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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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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 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) |
Lenny Belardo, the youngest and first American Pope in the history of the Church, must establish his new papacy and navigate the power struggles of the closed, secretive Vatican.
Publisher: | Canal, Mediapro, Haut et Court, Wildside, Sky Italia |
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | HBO, Canal+, Sky Atlantic |
Created By: | Paolo Sorrentino, Jude Law, Diane Keaton, Silvio Orlando |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (103) |
Jonathan Ames, a young Brooklyn writer, is feeling lost. He's just gone through a painful break-up, thanks in part to his drinking, can't write his second novel, and carouses too much with his magazine editor. Rather than face reality, Jonathan turns inst
Genres: | Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Jonathan Ames |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (92) |
Years after he turned his back on his hometown, a burned-out major league ballplayer returns to teach phys ed at his old middle school.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Danny McBride, Jody Hill, Ben Best |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (108) |
Film star Vince Chase navigates the vapid terrain of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty agent.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Doug Ellin |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (205) |
A look into American politics, revolving around former Senator Selina Meyer who finds being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she expected and everything everyone ever warned her about.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Created By: | Armando Iannucci |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (163) |
After a nervous breakdown derailed Jocelyn's last tour, she’s determined to claim her rightful status as the greatest and sexiest pop star in America. Her passions are reignited by Tedros, a nightclub impresario with a sordid past. Will her romantic awake
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Sam Levinson, The Weeknd, Reza Fahim |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (5) |
True Blood is an American television drama series created and produced by Alan Ball. It is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris, detailing the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional, small tow
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Alan Ball |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (531) |
Set in 1970s New York, Vinyl is a ride through the sex- and drug-addled music business at the dawn of punk, disco, and hip-hop. The show is seen through the eyes of a record label president, Richie Finestra, who is trying to save his company and his soul
Genres: | Drama, Music |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger, Terence Winter, Rich Cohen |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (81) |
Enlightened follows the story of Amy, a self-destructive executive, who, after a very public breakdown and a subsequent philosophical awakening in rehabilitation, tries to get her life back together.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Mike White, Laura Dern |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (34) |
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.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Sally Wainwright |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (12) |
Set in a geriatric extended care wing of a down-at-the-heels hospital, Getting On follows put-upon nurses, anxious doctors and administrators as they struggle with the darkly comic, brutally honest and quietly compassionate realities of caring for the eld
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Mark V. Olsen, Will Scheffer |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (12) |
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.
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | David Simon, Ed Burns |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (41) |
This four-part historical drama follows the end of Catherine the Great's reign and her affair with Russian military leader Grigory Potemkin that helped shape the future of Russian politics.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | HBO, Sky Atlantic |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | GB |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (5) |
Four adults nearing 40, living under the same roof, struggle to keep their relationships and their individual dreams alive.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.1 / 10 (29) |
The story of a world-famous televangelist family with a history of deviance, greed and, yes, charitable work, all in the name of Jesus.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Danny McBride |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (6) |