Best TV Shows of 2012

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Best TV Shows of 2012
Best TV Shows of 2012
TOP TV Shows: Gravity Falls (2012), Endeavour (2012), The Eric Andre Show (2012), Nashville (2012), DreamWorks Dragons (2012), Honest Trailers (2012), Major Crimes (2012), Perception (2012), House of Lies (2012), Touch (2012), Beauty and the Beast (2012), RWBY (2012), The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (2012), Revolution (2012), Baby Daddy (2012), The Hollow Crown (2012), Last Tango in Halifax (2012), Saving Hope (2012), Lilyhammer (2012), Toast of London (2012).
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 8.9
 133K
Gravity Falls (2012)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Twin brother and sister Dipper and Mabel Pines are in for an unexpected adventure when they spend the summer helping their great uncle Stan run a tourist trap in the mysterious town of Gravity Falls, Oregon.
Style: captivating, exciting, offbeat, anime, adult animation ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, teens, family friendly, adult ...
Plot: supernatural, friendship, small town, youth, twins, magical, child protagonist, mysterious place, summer vacation, monster, imaginary, good versus evil ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: oregon, usa, california
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 8.6
 33K
Endeavour (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story: The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.
Style: serious, detective, intellectual, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: police, police detective, investigator, murderer, police investigation, talented, coworker, british, oxford, murder, intelligence, bodies ...
Time: 60s, future, 20th century
Place: england
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The Eric Andre Show (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min.
TV show
Story: A comedic talk show from an alternate reality featuring unstable hosts, a variety of celebrities—both real and fake—and unusual studio action.
Style: parody, humorous, realistic, not serious, surreal ...
Audience: adult
Plot: stream of consciousness, talk show, comedian, hidden camera, celebrity impersonation, practical joke, disorder, sketch, nihilism, satire, nerd, lsd ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.7
 27K
Nashville (2012)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Rayna Jaymes and Juliette Barnes face personal and professional challenges as they navigate their paths as artists and individuals. Surrounding them, and often complicating their lives, are their family, friends and, in some cases, lovers, as well ...
Style: captivating, realistic, sincere, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: country music, music, fame, musician, music industry, family relations, celebrity, lifestyle, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, musician's life, hopes ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, nashville tennessee, southern usa, tennessee
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DreamWorks Dragons (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: DreamWorks Dragons is an American computer-animated television series airing on Cartoon Network based on the 2010 film How to Train Your Dragon. The series serves as a bridge between the first film and its 2014 sequel. Riders of Berk follows Hiccup ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, humorous, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: dragon, viking, young kid, enemy, animal training, friends, training, imaginary kingdom, imaginary, young heroes, creature, heroes ...
Time: medieval times
Place: fictional island
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Honest Trailers (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 5 min.
TV show
Story: Trailers that tell you the TRUTH about your favorite movies and TV shows: Honest Trailers. These are the hilarious trailers the producers don't want you to see...
Style: light, feel good, humorous, funny, satirical ...
Plot: advertising, satire, silly humor, investigation, research, filmmaking, absurd humor, storyteller, film criticism, trailer
Time: 2020s, 2010s
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 7.8
 16K
Major Crimes (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Major Crimes explores how the American justice system approaches the art of the deals as law enforcement officers and prosecutors work together to score a conviction. Los Angeles Police Captain Sharon Raydor heads up a special squad within the LAPD ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, detective, tense
Plot: female detective, female protagonist, homicide detective, policewoman, police detective, law enforcement, murder investigation, lapd, murder, fighting crime, investigator, interrogation ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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 7.5
 23K
Perception (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Dr. Daniel Pierce, a neuroscientist and professor, is recruited to help the federal government crack difficult cases. His intimate knowledge of human behavior and masterful understanding of the mind give him an extraordinary ability to read people, ...
Style: exciting, mind bending, offbeat, intellectual, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: investigation, schizophrenia, fbi, prodigy, college professor, riddles and clues, hallucination, talented, intelligence, genius, professor, crime investigation ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
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 7.4
 26K
House of Lies (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: Charming, fast talking Marty Kaan and his crack team of management consultants know how to play the corporate game better than anyone, by using every dirty trick in the book to woo powerful CEOs and close huge deals. In the board rooms, barrooms, ...
Style: cynical, realistic, semi serious, witty, clever ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: greed, satire, fraud, single parent, workplace situations, power relations, father son relationship, african american, profanity, flirting, ambitious, boss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.3
 43K
Touch (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Martin Bohm, a widower and single father, is haunted by an inability to connect to his autistic, mute 11-year-old son, Jake. Their relationship and their lives take an extraordinary turn when he discovers his gifted son has the ability to see ...
Style: uplifting, serious, suspenseful, touching, dramatic ...
Plot: autism, foreknowledge, psychic power, supernatural ability, supernatural, changing lives, professor, psychic, single parent, single father, hopes, investigation ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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Beauty and the Beast (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Detective Catherine Chandler is a smart, no-nonsense homicide detective. When she was a teenager, she witnessed the murder of her mother at the hands of two gunmen and herself was saved by someone – or something. Years have passed and while ...
Style: fairy tale, touching, captivating, sentimental, detective ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: beast, beauty and the beast, fall in love, unlikely couple, opposites attract, superhuman powers, female detective, impossible love, love and romance, couples, monster, experiment ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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 7.7
 8K
RWBY (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 13 min.
TV show
Story: The future-fantasy world of Remnant is filled with ravenous monsters, treacherous terrain, and more villains than you can shake a sniper-scythe at. Fortunately, Beacon Academy is training Huntsmen and Huntresses to battle the evils of the world, and ...
Style: exciting, stylized, semi serious, humorous, adult animation ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen fantasy
Plot: school, heroes, escapades, monster, teenager, supernatural power, training, team, fight, lie, beauty and the beast, snow white ...
Time: future
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The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 3 min.
TV show
Story: Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bennet is a mass communications graduate student still living at home with her parents and two sisters, the sweet, timid Jane and rebellious, party-loving Lydia. With the help of her friend Charlotte Lu, she starts a ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, melancholic, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: couples, sister sister relationship, family life, wooing, love and romance, looking for love, heir, siblings relations, best friend, parents and children, young man, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.6
 86K
Revolution (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Revolution focuses on the struggle to survive 15 years after a global blackout.
Style: exciting, serious, apocalyptic, suspenseful, cliffhanger ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: survival, apocalypse, fate of humanity, post apocalypse, worldwide chaos, society, chases and races, parents and children, chaos and mayhem, chaos, nanotechnology, twists and turns ...
Time: near future, 2010s, future, 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa, america, north america
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 7.3
 22K
Baby Daddy (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Baby Daddy follows Ben, a young man in his early 20s living the life of a bachelor in New York City with his buddy, Tucker, and his brother, Danny. Their lives are turned upside down when they come home one day to find a baby girl left on the ...
Style: sitcom, semi serious, humorous, sincere, realistic ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: babies and infants, roommate, baby, responsibility, hockey player, single father, dating, best friends in love, family relations, father daughter relationship, group of friends, male objectification ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, new york
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The Hollow Crown (2012)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min.
TV show
Story: The Hollow Crown is a series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays. The first Season is an adaptation of Shakespeare's second historical tetralogy, the Henriad: Richard II, Henry IV, Part I and Henry ...
Style: serious, captivating, historical drama, epic, stylized ...
Audience: date night
Plot: king, royal family, queen, medieval, betrayal, royalty, shakespeare, heir to the throne, battles, power struggle, political intrigue, historical character ...
Time: 15th century, middle ages, medieval times, 14th century
Place: england, britain, europe
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Last Tango in Halifax (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Celia and Alan are both widowed and in their seventies. When their respective grandsons put their details on Facebook, they rediscover a passionate relationship that started over sixty years ago.
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: elderly lovers, old love, middle aged, marriage, lesbian, elderly, family relations, love, love and romance, teacher, lovers reunited, career ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: england, northern england, yorkshire, europe
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 7.4
 8K
Saving Hope (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: When Charlie Harris ends up in a coma, he leaves the Hope-Zion Hospital in chaos - and his fiancée and fellow surgeon, Alex Reid, in a state of shock. As the staff of Hope-Zion races to save lives, comatose Dr. Harris wanders the halls of Hope-Zee ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, medical drama, serious, touching ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: hospital, doctor, supernatural, doctors and patients, medical, surgeon, medicine, hotshot, patient, surgery, staff, lesbian ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: canada, ontario canada, toronto ontario canada
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 7.9
 32K
Lilyhammer (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Norway, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Frank Tagliano (Steven Van Zandt), is a former member of the New York mob. After testifying in a trial in the United States, Tagliano is relocated to Lillehammer in Norway through the FBI's witness protection program. Frank Tagliano was ...
Style: witty, talky, stylized, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, culture clash, dark humor, lifestyle change, blackmail, starting over, middle aged, business venture, small town life, businessman, fish out of water, gangster ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe
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Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: After a naive Midwestern girl's big city dreams are dashed her first week in New York, she finds herself living with her worst nightmare in this hilarious, contemporary comedy about a female odd couple who are surrounded by an outrageous cast ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic, cynical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: roommate, odd couple, lifestyle change, lifestyle, sexual humor, city life, friends, troublemaker, everyday life, big city, friendship, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Toast of London (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Toast of London is a British comedy series following Steven Toast, an eccentric middle-aged actor with a chequered past who spends more time dealing with his problems off stage than performing on it.
Style: sitcom, surreal, light, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot: actor, unrequited love, celebrity, agent, rivalry, talent agent, ambition, prostitute, bachelor, humour, satire, performer ...
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Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn (2012)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: Set against the backdrop of a UNSC military academy, a group of highborn cadets are training to be the next generation of soldiers in the UNSC’s ongoing war with insurrectionists in the outer colonial planets. Among these cadets, Thomas Lasky ...
Style: futuristic, stylized, suspenseful, serious, talky ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space and aliens, invasion, superhero, evil alien, alien invasion, military, video game, escapades, soldier, battles, heroes, power relations ...
Time: future
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 8.1
 35K
Derek (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Derek is a loyal nursing home caretaker who sees only the good in his quirky co-workers as they struggle against prejudice and shrinking budgets to care for their elderly residents.
Style: sitcom, mockumentary, humorous, sincere, satirical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: elderly, retirement home, satire, socially awkward, workplace, coworker, male female relationship, workplace situations, coworker relationship, social problems, social satire, social issues ...
Time: 2010s
Place: england
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TRON: Uprising (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: TRON: Uprising is an American animated science fiction television series, part of the TRON franchise, that aired on Disney XD in the United States from May 18, 2012 to January 28, 2013. The series is directed by Charlie Bean, who also acts as ...
Style: exciting, stylized, heroic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens
Plot: virtual reality, cyberspace, danger, computer system, rebellion, artificial intelligence, fictional reality, escapades, training, rivalry, chaos, heroes ...
Time: 2010s
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 7.5
 21K
Go On (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Ryan King, a recent widower and sports talk radio host ready to get back to work after the loss of his wife. Ryan's alpha-male boss, Stephen, has a different plan in store for Ryan, making him attend grief counseling before returning to the ...
Style: humorous, sitcom, semi serious, realistic, tragicomedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: group therapy, support group, grief, coping, loss, solace, therapy, therapist, uptight character, life turned upside down, patient, friendship between men ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.5
 445K
Arrow (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.
Style: exciting, captivating, realistic, stylized, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: superhero, heroes, double life, fighting crime, martial arts, crime fighter, vigilante, archer, rivalry, archery, dual identity, millionaire ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, fictional island
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 7.9
 4K
Burning Love (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Burning Love is a scripted comedy series which is a web spoof of the television shows The Bachelor, The Bachelorette and Bachelor Pad. Depending on the season, the show either follows a man or a woman who is looking for the perfect mate from a pool ...
Style: parody, humorous, not serious, realistic, talky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lust, dating, looking for love, lifestyle, casual sex, eligible bachelor, rivalry, sexual attraction, firefighter, singleness, stupidity, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Video Game High School (2012)
Genre: Action, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Video Game High School is an action comedy web series (Later, the show was edited into a two-hour movie and released on other media, including DVD, Blu-ray, and streaming video (Netflix)) from Rocket Jump Studios. The series is set in the near ...
Style: exciting, humorous, semi serious, gaming, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, high school student, video game, computers and web, teenage love, student, roommate, social relations, teenage life, high school life, opponent, youth ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.9
 21K
Awake (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Michael lives in two separate realities after a car accident. In one reality, his wife Hannah survives the accident; in the other reality, his son Rex survives. Michael does not know which reality is "real", and uses the wristbands to ...
Style: psychological, mind bending, detective, serious, emotional ...
Plot: alternate reality, double life, car accident, grief, police investigation, family problems, loss, therapy, sanity, loss of spouse, loss of loved one, family relations ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.7
 13K
The Paradise (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s. The Paradise revolves around the lives of the people who live and work in the store, each bound in their own way by the power of the world they live in, and the ...
Style: captivating, costume drama, stylized, realistic, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: fashion, workplace situations, rise to the top, high society, ambition, workplace, nouveau riche, love affair, love and romance, department store, success, workplace problem ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1900s, 1870s, 20th century ...
Place: england, britain
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