We are currently living in a Golden Age of television drama – well-written screenplays, innovative narrative techniques, significant themes, gripping stories, mostly true-to-life representations, all superbly-acted, and realized with attention to detail and high production values.  See, for example, the following list (which has been added to, as the years unfurl):

• 24 (USA)
• Band of Brothers (USA)
• Berlin Station (USA)
• Billions (USA)
• Bodyguard (UK)
• Borgen (Denmark)
• The Bridge (Denmark-Sweden)
• Brothers and Sisters (USA)
• The Bureau (Le Bureau des Légendes) (France)
• Call My Agent! (France)
• Covert Affairs (USA)
• Damages (USA)
• Deadwood (USA)
• Designated Survivor (USA)
• Deutschland 83/ 86/ 89 (Germany)
• The Diplomat (USA) (2023)
• Fauda (Israel)
• Gåsmamman (Sweden)
• Generation Kill (USA)
• Gloria (Portugal)
• The Good Fight (USA)
• The Good Wife (USA)
• Heartstopper (UK) (2022)
• Homeland (USA)
• The Hour (UK)
• House of Cards (USA)
• Intimacy (Spain)
• Jack Irish (Australia)
• Janet King (Australia)
• Judge John Deed (UK)
• The Killing (Denmark)
• Kleo (Germany)
• Mad Men (USA)
• Madam Secretary (USA)
• Merlí: Sapere Aude (Catalonia)
• Merlin (UK)
• Messiah (USA)
• The Newsreader (Australia)
• The Newsroom (USA)
• Occupied (Norway) (2015-2020)
• The Patients of Dr Garcia (Spain) (2023)
• Pine Gap (Australia)
• Prisoners of War (Hatufim) (Israel)
• Rake (Australia)
• The Recruit (USA) (2023)
• Resistance (France)
• The Restaurant (Vår tid är nu) (Sweden)
• Scandal (USA)
• Secret City (Australia)
• Shadow Lines (Finland)
• Silk (UK)
• Skam (“Shame”) (Norway) (2015-2017)
• Smiley (Spain)
• The Sopranos (USA)
• Spiral (Engrenages) (France)
• Spooks (UK)
• Sports Night (USA)
• Striking Out (Ireland)
• Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (USA)
• Suits (USA)
• The Unit (USA)
• Totems (France)
• A Very Secret Service (France)
• The West Wing (USA)
• The Wire (USA)
• Young Royals (Sweden) (2021-2023)

Like the golden age of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, one has to wonder:   Why here? Why now?