Crime TV Shows — NYT Top 100

A chemistry teacher facing cancer starts cooking meth with a former student, and gradually becomes a ruthless drug kingpin.

A wide-angle portrait of Baltimore told through police, drug crews, schools, politics, the docks, and the media.

In a lawless 1870s mining town, settlers, criminals, businessmen, and politicians build a society through violence, negotiation, and greed.

A struggling lawyer slowly transforms into Saul Goodman while his relationships and moral compromises pull him toward the criminal world.

Two Louisiana detectives revisit a ritualistic murder investigation that consumed their lives over seventeen years.

A family is shattered when a teenage boy is arrested for the murder of a classmate, forcing everyone to confront how it happened.

In post-World War I Birmingham, gang leader Tommy Shelby expands his criminal empire while battling rivals, police, and his own trauma.

A tough police sergeant in northern England confronts violent crime while carrying deep personal grief connected to a dangerous local man.

Twenty-five years after the original series, Dale Cooper's story resumes in a strange, dreamlike expansion of the Twin Peaks universe.

A small-town Pennsylvania detective investigates a murder while her own family life and community relationships are falling apart.

A financial adviser moves his family to the Ozarks to launder money for a cartel, pulling them deeper into violence and corruption.

A corrupt but effective Los Angeles police unit fights criminals while committing crimes of its own and trying to avoid exposure.

A depressed hitman discovers acting in Los Angeles and desperately tries to leave murder behind, but his past keeps following him.

After her politician husband is disgraced, a lawyer returns to work and rebuilds her professional and personal identity.

A quick-drawing U.S. Marshal returns to his Kentucky hometown and clashes with criminals who often share his history.

A Miami blood-spatter analyst secretly lives as a serial killer who targets other murderers while trying to appear normal.

A New York student wakes after a night with a stranger to find her murdered, and the justice system closes around him.