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Shows that feel contemplative

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Quiet, patient, unhurried. Room left to think. Ranked by how strongly each show carries the mood, then by quality. Every show links to its kindred spirits.

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Breaking Bad
2008–2013 · 5 seasons · AMC
🍅 96%★ 9.5drama · crimeNetflix

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.

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Peaky Blinders
2013–2022 · 6 seasons · BBC One
★ 8.7drama · crimeNetflix

A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.

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Band of Brothers
2001 · 1 season · HBO
★ 9.4drama · war & politicsMax

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.

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INVINCIBLE
2021– · 5 seasons · Prime Video
★ 8.7animation · drama · sci-fi & fantasyPrime Video

Mark Grayson is a normal teenager except for the fact that his father is the most powerful superhero on the planet. Shortly after his seventeenth birthday, Mark begins to develop powers of his own and enters into his father's tutelage.

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Supernatural
2005–2020 · 15 seasons · The WB
★ 8.4drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyPrime VideoPeacock

When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.

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Loki
2021–2023 · 2 seasons · Disney+
★ 8.2drama · sci-fi & fantasyDisney+

After stealing the Tesseract during the events of “Avengers: Endgame,” an alternate version of Loki is brought to the mysterious Time Variance Authority, a bureaucratic organization that exists outside of time and space and monitors the timeline. They give Loki a choice: face being erased from existence due to being a “time variant” or help fix the timeline and stop a greater threat.

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The Last of Us
2023– · 2 seasons · HBO
★ 8.4dramaMax

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 both must traverse the United States and depend on each other for survival.

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The Queen's Gambit
2020 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 8.5dramaNetflix

In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.

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Anne with an E
2017–2019 · 3 seasons · CBC Television
★ 8.6drama · familyNetflix

A coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890s, who, after an abusive childhood spent in orphanages and the homes of strangers, is mistakenly sent to live with an elderly woman and her aging brother. Over time, 13-year-old Anne will transform their lives and eventually the small town in which they live with her unique spirit, fierce intellect and brilliant imagination.

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Euphoria
2019–2026 · 3 seasons · HBO
★ 8.1dramaMax

A group of high school students navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, trauma, and social media.

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House of Cards
2013–2018 · 6 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.6dramaNetflix

Betrayed by the White House, Congressman Frank Underwood embarks on a ruthless rise to power. Blackmail, seduction and ambition are his weapons.

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Shameless
2011–2021 · 11 seasons · Showtime
★ 8.5drama · comedyNetflix

Chicagoan Frank Gallagher is the proud single dad of six smart, industrious, independent kids, who without him would be... perhaps better off. When Frank's not at the bar spending what little money they have, he's passed out on the floor. But the kids have found ways to grow up in spite of him. They may not be like any family you know, but they make no apologies for being exactly who they are.

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Firefly
2002 · 1 season · FOX
★ 8.9drama · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyPrime VideoHulu

In the year 2517, the universe is a vast frontier where lawlessness reigns and adventure awaits! Join Captain Malcolm Reynolds and his ragtag crew aboard the spaceship Serenity as they navigate the fringes of society, battling the oppressive Alliance and facing off against ruthless bounty hunters.

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MINDHUNTER
2017–2019 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.6drama · crimeNetflix

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

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Severance
2022– · 3 seasons · Apple TV
★ 8.6drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyApple TV+

Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.

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Twin Peaks
1990–2017 · 3 seasons · ABC
★ 8.7drama · mysteryParamount+

The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.

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Guardian: The Lonely and Great God
2016–2017 · 1 season · tvN
★ 8.5drama · sci-fi & fantasy · comedy

In his quest for a bride to break his immortal curse, a 939-year-old guardian of souls meets a grim reaper and a sprightly student with a tragic past.

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Hannibal
2013–2015 · 3 seasons · NBC
★ 8.5drama · crimeNetflixPrime Video

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.

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The Vampire Diaries
2009–2017 · 8 seasons · The CW
★ 7.7drama · sci-fi & fantasyMaxPeacock

The story of two vampire brothers obsessed with the same girl, who bears a striking resemblance to the beautiful but ruthless vampire they knew and loved in 1864.

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American Horror Story
2011– · 13 seasons · FX
★ 7.9drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyPrime VideoHulu

An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.

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The Expanse
2015–2022 · 6 seasons · Syfy
★ 8.5drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyPrime Video

A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.

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The Handmaid's Tale
2017–2025 · 6 seasons · Hulu
★ 8.3drama · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureHulu

Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.

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Cosmos
2014–2020 · 2 seasons · FOX
★ 9.2documentary

Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson provides clarity for the vision of the cosmos as he voyages across the universe with never-before-told stories that delve into the scientific concepts of the laws of gravity and the origins of space and time.

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Grey's Anatomy
2005– · 23 seasons · ABC
★ 7.6dramaNetflixHulu

Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle's Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.