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(9/10 stars)In the Black Hills Indian Cession, the town of Deadwood is a settlement violating treaty obligations; a violent and uncivilized outpost that attracts outlaws and entrepreneurs, ex-soldiers and racketeers, Chinese laborers, prostitutes, city slickers and gunfighters. more about Deadwood
(8/10 stars)Ten years before Kirk, Spock, and the Enterprise, the USS Discovery discovers new worlds and lifeforms as one Starfleet officer learns to understand all things alien. more about Star Trek: Discovery
(9/10 stars)U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades goes after hedge fund king, Bobby "Axe" Axelrod in a battle between two powerful New York figures. more about Billions
(8/10 stars)Oz is set deep inside the Oswald Maximum Security Prison, in an experimental unit known as Emerald City. Em City focuses on prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. There's one set of rules from the outside looking in, and another once you're inside. Every group - Muslims, Latinos, Italians,... more about Oz (1997)
(8/10 stars)A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs his family, even when dealing with the politics tha... more about Blue Bloods
(7/10 stars)Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where he proceeds to commit every sin in the book to amass and retain power, influence and enormous wealth for himself and his family. more about The Borgias
(7/10 stars)Chaos is coming to Tori Vega's life. The 16 year old is starting at a new high school; but not just any school. This is Hollywood Arts, a performing arts school where crazy talented students learn how to become real artists.. Until now, Tori didn't think she had much talent of her own, and was conte... more about Victorious
(10/10 stars)This limited series is based on the stranger-than-fiction account of a prison break in upstate New York in the summer of 2015 that spawned a massive manhunt for two convicted murderers. The prisoners were aided in their escape by a married female prison employee with whom they both became sexually e... more about Escape at Dannemora
(7/10 stars)The New York office of the FBI brings to bear all their talents, intellect and technical expertise on major cases in order to keep their city and the country safe. more about FBI (2018)
(8/10 stars)Jean-Luc Picard, former captain of the starship U.S.S. Enterprise, is pulled out of forced retirement and the next chapter of his life, to help a young woman who is pursued by assassins. more about Star Trek: Picard
(7/10 stars)The world at large believes Dexter Morgan died in a tragic boating accident, and in a way the world at large isn’t wrong. Far from the life he knew, living under a false name in the small town of Iron Lake, NY, he’s successfully tamped down his Dark Passenger for nearly 10 years. With a normal job a... more about Dexter: New Blood
(8/10 stars)The lives of the elite Navy SEALs as they train, plan and execute the most dangerous, high-stakes missions our country can ask. more about Seal Team
(6/10 stars)Sam, a former pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, owns and runs Cheers, a cozy bar in Boston. Somewhat snobby, beautiful and intelligent Diane -- forced to become a waitress when her fiance jilts her -- constantly bickers with Sam. Eventually, they fall in love. Several wacky characters make the bar the... more about Cheers
(8/10 stars)Jackie O'Hurley, a strong-willed and brilliant -- but very flawed -- emergency room nurse in a complicated New York City hospital. A lapsed Catholic with an occasional weakness for Vicodin and Adderall to get her through the days, Jackie keeps the hospital balanced with her own kind of justice. Ever... more about Nurse Jackie
(6/10 stars)Unit Chief Jack Garrett and his International Response Team (IRT), comprised of military hero and profiler Matt Simmons, brilliant tech analyst Russ “Monty” Montgomery and fearless medical examiner Mae Jarvis, are a specialized Division of the FBI tasked with solving crimes and coming to the rescue ... more about Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders
(8/10 stars)On his birthday, Thom Payne gets the gift of insignificance and also a new boss. He suspects his ED pills are interfering with his anti-depressants, leaving him with neither happiness nor... happiness. In a culture that reveres youth - a culture he helped create - Thom needs to figure out what his p... more about Happyish
(8/10 stars)Dexter Morgan awakens from a ten-week coma, and as he begins a painful recovery, he learns his son Harrison Morgan has fled to NYC, both father and son are drawn closer to confronting the darkness they've tried to escape. more about Dexter: Resurrection
(7/10 stars)A martial-arts loving panda named Po gets help from his mentor and friends as he trains to become a Dragon Warrior and protect the valley where he lives. more about Kung Fu Panda
(6/10 stars)Cruz Manuelos, a rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine, is recruited to join the CIA’s Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within. Joe, the station chief of the Lioness program, is tasked with training, managing and leading her female undercover oper... more about Special Ops: Lioness
(3/10 stars)The adventures of a daydreaming, jazz-loving, football-headed 9-year-old, who lives in a boarding house with his grandparents and some eccentric boarders, encounters life in the city with his best friend Gerald, a loofah-haired kid, who is the keeper of the urban tales and coolest kid in class; and ... more about Hey Arnold!
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.
Strong drama TV shows often overlap with crime and thriller in terms of character depth and emotional tension.
The top Drama TV Shows are ranked by real community votes. The more ratings a show has, the more stable its position.
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Rankings are based on real user ratings. The more votes a series receives, the more stable its chart position.
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