Slow Shows That Are Worth It

PF-Admin by PF-Admin · 30 items

Patient, deliberate, deeply rewarding. Give them a few episodes and they'll own you.

All 30
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Mad Men

Mad Men

2007 · 47m · TV Show

A drama about one of New York's most prestigious ad agencies at the beginning of the 1960s, focusing on one of the firm's most mysterious but extremely talented ad executives, Donald Draper.

TV-MA
8.7
2
The Wire

The Wire

2002 · 59m · TV Show

The Baltimore drug scene, as seen through the eyes of drug dealers and law enforcement.

TV-MA
9.3
3
The Sopranos

The Sopranos

1999 · 55m · TV Show

New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano deals with personal and professional issues in his home and business life that affect his mental state, leading him to seek professional psychiatric counseling.

TV-MA
9.2
4
Better Call Saul

Better Call Saul

2015 · 46m · TV Show

Albuquerque lawyer Jimmy McGill scrapes for clients and respect, but every win drags him closer to shady deals, dangerous players, and the alter ego Saul Goodman.

TV-MA
9.0
5
The Leftovers

The Leftovers

2014 · 1m · TV Show

Three years after the disappearance of 2% of the global human population, a group of people in a small New York community try to continue their lives while coping with the tragedy of the unexplained nature of the event.

TV-MA
8.3
6
Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad

2008 · 49m · TV Show

A chemistry teacher diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer turns to manufacturing and selling methamphetamine with a former student to secure his family's future.

TV-MA
9.5
7
Dark

Dark

2017 · 1h 0m · TV Show

A family saga with a supernatural twist, set in a German town where the disappearance of two young children exposes the relationships among four families.

TV-MA
8.7
8
Andor

Andor

2022 · TV Show

In an era filled with danger, deception, and intrigue, Cassian Andor embarks on a path that is destined to turn him into a Rebel hero.

TV-14
8.6
9
Shogun

Shogun

2024 · TV Show

When a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby Japanese fishing village, Lord Yoshii Toranaga discovers secrets that could tip the scales of power and devastate his enemies.

TV-MA
8.7
10
Ripley

Ripley

2024 · TV Show

A grifter named Ripley living in New York during the 1960s is hired by a wealthy man to bring his vagabond son home from Italy.

TV-MA
8.2
11
True Detective

True Detective

2014 · 55m · TV Show

Anthology series in which police investigations unearth the personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within and outside the law.

TV-MA
8.8
12
Sharp Objects

Sharp Objects

2018 · 7h 1m · TV Show

After treating her mental illness, crime reporter Camille Preaker returns to her hometown to solve the murder of two young girls. However, she is forced to face and deal with her own demons too.

TV-MA
8.3
13
Godless

Godless

2017 · 7h 32m · TV Show

In the 1880s American West, murderous outlaw gang leader Frank Griffin hunts for ex-protege Roy Goode. Frank's chase leads him to La Belle, New Mexico--a town inhabited, after a mining disaster, almost entirely by women.

TV-MA
8.1
14
The Night Of

The Night Of

2016 · 8h 45m · TV Show

After a night of partying with a woman he picked up, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.

TV-MA
8.4
15
Show Me a Hero

Show Me a Hero

2015 · 1h 0m · TV Show

Nick Wasicsko takes office as mayor of Yonkers in 1987 and has to face the issue of building public housing in the white, middle-class side of town.

TV-MA
7.9
16
Say Nothing

Say Nothing

2024 · TV Show

A gripping story of murder and memory spanning four tumultuous decades during The Troubles in Northern Ireland.

TV-MA
8.2
17
Normal People

Normal People

2020 · 5h 39m · TV Show

A man and a woman embark on an on-again/off-again romance that starts at school and continues through college, testing their relationship as they explore different versions of themselves.

TV-14
8.7
18
The Americans

The Americans

2013 · 44m · TV Show

At the height of the Cold War, married KGB spies pose as Americans in Washington, D.C.

TV-MA
8.4
19
Deadwood

Deadwood

2004 · 31m · TV Show

A show set in the late 1800s, revolving around the characters of Deadwood, South Dakota; a town of deep corruption and crime.

TV-MA
8.6
20
Ozark

Ozark

2017 · 1h 0m · TV Show

A financial advisor drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder money to appease a drug boss.

TV-MA
8.4
21
Rectify

Rectify

2013 · 1m · TV Show

Daniel Holden must put his life back together after serving 19 years on Georgia's Death Row before DNA evidence calls his conviction into question.

TV-14
8.3
22
Halt and Catch Fire

Halt and Catch Fire

2014 · 1h 0m · TV Show

Follows some players in the 80s technological revolution that lead to information society.

TV-14
8.4
23
For All Mankind

For All Mankind

2019 · 1h 0m · TV Show

In an alternative version of 1969, the Soviet Union beats the United States to the Moon, and the space race continues on for decades with still grander challenges and goals.

TV-MA
8.1
24
The Terror

The Terror

2018 · 1m · TV Show

Supernatural, semihistorical horror anthology series, where each season is inspired by a different infamous or mysterious real-life historical tragedy.

TV-14
7.8
25
Big Little Lies

Big Little Lies

2017 · 30m · TV Show

The apparently-perfect lives of upper-class mothers of students at a prestigious elementary school unravel to the point of murder when a single mother moves to their quaint California beach town.

TV-MA
8.6
26
Pachinko

Pachinko

2022 · TV Show

Based on the New York Times bestseller, this sweeping saga chronicles the hopes and dreams of a Korean immigrant family across four generations as they leave their homeland in an indomitable quest to survive and thrive.

TV-MA
8.4
27
Boardwalk Empire

Boardwalk Empire

2010 · 55m · TV Show

An Atlantic City politician plays both sides of the law by conspiring with gangsters during the Prohibition era.

TV-MA
8.5
28
The Crown

The Crown

2016 · 58m · TV Show

Follows the political rivalries and romances of Queen Elizabeth II's reign and the events that shaped Britain for the second half of the 20th century.

TV-MA
8.6
29
Homeland

Homeland

2011 · 55m · TV Show

A bipolar CIA operative becomes convinced a prisoner of war has been turned by al-Qaeda and is planning to carry out a terrorist attack on American soil.

TV-MA
8.3
30
Westworld

Westworld

2016 · 1h 2m · TV Show

At the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, waits a world in which every human appetite can be indulged without consequence.

TV-MA
8.4