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Top 500 most popular Drama series that started in the 2010s

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Taste tags, judged by our AI taste model. They cover the 5,000 most-rated shows.

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500 series (top 500 shown)

Nikita

★ 7.7
56K 73 2010–2013
Espionage · Strong female lead

Utopia

★ 8.4
56K 12 2013–2014
Distinctive score

New Amsterdam

★ 7.9
56K 89 2018–2022
Medical · Sentimental · Tearjerker

Four More Shots Please

★ 5.5
55K 37 2019–2025
Friendship · Female perspective

Haikyuu!!

★ 8.7
55K 89 2014–2020
Sports · Anime · Hopeful

GLOW

★ 8.0
55K 30 2017–2019
Female perspective · Ensemble cast

Blue Bloods

★ 7.7
55K 293 2010–2024
Family saga · Long-runner

12 Monkeys

★ 7.7
54K 47 2015–2018
Time travel · Puzzle plot

Warrior

★ 8.4
54K 30 2019–2023
Immigrant experience

Almost Human

★ 7.9
54K 13 2013–2014
Near-future tech · Procedural

Servant

★ 7.4
54K 40 2019–2023
Psychological horror · Unsettling

Into the Badlands

★ 7.9
53K 32 2015–2019
Adrenaline · Post-apocalyptic

Evil

★ 7.7
53K 50 2019–2024
Faith & religion · Supernatural

Mr Inbetween

★ 8.7
53K 26 2018–2021
Antihero lead

Your Lie in April

★ 8.6
53K 23 2014–2015
Music scene · Tearjerker

Chicago P.D.

★ 8.1
52K 265 2014–present
Procedural · Long-runner

The Affair

★ 7.9
52K 53 2014–2019
Unreliable narrator

The Young Pope

★ 8.3
52K 10 2016–2016
Faith & religion

Timeless

★ 7.6
51K 27 2016–2018
Time travel · Real history

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life

★ 7.4
51K 4 2016–2016
Nostalgic · Dialogue-driven

Gomorrah

★ 8.6
50K 58 2014–2021
Criminal underworld · Gritty

Snowfall

★ 8.5
50K 60 2017–2023
Criminal underworld

The Secret Circle

★ 7.3
50K 22 2011–2012
Young adult · Supernatural

And Then There Were None

★ 7.8
49K 3 2015–2015
Tight limited run · Tense
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