The Best TV Shows on YouTube Premium

Every YouTube Premium Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Peruse our comprehensive roster of YouTube Premium’s top shows, encompassing over 20 distinct series as of April 2026. For top-tier entertainment, YouTube Premium delivered Rhett & Link's Buddy System and Foursome in 2016 and 2016. From 2016 through to 2020, YouTube Premium has accumulated a diverse collection of over 20 television shows.

  • Wayne
    Wayne (2019)8.3

    In this gritty and sometimes bloody tale, sixteen year-old Wayne sets out on a dirt bike with his new crush Del to take back the 1978 Pontiac Trans Am that was stolen from his father before he died. It is Wayne and Del against the world.

  • Mind Field
    Mind Field (2017)8.2

    Explore the surprising things we know (and don’t know) about why people are the way they are through expert interviews, rare footage from historical experiments, and brand-new, ground-breaking demonstrations of human nature at work.

  • Cobra Kai
    Cobra Kai (2018)8.2

    This Karate Kid sequel series picks up 30 years after the events of the 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament and finds Johnny Lawrence on the hunt for redemption by reopening the infamous Cobra Kai karate dojo. This reignites his old rivalry with the successful Daniel LaRusso, who has been working to maintain the balance in his life without mentor Mr. Miyagi.

  • Escape the Night
    Escape the Night (2016)7.7

    Welcome to "Escape the Night." In this surreality competition series, hosted by Joey Graceffa, 10 guests are invited from the modern world to attend a dinner at his newly acquired mansion estate, which has been locked in the 1920's; when America was roaring... roaring with madness. This is a dinner party to die for. No one is safe.

  • Impulse
    Impulse (2018)7.6

    16-year-old Henry Coles is an outsider in her new town of Reston, New York. With a major chip on her shoulder and no friends, she remains withdrawn and isolated, but everything changes when a traumatic encounter with a classmate triggers something deep within Henry— unleashing a power she cannot control.

  • Obsolete
    Obsolete (2019)7.3

    In 2014, aliens revealed themselves to request trade with humanity. In exchange for limestone, they would provide a consciousness-controlled general-use robot known as an "Exoframe." Cheaper than an aircraft, tank, or firearm, and easy enough for anyone to operate, the "Exoframe" spreads change throughout the world in the blink of an eye...

  • Sherwood
    Sherwood (2019)7.3

    All her life, teen-hacker Robin of Sherwood thought she was an orphan. But when a mysterious Gauntlet unlocks a secret that turns her world upside down, Robin joins forces with a group of renegades who teach her the true value of love, loyalty, and sacrifice. Through the flooded storm-lashed streets of 23rd century London, to the towering citadel of the floating Upper City, Robin and her new friends battle the elements and the odds to defeat the mad Sheriff of Nottingham.

  • Step Up
    Step Up (2018)7.2

    Twins Tal and Janelle relocate from Ohio to Atlanta, where at their new school High Water is always a beat.

  • Origin
    Origin (2018)7.2

    A group of troubled passengers wake up on a damaged spaceship abandoned in deep space, each having left behind a dark past in search of a fresh start on a newly colonized planet. As their terrifying situation spirals into paranoia, they come to realize that the greatest threat to their dream of starting over – and indeed their lives – is something far darker than the pasts they were so desperate to escape.

  • Rhett & Link's Buddy System
    Rhett & Link's Buddy System (2016)7.0

    Follow best friends, Rhett & Link, as they embark on a fantastical misadventure in search of a missing phone that could save their morning talk show from a co-ex-girlfriend turned evil infomercial queen.

  • Foursome
    Foursome (2016)6.8

    Andie is undateable– thanks to her older brother Alec, the most popular guy in high school, who makes sure no guy comes near her. Fortunately, Andie has her three best friends to help her shake the little sister stigma: Dakota, the gay best friend who is more than confident in his own sexuality; Imogen the innocent, fresh-out-of-home-school wallflower; and Courtney, Alec’s girlfriend and last year’s homecoming queen, who can’t let go of her high school days. These four very different personalities help each other navigate the hormone-induced, angst-filled sea of high school.

  • Bad Internet
    Bad Internet (2016)6.8

    A satirical anthology series about the terrifying potential futures of internet technology and culture. Not at all similar to any other shows about technological overreaching.

  • Could You Survive The Movies?
    Could You Survive The Movies? (2019)6.8

    Explore the magic and science of cinema. In each episode, Vsauce3’s Jake Roper takes you on an immersive journey into the world of a different movie; blending unscripted scientific exploration with narrative storytelling.

  • Do You Want to See a Dead Body?
    Do You Want to See a Dead Body? (2017)6.7

    Follow comedian Rob Huebel as he takes a different celebrity friend on a hilarious adventure to find a dead body...and then maybe get tacos or something.

  • Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television
    Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television (2017)6.6

    The LAPD thinks it's a good idea to form a task force partnering actors with homicide detectives.

  • Weird City
    Weird City (2019)6.1

    Set in the not-too-distant future, this comedy anthology explores the issues of everyday life in the metropolis of Weird — stories that can only be told through the prism of sci-fi and comedy.

  • Dallas & Robo
    Dallas & Robo (2018)6.0

    Sassy space-trucker Dallas and self-proclaimed warrior-poet Robo navigate their way around cannibal bikers, rival space truckers, and vending machine burritos as they try to make a buck in the seedy world of interplanetary big-rigging.

  • Good Game
    Good Game (2017)5.5

    A new team of eSports players try to make it to the top in the cutthroat world of competitive gaming.

  • KCON:TACT ALL-ACCESS
    KCON:TACT ALL-ACCESS (2020)5.5

    During this unprecedented pandemic, KCON has made a historic pivot to a 7-day-long virtual concert as KCON:TACT. Behind the curtain of KCON:TACT 2020 SUMMER, this documentary offers an all-access look at the dreams and passion of the top K-POP acts with unaired footage, behind-the-scenes, and interviews.

  • Broke
    Broke (2016)N/A

    Three friends move from Philadelphia to Los Angeles to pursue big dreams while sharing empty wallets. From trying to date in a post-chivalry America to deciding if their aspirations are worth missing home, Mo, Paul and Miloh learn to keep each other happy while being first-world poor.