TV Dramas on Netflix
Last updated March 10, 2025
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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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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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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Covert Affairs
2010 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsAnnie Walker is a CIA operative who is yanked out of training and thrust into active duty. As she contends with the intrigues of international spy rings, she comes to understand she's being used as bait to lure a villain from her past.
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Inspector Morse: Series 4
1990 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsCranky and brilliant Inspector Morse and partner Sgt. Lewis continue to solve Oxford's murder mysteries when an environmentalist's death appears suspicious, a family business turns deadly, and Morse himself becomes a prime murder suspect.
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Friday Night Lights: Season 2
2007 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsThe team's future hangs in the balance as coach Eric Taylor prepares to leave Dillon for a college-level coaching job at Texas Methodist University. Unchanged in her thinking, his pregnant wife, Tami, holds firm to her decision to stay behind.
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Touch
2011 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsKiefer Sutherland stars as the father of an autistic boy who appears to be able to predict future events -- despite not being able to speak. Danny Glover also stars, as an academic who works with gifted children, in this dramatic series.
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Mad Men: Season 5
2012 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsBrilliant, hard-drinking advertising exec Don Draper is back for more drama in this critically acclaimed show's long-awaited fifth season, which charts the volatile ups and downs Draper and his colleagues endure at their Manhattan-based ad agency.
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Ripper Street
2013 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn April 1889 -- six months after the last Jack the Ripper killing -- East London is emerging into a fragile peace, hopeful that the murderer's reign of terror might have finally run its course.
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Ripper Street: Series 1
2013 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsCharged with keeping order in the blood-stained streets of London's East End, Inspector Edmund Reid and his men fight to uphold justice and the rule of law, but always in the background lurks the fear of the era's most evil killer, Jack the Ripper.
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Midsomer Murders: Series 11
2008 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsDetective Chief Inspector Barnaby and his colleagues investigate a death at an upper-crust wedding, a murder involving a cult and more in this 11th season of the series. The sharp sleuths fight deadly crime amid otherwise peaceful rural villages.
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Midsomer Murders: Series 12
2009 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsThis season, DCI Barnaby and his colleagues investigate art forgery, murders near a safe house connected to Cold War British spies, the murder of a man staked out in a model village like the protagonist of Gulliver's Travels and more.
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Friday Night Lights: Season 1
2006 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn rural Texas, there isn't much in life that matters more than high school football -- a point this series drives home searingly as it chronicles the ups and downs of a team that carries the heart and soul of its town on its players' backs.
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Jericho: Season 1
2006 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsA small Kansas town finds itself cut off from the rest of the world after a mushroom cloud appears on the horizon. Faced with terrifying uncertainty, the community -- including the mayor and his prodigal son -- begins to come apart at its seams.
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Inspector Morse: Series 1
1987 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsOxford, England's enigmatic Inspector Morse and his partner, Sgt. Lewis, investigate the untimely death of a piano teacher; the slaying of an Oxford University examination official; and an old, unsolved murder at a country church.
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Inspector Morse: Series 2
1988 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsMorse's cases include the seemingly natural death of an American tourist with a connection to an Oxford museum, the slaying of a Japanese student, the disappearance of a teenage schoolgirl and the murder of a secretary who had murky relationships.
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Inspector Morse: Series 3
1989 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsEnigmatic Inspector Morse and his partner Sgt. Lewis investigate mysterious deaths in Oxford, including a cricket player's apparent suicide and the strangulation of a playboy architect.
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The Unit: Season 2
2006 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn Season 2 of this series that chronicles the trials of Special Forces soldiers and their families, the squad travels to Pakistan to help an undercover operative who's on a mission to thwart terrorists.
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Bones: Season 2
2006 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsDespite wildly clashing styles, forensic anthropologist Temperance "Bones" Brennan and FBI agent Seeley Booth put their heads together to solve a number of puzzles, including the murder of a senator and the death of Brennan's own mother.
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Bones: Season 1
2005 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsThis darkly comic series follows forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan, who has a knack for finding clues in the bones of murder victims. Called in to help law enforcement, she teams with a federal agent whose methods conflict with her own.
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Covert Affairs: Season 3
2012 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsAfter her disastrous trip to Sweden, Annie returns to discover that she's been reassigned to a new boss, super-smooth operative Lena Smith, and while she's entangled in an investigation proposed by Jai, Annie also questions her feelings for Auggie.
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Masterpiece Classic: Great Expectations
2011 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn this lavish production of Charles Dickens's classic tale, orphan Pip's fortunes change when an anonymous patron takes an interest in him. Meanwhile, he becomes involved with eccentric Miss Havisham, who can't get over being left at the altar.
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Touch: Season 2
2012 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn the second season of this acclaimed drama, Martin and his mute son, Jake, travel to Los Angeles, where they set off on another journey to help people in need, employing Jake's ability to predict future events using numbers.
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Bones: Season 8
2012 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsDr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan and FBI special agent Seeley Booth delve into puzzling new cases in the popular show's eighth season. Each episode finds a grisly new murder testing the pair's forensic acumen -- and their tolerance for each other.
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Top Boy: Series 1
2011 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsWith ambitions of ruling the urban jungle, drug dealers Dushane and Sully make a shrewd alliance with notorious don Bobby Raikes. But their fledgling partnership threatens to go south when a rival gang boosts their seed money.
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