Best Drama TV shows

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Best Drama TV shows
Best Drama TV shows
TOP TV Shows: Peaky Blinders (2013), Euphoria (2019), Breaking Bad (2008), Downton Abbey (2010), Game of Thrones (2011), Yellowstone (2018), House (2004), The Queen's Gambit (2020), Fleabag (2016), Outlander (2014), Chernobyl (2019), The Last Kingdom (2015), The Knick (2014), The Sopranos (1999), Unorthodox (2020), Lost (2004), The Vampire Diaries (2009), Succession (2018), Billions (2016), The Handmaid's Tale (2017).

List of Best TV Shows

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 8.8
 638K
Peaky Blinders (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 2109 min.
TV show
Story: A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
Style: serious, atmospheric, tense, stylized, captivating ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: organized crime, gangster, gang, mafia, gang war, determination, cruelty, mob boss, power struggle, crime boss, family relations, rivalry ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, ancient times, 1910s, victorian era
Place: england, britain, ireland, birmingham alabama, london
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 8.3
 235K
Euphoria (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: A group of high school students navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, trauma, and social media.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, realistic, depressing, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: mental illness, teenager, drug addict, high school, addiction, sex, coming of age, youth, sexuality, lgbt, teenage life, friends ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
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 9.5
 2.1M
Breaking Bad (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: When Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live, he becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, psychological, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: criminal, cancer, peril, life turned upside down, drug dealing, drug cartel, unlikely partners, drug lord, master criminal, family problems, life is a bitch, drug ...
Time: y2k, year 2008, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new mexico, albuquerque new mexico, usa
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 8.7
 223K
Downton Abbey (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 3110 min.
TV show
Story: A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
Style: captivating, costume drama, realistic, serious, period piece ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: aristocracy, estate, traditional versus modern, relatives, manners, countryside, high society, butler, servant, family life, country estate, aristocrat ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, edwardian era, 1920s, year 2010 ...
Place: england, britain, yorkshire, syria, hawaii ...
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 9.2
 2.3M
Game of Thrones (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the ...
Style: epic, captivating, atmospheric, dramatic, stylized ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot: dragon, medieval, intrigue, incest, fantasy world, kingdom, power struggle, conflict, political intrigue, peril, abuse of power, treason ...
Time: middle ages, 2010s, medieval times, 2000s, year 2011 ...
Place: idaho, hawaii
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 8.7
 213K
Yellowstone (2018)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Follow the violent world of the Dutton family, who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States. Led by their patriarch John Dutton, the family defends their property against constant attack by land developers, an Indian reservation, ...
Style: scenic, sad, suspense, tense, neo western ...
Plot: ranch, family business, cowboy, death, cattle ranch, society, family relations, rivalry, dishonesty, old west, violence, killings ...
Time: 19th century, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, montana
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 8.7
 506K
House (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 7788 min.
TV show
Story: Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
Style: medical drama, cynical, clever, emotional, witty ...
Audience: teens
Plot: doctor, medicine, hospital, talented, mastermind, prodigy, loner, patient, expert, surgery, unconventional method, human nature ...
Time: 2000s, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, syria, usa
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The Queen's Gambit (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 397 min.
TV show
Story: In a Kentucky orphanage in the 1950s, a young girl discovers an astonishing talent for chess while struggling with addiction.
Style: captivating, psychological, period piece, historical drama, suspense ...
Plot: chess, addiction, genius, female protagonist, competition, child prodigy, prodigy, champion, coming of age, girl, girl power, adoptive mother ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 1950s, 2020s, 20th century
Place: europe, usa, kentucky, las vegas, mexico city ...
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 8.7
 197K
Fleabag (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 302 min.
TV show
Story: As she hurls herself headlong at modern living, Fleabag is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, sleeping with anyone who dares to stand too close, squeezing money from wherever she can, rejecting anyone who tries to help ...
Style: funny, dark comedy, sitcom, absurd, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: sister sister relationship, sexuality, sexual humor, female friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, promiscuity, female protagonist, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, women, british, bisexual, dark humor ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: london
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 8.4
 178K
Outlander (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and ...
Style: stylized, serious, exciting, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: time travel, fall in love, couples, love affair, true love, danger, life turned upside down, love and romance, battles, fish out of water, escapades, rivalry ...
Time: 18th century, 20th century, 1940s, year 1945
Place: scotland, scottish highlands, britain, syria, europe ...
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 9.3
 854K
Chernobyl (2019)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 330 min.
TV show
Story: A dramatization of the true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history, the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
Style: dark, atmospheric, rough, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: radiation, nuclear holocaust, radiation poisoning, nuclear power plant, nuclear reactor, disaster, save the day, nuclear explosion, salvation, scientist, nuclear radiation, nuclear threat ...
Time: year 1986, 2010s, 80s, 20th century
Place: chernobyl, ussr, soviet union, ukraine, moscow russia ...
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The Last Kingdom (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A show of heroic deeds and epic battles with a thematic depth that embraces politics, religion, warfare, courage, love, loyalty and our universal search for identity. Combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters, it is the ...
Style: exciting, serious, epic, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: viking, king, medieval, battles, danger, escapades, kingdom, castle, kidnapping, rivalry, heroes, political unrest ...
Time: middle ages, 9th century, medieval times, future, 10th century
Place: england, chicago, britain, europe
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 8.5
 52K
The Knick (2014)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story: Set in downtown New York in 1900, 'The Knick' is centered on the Knickerbocker Hospital and the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff who work there, pushing the bounds of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and ...
Style: serious, psychological, bleak, atmospheric, medical drama ...
Plot: medicine, life is a bitch, addiction, hospital, doctor, doctors and patients, workplace situations, surgeon, nun, medical, realism, society ...
Time: 1900s, edwardian era, year 2014, victorian era, 19th century ...
Place: usa, new york, america
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 9.2
 464K
The Sopranos (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: The Sopranos is an American television drama created by David Chase. The series revolves around the New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home ...
Style: serious, cynical, clever, psychological, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, mafia, killings, mob boss, dark humor, criminal heroes, family life, gangster, violence, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family relations ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, year 1999, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa
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 8.0
 92K
Unorthodox (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story: A Hasidic Jewish woman in Brooklyn flees to Berlin from an arranged marriage and is taken in by a group of musicians -- until her past comes calling.
Style: uplifting, social, touching, suspense, anthology ...
Audience: teens
Plot: judaism, jewish family, orthodox jew, female protagonist, escape, women, jewish woman, husband wife relationship, feminist, follow your dream, new life, musician ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york, berlin germany, brooklyn new york city
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 8.3
 591K
Lost (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 5445 min.
TV show
Story: Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
Style: exciting, atmospheric, psychological, enigmatic, mind bending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, island, stranded, desert island, stranded on an island, human nature, lost, mysterious place, death, air disaster, destiny, plane crash ...
Time: y2k, 70s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: fictional island, hawaii, pacific ocean
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The Vampire Diaries (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: The story of two vampire brothers obsessed with the same girl, who bears a striking resemblance to the beautiful but ruthless vampire they knew and loved in 1864.
Style: romantic, suspenseful, stylized, teen, gothic ...
Audience: teens, teen fantasy, teen drama, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, high school, werewolf, couples, love triangle, witch, youth, vampire human love, supernatural romance, immortality, dangerous attraction ...
Time: 2000s, 1860s, 2010s, 19th century, 21st century
Place: usa, hawaii, virginia
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 8.8
 265K
Succession (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 2409 min.
TV show
Story: The lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.
Style: emotional, captivating, inspirational, disturbing, stylized ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wealth, family business, business, dysfunctional family, patriarchy, betrayal, father son relationship, dysfunctional relationship, ceo, family drama, rivalry, businessman ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york
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 8.3
 109K
Billions (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A complex drama about power politics in the world of New York high finance. Shrewd, savvy U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades and the brilliant, ambitious hedge fund king Bobby "Axe" Axelrod are on an explosive collision course, with each using ...
Style: captivating, thought provoking, suspense, intellectual, political ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: money, finance, corruption, investor, stock exchange, wall street, stock market, wealth, twists and turns, rivalry, ambition, family relations ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s
Place: usa
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The Handmaid's Tale (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship. A TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel.
Style: psychological, rough, melancholic, bleak, captivating ...
Plot: rape, sexism, surrogate mother, infertility, dystopia, protest, totalitarianism, slavery, tyranny, religion, belief, women's rights ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: syria
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 8.5
 530K
Westworld (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
TV show
Story: A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be ...
Style: psychological thriller, stylized, serious, thought provoking, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, androids, consciousness, moral dilemma, murder, technology gone awry, man versus machine, scientist, escapades, wild west, human android relationship ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa, san francisco
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 8.4
 126K
Broadchurch (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.
Style: emotional, tense, realistic, clever, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder investigation, police investigation, murder, police detective, twists and turns, grief, multiple suspects, small town, reluctant partners, legal, uncover truth, murderer ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england
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 7.4
 165K
Bridgerton (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Wealth, lust, and betrayal set in the backdrop of Regency era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family.
Style: romantic, costume drama, sexy, light, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: love, aristocracy, love and romance, society, love story, marriage, eligible bachelor, sex scene, couple relations, intrigue, relationships, class differences ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, georgian era, victorian era, ancient times ...
Place: england, london
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 8.3
 99K
Maid (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 545 min.
TV show
Story: Inspired by the powerful New York Times best-selling memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land, Maid will chronicle a single mother who turns to housekeeping to - barely - make ends meet as she battles ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, spectacular, intellectual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: single mother, homelessness, memories, life, children, custody, poor family, job, life is a bitch, single parent, money problems, family problems ...
Time: 2020s
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How to Get Away with Murder (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor. They become entangled in a murder plot and will shake the entire university and change the course of their ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder mystery, legal, hotshot lawyer, lawyer, murder, law student, defense attorney, court case, college, lgbt, teachers and students, courtroom ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia, idaho, chicago
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 7.6
 339K
Grey's Anatomy (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story: Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
Style: medical drama, sentimental, sincere, captivating, bloody ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: hospital, doctor, medical, workplace, surgery, surgeon, patient, relationships, doctors and patients, coworker relationship, workplace romance, nurse ...
Time: future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: seattle, idaho, usa
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 8.3
 148K
Taboo (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story: Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.
Style: serious, suspenseful, disturbing, stylized, rough ...
Plot: murder, british empire, family business, dark secret, incest overtones, brother sister incest, witchcraft, greed, investigation, conspiracy, homecoming, obsession ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, georgian era, victorian era, regency period
Place: england, britain, syria, united kingdom, london ...
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 7.9
 38K
Masters of Sex (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: William Masters and Virginia Johnson are real-life pioneers of the science of human sexuality. Their research touched off the sexual revolution and took them from a midwestern teaching hospital to the cover of Time magazine and multiple appearances ...
Style: sexual, sexy, erotic, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: sexuality, sex, strong sexual content, sexual exploration, nudity, sexual relations, sex scene, sexual tension, unfaithfulness, couple relations, watching sex, female nudity ...
Time: 1950s, 60s, 20th century, 70s, year 1956 ...
Place: usa, missouri
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 8.0
 202K
The White Lotus (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 353 min.
TV show
Story: Follow the exploits of various guests and employees at an exclusive tropical resort over the span of a week as with each passing day, a darker complexity emerges in these picture-perfect travelers, the hotel’s cheerful employees and the idyllic ...
Style: dark comedy, captivating, funny, psychological, humorous ...
Plot: resort, tropical island, satire, exotic island, social commentary, beach resort, social satire, coworker, humour, vacation, workplace, weekend getaway ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: hawaii, italy, sicily, oceania
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 8.0
 49K
New Amsterdam (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Dr. Max Goodwin, the hospital's newest medical director, sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care.
Style: medical drama, sincere, inspirational, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot: medical, hospital, patient, physician, doctor, medicine, surgery, nursing, doctor patient relationship, public health, coworker relationship, nurse ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york
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