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Plex covers series across every era of television, and some of the most acclaimed titles in the medium's history are cataloged with full details. Breaking Bad, created by Vince Gilligan and starring Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, holds a 9.7 audience rating on Plex and ran for 5 seasons on AMC between 2008 and 2013. The Sopranos, which premiered in 1999 with James Gandolfini in the lead, is widely credited with launching the era of prestige cable drama. Game of Thrones, HBO's 8-season adaptation of George R.R. Martin's novels starring Peter Dinklage and Kit Harington, remains one of the most discussed series of the 2010s. Each title page on Plex shows you where the series is currently streaming, so you can check availability across services without opening multiple apps.

The biggest streaming draws of recent years are returning franchises. Squid Game, the Korean survival drama on Netflix, logged 18.6 billion streaming minutes in the U.S. during 2025. Stranger Things, also on Netflix and starring Winona Ryder, David Harbour, and Millie Bobby Brown, accumulated 39.54 billion minutes across 2025, with 25.1 billion of those coming from its 5th and final season alone. Wednesday, Netflix's Addams Family spinoff, added 16.4 billion minutes in 2025 and sits at number 4 on Netflix's all-time most popular English-language series list. Plex tracks all of these titles with ratings, cast information, and trailers, and you can set Netflix or any other service as a preferred source so its catalog surfaces first in your search results.

Plex reaches back to the earliest days of American primetime. I Love Lucy, starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, ran for 6 seasons starting in 1951 and was the first sitcom filmed before a live studio audience. The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling's anthology series mixing science fiction with social commentary, premiered in 1959 and produced 156 episodes across 5 seasons. Gunsmoke, which ran for 20 seasons from 1955 to 1975, holds the record as the longest-running primetime live-action series in U.S. television history. You can look up each of these titles on Plex, read user reviews, and check which platforms carry them for streaming or purchase.

The 1980s and 1990s reshaped what television could do in terms of storytelling ambition and production scale. M*A*S*H, which concluded its run in 1983, drew over 100 million viewers for its series finale, a record that still ranks among the most-watched broadcasts in American history. Seinfeld, the NBC sitcom created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld that ran from 1989 to 1998, became a cultural reference point and averaged 33 million viewers per episode in its final season. The X-Files, premiering in 1993 with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, spent 9 seasons building a serialized mythology that influenced how networks approached long-form genre storytelling. Plex tags each of these titles by genre and decade, which lets you filter the full collection down to a specific period and category without scrolling through unrelated results.

Plex organizes the TV Show Database into decade pages spanning the 1950s through the 2020s. Each decade page lists the shows that premiered during that period. You can start at any decade and work forward or backward depending on what you are looking for. Within each listing, Plex displays cast information, audience ratings, and a synopsis for every series. If something looks worth watching, you can tap through to see which streaming services currently carry it and add it to your Watchlist in a single step.

Plex offers a library of free, ad-supported TV shows alongside its discovery tools. The free catalog includes series across genres ranging from drama and comedy to reality and documentary programming. You do not need a paid subscription or even an account to start watching, though creating a free account gives you access to a larger selection of content, personalized recommendations, and the ability to save your place across devices. The TV Show Database itself is a discovery tool that covers all shows across all services, including titles that are not free on Plex, so you can use it to research any series and then decide where to watch based on your existing subscriptions.

Every title listing includes the show's synopsis, season and episode count, cast and crew credits, audience ratings, critic reviews, and trailers when available. You also get streaming availability data showing which services carry the title and at what tier (free, subscription, rental, or purchase). If you have set preferred streaming services in your Plex account, the availability information will prioritize those sources. You can evaluate a show's critical reception, check how long it runs, and confirm where to watch it from a single listing instead of searching each service individually.

Any title you find in the TV Show Database can be added to your Plex Watchlist with one tap. The Watchlist is universal, meaning it works across every streaming service Plex tracks, not only the titles available for free on Plex. When a show on your Watchlist becomes available on a new platform or drops to a lower price tier, Plex updates the availability information automatically. You can manage your Watchlist from any device where Plex is installed, including smart TVs, phones, tablets, streaming devices, and web browsers.

New titles are added as they premiere, and metadata (cast details, ratings, streaming availability) updates on a rolling basis. Recently released series appear shortly after their first episodes air, and availability information stays current as titles move between platforms. Because streaming catalogs rotate frequently, a show that is on one service today may appear on a different one next month, and Plex reflects those changes so you do not have to check each app yourself.