15 Most Underrated TV Shows Of The Decade (So Far)

3. Fresh Meat

Channel 4

The Show: Peep Show creators Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain take their eccentric brand of humour to follow the lives of six university students as they navigate living together in a house share in Manchester.

Why It's Underrated: The series opened to mixed reviews though critical perception of the show improved as it went on, and it has seen small awards success on the British comedy circuit, even if the show is still very much niche viewing for the mid-twenties crowd and few else. Even so, for any Brit who has been to University, the series will no doubt seem stingingly familiar in one form or another, if not because you'll recognise at least a few of these characters from your own time at Uni, then because you'll empathise with the brutal (and brutally funny) situations throughout.

It might be too acerbic for some tastes, but there's also an underlying heart to the show which makes it one of the sure gems of British comedy right now. It'll be everyone's loss once the show concludes with its final, fourth series later this year.

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