The 38 Best FX Series of All Time

Prestige crime sagas, gleeful sitcoms and genre experiments from a network that kept betting on odd ideas. Some are cult obsessions, others swept the Emmys.

1. 1
   The Americans

   Cold War spy drama about two KGB sleeper agents posing as a suburban American couple.
   1000pts
2. 2
   The Shield

   Gritty cop drama about a corrupt LAPD strike team that put FX on the prestige-TV map in 2002.
   932pts
3. 3
   The Strain

   Horror drama in which a vampire virus spreads through New York City.
   745pts
4. 4
   Pose

   Drama set in New York's 1980s and 90s ballroom scene, with a landmark transgender cast.
   745pts
5. 5
   The Bear

   Intense kitchen dramedy about a fine-dining chef taking over his family's Chicago sandwich shop.
   732pts
6. 6
   Terriers

   Short-lived but beloved buddy dramedy about two unlicensed private investigators in California.
   705pts
7. 7
   Atlanta

   Donald Glover's surreal comedy-drama about a Georgia rapper's cousin and manager.
   610pts
8. 8
   Baskets

   Zach Galifianakis plays a failed clown who returns to his hometown Bakersfield to work as a rodeo clown.
   610pts
9. 9
   Sons of Anarchy

   Outlaw biker drama about a California motorcycle club, loosely modeled on Hamlet.
   553pts
10. 10
    Lights Out

    Boxing drama about a retired heavyweight champion pulled back toward the ring by money trouble.
    553pts
11. 11
    Justified

    Neo-western about a U.S. Marshal returning to the Kentucky hills where he grew up.
    553pts
12. 12
    Dave

    Comedy based on rapper Lil Dicky's life as he chases hip-hop stardom.
    488pts
13. 13
    American Horror Story

    Anthology horror series that reinvents its setting and cast every season.
    488pts
14. 14
    The League

    Improv-heavy comedy about a group of friends obsessed with their fantasy football league.
    488pts
15. 15
    Feud

    Anthology series dramatizing famous rivalries, starting with Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.
    488pts
16. 16
    Fosse/Verdon

    Limited series about the creative and romantic partnership of Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon.
    413pts
17. 17
    Fargo

    Anthology crime series inspired by the Coen brothers film, with a new twisted case each season.
    413pts
18. 18
    It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

    Long-running sitcom about five terrible friends who run a Philadelphia bar.
    413pts
19. 19
    Louie

    Louis C.K.'s semi-autobiographical comedy blending stand-up with surreal vignettes of New York life.
    413pts
20. 20
    Archer

    Animated spy comedy about a narcissistic secret agent and his dysfunctional colleagues.
    413pts
21. 21
    Legion

    Visually daring Marvel series about a powerful mutant whose mind may be unreliable.
    413pts
22. 22
    Mr Inbetween

    Australian dark comedy-drama about a hitman balancing crime with fatherhood and friendship.
    413pts
23. 23
    Alien: Earth

    Prequel series set in the Alien universe, in which a corporate disaster brings the creatures to Earth.
    413pts
24. 24
    Mayans M.C.

    Sons of Anarchy spinoff following a young man inside a Mexican-American motorcycle club on the border.
    413pts
25. 25
    Snowfall

    Crime drama set during the 1980s crack epidemic in Los Angeles.
    325pts
26. 26
    Shōgun

    Epic adaptation of James Clavell's novel about an English pilot caught in feudal Japanese power struggles.
    325pts
27. 27
    The People v. O. J. Simpson

    Acclaimed first season of American Crime Story dramatizing the 1995 murder trial.
    325pts
28. 28
    Better Things

    Pamela Adlon's comedy about a single working actress raising three daughters.
    325pts
29. 29
    Under the Banner of Heaven

    True-crime limited series about a murder that exposes tensions inside a Mormon community.
    325pts
30. 30
    Wilfred

    Dark comedy about a depressed man who sees his neighbor's dog as a man in a dog suit.
    325pts
31. 31
    Reservation Dogs

    Comedy about four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma, made largely by Native creators.
    222pts
32. 32
    The Old Man

    Thriller starring Jeff Bridges as a former CIA operative hunted by his past.
    222pts
33. 33
    Damages

    Legal thriller starring Glenn Close as a ruthless attorney and Rose Byrne as her protégée.
    222pts
34. 34
    Welcome to Wrexham

    Documentary series following two Hollywood actors who buy a struggling Welsh football club.
    222pts
35. 35
    Man Seeking Woman

    Surreal romantic comedy that turns the awkwardness of dating into absurd fantasy.
    222pts
36. 36
    What We Do in the Shadows

    Mockumentary about vampire housemates on Staten Island.
    222pts
37. 37
    Devs

    Alex Garland's limited sci-fi thriller about a quantum computing lab in Silicon Valley.
    222pts
38. 38
    Taboo

    Tom Hardy leads a dark period drama about a man returning to 1814 London to claim his inheritance.
    0pts

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