FX Shows
60 of the most popular shows made for FX, most watched first. Only shows that have started airing are listed, and talk, news and reality formats are left out.
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60 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.American Horror Story(2011)
8.1DramaMysterySci-Fi & Fantasy
An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.
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2.Nip/Tuck(2003)
7.2Drama
Hotshot plastic surgeons Dr. Sean McNamara and Dr. Christian Troy experience full-blown midlife crises as they confront career, family and romance problems.
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3.It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia(2005)
8.3Comedy
Four egocentric friends run a neighborhood Irish pub in Philadelphia and try to find their way through the adult world of work and relationships. Unfortunately, their warped views and precarious judgments often lead them to trouble, creating a myriad of uncomfortable situations that usually only get worse before they…
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4.Fargo(2014)
8.3CrimeDrama
A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.
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5.Sons of Anarchy(2008)
8.4CrimeDrama
The Sons of Anarchy (SOA) are an outlaw motorcycle club with many charters in the United States and overseas. The show focused on the original and founding charter, Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original, often referred to by the acronym SAMCRO, Sam Crow, or simply Redwood Charter. The charter operates…
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6.Archer(2009)
7.9ComedyAction & AdventureAnimation
Smart-mouthed superspy Sterling Archer and his dysfunctional team of secret agents turn dangerous missions into messy misadventures around the globe.
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7.The Shield(2002)
8.2CrimeDramaAction & Adventure
The story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to both keep the streets safe and their self-interests intact.
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8.The Americans(2013)
7.9CrimeDrama
Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelligence agent.
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9.What We Do in the Shadows(2019)
8.0ComedySci-Fi & Fantasy
A documentary-style look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of a group of vampires in Staten Island who have “lived” together for hundreds and hundreds of years.
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10.Snowfall(2017)
8.4DramaCrime
Los Angeles. 1983. A storm is coming and its name is crack. Set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it, the story follows numerous characters on a violent collision course.
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11.Justified(2010)
8.0CrimeDrama
A character drama based on the 2001 Elmore Leonard short story "Fire in the Hole." Leonard's tale centers around U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of Kentucky, a quiet but strong-willed official of the law. The tale covers his high-stakes job, as well as his strained relationships with his ex-wife and father.
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12.Damages(2007)
7.5MysteryDramaCrime
Damages is an American legal thriller television series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers Glenn and Todd A. Kessler. The plot revolves around the brilliant, ruthless lawyer Patty Hewes and her protégée, recent law school graduate Ellen Parsons. Each season features a major case…
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13.The Strain(2014)
7.5Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaMystery
A high concept thriller that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism. As the strain spreads, Eph, his team,…
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14.Rescue Me(2004)
7.6Drama
The aftermath of 9/11 has left the firefighters of the NYFD traumatized, and no one more so than Tommy Gavin. Recently separated from his wife and their three kids, Tommy drifts between sorrow and anger as he tries to shake the recurring nightmares of his fallen comrades, especially his late cousin, Jimmy Keefe.…
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15.Shōgun(2024)
8.4DramaWar & Politics
In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.
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16.American Crime Story(2016)
7.6CrimeDrama
An anthology series centered around some of history's most famous criminal investigations.
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17.Anger Management(2012)
6.3Comedy
Charlie is a non-traditional therapist specializing in anger management. He has a successful private practice and he performs pro bono counseling for an inmate group at a state prison. Prior to his career as a therapist, he was a major league baseball player whose career was put on the shelf for good by his own…
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18.The Drop: A Snowfall Saga(2026)
8.2Drama
In 1990s Los Angeles, Wanda and Leon fight to take West Coast rap mainstream while gang wars erupt and record labels move to exploit hip hop culture for their own gain.
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19.The League(2009)
7.4Comedy
The League is an American sitcom and semi-improvised comedy about a about a fantasy football league and its members and their everyday lives.
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20.Mayans M.C.(2018)
8.0CrimeDrama
Set in the aftermath of Jax Teller’s death, Ezekiel "EZ" Reyes is fresh out of prison and a prospect in the Mayans M.C. charter on the Cali/Mexi border. Now, EZ must carve out his new identity in a town where he was once the golden boy with the American Dream in his grasp.
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21.Adults(2025)
6.3Comedy
A group of twenty-somethings in New York trying to be good people, despite being neither "good" nor "people" yet.
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22.Alien: Earth(2025)
7.3Sci-Fi & FantasyDrama
When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, Wendy and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's greatest threat.
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23.Atlanta(2016)
8.0ComedyDrama
Two cousins work through the Atlanta music scene in order to better their lives and the lives of their families.
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24.Legion(2017)
7.5Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyDrama
David Haller, AKA Legion, is a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he’s confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be…
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25.The Shards(2026)
7.2DramaMystery
17-year-old Bret Easton Ellis is in his final year at the elite Buckley prep school. Upending his world is the arrival of a mysterious new student, Robert Mallory, whose unsettling presence coincides with the activities of a serial killer known as The Trawler.
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26.Louie(2010)
7.8ComedyDrama
Louis C.K. stars as a fictionalized version of himself; a comedian and newly divorced father raising his two daughters in New York City.
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27.FEUD(2017)
7.6Drama
Anthology series of famous feuds with the first season based on the legendary rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford which began early on their careers, climaxed on the set of "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" and evolved into an Oscar vendetta.
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28.Dirt(2007)
6.7Drama
Dirt is an American television serial broadcast on the FX network. It premiered on January 2, 2007 and starred Courteney Cox as Lucy Spiller, the editor-in-chief of the first-of-its-kind "glossy tabloid" magazine DirtNow, which was previously two separate publications: drrt and Now.
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29.The Beauty(2026)
6.6DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
The world of high fashion turns dark when international supermodels begin dying in gruesome and mysterious ways. FBI Agents Cooper Madsen and Jordan Bennett are sent to Paris to uncover the truth. As they delve deeper into the case, they uncover a sexually transmitted virus that transforms ordinary people into…
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30.You're the Worst(2014)
7.4ComedyDrama
Narcissistic, brash, and self-destructive Jimmy Shive-Overly thinks all relationships are doomed. Cynical, people-pleasing, and stubborn Gretchen Cutler knows that relationships aren't for her. So when they meet at a wedding, it's only natural that the two of them go home together.
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31.The Bridge(2013)
6.7DramaCrime
A murdered body on a bridge between El Paso and Juarez bring together El Paso detective Sonya Cross and Chihuahua State Police detective Marco Ruiz.
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32.Better Things(2016)
7.2ComedyDrama
Sam Fox is a single, working actor with no filter trying to raise her three daughters – Max, Frankie and Duke – in Los Angeles. She is mom, dad, referee and the cops.
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33.The Old Man(2022)
7.2Action & AdventureDrama
Dan Chase absconded from the CIA decades ago and now lives off the grid. When an assassin arrives and tries to take Chase out, the old operative learns that to ensure his future he now must reconcile his past.
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34.POSE(2018)
8.3Drama
A dance musical that explores the juxtaposition of several segments of 1980s life and society in New York: the ball culture world, the rise of the luxury Trump-era universe and the downtown social and literary scene.
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35.The Lowdown(2025)
6.8CrimeDrama
Follow the gritty exploits of citizen journalist Lee Raybon, a self-proclaimed Tulsa "truthstorian" whose obsession with the truth is always getting him into trouble.
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36.Son of the Beach(2000)
6.3Comedy
A parody of "Baywatch" featuring Malibu Adjacent's Notch Johnson, the world's greatest lifeguard (hardly), and his unit SPF-30.
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37.Baskets(2016)
7.0Comedy
Chip Baskets wants to follow his dream of being a French clown—however, reality keeps interfering. Saddled with financial difficulties and facing an impenetrable language barrier, he moves back home to Bakersfield with high hopes. There, he is forced to confront his past while working as a rodeo clown and competing…
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38.Mr Inbetween(2018)
8.3CrimeDrama
Ray Shoesmith is a father, ex-husband, boyfriend and best friend: tough roles to juggle in the modern age. Even harder when you’re a criminal for hire.
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39.Love Story(2026)
8.3Drama
An anthology of sweeping true love stories that captured the world’s attention.
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40.Wilfred(2011)
7.5ComedyDramaMystery
Everyone else sees Wilfred as just a dog, but Ryan sees a crude and somewhat surly, yet irrepressibly brave and honest Australian bloke in a cheap dog suit. While leading him through a series of comedic and existential adventures, Wilfred the dog shows Ryan the man how to overcome his fears and joyfully embrace the…
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41.Grotesquerie(2024)
7.3DramaMysteryCrime
A series of heinous crimes have unsettled a small community, and Detective Lois Tryon feels they are eerily personal, as if someone—or something—is taunting her.
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42.The Riches(2007)
6.9DramaComedy
A family of crooks assume the identity of an upper-middle-class suburban clan in the Deep South.
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43.Breeders(2020)
6.8Comedy
Exposing the parental-paradox that it is possible, in the very same moment, to love your child to the horizon of the universe, while being apoplectically angry enough to want to send them there.
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44.Tyrant(2014)
6.7DramaWar & Politics
The story of an unassuming American family drawn into the workings of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation. Bassam "Barry" Al Fayeed, the younger son of the dictator of a war-torn nation, ends a self-imposed 20-year exile to return to his homeland, accompanied by his American wife and children, for his nephew's wedding.…
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45.Over There(2005)
6.8War & PoliticsDramaAction & Adventure
Gritty, intense, evocative and emotional, "Over There" takes you to the front lines of battle and explores the effects of war on a U.S. Army unit sent to Iraq on their first tour of duty, as well as the equally powerful effects felt at home by their families and loved ones.
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46.Trust(2018)
6.9CrimeDrama
The trials and triumphs of one of the wealthiest and unhappiest families of the United States, the Gettys. Originally planned to be told over multiple seasons and spanning the twentieth century, the series begins in 1973 with the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, an heir to the Getty oil fortune, by the Italian…
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47.English Teacher(2024)
6.2Comedy
A high school teacher in Austin tries to balance the competing demands of the students and their parents in a world where the rules seem to change every day.
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48.Justified: City Primeval(2023)
7.0CrimeDrama
Having left the hollers of Kentucky 15 years ago, Raylan Givens is now based in Miami, balancing life as a marshal and part-time father of a 15-year-old girl. A chance encounter on a Florida highway sends him to Detroit and he crosses paths with Clement Mansell, aka The Oklahoma Wildman, a violent sociopath who’s…
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49.Running Wilde(2010)
6.3Comedy
Running Wilde is an American comedy television series created by Mitchell Hurwitz for the Fox Network. It stars Will Arnett as Steve Wilde, a self-centered, idle bachelor and heir to an oil fortune. The series follows Wilde's awkward attempts to regain the affection of his childhood sweetheart, Emmy, an…
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50.Terriers(2010)
8.0CrimeDramaComedy
Ex-cop and recovering alcoholic Hank Dolworth partners with his best friend, former criminal Britt Pollack, in an unlicensed private investigation business. The series is set in Ocean Beach, San Diego, California, although it is portrayed as a distinct town, with Dolworth having once been a member of the fictional…
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51.Unsupervised(2012)
6.6AnimationComedy
15-year-old best friends Gary and Joel try to navigate teenage life while also trying to do the right thing without the help of any parental supervision.
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52.Fosse/Verdon(2019)
7.1Drama
The story of the romantic and creative partnership between Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon. He was a filmmaker and one of theater's most influential choreographers and directors; she was the greatest Broadway dancer of all time. Together, they changed the face of American entertainment — at a perilous cost.
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53.The New York Times Presents(2020)
7.0Documentary
A series of standalone documentaries powered by the unparalleled journalism and insight of The New York Times, bringing viewers close to the essential stories of our time.
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54.Married(2014)
6.2ComedyDrama
Married is a half hour comedy about being miserably in love. Russ and Lina Bowman can barely remember what life was like before kids, debt, and suburbia rained on their romance -- but every once in a while, in between the arguments about their declining sex life and who's driving carpool, they are reminded what drew…
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55.Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll(2015)
5.9Comedy
Johnny Rock is the aging lead singer of NYC's legendary early-'90s band The Heathens, who is trying to get both his band and his life back together. The aging and broke bad-boy rocker gets another shot at fame as a songwriter for a brash and talented young singer who's a big fan of his early work.
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56.Legit(2013)
7.4Comedy
Jim Jefferies, an edgy, foul-mouthed stand-up comedian from Australia, in his mid-30s and living in LA, is endeavoring to make his life and career more “legit,” only to find it a difficult, uncomfortable uphill struggle every step of the way. Jim is encouraged in his quest by Steve, his neurotic best friend and…
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57.Dear Mama(2023)
8.6Documentary
Explore the history of activist Afeni Shakur and hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur, two voices that could not be silenced. Told through the eyes of the people who knew them best, this series is an intimate wide-angle portrait of the most inspiring and dangerous mother-son duo in American history, whose unified message of…
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58.The Bastard Executioner(2015)
5.7Drama
A blood-soaked, medieval epic that tells the story of Wilkin Brattle, a 14th century warrior, whose life is forever changed when a divine messenger beseeches him to lay down his sword and lead the life of another man: a journeyman executioner. Set in northern Wales during a time rife with rebellion and political…
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59.The Comedians(2015)
6.1Comedy
A veteran comedian is reluctantly paired with a younger, edgier comedian for a late-night comedy sketch show.
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60.Lights Out(2011)
7.1Action & AdventureDrama
Lights Out is an American television boxing drama series from the FX network in the United States. It stars Holt McCallany as Patrick "Lights" Leary, a New Jersey native, and former heavyweight champion boxer who is considering a comeback. The series premiered on January 11, 2011 at 10 pm ET/PT. On March 24, 2011, FX…
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