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Shows that feel melancholy

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The beautiful ache. Loss, memory, and what remains. Ranked by how strongly each show carries the mood, then by quality. Every show links to its kindred spirits.

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This Is Us
2016–2022 · 6 seasons · NBC
★ 8.7dramaHuluParamount+

Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday - and so much more than anyone would expect.

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Six Feet Under
2001–2005 · 5 seasons · HBO
★ 8.7dramaMax

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 challenging as—and far less predictable than—the one inside.

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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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13 Reasons Why
2017–2020 · 4 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.4drama · mysteryNetflix

High school student Clay Jensen lands in the center of a series of heartbreaking mysteries set in motion by a friend's tragic suicide.

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given
2019 · 1 season · Fuji TV
★ 8.2animation · drama

Ritsuka’s lost his spark for music—until he hears Mafuyu sing. One voice pulls him back in, and suddenly, everything starts to change between them.

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Designated Survivor
2016–2019 · 3 seasons · ABC
★ 7.4drama · war & politicsNetflix

Tom Kirkman, a low-level cabinet member is suddenly appointed President of the United States after a catastrophic attack during the State of the Union kills everyone above him in the Presidential line of succession.

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Time
2021– · 3 seasons · BBC One
★ 8.1drama · crime

Guilt, violence and impossible choices – what does it take to survive? Tense, gritty and heartbreaking – Jimmy McGovern's award-winning prison drama, with an all-star cast.

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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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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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Fleabag
2016–2019 · 2 seasons · BBC Three
★ 8.7comedy · dramaPrime Video

A portrait into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, porn-watching, grief-riddled woman, trying to make sense of the world. As she hurls herself headlong at modern living, Fleabag is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, with all its frenetic energy, late nights, and bright lights.

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The Bear
2022–2026 · 5 seasons · Hulu
★ 8.5drama · comedyHuluDisney+

Carmy, a young fine-dining chef, comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop. As he fights to transform the shop and himself, he works alongside a rough-around-the-edges crew that ultimately reveal themselves as his chosen family.

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After Life
2019–2022 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.4comedy · dramaNetflix

Tony had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life, he decides instead to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes from now on.

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Broadchurch
2013–2017 · 3 seasons · ITV1
★ 8.3crime · drama · mysteryNetflixPeacock

The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.

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Shrinking
2023– · 3 seasons · Apple TV
★ 8.2drama · comedyApple TV+

Jimmy is struggling to grieve the loss of his wife while being a dad, friend, and therapist. He decides to try a new approach with everyone in his path: unfiltered, brutal honesty. Will it make things better—or unleash uproarious chaos?

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Another
2012 · 1 season · KNB
★ 7.5animation · drama · mystery

When Kouichi arrives at his new school, he immediately senses something frightening in the atmosphere of his new class, something that no student wants to talk about and that seems to be related to a mysterious and silent girl.

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True Detective
2014– · 4 seasons · HBO
★ 8.8drama · mysteryMax

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.

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WandaVision
2021 · 1 season · Disney+
★ 7.9sci-fi & fantasy · mystery · dramaHuluDisney+

Wanda Maximoff and Vision—two super-powered beings living idealized suburban lives—begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.

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BoJack Horseman
2014–2020 · 6 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.8animation · comedy · dramaNetflix

Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the '90s , 20 years later. He's a curmudgeon with a heart of...not quite gold...but something like gold. Copper?

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Batman: The Animated Series
1992–1995 · 4 seasons · Fox Kids
★ 9action & adventure · animation · dramaPrime VideoMax

Vowing to avenge the murder of his parents, Bruce Wayne devotes his life to wiping out crime in Gotham City as the masked vigilante "Batman".

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Neon Genesis Evangelion
1995–1996 · 1 season · TV Tokyo
★ 8.5sci-fi & fantasy · animation · dramaNetflix

At the turn of the century, the Angels returned to Earth, seeking to wipe out humanity in an apocalyptic fury. Devastated, mankind's last remnants moved underground to wait for the day when the Angels would come back to finish the job. Fifteen years later, that day has come... but this time, humanity is ready to fight back with terrifying bio-mechanical weapons known as the Evangelions. Watch as Shinji, Rei, Asuka and the rest of the mysterious shadow agency Nerv battle to save earth from total annihilation.

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The Leftovers
2014–2017 · 3 seasons · HBO
★ 8.3sci-fi & fantasy · dramaMax

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. This is the story of the people who didn't make the cut.

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It
1990 · 1 season · ABC
🍅 70%★ 6.8mystery · sci-fi & fantasy · drama

In 1960, seven outcast kids known as "The Losers' Club" fight against an ancient shape-shifting alien who poses as a child-killing clown, while also dealing with bullies and abusive parents. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the creature once and for all when it returns to their hometown.

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Obi-Wan Kenobi
2022 · 1 season · Disney+
★ 7sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureDisney+

During the reign of the Galactic Empire, former Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, embarks on a crucial mission to confront allies turned enemies and face the wrath of the Empire.

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Carrie
2026 · 1 season · Prime Video
★ 7.8mystery · drama · sci-fi & fantasyPrime Video

After her father's sudden, untimely death thrusts her into the unforgiving ecosystem of public high school, Carrie is forced to navigate a viral bullying scandal that tears through her community, the relentless pressure and casual cruelty of the social‑media age, and the awakening of mysterious telekinetic powers that rise alongside her adolescence.