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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

Sketch

★ 6.8
9 2 2020–present
Comedy · Drama · Short

Star Catcher (Webtoon Official Dub)

★ 8.4
9 50 2024–present
Romance · Short

Kolektivs

★ 7.6
9 11 2023–2025
Short

Bruce Wayne Begins

★ 5.9
9 2021–present
Comedy · Short

A Family Thing

★ 7.4
9 3 2021–present
Crime · Short

Mine

★ 9.2
9 2022–present
Short

Addicted to His Darkness

★ 5.7
8 2026–2026
Drama · Romance · Short

Hard Noble Lady

★ 6.2
8 30 2024–2024
Drama · Romance · Short

The Ember Knight Show

★ 8.1
8 6 2020–present
Comedy · Short

Doobus Goobus

★ 7.5
8 5 2020–present
Animation · Comedy · Short

The Arrival of a Daughter 1998

★ 8.0
8 2024–present
Short

Lemonhota

★ 8.6
8 44 2022–2026
Short

Koisuru Asteroid: KiraKira Zoukan-gou

★ 5.6
8 12 2020–2020
Animation · Comedy · Short

Cube-Shaped Pokemon on Cubie Island?

★ 5.2
8 5 2023–2023
Short

Friend-Verse

★ 6.6
8 21 2022–present
Comedy · Short

Recriminate

★ 5.6
8 3 2020–2020
Action · Drama · Short

How to Be Cool

★ 8.8
8 4 2024–present
Animation · Comedy · Short

Camp Radio

★ 9.0
8 10 2022–2022
Family · Short

Kingpin Cribs

★ 7.1
8 6 2022–present
Documentary · Short

Adventure

★ 8.3
8 5 2024–present
Short

What's Up Down at DMYAT?

★ 8.8
8 36 2024–present
Comedy · Family · Short

Unbreakable

★ 8.3
8 6 2025–present
Short

The Scratch 3.0 Show

★ 6.1
7 39 2021–present
Animation · Comedy · Short

Desi Lydic: Foxsplains

★ 7.2
7 2021–present
News · Short
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