Drama 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.

Advertising executives in 1960s New York sell dreams while navigating ambition, identity, marriage, and a rapidly changing America.

The dysfunctional Roy family fights over control of a global media empire as its aging patriarch refuses to let go.

A sharp, self-destructive London woman speaks directly to the audience while dealing with grief, sex, family, and intimacy.

Noble families battle for power across a brutal fantasy continent while an ancient supernatural threat grows in the north.

Two cousins try to build a rap career in Atlanta while moving through money problems, race, fame, and surreal everyday life.

Four young women in New York stumble through work, relationships, money, friendship, and adulthood with uncomfortable honesty.

High-school football becomes the center of life in a small Texas town, following players, families, coaches, and community pressure.

A family running a Los Angeles funeral home confronts death every day while struggling with love, resentment, identity, and change.

Two Soviet spies live as a married American couple near Washington, D.C., balancing dangerous missions with increasingly real family ties.

A young writer in London reconstructs what happened after a sexual assault and reexamines consent, friendship, memory, and identity.

A dramatization of the 1986 nuclear disaster, the people who tried to contain it, and the institutional failures behind the catastrophe.

A dramatized history of Queen Elizabeth II's reign, focusing on the monarchy, politics, duty, marriage, and public life.

Wealthy guests and resort workers collide during luxurious vacations where privilege, resentment, sex, and money slowly turn poisonous.

Survivors of a plane crash are stranded on a mysterious island filled with strange science, hidden groups, and supernatural secrets.

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

After 2% of humanity suddenly vanishes, the people left behind struggle with grief, faith, cults, and the need for meaning.

Standalone stories explore how technology can amplify human obsession, cruelty, loneliness, status anxiety, and unexpected moral choices.

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

A miniseries following Easy Company from paratrooper training through major World War II campaigns in Europe.

Office workers undergo a procedure that completely separates their work memories from their outside lives, creating two selves in one body.

After a public breakdown and spiritual retreat, a corporate employee returns determined to become a better person and change her company.

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

A real-time-style hospital drama follows doctors and nurses through one intense shift in a crowded Pittsburgh emergency department.

Humanity's survivors flee robotic Cylons in a military fleet while searching for Earth and questioning identity, faith, and survival.

A brilliant but unstable CIA officer suspects a rescued American POW may have been turned by terrorists.

Decades after masked vigilantes changed history, a detective investigates a conspiracy involving racism, police, power, and inherited trauma.

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

A fictionalized comedian navigates parenting, dating, embarrassment, and existential anxiety in loosely connected stories set in New York.

A legendary Las Vegas comedian and a young writer form a prickly partnership that evolves into rivalry, mentorship, and genuine attachment.

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

A washed-up sitcom star who is also a horse tries to revive his career while repeatedly sabotaging himself and the people around him.

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 ruthless Washington politician and his equally ambitious wife manipulate, betray, and scheme their way toward greater power.

Two Irish teenagers from different social backgrounds repeatedly come together and drift apart as they move from school into adulthood.

An aristocratic English family and its servants face love, scandal, war, inheritance, and social change in the early 20th century.

Kids in a small 1980s town encounter secret experiments, psychic powers, and a terrifying parallel dimension after a boy disappears.

French intelligence officers manage undercover agents and long-term false identities, where professional secrecy corrodes private life.

Two Black women in Los Angeles navigate friendship, work, dating, ambition, and self-doubt while trying to figure out adulthood.

Disgraced MI5 agents dumped in a dead-end department keep stumbling into real conspiracies under their brilliant, filthy, insulting boss.

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

In a totalitarian America, fertile women are forced into reproductive servitude while one handmaid struggles to survive and resist.

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 road-rage incident between two strangers escalates into an obsessive feud that wrecks both of their lives.

Desperate people compete in deadly versions of children's games for an enormous cash prize while wealthy spectators watch.

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

A gifted chef returns to Chicago to run his family's chaotic sandwich shop, where grief, ambition, and kitchen pressure collide.

An upbeat American football coach is hired to manage an English soccer club despite knowing almost nothing about the sport.

A woman back in her Kansas hometown after loss finds friendship, music, and a community of outsiders who help her reconnect with life.

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

An orphaned chess prodigy rises through the competitive chess world while struggling with addiction, loneliness, and pressure.

A working actress raises three daughters in Los Angeles while caring for family and trying to preserve a life of her own.

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

In 1600 Japan, an English sailor becomes entangled in a powerful lord's political struggle and a complex cross-cultural relationship.

Four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma dream of leaving for California while dealing with friendship, grief, family, and community.

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

A struggling comedian's encounter with an obsessive woman becomes stalking, forcing him to confront trauma and his own complicated choices.

A washed-up, arrogant baseball pitcher returns to his hometown and tries to reclaim the fame he believes he deserves.

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

After a pandemic destroys civilization, survivors rebuild lives through art, memory, friendship, and a traveling Shakespeare troupe.

A career diplomat unexpectedly becomes U.S. ambassador to Britain and must manage international crises, Washington politics, and a difficult marriage.

A brilliant, abrasive doctor solves baffling medical cases while battling addiction, authority, and his own isolation.

Engineers and entrepreneurs chase the personal-computer and internet revolutions of the 1980s and 1990s while repeatedly reinventing themselves.

A missing blind woman returns years later with her sight restored and tells a strange story involving captivity, near-death experiences, and other dimensions.

A fast-talking single mother and her teenage daughter navigate love, school, family expectations, and life in a quirky Connecticut town.

A Washington crisis manager fixes scandals for powerful clients while becoming entangled with the White House and its secrets.