Best Drama Shows Still Airing (Ranked)

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Aspirants

★9.1Ongoing

#1Score 9.09320.1k IMDb votes

It is the story of the journey of three UPSC (public service competitive exams in India) aspirants and their friendship against all odds.

Dexter Resurrection

★9.0Ongoing

#2Score 8.98159.1k IMDb votes

Dexter Morgan awakens from a coma and sets out for New York City, determined to find Harrison and make things right. But when Miami Metro&apos;s Angel Batista arrives with questions, Dexter realizes his past is catching up to him fast.

The Pitt

★8.9Ongoing

#3Score 8.88175.2k IMDb votes

The daily lives of healthcare professionals in a Pittsburgh hospital as they juggle personal crises, workplace politics, and the emotional toll of treating critically ill patients, revealing the resilience required in their noble ...

True Detective

★8.8Ongoing

#4Score 8.80774.6k IMDb votes

Seasonal anthology series in which police investigations unearth the personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within and outside the law.

Fargo

★8.8Ongoing(2014– )

#5Score 8.79476.7k IMDb votes

Various chronicles of deception, intrigue and murder in and around frozen Minnesota. Yet all of these tales mysteriously lead back one way or another to Fargo, North Dakota.

Black Mirror

★8.7Ongoing(2011– )

#6Score 8.70751.3k IMDb votes

An anthology series exploring a twisted, high-tech multiverse where humanity's greatest innovations and darkest instincts collide.

Ted Lasso

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Ted Lasso

★8.7Ongoing

#7Score 8.69472.8k IMDb votes

American college football coach Ted Lasso heads to London to manage AFC Richmond, a struggling English Premier League football team.

Invincible 2021

★8.7Ongoing

#8Score 8.69354.6k IMDb votes

An adult animated series based on the Skybound/Image comic about a teenager whose father is the most powerful superhero on the planet.

Blue Eye Samurai

★8.7Ongoing

#9Score 8.67107.9k IMDb votes

Driven by a dream of revenge against those who made her an outcast in Edo-period Japan, a young warrior cuts a bloody path toward her destiny.

Heated Rivalry

★8.7TV-MAOngoing2025-

#10Score 8.67115.4k IMDb votes

Two rival hockey stars at the top of their game face an unexpected challenge when they develop feelings for each other, complicating their careers and the sport's expectations.

Severance

★8.6Ongoing

#11Score 8.59411k IMDb votes

Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

★8.6TV-MAOngoing2026-

#12Score 8.59289.6k IMDb votes

A century before the events of "Game of Thrones", Ser Duncan the Tall, and his squire, Egg, wander through Westeros while the Targaryen dynasty rule the Iron Throne. Great destinies and enemies await the incomparable friends.

Shogun 2024

★8.6Ongoing

#13Score 8.59253.8k IMDb votes

When a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village, Lord Yoshii Toranaga discovers secrets that could tip the scales of power and devastate his enemies.

The Family Man

★8.6Ongoing

#14Score 8.58114.5k IMDb votes

A working man from the National Investigation Agency tries to protect the nation from terrorism, but he also needs to keep his family safe from his secret job.

Call the Midwife

★8.6Ongoing(2012– )

#15Score 8.5336.2k IMDb votes

Chronicles the lives of a group of midwives living in East London in the late 1950s to late 1960s.

Jujutsu Kaisen

★8.5Ongoing

#16Score 8.49223.7k IMDb votes

A boy swallows a cursed talisman - the finger of a demon - and becomes cursed himself. He enters a shaman's school to be able to locate the demon's other body parts and thus exorcise himself.

All Creatures Great and Small 2020

★8.6Ongoing

#17Score 8.4923.7k IMDb votes

The numerous adventures of a friendly staff at a country veterinarian practice in 1930s to 1940s Yorkshire.

Shoresy

★8.6Ongoing

#18Score 8.4213.7k IMDb votes

Sees the foul-mouthed, chirp-serving, mother-loving, fan favorite character, Shoresy, join a senior AAA hockey team in Sudbury on a quest to never lose again.

Star Wars Maul Shadow Lord

★8.5TV-PGOngoing2026-

#19Score 8.4231.3k IMDb votes

After the Clone Wars, Maul plots to rebuild his criminal syndicate on a planet untouched by the Empire.

The Last of Us

★8.4Ongoing

#20Score 8.40753.1k IMDb votes

Joel and Ellie, a pair connected through the harshness of the world they live in, are forced to endure brutal circumstances and ruthless killers on a trek across post-pandemic America.

Slow Horses

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Slow Horses

★8.4Ongoing

#21Score 8.39162.4k IMDb votes

Follows a team of British intelligence agents who serve as a dumping ground department of MI5 due to their career-ending mistakes.

Mirzapur

★8.4Ongoing

#22Score 8.3895.5k IMDb votes

A shocking incident at a wedding procession ignites a series of events entangling the lives of two families in the lawless city of Mirzapur.

Babylon Berlin

★8.4Ongoing

#23Score 8.3434.4k IMDb votes

Colognian commissioner Gereon Rath moves to Berlin, the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.

Unforgotten 2015

★8.4Ongoing

#24Score 8.3438.4k IMDb votes

London detectives investigate crimes from the past, unravelling secrets left buried for years.

Heartland

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Heartland

★8.4Ongoing(II) (2007– )

#25Score 8.3122.9k IMDb votes

A multi-generational saga set in Alberta, Canada and centered on a family getting through life together in both happy and trying times.

Fallout

★8.3Ongoing

#26Score 8.29405.4k IMDb votes

In a future, post-apocalyptic Los Angeles brought about by nuclear decimation, citizens must live in underground bunkers to protect themselves from radiation, mutants and bandits.

One Piece 2023

★8.3Ongoing

#27Score 8.29211.6k IMDb votes

In a seafaring world, a young pirate captain sets out with his crew to attain the title of Pirate King, and to discover the mythical treasure known as 'One Piece.'

MobLand

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MobLand

★8.3Ongoing

#28Score 8.28132.2k IMDb votes

Power is up for grabs as two warring crime families clash in a battle that threatens to topple empires. In the crossfire stands Harry Da Souza, a street-smart 'fixer' who knows too well where loyalties lie when opposing forces col...

Dark Side of the Ring

★8.7Ongoing(2019– )

#29Score 8.264.8k IMDb votes

From backstage controversies to mysterious deaths and unsolved homicides, this series explores the darkest stories from the golden age of professional wrestling, and tries to find truth at the intersection of fantasy and reality.

Fauda

★8.3Ongoing

#30Score 8.2647.2k IMDb votes

The human stories on both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Shetland

★8.3Ongoing(2013– )

#31Score 8.2432.9k IMDb votes

DI Jimmy Perez and his team investigate crimes within the close knit island community of Shetland.

House of the Dragon

★8.2Ongoing

#32Score 8.20574.1k IMDb votes

House of the Dragon tells the story of an internal succession war within House Targaryen at the height of its power, 172 years before the birth of Daenerys Targaryen.

Shrinking

★8.2Ongoing

#33Score 8.19132.4k IMDb votes

A grieving therapist starts to tell his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge changes to people's lives - including his own.

Landman

★8.2Ongoing

#34Score 8.18118k IMDb votes

A modern-day tale of fortune seeking in the world of West Texas oil rigs.

Star Trek Strange New Worlds

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Star Trek Strange New Worlds

★8.2Ongoing

#35Score 8.1881k IMDb votes

A prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series, the show will follow the crew of the USS Enterprise under Captain Christopher Pike.

Black Clover

★8.2Ongoing

#36Score 8.1754.5k IMDb votes

Asta and Yuno were abandoned together at the same church and have been inseparable since. As children, they promised that they would compete against each other to see who would become the next Emperor Magus.

SAS Rogue Heroes

★8.2Ongoing

#37Score 8.1539.2k IMDb votes

SAS: Rogue Heroes charts the creation of the famed Special Forces unit. Based on the book by Ben Macintyre.

Dutton Ranch

★8.2TV-MAOngoing2026-

#38Score 8.1327.2k IMDb votes

Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler fight to survive on their cherished 7,000-acre ranch amid tough times and stiff competition, while ensuring young Carter becomes the man he's supposed to be.

The Other Bennet Sister

★8.3Ongoing2026-

#39Score 8.1210.2k IMDb votes

Mary leaves her sisters' shadows to find herself, embarking on a journey from Meryton to London and the Lake District. Her quest for independence leads to an unexpected love story in Regency-era England.

Murdoch Mysteries

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Murdoch Mysteries

★8.2Ongoing(2008– )

#40Score 8.1120.8k IMDb votes

In the 1890s, William Murdoch uses radical forensic techniques for the time, including fingerprinting and trace evidence, to solve some of the city's most gruesome murders.

The Day of the Jackal

★8.1Ongoing

#41Score 8.09138.5k IMDb votes

The Jackal is an elusive assassin who makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. He soon meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who tracks him down in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe.

Law and Order - Special Victims Unit

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Law and Order - Special Victims Unit

★8.1Ongoing

#42Score 8.09148k IMDb votes

This series follows the Special Victims Unit, a specially trained squad of detectives in the New York City Police Department that investigate sexually related crimes.

Dept. Q

★8.1Ongoing

#43Score 8.09120.1k IMDb votes

Carl, a former top-rated detective, is wracked with guilt following an attack that left his partner paralyzed and another policeman dead. On his return to work, Carl is assigned to a cold case that will consume his life.

Daredevil Born Again

★8.1Ongoing

#44Score 8.09117.8k IMDb votes

Matt Murdock finds himself on a collision course with Wilson Fisk when their past identities begin to emerge.

The Gentlemen

★8.1Ongoing

#45Score 8.09207.7k IMDb votes

When aristocratic Eddie inherits the family estate, he discovers that it's home to a huge weed empire, and its proprietors aren't going anywhere.

Silo

★8.1Ongoing

#46Score 8.09248.4k IMDb votes

Men and women live in a giant silo underground with several regulations which they believe are in place to protect them from the toxic and ruined world on the surface.

The Morning Show

★8.1Ongoing

#47Score 8.09152.9k IMDb votes

An inside look at the lives of the people who help America wake up in the morning, exploring the unique challenges faced by the men and women who carry out this daily televised ritual.

Criminal Minds

★8.1Ongoing(2005– )

#48Score 8.09243.9k IMDb votes

The cases of the F.B.I. Behavioral Analysis Unit (B.A.U.), an elite group of profilers who analyze the nation's most dangerous serial killers and individual heinous crimes in an effort to anticipate their next moves before they st...

For All Mankind

★8.1Ongoing

#49Score 8.0894.1k IMDb votes

In an alternative version of 1969, the Soviet Union beats the United States to the Moon, and the space race continues on for decades with still grander challenges and goals.

Mayor of Kingstown

★8.1Ongoing

#50Score 8.0875.3k IMDb votes

The McLusky family are power brokers tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption and inequality in Kingstown, Michigan, where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry.

Score = IMDb rating weighted by vote count (Bayesian average). Shows need at least 1,000 votes to be ranked.

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