The 29 Best TV Shows on Paramount+
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Let me guess: Paramount+ isn’t your first choice when it comes to streaming services. Well, now that you’re here, please allow us to change your mind. In a world full of Netflix Originals, Amazon Prime Video series, and HBO-turned-HBO-Max-turned-Max shows, it’s easy to forget about good ol’ Paramount+, which is a relative newcomer in the streaming wars—but honestly, it’s one of the best platforms out there.
Paramount+ has a melting pot of genres, with more than 30,000 titles from CBS, Comedy Central, BET, MTV, and VH1. There’s our favorite western saga, Yellowstone, and its equally impressive spinoffs, 1923 and 1883. (Before starting those, we highly recommend brushing up on the Dutton family tree.) If you’re more interested in reality series, there’s The Family Stallone, a Kardashian-esque series following Sylvester Stallone’s family life. If a competition series is your speed, then RuPaul’s Drag Race is just a few clicks away. The action-loving crowd can get in on the fun, too, with the video-game-inspired series Halo or the pulse-raising drama Yellowjackets.
Feeling inspired? There are even more options waiting for you below. Keep scrolling for the 29 best TV shows on Paramount+.
Ghosts
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live with dead people? Well, in Ghosts, a young couple named Sam and Jay find out when they inherit a haunted mansion. At first, they’re unaware of the spirits living among them, but when Sam suffers a fall, she acquires the ability to see the afterlife. Sounds fun, right? Well, Sam turned the mansion into a bed-and-breakfast—and the ghosts aren’t happy about it. Let the games begin.
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Evil
The final season of Evil drops May 23, so you better catch up now. The series follows a forensic psychologist named Dr. Kristen Bouchard, who teams up with a budding priest and a contractor to investigate strange occurrences at a Catholic church. Their findings reveal a series of unexplained mysteries, miracles, and demonic possessions. As Bouchard and her team dive deeper into the incidents, their personal lives are affected as well.
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#CyberSleuths: The Idaho Murders
#CyberSleuths: The Idaho Murders is a new docuseries following the rise of TikTok investigators after four students at the University of Idaho were killed in their off-campus home. When the case reached national news, it sparked a surge of Internet sleuthing—but those efforts are morally questionable. Do random people have the right to broadcast their investigations, or are they commodifying a tragedy? This documentary lets the viewers decide.
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Are You the One?
I’ll say it: Are You The One? is the greatest dating show on TV right now. The premise asks 11 men and 11 women to join the show in hopes of finding their perfect match. For six weeks, they live in a villa where they date one another and strategize their pairings. Only the producers know who’s meant to be with whom (thanks to their matchmaking algorithm), but each week, the contestants try to figure it out themselves. If they succeed by the finale, they win $1 million. If not? They go home with nothing.
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Elsbeth
We needed to put an investigative series on here, okay? And Elsbeth is a damn good one. In the series, Carrie Preston stars as a zany attorney who helps the NYPD solve crimes. Her methods are, well, a bit off-center, but she gets the job done. Sound familiar? Prior to working in New York, Elsbeth had a successful legal career in Chicago, appearing on The Good Wife.
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1923
1923 may be another Yellowstone prequel, but you don’t need any knowledge of the flagship series to enjoy Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren riding horses and shooting shotguns. The spinoff series also breaks out of Montana, taking viewers to see Africa and dangers on the high seas. With Yellowstone, there’s always more on the horizon.
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Special Ops: Lioness
Starring Zoe Saldaña and Nicole Kidman, Lioness follows a secret CIA program consisting of female operatives who go undercover in vast terrorist organizations. It’s a dangerous gig—making for one of the most stressful shows on television.
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Halo
Based on the popular video game for Microsoft’s Xbox, Halo follows special soldier Master Chief as he blasts his way through a galactic war against hordes of aliens.
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The Family Stallone
He was Rocky. Now he’s a family man. Alongside his wife, Jennifer, and their three daughters, Sophia, Sistine, and Scarlet, Sly stars in this new Paramount+ reality series.
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Mayor of Kingstown
Starring Jeremy Renner, this prison drama about a town that revolves around incarceration is dark and unforgiving. Tackling themes of systematic oppression, the series follow Renner’s Mike McLusky, a power broker between the gangs and the prisons. As the “Mayor,” he tries to keep everyone in Kingstown happy. It’s no small task.
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Tulsa King
Sylvester Stallone is the titular Tulsa King in Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan’s latest series, which follows a New York mafia capo who is sent to Oklahoma after serving a 25-year prison sentence. Establishing a new base of comical criminal operations, Stallone’s Dwight “the General” Manfredi starts to turn Tulsa into his own little kingdom.
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
We really can’t sing praises for Strange New Worlds enough. “Most of sci-fi TV today suffers from Marvelitis—the sky is always falling, the fate of the galaxy is always at stake,” reads our review of the series. “But the best Trek outing in decades understands the importance of hijinks.” We highly recommend SNW to both lifelong fans and newcomers to the world of Star Trek alike.
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1883
The Yellowstone prequel series starring Sam Elliott, Tim McGraw, and Faith Hill is another unmissable Western epic from creator Taylor Sheridan, in which the Duttons make their way from Texas to the Montana ranch where the uber-famous, set-in-present-day series is based. Though it won’t be getting a second season, there’s still plenty of Yellowstone to come.
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Billions
Paramount+ now comes with Showtime, meaning that you can watch Billions with your same Paramount+ subscription. Yes, the criminal drama starring Paul Giamatti is now available. Mind blown.
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Dexter
Down for a lovable serial killer? Check out Dexter, the 2000s-era drama starring Michael C. Hall about a forensics expert tasked with solving his own crimes. Paramount+/Showtime also has a revival series, Dexter: New Blood.
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Homeland
One of Showtime’s largest success stories, Homeland follows a CIA officer played by Claire Danes who seeks to solve an Al Qaeda terrorist attack that she believes will take place on American soil.
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Your Honor
After Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston starred in Showtime’s Your Honor as a New Orleans judge who covers up his son’s hit-and-run accident. It’s no so easy, however, since an organized-crime family is involved and angry.
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The Offer
Ever wonder how The Godfather got made? Well, you can get a answer that’s sort of right in The Offer—a highly dramatized series starring Miles Teller about the experience of putting together the famous Francis Ford Coppola gangster film.
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Rabbit Hole
Kiefer Sutherland plays a master of deception and corporate espionage in Rabbit Hole—two good skills to have when you’re mysteriously framed for murder.
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The Good Fight
Coming off the success of The Good Wife, CBS wanted to take a swing with its new streaming service, CBS All Access. While Access wasn’t the most successful venture in its early iterations, the streamer knew it had a gem (even if it remains a relatively under-appreciated one) in The Good Fight. Starring Christine Baranski and Audra McDonald, the legal series is one of the snappiest on television and shines a light on a new chapter for the series and a scrappy up-and-coming law firm that will draw you in and never let go.
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Survivor
A phenom that began airing in 2000, the series has now been on for more than 20 years, boasting 40 seasons that are all available to watch on Paramount+. A lot has changed over the years (seriously, watch Richard Hatch win season 1 and then compare it with, literally, almost any other season), but there’s one constant: It’s impossible to ever hear “the tribe has spoken” too many times.
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The Stand
The Stand is one of Paramount’s early investments, but it boasts incredible names. From the mind of Stephen King, the series follows a pandemic (yikes) into a postapocalyptic world, with the fate of the world in the hands of a 108-year-old woman (Whoopi Goldberg) (also, rude) and a select group of survivors that includes characters played by James Marsden and Greg Kinnear.
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Ink Master
There’s something intoxicating about reality television. There’s also something intoxicating about getting a tattoo. So what if you combined the drama of reality TV with the adrenaline rush of tattoos? That’s where Ink Master comes in—all 11 seasons. It’s a brutal sport to watch, but damn if that doesn’t make for good TV.
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Star Trek Discovery
I mean, who doesn't love a good space opera? Star Trek Discovery kicks off about a decade before the mission of Captain Kirk, which was the story we got back in the ’60s when the OG show premiered. This one is fronted by The Walking Dead’s Sonequa Martin-Green and is worth the watch.
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RuPaul’s Drag Race
There’s a reason the series has won Best Competition Reality Show three years running. Hosted by RuPaul, the series lives on Paramount+ now and features 13 regular seasons, six All Stars seasons, and a slew of bonus content through its “Untucked” franchise.
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Frasier
Listen. It’s Frasier. This is less of a plea to watch and more of a PSA, because if you know, you know.
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Texas 6
We love a sports docuseries, and Paramount+ knows it. Texas 6 follows the prototypical championship football team, but the twist is that the six-man team plays in a town of less than 700 people. The series spans two and a half years, following these boys as they bask in their moment of spotlight and age into early adulthood.
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The Twilight Zone
You know the background of The Twilight Zone, but this new iteration is from the f*cked up mind of Jordan Peele. The anthology series got a recent, criminally short-lived reboot on Paramount+.
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