Tag best shows on Max

Chernobyl

Five episodes about the 1986 nuclear disaster, and not one wasted minute. Jared Harris’s scientist, Stellan Skarsgard’s bureaucrat, and Emily Watson’s physicist work to contain a reactor that cannot be contained while the Soviet system lies about everything. The radiation…

Succession

A media dynasty’s awful adult children claw for their father’s approval while he tortures them for sport. Succession is the funniest tragedy on television: every episode is a corporate crisis staged like a war room, and every insult is a…

The Sopranos

The show that built the golden age of television. Tony Soprano, a New Jersey mob boss, starts seeing a therapist after panic attacks, and the series becomes the deepest character study the medium has ever attempted. James Gandolfini does more…

The Wire

The best show ever made, and the least sentimental about it. Each season takes one institution in Baltimore, the police, the docks, city hall, the schools, the press, and shows how it fails the people inside it. David Simon was…

Westworld

A futuristic theme park where guests pay to live out their darkest fantasies among lifelike robots, until the robots start remembering. Season one is one of the best seasons of television HBO ever aired: a puzzle box about consciousness, free…

Impractical Jokers

Four lifelong friends from Staten Island dare each other to do increasingly humiliating things in public, and the show that came out of it is the most reliable laugh machine on television. Joe, Q, Sal, and Murr have real chemistry…

Youth

Youth follows a 50-year old divorcee's search for sex and love whilst juggling caring for her ailing parents and parenting her should be grown up son.

The Penguin

Starring Colin Farrell as Oz Cobb (aka The Penguin), the DC Studios series continues filmmaker Matt Reeves' The Batman epic crime saga that began with Warner Bros. Pictures' global blockbuster The Batman. Developed by showrunner Lauren LeFranc, the series cent

Primal

Primal is about the unlikely friendship between a dinosaur on the brink his species' extinction, and a caveman at the dawn of his species' evolution, who become each other's only hope for survival in a primitive landscape.