The Best TV Shows on HBO Max

Every HBO Max Show Ranked From Best To Worst

With its programming history stretching from 1969 to 2023, HBO Max offers an impressive lineup of over 20 shows. Highlighting HBO Max’s quality programming, Sesame Street and Young Justice stand out, premiering in 1969 and 2010. As of December 2025, we’ve curated over 20 of HBO Max’s premier shows for your viewing pleasure.

  • Young Justice
    Young Justice (2010)8.4

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

  • Vgly
    Vgly (2023)8.4

    Though stuck at the bottom of the social ladder with no money or contacts, aspiring artist Vgly and his crew strive to break into the music business.

  • 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.

  • Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
    Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? (2019)8.0

    The Mystery Inc. gang solve bigger mysteries while also encountering many memorable celebrities.

  • 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.

  • Summer Camp Island
    Summer Camp Island (2018)7.9

    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.

  • Close Enough
    Close Enough (2020)7.9

    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.

  • 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.

  • Looney Tunes Cartoons
    Looney Tunes Cartoons (2020)7.8

    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.

  • Love & Death
    Love & Death (2023)7.8

    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.

  • 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)7.4

    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.

  • Gossip Girl
    Gossip Girl (2021)7.3

    Eight years after the original website went dark, a new generation of New York private school teens are introduced to the social surveillance of Gossip Girl.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Dafne and the Rest
    Dafne and the Rest (2021)4.9

    Dafne and her friends are a bunch of thirty-somethings living dissatisfied lives. Frustrated in love and sex, they work in lousy jobs, trying to find themselves, and some love, in Madrid.

  • Velma
    Velma (2023)3.4

    Jinkies! This raucous reimagining of the Scooby-Doo franchise unravels the mysterious origins of Mystery, Inc. – as seen through the eyes of the gang’s beloved bespectacled detective Velma.