‘Dr. Death’ joins the top 10 shows of all time on Peacock
‘Dr. Death’ joins the top 10 shows of all time on Peacock
A nun battling AI, a family fighting for its ranch, a deadly surgeon, and the world’s worst boss somehow all belong on the same list.
For a while, Peacock mostly felt like the streamer you opened when you wanted to hang out with an old NBC favorite again. And I still think that’s one of the best things about it. Tara and I are watching “Parks and Rec” as our dinner show right now, and it always hits. But once dinner’s over, we’re sticking around way more than we used to because Peacock has built up a pretty solid group of originals too. Between those classic NBC comedies and the newer dramas we keep getting sucked into, Peacock’s TV lineup has gotten really good. Now that a new show has joined our top 10, it’s time to go through the best series you can watch on Peacock right now.
Top 10 all-time TV shows streaming on Peacock:
No. 10: ‘Mrs. Davis’ (2023) | Sci-fi, dark comedy
I’m not sure there’s a normal way to describe “Mrs. Davis.” It’s about a nun taking on an insanely powerful artificial intelligence that nearly everyone on Earth treats like some kind of god. Yep, that’s the show. The whole idea is so ridiculous that I had to see where it went, but I wasn’t prepared for how smart and funny it would be. Betty Gilpin totally sells it as Sister Simone, bringing just the right amount of toughness, humor, and “I have absolutely no idea what she’s about to do next” energy.
“Mrs. Davis” also knows exactly how weird it is, which is a big reason the whole thing works. One minute it’s an action series, the next it’s a bizarre comedy, and then suddenly it sneaks in an emotional moment that hits way harder than expected. It’s loud, chaotic, and completely committed to the bit, but Gilpin keeps it from floating off into total nonsense. I definitely didn’t expect a show about religion, free will, and our obsession with technology to be this much fun. Peacock took a real chance on this one, and I wish more of its originals were willing to get this strange.
Mrs. Davis
Sister Simone partners with her ex-boyfriend on a globe-spanning journey to destroy Mrs. Davis, a powerful artificial intelligence.
No. 9: ‘All Her Fault’ (2025) | Mystery thriller
Tara and I could not stop watching “All Her Fault,” even when the whole thing had us completely stressed out. Sarah Snook stars as Marissa, a mom who arrives to pick up her son after a playdate, only for the woman who answers the door to say she’s never met him. I mean, come on. That’s basically every parent’s worst nightmare packed into one scene. Snook is fantastic at making the panic feel painfully real, and Dakota Fanning, Jake Lacy, and Michael Peña make sure the rest of the story never feels like filler around her.
The really smart thing about “All Her Fault” is that it doesn’t just throw a new twist at the screen every 10 minutes and call it a day. It gives you actual people to care about first, then slowly starts pulling apart their relationships as secrets keep bubbling up. That makes every new reveal hit a little harder. It’s tense, emotional, and packed with great performances. Plenty of mystery shows can surprise you. But this one gets you invested too, and that’s what makes it worthy of a spot in Peacock’s top 10.
All Her Fault
In Chicago, Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Arthur Avenue, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn’t a mother she recognizes. She isn’t the nanny. She doesn’t have Milo. And so begins every parent’s worst nightmare.
No. 8: ‘Dr. Death’ (2021) | True crime thriller
“Dr. Death” terrified me to my core… because the villains are the people we all usually trust the most: doctors. Tara and I were first introduced to Dr. Christopher Duntsch on a road trip, listening to the Wondery podcast of the same name. The podcast is excellent, but the Peacock adaptation takes things to the next level. It’s like a car crash that you can’t look away from… except everyone does look away — the hospitals, medical boards. Anyone who could have stopped it chose not to. And what follows is horrific.
“Dr. Death” is an anthology series. The first season follows Dr. Christopher Duntsch (played incredibly by Joshua Jackson) — a Dallas neurosurgeon whose patients keep coming out of surgery either injured or dead. Two fellow doctors, Robert Henderson (Alec Baldwin) and Randall Kirby (Christian Slater), start digging into what’s happening and why nobody’s stopping him. Season 2 jumps to another real-life medical nightmare: Paolo Macchiarini (Édgar Ramírez), a surgeon whose experimental windpipe transplants are nowhere near the miracles he claims. I prefer Season 1, but both are impossible to stop watching once you start. It’s easily one of Peacock’s best original dramas, and it absolutely deserves a spot in the top 10.
Dr. Death
An anthology series, with each season following a new medical true crime story.
No. 7: ‘The Day of the Jackal’ (2024) | Spy thriller
I read Frederick Forsyth’s “The Day of the Jackal” earlier this year, so I’m obviously bringing a little baggage to this one. Still, “The Day of the Jackal” doesn’t need you to know anything about the book to get pulled into it. The series grabs the original idea and rebuilds it as a modern spy thriller. Eddie Redmayne is fantastic as the assassin, mostly because he’s so weirdly calm while doing completely terrifying things. Lashana Lynch matches him as the intelligence officer tracking him, and their whole cat-and-mouse thing gives the show its edge.
“The Day of the Jackal” also understands that tension doesn’t require somebody firing a gun every five seconds. A lot of the best scenes are just people watching, planning, or waiting for someone else to make a mistake. Every move feels carefully considered, almost like you’re watching a chess game where both players are several turns ahead of you. That patience makes the violent moments hit harder when they finally arrive. The show is cold, precise, and confident enough to let the pressure build, which is exactly what a story about a brilliant assassin and the person hunting him should be.
The Day of the Jackal
An unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in its wake.
No. 6: ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ (2013) | Workplace comedy
“Brooklyn Nine-Nine” has stuck around as a comfort show for a pretty simple reason: the people in it are just really fun to spend time with. Andy Samberg plays Jake Peralta, a talented New York detective who can solve a complicated case but still acts like a 12-year-old whenever someone tells him what to do. That gives the show plenty to work with, but Jake isn’t carrying this thing alone. Captain Holt, Amy, Rosa, Terry, Boyle, and Gina all bring their own very specific kind of weirdness to the precinct, and every possible pairing creates a different comic rhythm.
The best part of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” is that the friendships never feel like an afterthought squeezed between jokes. These characters annoy each other, compete with each other, and occasionally make each other completely miserable, but they also show up when it counts. That only becomes more important as the series goes along. Fox canceled the show after Season 5, and the reaction was loud enough that NBC stepped in and gave it another three seasons. People didn’t just want more cases or Halloween heists. They wanted more time with this exact group of ridiculous people.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
A single-camera ensemble comedy following the lives of an eclectic group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.
No. 5: ‘Poker Face’ (2023) | Mystery, case-of-the-week
“Poker Face” takes a very old-school murder-mystery format and makes it feel new without trying to tear the whole thing apart. Natasha Lyonne plays Charlie Cale, a woman who can immediately tell when someone’s lying. She isn’t a cop or a detective. She’s just a drifter who keeps landing in places where somebody has done something awful and is doing a terrible job of hiding it. Truck stops, casinos, roadside bars, weird little towns. Wherever Charlie goes, a dead body and a liar somehow aren’t far behind. Lyonne’s raspy delivery and naturally suspicious energy make her perfect for it.
Season 2 of “Poker Face” keeps the same basic setup while finding new ways to play with it. Each episode gives Charlie a different location, a fresh group of guest stars, and another murderer who thinks they’ve covered every track. The fun isn’t really about figuring out who did it, because the show usually lets you in on that part early. It’s about watching Charlie notice the tiny lie that starts bringing everything down. Peacock canceled the series after Season 2, but Rian Johnson has been working on a possible new version elsewhere. I really hope he finds a way to make that happen.
Poker Face
Follow Charlie Cale, a woman with an extraordinary ability to tell when someone is lying, as she hits the road and, at every stop, encounters a new cast of characters and crimes she can’t help but solve.
No. 4: ‘Yellowstone’ (2018) | Western drama
“Yellowstone” doesn’t look much like anything else on this list, but leaving it out would feel ridiculous. Kevin Costner plays John Dutton, the head of a powerful Montana family that owns a massive ranch and treats every threat to it like a declaration of war. People want the land, the Duttons refuse to give up an inch, and basically every disagreement turns into a fight over power, loyalty, or who gets to control what happens next. It’s a modern Western mixed with a family soap and enough political backstabbing to keep everyone permanently angry.
There’s rarely a peaceful day on “Yellowstone.” Someone’s making a secret deal, plotting against the family, hiding a betrayal, or preparing to settle a problem in the least legal way available. The beautiful Montana scenery makes everything look huge, and the Duttons somehow find a way to make every conflict just as oversized. Beth and Rip are the real standouts, especially once their complicated relationship becomes one of the show’s emotional anchors. It’s loud, messy, and completely comfortable being a giant family melodrama dressed up in boots and cowboy hats.
Yellowstone
Follow the violent world of the Dutton family, who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States. Led by their patriarch John Dutton, the family defends their property against constant attack by land developers, an Indian reservation, and America’s first National Park.
No. 3: ‘Superstore’ (2015) | Sitcom, workplace comedy
The setup for “Superstore” is simple: a group of employees works at a giant big-box store called Cloud 9, where every shift brings rude customers, pointless corporate rules, and some new disaster in aisle seven. That’s really all the show needs. It starts with the everyday nonsense of retail work, then gradually digs into bigger issues like healthcare, unions, class, immigration, and what happens when a company sees its workers as numbers on a spreadsheet. It gets into all of that without forgetting it’s supposed to be a comedy.
The cast is where “Superstore” really comes alive. America Ferrera keeps Amy grounded even when everyone around her is losing their mind, and Ben Feldman makes Jonah’s know-it-all routine lovable instead of exhausting. Then you’ve got Lauren Ash as Dina and Colton Dunn as Garrett, who can steal an entire scene with one reaction. Even the random customers wandering through Cloud 9 get some of the show’s funniest little moments. Underneath all the retail chaos, these are people trying to pay their bills, deal with terrible bosses, and get through another shift without the store literally falling apart.
Superstore
A hilarious workplace comedy about a unique family of employees at a super-sized mega store. From the bright-eyed newbies and the seen-it-all veterans to the clueless summer hires and the in-it-for-life managers, together they hilariously tackle the day-to-day grind of rabid bargain hunters, riot-causing sales and nap-worthy training sessions.
No. 2: ‘Parks and Recreation’ (2009) | Sitcom, mockumentary
This is Tara’s and my dinner show now, which I would not have predicted after our first attempt. We started with Season 1 about a year ago and just couldn’t get into it. Then we read the advice longtime fans always give people: hang in there until Season 2, because that’s when the show starts figuring itself out. We decided to skip ahead and give it another chance, and yep, everybody was right. By Season 3, we were fully in. It suddenly became very easy to understand why “Parks and Recreation” means so much to people.
Greg Daniels and Michael Schur use the same mockumentary style they brought to “The Office,” but “Parks and Recreation” has a much sweeter view of its characters. The people in Pawnee can be completely ridiculous, but the show isn’t waiting for them to fail. Leslie Knope genuinely believes hard work and local government can make people’s lives better, and Amy Poehler makes that optimism feel sincere instead of corny. Ron, April, Andy, Tom, Donna, and Ben all add their own strange little corner to the group. Once the series stops fighting Leslie’s enthusiasm and starts building around it, everything falls into place.
Parks and Recreation
In an attempt to beautify her town — and advance her career — Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, takes on bureaucrats, cranky neighbors, and single-issue fanatics whose weapons are lawsuits, the jumble of city codes, and the democratic process she loves so much.
No. 1: ‘The Office’ (2005) | Sitcom, mockumentary
I’ve always thought the best comedies usually have a great love story quietly running underneath everything else, and Jim and Pam are still one of my favorite examples. “The Office” has been in my personal top four forever, right alongside “Friends,” “Seinfeld,” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” At this point, its jokes have basically become their own language. Say “Dinner Party,” “Scott’s Tots,” or “Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica” around the right person, and they’ll know exactly what you mean.
Steve Carell is the biggest reason “The Office” can make Michael Scott so unbelievably uncomfortable without turning him into someone you completely hate. Michael is clueless, desperate for attention, and constantly making situations worse, but Carell always leaves a little humanity underneath the nonsense. Every so often, Michael says or does something genuinely kind, and you remember why the people at Dunder Mifflin haven’t locked him in his office. Some jokes haven’t aged perfectly, but the relationships still work. Jim finally asking Pam out remains one of my favorite TV moments, and this is still one of the best comedies ever made.
The Office
The everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.