TV Shows on HBO Max — NYT Top 100

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

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

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

An ambitious U.S. vice president and her chaotic staff stumble through Washington politics, ego, incompetence, and constant crisis.

A fictionalized Larry David turns tiny social annoyances into spectacularly awkward conflicts through stubbornness and terrible judgment.

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

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

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.

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

A fading sitcom actress lets a reality-TV crew film her attempted comeback, exposing humiliation, vanity, and the cruelty of show business.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Anthony Bourdain travels beyond tourist routes to understand places through food, politics, history, and conversations with local people.

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

Nathan Fielder helps people rehearse difficult real-life situations through increasingly elaborate simulations that blur planning and reality.

Bourdain explores cities and countries through their food, bars, street life, and people, with a skeptical and personal point of view.

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

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

A shy New Yorker films ordinary city life while trying to explain simple tasks, wandering into funny, strange, unexpectedly moving human stories.

A landmark wildlife documentary explores Earth's habitats with spectacular photography of animals, landscapes, and natural behavior.

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.