Best TV Shows of 2014
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Best TV Shows of 2014
TOP TV Shows: The 100 (2014), Fargo (2014), True Detective (2014), The Flash (2014), BoJack Horseman (2014), Outlander (2014), How to Get Away with Murder (2014), Silicon Valley (2014), Bosch (2014), Gotham (2014), Happy Valley (2014), The Leftovers (2014), Jane the Virgin (2014), Chicago P.D. (2014), Over the Garden Wall (2014), Power (2014), Star Wars: Rebels (2014), The Knick (2014), We Bare Bears (2014), Penny Dreadful (2014).
List of Best TV Shows
258K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on the books by Kass Morgan, this show takes place 100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity. The last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
survival, post apocalypse, fate of humanity, leadership, human existence, youth, nuclear holocaust, space station, rivalry, survivor, society, friendship ...
Time:
future
Place:
usa
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379K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story:
A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.
Style:
atmospheric, neo noir, captivating, clever, witty ...
Plot:
dark humor, psychopath, small town, policewoman, law enforcement, police officer, police investigation, killings, small town life, killer, scheme, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 1979, future, 2020s, 20th century, year 2006 ...
Place:
minnesota, usa, north dakota
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.
Style:
neo noir, serious, atmospheric, gloomy, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, police investigation, murder mystery, police detective, murder investigation, murder, murderer, drinking problem, partners, partners against crime, graphic violence ...
Time:
20th century, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, california, usa
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351K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
After a particle accelerator causes a freak storm, CSI Investigator Barry Allen is struck by lightning and falls into a coma. Months later he awakens with the power of super speed, granting him the ability to move through Central City like an unseen ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, humorous, epic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, teen drama
Plot:
superhero, heroes, time travel, speed, supernatural power, superhuman powers, multiverse, good versus evil, alternate universe, secret identity, super strength, masked superhero ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the 90s - 20 years later. BoJack Horseman was the star of the hit TV show "Horsin' Around," but today he's washed up, living in Hollywood, complaining about everything, and wearing colorful ...
Style:
adult animation, humorous, sitcom, anime, satirical ...
Audience:
teens, kids, adult
Plot:
depression, existentialism, anthropomorphism, sadness, showbiz, hollywood, anthropomorphic animal, cynicism, relationships, down on your luck, washed up star, addiction ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
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163K
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, captivating, serious, exciting, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
time travel, couples, fall in love, love affair, true love, life turned upside down, love and romance, battles, rivalry, escapades, time traveler, friendship ...
Time:
18th century, 20th century, 1940s, year 1945, georgian era
Place:
scotland, scottish highlands, europe, united kingdom, britain
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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, spooky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder mystery, legal, defense attorney, hotshot lawyer, lawyer, law student, murder, court case, college, courtroom, lgbt, teachers and students ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, philadelphia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story:
In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. Partially inspired by Mike Judge’s own experiences as a Silicon Valley engineer in the late ‘80s, Silicon Valley ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, entertaining, witty, not serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
computer, programmer, geek, ambition, computer genius, computers and web, workplace, workplace situations, businessman, computer system, ambitious, materialism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, san francisco
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74K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on Michael Connelly's best-selling novels, these are the stories of relentless LAPD homicide Detective Harry Bosch who pursues justice at all costs. But behind his tireless momentum is a man who is haunted by his past and struggles to ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, tense, neo noir ...
Plot:
law enforcement, coworker, police detective, police, determination, murder investigation, homicide detective, suspicion, murder, father daughter relationship, riddles and clues, police investigation ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
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233K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
Before there was Batman, there was GOTHAM.
Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world's greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon's story and his ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, tense, neo noir, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
batman, police, superhero, corruption, super villain, police corruption, police station, mafia, friendship, police detective, gang war, organized crime ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story:
Happy Valley is a dark, funny, multi-layered thriller revolving around the personal and professional life of Catherine, a dedicated, experienced, hard-working copper. She is also a bereaved mother who looks after her orphaned grandchild.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
policewoman, police, investigator, kidnapping, rape, police investigation, police protagonist, investigation, female protagonist, law enforcement, criminal, police station ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
yorkshire, england
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102K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. The drama series 'The Leftovers' is the story of the people who didn't ...
Style:
captivating, mind bending, serious, touching, stylized ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
life turned upside down, society, disappearance, apocalypse, haunted by the past, missing person, chaos, depression, small town sheriff, chief of police, worldwide chaos, hopes ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york state, new york
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A comedy-drama following a chaste young woman who is accidentally impregnated via artificial insemination as she struggles to inform her devoutly religious family and make the right choices concerning the child. Based on the telenovela "Juana ...
Style:
light, humorous, captivating, realistic, sincere ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
life turned upside down, artificial insemination, pregnancy, fall in love, virginity, female protagonist, hotel, virgin, rich man poor woman, love and romance, intrigue, love triangle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
miami, usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
A riveting police drama about the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's District 21 who put it all on the line to serve and protect their community. District 21 is made up of two distinctly different groups: the uniformed cops who ...
Style:
exciting, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
police, law enforcement, policewoman, crime investigation, victim, police detective, sergeant, partners, murder, gang, abduction, fbi ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, illinois
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Genre: Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Two brothers find themselves lost in a mysterious land and try to find their way home.
Style:
dark fantasy, atmospheric, enigmatic, captivating, anime ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, preschoolers, horror for children
Plot:
forest, siblings relations, getting home, beast, brother brother relationship, lost, child protagonist, children, travel, brothers, lost in the woods, life & death ...
Time:
80s
Is relevant ?
48K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
James “Ghost” St. Patrick has it all: a beautiful wife, a gorgeous Manhattan penthouse, and the hottest, up-and-coming new nightclub in New York. His club, Truth, caters to the elite: the famous and infamous boldface names that run the city that ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, captivating, erotic ...
Plot:
nightlife, ambition, nightclub, drug dealing, businessman, double life, money laundering, organized crime, nightclub owner, sexual activity, drug lord, gangsters ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Set between the events of Star Wars: Episodes III and IV, the story unfolds during a dark time when the evil Galactic Empire is tightening its grip of power on the galaxy. Imperial forces have occupied a remote planet and are ruining the lives of ...
Style:
stylized, serious, exciting, anime, adult animation ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
star wars, good versus evil, space opera, space travel, space, evil empire, female humanoid alien, escapades, heroes, master warrior, robot, warrior ...
Time:
future
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50K
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, rough ...
Plot:
surgeon, life is a bitch, addiction, doctor, hospital, realism, medicine, workplace situations, doctors and patients, nun, society, power relations ...
Time:
20th century, 19th century, victorian era
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Three brother bears awkwardly attempt to find their place in civilized society, whether they're looking for food, trying to make human friends, or scheming to become famous on the internet. Grizzly, Panda and Ice Bear stack atop one another ...
Style:
sweet, humorous, feel good, light, adult animation ...
Audience:
kids, preschoolers, teens
Plot:
talking animals, cartoon bear, brother brother relationship, anthropomorphic animal, friendship, society, everyday life, anthropomorphism, childhood, bear, adventurer, anthropomorphic bear ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
california, san francisco
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a frightening psychological thriller ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, dark fantasy, atmospheric, scary ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
supernatural, witch, deadly creature, psychotherapy, vampire, werewolf, fear, mysterious character, victorian england, supernatural ability, frankenstein's monster, sex scene ...
Time:
victorian era, 1890s, 19th century
Place:
england, london
Is relevant ?
24K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
A family man struggles to gain a sense of cultural identity while raising his kids in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class neighborhood.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
african american, family relations, parents and children, family life, black family, society, social differences, disorder, fish out of water, social relations, teenage boy, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant ?
107K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 56 min.
TV show
Story:
The pirate adventures of Captain Flint and his men twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking young addition to his ...
Style:
exciting, stylized, erotic, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
pirate, captain, pirate ship, swashbuckler, twists and turns, graphic violence, island, gold, treasure, killings, treasure hunt, ship ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, georgian era
Place:
caribbean, west indies
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
Style:
surreal, semi serious, captivating, tense, sitcom ...
Plot:
supernatural, surprising revelation, surrealism, dark humor, hotel room, macabre, mission, mental illness, impostor, satire, halloween, tv show ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, britain
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
An LA family with serious boundary issues have their past and future unravel when a dramatic admission causes everyone's secrets to spill out.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, sitcom, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lesbian, gay interest, eccentric family, secret, dark humor, family life, dysfunctional family, family secret, life turned upside down, transsexual, family problems, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 239 min.
TV show
Story:
The story focuses on a middle-school math teacher Olive and her relationship with Henry which spans 25 years over the four parts. It is based on Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Style:
meditative, realistic, atmospheric, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
parents and children, family relations, family problems, maturity, small town life, dysfunctional family, loneliness, elderly, couple relations, childhood, marriage, psychology ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, maine, usa, new england
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Elizabeth Thatcher, a young school teacher from a wealthy Eastern family, migrates from the big city to teach school in a small coal mining town in the west.
Style:
sentimental, touching, realistic, serious, romantic ...
Plot:
teacher, small town, upscale, lifestyle change, character change, instructor, female protagonist, social relations, christian, christmas, relationships, love affair ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century
Place:
canada, usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
An epic adventure that follows the early years of the famous explorer as he travels the exotic Silk Road to the great Kublai Khan’s court. But Marco soon finds that navigating the Khan’s world of greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry will ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, epic, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
intrigue, rivalry, medieval, kung fu master, adventure hero, palace, strong violent content, culture clash, barbarian, martial arts, conqueror, warrior ...
Time:
middle ages, 13th century
Place:
mongolia, asia, china, venice, beijing china
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Affair explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship between Noah Solloway and Alison Lockhart after the two meet in the resort town of Montauk in Long Island. Noah is a New York City schoolteacher with one novel published (book ...
Style:
psychological, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
crumbling marriage, infidelity, sex scene, adultery, husband wife relationship, sexual relations, writers, family problems, parents and children, life turned upside down, dishonesty, strong sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story:
In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential" and Gelsey Kirkland's "Dancing on my Grave" comes an insider’s look into the secret world of classical musicians.
From her debut recital at Carnegie ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, captivating, romantic, sincere ...
Plot:
classical music, musician's life, orchestra, backstage, hotshot, prodigy, artists and showbiz, teacher, performance, rehearsal, ego clash, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in the early 1980s, and about a fictional visionary, an engineer and a prodigy whose innovations confronts the corporate behemoths of the time. Their personal and professional partnership will be challenged by greed and ego while charting the ...
Style:
clever, realistic, serious, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
computer, programmer, inventions and discoveries, computers and web, businessman, existentialism, computer system, family relations, marriage, workplace situations, supportive spouse, relationship vs career ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, texas, dallas texas
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