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The Best New Cable Dramas of the Last Few Years
List Rules
Only dramatic series that have premiered Season 1 on cable channels on or after January 1, 2019.
Many people claim we're in a Golden Age of television, and the best cable dramas since 2019 may prove as much. The best cable TV dramas to premiere in 2019 and beyond come in many forms. Some excellent cable dramas are about personal relationships while other good dramatic cable series feature supernatural elements. Many current cable TV shows have been honored with awards.
What shows will you find on this top modern cable drama series list? Station Eleven adapts the novel of the same name into a fascinating miniseries about a group of people trying to survive in a post-apocalypse. Killing Eve is another great cable TV show to have premiered since 2019. The film Snowpiercer the film may have premiered in 2013, but the television gave fans a pretty good adaptation when it premiered on TNT in 2020. Other good cable dramas featured on this list include Mare of Easttown, Watchmen, and The Undoing.
How will we ever determine which cable series deserves the top spot on this list? Help us decide by giving your favorites a thumbs up.
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- 1
Rose Williams, Anne Reid, Kris Marshall- Premiered: August 25, 2019
Charlotte Heywood moves to the sleepy seaside village of Sanditon, that is on the cusp of change. - 2Kate Winslet, Julianne Nicholson, Jean Smart
- Premiered: April 18, 2021
Small-town Pennsylvania detective Mare Sheehan investigates a murder as life crumbles around her. - 3Bryan Cranston, Hunter Doohan, Michael Stuhlbarg
- Premiered: December 6, 2020
A respected judge's son is involved in a hit-and-run that leads to a high-stakes game of lies. - 4Matthew Rhys, Tatiana Maslany, John Lithgow
- Premiered: June 21, 2020
Legal drama based on novels and short stories penned by Erle Stanley Gardner. - 5Stephen Amell, Alexander Ludwig, Alison Luff
- Premiered: August 15, 2021
Two rival brothers grapple over their late father's wrestling promotion business in Georgia. - 6Jennifer Connelly, Daveed Diggs, Sean Bean
- Premiered: May 17, 2020
A group of people inhabits a gigantic, perpetually moving train that circles the globe. - 7Nathan Lane, Natalie Dormer, Daniel Zovatto
- Premiered: April 26, 2020
Detective Tiago Vega and his partner, Lewis Michener, investigate a grisly murder in Los Angeles. - 8Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, Donald Sutherland
- Premiered: October 25, 2020
A therapist's life unravels after she learns that her husband might be responsible for a disaster. - 9Emmett Scanlan, Emily Reid, Catherine Walker
- Premiered: August 3, 2020
While studying at Cambridge, Ophelia falls for her married lecturer. - 10Søren Malling, Pilou Asbæk, Pernilla August
- Premiered: September 28, 2020
Jens Møller investigates the murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall. - 11Adrien Brody, Jennifer Ens, Sirena Gulamgaus
- Premiered: August 22, 2021
Captain Charles Boone relocates his three children to his ancestral home after his wife dies at sea. - 12Russell Hornsby, Ajiona Alexus, Demetrius "Lil Meech" Flenory
- Premiered: September 26, 2021
Detroit brothers Demetrius and Terry Flenory create a drug and money laundering empire. - 13Eleanor Tomlinson, Rafe Spall, Rupert Graves
- Premiered: November 17, 2020
The War of the Worlds (BBC, 2020) is a British television drama based on the H.G. Wells novel of the same name. The three-part limited series follows George (Rafe Spall) and his partner Amy (Eleanor ...more - 14Jonathan Majors, Courtney B. Vance, Jurnee Smollett-Bell
- Premiered: August 16, 2020
Atticus Black embarks on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America in search of his missing father. - 15Mark Ruffalo, Melissa Leo, Rosie O'Donnell
- Premiered: May 10, 2020
Following the lives of identical twin brothers in a story of betrayal, sacrifice and forgiveness. - 16Jeff Daniels, Brendan Gleeson, Holly Hunter
- Premiered: September 27, 2020
The relationship between FBI Director Comey and President Trump. - 17Hermione Corfield, Dipo Ola, Eve Myles
- Premiered: May 27, 2020
Two conflicted detectives are thrown together to try to track down a deadly duo. - 18Jimmi Simpson, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Alia Shawkat
- Premiered: July 22, 2021
Two detectives investigate the disappearance of the last honest politician in their dark city. - 19Monica Raymund, James Badge Dale, Riley Voelkel
- Premiered: May 17, 2020
A Provincetown officer battles crime in the underbelly of the popular beach town. - 20Taylor Hickson, Jessica Sutton, Ashley Nicole Williams
- Premiered: March 18, 2020
In an alternate America, witches use supernatural tactics to fight looming terrorist threats. - 21Michaela Coel, Weruche Opia, Paapa Essiedu
- Premiered: June 7, 2020
After being sexually assaulted in a nightclub, Arabella's life changes irreversibly. - 22Afua Hirsch, Samuel L. Jackson, Simcha Jacobovici
- Premiered: September 14, 2020
A history of slavery through underwater archaeology. - 23Laura Donnelly, Olivia Williams, James Norton
- Premiered: April 11, 2021
Victorian women with unusual abilities embark on a mission that may change the world. - 24Martha Plimpton, Justice Jesse Smith, Chloe East
- Premiered: March 11, 2021
High school students explore modern sexuality, testing beliefs about life, love and family. - 25Malcolm M. Mays, Mekai Curtis, Omar Epps
- Premiered: July 18, 2021
Fifteen-year-old Kanan is eager to join his family's drug business in 1990s South Jamaica, Queens.
