The Best TV Shows on AMC

Every AMC Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Notable series such as Mad Men and Breaking Bad from AMC first graced the screens in 2007 and 2008. Our curated list, current as of August 2025, showcases over 20 of AMC’s highest-rated series. Boasting a rich catalog, AMC features more than 20 shows, with broadcasting dates ranging from 2007 to 2024.

  • Breaking Bad
    Breaking Bad (2008)8.9

    Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.

  • Better Call Saul
    Better Call Saul (2015)8.7

    Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".

  • Mad Men
    Mad Men (2007)8.1

    Set in 1960-1970 New York, this sexy, stylized and provocative drama follows the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue advertising.

  • The Walking Dead
    The Walking Dead (2010)8.1

    Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.

  • The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
    The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (2023)8.1

    Daryl washes ashore in France and struggles to piece together how he got there and why. The series tracks his journey across a broken but resilient France as he hopes to find a way back home. As he makes the journey, though, the connections he forms along the way complicate his ultimate plan.

  • The Walking Dead: Dead City
    The Walking Dead: Dead City (2023)8.0

    Maggie and Negan travel to post-apocalyptic Manhattan - long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made it a world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.

  • Hell on Wheels
    Hell on Wheels (2011)7.6

    The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time.

  • Fear the Walking Dead
    Fear the Walking Dead (2015)7.6

    What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in "The Walking Dead"? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world, will answer that question.

  • Into the Badlands
    Into the Badlands (2015)7.6

    In a land controlled by feudal barons, a great warrior and a young boy embark on a journey across a dangerous land to find enlightenment. A genre-bending martial arts series very loosely based on the classic Chinese tale Journey to the West.

  • Preacher
    Preacher (2016)7.5

    A preacher sets out on a mission to make the almighty himself confess his sin of abandoning the world. With his best friend Cassidy, an alcoholic Irish vampire, his love Tulip, a red blooded gun towing Texan, and the power of genesis, an unholy child born from an angel and a devil, Jesse gives up everything to set the world straight with its creator.

  • Dark Winds
    Dark Winds (2022)7.5

    This psychological thriller follows two Navajo police officers, Leaphorn and Chee, in the 1970s Southwest as their search for clues in a grisly double murder case forces them to challenge their own spiritual beliefs and come to terms with the trauma of their pasts.

  • Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics
    Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics (2017)7.4

    A six-part documentary series that takes a deeper look into the stories, people and events that have transformed the world of comic books.

  • Snowpiercer
    Snowpiercer (2020)7.4

    More than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe as class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out.

  • The Walking Dead: World Beyond
    The Walking Dead: World Beyond (2020)7.4

    A heroic group of teens sheltered from the dangers of the post-apocalyptic world receive a message that inspires them to leave the safety of the only home they have ever known and embark on a cross-country journey to find the one man who can possibly save the world.

  • Interview with the Vampire
    Interview with the Vampire (2022)7.4

    A century-old vampire from New Orleans reunites with an ailing journalist to recount his life of bloodlust and his tumultuous relationship with the rakish Frenchman who turned him.

  • Talking Dead
    Talking Dead (2011)7.3

    Host Chris Hardwick discusses episodes of the AMC television series The Walking Dead with guests, including celebrity fans, cast members, and crew from the series.

  • The Terror
    The Terror (2018)7.3

    A chilling anthology series featuring stories of people in terrifying situations inspired by true historical events.

  • Orphan Black: Echoes
    Orphan Black: Echoes (2024)7.0

    In the near future, a group of women weave their way into each other's lives and embark on a thrilling journey, unravelling the mystery of their identity and uncovering a wrenching story of love and betrayal.

  • James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
    James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction (2018)6.8

    Explore the evolution of sci-fi from its origins as a small genre with a cult following to the blockbuster pop-cultural phenomenon we know today. In each episode, James Cameron introduces one of the “Big Questions” that humankind has contemplated throughout the ages and reaches back into sci-fi’s past to better understand how our favorite films, TV shows, books, and video games were born.

  • Eli Roth's History of Horror
    Eli Roth's History of Horror (2018)6.6

    An in-depth look at the history and pop cultural significance of horror films.