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The Best TV Shows on Cinemax

Every Cinemax Show Ranked From Best To Worst

From 1976 through to 2019, Cinemax has accumulated a diverse collection of over 20 television shows. Check out the most acclaimed shows on Cinemax, with a catalog of over 20 series updated for April 2025. For top-tier entertainment, Cinemax delivered Second City Television and Passion Cove in 1976 and 2000.

  • Banshee
    Banshee (2013)8.0

    Banshee is an American drama television series set in a small town in Pennsylvania Amish country and features an enigmatic ex-con posing as a murdered sheriff who imposes his own brand of justice while also cooking up plans that serve his own interests.

  • Warrior
    Warrior (2019)8.0

    A gritty, action-packed crime drama set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the second half of the 19th century. The series follows Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy who immigrates from China to San Francisco under mysterious circumstances, and becomes a hatchet man for one of Chinatown’s most powerful tongs.

  • The Knick
    The Knick (2014)7.9

    Set in downtown New York in 1900, 'The Knick' is centered on the Knickerbocker Hospital and its staff, notably Dr. John Thackery, the hospital's brilliant chief surgeon who pushes medicine's boundaries, pioneering new procedures despite a severe drug addiction.

  • Second City Television
    Second City Television (1976)7.4

    Second City Television is a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from Toronto's Second City troupe that ran between 1976 and 1984.

  • Strike Back
    Strike Back (2010)7.4

    The series follows John Porter, a former British Special Forces soldier, who is drafted back into service by Section 20, a fictional branch of the Secret Intelligence Service.

  • Mike Judge Presents: Tales From the Tour Bus
    Mike Judge Presents: Tales From the Tour Bus (2017)7.3

    The raucous adventures of some of music’s most legendary artists, as told by those who knew them best. Featuring animated interviews with former bandmates, friends and other erstwhile associates, who share uncensored anecdotes about these artists, brought to life with animated reenactments and woven together with live-action archival performance footage and photos.

  • Black Tie Nights
    Black Tie Nights (2004)7.2

    Black Tie Nights was a softcore drama anthology series which aired on Cinemax in the United States from 2004 to 2005. This anthology show revolved around the adventures of Olivia Hartley and Cooper Snow who ran Black Tie dating service. They were assisted by their geeky sidekick, Ryan Lundy. In the second season, the show was retooled. The anthology series was renamed Hollywood Sexcapades and the characters of Olivia and Cooper were said to be out of the country opening a new branch. Candi Hicks, a recurring customer in the first season, became the new employee of Black Tie dating service. She and Ryan partnered to run the company.

  • Outcast
    Outcast (2016)7.1

    Kyle Barnes has been plagued by possession since he was a child. Now an adult, he embarks on a spiritual journey to find answers, but what he uncovers could mean the end of life on Earth as we know it.

  • Hotel Erotica
    Hotel Erotica (2002)7.0

    Hotel Erotica is a Softcore porn anthology television show that is broadcast on the Cinemax cable television channel during its Skinemax late-night block. It is also broadcast in the after hours timeslot on The Movie Network. The show format usually involved the hotel's proprietor reading a letter from a former guest talking about their adventure at the hotel. The episode would then be a flashback of the guest coming to the hotel and falling in love with someone. The hotel proprietor was initially Cloe Wilson in the first season. In the second season it was Jenny. In the next season, the show was relaunched as Hotel Erotica Cabo which followed a similar format. Many notable softcore and hardcore porn stars appeared on the show, such as Beverly Lynne, Monique Parent, Angela Davies, Jenna Jameson, Ron Jeremy, and former WWE Diva Candice Michelle.

  • Life on Top
    Life on Top (2009)7.0

    Based on a novel by Clara Darling, about a college grad who heads to a big city looking for work and discovers her older sister, who's been living there for years, is a model.

  • Chemistry
    Chemistry (2011)6.9

    The scandalous lives of Liz and Michael, a cop and a lawyer who meet in a near-fatal coincidence. Drama and comedy with inevitable and powerful chemistry between a man and woman that completely alter a destined life plan.

  • Jett
    Jett (2019)6.9

    Fresh out of prison, world-class thief Daisy ”Jett” Kowalski is forced back into doing what she does best by dangerous and eccentric criminals determined to exploit her skills for their own ends.

  • Hotel Erotica Cabo
    Hotel Erotica Cabo (2006)6.7

    Hotel Erotica Cabo is a 2006 late-night Cinemax television series directed by Gary Dean Orona and starring actresses Kimberly Fisher and Divini Rae.

  • Femme Fatales
    Femme Fatales (2011)6.4

    This provocative hit series tells the stories of dangerous women who find extraordinary ways of coping with their problems, channeling their survival instincts and bringing out their inner guile.

  • Co-Ed Confidential
    Co-Ed Confidential (2007)6.3

    Co-Ed Confidential is a softcore pornographic cable program that is Cinemax's erotic remake of National Lampoon's Animal House, it is shown on Cinemax After Dark. The series made its premiere in 2007 and has currently had four seasons and 52 episodes and 6 compilations.

  • The Girl's Guide to Depravity
    The Girl's Guide to Depravity (2012)6.3

    The Girl's Guide to Depravity is a comedy/drama series based on Heather Rutman's popular book and blog of the same name. The show debuted in the US on Cinemax in February of 2012, and has aired internationally in Latin America, Spain, Canada, and Japan.

  • Passion Cove
    Passion Cove (2000)6.0

    Passion Cove is an erotic anthology drama series that aired from March 2000 to April 2001 on Cinemax.

  • The Erotic Traveler
    The Erotic Traveler (2007)5.5

    The Midland Art Gallery is the home base for this erotic series starring Divini Rai as erotic photographer Marissa Johanson and Kaylani Lei as her pupil Allison Kraft. The series uses photographs and works of art to take episodic settings all over the world.

  • The Best Sex Ever
    The Best Sex Ever (2002)3.8

    Veronica hosts a midnight radio show called "The Best Sex Ever". Each night "after all the good girls and boys have gone to bed", she invites listeners to call in and share their own personal erotic tale about "the best sex you ever had". In each episode Veronica suggests a theme for that night's show, and one caller's story is presented, with Veronica occasionally interjecting comments or questions.

  • Sin City Diaries
    Sin City Diaries (2007)3.5

    SIN CITY DIARIES follows concierge expert Angelica played by actress and super model Amber Smith. From her high-rise office overlooking the Strip, Casino Owners rely heavily upon her to make their high rollers happy. As she helps clients live out their deepest fantasies in this playground and paradise we all know and love as Sin City.