50 Greatest TV Dramas of All Time, Ranked

There’s no shortage of excellent TV dramas, and opinions differ about when television’s “golden age” began or whether it even ended. Some trace it back to the 1990s, others point to the streaming-fueled surge of the 2010s, but recent decades have undeniably produced a rich slate of memorable series.

The shows collected here are all broadly definable as dramas, even when they cross into other genres, and many sustained their quality across multiple seasons. They aren’t all perfect—some vary from year to year—but each represents an impressive achievement and is ranked from great to greatest.

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