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CHORUS GIRLS is darkly-comedic tale about eight young dancers trying to survive in a sexist workplace in the mid 70's. This summer they find strength in togetherness, and the courage to resist and change one's circumstances. more about Chorus Girls
In this deviously twisted and darkly comic 'coming-of-rage' tale, Ella Purnell stars as Rhiannon: a quiet wallflower who develops a vengeful and liberating taste for murder. more about Sweetpea
Follow two parallel love stories set in two different time periods; Jamie Fraser’s parents in the early 18th century Scottish Highlands and Claire Beauchamp's parents in World War I England. more about Outlander: Blood of My Blood
Jasper Tempest, a criminology professor, finds himself reluctantly acting as an advisor to the police when Diana Tyson is violently attacked on Cambridge campus. British adaptation of the 2015 Flemish Belgian series. more about Professor T (UK)
After her successful career in Chicago, Elsbeth Tascioni, an astute but unconventional attorney, utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD. more about Elsbeth
The series follows Gabriel Book, an “erudite and unconventional” sleuth who cracks mysterious cases from his antiquated bookshop, using the thousands of books that line his shelves to provide him with the knowledge that he needs. Around him are a gathering of “loveable, damaged misfits who he inform... more about Bookish
Fresh out of law school, Rudy Baylor goes head-to-head with courtroom lion Leo Drummond as well as his law school girlfriend. Rudy, along with his boss and her disheveled paralegal, uncover two connected conspiracies surrounding the mysterious death of their client's son. more about The Rainmake
Entrepreneur Elias Karo takes four journalists hostage in order to reveal that 30 years ago, a bank manager and a district court judge took his family's possessions with the government's blessing and caused a still ongoing family tragedy. more about Helsinki Syndrom
In a nightmarish town in middle America that traps everyone who enters, unwilling residents fight to stay alive and search for a way out. But they are plagued by the threats of the surrounding forest including terrifying nocturnal creatures. more about From (2022)
Daryl Dixon wakes up and finds himself somewhere on the European continent and tries to piece together what happened. How did he get here? How's he going to get home?" more about The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
Dead City extends The Walking Dead storytelling around two unforgettable characters fans have grown to love, hate or hate and then love in Maggie and Negan. It also explores a corner of this universe located on the island of Manhattan, with an iconic skyline that takes on a very different meaning wh... more about The Walking Dead - Dead City
The love story of Rick Grimes and Michonne is changed by a changed world. Kept apart by distance. By an unstoppable power. Can they find each other and who they were in a situation unlike any they've ever known? more about The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
Drama TV shows have redefined television over the past two decades. The shift from episodic formats to complex serialised storytelling – with characters who change fundamentally across seasons, plotlines that build slowly, and moral questions without easy answers – made drama the centre of what is often called the Golden Age of Television. Many of the highest-rated series of all time are drama series.
What separates strong drama from average drama is rarely budget. It is the characters: how they respond to pressure, what choices they make when forced to decide between what is right and what is easy – and whether the series gives them enough time to be convincing. This ranking shows the drama series the community has rated most consistently over time. Use the runtime filter to find drama series with shorter episodes if you prefer a more compact format.
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Strong drama TV shows often overlap with crime and thriller in terms of character depth and emotional tension.