Best Drama TV Shows
Best drama TV shows of all time
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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.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Networks: | ITV, PBS |
Created By: | Julian Fellowes |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (303) |
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 on Joh
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Michelle Ashford |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (154) |
The Good Wife is a legal drama starring Emmy Award winner Julianna Margulies as a wife and mother who boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Michelle King, Robert King |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (176) |
K Street is a 2003 HBO television series about lobbyists and politicians in Washington, D.C. It was named for a street that is home to many lobbying and legal firms.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | George Clooney, Steven Soderbergh |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.5 / 10 (4) |
East Los High is not your typical high school. Dance, sex, romance, and mystery are at the heart of this inner city school in East LA where two teenage cousins—Jessie, a 16-year-old virgin and Maya, a troubled runaway with a violent past —fall in love wit
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Hulu |
Created By: | Carlos Portugal, Kathleen Bedoya |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.5 / 10 (2) |
San Francisco-based forensic neuropsychiatrist Eldon Chance reluctantly gets sucked into a violent and dangerous world of mistaken identity, police corruption and mental illness.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Hulu |
Created By: | Alexandra Cunningham, Kem Nunn |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (71) |
In 1977 New York City, the talented and soulful youth of the South Bronx chase dreams and breakneck beats to transform music history.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Baz Luhrmann |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (61) |
Brand new lawyers work for both the defense and the prosecution as they handle the most high profile and high stakes cases in the country – all as their personal lives intersect.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Paul William Davies |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (13) |
A group of heroic firefighters at Seattle Fire Station 19—from captain to newest recruit—risk their lives and hearts both in the line of duty and off the clock. These brave men and women are like family, literally and figuratively, and together they put t
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Stacy McKee |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (21) |
A group of friends from Boston who feel stuck in life experience an unexpected wake-up call after one of their friend dies unexpectedly.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | D.J. Nash |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (4) |
A therapist tries to save her marriage after a cycling accident causes them to reassess their relationship.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | BBC One, Netflix |
Created By: | Nick Payne |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5 / 10 (5) |
Set in 1959 Miami, Florida shortly after the Cuban Revolution, Magic City tells the story of Ike Evans, the owner of Miami's most glamorous hotel, the Miramar Playa. Evans is forced to make an ill-fated deal with Miami mob boss Ben Diamond to ensure the s
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Starz |
Created By: | Mitch Glazer |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (31) |
Set against the backdrop of one of the most explosive times in U.K. history, Guerrilla tells the story of a politically active couple whose relationship and values are tested when they liberate a political prisoner and form a radical underground cell in 1
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | Showtime, Sky One |
Created By: | John Ridley |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (5) |
The Santiagos are a proud East Los Angeles Latino family whose hopes and dreams are rooted in the world of professional boxing.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Dennis E. Leoni |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
Critically lauded drama about the life and pressures of a group of students at a prestigious Eastern law school, with a strict and domineering contract-law professor named Charles Kingsfield, who alternately inspires and terrifies the students.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Showtime |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.7 / 10 (3) |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini and Stratton are tasked with the cases that nobody else can solve. It challenges their sense of what is real and what is not. Houdini is a skeptic, while Doyle believes in the unseen. Their diverse viewpoints make sol
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | ITV, FOX, Global TV |
Created By: | David N. Titcher, David Hoselton |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 5.9 / 10 (14) |
The multigenerational epic follows two concurrent time periods: One, the story of young Eli McCullough after he is kidnapped and indoctrinated into a tribe of Comanches in 1849. The other, 60 years later, when we see a grown Eli struggle to maintain his f
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | AMC |
Created By: | Philippe Meyer, Lee Shipman, Brian McGreevy |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (44) |
A horror anthology series inspired by “Creepypasta” online tales.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | Nick Antosca |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (64) |
Tell Me a Story takes the world's most beloved fairy tales and reimagines them as a dark and twisted psychological thriller.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | CBS All Access |
Created By: | Kevin Williamson |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (7) |
Consumed by the mystery surrounding the donor heart that saved her life, a young patient starts taking on sinister characteristics of the deceased.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Leah Rachel |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | In Production |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
The Waltons is an American television series created by Earl Hamner, Jr., based on his book Spencer's Mountain, and a 1963 film of the same name. The show is centered on a family in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Created By: | Earl Hamner, Jr. |
Network: | CBS |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 6.9 / 10 (30) |
Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, 1832. Anne Lister attempts to revitalize her inherited home, Shibden Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of her plan is to help the fate of her own family - by taking a wife.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Sally Wainwright |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (12) |
The story of the romantic and creative partnership between Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon. He was a filmmaker and one of theater's most influential choreographers and directors; she was the greatest Broadway dancer of all time. Together, they changed the face
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Thomas Kail, Steven Levenson |
Network: | FX |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (10) |
In the 1960s, Israeli clerk-turned-secret agent Eli Cohen goes deep undercover inside Syria on a perilous, years-long mission to spy for Mossad.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Gideon Raff |
Networks: | Netflix, OCS Max |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | FR |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (9) |
Three Jewish teenagers are kidnapped and murdered by Hamas militants in the summer of 2014, leading to the retaliatory killing of 16-year-old Palestinian Muhammad Abu Khdeir and a conflict that forever changes the lives of Jews and Arabs alike.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Hagai Levi, Joseph Cedar, Tawfik Abu Wael |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (1) |
An only child finds her life turned upside down when her father reveals that, over the course of his prize-winning career as a pioneering fertility doctor, he used his own sperm to conceive upwards of a hundred children, including two new sisters.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Annie Weisman |
Network: | FOX |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (3) |
Witty, heartfelt and unique interlinked stories covering different aspects of LGBT life, featuring the most exciting emerging talent.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Russell T Davies |
Network: | E4 |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | GB |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (12) |
This four-part historical drama follows the end of Catherine the Great's reign and her affair with Russian military leader Grigory Potemkin that helped shape the future of Russian politics.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | HBO, Sky Atlantic |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | GB |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (5) |
Marianne and Connell weave in and out of each other’s lives in this exploration of sex, power and the desire to love and be loved. Adaptation of Sally Rooney’s best-selling novel.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Sally Rooney |
Networks: | BBC Three, RTÉ One, Hulu |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | IE |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (347) |
Mad Men is set in the 1960s, initially at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue in New York City, and later at the newly created firm, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, located nearby in the Time-Life Building, at 1271 Avenue of t
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | AMC |
Created By: | Matthew Weiner |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (401) |
The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. Those difficulties are often highlighted through
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | David Chase |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.3 / 10 (721) |
Brothel owner, Margaret Wells, struggles to raise her daughters in London during the 18th century.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Networks: | ITV, Hulu |
Created By: | Moira Buffini |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (26) |
A young surgeon with Savant syndrome is recruited into the surgical unit of a prestigious hospital. The question will arise: can a person who doesn't have the ability to relate to people actually save their lives?
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | David Shore |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (229) |
A tough, brilliant senior resident guides an idealistic young doctor through his first day, pulling back the curtain on what really happens, both good and bad, in modern-day medicine.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Amy Holden Jones, Roshan Sethi, Hayley Schore |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (49) |
Dr. Mary Harris, a single mother and emergency doctor by day, also moonlights as an underground angel of death - helping terminally ill patients who want to die and slip away on their own terms. So far Mary has managed to stay under the radar; but busines
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Global TV |
Created By: | Tara Armstrong |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (23) |
The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Aaron Sorkin |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (169) |
The trials and triumphs of life in the small town of Dillon, Texas, where high school football is everything.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Networks: | NBC, Audience |
Created By: | Brian Grazer, Peter Berg |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (86) |
Set against the backdrop of the Wars of the Roses, the series is the story of the women caught up in the protracted conflict for the throne of England.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Emma Frost |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (55) |
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Dow
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Peter Morgan |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (227) |
Two Mexican-American sisters from the Eastside of Los Angeles who couldn't be more different or distanced from each other are forced to return to their old neighborhood, where they are confronted by the past and surprising truth about their mother’s ident
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Starz |
Created By: | Tanya Saracho |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (7) |