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Fantastic T.v. Shows to Watch
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items Great television shows that have aired over the years I've watched. The categories of each show is determined by what Google has them by, meaning they're subject to change at some point should the criteria shift. Links below will be of physical media...
Sections
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Animation
Comedy
Comic Book Pt. 1: DC
Comic Book Pt. 2: Marvel
Drama
Fantasy
Animation
A diverse genre that utilizes drawn, computer-generated, or stop-motion imagery to storytelling. While often associated with children’s programming, animated shows are for all ages and cover a wide range of themes and genres such as comedy, drama, an...
This was the last major Star Wars project creator George Lucas was involved with before selling the Lucasfilms rights to Disney. While the Clone Wars is sci-fi, the animation makes this a clear indicator what genre this goes in. Throughout the seven ...
The Clone Wars
Comedy
The genre of dramatic works meant for humor or amusement with laughter. Usually takes place in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium.
The best show on prime-time and network t.v. right now. The humorous Quinta Brunson made a show about schools and teachers that came was inspired from one of her grade school teachers. Abbott Elementary is the type of fresh, laugh out loud comedy tha...
Abbott Elementary (TV Series 2021
Comic Book Pt. 1: DC
The best DC comic book shows made in the 21st Century. Easier to put them in this format so it doesn't clutter the other stand-out shows.
Black Lightning might not have received the love Arrow, Flash or Superman & Lois did, but it's easily the best show Greg Berlanti produced and ran. The show follows the Pierce family's everyday issues and how that balances with trying to protect ...
Black Lightning
Looking back, a television prequel to Batman (of any iteration) was brilliant. Very few Batman comics have a prequel building up what exactly happens once the Waynes are murdered. Gotham was excellent in the introduction to the classic villains many ...
Gotham (TV Series 2014–2019)
Despite it being an animated series, Harley Quinn doesn't hold back with language, humor, realness and much more. The Max adaptation puts a new spin on villainy and makes a mockery of many of DC's villains while showcasing how awesome Quinn and her c...
Harley Quinn
If one never knew Watchmen was a comic series from DC, they'd think it was a thriller, sci-fi drama. Regina King is fantastic as the lead role trying to figure out what's going on with her family, neighborhood friends and the state of Oklahoma. Race,...
Watchmen (TV Mini Series 2019)
Comic Book Pt. 2: Marvel
The best Marvel comic book shows made in the 21st Century. Easier to put them in this format so it doesn't clutter the other stand-out shows.
The original Marvel Netflix series that got the Defenders team-up to happen. Charlie Cox is excellent as the role of blind lawyer Matthew Murdock. Not only was the casting perfect, but the series got the little things right in story-telling, action, ...
Daredevil (TV Series 2015–2018)
One of the best shows Marvel ever put out. FX's Legion was wonderfully cast, written and shot with some of the best digital technology before AI became mainstream. The telepathic David Haller grapples with how to use, control and balance his powers a...
Legion (TV Series 2017–2019)
Think of Moon Knight as a diet version of Legion: his body has various entities and personalities, yet he blacks out in key events. As Steven Grant learns in a horrible way he shares a body with the ancient god Khonshu, mayhem ensues. Ethan Hawke mir...
Moon Knight (TV Mini Series 2022)
Netflix did a great job with the Marvel shows they put out. The Punisher is another example of it. Set after the second season of Daredevil, Frank Castle goes on murderous rampages while his character is further developed. The PTSD, military secrets ...
The Punisher (TV Series 2017–2019)
Drama
This vast category has lots of sub-categories. Some of the most popular include period dramas, soap operas and teen dramas, (to name a few).
The spinoff series from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this was difficult to categorize due to the blends of horror, thriller, action and neo-noir. The series grows more interesting and better each season the more audiences learn of Angel's past. While ma...
Angel (TV Series 1999–2004)
Originally a movie from the early 1990s, Buffy the Vampire Slayer followed up as a series wound up as one of the best primetime shows of the decade. While it ended in 2003, the series still holds up as one of the best Supernatural themed dramas withi...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series 1997–2003)
The infamous motorcycle club that was started in Charming, CA. has a fiery seven season run. The founder's son, Jax Teller, goes through highs and lows trying to get the club back from president Clay Morrow. Due to how the organization is the main pl...
Sons of Anarchy (TV Series 2008–2014)
One of a few shows from Eric Kripke, the Boys fascinates, scares and entertains audiences for how raw, uncensored, realistic and balanced it is. While creator Garth Ennis had a fantastic idea for how to depict superheroes realistically, he did a poor...
The Boys (TV Series 2019
Fantasy
This genre is a speculative fiction involving supernatural or magical elements. These often include imaginary places and creatures. The genre's roots lie in oral traditions that evolved into fantasy literature and drama
The interesting concept of what would the Grimm fairytales would look like both in the present AND if they shape-shifted into various creatures written about over the centuries fascinated national and global audiences.
Although it starts as a police procedural in Portland, OR., things quickly shift when the main character finds out he can see other faces on certain people around him. NBC's failure to fully develop and make the series fun for adults in the last two ...
Although it starts as a police procedural in Portland, OR., things quickly shift when the main character finds out he can see other faces on certain people around him. NBC's failure to fully develop and make the series fun for adults in the last two ...
Grimm (TV Series 2011–2017)
The crowned jewel show created, executively produced and directed by Eric Kripke remains one of the most popular shows in both the U.S. and the world. From 2005-2020, the shows spends 15 seasons following two brothers through various adventures, chal...
Supernatural (TV Series 2005–2020)
A prequel spinoff of Supernatural, the Winchesters are a fun, thrilling watch with an educational, separate timeline. While the Winchesters was never supposed to be on for more than one season, it holds its own and solidifies more of the Supernatural...
The Winchesters (TV Series 2022–2023)
Science Fiction
The genre of speculative fiction dealing with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts range from futuristic concepts of technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterres...
Star Wars content will be prevalent here for various reasons, but if you don't watch ANYTHING else from George Lucas' galaxy far, far away, watch this one! Before his appearance in the 2016 movie Rogue One, the journey of protagonist Cassian Andor fr...
Andor (TV Series 2022–2025)
The fresh, revolutionary content Star Wars desperately needed. Set in the High Republic era, bands of Jedi investigate several peculiarities taking place throughout the galaxy. Morals are questioned, sides are taken, and mistrust is sewn. A must-watc...
The Acolyte
This dystopian, sci-fi series is based off Philip K. Dick's fascinating book where the Allies lose WW2 and the Axis takes control of the world. The show starts in Imperial Japanese controlled San Francisco. The show does have a slow start but once th...
The Man in the High Castle (TV Series 2015–2019)
Thriller
This genre of fiction has numerous (often overlapping), sub-genres. They include crime, horror, and detective fiction. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving their audiences heightened feelings of suspense, excitemen...
I still don't know how this was allowed on national, primetime television. A thriller and horror if there ever was one, Hannibal showed how Dr. Lector became the infamous cannibal and maximum security prisoner many know him for. The new, more dangero...
Hannibal (TV Series 2013–2015)
Probably the best show that debuted during the COVID-19 pandemic, this dystopian thriller follows a story different from the 2013 movie. Former detective Andre Layton's goal of liberating the tail of the train comes to a head when a string of homicid...
Snowpiercer (TV Series 2020–2024)
A thriller not many shows nor networks could pull off. FX's The Old Man has fantastic casting in Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow as both weave and outmaneuver the CIA, Taliban, Russian and other international mercenaries for what secrets could be unear...
The Old Man