The Best TV Shows on YouTube Premium

Every YouTube Premium Show Ranked From Best To Worst

YouTube Premium has delivered an expansive roster of over 20 shows, dating from 2016 all the way to 2020. Highlighting YouTube Premium’s quality programming, Escape the Night and Bad Internet stand out, premiering in 2016 and 2016. As of July 2025, our compilation of YouTube Premium’s top-rated series boasts over 20 unique shows.

  • Mind Field
    Mind Field (2017)8.3

    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.

  • The Age of A.I.
    The Age of A.I. (2019)8.1

    Explore the impact of A.I. and how it is transforming the way we live and work -- both now and in the future, featuring some of the brightest minds in science, philosophy, technology, engineering, medicine, futurism, entertainment and the arts to tell the dynamic story of A.I.

  • Escape the Night
    Escape the Night (2016)7.8

    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 With a major chip on her shoulder and no friends, she remains withdrawn and isolated, but everything changes when a traumatic encounter with a classmate triggers something deep within Henry— unleashing a power she cannot control.

  • Step Up
    Step Up (2018)7.3

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Foursome
    Foursome (2016)7.1

    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.

  • 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.

  • Lockdown
    Lockdown (2020)7.0

    Lockdown is an event series that follows a group of bored quarantined teens working together online to solve a mystery involving one of their neighbors - a mystery which ultimately places them all in danger.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Lifeline
    Lifeline (2017)6.7

    What if you could use time travel to save your life? Welcome to "LIFELINE," the new YouTube Red Original Series about the Lifeline insurance agency, whose specially trained agents jump forward in time to prevent the deaths of their clients.

  • 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.

  • 12 Deadly Days
    12 Deadly Days (2016)6.4

    In the cursed town of Saturn, CA, during the 12 days leading up to Christmas, watch these interconnected tales showing the town's residents dealing will all kinds of evil.

  • The Sidemen Show
    The Sidemen Show (2018)6.4

    A stunt and challenge show pitting a group of young YouTubers with a celebrity guest.

  • 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.

  • Champaign Ill
    Champaign Ill (2018)5.8

    A super star rapper suddenly dies leaving his best friends Alf and Ronnie to mourn his loss, plus the loss of their jet-setting lifestyle. Back in their hometown they have to pick up the pieces and figure out a way back to the top.

  • BookTube
    BookTube (2019)N/A

    Personalities in YouTube's literary space join renowned authors like Margaret Atwood and Malcolm Gladwell in a conversation about books.