Best Series Watchlist, a list by RootFTW

85

/3348/

85

/387/

95

/44/

90

65

/17/

age 16+

Dexter Morgan awakens from a coma to find Harrison gone without a trace. Realizing the weight of what he put his son through, Dexter sets out for New York City, determined to find him and make things right. But closure won't come easy. When Miami Metro's Angel Batista arrives with questions, Dexter realizes his past is catching up to him fast. As father and son navigate their own darkness in the city that never sleeps, they soon find themselves deeper than they ever imagined - and that the only way out is together.

86

8.7

/23138/

83

/538/

89

/127/

4.3

/22855/

8.7

/147567/

A Happy alien, Takopi, lands on Earth with one mission: to spread happiness! When he meets Shizuka, a lonely fourth grader, he vows to bring back her smile using his magical Happy Gadgets. But as he uncovers the pain in her life, Takopi learns that true happiness may require more than gadgets.

93

9.1

/34646/

89

/806/

87

/446/

4.7

/91120/

100

/8/

98

In Jeju, a spirited girl and a steadfast boy's island story blossoms into a lifelong tale of setbacks and triumphs — proving love endures across time.

87

8.5

/17753/

83

/1242/

84

/229/

100

/28/

91

80

/6/

age 14+

Former high school lab partners Marshall and Frances begin to unravel a conspiracy involving big pharma and the federal government to suppress knowledge of a rare mushroom that may hold the key to curing all the world’s diseases.

87

IMDb 4

8.9

/96302/

87

/4550/

87

/367/

97

/116/

83

84

/56/

age 15+

The staff of Pittsburgh's Trauma Medical Center work around the clock to save lives in an overcrowded and underfunded emergency department.

87

8.3

/49654/

84

/3247/

86

/741/

100

/24/

92

83

/5/

8.4

/547195/

age 15+

In a bet to prove whether ghosts or aliens exist, two high schoolers face terrifying paranormal threats, gain superpowers and maybe even fall in love?!

87

8.2

/29421/

82

/2036/

84

/703/

100

/10/

91

8.2

/398655/

In a world plagued by creatures known as Kaiju, Kafka Hibino aspired to enlist in The Defense Force. He makes a promise to enlist with his childhood friend, Mina Ashiro. Soon, life takes them in separate ways. While employed cleaning up after Kaiju battles, Kafka meets Reno Ichikawa. Reno's determination to join The Defense Force reawakens Kafka's promise to join Mina and protect humanity.

85

8.5

/14155/

85

/507/

85

/228/

4.2

/44335/

Right after Ryu Sun-jae, a top star, ends his life, Im Sol, his top fan, somehow ends up at a time when they were in high school and tries to protect him. A fantasy romance unfolds where people who missed each other in time finally meet.

87

8.0

/9427/

79

/483/

81

/134/

4.0

/16779/

100

/6/

96

A niece who lost her parents and grew up in the hands of an uncle who runs a shopping mall faces a new truth after her uncle's sudden death.

88

8.0

/13326/

82

/1757/

84

/279/

100

/6/

93

8.5

/280819/

age 14+

Dungeons, dragons... and delicious monster stew!? Adventurers foray into a cursed buried kingdom to save their friend, cooking up a storm along the way.

87

86

8.1

/5631/

83

/381/

81

/123/

4.3

/26520/

100

/6/

91

age 15+

A kind-hearted nurse working in psychiatry goes above and beyond to be a ray of light for those under her care, despite the challenges coming her way.

86

8.1

/19250/

79

/1341/

79

/216/

4.3

/30376/

100

/7/

94

86

/4/

8.4

/104914/

age 14+

When the world's seven most advanced robots and their human allies are murdered one by one, Inspector Gesicht soon discovers that he's also in danger.

86

8.6

/21333/

86

/1497/

86

/495/

4.3

/25328/

8.8

/431519/

age 14+

Maomao lived a peaceful life with her apothecary father. Until one day, she's sold as a lowly servant to the emperor's palace. But she wasn't meant for a compliant life among royalty. So when imperial heirs fall ill, she decides to step in and find a cure! This catches the eye of Jinshi, a handsome palace official who promotes her. Now, she's making a name for herself solving medical mysteries!

90

89

9.1

/4761/

87

/436/

85

/64/

4.4

/3588/

100

/9/

88

/4/

Journeying to the far reaches of our planet, this eight part series follows some of the world's most amazing species, telling extraordinary stories that are dramatic, thrilling, funny and sometimes heart-breaking, but always full of hope.

89

8.6

/33930/

86

/2236/

85

/348/

4.5

/41520/

100

/22/

96

84

/6/

age 16+

When a deep space freighter is damaged by a solar flare its surviving crew are stranded on a beautiful and unforgiving planet. They begin to learn the true nature of this planet as they try to survive long enough to escape or be rescued.

92

8.9

/62260/

90

/3217/

87

/617/

4.6

/49951/

100

/5/

95

9.2

/781782/

age 14+

Decades after her party defeated the Demon King, an old friend's funeral launches the elf wizard Frieren on a journey of self-discovery.

88

8.9

/12476/

88

/507/

88

/123/

4.4

/55291/

A CODA (child of deaf adult) student born with a gift for music crash lands at an unfamiliar place after time traveling through a suspicious music shop. There, he forms the band Watermelon Sugar with other mysterious youths.

89

8.4

/15457/

82

/936/

84

/248/

4.3

/29157/

100

/9/

97

age 15+

Children who live in hiding with superpowers, along with their parents who live with painful secrets of the past, face enormous dangers together.

87

8.4

/15004/

81

/573/

79

/107/

4.2

/4285/

100

/36/

95

83

/17/

3.5

age 14+

Twentysomething Miep Gies didn't hesitate when her boss Otto Frank came to her and asked her to hide his family from the Nazis during World War II. For the next two years, Miep, her husband Jan, and the other helpers watched over the eight souls in hiding in the Secret Annex. And it was Miep who found Anne’s Diary and kept it safe so Otto, the only one of the eight who survived, could later share it with the world as one of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust.

85

7.7

/6398/

75

/453/

82

/118/

3.6

/12584/

100

/8/

93

The series follows the bittersweet relationship between a banchan shop owner whose daughter enters the war of Korea's college entrance exams, and a top hagwon instructor.

85

8.2

/41882/

83

/2388/

84

/851/

4.3

/98706/

82

/11/

93

Years after surviving horrific abuse in high school, a woman puts an elaborate revenge scheme in motion to make the perpetrators pay for their crimes.

85

8.4

/23108/

85

/1102/

85

/334/

4.4

/120601/

80

/5/

93

age 15+

With the aid of unexpected friends, a gifted but introverted student confronts bullies and violent foes — unaware of how dangerous his world will become.

86

IMDb 74

8.6

/263330/

84

/12466/

82

/1810/

96

/146/

89

84

/65/

age 14+

In an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue, Cassian Andor will discover the difference he can make in the struggle against the tyrannical Galactic Empire. He embarks on a path that is destined to turn him into a rebel hero.

86

8.5

/20115/

85

/1909/

80

/211/

100

/17/

94

77

/10/

age 14+

A bullied teen receives mysterious help from someone online: a stranger soon revealed to be her recently deceased father, David, whose consciousness has been uploaded to the Cloud following an experimental destructive brain scan. David is the first of a new kind of being – an “Uploaded Intelligence” or “UI” – but he will not be the last, as a global conspiracy unfolds that threatens to trigger a new kind of world war.

86

8.5

/35798/

82

/1954/

80

/237/

96

/103/

89

87

/45/

age 13+

With a construction crew, a legion of actors, and seemingly unlimited resources, Nathan Fielder allows ordinary people to prepare for life’s biggest moments by “rehearsing” them in carefully crafted simulations of his own design. When a single misstep could shatter your entire world, why leave life to chance?

85

8.1

/137859/

80

/4741/

80

/888/

4.1

/44366/

98

/81/

95

80

/29/

3.5

age 17+

As Jimmy Keene begins a 10-year prison sentence, he gets an incredible offer: If he can elicit a confession from suspected killer Larry Hall, Jimmy will be freed. Completing this mission becomes the challenge of a lifetime.

89

8.5

/36791/

84

/1911/

84

/891/

4.0

/21406/

100

/11/

94

age 14+

With a genius-level IQ, Woo Young-woo learns to embrace her extraordinary self while forming a tight-knit community of friends and allies.

86

8.7

/27157/

86

/1072/

85

/726/

age 14+

A powerful sorceress in a blind woman's body encounters a man from a prestigious family, who wants her help to change his destiny.

86

8.4

/12310/

80

/1115/

83

/471/

91

/38/

96

85

/11/

age 8+

Experience the wonders of our world like never before in this epic series from Jon Favreau and the producers of Planet Earth. Travel back 66 million years to when majestic dinosaurs and extraordinary creatures roamed the lands, seas, and skies.

87

8.6

/12055/

79

/627/

77

/58/

100

/21/

94

age 16+

Foul-mouthed, chirp-serving, mother-loving, fan favourite character, Shoresy, joins the Sudbury Bulldogs of the Northern Ontario Senior Hockey Organization (The NOSHO) on a quest to never lose again.

86

85

7.5

/6608/

76

/415/

76

/171/

3.4

/13044/

100

/5/

93

age 14+

An enigmatic magician living in an abandoned amusement park introduces magic into the life of a high schooler struggling with harsh realities.

85

IMDb 43

8.3

/139030/

83

/6515/

79

/742/

97

/215/

87

82

/89/

age 16+

Follow a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world's smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.

86

8.3

/5591/

80

/573/

78

/104/

4.1

/12840/

100

/5/

95

8.1

/106256/

age 14+

A lonely little boy moves into a ramshackle apartment building all on his own and makes friends with the broke manga artist who lives next door.

86

7.9

/7035/

79

/522/

79

/218/

4.0

/16698/

100

/5/

93

age 17+

A tough judge balances her aversion to minor offenders with firm beliefs on justice and punishment as she tackles complex cases inside a juvenile court.

85

8.6

/20920/

85

/858/

84

/301/

4.3

/94685/

age 14+

In a time when dreams seem out of reach, a teen fencer pursues big ambitions and meets a hardworking young man who seeks to rebuild his life.

86

8.4

/52306/

81

/2995/

81

/563/

100

/70/

94

81

/12/

age 15+

They're rowdy, they're ragtag, they're misfits turned mercenaries for hire. Vox Machina is more interested in easy money and cheap ale than actually protecting the realm. But when the kingdom is threatened by evil, this boisterous crew realizes that they are the only ones capable of restoring justice.

89

8.9

/36501/

85

/977/

83

/389/

4.5

/90749/

93

/120/

94

85

/28/

4.0

age 13+

The three-part documentary series, compiled from over 60 hours of unseen footage, captures the warmth, camaraderie, and creative genius that defined the legacy of music's most iconic foursome. The series also includes – for the first time in its entirety – The Beatles' final performance at London's Savile Row.

90

8.5

/16241/

84

/1228/

84

/462/

4.4

/42002/

100

/5/

97

age 14+

A cartoonist in Rome with his armadillo-for-a-conscience reflects on his path in life and a would-be love as he and his friends travel outside the city.

86

7.8

/42254/

80

/2413/

82

/1003/

4.1

/88845/

100

/7/

92

age 15+

Following her father's murder, a revenge-driven woman puts her trust in a powerful crime boss — and enters the police force under his direction.

86

8.2

/11801/

81

/587/

80

/250/

4.3

/27511/

100

/11/

89

A young private's assignment to capture army deserters reveals the painful reality endured by each enlistee during his compulsory call of duty.

87

8.3

/27860/

79

/1595/

79

/311/

99

/142/

91

89

/54/

age 14+

Four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma steal, rob and save in order to get to the exotic, mysterious and faraway land of California.

87

9.0

/82872/

84

/3633/

85

/363/

97

/29/

97

70

/17/

age 14+

Follow Jeremy Clarkson as he embarks on his latest adventure, farming. The man who on several occasions claims to be allergic to manual labour takes on the most manually labour intensive job there is. What could possibly go wrong?

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.

93

89

9.0

/3391/

85

/305/

87

/71/

4.2

/946/

100

/7/

100

age 11+

A unique fusion of blue chip natural history and earth science that explains how our living planet operates. This five-part series shows how the forces of nature drive, shape and support Earth’s great diversity of wildlife.

85

8.6

/14822/

84

/711/

85

/467/

4.1

/17389/

100

/6/

73

A modern chef suddenly becomes trapped inside the body of a queen from the Joseon era, which causes chaos for everyone involved.

88

8.7

/16665/

84

/965/

81

/124/

100

/46/

91

90

/20/

age 16+

In a uniquely hilarious odyssey of self-discovery and cultural observation, documentary filmmaker and self-described "anxious New Yorker" John Wilson covertly and obsessively films the lives of his fellow New Yorkers while attempting to give everyday advice on relatable topics. The awkward contradictions of modern life are eased by Wilson’s candid, unpolished commentary. Building upon Wilson’s previously released "how to" short films, each episode takes wildly unexpected turns but is grounded in John's refreshing honesty.

86

8.5

/647938/

83

/24965/

84

/5235/

4.2

/997696/

96

/104/

94

79

/28/

3.5

age 15+

In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.

86

9.2

/171227/

85

/770/

83

/130/

4.1

/6151/