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Published Mar 25, 2026, 11:01 PM EDT
Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja soon became inspired to learn more foreign languages to understand more movies, so she entered the Japanese language and literature Bachelor Studies at the University of Belgrade.
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We often keep clothing items for specific seasons in our wardrobes—heavier for winter, lighter for summer, and layered stuff for everything in between. There are items we prefer to wear more than others that make us feel good, confident, or comfortable. Now imagine all the TV shows that have ever existed as pieces of clothing in said wardrobe.
Just like those clothes, we pick shows that make us feel better, forgetting about that one we keep saving for when we're feeling frisky, adventurous, or glamorous. Just as that piece of clothing is forgotten, so can a show; the television landscape is vast, like an infinite closet, and picking out the right one can feel harder than simply throwing on a random shirt. Here are the TV dramas that are 10/10, but nobody remembers today; maybe you'll dare to venture out.
'Patriot' (2015–2018)
Image via Prime VideoPatriot basically has a cult following, but it's widely unknown. It was commissioned by Amazon, which heavily botched its release schedule, forcing it to be shelved for no apparent reason for about a year after the pilot came out. In 2017, when all of Season 1 finally aired, critical reception was excellent; its overall Rotten Tomatoes score is 91%, while Season 2 earned a 100% critic rating. The Guardian's critic Julia Raeside liked Season 1, saying it possesses a "lack of resemblance to anything else I’ve seen" and comparing it favorably to FX's Fargo series for its "odd, off-beat tone." Amazon cancelled Patriot anyway, causing genuine disappointment among its niche but devoted audience.
Patriot follows John Tavner (Michael Dorman), an undercover intelligence officer assigned to prevent Iran from going nuclear. The mission requires him to assume a false identity as a mid-level employee at a Milwaukee industrial piping company—a job for which he is comically unqualified. His missions keep colliding with his day job in increasing and absurd ways, and throughout all of it, John processes his existential despair by performing original folk songs at open-mic nights. The show is unusually brilliant; it's a spy thriller that is as serious as its deadpan absurdism allows it. The supporting cast includes Kurtwood Smith, Terry O'Quinn, and Debra Winger, who are just as brilliant as Dorman in the lead.
'Halt and Catch Fire' (2014–2017)
Image via AMCHalt and Catch Fire is perhaps the most extreme case on this list of the gap between critical esteem and public awareness. It was one of the lowest-watched series on AMC, but its fourth and final season earned a perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Rolling Stone included it on its list of the best shows of all time, based on a poll of various critics, actors, producers, and writers. The best part is that the show was able to end on its own terms, meaning AMC believed in it despite it all; now, there's a pretty perfect story available for streaming out there.
Halt and Catch Fire spans a decade across its four seasons and begins in 1983 in the "Silicon Prairie" of Dallas. It follows four ambitious characters: Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace), a charismatic, manipulative ex-IBM salesman; Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy), a genius engineer stuck in middle management; Cameron Howe (Mackenzie Davis), a self-destructive young programmer; and Donna Clark (Kerry Bishé), the show's moral and intellectual center. Throughout, the show follows tech advancements, from the birth of the personal computer to the integration of the World Wide Web. The meaning of Halt and Catch Fire is a reference to an old assembly language instruction that causes a computer to overheat—much like the show's characters.
'Treme' (2010–2013)
Image via HBOTreme is, according to critics, one of HBO's most consistently excellent dramas. Nonetheless, it has never gained mainstream cultural traction in the same way that David Simon's other shows have. The author, best known for The Wire, created Treme with a clear lack of plot and conventional dramatic tension, making it nearly impossible to sell to audiences expecting a high-end TV show. Once you get the hang of it, though, Treme becomes a show you adore; those who have already committed deem it one of the best things they've ever seen.
Treme takes place in New Orleans' Tremé neighborhood in the months and years after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It's a story that poses the question: what does it mean to rebuild a city and culture? The cast includes Antoine Batiste (Wendell Pierce), a trombone player hustling between gigs; Janette Desautel (Kim Dickens), a talented chef fighting to keep her restaurant open; Creighton Bernette (John Goodman), a Tulane professor channeling his grief into YouTube rants directed at the federal government; and Toni Bernette (Melissa Leo), a lawyer searching for people who went missing in the aftermath of the storm. The music is performed live by real New Orleans musicians throughout, and Anthony Bourdain co-wrote four episodes for Seasons 2 and 3.
'The Knick' (2014–2015)
The Knick aired on Cinemax, a channel that was deemed either too serious or too left-field to be taken as a contender for prestige drama channels (despite producing pretty amazing shows). Despite receiving critical acclaim, Cinemax cancelled The Knick because of wanting to return to high-octane action; the show was directed by Steven Soderbergh, who described the process as the happiest creative experience of his career. He and the writers envisioned the show's concept changing every two seasons, but the cancellation shelved the series almost entirely.
The Knick is set in a fictionalized version of New York's Knickerbocker Hospital at the turn of the 20th century and follows Dr. John Thackery (Clive Owen), the hospital's new chief of surgery. He's an arrogant addict but also a surgical genius, successfully doing surgeries in a pre-modern anesthesia and antibiotics era; he recognizes the potential of Dr. Algernon Edwards (André Holland), a Black surgeon trained at Europe's best hospitals, and begins working with him. Soderbergh directed, photographed, and edited all twenty episodes, and the end result is unlike any other period drama on TV: kinetic, visceral, and ahead of its time, both within the show and in real life.
'Rectify' (2013–2016)
Image via Sundance TVRectify is a series so forgotten and placed into the backs of our minds that many of you reading this will see the name and think, "What?" It was created by actor Ray McKinnon for Sundance TV, which, admittedly, is one of the smallest cable channels on the market. They're a part of AMC, and an extension of Robert Redford's Sundance Institute. The show gained favorable reviews throughout its four-season run; the fourth season has a 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating, and it's a rare series that gets absolutely better with each installment and concludes with a satisfying ending on its own terms.
Rectify is described as a Southern Gothic and tells the story of Daniel Holden (Aden Young), who was convicted of the murder and assault of his girlfriend as a teen. When new DNA evidence challenges his conviction 19 years later, he is released, and the show truly begins. Rectify is a non-conforming depiction of what it feels like to re-enter a world that has changed completely while you've been gone from it. Daniel is an unusual, meditative character and the show tracks how everyone around him, from his mother Janet (J. Smith-Cameron) and fierce sister Amantha (Abigail Spencer) to his stepbrother Teddy (Clayne Crawford), grapples with the idea of him still being an unhealed wound in their community.
Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz
Which Taylor Sheridan
Show Do You Belong In?
Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn't write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
FIND YOUR WORLD →
01
Where does your power come from? In Sheridan's world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
ALand, legacy, and a name that's been feared and respected for generations. BKnowing the deal better than anyone else in the room — and being willing to walk away first. CReputation. I've earned it the hard way, and everyone in the room knows it. DBeing the only person both sides will talk to. That makes me indispensable — and dangerous.
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02
Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan's universe is always absolute — and always costly.
AFamily — blood or chosen. The ranch, the name, the people who carry it with me. BThe company — or whoever's signing the cheques. Loyalty follows the contract. CMy crew. The men who stood with me when it counted — I don't abandon them for anything. DMy community — even when my community is a powder keg and I'm the only thing stopping it from blowing.
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03
Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it's crossed.
AQuietly, decisively, and in a way that sends a message to everyone watching. BI outmanoeuvre them legally, financially, and politically before they even know I've moved. CDirectly. Old school. You cross me, you hear about it to your face — and then you deal with the consequences. DI absorb it, calculate the fallout, and find the move that keeps the whole system from collapsing.
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04
Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan's worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
AWide open land — mountains, sky, silence. Somewhere you can see trouble coming from a mile away. BThe oil fields of West Texas — brutal, lucrative, and indifferent to whoever happens to be standing on top of them. CA mid-size city where the rules haven't quite caught up yet — fertile ground for someone with vision and nerve. DA rust-belt town built around a prison — where everyone's life is shaped by what's inside those walls.
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05
How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
AI do what has to be done to protect what's mine. I'll answer for it eventually — but not today. BGrey is just business. The line moves depending on what's at stake, and I move with it. CI have a code — it's not the law's code, but it's mine, and I don't break it. DI've made peace with it. Keeping the peace requires compromises most people don't have the stomach for.
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06
What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they're defending.
AA way of life that the modern world is doing everything it can to erase. BMy position — and the leverage that comes with being the person everyone needs to close a deal. CRelevance. I've been away, I've been written off — and I'm proving that was a mistake. DWhatever fragile order I've managed to build — because without it, everything burns.
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07
How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan's world is never given — it's established, maintained, and constantly tested.
ABy example and force of will. People follow me because they believe in what I'm protecting — and because they know what happens if they don't. BThrough negotiation and leverage. I don't need people to like me — I need them to need me. CBy being the smartest, most experienced person in the room and making sure everyone quietly knows it. DBy being the calm centre of a situation that would spiral without me — and accepting that nobody thanks you for it.
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08
Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
AThey'll learn. Or they won't. Either way, the land was here before them and it'll be here after. BI figure out what they want, what they're worth, and whether they're an asset or a problem — fast. CI was the outsider once. I give them a chance — one — to show they understand respect. DNew players destabilise everything I've built. I assess the threat and manage it before it manages me.
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09
What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
AMy family's peace — maybe their innocence. The ranch demands everything, and I've let it take too much. BRelationships, time, any version of a normal life. The job eats everything that isn't nailed down. CYears. Decades in some cases. Time I can't get back — but I'm not done yet. DMy conscience, mostly. And the ability to ever fully trust anyone on either side of the wall.
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10
When it's over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan's characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
AThat I held the line. That the land is still ours and everything I did was worth it. BThat I was the best at what I did and that no deal ever got closed without me at the table. CThat I built something real, somewhere nobody expected it, and I did it on my own terms. DThat I kept the peace when nobody else could — and that the town is still standing because of it.
REVEAL MY SHOW →
Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you're complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world's indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you're willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family's weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what's yours, you don't escalate — you finish it. You're not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone's world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn't make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You're a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they'll do to get it. You're not naive enough to think this world is fair. You're smart enough to be the one deciding who it's fair to.
You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you're not above reminding people that the two aren't mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they'd be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they're more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don't need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you're the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky's world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You've made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
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'Carnivàle' (2003–2005)
Image via HBOCarnivàle is one of those HBO masterpieces that we just forgot; it only has two seasons, but while it lasted, it received fifteen Emmy nominations and won five. Its cinematography, production design, and atmosphere are flawless; its creator, Daniel Knauf, drew on Gnostic theology, Templar mythology, and pre-Christian philosophy to build the show's elaborate mythos and planned the entire story over six seasons divided into three "books." HBO cancelled the show after two seasons, at the conclusion of what Knauf had envisioned as "Book One," citing declining ratings and an excessive production cost.
Carnivàle is set in the American Great Plains during the 1930s Dust Bowl and tells the story of a war between the forces of light and darkness. Ben Hawkins (Nick Stahl) is a young Oklahoma farm boy who escapes and is taken in by a traveling carnival after his mother's death. Surrounded by the carnival's community of freaks and misfits, Ben discovers that he has the power to heal, though that power comes at a cost. Hundreds of miles away in California, Brother Justin Crowe (Clancy Brown) is a devout Methodist minister with a gift for moving sermons. However, he uses his increasing ability to manipulate people to his will and bend the world to his dark vision, becoming the darkness to Ben's light. Despite it being canceled and unfinished in lore, Carnivàle is worth diving into because of how beautiful it is.
'Terriers' (2010)
Image via FXFX cancelled Terriers five days after its season finale aired, making it the lowest-rated drama in the network's modern history at the time. But the problem wasn't quality: Terriers holds a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, while Time magazine placed it in their top 10 shows of the year. The problem was that nobody was watching, partly because the marketing was lacking and partly because the show's off-beat charm simply failed to stand out. After the show's cancellation, FX president John Landgraf held a remarkable and rare conference call with reporters specifically to explain the cancellation. The show often gets traction from lists like this one, but it remains buried in a sea of one-season wonders.
Set in Ocean Beach, San Diego, Terriers follows Hank Dolworth (Donal Logue), a recovering alcoholic and former cop who now runs an unlicensed private investigation business with his best friend Britt Pollack (Michael Raymond-James), a former small-time thief. They are, in every professional sense, unqualified, operating without licenses, resources, or any realistic authority to compel anyone's cooperation. When they agree to check out a land deal that seems wrong, Hank and Britt are drawn into a Chinatown-esque conspiracy involving wealthy developers, corrupt officials, and a decades-old cover-up. The writing is superb, the production is appealing, and the chemistry between Logue and Raymond-James is so warm and believable that watching the show feels less like watching two best friends just stumble about and try their best.
'Gentleman Jack' (2019–2022)
Image via HBOGentleman Jack is the victim of timing and circumstance. Creator Sally Wainwright had planned on writing it since the 2000s but only in 2016 got the chance to pitch her story about Anne Lister, the openly gay, female, 19th-century industrialist, as an homage to her boldness and exuberance. When it finally aired in 2019, Gentleman Jack was a critical success (92% on Rotten Tomatoes) with high ratings, but a shift in streaming landscapes, in particular with HBO, made Season 2 less than easy to watch. When HBO pulled out, the BBC began searching for a new partner, even considering continuing the show on its own.
Gentleman Jack is set in 1830s Halifax, West Yorkshire, and follows Anne Lister (Suranne Jones), a landowner and industrialist who returns to her ancestral home, Shibden Hall, determined to restore its fortunes by reopening coal mines. Anne is an interesting woman: she dresses head-to-toe in black, walks with a masculine swagger, and has no desire to marry a man; instead, she courts the shy, wealthy heiress Ann Walker (Sophie Rundle). The series was based on Lister's real diaries, which contain five million words and a sixth written in code. They detail her business dealings, travels, and romantic relationships with women, making Gentleman Jack a show of undeniable brilliance and significant historical weight.
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