Best TV Shows of 2018
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In 1980s LA, a crew of misfits reinvent themselves as the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Liz Flahive, Carly Mensch |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (73) |
Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelli
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | FX |
Created By: | Joseph Weisberg |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (355) |
A hilarious workplace comedy about a unique family of employees at a super-sized mega store. From the bright-eyed newbies and the seen-it-all veterans to the clueless summer hires and the in-it-for-life managers, together they hilariously tackle the day-t
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Justin Spitzer |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (92) |
This hilarious fish-out-of-water comedy/reality show follows cultural icons Henry Winkler, William Shatner, Terry Bradshaw and George Foreman on their greatest adventure yet. Deciding it's Better Late Than Never, these four national treasures embark on th
Genres: | Comedy, Reality |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Networks: | NBC, Nine Network |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (5) |
Follow the Murphy family back to the 1970s, when kids roamed wild, beer flowed freely and nothing came between a man and his TV.
Genres: | Comedy, Animation |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Bill Burr, Michael Price |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (74) |
Zoey Johnson heads to college and begins her hilarious journey to adulthood but quickly discovers that not everything goes her way once she leaves the nest.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Freeform |
Created By: | Kenya Barris, Larry Wilmore |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (10) |
An anthology series centered around people who believe themselves to be the modern-day descendants of the Romanov family.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Matthew Weiner |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.3 / 10 (11) |
Jump into the daily routines of a diverse group of New Yorkers and how they light things up. “The Guy” is a nameless pot deliveryman whose client base includes an eccentric group of characters with neuroses as diverse as the city.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Katja Blichfeld, Ben Sinclair |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (23) |
Five teen girls deal with the supernatural fallout stemming from an innocent game of “Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board.” When the girls start dying off in the exact way that was predicted, the survivors must figure out why they’re being targeted — and
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Hulu |
Created By: | R. Lee Fleming Jr. |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (3) |
As her 16th birthday nears, Sabrina must choose between the witch world of her family and the human world of her friends. Based on the Archie comic.
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (66) |
To prevent Iran from going nuclear, intelligence officer John Tavner must forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous "non-official cover" -- that of a mid-level employee at a Midwestern industrial piping firm.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Steve Conrad |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (30) |
The black sheep of the Argyll family, Jack Argyll, was accused of murdering their matriarch a year ago, but now a man shows up on their doorstep claiming Jack’s innocence. The family must come to terms with this news and the fact that the real killer migh
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | BBC One |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (9) |
A tech innovator creates a cutting-edge crowd-sourcing hub to solve his own daughter's murder, as well as revolutionizing crime solving in San Francisco.
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Ted Humphrey |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (28) |
Set in a dystopian America ruled by a totalitarian political party, the series follows several seemingly unrelated characters living in a small city. Tying them all together is a mysterious savior who’s impeccably equipped for everything the night throws
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | USA Network, Syfy |
Created By: | James DeMonaco |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.7 / 10 (30) |
A show of heroic deeds and epic battles with a thematic depth that embraces politics, religion, warfare, courage, love, loyalty and our universal search for identity. Combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters, it is the story
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Networks: | Netflix, BBC Two |
Created By: | Stephen Butchard |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (204) |
Heidi Bergman is a caseworker at Homecoming, a Geist Group facility helping soldiers transition to civilian life. Years later she has started a new life, living with her mother and working as a waitress, when a Department of Defense auditor questions why
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Sam Esmail, Micah Bloomberg, Eli Horowitz |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.8 / 10 (20) |
Lee is a childish northerner who lives in a fancy penthouse apartment in London who goes through a variety of jobs such as a janitor and ice cream man as well as attempting relationships with female flatmates. His best mate, Daily Mail reading, middle cla
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Lee Mack |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (21) |
Cuckoo is every parent's worst nightmare - a slacker full of outlandish, New Age ideas. Ken is the over-protective father of a girl who's impulsively married an American hippie on her gap year.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | BBC Three |
Created By: | Kieron Quirke |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (19) |
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
Genres: | Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | BBC Two |
Created By: | Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (40) |
Comedy centred around a couple and their insufferable neighbours.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | BBC Two |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
The lives of cousins Kerry and Kurtan in the rural village of Cotswolds.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | BBC Three |
Created By: | Charlie Cooper, Daisy May Cooper |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
A New Jersey mom puts her relationship with her daughter to the test when she lands an internship at the same TV station where her daughter works.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Tracey Wigfield |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (18) |
An action-packed adventure series following a fun-loving, hard living trio of interplanetary bounty hunters (a.k.a. Killjoys) sworn to remain impartial as they chase deadly warrants around the Quad, a system of planets on the brink of revolution.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Networks: | Syfy, Space |
Created By: | M. A. Lovretta |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (206) |
When Harvard philosophy scholar Jack Griffin finds himself teaching high school in Toledo, Ohio, he tosses the syllabus and recruits his students to help enact revenge on his rival.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Michael Patrick O'Brien |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.9 / 10 (17) |
While in boarding school, a group of six become friends through their intense passion for scent. When one is brutally murdered years later, disturbing secrets about the group are revealed when the police investigates each as a suspect.
Genre: | Crime |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | ZDF, ZDFneo |
Created By: | Eva Kranenburg, Philipp Kadelbach, Oliver Berben |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (8) |
A troubled war veteran is assigned to protect a controversial politician who may be the target of a terror plot.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, War & Politics |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Jed Mercurio |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.3 / 10 (72) |
Diana Bishop, historian and witch, accesses Ashmole 782 and knows she must solve its mysteries. She is offered help by the enigmatic Matthew Clairmont, but he's a vampire and witches should never trust vampires.
Genre: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Kate Brooke |
Network: | Sky One |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | GB |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (47) |
A child star in the '80s, Samantha clings to the fringes of celebrity with hilarious harebrained schemes to launch herself back into the spotlight.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Felipe Braga |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | BR |
User Score (votes): | 4.7 / 10 (3) |
Follow the violent world of the Dutton family, who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States. Led by their patriarch John Dutton, the family defends their property against constant attack by land developers, an Indian reservation, and Ame
Genres: | Drama, Western |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Created By: | Taylor Sheridan, John Linson |
Network: | Paramount Network |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (48) |
This docuseries travels deep into the heart of the food supply chain to reveal unsavory truths and expose hidden forces that shape what we eat.
Genre: | Documentary |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (8) |
Dark comedy about the eccentric members of the Flowers family. Maurice and Deborah are barely together but yet to divorce. They live with Maurice's batty mother and their maladjusted twin children.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Created By: | Will Sharpe |
Network: | Channel 4 |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | GB |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (24) |
Chicagoan Frank Gallagher is the proud single dad of six smart, industrious, independent kids, who without him would be... perhaps better off. When Frank's not at the bar spending what little money they have, he's passed out on the floor. But the kids hav
Publisher: | John Wells Productions, Warner Bros. Television, Showtime Networks, Bonanza Productions |
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Paul Abbott |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (758) |
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 entit
Publisher: | ShowTime |
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, Joshua Jackson, Maura Tierney, Julia Goldani Telles |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.1 / 10 (151) |
Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday -
Publisher: | 20th Century Fox Television, Rhode Island Ave. Productions |
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Dan Fogelman |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (300) |
After a teenage girl's perplexing suicide, a classmate receives a series of tapes that unravel the mystery of her tragic choice.
Publisher: | Paramount Television, Anonymous Content |
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Brian Yorkey, Diana Son |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (682) |
Sterling Archer is the world's most daunting spy. He works for ISIS, a spy agency run by his mother. In between dealing with his boss and his co-workers - one of whom is his ex-girlfriend - Archer manages to annoy or seduce everyone that crosses his path.
Publisher: | Radical Axis, FX Productions, Floyd County Productions |
Genres: | Animation, Drama, Comedy, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Networks: | FX, FXX |
Created By: | Adam Reed |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (474) |
Will Truman and Grace Adler are best friends living in New York, and when Grace's engagement falls apart, she moves in with Will. Together, along with their friends, they go through the trials of dating, sex, relationships and their careers, butting heads
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 10 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Max Mutchnick, David Kohan |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (141) |
Vikings follows the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok, the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar em
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | History |
Created By: | Michael Hirst |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (1460) |
The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 10 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Steven Levitan, Christopher Lloyd |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (750) |
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades
Genres: | Drama, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Jon Bokenkamp |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (836) |