Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, The Sopranos, Money Heist, Stranger Things: rank the shows that defined TV and streaming.
The shows that changed TV
Pick a theme and a ranking size, then start the game. Cards drop one at a time: for each one, you choose a free rank. Once a card is placed, it stays there.
You never know which card is coming next. Put a great card too high and you may have no room for the next one: that’s the whole twist of a blind ranking, also called a blind tier list.
Every game draws at random from these 104 cards. Here is each one, with a short profile and key facts.
On the continent of Westeros, great noble houses fight over the Iron Throne while an ancient threat stirs beyond the Wall, at the frozen edge of the realm.
Diagnosed with cancer, a mild-mannered chemistry teacher starts cooking methamphetamine to secure his family's future, and discovers an unexpected criminal ambition within himself.
In a small Indiana town in the 1980s, a boy's disappearance pulls his friends into a web of secret experiments and creatures from a parallel world.
Six New York friends share their love lives, career struggles and endless coffeehouse hangouts in 1990s Manhattan, between shared apartments and big laughs.
A mysterious mastermind known as the Professor assembles a crew of robbers named after cities for a spectacular heist at the Royal Mint of Spain in Madrid.
Life at a paper company in Pennsylvania, filmed like a documentary, under a clueless boss who is convinced he is the world's greatest manager.
In Springfield, a bright-yellow American family goes through absurd adventures that skewer society, politics and pop culture, as it has for more than three decades.
In post-World War I Birmingham, the Shelby family and their leader Thomas expand their gang through ambition, illegal betting and violence.
Deep in debt, hundreds of contestants agree to play children's games for a colossal cash prize, not knowing that every loss comes at a terrible price.
Twenty years after a fungal infection devastated civilization, a hardened smuggler must escort a teenage girl across a ruined, lawless United States.
Expelled from her school, Wednesday Addams arrives at Nevermore Academy, where she puts her visions and icy wit to work investigating a series of murders.
To save his brother, sentenced to death for a crime he didn't commit, an engineer deliberately gets himself locked up with the prison's blueprints tattooed on his body.
After their plane crashes, survivors are stranded on a Pacific island that seems to hide strange phenomena, a mysterious hatch and some very unwelcoming inhabitants.
Misanthropic, addicted to painkillers, yet brilliant, Dr. Gregory House and his team solve the most baffling medical cases at a New Jersey teaching hospital.
Meredith Grey and her fellow interns learn to be surgeons at a Seattle hospital, amid life-or-death emergencies, professional rivalries and tangled love lives.
In 2030, Ted Mosby tells his kids the long road, full of failed dates and nights out with friends in New York, that led him to their mother.
Two brilliant but socially awkward physicists see their geeky routine upended by Penny, the aspiring actress who moves in across the hall.
In a Brooklyn police precinct, detective Jake Peralta, gifted but wildly immature, juggles cases and goofy pranks under a captain famous for his deadpan.
A New Jersey mob boss, Tony Soprano secretly sees a psychiatrist to treat his panic attacks, torn between his family and his criminal business.
In Baltimore, cops, dealers, dockworkers, politicians and journalists cross paths in a sweeping portrait that dissects the institutions of a struggling American city.
Long before becoming Breaking Bad's crooked lawyer, Jimmy McGill tries to make an honest living in the law, in the shadow of his respected brother.
A blood-spatter analyst for the Miami police, Dexter Morgan leads a double life as a serial killer who only targets other murderers who escaped justice.
Waking from a coma in a world overrun by the undead, Deputy Rick Grimes leads a group of survivors in search of a lasting refuge, facing zombies and humans alike.
Each episode is a standalone story exploring, often darkly, how technology and screens take hold of our lives in the very near future.
Conan Doyle's famous detective is transplanted to present-day London, where he solves twisted cases with the help of Dr. Watson, an Afghanistan veteran.
The reign of Elizabeth II, told decade by decade, from the young queen's first steps to the crises that shake the British monarchy and the royal family.
The four children of an aging media mogul wage a merciless war of betrayals and dirty tricks to succeed him at the head of the family empire.
In a world where superheroes are corrupt celebrities managed by a multinational, a band of vigilantes, mostly without powers, sets out to take them down by any means.
Fresh out of rehab, 17-year-old Rue tries to stay on track in a high school where drugs, social media, romance and the search for identity collide.
The shy son of a sex therapist teams up with a rebellious classmate to open an underground sex-advice clinic at his school, with wildly unexpected results.
On Manhattan's Upper East Side, the secrets of the privileged young elite are laid bare by a mysterious anonymous blogger who seems to know everything.
In Bristol, groups of teenagers follow one another generation after generation through parties, excess, first loves and adolescent turmoil, shown without a filter.
In Mystic Falls, a grieving high schooler falls for a mysterious vampire, then discovers his far more dangerous and unpredictable brother.
Three scholarship students enroll at Las Encinas, an exclusive private school in Madrid, where tense clashes with the city's wealthy heirs end in murder.
The disappearance of children in a small German town reveals the secret ties between four families and a dizzying mystery spanning several generations.
In a futuristic Wild West theme park, wealthy guests indulge every desire with android hosts who begin to gain self-awareness.
After the fall of the Empire, a lone bounty hunter takes a mysterious, Force-sensitive child under his protection, while many factions dream of capturing it.
At Lumon, employees have undergone a procedure that completely separates their work memories from their personal lives, until disturbing questions start to surface.
A crime anthology that follows new investigators each season, the first putting two Louisiana detectives on the trail of a killer across seventeen years.
A miniseries recounting the 1986 nuclear disaster in Soviet Ukraine and the struggle of scientists to contain its consequences in the face of state lies.
An orphan in 1950s Kentucky, Beth Harmon emerges as a chess prodigy and climbs the tournament ranks while battling her own addictions.
In Regency-era London high society, the eight Bridgerton siblings search for love under the sharp pen of an anonymous gossip columnist.
Two American DEA agents hunt Pablo Escobar and the Colombian cartels that flooded the United States with cocaine in the 1980s and 1990s.
A young fine-dining chef, Carmy, returns to Chicago to take over his late brother's little sandwich shop and its thoroughly chaotic crew.
The suicide of a Wisteria Lane resident exposes the secrets, lies and rivalries of her four friends, housewives in a seemingly perfect suburb.
A reluctant genius, Malcolm grows up in a loud, broke family, caught between rowdy brothers and a mother who runs the house with an iron fist.
Two FBI agents, one convinced the paranormal exists, the other a skeptical scientist, investigate unexplained cases and a vast conspiracy.
A high schooler in Sunnydale, Buffy Summers is the Chosen One tasked with fighting vampires and demons while trying to live an ordinary teenage life.
Sent by his mother to live with his wealthy uncle in Bel-Air, a Philadelphia teenager shakes up his new family's posh lifestyle with his street-smart humor.
A genius, alcoholic and cynical scientist drags his anxious grandson into interdimensional adventures as absurd as they are dangerous, to the dismay of the rest of the family.
Between the city of Piltover and the undercity of Zaun, two separated sisters end up on opposite sides of a conflict fueled by magical technology.
Four schoolkids in a small Colorado town have absurd adventures that serve as a pretext for savage satire of current events and American society.
A washed-up star of a 1990s sitcom, a depressed anthropomorphic horse tries to relaunch his career in Hollywood while facing his inner demons.
In a world where some people can bend water, earth, fire or air, a young monk must master all four elements to end a hundred-year war.
Monkey D. Luffy, a boy with a rubber body, sails the seas with his pirate crew in search of the legendary treasure that will make him King of the Pirates.
Humanity survives behind towering walls to escape man-eating giants. After a tragedy, young Eren vows to wipe them all out.
Shunned by his village because he houses a fox demon, young ninja Naruto Uzumaki trains tirelessly to become Hokage and win everyone's respect.
A brilliant high schooler finds a notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it and sets out to purge the world, hunted by an eccentric detective.
Now grown, Son Goku learns of his extraterrestrial origins and, with his friends, faces ever more powerful enemies from space to protect Earth.
After his family is slaughtered and his sister turned into a demon, Tanjiro joins the Demon Slayer Corps to find a cure and avenge his loved ones.
Inside the DGSE, France's foreign intelligence service, a unit runs undercover agents sent abroad under false identities. One agent's return from Syria, Malotru, threatens the whole edifice.
King Arthur struggles to lead the quest for the Holy Grail, surrounded by incompetent knights and a court as talkative as it is ineffective.
To avenge his wrongly accused father, Assane Diop draws on the adventures of Arsène Lupin and pulls off audacious heists against a rich, powerful Parisian family.
At a Paris talent agency, agents scramble to manage the whims, doubts and careers of stars who play themselves.
In Paris, a police captain, a prosecutor, a judge and a lawyer cross paths through criminal investigations that expose the workings of the justice system.
Hidden in a company's coffee machine, a camera captures employees' absurd conversations, gossip and petty schemes during their breaks.
Nearly two centuries before Game of Thrones, House Targaryen tears itself apart over the succession to the Iron Throne, plunging Westeros into a civil war fought with dragons.
Geralt of Rivia, a solitary mutant monster hunter, finds his fate tied to that of a young princess with mysterious powers and an ambitious sorceress.
In the 8th century, the Scandinavian farmer Ragnar Lothbrok rises to become a chieftain by launching bold raids on England and France, before his sons take over.
A cybersecurity engineer by day and vigilante hacker by night, the lonely, anxious Elliot is recruited by a mysterious group out to take down a sprawling multinational.
The murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer brings an eccentric FBI agent to a small forest town where everyone hides increasingly strange secrets.
J.D., a dreamy young doctor, takes his first steps at Sacred Heart Hospital amid unshakable friendships, a gruff mentor and absurd daydreams that punctuate his days.
A New York comedian and his three self-absorbed friends talk endlessly about life's little annoyances in a sitcom famously billed as a show about nothing.
A party-loving bachelor in a Malibu beach house, Charlie sees his carefree life upended when his newly divorced brother moves in with his young son.
Filmed like a documentary, the show follows three households of one extended Los Angeles family: a blended family, a gay couple and quickly overwhelmed parents.
In a seemingly peaceful small town, Archie, Betty, Veronica and Jughead investigate a classmate's death and uncover the dark side of their community.
After a high schooler's death, a classmate receives a set of audio tapes in which she lays out the thirteen reasons that led her to take her own life.
Bitten by a werewolf one full-moon night, high schooler Scott McCall must master his new instincts while protecting Beacon Hills from supernatural threats.
In a small North Carolina town, two half-brothers who couldn't be more different compete for a spot on the high school basketball team, as their lives become intertwined.
A teenager in a small Kansas town, Clark Kent gradually discovers his powers and extraterrestrial origins, long before donning Superman's cape.
Counter-terrorist agent Jack Bauer foils threats to the United States, with each season covering a single day told hour by hour, in real time.
Around the world, ordinary people discover they have extraordinary powers and find themselves bound together by a threat hanging over New York.
To save his family from a Mexican cartel, a Chicago financial adviser relocates to Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks to launder millions.
Convicted over an old drug-trafficking case, a well-off young New Yorker discovers life in a women's federal prison and its many colorful inmates.
Passed over for a promised post, an unscrupulous congressman and his wife manipulate all of Washington in a bid to seize supreme power.
In an America turned totalitarian theocracy, the few women who are still fertile are reduced to servants whose purpose is to bear children for the ruling elite.
In Japan in 1600, an English navigator shipwrecked on its shores is drawn into the intrigues of a powerful warlord fighting for his political survival.
Two centuries after a nuclear apocalypse, a young woman leaves her underground vault for a devastated Los Angeles full of mutants, bounty hunters and armored soldiers.
In 1960s New York, brilliant ad man Don Draper rules Madison Avenue while hiding a troubled past behind his impeccable polish.
An alien who travels through time and space in the TARDIS, a blue police box, the Doctor roams the universe with companions to face a thousand threats.
Brothers Sam and Dean Winchester crisscross America in their Chevrolet Impala hunting demons, ghosts and every kind of supernatural creature.
Bored of ruling Hell, the Devil himself moves to Los Angeles, opens a nightclub and becomes a consultant for a police detective.
A pizza delivery boy accidentally cryogenically frozen in 1999, Fry wakes up a thousand years later and joins an interplanetary delivery company with a zany crew.
In Quahog, irresponsible dad Peter Griffin drags his family, including an evil baby genius and a cultured dog, into absurd situations packed with tangents.
An enthusiastic sea sponge living in a pineapple, SpongeBob works as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab and stumbles from one mishap to the next with his best friend, the starfish Patrick.
Sent to spend the summer with their great-uncle in a small Oregon town, twins Dipper and Mabel uncover a host of mysteries and strange creatures.
Young Ash leaves Pallet Town with his Pikachu to travel the regions, catch Pokémon and chase his dream of becoming the world's best trainer.
After swallowing the finger of a legendary demon, high schooler Yuji Itadori becomes its host and joins a school of sorcerers who fight curses.
In a small mountain town, residents who died years ago show up one day, unchanged and acting as if nothing happened, upending the lives of their loved ones.
A thirty-something narrates his life in fast-forward, through odd jobs, romantic encounters and everyday mishaps, in ultra-short, fast-paced episodes.
Two neighboring families with opposite parenting styles, one strict and traditional, the other bohemian and laid-back, tackle the trials of raising kids together.
Chouchou and Loulou, a couple in their thirties, bicker affectionately over all of life's little subjects in short, snappy sketches.
In London, a funny, cynical young woman in the midst of romantic chaos tries to save her little cafe while talking straight to the viewer.
Adopted by an eccentric billionaire, seven children with extraordinary powers, now estranged adults, reunite at their father's death to face an impending apocalypse.
Breaking Bad sits at the top of the TV rankings voted by IMDb users. The Wire, The Sopranos, Game of Thrones and Chernobyl also show up constantly in critics’ and viewers’ lists.
A tier list is a ranking in tiers, from best to worst. Tiers are usually lettered: S for the elite, then A, B, C and D.
With a regular tier list maker, you drag pictures into tiers freely. On BlindTier, you pick a theme and a Top 10, 20 or 50, then place the cards one by one without knowing which one comes next. It’s free and needs no sign-up.
A blind ranking is a game where you rank items without seeing the rest of the list. Each item is revealed one at a time and has to get a final spot, so you make every choice without knowing what comes next.
In a tier list, you see every item before sorting them into tiers. In a blind ranking, items are revealed one by one and every spot is final: you have to bet on what’s coming.
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