Best Thriller Shows (Ranked)

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Breaking Bad

★9.5Ended(2008–2013)

#1Score 9.502.7M IMDb votes

A high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer turns to manufacturing and selling methamphetamine in order to secure his family's future.

Chernobyl

★9.3Ended

#2Score 9.301.1M IMDb votes

In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes.

The Wire

★9.3Ended(2002–2008)

#3Score 9.29442.1k IMDb votes

The Baltimore drug scene, as seen through the eyes of drug dealers and law enforcement.

Scam 1992 - The Harshad Mehta Story

★9.2Ended

#4Score 9.18175.6k IMDb votes

Set in 1980s and '90s Bombay, it follows the life of Harshad Mehta, a stockbroker who took the stock market to dizzying heights and his catastrophic downfall.

Sherlock

★9.0Ended(2010– )

#5Score 9.001.1M IMDb votes

A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st-century London.

Batman The Animated Series

★9.0Ended

#6Score 8.98140.6k IMDb votes

The Dark Knight battles crime in Gotham City with occasional help from Robin and Batgirl.

Dexter Resurrection

★9.0Ongoing

#7Score 8.98159.9k 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 Twilight Zone

★9.0Ended

#8Score 8.97111.1k IMDb votes

Ordinary people find themselves in extraordinarily astounding situations, which they each try to solve in a remarkable manner.

Death Note

★8.9Ended

#9Score 8.89503.2k IMDb votes

An intelligent high school student goes on a secret crusade to eliminate criminals from the world after discovering a notebook capable of killing anyone whose name is written into it.

Gravity Falls

★8.9Ended

#10Score 8.88186.4k IMDb votes

Twin siblings Dipper and Mabel Pines spend the summer at their great-uncle's tourist trap in the enigmatic Gravity Falls, Oregon.

True Detective

★8.8Ongoing

#11Score 8.80775.4k 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– )

#12Score 8.79477k 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.

Steins Gate

★8.8Ended

#13Score 8.7797.6k IMDb votes

After discovering time travel, a university student and his colleagues must use their knowledge of it to stop an evil organization and their diabolical plans.

Black Mirror

★8.7Ongoing(2011– )

#14Score 8.70751.8k IMDb votes

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

Dark

★8.7Ended

#15Score 8.69565.3k IMDb votes

A family saga with a supernatural twist, set in a German town where the disappearance of two young children exposes the relationships among four families.

Narcos

★8.7Ended

#16Score 8.69538.2k IMDb votes

A chronicled look at the criminal exploits of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, as well as the many other drug kingpins who plagued the country through the years.

Twin Peaks

★8.7Ended

#17Score 8.69251.9k IMDb votes

An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks.

Oz

★8.7Ended(1997–2003)

#18Score 8.68118.3k IMDb votes

A series chronicling the daily activities of an unusual prison facility and its criminal inhabitants.

Code Geass

★8.7Ended

#19Score 8.67110.5k IMDb votes

After being given a mysterious power to control others, an outcast prince becomes the masked leader of the rebellion against an all-powerful empire.

Line of Duty

★8.7Ended(2012– )

#20Score 8.6782.8k IMDb votes

Drama series following the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anti-corruption unit.

Over the Garden Wall

★8.7Ended

#21Score 8.6793.3k IMDb votes

Two brothers find themselves lost in a mysterious land and try to find their way home.

Shield

★8.7Ended(2002–2008)

#22Score 8.6798.9k IMDb votes

Drama series following the lives and cases of dirty cop Vic Mackey and the LAPD unit under his command.

Stranger Things

★8.6Ended

#23Score 8.601.7M IMDb votes

When a young boy disappears, his mother, a police chief and his friends must confront terrifying supernatural forces in order to get him back.

Dexter

★8.6Ended(2006–2013)

#24Score 8.60959.7k IMDb votes

He's smart. He's lovable. He's Dexter Morgan, America's favorite serial killer, who spends his days solving crimes and nights committing them. Golden Globe winner Michael C. Hall stars in the hit SHOWTIME Original Series.

Marvels Daredevil

★8.6Ended

#25Score 8.59544.2k IMDb votes

A blind lawyer by day, vigilante by night. Matt Murdock fights the crime of New York as Daredevil.

Mindhunter

★8.6Ended(2017– )

#26Score 8.59408.1k IMDb votes

Set in the late 1970s, two FBI agents are tasked with interviewing serial killers to solve open cases.

Severance

★8.6Ongoing

#27Score 8.59411.9k 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.

The X-Files

★8.6Ended

#28Score 8.59278k IMDb votes

Two F.B.I. Agents, Fox Mulder the believer and Dana Scully the skeptic, investigate the strange and unexplained, while hidden forces work to impede their efforts.

The Penguin

★8.6Ended

#29Score 8.59251.9k IMDb votes

Following the events of The Batman (2022), Oz Cobb, a.k.a. the Penguin, makes a play to seize the reins of the crime world in Gotham.

The Family Man

★8.6Ongoing

#30Score 8.58114.6k 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.

Justified

★8.6Ended(2010–2015)

#31Score 8.58133.1k IMDb votes

U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens is reassigned from Miami to his childhood home in the poor, rural coal mining towns of eastern Kentucky.

Agatha Christies Poirot

★8.6Ended

#32Score 8.5660.3k IMDb votes

The cases of eccentric, but sharp, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.

Homicide Life on the Street

★8.7Ended

#33Score 8.5517.5k IMDb votes

An American police procedural television series chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.

Wentworth

★8.6Ended(2013– )

#34Score 8.5127.3k IMDb votes

The confronting look into the lives of the inmates and prison staff of Wentworth Correctional Centre as they navigate the ups and downs of their lives in the prison system.

The Expanse

★8.5Ended(2015– )

#35Score 8.49195.7k IMDb votes

In the 24th century, a group of humans untangle a vast plot which threatens the Solar System's fragile state of detente.

The Haunting of Hill House

★8.5Ended

#36Score 8.49338.7k IMDb votes

Flashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.

Mr. Robot

★8.5Ended(2015– )

#37Score 8.49476.4k IMDb votes

Elliot, a brilliant but highly unstable young cyber-security engineer and vigilante hacker, becomes a key figure in a complex game of global dominance when he and his shadowy allies try to take down the corrupt corporation he work...

Sons of Anarchy

★8.5Ended(2008–2014)

#38Score 8.49361.4k IMDb votes

A biker struggles to balance being a father and being involved in an outlaw motorcycle club.

Demon Slayer - Kimetsu no Yaiba

★8.5Ended

#39Score 8.49239.3k IMDb votes

A family is attacked by demons and only two members survive - Tanjiro and his sister Nezuko, who is turning into a demon slowly. Tanjiro sets out to become a demon slayer to avenge his family and cure his sister.

Hannibal

★8.5Ended

#40Score 8.49315.3k IMDb votes

Explores the early relationship between renowned psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter and a young FBI criminal profiler who is haunted by his ability to empathize with serial killers.

Person of Interest

★8.5Ended(2011–2016)

#41Score 8.49217.6k IMDb votes

An ex-CIA agent and a wealthy programmer save lives via a surveillance AI that sends them the identities of civilians involved in impending crimes. However, the details of the crimes, including the civilians' roles, are left a mys...

Sacred Games

★8.5Ended(2018– )

#42Score 8.4799.2k IMDb votes

A link in their pasts leads an honest cop to a fugitive gang boss, whose cryptic warning spurs the officer on a quest to save Mumbai from cataclysm.

Happy Valley

★8.5Ended

#43Score 8.4775.3k IMDb votes

Yorkshire based crime drama centering on the personal and professional life of Police Sergeant Catherine Cawood.

Bosch

★8.5Ended(2014– )

#44Score 8.4799.6k IMDb votes

An L.A.P.D. homicide detective works to solve the murder of a thirteen-year-old boy while standing trial in federal court for the murder of a serial killer.

Samurai Jack

★8.5Ended

#45Score 8.4667.9k IMDb votes

A samurai, sent through time, fights to return home and save the world.

Southland

★8.5Ended(2009–2013)

#46Score 8.4335.4k IMDb votes

The lives of Police Officers working for the Los Angeles Police Department.

Supernatural

★8.4Ended

#47Score 8.40551k IMDb votes

Two brothers follow their father's footsteps as hunters, fighting evil supernatural beings of many kinds, including monsters, demons, and gods that roam the earth.

Dont Hug Me Im Scared 2022

★8.7Ended

#48Score 8.397.6k IMDb votes

Follow Red Guy, Yellow Guy and A green duck as they learn about family, electricity and death. Beware the strange and dangerous twists that come their way, as their seemingly safe house reveals that they live in an actual nightmare!

24 - Live Another Day

★8.4Ended

#49Score 8.39208.6k IMDb votes

Counter Terrorism Agent Jack Bauer races against the clock to subvert terrorist plots and save his nation from ultimate disaster.

Fringe

★8.4Ended

#50Score 8.39273.2k IMDb votes

An F.B.I. agent is forced to work with an institutionalized scientist and his son in order to rationalize a brewing storm of unexplained phenomena.

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