Best TV shows — drame on Netflix : our Top 20

2008 · Vince Gilligan · 5 seasons

A New Mexico high-school chemistry teacher, told he has Stage III cancer and only about two years to live, sheds his caution and becomes fiercely determined to guarantee his family's financial security. Embracing a newfound ruthlessness, he plunges into the hazardous realm of illegal drugs and criminal activity, prepared to do whatever it takes to protect those he loves.

With Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, Dean Norris, Betsy Brandt, RJ Mitte and Bob Odenkirk

2010 · Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat · 4 seasons

Set in present-day London, a celebrated detective and his physician partner tackle contemporary crimes across the city, blending high-tech tools with razor-sharp observation to unravel baffling mysteries.

With Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs, Rupert Graves, Louise Brealey, Mark Gatiss and Andrew Scott

2013 · Steven Knight · 6 seasons

In the aftermath of the Great War in 1919 Birmingham, a ruthless family-run gang—infamous for sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps—uses intimidation and cunning to expand its reach. At its center, the hard-edged and calculating Tommy Shelby stops at nothing to lift his clan from the industrial streets into positions of wealth and influence.

With Cillian Murphy, Paul Anderson, Sophie Rundle, Helen McCrory, Finn Cole, Ned Dennehy and Joe Cole

2015 · Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould · 6 seasons

Six years before he crosses paths with Walter White, Jimmy McGill is a struggling, small‑time lawyer hustling to make a name for himself while barely keeping afloat. By his side — and frequently in conflict with him — is veteran fixer Mike Ehrmantraut. The series follows Jimmy’s gradual transformation into the morally flexible, fast‑talking Saul Goodman, a lawyer who comes to thrive within the criminal underworld.

With Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Rhea Seehorn, Patrick Fabian, Michael Mando, Giancarlo Esposito and Michael McKean

2020 · Michael Patrick King, RuPaul · 1 season

On a cross-country journey in a dilapidated RV, flamboyant drag performer Ruby Red's routine is upended when she discovers AJ—a streetwise ten-year-old who has been hiding on board and soon becomes her unlikely companion.

With RuPaul, Izzy G., Michael-Leon Wooley, Josh Segarra, Katerina Tannenbaum, Tia Carrere and Matthew Wilkas

2011 · Charlie Brooker · 7 seasons

A reality-twisting anthology that unfolds uncanny vignettes exposing humanity’s darkest impulses, its most brilliant inventions, and the unsettling costs that connect them.

With Michaela Coel, Daniel Lapaine, Hannah John-Kamen, Aaron Paul, Claire Keelan, Sinead Matthews and Anna Wilson-Jones

2017 · Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese · 3 seasons

A child's disappearance plunges four families into a desperate search for answers, pulling back layers of a reality-shifting mystery that reaches across three generations.

With Louis Hofmann, Lisa Vicari, Andreas Pietschmann, Jördis Triebel, Maja Schöne, Stephan Kampwirth and Paul Lux

2020 · Scott Frank, Allan Scott · 1 season

Raised in a 1950s orphanage, a young girl uncovers an extraordinary aptitude for chess that propels her from anonymity into the competitive limelight. Her rapid rise to fame, however, is clouded by a growing addiction that threatens to derail everything she has fought to achieve.

With Anya Taylor-Joy, Chloe Pirrie, Marcin Dorociński, Matthew Dennis Lewis, Russell Dennis Lewis, Dolores Carbonari and Janina Elkin

2020 · Kagiso Lediga · 1 season

A seasoned South African spy must navigate evolving personal relationships while undertaking the most dangerous mission of her career—one that will push her skills, loyalties and survival to their limits.

With Pearl Thusi, Vuyo Dabula, Sechaba Morojele and Chi Mhende

2022 · Kim Jin-woo, Lee Jae-gon · 1 season

A struggling college professor, who unknowingly takes money tied to a ruthless cartel, is pulled into running drugs as the only means he believes can save his fractured family.

With Jung Woo, Park Hee-soon, Yoon Jin-seo, Park Ji-yeon, Choi Moo-sung, Kim Sung-oh and Oh Gwang-rok

2013 · Michael Hirst · 6 seasons

Ragnar Lothbrok's life unfolds as an epic journey from restless adventurer to a legendary leader whose name reverberates across the North. The series follows his tight-knit band of Viking comrades and the family ties that shape and haunt him, chronicling raids, rivalries, and the relentless drive that pushes him toward rulership of the Norse clans. Brave in battle and guided by old rites, Ragnar's decisions are steeped in the beliefs and omens of his people — and whispers persist that his bloodline traces back to Odin, the god of war.

With Katheryn Winnick, Gustaf Skarsgård, Alexander Ludwig, Georgia Hirst, Peter Franzén, Alex Høgh Andersen and Jordan Patrick Smith

2004 · David Shore · 8 seasons

An abrasive, brilliant physician struggling with drug addiction heads a team of diagnostic specialists at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.

With Hugh Laurie, Robert Sean Leonard, Omar Epps, Jesse Spencer, Lisa Edelstein, Bobbin Bergstrom and Jennifer Morrison

2015 · Chris Brancato, Doug Miro, Carlo Bernard · 3 seasons

An unflinching portrait of the brutal campaign to uproot Colombia's most notorious and deeply entrenched drug cartels.

With Pedro Pascal, Alberto Ammann, Wagner Moura, Boyd Holbrook, Joanna Christie, Paulina Gaitán and Paulina García

2004 · David Shore · 8 seasons

A darkly comic British anthology conceived by Graham Duff and co-written with Steve Coogan, the series lampoons mid‑century UK horror films. It skewers the trademarks of studios like Amicus, Hammer and Tigon and riffs on the structure of Amicus’s 1965 anthology Dr Terror’s House of Horrors. Steve Coogan appears throughout as the macabre host, Dr Terrible, who frames each episode and takes the lead role in every story.

With Hugh Laurie, Jesse Spencer, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard, Lisa Edelstein, Jennifer Morrison and Peter Jacobson

2011 · Aaron Korsh · 9 seasons

Fleeing the fallout of a botched drug deal, Mike Ross — a brilliant college dropout — stumbles into an interview with Harvey Specter, one of New York's most formidable legal closers. Fed up with cookie‑cutter law grads, Harvey bets on Mike, hiring him immediately after spotting his raw talent and uncanny recall.

With Gabriel Macht, Sarah Rafferty, Rick Hoffman, Patrick J. Adams, Meghan Markle, Gina Torres and Amanda Schull

2014 · Noah Hawley · 5 seasons

Set in and around Minnesota, this intimate anthology peels back the calm surface of close communities to reveal simmering malice, sudden outbreaks of violence and the lasting fallout of murder. Each episode is a self-contained portrait of ordinary lives upended by suspicion, revenge and the haunting consequences of criminal acts.

With Allison Tolman, Chris Rock, Jessie Buckley, Jason Schwartzman, Ben Whishaw, Jack Huston and Salvatore Esposito

2017 · Joe Penhall · 2 seasons

An FBI agent in a specialized serial-crime task force pioneers behavioral profiling methods while tracking down some of the nation's most notorious serial killers and sexual predators.

With Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, Anna Torv, Sonny Valicenti, Stacey Roca, Cotter Smith and Hannah Gross

2019 · Laurie Nunn · 4 seasons

Awkward and inexperienced, Otis, whose mother is a sex therapist, teams up with rebellious Maeve to run a clandestine sex-and-relationship counseling service for their classmates at school.

With Asa Butterfield, Gillian Anderson, Ncuti Gatwa, Emma Mackey, Connor Swindells, Kedar Williams-Stirling and Alistair Petrie

2017 · Álex Pina · 3 seasons

A shadowy mastermind known only as the Professor recruits eight desperate criminals—each with nothing left to lose—to attempt the biggest heist ever conceived. Five months of isolation, rehearsing every move and calculating every contingency, lead to eleven days holed up inside Spain’s National Mint and Stamp Factory, surrounded by police and holding dozens of hostages. Their high-stakes, do-or-die gamble will determine whether they walk away with everything or lose it all.

With Álvaro Morte, Pedro Alonso, Úrsula Corberó, Itziar Ituño, Jaime Lorente, Miguel Herrán and Esther Acebo

2017 · Mark Williams, Bill Dubuque · 4 seasons

A financial advisor uproots his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks and faces a five‑year deadline to launder $500 million to placate a drug boss.

With Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, Sofia Hublitz, Skylar Gaertner, Julia Garner, Charlie Tahan and Lisa Emery