In TV's Silver Age, a logjam of shows that are 'pretty good,' but not great

Remember when people at parties started talking about television the way they once talked about movies? It was the late 1990s, early '00s and we were enjoying what came to be known as the "Golden Age of television," a term repeated so frequently that critics began to shun it as cliché. (Also: Apologies to anyone who still thinks of Milton Berle as the Golden Age of television.)