These shows exclude comedy, and are ranked roughly in order.
- Game Of Thrones
- Breaking Bad
- The Wire
- Mad Men
- Deadwood
- Fargo
- Carnivale
- True Detective
- Ray Donovan
- The Sopranos
- Boardwalk Empire
- Bloodline
- Six Feet Under
- Oz
- Rome
- Homeland
- House of Cards
- The Tudors
- The Borgias
- Dexter
- True Blood (last few seasons really suck though)
- Big Love
- The Leftovers
- Heroes (the first few seasons, by season 4 it is awful)
- Better Call Saul
- Peaky Blinders
- The Americans
- The L Word
- Girls
- The Newsroom (first 2 seasons)
- Sleeper Cell
- Mozart In The Jungle
- Sons of Anarchy (first few seasons good then it goes really bleh)
- Masters of Sex (season 1 only)
- Nip Tuck