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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 bot
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Craig Mazin, Neil Druckmann |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 8.803 / 10 (2630) |
The Mind of the Married Man is a television series that ran on the HBO network for two seasons consisting of twenty episodes between September 2001 and November 2002. The story attempts to focus on the challenges of modern-day married life from a male per
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Mike Binder |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 10 / 10 (4) |
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.
Genres: | Mystery, Drama, Crime |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Richard Price |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 8.4 / 10 (27) |
As Pope Pius XIII hangs between life and death in a coma, charming and sophisticated moderate English aristocrat Sir John Brannox is placed on the papal throne and adopts the name John Paul III. A sequel series to “The Young Pope.”
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Paolo Sorrentino |
Networks: | HBO, Canal+, Sky Atlantic |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | FR, IT, ES, GB, US |
User Score (votes): | 8.4 / 10 (12) |
A dramatization of 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.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Craig Mazin |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 8.4 / 10 (262) |
Gripping examination of the unsolved crimes of the Golden State Killer who terrorized California in the 1970s and 1980s.
Genre: | Documentary |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Liz Garbus |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 8.3 / 10 (3) |
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 an
Publisher: | Blown Deadline Productions |
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | David Simon |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.4 / 10 (739) |
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 n
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | George R. R. Martin, Ryan Condal |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 8.229 / 10 (35) |
A darkly comic look at members of a dysfunctional L.A. family that run a funeral business. When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challengin
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Alan Ball |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (336) |
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.
Publisher: | Anonymous Content, Passenger, Lee Caplin / Picture Entertainment |
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Nic Pizzolatto |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (995) |
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 W
Publisher: | Home Box Office, Generator Entertainment, Television 360, Bighead Littlehead, Revolution Sun Studios |
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | David Benioff, D. B. Weiss |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (5147) |
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
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | David Chase |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.3 / 10 (721) |
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 organize
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Western |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | David Milch |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (314) |
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 in
Genres: | Drama, War & Politics, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (1343) |
A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Bruno Heller, John Milius, William J. MacDonald |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (387) |
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 corporat
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Aaron Sorkin |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (215) |
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.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Larry David |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (259) |
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 terrorizes their mutual enemies.
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Tom Fontana |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (223) |
Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Daniel Knauf |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (164) |
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.
Publisher: | Warner Bros. Television, Jerry Weintraub Productions |
Genres: | Western, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (1704) |
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 O
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Eric Overmyer, David Simon |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (50) |
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 counsel
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Hagai Levi |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (61) |
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
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | George Pelecanos, David Simon |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (92) |
Three Jewish teenagers are kidnapped and murdered by Hamas militants in the summer of 2014, leading to the retaliatory killing of 16-year-old Palestinian Muhammad Abu Khdeir and a conflict that forever changes the lives of Jews and Arabs alike.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Hagai Levi, Joseph Cedar, Tawfik Abu Wael |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (1) |
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 Ame
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Mike Judge, Alec Berg, Dave Krinsky, John Altschuler |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (529) |
The trials and tribulations of a two man, digi-folk band who have moved from New Zealand to New York 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
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Jemaine Clement, Bret McKenzie |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (114) |
Boardwalk Empire is a period drama focusing on Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (based on the historical Enoch L. Johnson), a political figure who rose to prominence and controlled Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition period of the 1920s and 1930s. Nuc
Genres: | Drama, Crime |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Terence Winter |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (355) |
Andy Millman gave up his day job five years ago in the hope of achieving the big time, but he’s yet to land a speaking part, let alone saunter down the red carpet to pick up an Oscar. He remains optimistic however, as rubbing shoulders with the A-list on-
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Networks: | HBO, BBC Two |
Created By: | Stephen Merchant, Ricky Gervais |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (127) |
Follow the exploits of various guests and employees at an exclusive tropical resort over the span of a week as with each passing day, a darker complexity emerges in these picture-perfect travelers, the hotel’s cheerful employees and the idyllic locale its
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Mike White |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (18) |
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.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Richard Price, Steven Zaillian |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (280) |
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. The drama series 'The Leftovers' is the story of the people who didn't make the cut. Based on the best
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Damon Lindelof, Tom Perrotta |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (350) |
Subversive, darkly comedic drama Big Little Lies tells the tale of three mothers of first graders whose apparently perfect lives unravel to the point of murder.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | David E. Kelley |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (293) |
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 ma
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Julian Fellowes |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.77 / 10 (76) |
The series initially follows Valerie Cherish (Kudrow), a veteran sitcom actress who has been out of the spotlight for more than a decade, as she attempts in 2005 to return to the industry that made her famous. Valerie lands a role on a new network sitcom,
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Michael Patrick King, Lisa Kudrow |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (11) |
A provocative and darkly comic meditation on the disparate forces polarizing present-day American culture, as experienced by the members of a progressive multi-ethnic family — a philosophy professor and his wife, their adopted children from Vietnam, Liber
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Alan Ball |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (12) |
Trying to make a name for themselves in New York's competitive fashion scene, Ben Epstein and his friend and business partner Cam Calderon use their street knowledge and connections to bring their ambitions to fruition. With the help of Cam's cousin Rene,
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Ian Edelman |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (24) |
Reporter Camille Preaker confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two young girls.
Genres: | Drama, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Marti Noxon |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (95) |
A hit man from the Midwest moves to Los Angeles and gets caught up in the city's theatre arts scene.
Genres: | Comedy, Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Bill Hader, Alec Berg |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (42) |
A comedy drama that crashes straight into the lives and loves of six twenty-something adults living together as Property Guardians in a disused hospital.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Pete Holmes |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (18) |
A drama set in the world of horse racing focusing on lives of owners, jockeys, trainers and gamblers who are all tied to the same horse track.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | David Milch |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (20) |