The Best TV Shows on HBO Max

Every HBO Max Show Ranked From Best To Worst

As of August 2025, our compilation of HBO Max’s top-rated series boasts over 20 unique shows. Highlighting HBO Max’s quality programming, Sesame Street and Young Justice stand out, premiering in 1969 and 2010. A broadcaster of distinction, HBO Max has aired more than 20 shows between 1969 and 2023.

  • Young Justice
    Young Justice (2010)8.4

    Teenage superheroes strive to prove themselves as members of the Justice League.

  • Harley Quinn
    Harley Quinn (2019)8.3

    Harley Quinn has finally broken things off once and for all with the Joker. Now, she's trying to make it on her own as the criminal Queenpin of Gotham City, with help from Poison Ivy and a ragtag crew of DC castoffs.

  • Peacemaker
    Peacemaker (2022)8.2

    The continuing story of Peacemaker, a vainglorious superhero/supervillain who believes in peace at any cost — no matter how many people he has to kill. After a miraculous recovery from his duel with Bloodsport, Peacemaker soon discovers that his freedom comes at a price.

  • Close Enough
    Close Enough (2020)8.0

    A surreal take on transitioning from 20-something to 30-something centering on a married couple juggling such everyday challenges as parenthood, friendship, ham theft, stripper clowns and choosing the right day care.

  • Titans
    Titans (2018)7.9

    A team of young superheroes led by Nightwing (formerly Batman's first Robin) form to combat evil and other perils.

  • Tokyo Vice
    Tokyo Vice (2022)7.9

    A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. Based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction book of the same name.

  • Love & Death
    Love & Death (2023)7.9

    Candy and Pat Montgomery and Betty and Allan Gore — two churchgoing couples — enjoy their small town Texas life... until an extramarital affair leads somebody to pick up an axe.

  • Summer Camp Island
    Summer Camp Island (2018)7.8

    Oscar and Hedgehog are dropped off at a strange summer camp, full of fantastical things ranging from magical camp counselors to sticky notes that are portals to other dimensions.

  • Looney Tunes Cartoons
    Looney Tunes Cartoons (2020)7.7

    A series of short form cartoons starring the iconic and beloved Looney Tunes characters. Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and other marquee Looney Tunes characters are featured in their classic pairings in simple, gag-driven and visually vibrant stories.

  • Our Flag Means Death
    Our Flag Means Death (2022)7.7

    After trading in the seemingly charmed life of a gentleman for one of a swashbuckling buccaneer, Stede Bonnet becomes captain of the pirate ship Revenge. Struggling to earn the respect of his potentially mutinous crew, Stede’s fortunes change after a fateful run-in with the infamous Captain Blackbeard. Stede and crew attempt to get their ship together and survive life on the high seas.

  • Doom Patrol
    Doom Patrol (2019)7.5

    The Doom Patrol’s members each suffered horrible accidents that gave them superhuman abilities — but also left them scarred and disfigured. Traumatized and downtrodden, the team found purpose through The Chief, who brought them together to investigate the weirdest phenomena in existence — and to protect Earth from what they find.

  • Raised by Wolves
    Raised by Wolves (2020)7.5

    After Earth is ravaged by a great religious war, an atheistic android architect sends two of his creations, Mother and Father, to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b. Their treacherous task is jeopardized by the arrival of the Mithraic, a deeply devout religious order of surviving humans.

  • Hacks
    Hacks (2021)7.5

    Explore a dark mentorship that forms between Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas comedian, and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old.

  • And Just Like That…
    And Just Like That… (2021)7.3

    This new chapter of “Sex and the City” follows Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte as they navigate the journey from the complicated reality of life and friendship in their 30s to the even more complicated reality of life and friendship in their 50s.

  • The Sex Lives of College Girls
    The Sex Lives of College Girls (2021)7.2

    Follow four college roommates as they arrive at New England’s prestigious Essex College. A bundle of contradictions and hormones, these girls are equal parts lovable and infuriating as they live out their new, free lives on campus.

  • Lust
    Lust (2022)7.2

    After her nationwide study suggests that sex is the highway to health, Anette and her three lifelong friends begin to question how to keep their own sex lives from being sidelined by careers, kids, partners, and the realities of life.

  • Sesame Street
    Sesame Street (1969)7.1

    On a special inner city street, the inhabitants—human and muppet—teach preschoolers basic educational and social concepts using comedy, cartoons, games, and songs.

  • The Head
    The Head (2020)7.1

    In an isolated and inaccessible Antarctic research station in which winter has fallen on the South Pole and the sun will soon disappear for the next six months, a small team, known as the Winterers, remain at the Polaris VI Antarctic Research Station to continue their innovative research. Renowned biologist Arthur Wilde is determined to find a solution to climate change, but his quest turns into a nightmare when several of his esteemed scientists suddenly begin to die.

  • Love Life
    Love Life (2020)6.9

    A romantic comedy anthology series which follows a different protagonist each season on the journey from first love to last love, with each half-hour episode chronicling one of their relationships.

  • Search Party
    Search Party (2016)6.8

    A dark comedy about four self-absorbed twenty-somethings who become entangled in an ominous mystery when a former college acquaintance suddenly disappears.