TV Dramas on Netflix
Last updated March 09, 2025
Life Unexpected
2010 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsGiven up at birth and shuffled from one foster home to the next, 16-year-old Lux decides to strike out on her own. But when she tracks down her real parents to authorize her emancipation, the teen lands in their joint custody instead.
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Mad Men
2007 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsSet in 1960s New York, this series takes a peek inside an ad agency in an era when the cutthroat business had a glamorous lure. When the cigarette smoke clears and the martinis are set down, at the center of it all is womanizing ad man Don Draper.
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Friday Night Lights: Season 5
2010 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn Season 5 of this critically acclaimed drama, star quarterback Vince tries to steer clear of trouble, Luke considers transferring to a prestigious private school and Coach Taylor struggles to balance his job with his responsibilities at home.
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Terra Nova
2011 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn this sci-fi drama series, the Shannon family travels with other settlers from the scorched Earth of the 22nd century to the prehistoric past, where they establish a colony to give humanity a second chance at survival.
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United States of Tara: Season 3
2011 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsToni Collette returns for a third season in her Emmy-winning role as Tara Gregson, a wife and mother coping with dissociative identity disorder, which causes her to have several distinct personalities that make for a very eventful family life.
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Bones
2005 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsSocially awkward forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan teams up with intuitive FBI agent Seeley Booth to investigate crimes that have left scant evidence behind: namely, the bones of the deceased.
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Friday Night Lights: Season 4
2009 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsBig dreams mean big pressure for football coach Eric Taylor and his Panthers in a town that lives and breathes by the team's record. On top of that, Taylor must also help his players through personal dramas and manage his own life off the field.
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Mad Men: Season 3
2009 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsThe martini-sipping, chain-smoking execs of New York ad agency Sterling Cooper -- led by the dashing and mysterious creative director Don Draper -- wade deeper into the turbulence of the 1960s in the third season of this Emmy-winning series.
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Being Erica
2009 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsPoised on the brink of mediocrity, thirtysomething Erica Strange is offered a cosmic "do-over" when her therapist sends her back in time to relive the defining moments of her life. But this time around, she has the benefit of hindsight.
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Human Target
2010 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsThis action-packed series follows the inscrutable Christopher Chance (Mark Valley), a security expert who protects his endangered clients by integrating himself into their lives so completely that he becomes the target of the violence aimed at them. Chance's motives and mysterious past remain impenetrable to his business partner, Wilson (Chi McBride), but his unusual methods enable him to help those in need and outwit his own nefarious enemies.
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Inspector Lewis
2007 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsPolice inspector Lewis returns to solving homicides after a long absence and partners with the clever, university-educated Det. Sgt. Hathaway, whose knowledge of the modern world frequently proves helpful to his old-school boss.
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Human Target: Season 1
2010 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn this drama based on a graphic novel of the same name, Mark Valley plays Christopher Chance, a for-hire bodyguard and private investigator who integrates himself into his clients' lives so that he becomes a target instead of them.
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Bones: Season 5
2009 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsAfter a provocative Season 4 finale, a new dynamic heats up between forensic anthropologist "Bones" Brennan and FBI agent Seeley Booth. They team up on a new slate of cases in which Bones employs her knack for investigating victims' remains.
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Bones: Season 4
2008 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsForensic anthropologist "Bones" Brennan and FBI agent Seeley Booth continue to crack murder cases while figuring out their feelings for each other in the fourth season of this darkly comic procedural drama inspired by true events.
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Mad Men: Season 2
2008 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsAs changes mount within New York advertising agency Sterling Cooper, brilliant executive Don Draper finds that he must work harder at staying ahead of the competition -- which includes the young execs within his own firm who are eyeing his job.
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Human Target: Season 2
2010 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsMark Valley stars as Christopher Chance, a security expert and private investigator who's hired by his clients to fend off threats by making himself the target of their enemies. In Season 2, Chance seeks out a former enemy, Winston (Chi McBride) looks to his ex-wife for help on a case, and the team expands to include billionaire benefactor Ilsa Pucci (Indira Varma) and skilled thief Ames (Janet Montgomery).
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Being Erica: Season 1
2009 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsHoping to mend her present-day life, Erica revisits moments from her high school and university days, including an encounter with an intimidating professor, her brother's death and her first sexual experience.
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Being Erica: Season 2
2009 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn Season 2, Erica returns to her teenage years for help with her romantic life, jets back in time to a summer spent abroad, and is propelled into the future when she faints at a family gathering.
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Bones: Season 6
2010 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsThe chemistry between forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan and FBI homicide investigator Seeley Booth remains palpable in the sixth season of this hit Fox crime drama. But Brennan prefers to keep things professional.
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United States of Tara: Season 2
2010 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsEmmy winner Toni Collette returns as Tara Gregson (and Alice, Buck and T) in this quirky series about a homemaker whose dissociative identity disorder causes aspects of her character to manifest as wildly different personalities.
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United States of Tara
2009 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsArtist and mother Tara Gregson has her hands full juggling her career, her kids and a major case of dissociative identity disorder. This series follows Tara's struggle to find her real self while keeping her six others straight.
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Jericho
2006 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsThe wayward son of the mayor of Jericho returns to the rural town to collect an inheritance, only to be stranded by a nuclear blast that cuts off communications to the outside world and makes him a reluctant leader amid chaos.
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Life Unexpected: Season 1
2010 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsA spirited ward of the state, teenager Lux leaves her latest foster family and seeks emancipation, only to have the courts place her in the custody of her estranged parents: Cate, a local radio personality, and Baze, a self-employed barkeep.
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Covert Affairs: Season 1
2010 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsAnnie goes from CIA trainee to field operative in a flash, thanks to her gift for languages, her gung-ho attitude and her top-notch investigative skills -- or so she thinks. The agency, however, may be more interested in her past than in her future.
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Terra Nova: Season 1
2011 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsA family living in the year 2149, an era when Earth is dying, travels 85 million years back in time to a prehistoric colony called Terra Nova, where a band of intrepid explorers and scientists attempt to give human civilization a new lease on life.
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