The BEST Max shows of all time
Every Max show, ranked
We've compiled the average episode rating for every Max show to compile this list of best shows!
#1 - HBO Documentary Film Series
HBO presents a full spectrum of non-fiction programming by leading documentary filmmakers. Taking viewers from the hidden corners of America to the shocking reality of global issues, these powerful, uncompromising and award-winning films never fail to leave an impact. Now, with HBO Podcast, listen to interviews with many of our award-winning filmmakers - and even some of their documentary subjects!
View Episode Rankings#2 - Pekin Express (ES)
Beijing Express is a Spanish reality television contest. Between 2008 and 2011 was broadcast by the television network Cuatro, in 2015 by Antena 3 and from 2016 and until 2018, by laSexta. In the contest, ten couples must travel 10,000 km to win a prize of 100,000 euros, in addition to the money they get in each stage. The first season of the program was presented by Paula Vázquez, the second and third by Raquel Sánchez-Silva, the fourth by Jesús Vázquez and, from the fifth, by Cristina Pedroche. Produced by Boomerang TV, it is the Spanish version of the international format Peking Express, original from Belgium and the Netherlands, released in 2004, which has had different versions in several European countries such as France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany and Italy. The contest follows the wake of the original American format The Amazing Race, without being an official adaptation of it. In Morocco, channel 2M created its version called Dakar-Fez Express, which, as its name suggests, is a route from Dakar, Senegal, to Fez, Morocco, passing through Mauritania. In Portugal it was adapted with the name A great adventure, with a route in Indonesia. The program in its Spanish version came to issue four editions in its first stage in Cuatro. The program was losing audience throughout the editions, 1 until in 2012 Mediaset decided not to make more editions. The last was issued between September and December 2011 under the name Beijing Express: Adventure in Africa.
View Episode Rankings#3 - The Pitt
A realistic examination of the challenges facing healthcare workers in today’s America as seen through the lens of the frontline heroes working in a modern-day hospital in Pittsburgh.
View Episode Rankings#4 - Scavengers Reign
The series follows the survivors of the damaged interstellar cargo ship Demeter 227 who are stranded on Vesta, an alien planet bustling with flora and fauna but filled with dangers.
View Episode Rankings#5 - Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake
Fionna and Cake – with the help of the former Ice King, Simon Petrikov – embark on a multiverse-hopping adventure and journey of self-discovery. All the while, a powerful new antagonist determined to track them down and erase them from existence lurks in the shadows.
View Episode Rankings#6 - Scars Of Beauty
The production will tell a story of the quest for justice that takes place in the hectic world of beauty and aesthetic treatments. Sofia was a child when she saw her mother being unjustly arrested because of her aunt, Lola, an ambitious and unscrupulous woman. Aimless, Sofia is welcomed by the loving Paixão family, who are also suffering because their daughter Rebeca, a model candidate, ended up in the hospital after unsuccessful plastic surgery.
View Episode Rankings#7 - Harley Quinn
Harley Quinn has finally broken things off once and for all with the Joker, and attempts to make it on her own as the criminal Queenpin of Gotham City. The series features Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy and a whole cast of heroes and villains, old and new, from the DC Universe.
View Episode Rankings#8 - Warrior
Set against the backdrop of San Francisco's Chinatown in the aftermath of the Civil War, Warrior tells the story of a young martial arts prodigy, newly arrived from China, who finds himself caught up in the bloody Chinatown Tong wars.
View Episode Rankings#9 - Peacemaker
A man fights for peace at any cost, no matter how many people he has to kill to get it.
View Episode Rankings#10 - The Prince
Bongomia, a country nobody cares about, in a time nobody cares about. After the sudden and suspicious death of Thun, the king of Bongomia, a complicated story begins when the Prince, whom no one takes seriously and whose family doesn't even bother to give him a name, takes the throne. As the Prince struggles with his stepmother, aunt and treacherous uncle, he is inadvertently dragged into a war with the Hungarians.
View Episode Rankings#11 - Hacks (2021)
To salvage her waning career, Las Vegas comedian Deborah Vance is forced to team up with an entitled, outcast television writer.
View Episode Rankings#12 - Our Flag Means Death
Stede Bonnet's career as "The Gentleman Pirate" may represent the worst midlife crisis in history. In 1717, Bonnet, a retired British army major with a large plantation in Barbados, abandoned his family and fortune, bought a ship, and joined the infamous Blackbeard for a life, albeit a brief one, of piracy on the high seas.
View Episode Rankings#13 - Like Water for Chocolate
Love defies duty and tradition in this powerful adaptation of Laura Esquivel's novel chronicling a complicated and timeless romance.
View Episode Rankings#14 - Tokyo Vice
A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. Based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction book of the same name.
View Episode Rankings#15 - Kitchen Nightmares (BR)
Brazilian version of Kitchen Nightmares. Erick Jacquin do his best to save restaurants from imminent collapse.
View Episode Rankings#16 - Sesame Street
On a special inner city street, the inhabitants, human and muppet, teach preschool subjects with comedy, cartoons, games, and songs.
View Episode Rankings#17 - Julia (2022)
Inspired by Julia Child's extraordinary life and her show The French Chef, which essentially invented food television.
View Episode Rankings#18 - Conan O'Brien Must Go
In this riotously funny travel series, Conan O'Brien experiences local cultures and connects with fans he previously met on his podcast.
View Episode Rankings#19 - How I Left the Opus Dei
Thirteen brave women share stories of the psychological, emotional and economic abuse they suffered under the controversial religious group Opus Dei.
View Episode Rankings#20 - Looney Tunes Cartoons
Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and several other classic Looney Tunes characters have all new misadventures in this series inspired by their classic shorts. Most episodes consist of two full shorts and a brief mid-episode vignette.
View Episode Rankings#21 - Creature Commandos
Amanda Waller creates a secret team of incarcerated monsters, recruited for missions deemed too dangerous for humans. When all else fails... they're your last, worst option.
View Episode Rankings#22 - The Other Two
Brooke, a former professional dancer, and Cary, her aspiring actor brother, try to find their place in the world while wrestling with their feelings about their 13-year-old brother Chase’s sudden rise to internet fame.
View Episode Rankings#23 - Doom Patrol
Traumatized and downtrodden by horrible accidents that gave them superhuman abilities, but left them scarred for life, a team of unlikely heroes finds purpose investigating the weirdest phenomena in existence—and protecting Earth from what they find. Part support group, part superhero team, the Doom Patrol is a band of superpowered freaks who fight for a world that wants nothing to do with them.
View Episode Rankings#24 - Love & Death
The true story of Candy and Pat Montgomery and Betty and Allan Gore – two churchgoing couples enjoying their small-town Texas life…until an extramarital affair leads somebody to pick up an axe.
View Episode Rankings#25 - Ten Year Old Tom
The series follows the misadventures of an average kid as he contends with questionable guidance from the well-meaning grownups around him. Being a kid is hard enough for Tom, but when bad influences seem to lurk around every corner — from litigious parents and drug dealing bus drivers to school administrators who want to sleep with his mom — it’s downright impossible. While the adults in Tom’s life certainly mean well, they just can’t manage to lead by example.
View Episode Rankings#26 - Taskmaster (NO)
"Kongen Befaler" is a humorous and energetic game show with Atle Antonsen in the role of the almighty and great Taskmaster.
View Episode Rankings#27 - Bookie
A veteran bookie struggles to survive the impending legalization of sports gambling, increasingly unstable clients, family, co-workers, and a lifestyle that bounces him around every corner of Los Angeles, high and low.
View Episode Rankings#28 - Neste Sommer
Norwegians' quest for the perfect holiday in the summer house, the constant experience that the dream never becomes a reality and the belief that it certainly will be better next summer.
View Episode Rankings#29 - SmartLess: On the Road
Hop on the road with Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and Sean Hayes as they take us on an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the sold-out live tour of their wildly successful podcast, “SmartLess.” Traveling from city to city all over the country, the trio is joined by celebrities such as Conan O'Brien, Will Ferrell, Matt Damon, Jimmy Kimmel, Kevin Hart, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, David Letterman, and other surprise guests.
View Episode Rankings#30 - The Convict
Judge Alicja Mazur, known for her harshness towards criminals, is accused of a murder she did not commit. She is sent to prison, where she has to survive among the women she previously condemned herself.
View Episode Rankings#31 - Suicide Squad Isekai
In the crime-ridden city of Gotham, Amanda Waller, the head of A.R.G.U.S., assembles a group of notorious criminals—Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Peacemaker, Clayface and King Shark—for a mission into an otherworldly realm that's connected to this world through a gate. It's a realm of swords and magic where orcs rampage and dragons rule the skies. Can Harley Quinn and her crew conquer this perilous realm?
View Episode Rankings#32 - The Head (2020)
In an isolated and inaccessible Antarctic research station, winter has fallen on the South Pole, and the sun will soon disappear for the next six months. A small team, known as the Winterers, will remain at the Polaris VI Antarctic Research Station to continue their innovative research, a crucial part in the fight against climate change, under the command of renowned biologist Arthur Wilde. But when spring comes, summer commander Johan Berg returns to the station only to find the entire team are either dead or missing. A killer is on the loose, and Annika, Johan's wife, is missing. If he wants to find her alive, he will have to trust Maggie, the young doctor who is profoundly shaken and apparently the sole survivor from the group… or, is there someone else?
View Episode Rankings#33 - Angel of Death (2020)
A young girl is murdered near Opole. Terrifying body mutilations and marks left in place indicate ritual murder. The matter is being dealt with by Commissioner Agnieszka Polkowska. Due to the extraordinary cruelty of the crime and the suspicion that the perpetrator may be a serial killer, the case is interested in the Provincial Headquarters. Polkowska, to her dissatisfaction, is assigned to the investigation of Commissioner Tomasz Mrówiec. At that time, Piotr Wolnicki, lectures on religious studies at the Opole university. He permanently works and lives with his family in a beautiful home. Already at the beginning of the academic year, the man chooses his humble and intelligent student Ewa Banach as his favorite. The girl does not know that her lecturer hides a dark secret.
View Episode Rankings#34 - The Eastern Gate
Follow the journey of Ewa Oginiec, who, after a personal drama, aims to exit the secret service and start over.
View Episode Rankings#35 - When No One Sees Us
Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Spanish Holy Week celebrations, two policewomen try to solve a series of crimes in the Andalusian town of Morón de la Frontera, in the political and cultural region of Seville’s so-called 'deep Spain', which is home to one of the biggest international U.S. military bases.
View Episode Rankings#36 - Kite Man: Hell Yeah!
Lovable loser Kite Man and his new squeeze Golden Glider moonlight as criminals to support their foolish purchase of Noonan’s, Gotham’s seediest dive bar, where everybody knows your name, but not necessarily your secret identity!
View Episode Rankings#37 - Superpowered: The DC Story
This docuseries takes an unprecedented look at the enduring and influential legacy of DC, allowing fans to rediscover the universe of characters, as well as the iconic comic book company’s origins, its evolution and its nearly nine-decade cultural impact across every artistic medium.
View Episode Rankings#38 - Gremlins
Tells the story of how 10-year-old Sam Wing met the young Mogwai called Gizmo. Along with a teenage street thief named Elle, Sam and Gizmo take a perilous journey through the Chinese countryside, encountering, and sometimes battling, colorful monsters and spirits from Chinese folklore. On their quest to return Gizmo to his family and uncover a legendary treasure, they are pursued by a power-hungry industrialist and his growing army of evil Gremlins.
View Episode Rankings#39 - Rap Sh!t
Rap Sh!t will follow two friends away from the Miami college who get together to form a rap group.
View Episode Rankings#40 - Taken Together: Who Killed Lyric and Elizabeth?
The mysterious double abduction of young cousins in Iowa sparks a firestorm of controversy.
View Episode Rankings#41 - The Thaw
When the body of a young woman is found in a river, detective Katarzyna Zawieja fights for her life while trying to solve the case.
View Episode Rankings#42 - Jellystone!
Welcome to Jellystone! Travel to a magical town where you’ll meet new and old friends, including Yogi Bear, Cindy Bear, Boo Boo, and Huckleberry Hound…and Jabberjaw and Top Cat and Snagglepuss and El Kabong and Wally Gator and Johnny Quest and Hadji and Shag Rugg and Captain Caveman and a whole lot more.
View Episode Rankings#43 - And Just Like That...
Carrie Bradshaw, Charlotte York and Miranda Hobbes navigate the journey from the complicated reality of life and friendship in their 30s to the even more complicated reality of life and friendship in their 50s.
View Episode Rankings#44 - Duster
In 1972, the first Black female FBI agent heads to the Southwest and recruits a gutsy getaway driver in a bold effort to take down a growing crime syndicate.
View Episode Rankings#45 - How to Create a Sex Scandal
In 2005, the tranquil town of Mineola, Texas, is shaken by a shocking revelation: a pedophile sex ring operating within a local swingers club. As arrests are made and lives are ruined, the true extent of the scandal emerges, unraveling its profound long-term repercussions.
View Episode Rankings#46 - Full Circle (2023)
An investigation into a botched kidnapping uncovers long-held secrets connecting multiple characters and cultures in present day New York City.
View Episode Rankings#47 - X-Rated Queen
The story of a young woman from a small Polish town who escapes to West Germany and finds herself drawn into the world of adult entertainment.
View Episode Rankings#48 - Clone High (2023)
Twenty years after they were frozen, Abe, Cleo, JFK, and Joan suddenly find themselves thrust into the modern world, where they must navigate a fresh batch of historical clones, dramatic love triangles, and a formidable new foe.
View Episode Rankings#49 - Downey's Dream Cars
The docu-series follows Downey Jr as he restores classic cars into eco-friendly automobiles.
View Episode Rankings#50 - Batwheels
DC's newest Gotham City super-team is hitting the streets! The Batwheels are a team of sentient super-powered crimefighting vehicles that help Batman, Robin and Batgirl keep Gotham City safe. The fledgling team must navigate the growing pains of being a newly formed super-team as well as the growing pains that come with just being a kid.
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