Most-Quoted TV Shows
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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) |
A group of students trapped in a high school must fight for survival when predatory mutant freaks take over after a meltdown at the local chemical plant.
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Hulu |
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Created By: | Beth Szymkowski |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.5 / 10 (17) |
The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic
Genres: | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Starz |
Created By: | Ronald D. Moore |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (431) |
Ted Lasso, an American football coach, moves to England when he’s hired to manage a soccer team—despite having no experience. With cynical players and a doubtful town, will he get them to see the Ted Lasso Way?
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Jason Sudeikis, Brendan Hunt, Bill Lawrence, Joe Kelly |
Network: | Apple TV+ |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 8.6 / 10 (107) |
Elegant, proper Grace and freewheeling, eccentric Frankie are a pair of frenemies whose lives are turned upside down - and permanently intertwined - when their husbands leave them for each other. Together, they must face starting over in their 70s in a 21
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Marta Kauffman, Howard J. Morris |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (73) |
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) |
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) |
Workaholics is an American sitcom that premiered on Comedy Central on April 5, 2011. The series is in its third season, and is predominantly written by its stars Blake Anderson, Adam DeVine, Anders Holm, and co-creator Kyle Newacheck who play, respectivel
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | Comedy Central |
Created By: | Adam Devine, Blake Anderson, Anders Holm, Kyle Newacheck, Connor Pritchard, Dominic Russo |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (74) |
Years after he turned his back on his hometown, a burned-out major league ballplayer returns to teach phys ed at his old middle school.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Danny McBride, Jody Hill, Ben Best |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (108) |
A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss.
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Bill Dubuque, Mark Williams |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (320) |
David Haller, AKA Legion, is a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he’s confronted with the possibili
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | FX |
Created By: | Noah Hawley |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (516) |
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) |
An agent in the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit develops profiling techniques as he pursues notorious serial killers and rapists.
Publisher: | Denver and Delilah Productions |
Genres: | Drama, Crime |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Joe Penhall |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (497) |
Two cousins, with different views on art versus commerce, on their way up through the Atlanta rap scene; Earnest 'Earn' Marks, an ambitious college dropout and his estranged cousin, who suddenly becomes a star.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | FX |
Created By: | Donald Glover |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (163) |
Jersey Shore is an American reality television series which ran on MTV from December 3, 2009 to December 20, 2012 in the United States. The series follows the lives of eight housemates spending their summer at the Jersey Shore in the U.S. state of New Jer
Genre: | Reality |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | MTV |
Created By: | SallyAnn Salsano |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 3.5 / 10 (37) |
June and Oscar live a comfortable but very predictable wedded life when suddenly they find themselves in a completely unexpected situation, raising questions about love and marriage.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Alan Yang, Matt Hubbard |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.2 / 10 (5) |
Set in the charming town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the series follows the captivating lives of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, a mother/daughter pair who have a relationship most people only dream of.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Networks: | The WB, The CW |
Created By: | Amy Sherman-Palladino |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (192) |
Given superstrength and durability by a sabotaged experiment, a wrongly accused man escapes prison to become a superhero for hire.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Cheo Hodari Coker |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.9 / 10 (568) |
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) |
An unlikely friendship. A lost love resurfaced. A marriage at its turning point. A date that might not have been a date. An unconventional new family. These are unique stories about the joys and tribulations of love, each inspired by true events.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | John Carney |
Network: | Amazon |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (2) |
Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen as Daredevil.
Genres: | Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Steven S. DeKnight, Drew Goddard |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (1258) |
The story of a world-famous televangelist family with a history of deviance, greed and, yes, charitable work, all in the name of Jesus.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Danny McBride |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (6) |
Notorious serial killer Joe Carroll, after being found guilty of murdering 14 female students on the Virginia college campus where he taught literature, escapes from death row. The FBI calls former agent Ryan Hardy to consult on the case, as he was the on
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Kevin Williamson |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (190) |
Set nearly a decade after the finale of the original series, this revival follows Lorelai, Rory and Emily Gilmore through four seasons of change.
Publisher: | Warner Bros. Television, Paragon Studios |
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Amy Sherman-Palladino |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (57) |
Set in the fictional small town of Tree Hill, North Carolina, this teen-driven drama tells the story of two half brothers, who share a last name and nothing else. Brooding, blue-collar Lucas is a talented street-side basketball player, but his skills are
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Networks: | The WB, The CW |
Created By: | Mark Schwahn |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (84) |
After high school graduation, "Laguna Beach" alumna Lauren sets out to live on her own in Los Angeles and work as an intern at Teen Vogue.
Genre: | Reality |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | MTV |
Created By: | Liz Gateley, Adam DiVello |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 2.5 / 10 (8) |
A group of friends turn their love for horror into a peculiar business, providing horror to those who need it, in a dreamy Latin American country where the strange and eerie are just part of daily life.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Fred Armisen, Ana Fabrega, Julio Torres |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 5 / 10 (5) |
When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | Ronald D. Moore, Glen A. Larson |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (571) |
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) |
Boardwalk Empire is a period drama focusing on Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (based on the historical Enoch L. Johnson), a political figure who rose to prominence and controlled Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition period of the 1920s and 1930s. Nuc
Genres: | Drama, Crime |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Terence Winter |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (355) |
The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an organize
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Western |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | David Milch |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (314) |
Married... with Children is an American sitcom that aired for 11 seasons. It featured a dysfunctional family living in a fictional Chicago, Illinois, suburb. The show, notable for being the first prime-time television series to air on Fox, ran from April
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 11 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Michael G. Moye, Ron Leavitt |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (325) |
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) |
Dexter's Laboratory is an American comic science fiction animated children's television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky for Cartoon Network. The series follows Dexter, a boy-genius with a secret laboratory filled with his collection of inventions. He
Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Cartoon Network |
Created By: | Genndy Tartakovsky |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (149) |
Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the 90s - 20 years later. BoJack Horseman was the star of the hit TV show "Horsin' Around," but today he's washed up, living in Hollywood, complaining about everything, and wearing colorful sweaters.
Publisher: | NetFlix, Tornante Company, ShadowMachine Films |
Genres: | Drama, Comedy, Animation |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Raphael Bob-Waksberg |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (257) |
Three incoming freshmen attending Midwestern college football powerhouse Blue Mountain State must quickly adapt to college life and juggle football, girls, classes and nonstop hazing.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Spike |
Created By: | Chris Romano, Eric Falconer |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (70) |
In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and bring peace to the world.
Genres: | Action, Adventure, Animation, Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Created By: | Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko |
Network: | Nickelodeon |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 8.4 / 10 (974) |
The intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and an enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. Explore the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, the ferocious pull of motherhood – and the danger in believing that f
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Hulu |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (10) |
Wealth, lust, and betrayal set in the backdrop of Regency era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Chris Van Dusen |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (24) |
A furry alien wiseguy comes to live with a terran family after crashing into their garage.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Paul Fusco |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (184) |