HBO Shows, a list by YO u

91

/17730/

86

/2529/

95

/149/

96

91

/95/

age 18+

Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.

91

9.4

/583810/

91

/18794/

86

/3969/

4.7

/204891/

94

/34/

97

87

/28/

age 16+

Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.

91

IMDb 36

9.2

/560934/

91

/18465/

86

/3233/

92

/176/

96

94

/93/

age 17+

The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. Those difficulties are often highlighted through his ongoing professional relationship with psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi. The show features Tony's family members and Mafia associates in prominent roles and story arcs, most notably his wife Carmela and his cousin and protégé Christopher Moltisanti.

90

IMDb 90

9.3

/1004366/

90

/34377/

86

/7422/

4.6

/632783/

95

/102/

97

82

/27/

3.5

age 16+

The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.

88

8.4

/190768/

81

/7588/

79

/1229/

4.2

/48518/

94

/87/

93

90

/40/

4.0

age 16+

After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.

87

IMDb 12

9.2

/2524970/

88

/143666/

84

/26049/

89

/337/

85

86

/171/

age 18+

Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.

87

8.6

/127027/

86

/5606/

81

/894/

92

/103/

95

85

/61/

age 18+

The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an organized wild-west civilized town. The story focuses on the real-life characters Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen.

86

8.4

/216487/

82

/7427/

82

/1576/

4.2

/128413/

95

/132/

94

81

/42/

age 16+

A detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigates a local murder while trying to keep her life from falling apart.

86

8.3

/29029/

80

/970/

76

/291/

4.2

/15656/

94

/62/

95

89

/34/

age 14+

A look at a seemingly placid New England town that is actually wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, all told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center. The story spans 25 years and focuses on Olive's relationships with her husband, Henry, the good-hearted and kindly town pharmacist; their son, Christopher, who resents his mother's approach to parenting; and other members of their community.

86

8.6

/215947/

83

/9522/

80

/1196/

92

/227/

95

83

/85/

age 18+

Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.

85

8.7

/115437/

85

/3541/

80

/802/

93

/49/

94

73

/19/

The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.

84

8.6

/226305/

84

/8137/

84

/1189/

4.5

/231945/

95

/115/

85

72

/41/

age 15+

With the city in peril following the seawall's collapse, Oswald "Oz" Cobb seeks to fill the power vacuum left by the death of Carmine Falcone and finally give his mother Francis the life he's always promised. But first, Oz must confront his enemies and his own demoralizing reputation as "the Penguin."

84

8.4

/63678/

83

/2707/

79

/480/

4.3

/15828/

86

/42/

93

80

/27/

The first 40 days of the war in Iraq as seen through the eyes of an elite group of U.S. Marines who spearheaded the invasion along with an embedded Rolling Stone reporter. A vivid account of the soldiers and of the forces that guided them in an often-improvised initiative.

84

8.3

/16789/

82

/936/

76

/146/

97

/97/

86

85

/63/

age 16+

Tremé takes its name from a neighborhood of New Orleans and portrays life in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane. Beginning three months after Hurricane Katrina, the residents of New Orleans, including musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and other New Orleanians struggle to rebuild their lives, their homes and their unique culture.

86

84

8.5

/5895/

80

/311/

77

/73/

4.2

/1356/

100

/14/

88

90

/21/

The Corner presents the world of Fayette Street using real names and real events. The miniseries tells the true story of men, women and children living amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore. It chronicles a year in the lives of 15-year-old DeAndre McCullough, his mother Fran Boyd, and his father Gary McCullough, as well as other addicts and low-level drug dealers caught up in the twin-engine economy of heroin and cocaine.

84

8.3

/142021/

83

/6579/

77

/2457/

4.2

/47055/

89

/46/

91

86

/32/

Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. A companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.

84

8.7

/201226/

85

/7514/

82

/1418/

86

/64/

96

70

/43/

age 18+

A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.

83

8.1

/34793/

78

/1851/

76

/393/

93

/144/

86

85

/54/

age 18+

The story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early ’70s through the mid ’80s, exploring the rough-and-tumble world that existed there until the rise of HIV, the violence of the cocaine epidemic and the renewed real estate market ended the bawdy turbulence of the area.

83

8.2

/17371/

80

/808/

77

/201/

4.1

/6922/

92

/73/

93

78

/24/

age 15+

Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, 1832. Anne Lister attempts to revitalize her inherited home, Shibden Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of her plan is to help the fate of her own family - by taking a wife.

83

8.4

/241841/

81

/8359/

79

/1629/

4.3

/171085/

89

/230/

89

78

/78/

3.5

age 16+

The tale of three mothers of first graders whose apparently perfect lives unravel to the point of murder.

82

7.5

/41430/

74

/2394/

70

/379/

4.2

/26599/

98

/57/

75

81

/27/

4.0

age 14+

The survivors of a devastating flu attempt to rebuild and reimagine the world anew – while holding on to the best of what’s been lost.

82

8.1

/31432/

77

/561/

75

/243/

4.3

/21788/

91

/32/

90

Follow six New Yorkers whose lives intersect amidst the AIDS crisis and the rapidly changing socio-political climate of 1985.

82

8.3

/127490/

81

/8983/

76

/1133/

91

/153/

90

76

/81/

age 17+

When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. This is the story of the people who didn't make the cut.

82

8.1

/54895/

78

/2654/

78

/348/

89

/77/

91

76

/36/

age 17+

A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. Based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction book of the same name.

82

8.0

/134762/

79

/5590/

77

/1000/

4.3

/160495/

92

/128/

83

78

/41/

3.5

age 16+

Reporter Camille Preaker confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two young girls.

81

7.6

/31813/

75

/1628/

71

/251/

4.0

/12925/

93

/56/

79

83

/27/

3.5

age 15+

The story of the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force — and the corruption and moral collapse that befell an American city in which the policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest were championed at the expense of actual police work.

82

81

8.3

/14423/

77

/394/

72

/53/

96

/56/

89

76

/27/

age 14+

Through Julia Child’s life and her singular joie de vivre, the series explores a pivotal time in American history – the emergence of public television as a new social institution, feminism and the women's movement, the nature of celebrity and America's cultural evolution.

81

IMDb 68

8.5

/719201/

82

/25342/

85

/6682/

94

/258/

62

83

/88/

age 16+

Twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed, Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the United States and depend on each other for survival.

81

7.9

/12627/

75

/785/

70

/187/

4.0

/7598/

96

/69/

85

/33/

age 14+

Mayor Nick Wasicsko took office in 1987 during Yonkers' worst crisis when federal courts ordered public housing to be built in the white, middle class side of town, dividing the city in a bitter battle fueled by fear, racism, murder and politics.

80

IMDb 67

8.3

/500983/

81

/17419/

83

/5653/

87

/100/

77

71

/83/

age 17+

The Targaryen dynasty is at the absolute apex of its power, with more than 15 dragons under their yoke. Most empires crumble from such heights. In the case of the Targaryens, their slow fall begins when King Viserys breaks with a century of tradition by naming his daughter Rhaenyra heir to the Iron Throne. But when Viserys later fathers a son, the court is shocked when Rhaenyra retains her status as his heir, and seeds of division sow friction across the realm.

80

8.4

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79

/1005/

76

/323/

4.0

/11503/

82

/39/

86

78

/27/

Adapted from David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, this lavish seven-part miniseries chronicles the life of Founding Father John Adams, starting with the Boston Massacre of 1770 through his years as an ambassador in Europe, then his terms as vice president and president of the United States, up to his death on July 4, 1826.

80

IMDb 86

8.2

/287048/

80

/10375/

82

/10249/

87

/198/

84

70

/45/

age 18+

A group of high school students navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, trauma, and social media.

79

8.2

/144250/

80

/8405/

76

/1528/

4.2

/101088/

96

/119/

57

85

/35/

age 17+

Set in an alternate history where “superheroes” are treated as outlaws, “Watchmen” embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel while attempting to break new ground of its own.

81

79

8.5

/14338/

82

/361/

80

/124/

4.1

/2510/

80

/20/

The story of the United States' space program, from its beginnings in 1961 to the final moon mission in 1972.

78

IMDb 52

8.0

/59390/

78

/2367/

67

/247/

4.1

/24879/

96

/73/

76

77

/34/

3.0

age 15+

In the working-class suburbs of Philadelphia, an FBI agent heads a task force assembled to put an end to a string of violent robberies led by an unsuspecting family man.

78

8.4

/554814/

82

/29185/

80

/5959/

80

/291/

75

71

/113/

age 17+

A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.

78

8.2

/7259/

81

/736/

73

/180/

4.1

/4187/

age 16+

A look at the impact of Spain’s Basque conflict on ordinary people on both sides, such as the widow of a man killed by the ETA who returns to her home village after the 2011 ceasefire between the separatist group and the Spanish government, and her former intimate friend, the mother of a jailed terrorist.

78

8.0

/11351/

77

/459/

79

/289/

Todd McFarlane's Spawn is an animated television series which aired on HBO from 1997 through 1999. It is also released on DVD as a film series. It is based on the Spawn comic series from Image Comics, and was nominated for and won an Emmy in 1999 for Outstanding Animation Program. An unrelated series titled Spawn: The Animation is in production since 2009, with Keith David reprising his role as the titular character. Like the comic book, the series features graphic violence, sexual scenes, and extensive use of profanity. Todd McFarlane's Spawn was ranked 5th on IGN's list of The Greatest Comic Book Cartoons Of All Time.

77

IMDb 15

8.0

/82240/

79

/3286/

82

/1168/

81

/94/

82

61

/30/

age 15+

In 1962, amid a spate of unexplained disappearances of local children, a group of misfit friends begin to suspect a long-buried ancient evil lurking. As the kids set out to determine what's really going on, a rising unease prompts several townspeople to work together to restore peace – all while a U.S. military operation seeks to exploit Derry for its own objectives.

77

7.0

/10128/

69

/601/

78

/241/

90

/31/

76

80

/9/

age 16+

Twenty years ago, a series of tragic events almost ripped the blue-collar town of Millwood apart. Now, in the present day, a group of disparate teen girls finds themselves tormented by an unknown Assailant and made to pay for the secret sin their parents committed two decades ago, as well as their own.

77

8.1

/51517/

78

/1741/

76

/240/

89

/143/

69

70

/77/

age 14+

It’s 1882 and the Gilded Age is in full swing when Marian Brook, a young orphaned daughter of a Southern general, moves in with her rigidly conventional aunts in New York City. With the help of Peggy Scott, an African-American woman masquerading as her maid, Marian gets caught up in the dazzling lives of her rich neighbors as she struggles to decide between adhering to the rules or forging her own path.

77

8.6

/133536/

84

/7825/

80

/679/

61

/67/

age 15+

A behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on a network anchor, his new executive producer, the newsroom staff and their boss, the series tracks their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles-not to mention their own personal entanglements.

77

8.1

/26940/

75

/939/

75

/261/

4.2

/17176/

74

/57/

88

66

/29/

3.5

age 16+

The parallel lives of identical twin brothers Dominick and Thomas Birdsey in an epic story of betrayal, sacrifice and forgiveness set against the backdrop of 20th century America.

77

7.6

/113399/

73

/4451/

73

/1607/

3.6

/37576/

91

/70/

82

68

/29/

age 16+

When an insidious supernatural force edges its way into a seemingly straightforward investigation into the gruesome murder of a young boy, it leads a seasoned cop and an unorthodox investigator to question everything they believe in.

77

7.3

/12404/

70

/840/

67

/191/

3.8

/5436/

87

/77/

73

82

/37/

3.5

age 16+

An alternate American history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey, as they watch the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xenophobic populist, who becomes president and turns the nation toward fascism.

77

IMDb 34

8.8

/737797/

84

/23575/

82

/3893/

79

/388/

59

75

/165/

age 16+

An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.

77

8.3

/19192/

79

/651/

76

/179/

91

/102/

58

76

/82/

age 18+

Set within the highly charged confines of individual psychotherapy sessions and centering around Dr. Paul Weston, a psychotherapist who exhibits an insightful, reserved demeanor while treating his patients—but displays a crippling insecurity while counseled by his own therapist.

77

8.4

/49078/

82

/2319/

79

/441/