Lena Waithe
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Nov 1, 2026
ErinNARRATOR
To identify the best work of that period, we asked hundreds of stars, showrunners, craftspeople, executives, and other industry experts to vote.
ErinNARRATOR
for the 10 best series that have premiered since january 1st 2000. among the more than 500 people who responded were stars like elizabeth moss adam scott brian cranston rose byrne coleman domingo and jason bateman and showrunners like damon lindelof lena dunham lena waithe and noah holly see how your favorite shows ranked Number one, Breaking Bad.
ErinNARRATOR
Early in this lab-coded crime epic, the chemistry teacher turned drug lord Walter White explains to his student-turned-accomplice Jesse Pinkman his plan to cook up high-quality crystal meth without using drugstore pseudoephedrine.
ErinNARRATOR
Yay science, Jesse Pinkman.
ErinNARRATOR
To identify the best work of that period, we asked hundreds of stars, showrunners, craftspeople, executives, and other industry experts to vote.
ErinNARRATOR
for the 10 best series that have premiered since january 1st 2000. among the more than 500 people who responded were stars like elizabeth moss adam scott brian cranston rose byrne coleman domingo and jason bateman and showrunners like damon lindelof lena dunham lena waithe and noah holly see how your favorite shows ranked Number one, Breaking Bad.
ErinNARRATOR
Early in this lab-coded crime epic, the chemistry teacher turned drug lord Walter White explains to his student-turned-accomplice Jesse Pinkman his plan to cook up high-quality crystal meth without using drugstore pseudoephedrine.
ErinNARRATOR
Yay science, Jesse Pinkman.
Jacob LatimoreGUEST
We need to see that on TV.
Jacob LatimoreGUEST
And we just thank Lena Waithe for just having that perspective on television and showcasing it.
Neil HaleyHOST
So tell us about your character really quickly, Jacob, on the shy.
Jacob LatimoreGUEST
Yeah.
Jacob LatimoreGUEST
We need to see that on TV.
Jacob LatimoreGUEST
And we just thank Lena Waithe for just having that perspective on television and showcasing it.
Neil HaleyHOST
So tell us about your character really quickly, Jacob, on the shy.
Jacob LatimoreGUEST
Yeah.
Jojo NwokoGUEST
I'm excited about the future.
Jojo NwokoGUEST
I'm more interested in about seeing black and brown people portrayed like, oh my God, Lena Waithe.
Jojo NwokoGUEST
Oh! I'm ready for those stories to be told.
Jojo NwokoGUEST
Because it's not all bad now.
Blair HodgesHOST
Same.
Kaila StoryGUEST
It's like, what is going on? And then, and so like, thank God for Lena Waithe, who gives us season five master of none with a black lesbian couple who gives us twenties, that series where you have this black lesbian protagonist, who's a masculine.
Kaila StoryGUEST
She gives us, um, Boomerang, the reboot of Boomerang, where she had two black lesbians in that.
Kaila StoryGUEST
So literally, contemporaneously, when I'm thinking of black lesbian couple visibility, it's pretty much Lena Waithe.
Kaila StoryGUEST
Who's a black lesbian herself?
Blair HodgesHOST
Yeah, it's so strange to me because these are great stories.
Lynn HarrisHOST
She is a writer, director, actor, hilarious stand-up, showrunner, and founder of the Kwanzaa Pub Crawl.
Lynn HarrisHOST
Her one-woman show Mudhole, produced by Lena Waithe, was selected for the 2026 Netflix is a Joke Festival.
Lynn HarrisHOST
I love her.
Lynn HarrisHOST
Please welcome Carrie Coddett.
Ahmed BestGUEST
And then, you know, I was there so often that, you know, eventually he would turn around and be like, so what you want to do in a scene like this is? And I was like, you know what I'm saying? And so I was just like taking all of these notes.
Ahmed BestGUEST
And two really good friends of mine, Quincy and DeAndre Gosfield, who now they run Lena's show, The Chi, Lena Waithe's show, The Chi.
Ahmed BestGUEST
Quincy and DeAndre and I met when we first, when I first moved here.
DaJuan JohnsonHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Loren LoRosaHOST
It's not even just for ATL because I want to see it.
Loren LoRosaHOST
But also for like The Chi and seeing more things that, you know, Lena Waithe is able to do.
Loren LoRosaHOST
The other cast of The Chi, which y'all are about to go and do, because I know that there's only going to be more after that.
Loren LoRosaHOST
Y'all stay working, OK? Especially you.
Lauren LaRosaHOST
It's not even just for ATL because I want to see it.
Lauren LaRosaHOST
But also for like The Chi and seeing more things that, you know, Lena Waithe is able to do.
Lauren LaRosaHOST
The other cast of The Chi, which y'all are about to go and do, because I know that there's only going to be more after that.
Lauren LaRosaHOST
Y'all stay working, okay? Especially you.
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