“Has TV guide watched TV in the past twenty years? There has to be something that was OK. Can’t think of it off the top of my head—but there must be SOMETHING.”
Breaking Bad should have at least one episode on that list.
Then I went and actually read the post. These were from the first “5 decades” of TV. The list was written in 1997. So, literally, nothing from the past 22 seasons of TV.
Breaking Bad, GOT, Walking Dead, and the whole start of streaming shows would be on the list today.
Not picking a single episode, but BB is a good choice. The second to last episode and the4 finale were instant classics.