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Top 50: Best TV Series To Watch.
byarie_1988| created – 30 Dec 2010 | updated – 02 Jan 2013 |Public
Written because I really miss the series top 250. When you are searching for something new to watch hopefully this will help you make a choice.
Judged on: Plot, Environment, Addictiveness and Characters. Don’t care about huge explosions and big budgets.
I have seen all the episodes of each series that is mentioned in the list and many more. There are a lot of series which did not survive the cut so, if you disagree please comment, and convince me!
Currently watching: Bones
To Do List: Supernatural, Lost, 24, True blood, Outsourced, Coupling, Alphas, Deadwood and Blue Bloods
Maybe sometime: Greys Anatomy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Doc. Who?, Charmed, Ghost Whisperer, Sex And The City, Glee, Vampire Diaries, New Girl, Fringe, Heroes, Damages and Grimm
TV-MA | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Drama series following the lives and cases of dirty cop Vic Mackey and the LAPD unit under his command.
Stars: Michael Chiklis, Jay Karnes, Michael Jace, CCH Pounder
Votes: 80,057
Because I didn’t want a obvious choice to be #1 I give you The Shield. Action, drama and comedy this one has it all!
Once you have seen a few episodes you can’t wait for the next one. Very addictive and a lot of fun.
TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery
An antisocial maverick doctor who specializes in diagnostic medicine does whatever it takes to solve puzzling cases that come his way using his crack team of doctors and his wits.
Stars: Hugh Laurie, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard, Jesse Spencer
Votes: 454,663
I usually don’t like hospital series because the all the same but, the character Dr. House is the best there character in a tv-show ever.
TV-MA | 49 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer turns to manufacturing and selling methamphetamine in order to secure his family’s future.
Stars: Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, Betsy Brandt
Votes: 1,789,513
Liked it very much, probably due to the fantastic Bryan Cranston.
However I also really liked the story. A chemistry teacher producing meth, brilliant.
TV-MA | 53 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
He’s smart. He’s lovable. He’s Dexter Morgan, America’s favorite serial killer, who spends his days solving crimes and nights committing them. Golden Globe winner Michael C. Hall stars in the hit SHOWTIME Original Series.
Stars: Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, David Zayas, James Remar
Votes: 717,561
Everybody seems to have a weak spot for our favourite serial killer. I can’t not blame you. Wish I had a Dexter in the neighbourhood.
TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Reality-TV
The hosts talk about everything car-related. From new cars to how they’re fueled, this show has it all.
Stars: Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May, The Stig
Votes: 117,528
You ether hate it or love it, and I Love it!
Okay it’s not a regular tv-series like the rest of this list however, without Top Gear and Jeremy Clarkson the world would be a very, very sad place.
TV-PG | 40 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A white-collar criminal agrees to help the FBI catch other white-collar criminals using his expertise as an art and securities thief, counterfeiter, and conman.
Stars: Matt Bomer, Tim DeKay, Willie Garson, Tiffani Thiessen
Votes: 130,148
This show will entertaining you each episode again and again.
TV-MA | 55 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A series chronicling the daily activities of an unusual prison facility and its criminal inhabitants.
Stars: Ernie Hudson, J.K. Simmons, Lee Tergesen, Dean Winters
Votes: 98,332
Awesome characters and story lines, narrated to clarify the message. Best jail related series I have seen.
TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A biker struggles to balance being a father and being involved in an outlaw motorcycle club.
Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Katey Sagal, Mark Boone Junior, Kim Coates
Votes: 292,263
Show starts slow, pilot could have been better. It’s improving with each season. It takes a while before this one starts being addictive but in the end you’ll love it. Especially season three.
TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy, Drama
A chronicle of the lives of a dysfunctional family who run an independent funeral home in Los Angeles.
Stars: Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose
Votes: 133,653
Gets very addictive after a few episodes.
Best series finale ever.
TV-MA | 55 min | Crime, Drama, History
An Atlantic City politician plays both sides of the law by conspiring with gangsters during the Prohibition era.
Stars: Steve Buscemi, Kelly Macdonald, Michael Shannon, Shea Whigham
Votes: 187,200
Steve Buscemi in a brilliant series.
TV-MA | 42 min | Comedy, Drama
Tommy Gavin deals with the fears of his job as a firefighter and seeing his ex-wife dating other men.
Stars: Denis Leary, Michael Lombardi, Steven Pasquale, Andrea Roth
Votes: 26,483
Thumps up for Denis Leary.
The first 2 seasons where amazing. Since season 3 I must admit they lost that special something. Haven’t seen season 5 & 6 yet so there is still hope.
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Romance
Follows the personal and professional lives of six twenty to thirty-something-year-old friends living in Manhattan.
Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc
Votes: 968,969
No explanation needed I guess..
TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside.
Stars: Dominic Purcell, Wentworth Miller, Amaury Nolasco, Robert Knepper
Votes: 524,571
Season 1 was great but it pretty much went downhill ever since.
TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A spy recently disavowed by the U.S. government uses his special ops training to help others in trouble.
Stars: Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell, Sharon Gless
Votes: 74,118
It’s like the A-team got a handsome son and made him a spy. Helping the world while trying to fix his own problems, learning the viewer how to be a spy, and who doesn’t want to be a spy?
Always need to laugh about Sam Axe with his beer and buddies everywhere:)
TV-PG | 44 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A novice sleuth is hired by the Police after he cons them into thinking he has psychic powers which help solve crimes. With the assistance of his reluctant best friend, the duo take on a series of complicated cases.
Stars: James Roday Rodriguez, Dulé Hill, Timothy Omundson, Corbin Bernsen
Votes: 96,472
TV-MA | 28 min | Comedy, Drama
Film star Vince Chase navigates the vapid terrain of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty agent.
Stars: Kevin Connolly, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara
Votes: 167,960
Liked the characters, especially Ari Gold.
Just a feel good show about surviving in showbiz.
TV-MA | 28 min | Comedy, Drama
A writer tries to juggle his career, his relationship with his daughter and his ex-girlfriend, as well as his appetite for beautiful women.
Stars: David Duchovny, Natascha McElhone, Evan Handler, Pamela Adlon
Votes: 180,005
Easy to watch, good humour.
Everyone wants to be like Hank Moody when they grow old.
Downside; Every season, different story same outcome.
TV-MA | 44 min | Drama
The dark and twisted trials of two plastic surgeons.
Stars: Dylan Walsh, Julian McMahon, Joely Richardson, John Hensley
Votes: 55,901
Not a big fan of pure drama, nevertheless Nip/Tuck is one of a kind.
TV-MA | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Baltimore drug scene, as seen through the eyes of drug dealers and law enforcement.
Stars: Dominic West, Lance Reddick, Sonja Sohn, Wendell Pierce
Votes: 331,895
Starts out slow, too slow for my opinion. During season 2/3 I struggled to keep watching, but I’m glad I did because season 4 and 5 where much better.
TV-MA | 55 min | Crime, Drama
New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano deals with personal and professional issues in his home and business life that affect his mental state, leading him to seek professional psychiatric counseling.
Stars: James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli
Votes: 383,313
It’s not the best ever. Okay the Mafia subject is cool and a lot off people like it. However, a cool subject doesn’t equal the best tv-show ever.
It’s fun to watch and learn a few things about the life of a mob boss. It’s not exciting enough to be additive. Plot is written to slow.
TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
When a twenty-something computer geek inadvertently downloads critical government secrets into his brain, the C.I.A. and the N.S.A. assign two agents to protect him and exploit such knowledge, turning his life upside down.
Stars: Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski, Joshua Gomez, Vik Sahay
Votes: 137,023
TV-14 | 43 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard “Rick” Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes.
Stars: Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic, Susan Sullivan, Jon Huertas
Votes: 160,692
Gets better each season.
TV-MA | 57 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Nine noble families fight for control over the lands of Westeros, while an ancient enemy returns after being dormant for millennia.
Stars: Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, Lena Headey
Votes: 2,021,212
Don’t like the fantasy unrealistic things, however it remains a very good series due to the plot.
TV-14 | 44 min | Comedy, Drama
On the run from a drug deal gone bad, brilliant college dropout Mike Ross finds himself working with Harvey Specter, one of New York City’s best lawyers.
Stars: Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams, Meghan Markle, Sarah Rafferty
Votes: 402,199
One of the best pilot for a series i’ve seen. Thanks for the advise thomasevjuk!
However I didn’t like Season 2 as much as Season 1.
TV-PG | 42 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A crew of high-tech crooks attempt to steal from wealthy criminals and corrupt businessmen.
Stars: Timothy Hutton, Gina Bellman, Christian Kane, Beth Riesgraf
Votes: 50,946
A bit like white collar and burn notice but just not as good. Although it’s presumably better then 95% of other tv series.
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A former police officer returns to the force after having been wrongly imprisoned for years.
Stars: Damian Lewis, Sarah Shahi, Adam Arkin, Brent Sexton
Votes: 34,039
Can’t believe NBC decided to cancel this show.
After you’ve watched season 1 & 2 I think you will agree.
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Romance
A woman who moves into an apartment across the hall from two brilliant but socially awkward physicists shows them how little they know about life outside of the laboratory.
Stars: Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg
Votes: 792,476
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Romance
A father recounts to his children – through a series of flashbacks – the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to him meeting their mother.
Stars: Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris
Votes: 671,208
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Romance
A hedonistic jingle writer’s free-wheeling life comes to an abrupt halt when his brother and 10-year-old nephew move into his beach-front house.
Stars: Jon Cryer, Ashton Kutcher, Angus T. Jones, Conchata Ferrell
Votes: 260,093
TV-MA | 55 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A bipolar CIA operative becomes convinced a prisoner of war has been turned by al-Qaeda and is planning to carry out a terrorist attack on American soil.
Stars: Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, Damian Lewis, Rupert Friend
Votes: 337,952
Season 1 was great, Season 2 did not reach the same level.
TV-MA | 50 min | Crime, Drama, History
In the fifteenth century, Pope Alexander VI tries to control all power in Italy with the help of his several sons, through murder, intrigue, war, and marriage alliances.
Stars: Jeremy Irons, François Arnaud, Holliday Grainger, Peter Sullivan
Votes: 51,113
TV-14 | 47 min | Drama
A drama about one of New York’s most prestigious ad agencies at the beginning of the 1960s, focusing on one of the firm’s most mysterious but extremely talented ad executives, Donald Draper.
Stars: Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones
Votes: 235,087
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Two hotshot undercover cops and their equally tough female handler take down the highest and lowest criminals in L.A. in this pop-culture-heavy, dark, flashy, over-the-top action crime dramedy inspired by Bad Boys and Miami Vice.
Stars: Peter Facinelli, Bill Bellamy, Tiffani Thiessen, Big Boy
Votes: 3,562
Probably long forgotten by most but I loved it.
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy
Newly divorced after fifteen years of marriage, Gary Brooks, a painting contractor, strives to balance work, shared custody of his two children, a controlling ex-wife, and his foxy new girlfriend.
Stars: Jay Mohr, Paula Marshall, Ryan Malgarini, Kathryn Newton
Votes: 5,776
Season 1 was perfect.
Not many series make you laugh out loud, this one does.
TV-MA | 55 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
The life of Spartacus, the gladiator who lead a rebellion against the Romans. From his time as an ally of the Romans, to his betrayal and becoming a gladiator, to the rebellion he leads and its ultimate outcome.
Stars: Andy Whitfield, Lucy Lawless, Manu Bennett, Daniel Feuerriegel
Votes: 239,438
Represents how things really went in the good old days.
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The cases of the F.B.I. Behavioral Analysis Unit (B.A.U.), an elite group of profilers who analyze the nation’s most dangerous serial killers and individual heinous crimes in an effort to anticipate their next moves before they strike again.
Stars: Matthew Gray Gubler, Kirsten Vangsness, A.J. Cook, Joe Mantegna
Votes: 193,395
You are right xoxobda. Totally forgot about this one.
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama
Welcome to the Montecito Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, where you can do anything you want, but Ed Deline and his crack surveillance team will be watching. Just remember: what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
Stars: Josh Duhamel, James Caan, James Lesure, Vanessa Marcil
Votes: 27,523
Fun to watch but not addictive.
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Hour long show which looks at the life of American super-secret operators.
Stars: Dennis Haysbert, Regina Taylor, Audrey Marie Anderson, Robert Patrick
Votes: 21,881
TV-PG | 44 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A troubled youth becomes embroiled in the lives of a close-knit group of people in the wealthy, upper-class neighborhood of Newport Beach, Orange County, California.
Stars: Mischa Barton, Adam Brody, Peter Gallagher, Kelly Rowan
Votes: 88,950
Liked the first season a lot. Season four not so much.
TV-MA | 44 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Sheriff Deputy Rick Grimes wakes up from a coma to learn the world is in ruins and must lead a group of survivors to stay alive.
Stars: Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Lauren Cohan
Votes: 959,721
TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Pete and Myka, U.S Secret Service agents, are deployed in South Dakota’s Warehouse 13 with a new assignment from an authority above and outside the government.
Stars: Eddie McClintock, Joanne Kelly, Saul Rubinek, Allison Scagliotti
Votes: 53,008
TV-MA | 28 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When a suburban mother turns to dealing marijuana in order to maintain her privileged lifestyle after her husband dies, she finds out just how addicted her entire neighborhood already is.
Stars: Mary-Louise Parker, Hunter Parrish, Alexander Gould, Kevin Nealon
Votes: 109,954
Liked the first few seasons. Now the show has changed and not in a good way. It became a bit too unrealistic or forced to maintain a high position in this list.
TV-MA | 46 min | Drama
The story of a group of British teens who are trying to grow up and find love and happiness despite questionable parenting and teachers who would rather be friends (and lovers) than authority figures.
Stars: Kaya Scodelario, Nicholas Hoult, Joe Dempsie, Hannah Murray
Votes: 83,113
Not the best acting, high budget or standard American tv show. Just a small group of English kids with enough chemistry to make it work!
TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A group of young offenders doing community service get struck by lightning during a storm, and begin to develop superpowers.
Stars: Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Joe Gilgun, Iwan Rheon, Lauren Socha
Votes: 100,640
Season 1 & 2 where good fun. Season 3 not to much
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
As a maverick cop with a dark past, DS Tommy Murphy fails a psychiatric assessment but is given one last chance by his boss and given a dangerous undercover assignment.
Stars: James Nesbitt, Del Synnott, Claudia Harrison, Owen Teale
Votes: 1,348
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
U.S. Marshal Mary Shannon must hunt down witnesses for federal cases in the witness protection program while also managing a rather dysfunctional family and her own personal life.
Stars: Mary McCormack, Frederick Weller, Paul Ben-Victor, Nichole Hiltz
Votes: 11,996
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A group of genetically-enhanced children escape from a lab project. Years later we meet Max, one of the escapees who now works for a messenger service in the post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest.
Stars: Jessica Alba, Michael Weatherly, Richard Gunn, J.C. MacKenzie
Votes: 32,764
TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
Sydney Bristow is an international spy recruited out of college, trained for espionage and self-defense.
Stars: Jennifer Garner, Ron Rifkin, Carl Lumbly, Kevin Weisman
Votes: 50,487
Fun series, got better after they decided to stop with the cliffhanger episodes but never got that special something.
TV-MA | 22 min | Comedy, Sport
Three incoming freshmen attending Midwestern college football powerhouse Blue Mountain State must quickly adapt to college life and juggle football, girls, classes and nonstop hazing.
Stars: Darin Brooks, Alan Ritchson, Chris Romano, Ed Marinaro
Votes: 53,532
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A rogue assassin returns to take down the secret organization that trained her.
Stars: Maggie Q, Shane West, Lyndsy Fonseca, Aaron Stanford
Votes: 51,224
Season 1 starts with some bad episodes. Acting wasn’t very good and storyline a bit off. Season 2 however is of high quality en therefore much more entertaining.
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