# The best Showtime series

From Queer as Folk and Dexter to Homeland and Yellowjackets: Showtime's best original series, from Paste, Consequence and Boardroom.

- 150 votes · 15 items
- May 24, 2026 · Charlie Turner
- https://even.best/en/l/3798/the-best-showtime-series

## Top 15

1. **Queer as Folk (2000-2005)** (12 · ▲13 ▼1) — Gay life in Pittsburgh; top of Paste's list.
2. **Shameless (2011-2021)** (12 · ▲12 ▼0) — The Gallagher family; Showtime's longest-running series.
3. **Homeland (2011-2020)** (11 · ▲12 ▼1) — Carrie Mathison and Nicholas Brody; the network's most Emmy-awarded show.
4. **Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)** (11 · ▲11 ▼0) — David Lynch's return to Twin Peaks.
5. **Dexter (2006-2013)** (10 · ▲12 ▼2) — A Miami blood-spatter analyst who kills killers.
6. **Billions (2016-2023)** (9 · ▲11 ▼2) — A hedge-fund king against a federal prosecutor.
7. **Nurse Jackie (2009-2015)** (9 · ▲9 ▼0) — Edie Falco as an addicted ER nurse.
8. **Ray Donovan (2013-2020)** (8 · ▲9 ▼1) — Liev Schreiber as a Hollywood fixer.
9. **The Affair (2014-2019)** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — An affair told from two points of view.
10. **Yellowjackets (2021-)** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — A girls' football team stranded in the wilderness.
11. **The L Word (2004-2009)** (4 · ▲7 ▼3) — A group of lesbian friends in Los Angeles.
12. **Californication (2007-2014)** (3 · ▲6 ▼3) — David Duchovny as a self-destructive novelist.
13. **Masters of Sex (2013-2016)** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — Masters and Johnson's sex research.
14. **Penny Dreadful (2014-2016)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Victorian monsters and Eva Green.
15. **Weeds (2005-2012)** (2 · ▲6 ▼4) — A suburban mother deals marijuana.

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