Best Action Shows of the 2010s (Ranked)

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Game of Thrones

★9.2Ended

#1Score 9.202.7M IMDb votes

Nine noble families fight for control over the lands of Westeros, while an ancient enemy returns after being dormant for millennia.

Attack on Titan

★9.1Ended

#2Score 9.10752.5k IMDb votes

After his hometown is destroyed and his mother is killed, young Eren Jaeger vows to cleanse the earth of the giant humanoid Titans that have brought humanity to the brink of extinction.

Hunter x Hunter 2011

★9.0Ended

#3Score 8.98206.8k IMDb votes

Gon Freecss aspires to become a Hunter, an exceptional being capable of greatness. With his friends and his potential, he seeks out his father, who left him when he was younger.

Gravity Falls

★8.9Ended

#4Score 8.88186.1k IMDb votes

Twin siblings Dipper and Mabel Pines spend the summer at their great-uncle's tourist trap in the enigmatic Gravity Falls, Oregon.

Narcos

★8.7Ended

#5Score 8.69537.8k IMDb votes

A chronicled look at the criminal exploits of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, as well as the many other drug kingpins who plagued the country through the years.

Adventure Time

★8.7Ended

#6Score 8.68137k IMDb votes

A twelve-year-old boy and his best friend, a wise twenty-eight-year-old dog with magical powers, go on a series of surreal adventures in a remote future.

The Mandalorian

★8.6Ended

#7Score 8.60667.8k IMDb votes

The travels of a lone bounty hunter in the outer reaches of the galaxy, far from the authority of the New Republic.

One Punch Man

★8.6Ongoing

#8Score 8.59231.4k IMDb votes

The story of Saitama, a hero that does it just for fun & can defeat his enemies with a single punch.

Marvels Daredevil

★8.6Ended

#9Score 8.59543.8k IMDb votes

A blind lawyer by day, vigilante by night. Matt Murdock fights the crime of New York as Daredevil.

Justified

★8.6Ended(2010–2015)

#10Score 8.58133k IMDb votes

U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens is reassigned from Miami to his childhood home in the poor, rural coal mining towns of eastern Kentucky.

The Family Man

★8.6Ongoing

#11Score 8.58114.5k IMDb votes

A working man from the National Investigation Agency tries to protect the nation from terrorism, but he also needs to keep his family safe from his secret job.

Young Justice

★8.6Ended

#12Score 8.5552k IMDb votes

Teenage superheroes strive to prove themselves as members of the Justice League.

Primal

★8.6Ended

#13Score 8.5231.2k IMDb votes

A caveman and a dinosaur bond over shared tragedy and work together to survive in a perilous prehistoric world.

The Boys

★8.5Ended

#14Score 8.501M IMDb votes

A group of vigilantes set out to take down corrupt superheroes who abuse their superpowers.

Vikings

★8.5Ended(2013– )

#15Score 8.50651.6k IMDb votes

Vikings transports us to the brutal and mysterious world of Ragnar Lothbrok, a Viking warrior and farmer who yearns to explore--and raid--the distant shores across the ocean.

Person of Interest

★8.5Ended(2011–2016)

#16Score 8.49217.2k IMDb votes

An ex-CIA agent and a wealthy programmer save lives via a surveillance AI that sends them the identities of civilians involved in impending crimes. However, the details of the crimes, including the civilians' roles, are left a mys...

The Last Kingdom

★8.5Ended(2015– )

#17Score 8.49193.6k IMDb votes

As Alfred the Great defends his kingdom from Norse invaders, Uhtred--born a Saxon but raised by Vikings--seeks to claim his ancestral birthright.

Sacred Games

★8.5Ended(2018– )

#18Score 8.4799.2k IMDb votes

A link in their pasts leads an honest cop to a fugitive gang boss, whose cryptic warning spurs the officer on a quest to save Mumbai from cataclysm.

Cobra Kai

★8.4Ended(2018– )

#19Score 8.39247.4k IMDb votes

Decades after their 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament bout, a middle-aged Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence find themselves martial-arts rivals again.

Kingdom

★8.5Ended

#20Score 8.3921.6k IMDb votes

A retired MMA fighter turned trainer juggles keeping his mixed martial arts gym running and keeping his family united.

Marvels The Punisher

★8.4Ended

#21Score 8.39315.9k IMDb votes

After the murder of his family, Marine veteran Frank Castle becomes the vigilante known as "The Punisher," with only one goal in mind: to avenge them.

Love Death and Robots

★8.4Ongoing

#22Score 8.39233.2k IMDb votes

A collection of animated short stories that span various genres including science fiction, fantasy, horror and comedy.

Banshee

★8.4Ended(2013–2016)

#23Score 8.38152.4k IMDb votes

An ex-con assumes the identity of a murdered sheriff in the small town of Banshee, Pennsylvania, where he has some unfinished business.

Mirzapur

★8.4Ongoing

#24Score 8.3895.5k IMDb votes

A shocking incident at a wedding procession ignites a series of events entangling the lives of two families in the lawless city of Mirzapur.

Ash vs Evil Dead

★8.4Ended

#25Score 8.3786.9k IMDb votes

Ash has spent the last thirty years avoiding responsibility, maturity, and the terrors of the Evil Dead until a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind and Ash becomes mankind's only hope.

Warrior 2019

★8.4Ended

#26Score 8.3654.6k IMDb votes

During the Tong Wars in the late 1800s, Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy from China, immigrates to San Francisco and becomes a hatchet man for the most powerful tong in Chinatown.

Trollhunters - Tales of Arcadia

★8.4Ended

#27Score 8.3022.8k IMDb votes

An ordinary boy finds a magic amulet that chooses him to be a Trollhunter, a guardian that defends the world of humans and the secret world of trolls.

The Pacific

★8.3Ended

#28Score 8.29146.3k IMDb votes

The Pacific Theatre of World War II, as seen through the eyes of several young Marines.

Taboo 2017

★8.3Ended

#29Score 8.29165.4k IMDb votes

Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London during the War of 1812 to rebuild his late father's shipping empire. However, both the government and his biggest competitor want his inheritance at any cost--even murder.

The Legend of Korra

★8.3Ended

#30Score 8.29155.1k IMDb votes

Avatar Korra fights to keep Republic City safe from the evil forces of both the physical and spiritual worlds.

Barry

★8.3Ended

#31Score 8.29146.4k IMDb votes

A hit man from the Midwest moves to Los Angeles and gets caught up in the city's theatre arts scene.

Homeland

★8.3Ended

#32Score 8.29389.2k IMDb votes

A bipolar CIA operative becomes convinced a prisoner of war has been turned by al-Qaeda and is planning to carry out a terrorist attack on American soil.

Narcos Mexico

★8.3Ended(2018– )

#33Score 8.28103.2k IMDb votes

The rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in Mexico.

Castlevania

★8.3Ended(2017– )

#34Score 8.2896.9k IMDb votes

A vampire hunter fights to save a besieged city from an army of otherworldly creatures controlled by Dracula.

Hell on Wheels

★8.3Ended(2011–2016)

#35Score 8.2760.5k IMDb votes

The Civil War is past, but former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon can't put it behind him. Fresh are the memories of the death of his wife, killed at the hands of the Union soldiers, an act that sets him on a course of revenge.

Dragon Ball Super

★8.3Ended

#36Score 8.2647.6k IMDb votes

Six months after the defeat of Majin Buu, The mighty Saiyan Son Goku continues his quest on becoming stronger.

Fauda

★8.3Ongoing

#37Score 8.2647.2k IMDb votes

The human stories on both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Harley Quinn

★8.3Ongoing

#38Score 8.2544k IMDb votes

The series focuses on a single Harley Quinn, who sets off to make it on her own in Gotham City.

Longmire

★8.3Ended(2012–2017)

#39Score 8.2544.4k IMDb votes

Walt Longmire is the dedicated and unflappable sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming. Widowed only a year, he is a man in psychic repair but buries his pain behind his brave face, unassuming grin and dry wit.

Key and Peele

★8.3Ended(2012–2015)

#40Score 8.2330k IMDb votes

Project sees Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele in front of a live studio audience bantering about a topic weaved between filmed shorts and sketches.

Infinity Train

★8.4Ended

#41Score 8.2211.4k IMDb votes

Various people find themselves on a mysterious train with an endless number of cars, each one being its own universe, and they must find a way to get home in this animated anthology series.

Wayne

★8.3Ended

#42Score 8.2224.7k IMDb votes

Wayne, a 16 year-old Dirty Harry with a heart of gold, sets out on a small two stroke road bike from Boston to Florida with his new friend Del to get back the shit-hot 79' Trans-Am that was stolen from his father before he died.

Made in Abyss

★8.3Ended

#43Score 8.2122.4k IMDb votes

A girl and her robot companion search for her mother, who's lost within a vast chasm.

Money Heist

★8.2Ended

#44Score 8.20621.3k IMDb votes

An unusual group of robbers attempt to carry out the most perfect robbery in Spanish history - stealing 2.4 billion euros from the Royal Mint of Spain.

The Avengers - Earths Mightiest Heroes

★8.3Ended

#45Score 8.1918.5k IMDb votes

After 74 villains break out of prison, Marvel's most powerful superheroes team up to capture all of them, and also to defend the Earth from widespread threats.

Watchmen 2019

★8.2Ended

#46Score 8.19148.8k IMDb votes

Set in an alternate history where masked vigilantes are treated as outlaws, Watchmen embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel of the same name, while attempting to break new ground of its own.

Godless

★8.2Ended

#47Score 8.1892.8k IMDb votes

In the 1880s American West, murderous outlaw gang leader Frank Griffin hunts for ex-protege Roy Goode. Frank's chase leads him to La Belle, New Mexico--a town inhabited, after a mining disaster, almost entirely by women.

My Hero Academia

★8.2Ended

#48Score 8.18128.1k IMDb votes

A superhero-loving boy without any powers is determined to enroll in a prestigious hero academy and learn what it really means to be a hero.

Black Sails

★8.2Ended(2014–2017)

#49Score 8.18127.5k IMDb votes

Follows Captain Flint and his pirates twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel "Treasure Island."

Black Clover

★8.2Ongoing

#50Score 8.1754.5k IMDb votes

Asta and Yuno were abandoned together at the same church and have been inseparable since. As children, they promised that they would compete against each other to see who would become the next Emperor Magus.

Score = IMDb rating weighted by vote count (Bayesian average). Shows need at least 1,000 votes to be ranked.

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