn out better than expected. BThe smallest ones decide the biggest things. CAnybody can change, even very late on. DWe work it out if we keep talking. NEXT QUESTION → 07 What is actually on your shelf? Look over at it before you answer. AEverything I owned when I was twelve. BHardbacks, in order, read more than once. CFigures, posters, and a few things still boxed. DBooks about how things work, plus a model or two. NEXT QUESTION → 08 What do you actually want from a story? Eight questions in, this is the one that picks your fandom. AA place I can go back to whenever I need it. BA world complete enough to get lost in. CSomething huge I can share with everybody. DAn idea that changes how I think. REVEAL MY FANDOM → Membership Confirmed Your Fandom Is…Four of the largest communities on the planet, and four completely different reasons to belong to one. Here is yours, what it would give you, and the argument you would be having within a week. Harry PotterYou belong to the fandom that is really about comfort. Hogwarts works on people because it is a place rather than a plot, and the pull is not the wizard war so much as the corridors, the food, the weather and the sense that somebody is expecting you. You are drawn to belonging, which is why this fandom sorted itself into houses within about five minutes and has never stopped. This is the most social of the four, and the one most likely to know which type every single person in your life would be. The books are built to be reread rather than analysed, and rereading is exactly what you do with things you love. The new HBO series is bringing the whole thing back one book at a time, which means the arguments are about to start all over again. Lord of the RingsYou belong to the deepest fandom on this list, the one where somebody has always read further than you and is quietly delighted to say so. Middle-earth rewards patience more than any other world in popular culture. You like the sense that the story you are reading is only the visible part of something enormous, which is precisely how Tolkien built it. This fandom takes adaptation seriously to a degree that other fandoms find slightly alarming, and it has good reasons for that. Your favourite thing about the books is probably the bit that is not action at all, which is the walking, the songs and the long goodbyes. Nobody here thinks heroism belongs to the powerful, and the whole story exists to make that argument. Star WarsYou belong to the loudest and largest tent of the four, the one where three generations are all watching the same thing and none of them agree about any of it. That disagreement is not a flaw in this fandom, it is the main activity. You want something you can share with absolutely everybody, from a six year old to a grandparent, and this is the only one on the list that really does that. Nobody argues like Star Wars fans argue, and the argument has been running since roughly 1980 with no sign of resolution. The pull here is sensory before it is narrative, since it is the sound design, the score and the look of a used and dented galaxy. You would be first in the queue, in costume, with strong opinions and a genuinely good time. Star TrekYou belong to the thinking fandom, the one that turns up for the argument rather than the explosion. Trek has always been a series of ethical problems in space, and the people who love it love being asked what they would have done. You are an optimist in a way that is currently unfashionable, and this is the only major franchise still willing to say the future might be better. The best episodes are the ones where nobody fires anything, which is a sentence that makes perfect sense to this fandom and to nobody else. Starfleet Academy brought the franchise back to a classroom in 2026, which is appropriate, because Trek has always been a bit of a seminar. You would want the conversation afterwards more than the episode itself, and here you will always find somebody willing to have it. ↻ RETAKE THE QUIZ 6 'What We Do in the Shadows' (2019–2024) Image via FX What We Do in the Shadows is a wildly funny and delightfully over-the-top mockumentary-style hangout sitcom about a group of vampires living together in a Staten Island mansion. The house's residents are made up of traditional vampires Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak), Nadja of Antipaxos (Natasia Demetriou), and Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry), energy vampire Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch), and Nandor's human familiar whose dream is to become a vampire, Guillermo de la Cruz (Harvey Guillén). Initially, the vampires moved to Staten Island after being vaguely instructed to conquer the area. In the centuries that have followed, though, they have come to live pretty mundane afterlives. Each episode, they deal with relatable problems like annoying chain emails claiming to carry a curse if they're not forwarded, and not-so-relatable problems like trying to find humans to kill and feed on without raising suspicion. 5 'Abbott Elementary' (2021–Present) Image via ABC Abbott Elementary is a mockumentary-style workplace sitcom that follows the faculty and staff of Abbott Elementary School in Philadelphia, PA. Despite a frustrating lack of funding and a number of other obstacles working against them, the teachers are all very passionate about their jobs, and they always go above and beyond for their students. The school is run by Principal Ava Coleman (Janelle James), who got her job through blackmail but quickly proves herself to be qualified despite her unconventional methods and a lack of experience. Abbott Elementary stands out as one of the best sitcoms of recent years, with its sharp writing and perfect use of its setting. It also has a phenomenal ensemble cast in its main characters: Ava, teachers Janine Teagues (Quinta Brunson), Barbara Howard (Sheryl Lee Ralph), Melissa Schemmenti (Lisa Ann Walter), Jacob Hill (Chris Perfetti), and Gregory Eddie (Tyler James Williams), and janitor Mr. Johnson (William Stanford Davis). 4 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' (2013–2021) Image via FOX Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a police procedural sitcom that follows the team of detectives that work in the 99th precinct of the NYPD in Brooklyn. At the start of the series, Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg) is a smart and naturally skilled detective who lacks impulse control and has a disregard for the rules. Jake is unsettled when the precinct gets a new captain, the serious and inexpressive Raymond Holt (Andre Braugher), but he soon comes to appreciate Captain Holt's new way of running things. Brooklyn Nine-Nine is one of the funniest and best-written sitcoms of the last couple of decades, with memorable bits like the show's iconic cold opens and its annual Halloween heists, as well as a number of hilarious one-liners that fans still quote today. It also has a fantastic ensemble cast made up of unique and complex characters, as well as a number of compelling and shocking overarching mystery storylines. 3 'Veep' (2012–2019) Image via HBO Veep is a sharply funny and clever political satire sitcom that follows Vice President Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), the deeply ambitious and stubborn Vice President of the United States. The position wasn't Selina's first choice, and she still hopes to one day become the first female president. That said, in the meantime, Selina is committed to enacting as much change as she possibly can in her position. Selina is always working towards some larger goal, all while she and her team have to deal with any number of obstacles that inevitably come up along the way and pose a risk to this goal. Veep is packed with constant jokes throughout each episode, and its writing is unbelievably sharp and witty. It also has some of the best sitcom characters of recent years, and each season has a compelling overarching storyline. 2 'New Girl' (2011–2018) Image via FOX New Girl follows Jess Day (Zooey Deschanel), an optimistic woman who suddenly has to find a place to live after she walks in on her long-term boyfriend cheating on her in their home. Jess soon moves into a loft with three guys already living there, thanks to a posting that she found on Craig's List. At first, Jess' presence is an adjustment to her three new roommates: Nick Miller (Jake Johnson), Schmidt (Max Greenfield), and Winston Bishop (Lamorne Morris). Soon, though, Jess starts to feel at home in the loft, and the guys get used to having her there as well. Through her, they also meet her childhood best friend, Cece (Hannah Simone), who quickly joins their friend group. New Girl has one of the best sitcom friend groups of all time, as well as absolutely hilarious writing, and some of the best and most unique sitcom episodes of recent years. Each of its seven seasons is an absolute delight, and it just gets better with each rewatch. 1 'The Good Place' (2016–2020) The Good Place follows Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell), a selfish woman who has just died suddenly in a humiliating grocery cart freak accident. Now, she's in the Good Place, where she is being told that she earned her place by being an amazing person on Earth. Eleanor knows better, though, and she quickly realizes that she was sent there by mistake. In order to keep from being caught and sent to the Bad Place, where she really belongs, Eleanor asks her mistakenly-assigned soulmate, former Ethics and Moral Philosophy professor Chidi Anagonye (William Jackson Harper), to teach her how to be a good person. The Good Place is a flawless series from start to finish. It is a perfectly-told story with four intentional and incredibly well-written seasons that each have their own main overarching storylines. The writing is absolutely hilarious and wonderfully over-the-top, as are the show's visual gags and every aspect of its clever afterlife lore. Above all else, though, the series has amazing characters that are all very funny while also having beautiful character arcs. The Good Place Release Date 2016 - 2020-00-00 Network NBC Showrunner Michael Schur Directors Dean Holland, Beth McCarthy-Miller, Morgan Sackett, Michael Schur, Jude Weng, Trent O'Donnell, Rebecca Asher, Linda Mendoza, Claire Scanlon, Ken Whittingham, Kristen Bell, Michael McDonald, Tristram Shapeero, Tucker Gates, Alan Yang, Julie Anne Robinson, Lynn Shelton Writers Andrew Law, Dylan Morgan, Josh Siegal, Matt Murray, Cord Jefferson, Kassia Miller, Kate Gersten, Dave King, Demi Adejuyigbe, Lizzy Pace Main Genre Comedy Seasons 4 Producers David Hyman, Megan Amram, Joe Mande Creator(s) Michael Schur Streaming Service(s) Netflix Executive Producer(s) David Miner, Drew Goddard