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Six Feet Under (TV series)
Six Feet Under: HBO drama series (2001–2005, 63 episodes) created by Alan Ball about the Fisher family's Los Angeles funeral home; known for its death-per-episode structure, dark humor, and acclaimed finale "Everyone's Waiting."
Social Distance
Social Distance is a 2020 Netflix anthology series created by Hilary Weisman Graham with Jenji Kohan, eight remotely produced episodes about people staying connected through technology during the COVID-19 quarantine.
Sorry for Your Loss
Sorry for Your Loss is a 2018–2019 Facebook Watch half-hour drama created by Kit Steinkellner, starring Elizabeth Olsen as widow Leigh Shaw; 20 episodes, Metascore 83, canceled January 2020, now on Tubi.
Spinning Out
Spinning Out is a 2020 Netflix drama series, 10 episodes, created by former skater Samantha Stratton, starring Kaya Scodelario as injured skater Kat Baker; canceled after one season.
Survivor's Remorse
Survivor's Remorse is an American comedy series that aired on Starz from 2014 to 2017, following basketball star Cam Calloway after he signs a multimillion-dollar contract.
Territory (TV series)
Territory (formerly Desert King) is a 2024 six-episode Australian neo-Western Netflix drama by Easy Tiger and Ronde, starring Anna Torv, about a succession fight for the world's largest cattle station; canceled February 2025 after one season.
The Big C (TV series)
The Big C is a Showtime comedy-drama (2010-2013, 4 seasons, 40 episodes) created by Darlene Hunt, starring Laura Linney as teacher Cathy Jamison, diagnosed with terminal Stage IV melanoma; originally titled The C-Word.
The Chi
The Chi is a Showtime (later Paramount+) drama created by Lena Waithe, set on Chicago's South Side, premiering January 7, 2018. It ran eight seasons, ending with "The Last Dance" on July 24, 2026, and follows interconnected residents linked by trauma, family, and community.
The Chicken Sisters
The Chicken Sisters is a Hallmark family drama series adapted from KJ Dell'Antonia's 2020 novel, set in Merinac, Kansas, where rival fried chicken restaurants Mimi's and Frannie's feud; it premiered on Hallmark+ September 10, 2024, with a second season on Hallmark Channel in 2025.
The Family Next Door (TV series)
The Family Next Door is a 2025 Australian six-part ABC mystery drama adapted from Sally Hepworth's 2018 novel, starring Teresa Palmer as Isabelle, a Child Protective Services worker infiltrating a seaside cul-de-sac; distinct from the 2020 Netflix documentary and Starz's The Couple Next Door.
The Red Line (TV series)
The Red Line is a 2019 CBS eight-episode limited drama, also called a miniseries, created by Caitlin Parrish and Erica Weiss with Ava DuVernay and Greg Berlanti producing; it follows three Chicago families after a police shooting, starred Noah Wyle, and was cancelled after low ratings.
The Village (2019 TV series)
The Village (2019) is a one-season NBC drama created by Mike Daniels about residents of a Brooklyn apartment building forming a chosen family; canceled May 30, 2019 after averaging 4.12 million viewers and mixed-to-negative reviews.
The Virtues (TV series)
The Virtues is a 2019 four-part Channel 4 miniseries written and directed by Shane Meadows with Jack Thorne, starring Stephen Graham as Joseph, a recovering alcoholic confronting repressed memories of care-home abuse in Ireland.
The Waltons
The Waltons: American CBS historical drama (1972–1981, 9 seasons, 221 episodes) created by Earl Hamner Jr. from Spencer's Mountain, following a rural Virginia family through the Depression and World War II; known for The Homecoming pilot, 13 Emmys, and six TV movie sequels.
This Is Us
This Is Us is an NBC family drama created by Dan Fogelman, airing 2016–2022 across six seasons and 106 episodes about the Pearson family across multiple timelines, starring Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz, and Justin Hartley, with 39 Emmy nominations and 4 wins.
Tore
Tore is a 2023 Swedish comedy-drama miniseries on Netflix, created, written by, and starring William Spetz, directed by Erika Calmeyer. Six episodes follow a 27-year-old funeral-home assistant suppressing grief through Stockholm queer nightlife.
Toxic Town
Toxic Town is a 2025 Netflix four-part British limited series written by Jack Thorne, directed by Minkie Spiro, dramatizing the Corby poisonings, in which mothers won a 2009 negligence ruling over toxic waste mismanagement.
Two Weeks in August
Two Weeks in August is a 2026 BBC One and iPlayer eight-part dark comedy drama created by Catherine Shepherd, starring Jessica Raine, Damien Molony, Nicholas Pinnock, Antonia Thomas, Leila Farzad, and Hugh Skinner; filmed in Malta and Gozo, set on a Greek island, 82% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Tyrant (TV series)
Tyrant is an American drama series that aired on FX from 2014 to 2016, about the son of a Middle Eastern dictator returning to his fictional homeland.
United States of Tara
United States of Tara: Showtime comedy-drama (2009-2011, 3 seasons, 36 episodes) created by Diablo Cody, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, starring Emmy-winning Toni Collette as Tara Gregson, a Kansas mother with dissociative identity disorder and alters T, Buck, and Alice.
Vida (TV series)
Vida (Starz, 2018–2020) is a three-season comedy-drama created by Tanya Saracho about Mexican American sisters Emma and Lyn returning to Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, after their mother's death, centered on gentrification, queer Latinx identity, and an all-Latinx writers' room.
Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist
Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist is an NBC musical dramedy (2020-2021, 25 episodes) created by Austin Winsberg, starring Jane Levy as a coder who hears people's thoughts as pop "heart songs"; canceled after two seasons, followed by Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas.