--- title: 'Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23': 50 Most Underappreciated Shows description: Find out why 'Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23' is on TIME's list of the 50 most underappreciated shows of the 21st Century. canonical: https://time.com/collection/50-most-underappreciated-shows/2026/don-t-trust-the-b-in-apartment-23/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2026-08-11T13:02:48.625Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-11T13:02:48.786Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23' Is on The 50 Most Underappreciated Shows of the 21st Century og:description: Here's why 'Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23' made TIME's list og:url: https://time.com/collection/50-most-underappreciated-shows/2026/don-t-trust-the-b-in-apartment-23/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7683724e28e2b143/6a724a96fc29c53b28aed3e0/Don%E2%80%99t-Trust-the-B-in-Apartment-23.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9%2Coffset-x0.00%2Coffset-y0.00 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 'Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23' Is on The 50 Most Underappreciated Shows of the 21st Century og:type: article twitter:card: summary twitter:title: 'Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23' Is on The 50 Most Underappreciated Shows of the 21st Century twitter:description: Here's why 'Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23' made TIME's list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7683724e28e2b143/6a724a96fc29c53b28aed3e0/Don%E2%80%99t-Trust-the-B-in-Apartment-23.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9%2Coffset-x0.00%2Coffset-y0.00 --- Aug 11, 2026 # _Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23_ > Sponsored content. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. 2012-2013 by [Judy Berman](https://time.com/author/judy-berman/) ## Judy Berman TV Critic  Richard Cartwright—Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty Images; Adam Taylor—Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty Images Beginning in the mid-2000s, a horde of ambitious millennial women raised on [_Friends_](https://time.com/3635722/friends-viewing-guide-for-newbies/)and [_Sex and the City_](https://time.com/7288947/sex-and-the-city-best-samantha-episodes/)descended on New York to seize the glamorous careers, palatial West Village apartments, and active social and romantic lives television had promised them. Instead, skyrocketing rents forced them into outer-borough closets shared with assorted weirdos and an epochal financial crisis left them “funemployed” or hustling. A few years later, TV caught on with a new generation of single-women-in-the-city comedies: [_Girls_](https://time.com/4665930/girls-final-season-lena-dunham/), _2 Broke Girls_, [_Broad City_](https://time.com/38669/broad-city-review-comedy-central/). One of the best was also among the least heralded: 2012’s _Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23_. (Blame the cumbersome title.) Created by [Nahnatchka Khan](https://time.com/collections/american-voices-2017/4480476/nahnatchka-khan-fresh-off-the-boat/), who would go on to helm the more widely seen sitcom [_Fresh Off the Boat_](https://time.com/3694113/review-fresh-off-the-boat/), the ABC series cast Dreama Walker as wide-eyed Midwesterner June, who moves to Manhattan for a fancy job, only to find the company that hired her in apocalypse mode. Scrambling to salvage the move, she’s bamboozled into sharing an apartment with Chloe ([Krysten Ritter](https://time.com/4126495/jessica-jones-star-krysten-ritter-interview/)), a party-girl con artist and likely sociopath who is always running some deranged scam. Ritter is the main draw here, radiating a reckless charm that makes Chloe lovable even as she does hateful things. Walker’s performance as a basic ingénue whose secret weapon is tenacity makes the roommates perfect foils. Eric André and the late [James Van Der Beek](https://time.com/7377940/james-van-der-beek-death-dawsons-creek-tributes-cancer-fundraiser/) round out the dream ensemble as, respectively, June’s coffee-shop boss and—in what might be Van Der Beek’s definitive performance—a vain, sleazy version of himself, still coasting on his _Dawson’s Creek_ fame. 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