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Best Short TV Series of the 2020s

454 Short series that started in the 2020s, ranked by popularity

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454 series

Pop5

★ 7.3
13 40 2020–present
News · Short

R&R

★ 6.1
13 1 2025–present
Comedy · Short

Tirpák Család

★ 9.2
13 13 2025–present
Comedy · Short

Its Never Sunny in Kilfinane

★ 7.5
13 2 2023–2023
Adventure · Comedy · Short

TikTok: Levi de Vries

★ 1.0
13 42 2021–2021
Music · Short

Remembers...

★ 7.4
13 190 2022–present
Documentary · Short

Science Vs Introverts

★ 7.5
12 1 2020–present
Sci-Fi · Short · Talk-Show

Diario de una Cuarentena

★ 8.2
12 11 2020–present
Documentary · Short

Song Machine: Machine Bitez

★ 7.3
12 18 2020–present
Animation · Short

Beatriz Votto

★ 8.6
12 2020–present
Short · Sport

In Plain View

★ 9.0
12 7 2020–present
Short

Plan

★ 6.0
12 3 2022–present
Drama · Romance · Short

Untold Hollywood

★ 8.8
12 6 2023–present
Documentary · Short

Life Lessons with Luis

★ 7.2
12 25 2020–2022
Comedy · Drama · Short

Rainbow Woman

★ 7.5
12 16 2020–present
Adventure · Music · Short

MasterGiovanniN

★ 5.9
12 49 2021–present
Comedy · Short

Anin Svet

★ 7.0
12 5 2020–present
Drama · Short

Chains

★ 7.8
12 2 2026–present
Horror · Short

When Flowers Seek Revenge

★ 7.5
12 79 2025–present
Drama · Family · Short

Stuff with Talking Trains

★ 9.0
11 3 2023–present
Comedy · Short

My beautiful world

★ 4.1
11 2020–2020
Drama · Fantasy · Short

Militär & Geschichte mit Torsten Heinrich

★ 9.0
11 306 2022–present
News · Short

Disregards

★ 8.7
11 4 2022–present
Comedy · Short

Joseph's Rant Corner

★ 3.2
11 5 2021–present
Animation · Comedy · Short
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