The Best TV Shows on Showmax

Every Showmax Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Showcasing over 20 shows from 2015 up until 2025, Showmax stands as a beacon of television excellence. Stay up-to-date with over 20 of Showmax’s elite series, with our list refreshed for September 2025. Premiering in 2015 and 2016, Suidooster and Die Byl are among Showmax’s most celebrated shows.

  • Trompoppie
    Trompoppie (2023)9.5

    When Luna, a talented gymnast, is awarded a bursary to a prestigious private school, she is thrust into the cut-throat world of drum majorettes, aka "trompoppies". After a hazing ritual goes badly wrong, cheerleaders start turning up dead.

  • Tali's Wedding Diary
    Tali's Wedding Diary (2017)9.0

    Tali’s Wedding Diary follows a self-obsessed Sandton princess who’s moved to Cape Town and is filming the build-up to her wedding to her property-agent fiancé Darren.

  • Wyfie
    Wyfie (2024)9.0

    An edgy, youthful and urban Afrikaans drama that follows four females as they navigate the complicated world of university life and how they walk the thin line between mischief and wrongdoing to survive.

  • Reënboogrant
    Reënboogrant (2025)9.0

    Buckle up for an exhilarating rollercoaster ride through the world of authentic teenage drama, family conflicts, love, aspirations and fierce rivalries. An adaption based on Louise van Niekerk's gripping coming-of-age book series.

  • Troukoors
    Troukoors (2021)8.5

    A South African, Afrikaans-language comedy series which evolves after a freak accident sets a wedding planner on an unexpected path. Together with her friends she navigates life and love while wondering if the perfect person, and day, really exists.

  • Die Byl
    Die Byl (2016)8.0

    The unit specializes in the investigation of serial murders and is led by Van der Bijl, a former murder and robbery detective who gained fame for his handling of several high-profile cases. Each episode focuses on a serial killer. The main character, Colonel Piet van der Bijl, also known as Die Byl, is loosely modeled on the famous ex-detective Piet Byleveld.

  • Spinners
    Spinners (2023)8.0

    Ethan is a 17-year-old driver working for a local gang. Disgusted with gang life, Ethan discovers a possible way out via spinning, an extreme motorsport. But the looming gang war jeopardises that hope.

  • The Chairman's Ear
    The Chairman's Ear (2017)7.5

  • Suidooster
    Suidooster (2015)7.2

    Suidooster is a South African television soap opera produced by Suidooster Films which revolves around a matriarch, her family, friends and the people of Suidooster, a small shopping and business centre in the fictional Cape Town suburb of Ruiterbosch.

  • Donkerbos
    Donkerbos (2022)6.9

    When the bodies of six children are found in the backwater forests of Donkerbos, Limpopo, an ostracised detective must wrestle with her dark past, her family and a distrustful community to catch the killer before another child is taken.

  • The Mire
    The Mire (2018)6.8

    The town is shocked with a brutal double murder. The "Courier" hands the case to an experienced journalist - Witold Wanycz. At the same time, he learns about the mysterious suicide of two teenagers. Together with Piotr, a young journalist, they start their own investigation.

  • Exorcist
    Exorcist (2017)6.7

    Bogdan Boner is a true jack-of-all-trades: handyman, house painter, lawn mower... and self-taught exorcist. He has yet to met a demon he can't kill.

  • Youngins
    Youngins (2024)6.7

    A hard-hitting teen telenovela set at a boarding school in Johannesburg. When a teen flees from a family tragedy in rural KwaZulu Natal to a boarding school in Jozi, she finds herself entangled in a scandal of epic proportions.

  • Catch Me a Killer
    Catch Me a Killer (2024)6.5

    Follow South Africa’s first forensic and investigative psychologist, Micki Pistorius (played by Charlotte Hope), as she studies the minds of South Africa's serial killers. Catch Me A Killer is an adaptation of Micki's autobiography that details her work as the first female criminal profiler in the country, which is brought to life as the events are depicted in the series.

  • Trackers
    Trackers (2019)6.4

    Three story strands are interwoven into a sophisticated action-packed thriller that covers the length and breadth of South Africa, explosively colliding in Cape Town in a violent conspiracy involving organized crime, smuggled diamonds, state security, Black Rhinos, the CIA and an international terrorist plot.

  • Koek
    Koek (2024)6.3

    When Cape Town housewife discovers evidence her husband is having an affair with a stripper, her investigation takes her to a world poles apart from the suburban utopia she knows.

  • Dam
    Dam (2021)6.2

    Set in an Eastern Cape farming community, the story follows Yola who returns home from Chile for her father's funeral, only to be met by the ghosts of her past.

  • Adulting
    Adulting (2023)6.2

    Four varsity friends, whose strong bond has held them together even as their journeys in life have taken them in very different directions. As they try to find love and success in Johannesburg after university.

  • Empini
    Empini (2024)3.0

    A vengeful daughter makes it her mission to repay het father's betrayal. She infiltrate's the shady world of VIP security to face a man who is hardened by political enemies.

  • Lekarze na start
    Lekarze na start (2017)N/A