The BEST Spike shows of all time
Every Spike show, ranked
We've compiled the average episode rating for every Spike show to compile this list of best shows!
#1 - Ink Master: Redemption
In Ink Master: Redemption, human canvases from previous Ink Master seasons, who left unhappy with their tattoos, return to the shop for a chance at new ink.
View Episode Rankings#2 - MXC
Most Extreme Elimination Challenge (or "MXC") is the ultimate in reality sports, where contestants comprised of two teams are physically and mentally challenged and eliminated through crazy and challenging games. To add to the fun, commentary is given to the audience through the hilarious comments of Kenny Blankenship and Vic Romano, along with special correspondant Guy LeDouche and Captain Tenneal. MXC originally comes from a Japanese reality series called "Takeshi's Castle" and has been dubbed into English with comedic results.
View Episode Rankings#3 - Blue Mountain State
Three incoming freshmen attending Midwestern college football powerhouse Blue Mountain State must quickly adapt to college life and juggle football, girls, classes and nonstop hazing.
View Episode Rankings#4 - The Shannara Chronicles
The Shannara Chronicles roughly follows the storylines set out in The Elfstones of Shannara, set about 300 years after the War of the Races—which ceased magic and confined the demons on the Forbidding, locked by an ancient tree called the Ellcrys. The series chronicles the journey of Wil, Amberle and Eretria, who must fight, with the guidance of the last druid, Allanon, to protect the Ellcrys from dying and unleashing all the demons to the Four Lands
View Episode Rankings#5 - Time: The Kalief Browder Story
TIME: The Kalief Browder Story is a six-part documentary series about a 16-year-old student from the Bronx who spent three years on Rikers Island without ever being convicted of a crime.
View Episode Rankings#6 - Auction Hunters
Every day in America, there are over ten thousand abandoned storage units that are put up for public auction. Each unit has the potential to be a goldmine or a bust for those who make their living hunting unclaimed property. This eight half-hour episode series follows two of the best prospectors in the business, Clinton "Ton" Jones and Allen Haff, in their quest to win auctions, acquire treasure and sell it for profit.
View Episode Rankings#7 - 1000 Ways to Die
Death is the ultimate unknow; something we both fear and are intrigued by. 1,000 Ways to Die chronicles the last moments of people who met an untimely demise by making bad choices or through sheer bad luk. As well as being horrifying and morbidly funny, 1,000 Ways to Die is also educational and Recreates the scens using state of the art CGI graphics animation.
View Episode Rankings#8 - The Joe Schmo Show
The Joe Schmo Show is a reality TV show parody. The show's concept is reminiscent of the movie The Truman Show. One man, Matt Kennedy Gould, thinks he is one of nine contestants on a reality TV show called Lap of Luxury. Unbeknownst to Gould, everyone else on the show, including the host, is actually an actor, and the show itself is in fact an elaborate hoax designed to elicit comedic reactions from Gould.
View Episode Rankings#9 - The Kill Point
John Leguizamo is "Mr. Wolf," the leader of a small group of military veterans who set out to rob a major bank in Pittsburgh. When things go awry, they're forced to take more than a dozen hostages from all walks of life, including a wealthy and powerful businessman's daughter. Suddenly, "Mr. Wolf" finds himself battling the police, the hostages and members of his own team while at the same time, fighting his own personal demons from the Iraq war and from his own war at home. Will he be sharp enough to hold it all together or lose control of the situation? And will he find redemption before it's too late -- and does he even care to?
View Episode Rankings#10 - Tut
Spike's six hour, three-night, epic event, TUT, tells the story of astounding saga of one of history's most extraordinary rulers, Tutankhamun (King Tut), played by Avan Jogia, and his closest adviser, Vizier Ay, played by Ben Kingsley. Tut revolves around King Tut's rise to power and his struggle to lead Egypt to glory, while his closest advisors, friends and lovers scheme for their own nefarious interests.
View Episode Rankings#11 - World's Worst Tenants
Todd Howard is a "professional evictor" which is like a bouncer who stands guard at rental properties instead of nightclubs. 'World's Worst Tenants' documents the work Howard, his wife Randye, and business partner Rick Moore do to remove, as Spike says, "despicable, outrageous, dangerous and insane" tenants from residential, commercial and retail units in which they manage. The half-hour series showcases the most tumultuous situations (through re-enactments of many of the actual confrontations) that Howard and his team have faced since starting their property management business more than a decade ago, taking viewers inside the process that allows the evictors to legally resolve each dispute on behalf of their clients.
View Episode Rankings#12 - Blade
On the mean streets of Detroit, an ancient evil is growing bolder by the day. The House of Chthon is on the verge of eliminating the final barriers to their supremacy over mankind, and only the Daywalker can stop them. Half human, half immortal. His only allies are a master weaponsmith and a woman obsessed with revenge against Chthon. And he will stop at nothing to win his war, because he is the ultimate vampire hunter. His name is Blade.
View Episode Rankings#13 - The Mist
After an eerie mist rolls into a small town, the residents must battle the mysterious mist and its threats, fighting to maintain their morality and sanity.
View Episode Rankings#14 - Tattoo Nightmares
People with bad tattoos seek the help of the best cover-up artists in the business.
View Episode Rankings#15 - Jail
You’ve seen ’em do the crime, now see ’em get the time. From John Langley, producer of the groundbreaking Cops, comes the next big law enforcement reality series Jail. Shot on location in cities across the U.S., Jail follows prison inmates from their initial booking through their first moments behind bars. Each episode captures the harsh and sometimes humorous reality of what happens to criminals after they’re caught. If its groundbreaking, its on MyNetworkTV
View Episode Rankings#16 - James Gunn's PG Porn
James Gunn's PG Porn is a web series created by the brothers James Gunn, Brian Gunn, and Sean Gunn. It consists of a series of pornography spoofs, with a humorous event occurring just before the supposed commencement of sexual acts. Each episode pairs a mainstream actor with a pornographic actress or model. The tagline is, "For people who love everything about Porn...except the sex."
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