Best TV Shows of 2018
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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 la virgen."
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | The CW |
Created By: | Jennie Snyder Urman |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (136) |
Adventure Time is an American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network. The series follows the adventures of Finn, a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape and gr
Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 10 |
Network: | Cartoon Network |
Created By: | Pendleton Ward |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (165) |
An edge-of-your-seat view into the lives of everyday heroes committed to one of America's noblest professions. For the firefighters, rescue squad and paramedics of Chicago Firehouse 51, no occupation is more stressful or dangerous, yet so rewarding and ex
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Derek Haas, Michael Brandt |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (197) |
A reality series that follows some of the most affluent women in the country as they enjoy the lavish lifestyle that only Beverly Hills can provide.
Genre: | Reality |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | Bravo |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (32) |
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 is an Ame
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Mike Judge, Alec Berg, Dave Krinsky, John Altschuler |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (529) |
A dance musical that explores the juxtaposition of several segments of 1980s life and society in New York: the ball culture world, the rise of the luxury Trump-era universe and the downtown social and literary scene.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | FX |
Created By: | Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Steven Canals |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (11) |
Teenage friends find their lives upended by the wonders and horrors of puberty in this edgy comedy from real-life pals Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg.
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin, Andy Goldberg, Nick Kroll |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (82) |
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 never sle
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Starz |
Created By: | Courtney Kemp Agboh, Vladimir Cvetko |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (586) |
A single-camera ensemble comedy following the lives of an eclectic group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.
Genres: | Comedy, Crime |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Networks: | NBC, FOX |
Created By: | Daniel J. Goor, Michael Schur |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (500) |
Follow Sarah Silverman as she looks to connect with people who may not agree with her personal opinions through honesty, humor, genuine interest in others and not taking herself too seriously. She feels that now more than ever it's crucial to connect with
Genres: | Talk, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Hulu |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (5) |
When Stella finds out her terminal cancer is cured, she's going to have to learn to live with all the choices she's made when she decided to "live like she was dying".
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | The CW |
Created By: | Erin Cardillo, Richard Keith |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.8 / 10 (14) |
A peek inside the exploits and privileged private lives of the blended Kardashian-Jenner family, including sisters Kim, Kourtney and Khloé.
Genre: | Reality |
Number Of Seasons: | 15 |
Network: | E! |
Created By: | Ryan Seacrest, Eliot Goldberg |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 3.5 / 10 (119) |
British version of the reality competitions series that sees young entrepreneurs compete in several business tasks, attempting to survive the weekly firings in order to become the business partner of one of the most successful businessmen.
Genre: | Reality |
Number Of Seasons: | 14 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Mark Burnett |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.4 / 10 (11) |
Satirical sketch comedy set and filmed in Portland, Oregon that explores the eccentric misfits who embody the foibles of modern culture.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | IFC |
Created By: | Jonathan Krisel, Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (51) |
Looking at the lives of former and current football players, the show follows former superstar Spencer Strasmore as he gets his life on track in retirement while mentoring other current and former players through the daily grind of the business of footbal
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Stephen Levinson |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.7 / 10 (230) |
A coming of age comedy following a diverse group of teenage friends as they confront the challenges of growing up in gritty inner-city Los Angeles.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Lauren Iungerich, Eddie Gonzalez, Jeremy Haft |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (6) |
One Day at a Time is an American situation comedy. It starred Bonnie Franklin as Ann Romano, a divorced mother who moves to Indianapolis with her two teenage daughters Julie and Barbara Cooper with Dwayne Schneider as their building superintendent.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Allan Manings, Whitney Blake |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (23) |
Emet is the perfect mom, boss, wife, friend and daughter. Okay, she's not perfect. In fact, she's just figuring it out like the rest of us. Sure, she feels bad when she has a sexy dream about someone other than her husband, or when she pretends not to kno
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Aseem Batra |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5 / 10 (5) |
Pot activist Ruth Whitefeather Feldman runs a medical marijuana dispensary while encouraging her loyal patients to chill out and enjoy the high life.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Chuck Lorre, David Javerbaum |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 5.2 / 10 (38) |
Late-night series featuring a mix of vérité documentary, musical performances, surrealist melodrama and humorous animation as a stream-of-consciousness response to the contemporary American mediascape.
Genres: | Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Terence Nance |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
An anthology series set in a single hotel room, where every guest who comes to stay reveals a unique set of circumstances and quirks.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.5 / 10 (39) |
A bullied teenager turns to beauty pageants as a way to exact her revenge, with the help of a disgraced coach who soon realizes he's in over his head.
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Lauren Gussis |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (16) |
Rebellious Mickey and good-natured Gus navigate the thrills and agonies of modern relationships.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Paul Rust, Lesley Arfin, Judd Apatow |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (94) |
A group of single parents lean on each other to help raise their 7-year-old kids and maintain some kind of personal lives outside of parenthood.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Elizabeth Meriwether, J. J. Philbin |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.5 / 10 (5) |
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 remain loyal t
Genres: | Drama, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Eric Overmyer |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (137) |
A group of six friends on a yacht trip from Brisbane to Indonesia come to the aid of a broken-down asylum seekers' boat, leading to a tragic series of events that return to haunt them four years later.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | SBS |
Created By: | Belinda Chayko, Phil Enchelmaier, Simon Kennedy |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (1) |
Two detectives with opposing viewpoints are partnered together five years before the Apocalypse.
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Neil Cross |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (14) |
Bob Lee Swagger is an expert marksman living in exile who is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the president. Based on the best-selling Bob Lee Swagger novel by Stephen Hunter, Point of Impact, and the 2007 Paramount film starring M
Genre: | Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | USA Network |
Created By: | John Hlavin |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (230) |
Seth Davenport is masquerading as a small town Iowa preacher in the hopes of starting a full-blown insurrection against the status quo, unaware that an industrialist tycoon has hired a professional strikebreaker to stop the uprising by any means necessary
Genre: | Western |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | USA Network |
Created By: | Tony Tost |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (26) |
After finding out he has an STI, Dylan must get back in touch with every girl he has ever had sex with to let them know the bad news.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Networks: | Channel 4, Netflix |
Created By: | Tom Edge |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (32) |
Still Open All Hours is a sitcom set in a grocer's shop. It is a sequel to the series Open All Hours, written by original series writer Roy Clarke and featuring several of the permanent cast members of the original series
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Roy Clarke |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.4 / 10 (16) |
The life of Gumball Watterson, a 12-year old cat who attends middle school in Elmore. Accompanied by his pet, adoptive brother, and best friend Darwin Watterson, he frequently finds himself involved in various shenanigans around the city, during which he
Genres: | Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | Cartoon Network |
Created By: | Ben Bocquelet |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (61) |
A young boy takes his mother's place in a group of gemstone-based beings, and must learn to control his powers.
Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Action & Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Cartoon Network |
Created By: | Rebecca Sugar |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (111) |
Three years after the zombie virus has gutted the country, a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of the plague from New York to California, where the last functioning viral lab waits for his blood.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | Karl Schaefer, Craig Engler |
Status: | Returning Series, Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (255) |
A mysterious criminal steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine, intent on destroying America as we know it by changing the past. Our only hope is an unexpected team: a scientist, a soldier and a history professor, who must use the machine's prototype
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Eric Kripke, Shawn Ryan |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (265) |
A dangerously charming, intensely obsessive young man goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of those he is transfixed by.
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Lifetime |
Created By: | Sera Gamble, Greg Berlanti |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (20) |
Join Ash Ketchum, accompanied by his partner Pikachu, as he travels through many regions, meets new friends and faces new challenges on his quest to become a Pokémon Master.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 22 |
Created By: | Satoshi Tajiri, Ken Sugimori, Junichi Masuda |
Network: | TV Tokyo |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | JP |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (221) |
In this reboot of the '80s series, a magic sword transforms an orphan girl into warrior She-Ra, who unites a rebellion to fight against evil.
Genres: | Animation, Kids, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (13) |
The protagonist, Baki Hanma, trains with an intense focus to become strong enough to surpass his father, Yujiro Hanma, the strongest fighter in the world. Five of the world's most violent and brutal death row inmates are gathering to face Baki. Their obje
Genres: | Animation, Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Toshiki Hirano, Tatsuhiko Urahata |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | JP |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (12) |
Loving parodies of some of the world's best-known documentaries. Each episode is shot in a different style of documentary filmmaking, and honors some of the most important stories that didn't actually happen.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Created By: | Seth Meyers, Bill Hader, Fred Armisen |
Network: | IFC |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (16) |