HBO may gotten its start in movies and sports broadcasts, but the cable giant has now aired more than 100 series and 20 miniseries in its 42-year history. And looking at that lineup of shows, it's not anoverstatement to say the channel helped usher in the current golden age of television. We took a look at four decades of HBO shows (not miniseries) and picked our favorite 20.

　　HBO最初可能定位于电影放映和体育赛事播报，但现在这个拥有42年历史的有线电视巨头已经播出了超过100部美剧和20部迷你剧。看看HBO的节目表，毫不夸张地说，该频道开创了当今的电视黄金时代。我们浏览了HBO四十年里播放的所有节目(不包括迷你剧)，并挑选了以下20部最好看的美剧。

　　20. Boardwalk Empire

　　《大西洋帝国》

　　It's this wide-ranging spotlight, drifting from the highest levels of political office down to lowlybootleggers and prostitutes, that makes the show something special, offering up morality plays that hold the lives of millions at stake, while putting an actual face on those being affected.

　　无死角的聚光灯从最顶层的政客办公室打到最底层的走私贩和妓女，成就了这部独一无二的道德伦理大戏，几百万人命悬一线，而事件所涉人物的真实面孔令人唏嘘。

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　　19. Oz

　　《监狱风云》

　　Certainly a "water cooler show" if there ever was one, Oz made waves with its violence and sexual content early on and its equally deep and disturbing storytelling once people got over the fact that it was set in a maximum security prison.

　　如果世界上真的有“噱头剧”的话，《监狱风云》当然就是其中一部，它在早期掀起了一阵有关暴力和性欲内容的激烈讨论，而一旦观众忘记了故事背景其实是最安全的监狱，其故事情节也是既意蕴深刻又令人心烦。

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