Timed to the 10th anniversary of the first season, this ultimate companion book serves as a guide to the series? greatness and place in pop-culture history as fans kick off celebratory rewatches and new fans discover the series for the first time.

Alan Sepinwall has been writing about television for more than a quarter century and is considered one of the preeminent voices in the world of TV criticism. He has written or cowritten many books on the medium, including The Revolution Was Televised, New York Times bestsellers TV (THE BOOK) and The Sopranos Sessions, and Breaking Bad 101. Prior to his current job as the chief TV critic at Rolling Stone, Sepinwall worked as the lead TV columnist for the Star-Ledger newspaper of New Jersey, and later moved online to review television for HitFix and Uproxx. Slate has said Sepinwall “changed the nature of television criticism” and called him the “acknowledged king of the form.”