Classic Shows, a list by Keith Stewart

92

/113474/

89

/16870/

96

/250/

97

87

/98/

age 17+

Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.

92

IMDb 57

9.3

/422897/

91

/17764/

86

/2530/

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

/584071/

91

/18794/

85

/3970/

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.

90

IMDb 24

9.0

/796088/

87

/32846/

87

/6099/

98

/281/

96

86

/139/

age 16+

Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".

90

IMDb 90

9.3

/1004995/

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

/190848/

81

/7618/

79

/1231/

4.2

/48803/

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.

88

8.3

/23300/

80

/1303/

82

/529/

4.2

/16253/

100

/13/

96

age 17+

In this gritty and sometimes bloody tale, sixteen year-old Wayne sets out on a dirt bike with his new crush Del to take back the 1978 Pontiac Trans Am that was stolen from his father before he died. It is Wayne and Del against the world.

88

IMDb 47

8.7

/284965/

85

/13010/

81

/1407/

94

/279/

95

86

/199/

age 14+

Set in 1960-1970 New York, this sexy, stylized and provocative drama follows the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue advertising.

88

8.5

/32181/

83

/1284/

80

/246/

100

/39/

94

91

/12/

40-year old political leader Birgitte Nyborg secures her party a landslide victory through her idealism and huge effort, then faces the biggest challenge of her life: how most effectively to use the newly won seats, and how far she is willing to go in order to gain as much influence as possible.

88

8.7

/96176/

86

/4896/

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.

87

8.8

/156230/

85

/4641/

82

/968/

96

/85/

89

86

/27/

3.5

age 15+

Five teens from Harlem become trapped in a nightmare when they're falsely accused of a brutal attack in Central Park.

87

8.4

/121693/

83

/9859/

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.

87

IMDb 12

9.2

/2525896/

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

IMDb 69

8.8

/343576/

86

/12001/

83

/1488/

95

/343/

88

86

/111/

age 16+

Follow the lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.

87

9.1

/67045/

85

/1182/

86

/719/

age 8+

The life of Christ through the eyes of those who encountered him.

87

8.6

/97212/

83

/5578/

79

/808/

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.

87

8.6

/388402/

84

/16084/

81

/2800/

97

/173/

95

80

/37/

age 18+

An agent in the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit develops profiling techniques as he pursues notorious serial killers and rapists.

87

8.6

/128995/

84

/6967/

80

/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.

87

8.6

/127058/

86

/5606/

81

/895/

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

8.7

/45556/

83

/2161/

82

/278/

95

/29/

98

75

/13/

age 16+

Ray Shoesmith is a father, ex-husband, boyfriend and best friend: tough roles to juggle in the modern age. Even harder when you’re a criminal for hire.

86

8.3

/29038/

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

8.5

/20436/

83

/1312/

76

/146/

100

/26/

95

82

/8/

age 15+

After breaking up with his girlfriend, Josh comes to the realization that he is homosexual. With the support of his now ex girlfriend Claire, and his best friend and house mate Tom, Josh must help his mother with her battle with depression and the rest of his family embrace his new found lifestyle.

86

8.5

/84947/

82

/4645/

77

/552/

93

/120/

94

87

/93/

age 18+

Louis C.K. stars as a fictionalized version of himself; a comedian and newly divorced father raising his two daughters in New York City.

86

IMDb 29

8.8

/461368/

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.

86

8.5

/124495/

82

/6939/

79

/920/

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.

86

8.4

/61841/

82

/3911/

78

/443/

96

/46/

95

85

/44/

age 14+

A pie-maker, with the power to bring dead people back to life, solves murder mysteries with his alive-again childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and a lovesick waitress.

86

8.3

/139404/

81

/7572/

79

/1070/

98

/241/

89

88

/86/

age 17+

A listless hitman is enthralled by theatre acting and becomes eager to leave his old life behind in pursuit of a new career.

86

8.5

/459415/

84

/30567/

83

/5131/

94

/145/

93

80

/66/

age 16+

A young programmer, Elliot, suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about. Elliot finds himself in the intersection between a cybersecurity firm he works for and the underworld organizations that are recruiting him to bring down corporate America.

86

8.5

/179527/

83

/17105/

81

/1830/

94

/186/

93

84

/79/

age 15+

In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. Partially inspired by Mike Judge’s own experiences as a Silicon Valley engineer in the late ‘80s, Silicon Valley is an American sitcom that centers around six programmers who are living together and trying to make it big in the Silicon Valley.

86

8.8

/164530/

85

/5827/

81

/876/

92

/258/

90

84

/130/

age 15+

The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.

86

IMDb 75

8.7

/583266/

85

/33577/

86

/7262/

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.

86

8.6

/215980/

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

8.5

/323005/

83

/14086/

81

/2578/

4.3

/401064/

93

/103/

91

79

/18/

age 16+

Flashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.

85

7.6

/45341/

79

/2477/

80

/1076/

96

/31/

96

88

/32/

age 12+

Chris is a teenager growing up as the eldest of three children in Brooklyn, New York during the early 1980s. Uprooted to a new neighborhood and bused to a predominantly white middle school two-hours away by his strict, hard-working parents, Chris struggles to find his place while keeping his siblings in line at home and surmounting the challenges of junior high.

85

8.5

/69330/

82

/2386/

79

/377/

94

/55/

98

73

/25/

age 15+

The trials and tribulations of a two man, digi-folk band who have moved from New Zealand to New York City in the hope of forging a successful music career. So far they've managed to find a manager (whose "other" job is at the New Zealand Consulate), one fan (a married obsessive) and one friend (who owns the local pawn shop) -- but not much else.

85

8.5

/30663/

83

/1262/

79

/196/

90

/86/

98

77

/59/

age 14+

A raw and authentic look into the Los Angeles crime scene, going far inside the lives of cops, criminals, victims and their families. The show centers on four main characters: Officer John Cooper, a seasoned cop who will have to prove himself again after recovering from surgery; Officer Ben Sherman, who still has much to learn after recently completing his training rotation; Detective Lydia Adams, whose unending caseload hits closer to home; and Sammy Bryant, a former detective who decided to go back to being a uniform cop after the traumatic death of his partner.

85

8.8

/278062/

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.

85

8.3

/134655/

80

/4626/

79

/744/

4.2

/55913/

98

/84/

89

83

/25/

3.5

age 16+

A teenager is charged with lying about her rape allegation, but two determined investigative female detectives discover a far more sinister truth.

85

8.4

/84293/

79

/4390/

77

/1699/

99

/84/

95

76

/32/

age 16+

Bruce Campbell reprises his role as Ash Williams, an aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who’s spent the last three decades avoiding maturity, and the terrors of the Evil Dead. But when a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, he’s forced to face his demons — both metaphorical and literal.

85

8.7

/519143/

84

/18320/

80

/3133/

89

/111/

95

77

/43/

age 18+

A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.

85

8.5

/303616/

84

/16406/

83

/2766/

93

/163/

94

77

/61/

age 16+

Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a highly respected psychiatrist – a man with a taste for the criminal minded – Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

85

8.2

/152182/

82

/10877/

82

/1494/

96

/74/

93

76

/34/

age 13+

In exchange for his freedom, charming con artist Neal Caffrey provides his expertise to help straight-man FBI agent Peter Burke catch elusive white-collar criminals.

85

8.2

/216088/

82

/18165/

80

/1871/

97

/233/

90

82

/48/

age 14+

Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the afterlife where she comes to realize that she hasn't been a very good person. With the help of her wise afterlife mentor, she's determined to shed her old way of living and discover the awesome (or at least the pretty good) person within.

85

8.4

/101937/

79

/4492/

75

/1021/

97

/93/

94

age 15+

An anthology series centered around some of history's most famous criminal investigations.

85

8.5

/96073/

82

/4002/

79

/679/

97

/84/

94

73

/35/

age 16+

Harry Bosch, an LAPD homicide detective, stands trial for the fatal shooting of a serial murder suspect. A cold case involving the remains of a missing boy forces Bosch to confront his past. As daring recruit Julia Brasher catches his eye and departmental politics heat up, Bosch will pursue justice at all costs.

85

8.1

/15907/

75

/892/

83

/298/

97

/101/

88

87

/36/

age 15+

Middle school as it really happened. Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle star in this adult comedy, playing versions of themselves as thirteen-year-old outcasts in the year 2000, surrounded by actual thirteen-year-olds, where the best day of your life can turn into your worst with the stroke of a gel pen.

85

8.6

/36027/

85

/1630/

82

/579/

98

/154/

88

76

/52/

age 15+

A dance musical that explores the juxtaposition of several segments of 1980s life and society in New York: the ball culture world, the rise of the luxury Trump-era universe and the downtown social and literary scene.

85

8.4

/56312/

82

/3120/

79

/486/

92

/94/

96