Best Romance Shows (Ranked)

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Friends

★8.8Ended(1994–2004)

#1Score 8.801.2M IMDb votes

Follows the personal and professional lives of six twenty to thirty-something-year-old friends living in Manhattan.

Pride and Prejudice

★8.8Ended

#2Score 8.77105.3k IMDb votes

While the arrival of wealthy gentlemen sends her marriage-minded mother into a frenzy, willful and opinionated Elizabeth Bennet matches wits with haughty Mr. Darcy.

Steins Gate

★8.8Ended

#3Score 8.7797.5k IMDb votes

After discovering time travel, a university student and his colleagues must use their knowledge of it to stop an evil organization and their diabolical plans.

Berserk

★8.8Ended

#4Score 8.7684k IMDb votes

Guts is a skilled swordsman who joins forces with a mercenary group named 'The Band of the Hawk', lead by the charismatic Griffith, and fights with them as they battle their way into the royal court.

Downton Abbey

★8.7Ended(2010–2015)

#5Score 8.69249.7k IMDb votes

A chronicle of the lives of the British aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the early twentieth century.

Twin Peaks

★8.7Ended

#6Score 8.69251.6k IMDb votes

An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks.

Rome

★8.7Ended(2005–2007)

#7Score 8.69207.8k IMDb votes

A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.

This Is Us

★8.7Ended

#8Score 8.68177.1k IMDb votes

A heartwarming and emotional story about a unique set of triplets, their struggles and their wonderful parents.

Code Geass

★8.7Ended

#9Score 8.67110.3k IMDb votes

After being given a mysterious power to control others, an outcast prince becomes the masked leader of the rebellion against an all-powerful empire.

Heated Rivalry

★8.7TV-MAOngoing2025-

#10Score 8.67115.4k IMDb votes

Two rival hockey stars at the top of their game face an unexpected challenge when they develop feelings for each other, complicating their careers and the sport's expectations.

Friday Night Lights

★8.7Ended(2006–2011)

#11Score 8.6680.8k IMDb votes

A drama that follows the lives of the Dillon Panthers, one of the nation's best high school football teams, and their head coach Eric Taylor.

Young Justice

★8.6Ended

#12Score 8.5552k IMDb votes

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

Vikings

★8.5Ended(2013– )

#13Score 8.50651.6k IMDb votes

Vikings transports us to the brutal and mysterious world of Ragnar Lothbrok, a Viking warrior and farmer who yearns to explore--and raid--the distant shores across the ocean.

Modern Family

★8.5Ended(2009– )

#14Score 8.50549.1k IMDb votes

Three different but related families face trials and tribulations in their own uniquely comedic ways.

Heartstopper

★8.5Ended

#15Score 8.4795.9k IMDb votes

Teens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love in this coming-of-age series.

Coupling

★8.5Ended

#16Score 8.4550.6k IMDb votes

Six best friends talk about all aspects of sex and relationships on their never-ending quest to find true love.

North and South

★8.5Ended

#17Score 8.4438.7k IMDb votes

North and South is a four part adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's love story of Margaret Hale, a middle class southerner who is forced to move to the northern town of Milton.

Queer as Folk US

★8.5Ended

#18Score 8.4024.3k IMDb votes

The lives and loves of a group of gay friends living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Please Like Me

★8.5Ended

#19Score 8.3920.8k IMDb votes

Twenty something Josh is going through a number of big changes as he navigates his first decade of adulthood. After being dumped by his girlfriend, he comes to the realization that he is gay.

Spartacus

★8.4Ended

#20Score 8.39298.5k IMDb votes

An anthology series of stand-alone episodes delving into horror myths, legends and lore.

Normal People

★8.4Ended

#21Score 8.38119.6k IMDb votes

Follows Marianne and Connell, from different backgrounds but the same small town in Ireland, as they weave in and out of each other's romantic lives.

Pushing Daisies

★8.4Ended

#22Score 8.3662.7k IMDb votes

A pastry chef with the power to bring dead people back to life solves murder mysteries with his resurrected childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and a lovesick waitress.

Violet Evergarden

★8.4Ended

#23Score 8.3543.6k IMDb votes

In the aftermath of a great war, Violet Evergarden, a young female ex-soldier, gets a job at a writers' agency and goes on assignments to create letters that can connect people.

How I Met Your Mother

★8.3Ended(2005–2014)

#24Score 8.30791.1k IMDb votes

A father recounts to his children - through a series of flashbacks - the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to him meeting their mother.

Outlander

★8.3Ended

#25Score 8.29205.2k IMDb votes

An English combat nurse from 1945 is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

★8.3Ended

#26Score 8.29177.3k IMDb votes

A young woman, destined to slay vampires, demons and other infernal creatures, deals with her life fighting evil, with the help of her friends.

The Wonder Years

★8.3Ended

#27Score 8.2544.3k IMDb votes

Kevin Arnold recalls growing up during the late 60s and early 70s; the turbulent social times make the transition from child to adult unusually interesting.

Jane Eyre 2006

★8.3Ended

#28Score 8.2224.3k IMDb votes

A young governess falls in love with her brooding and complex master. However, his dark past may destroy their relationship forever.

Last Tango In Halifax

★8.4Ended(2012–2016)

#29Score 8.2110.2k IMDb votes

Re-united after 50+ years apart, Celia and Alan decide to marry. At age 16, Alan's late wife failed to pass on a letter from Celia, his longtime crush, with an apology for missing their first date and her forwarding address. Both ...

Gilmore Girls

★8.2Ended(2000–2007)

#30Score 8.19178.5k IMDb votes

A dramedy centering around the relationship between a thirtysomething single mother and her teen daughter living in Stars Hollow, Connecticut.

The Good Place

★8.2Ended(2016– )

#31Score 8.19226.1k IMDb votes

Four people and their otherworldly frienemy struggle in the afterlife to define what it means to be good.

Atypical

★8.2Ended(2017– )

#32Score 8.18115.4k IMDb votes

Sam, an 18-year-old on the autism spectrum, decides it's time to find a girlfriend, which sets Sam's mom on her own life-changing path as her son seeks more independence.

Master of None

★8.2Ended(2015– )

#33Score 8.1879.2k IMDb votes

The personal and professional life of Dev, a 30-year-old actor in New York.

Poldark

★8.2Ended

#34Score 8.1641.7k IMDb votes

Ross Poldark returns home after American Revolutionary War and rebuilds his life with a new business venture, making new enemies and finding a new love where he least expects it.

Young Royals

★8.2Ended

#35Score 8.1653k IMDb votes

Prince Wilhelm adjusts to life at his prestigious new boarding school, Hillerska, but following his heart proves more challenging than anticipated.

Road to Avonlea

★8.5Ended

#36Score 8.155.4k IMDb votes

A young rich girl is sent to live with relatives on Prince Edward Island in the early 1900s.

The Other Bennet Sister

★8.3Ongoing2026-

#37Score 8.1210.2k IMDb votes

Mary leaves her sisters' shadows to find herself, embarking on a journey from Meryton to London and the Lake District. Her quest for independence leads to an unexpected love story in Regency-era England.

Looking

★8.2Ended

#38Score 8.1224k IMDb votes

The experiences of three close friends living and loving in modern-day San Francisco.

Fellow Travelers

★8.2Ended

#39Score 8.1119.1k IMDb votes

Follows the lives and volatile romance of two different men, through purges, wars, protests, and plagues, overcoming obstacles in the world.

The Big Bang Theory

★8.1Ended

#40Score 8.10948.3k IMDb votes

A woman who moves into an apartment across the hall from two brilliant but socially awkward physicists shows them how little they know about life outside of the laboratory.

That 70s Show

★8.1Ended

#41Score 8.09200.3k IMDb votes

A comedy revolving around a group of teenage friends, their mishaps, and their coming of age, set in 1970s Wisconsin.

Castle

★8.1Ended(2009–2016)

#42Score 8.09189.1k IMDb votes

After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purpo...

Misfits

★8.1Ended

#43Score 8.08113.7k IMDb votes

A group of young offenders doing community service get struck by lightning during a storm, and begin to develop superpowers.

The Tudors

★8.1Ended(2007–2010)

#44Score 8.0888.8k IMDb votes

A dramatic series about the reign and marriages of King Henry VIII.

War and Peace

★8.1Ended

#45Score 8.0530.3k IMDb votes

As the Russian conflict with Napoleon reaches its peak, five aristocratic families face the possibility of their lives being changed forever.

Angels in America

★8.1Ended

#46Score 8.0532.1k IMDb votes

Several disparate but connected individuals go through the AIDS crisis in the mid-1980s.

Youre the Worst

★8.1Ended

#47Score 8.0530.3k IMDb votes

Centers on two toxic, self-destructive people who fall in love and attempt a relationship.

Insecure

★8.1Ended(2016– )

#48Score 8.0425.2k IMDb votes

Follows the awkward experiences and racy tribulations of a modern-day African-American woman.

Gentleman Jack

★8.1Ended(2019– )

#49Score 8.0118k IMDb votes

A dramatization of the life of lesbian trailblazer, voracious learner, and cryptic diarist Anne Lister.

Colin from Accounts

★8.1Ended

#50Score 8.0117.7k IMDb votes

Ashley and Gordon, two single-ish, complex humans who are brought together by a car accident and an injured dog. Flawed, funny people choosing each other and being brave enough to show their true and navigate life together

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