Great reality shows take a single, provocative question and brilliantly carry it to an extreme. In this reinvention of the granddaddy of modern reality games, the extreme was the Brazilian jungle, and the question as old as sexual reproduction: "Who's better, women or men?" The sixth season of Survivor recaptured the watercooler-worthiness of the original. (A woman won, by the way. I'll leave the "Who's better?" answer up to you.) (CBS)
Epic times call for epic art, and nothing moved us more than The Return of the King. Other things we loved: Louis Vuitton, William Boyd and BBC's The Office And to the Atlanta group OutKast, we say "Stank you very much!"