My favourite pilots ranked
by skwunk | created - 23 Jun 2020 | updated - 1 week ago | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1.
Futurama (1999– )
Episode:
Space Pilot 3000
(1999)
TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A down-on-his-luck pizza delivery guy is accidentally frozen on New Year's Eve 1999 and wakes up in the year 3000.
Directors: Rich Moore, Gregg Vanzo | Stars: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Dick Clark
Votes: 4,984
2.
Breaking Bad (2008–2013)
Episode:
Pilot
(2008)
TV-MA | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, chemistry teacher Walter White teams up with former student Jesse Pinkman to cook and sell crystal meth.
Director: Vince Gilligan | Stars: Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris
Votes: 43,157
3.
Mr. Robot (2015–2019)
Episode:
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(2015)
TV-14 | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A notorious hacker takes an interest in cyber security engineer and vigilante styled computer hacker Elliot, while an evil corporation is hacked.
Director: Niels Arden Oplev | Stars: Rami Malek, Carly Chaikin, Portia Doubleday, Martin Wallström
Votes: 18,754
4.
Mad Men (2007–2015)
Episode:
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
(2007)
TV-14 | 49 min | Drama
New York City, 1960s. In the ego-driven Golden Age of advertising, everyone is selling something and nothing is what it seems.
Director: Alan Taylor | Stars: Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones
Votes: 5,399
5.
Westworld (2016–2022)
Episode:
The Original
(2016)
TV-MA | 68 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
The park staff begin to notice strange behavior from the hosts; A mysterious Man in Black roams the park, wreaking havoc.
Director: Jonathan Nolan | Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton, Jeffrey Wright, James Marsden
Votes: 23,957
6.
The Wire (2002–2008)
Episode:
The Target
(2002)
TV-MA | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Baltimore Det. Jimmy McNulty finds himself in hot water with his superior Major William Rawls after a drug dealer, D'Angelo Barksdale who is charged with three murders, is acquitted. ... See full summary »
Director: Clark Johnson | Stars: Dominic West, John Doman, Idris Elba, Frankie Faison
Votes: 7,673
7.
Lost (2004–2010)
Episode:
Pilot: Part 1
(2004)
TV-14 | 42 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Forty-eight survivors of an airline flight originating from Australia, bound for the U.S., which crash-lands onto an unknown island 1000 miles off course, struggle to figure out a way to survive while trying to find a way to be rescued.
Director: J.J. Abrams | Stars: Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, Terry O'Quinn, Naveen Andrews
Votes: 12,734
8.
The Bear (2022– )
Episode:
System
(2022)
TV-MA | 28 min | Comedy, Drama
Carmy attempts to retrain the employees of The Original Beef of Chicagoland, but is faced with resistance. In need of back-up, he brings on a talented young chef to help.
Director: Christopher Storer | Stars: Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ayo Edebiri, Lionel Boyce
Votes: 7,357
9.
The Knick (2014–2015)
Episode:
Method and Madness
(2014)
TV-MA | 56 min | Drama, History
Dr Thackery is Chief Of Medicine in a 1900 New York hospital, The Kickerbocker, battling a cocaine addiction, high mortality rates and bureaucratic corruption to save lives in a world before antibiotics and blood transfusions.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Clive Owen, André Holland, Jeremy Bobb, Juliet Rylance
Votes: 1,722
10.
Justified (2010–2015)
Episode:
Fire in the Hole
(2010)
TV-MA | 50 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Marshal Givens returns home and is assigned a case involving an old friend from his coal mining days who has become a white supremacist and blew up an African American church.
Director: Michael Dinner | Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel
Votes: 3,282
11.
Game of Thrones (2011–2019)
Episode:
Winter Is Coming
(2011)
TV-MA | 62 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Eddard Stark is torn between his family and an old friend when asked to serve at the side of King Robert Baratheon; Viserys plans to wed his sister to a nomadic warlord in exchange for an army.
Director: Timothy Van Patten | Stars: Sean Bean, Mark Addy, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Michelle Fairley
Votes: 54,520
12.
Suits (2011–2019)
Episode:
Pilot
(2011)
TV-14 | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
A "closer" for one of New York City's most successful law firms decides to hire an aloof genius, who has passed the bar but never gone to law school, as his associate.
Director: Kevin Bray | Stars: Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams, Rick Hoffman, Meghan Markle
Votes: 6,564
13.
Stranger Things (2016–2025)
Episode:
Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers
(2016)
TV-14 | 47 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
American scientists, working without oversight in an obscure laboratory in a backwater town, have managed to bring about the total destruction of mankind.
Directors: Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer | Stars: Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown
Votes: 27,171
14.
Daredevil (2015–2018)
Episode:
Into the Ring
(2015)
TV-MA | 53 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson open their law firm, and take the case of a woman accused of murder who Matt believes is innocent.
Director: Phil Abraham | Stars: Charlie Cox, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Toby Leonard Moore
Votes: 14,678
15.
Prison Break (2005–2017)
Episode:
Pilot
(2005)
TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Michael Scofield is imprisoned in Fox River State Penitentiary. He finds his brother, Lincoln Burrows, who is a death row prisoner, and tells him that he is going to break them both out of the prison.
Director: Brett Ratner | Stars: Dominic Purcell, Wentworth Miller, Robin Tunney, Amaury Nolasco
Votes: 7,991
16.
Hannibal (2013–2015)
Episode:
Apéritif
(2013)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
The head of the FBI Behavioral Science unit, Jack Crawford, calls on profiler Will Graham to assist them catch a serial killer. The killer has now kidnapped eight women, all similar in ... See full summary »
Director: David Slade | Stars: Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, Caroline Dhavernas, Hettienne Park
Votes: 8,790
17.
Barry (2018–2023)
Episode:
Chapter One: Make Your Mark
(2018)
TV-MA | 33 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A disillusioned hit man wants to start a new life after following his quarry to an acting class.
Director: Bill Hader | Stars: Bill Hader, Stephen Root, Sarah Goldberg, Glenn Fleshler
Votes: 6,069
18.
This Is Us (2016–2022)
Episode:
Pilot
(2016)
TV-14 | 43 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Rebecca goes into an early labor; Randall finds his biological father; Kevin faces a personal and professional crisis; Kate finds herself at a low point.
Directors: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa | Stars: Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz
Votes: 6,888
19.
Poker Face (2023– )
Episode:
Dead Man's Hand
(2023)
TV-MA | 68 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When a close friend meets an untimely end, Charlie Cale, a casino cocktail waitress with an uncanny knack for identifying lies, is determined to unravel these mysterious events, even if it endangers her own life.
Director: Rian Johnson | Stars: Natasha Lyonne, Adrien Brody, Dascha Polanco, Benjamin Bratt
Votes: 4,189
20.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017–2023)
Episode:
Pilot
(2017)
TV-MA | 56 min | Comedy, Drama
Midge Maisel has the perfect life. She is supportive of her husband's dream of becoming a stand up comic until he bombs on stage and blames her, leading Midge back to the comedy club and an act that might change her life.
Director: Amy Sherman-Palladino | Stars: Rachel Brosnahan, Alex Borstein, Michael Zegen, Marin Hinkle
Votes: 4,034
21.
Better Call Saul (2015–2022)
Episode:
Uno
(2015)
TV-14 | 54 min | Crime, Drama
Struggling public defender Jimmy McGill constructs an elaborate yet questionable plan for winning back a pair of wealthy potential clients.
Director: Vince Gilligan | Stars: Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Rhea Seehorn, Patrick Fabian
Votes: 22,874
22.
The Shield (2002–2008)
Episode:
Pilot
(2002)
TV-MA | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
While Dutch and Claudette investigate the murder of Nancy Reborg, they discover that her daughter is missing and has been sold by her addict father to a child molester. David tries to crack... See full summary »
Director: Clark Johnson | Stars: Michael Chiklis, Catherine Dent, Reed Diamond, Walton Goggins
Votes: 3,396
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