Boston Globe TV critic Matthew Gilbert has rounded up 14 of the decade's best television moments. Why 14? Why not?

There are the best TV series of the decade, and the best episodes, and the best TV news stories. This TV14 countdown is not about them. This is a look back at the best moments on scripted television across the past 10 years. Some of them were mind-blowing and some of them were iconic. All of them represent the peaks in a decade of superior writing and acting on TV.

-- By Matthew Gilbert, Globe Staff