FOX / FX / Freeform, a list by Ryan Keast

61

/27/

60

/7/

60

/9/

age 13+

Martin Best is a brilliant surgeon who abruptly leaves his illustrious career in Boston to become the general practitioner in a quaint East Coast fishing village where he spent summers as a child. Unfortunately, Martin's blunt and borderline rude bedside manner rubs the quirky, needy locals the wrong way, and he quickly alienates the town, even though he's all they’ve got.

86

IMDb 29

8.8

/461171/

85

/17482/

83

/3087/

93

/304/

85

84

/176/

age 15+

A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.

67

IMDb 44

7.0

/12832/

71

/1035/

74

/209/

53

/10/

age 14+

A whip-smart doctor comes to the U.S. for a medical treatment to save her ailing son. But when the system fails and pushes her into hiding, she refuses to be beaten down and marginalized. Instead, she becomes a cleaning lady for the mob and starts playing the game by her own rules.

86

IMDb 75

8.7

/583048/

85

/33532/

85

/7258/

89

/81/

96

75

/50/

age 14+

Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.

66

IMDb 80

7.4

/95162/

73

/6927/

68

/557/

58

/77/

66

58

/47/

age 14+

Notorious serial killer Joe Carroll, after being found guilty of murdering 14 female students on the Virginia college campus where he taught literature, escapes from death row. The FBI calls former agent Ryan Hardy to consult on the case, as he was the one responsible for Carroll’s capture in 2003. Ryan, working closely with an FBI team, including Mike Weston and FBI Specialist Debra Parker, piece together the ever-growing web of murders orchestrated by the devious Carroll.

78

76

IMDb 92

7.3

/6638/

70

/333/

66

/42/

98

/55/

77

85

/29/

age 15+

Follow the gritty exploits of citizen journalist Lee Raybon, a self-proclaimed Tulsa "truthstorian" whose obsession with the truth is always getting him into trouble.

73

8.3

/654572/

80

/27073/

80

/5724/

61

/104/

77

59

/55/

age 14+

Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.

79

8.6

/269419/

84

/13723/

84

/3405/

74

/194/

85

65

/72/

age 14+

The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.

83

8.2

/154506/

81

/7331/

84

/4678/

88

/26/

age 13+

A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.

84

8.5

/350272/

85

/18486/

84

/3140/

87

/138/

91

75

/73/

age 16+

The Sons of Anarchy (SOA) are an outlaw motorcycle club with many charters in the United States and overseas. The show focused on the original and founding charter, Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original, often referred to by the acronym SAMCRO, Sam Crow, or simply Redwood Charter. The charter operates both legal and illegal businesses in the small town of Charming, California. They combine gun-running and a garage, and involvement in porn film industry. Clay, the charter president, likes it old school and violent; while Jax, his stepson and the club's VP, has thoughts about changing the way things are done. Their conflict has effects on both the club and their personal relationship, especially when Jax goes on a personal quest to cleanse the SAMCRO name and image.

84

8.6

/464104/

82

/24269/

80

/10525/

85

/141/

87

/16/

age 12+

Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.

85

8.8

/277965/

86

/12397/

82

/1261/

94

/273/

90

72

/77/

age 17+

Four egocentric friends run a neighborhood Irish pub in Philadelphia and try to find their way through the adult world of work and relationships. Unfortunately, their warped views and precarious judgments often lead them to trouble, creating a myriad of uncomfortable situations that usually only get worse before they get better.

82

8.4

/267786/

85

/23816/

81

/2673/

91

/87/

81

72

/47/

age 14+

FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and technology.

77

7.1

/95401/

74

/5420/

73

/866/

94

/121/

65

85

/41/

age 15+

When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, Wendy and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's greatest threat.

66

7.3

/5707/

73

/461/

74

/50/

46

/13/

76

58

/8/

age 14+

Dr. Amy Larsen must navigate an unfamiliar world after a brain injury erases the last eight years of her life. She can rely only on her estranged 17-year-old daughter, whom she remembers as a 9-year-old, and a handful of devoted friends, as she struggles to continue practicing medicine, despite having lost nearly a decade of knowledge and experience.

77

7.8

/188252/

78

/10593/

82

/3371/

86

/78/

83

58

/44/

age 14+

Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.

87

8.6

/237352/

85

/9540/

84

/1580/

Letterboxd

4.4

/123025/

99

/110/

85

85

/41/

RogerEbert

3.5

age 16+

In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.

87

8.4

/121641/

83

/9840/

79

/1020/

96

/277/

94

89

/154/

age 16+

Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelligence agent.

75

8.0

/386500/

79

/20683/

84

/15246/

87

/114/

73

49

/28/

age 14+

Bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, Lucifer Morningstar abandoned his throne and retired to Los Angeles, where he has teamed up with LAPD detective Chloe Decker to take down criminals. But the longer he's away from the underworld, the greater the threat that the worst of humanity could escape.

65

6.8

/6669/

66

/533/

60

/61/

68

/13/

age 14+

A group of local animal control workers' lives are complicated by the fact that animals are simple, but humans are not. Leading the crew is Frank, an opinionated, eccentric animal control officer who may not have gone to college but is still the most well-read person in the room. In his past life as a cop, Frank tried to expose corruption in his department, but his efforts got him fired, leaving him cynical and curmudgeonly. Despite his rough exterior, he is blessed with an almost superhuman ability to understand animals.

75

8.2

/101006/

80

/8863/

78

/1042/

60

/27/

age 14+

Bob's Burgers follows a third-generation restaurateur, Bob, as he runs Bob's Burgers with the help of his wife and their three kids. Bob and his quirky family have big ideas about burgers, but fall short on service and sophistication. Despite the greasy counters, lousy location and a dearth of customers, Bob and his family are determined to make Bob's Burgers "grand re-re-re-opening" a success.

74

7.9

/359908/

78

/20598/

80

/5913/

77

/367/

66

65

/173/

age 17+

An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.

72

8.1

/384937/

77

/21665/

73

/4757/

58

/39/

age 14+

Sick, twisted, politically incorrect and Freakin' Sweet animated series featuring the adventures of the dysfunctional Griffin family. Bumbling Peter and long-suffering Lois have three kids. Stewie (a brilliant but sadistic baby bent on killing his mother and taking over the world), Meg (the oldest, and is the most unpopular girl in town) and Chris (the middle kid, he's not very bright but has a passion for movies). The final member of the family is Brian - a talking dog and much more than a pet, he keeps Stewie in check whilst sipping Martinis and sorting through his own life issues.

79

7.8

/260702/

77

/17331/

73

/1586/

95

/103/

84

67

/29/

age 14+

Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable and honest to a fault, Jess has faith in people, even when she shouldn't. Although she's dorky and awkward, she's comfortable in her own skin. More prone to friendships with women, she's not used to hanging with the boys—especially at home.

87

8.6

/128962/

84

/6967/

79

/796/

97

/182/

95

86

/92/

age 17+

A character drama based on the 2001 Elmore Leonard short story "Fire in the Hole." Leonard's tale centers around U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of Kentucky, a quiet but strong-willed official of the law. The tale covers his high-stakes job, as well as his strained relationships with his ex-wife and father.

81

8.6

/340692/

83

/14925/

79

/1574/

75

/151/

85

78

/102/

age 15+

The story of a wealthy family that lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together.

83

8.5

/45524/

83

/2592/

83

/697/

92

/86/

93

63

/50/

age 17+

Los Angeles. 1983. A storm is coming and its name is crack. Set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it, the story follows numerous characters on a violent collision course.

82

8.4

/205509/

81

/12382/

77

/1694/

87

/257/

87

79

/167/

age 14+

Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.

82

8.9

/298709/

89

/18437/

83

/2271/

77

/43/

96

63

/30/

age 14+

In the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system, follow the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a "Firefly-class" spaceship.

66

63

6.8

/6246/

67

/292/

67

/42/

70

/10/

71

56

/7/

age 14+

Karl Alberg moves to a quiet coastal town to soothe a psyche that has been battered by big-city police work but finds himself needing to call upon all his skills to solve the murders that continue to wash up on his shore.

88

8.7

/96141/

86

/4889/

81

/815/

90

/121/

96

89

/46/

age 16+

The story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to both keep the streets safe and their self-interests intact.

86

8.5

/124435/

82

/6916/

79

/918/

96

/222/

92

83

/79/

age 14+

A documentary-style look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of a group of vampires in Staten Island who have “lived” together for hundreds and hundreds of years.

72

7.6

/102490/

76

/4155/

77

/896/

68

/67/

72

67

/18/

age 14+

Ryan Atwood, a teen from the wrong side of the tracks, moves in with a wealthy family willing to give him a chance. But Ryan's arrival disturbs the status quo of the affluent, privileged community of Newport Beach, California.

73

7.8

/42897/

78

/2516/

83

/1281/

54

/12/

age 14+

A tough, brilliant senior resident guides an idealistic young doctor through his first day, pulling back the curtain on what really happens, both good and bad, in modern-day medicine.

75

8.1

/197291/

79

/8599/

79

/1527/

63

/19/

age 15+

Crank up the 8-track and flash back to a time when platform shoes and puka shells were all the rage in this hilarious retro-sitcom. For Eric, Kelso, Jackie, Hyde, Donna and Fez, a group of high school teens who spend most of their time hanging out in Eric’s basement, life in the ‘70s isn’t always so groovy. But between trying to figure out the meaning of life, avoiding their parents, and dealing with out-of-control hormones, they’ve learned one thing for sure: they’ll always get by with a little help from their friends.

67

7.3

/64045/

72

/4186/

68

/858/

60

/69/

68

62

/43/

age 14+

Imagine the perfect American town... beautiful homes, manicured lawns, children playing safely in the streets. Now imagine never being able to leave. You have no communication with the outside world. You think you're going insane. You must be in Wayward Pines.

72

8.0

/107663/

78

/6923/

76

/1318/

77

/78/

90

36

/23/

age 14+

Follow the crew of the not-so-functional exploratory ship in the Earth's interstellar fleet, 400 years in the future.

83

8.5

/276664/

85

/21488/

84

/3582/

89

/119/

86

72

/58/

age 14+

The adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the retro-futuristic 31st century.

82

8.1

/102720/

78

/7757/

75

/1496/

91

/157/

85

82

/56/

age 16+

David Haller, AKA Legion, is a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he’s confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real.

87

9.0

/134959/

87

/3739/

85

/1754/

age 8+

Vowing to avenge the murder of his parents, Bruce Wayne devotes his life to wiping out crime in Gotham City as the masked vigilante "Batman".

76

7.6

/65006/

77

/3317/

74

/640/

77

/36/

age 13+

Set in Texas, this animated series follows the life of propane salesman Hank Hill, who lives with his overly confident substitute Spanish teacher wife Peggy, wannabe comedian son Bobby, and naive niece Luanne. Hank has conservative views about God, family, and country, but his values and ethics are often challenged by the situations he, his family, and his beer-drinking neighbors/buddies find themselves in.

74

7.8

/250216/

76

/16589/

75

/3600/

77

/159/

68

70

/44/

age 14+

Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world's greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon's story and his rise from rookie detective to Police Commissioner? What did it take to navigate the multiple layers of corruption that secretly ruled Gotham City, the spawning ground of the world's most iconic villains? And what circumstances created them – the larger-than-life personas who would become Catwoman, The Penguin, The Riddler, Two-Face and The Joker?

87

8.6

/97175/

83

/5569/

80

/807/

98

/186/

85

92

/99/

age 15+

Two cousins work through the Atlanta music scene in order to better their lives and the lives of their families.

69

6.8

/160623/

68

/8739/

67

/908/

70

/155/

71

75

/38/

age 14+

In this musical comedy, optimistic high school teacher Will Schuester tries to refuel his own passion while reinventing the high school's glee club and challenging a group of outcasts to realize their star potential as they strive to outshine their singing competition while navigating the cruel halls of McKinley High.

65

7.4

/143196/

75

/9541/

70

/2282/

43

/22/

age 14+

The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the family's man-in-a-goldfish-body pet, Klaus; and most notably the family's zany alien, Roger, who is "full of masquerades, brazenness, and shocking antics."

65

7.0

/6839/

67

/456/

70

/69/

61

/18/

64

60

/12/

age 14+

In this crime anthology series, viewers discover how an ordinary person got caught up in an extraordinary situation, ultimately revealing how one wrong turn leads to another, until it’s too late to turn back. Told from the defendant’s point of view, each episode opens in a courtroom on the accused without knowing their crime or how they ended up on trial.

75

8.0

/134047/

79

/7903/

78

/1625/

64

/25/

age 14+

The world's leading deception researcher, Dr. Cal Lightman, studies facial expression, body language and tone of voice to determine when a person is lying and why, which helps law enforcement and government agencies uncover the truth. But his skills also make it easier for him to deceive others.

74

7.3

/92379/

72

/7116/

74

/1933/

79

/111/

79