25 Best action tv series that you can watch this weekend
1. The Boys (2019 )
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Stars: Karl Urban, Chace Crawford, Jennifer Esposito, Dominique McElligott
Creators: Eric Kripke
Storyline: Superheroes are often as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians, and sometimes even as revered as gods. But that's when they're using their powers for good. What happens when the heroes go rogue and start abusing their powers? When it's the powerless against the super powerful, the Boys head out on a heroic quest to expose the truth about the Seven and Vought, the multibillion-dollar conglomerate that manages the superheroes and covers up their dirty secrets. Based on the comic book series of the same name.
2. Money Heist (2017 )
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery
Stars: Úrsula Corberó · Tokio ; Álvaro Morte · El Profesor ; Itziar Ituño · Raquel Murillo ; Pedro Alonso · Berlín ; Miguel Herrán · Río
Creators: Álex Pina
Storyline: A criminal mastermind who goes by "The Professor" has a plan to pull off the biggest heist in recorded history -- to print billions of euros in the Royal Mint of Spain. To help him carry out the ambitious plan, he recruits eight people with certain abilities and who have nothing to lose. The group of thieves take hostages to aid in their negotiations with the authorities, who strategize to come up with a way to capture The Professor. As more time elapses, the robbers prepare for a showdown with the police.
3. Superman and Lois (2021 )
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Stars: Tyler Hoechlin, Elizabeth Tulloch, Jordan Elsass, Inde Navarrette
Storyline: Follow the world's most famous super hero and comic books' most famous journalist as they deal with all the stress, pressures, and complexities that come with being working parents in today's society.
4. The Flash
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Stars: Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Danielle Panabaker, Carlos Valdes
Creators: Greg Berlanti, Geoff Johns, Andrew Kreisberg
Storyline: At 11, Barry Allen's life changed completely when his mother died in a freak accident and his innocent father was convicted of her murder. Orphaned Barry later becomes Detective Joe West. Now a crime-scene investigator, his dedication to learn the truth about his mother's death drives him to follow up on every new scientific advancement and urban legend. When his latest obsession - a particle accelerator heralded as a world-changing invention - causes an explosion, it creates a freak storm and Barry is struck by lightning. He awakes from a coma nine months later with the power of superspeed. When he learns that others who have gained powers use them for evil, he dedicates himself to protecting the innocent, while still trying to solve the older mystery.
5. Squid Game (2021 )
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Stars: Daniel C Kennedy, John D. Michaels, Geoffrey Giuliano
Storyline: A story of people who fail at life for various reasons, but suddenly receive a mysterious invitation to participate in a survival game to win ten million US dollars. The game takes place at an unknown location, and the participants are locked up until there is a final winner. The story will incorporate popular children's games from the 1970s and 1980s of Korea, such as squid game, literal translation of its Korean name, which is a type of tag where offense and defense use a squid-shaped board drawn in the dirt.
6. THE WITCHER (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Stars: Henry Cavill, Freya Allan, Joey Batey, MyAnna Buring
Creators: Tomek Baginski
Storyline: Geralt of Rivia, a solitary monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.
7. MOON KNIGHT (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Stars: Oscar Isaac, Ethan Hawke, Gaspard Ulliel
Storyline: The series follows Steven Grant, a mild mannered gift shop employee, who becomes plagued with blackouts and memories of another life Steven discovers he has dissociative identity disorder and shares a body with mercenary Marc Spector As Steven Marcs enemies converge upon them, they must navigate their complex identities while thrust into a deadly mystery among the powerful gods of Egypt
8. THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY (2019 )
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Stars: Aidan Gallagher, Cameron Britton, Eden Cupid, Cameron Brodeur
Creators: Jeremy Slater
Storyline: On one day in 1989, 43 infants are inexplicably born to random, unconnected women who showed no signs of pregnancy the day before. Seven are adopted by billionaire industrialist Sir Reginald Hargreeves, who creates the Umbrella Academy and prepares his children to save the world. In their teenage years, though, the family fractures and the team disbands. Fast forward to the present time, when the six surviving members of the clan reunite upon the news of Hargreeves' passing. They work together to solve a mystery surrounding their father's death, but divergent personalities and abilities again pull the estranged family apart, and a global apocalypse is another imminent threat.
9. FBI (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Stars: Courtney Gonzalez, Jeremy Sisto, Zeeko Zaki
Creators: Craig Turk, Dick Wolf
Storyline: Procedural drama about the inner workings of the New York office of the FBI, bringing to bear all the Bureau's skills, intellect and mind-blowing technology to keep New York and the country safe.
10. COBRA KAI (2018)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Stars: Ralph Macchio, William Zabka, Courtney Henggeler
Storyline: Cobra Kai (2018) Thirty years after their final confrontation at the 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament, Johnny Lawrence is at rock-bottom as an unemployed handyman haunted by his wasted life. However, when Johnny rescues a bullied kid, Miguel, from bullies, he is inspired to restart the notorious Cobra Kai dojo. However, this revitalization of his life and related misunderstandings find Johnny restarting his old rivalry with Daniel LaRousso, a successful businessman who may be happily married, but is missing an essential balance in life since the death of his mentor, Mr. Miyagi. Meanwhile, even as this antipathy festers, it finds itself reflected in their protegees as Miguel and his comrades are gradually poisoned by Cobra Kai's thuggish philosophy.
11. WHAT IF...? (2021 )
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure
Stars: Jeffrey Wright, Hayley Atwell, Josh Brolin
Storyline: Exploring pivotal moments from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and turning them on their head, leading the audience into uncharted territory.
12. SEE (2019 )
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Stars: Alfre Woodard, Josh Blacker, Christian Camargo, Nesta Cooper
Storyline: See (2019 ) Far in a dystopian future, the human race has lost the sense of sight, and society has had to find new ways to interact, build, hunt, and to survive. All of that is challenged when a set of twins is born with sight.
13. BLACK LIGHTNING (2018)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Stars: Gregg Henry, William Catlett, Cress Williams, Nafessa Williams
Creators: Salim Akil
Storyline: CW and Greg Berlanti expand the footprint of their DC Comics universe with this exploration of the intersection between family life and being a superhero. As a younger man, Jefferson Pierce donned the suit of a vigilante and protected the streets of his city, but he believed he'd left those days in the past. He learns that life doesn't always work out as planned when his daughter, Jennifer -- a star student who is determined to achieve justice at any cost -- gets recruited by a street gang. In order to protect his family, Jefferson sees no choice but to once again become Black Lightning.
14. LEGENDS OF TOMORROW (TV SERIES 2016 )
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Stars: Victor Garber, Brandon Routh, Caity Lotz, Franz Drameh
Creators: Phil Klemmer, Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim
Storyline: `Arrow' and `The Flash' have some new superhero company in Sky's lineup with the addition of `DC's Legends of Tomorrow'. After seeing what doom the future holds, time-travelling rogue Rip Hunter realises heroes alone are not enough to prevent the impending catastrophe that threatens not only the planet, but all of time itself. Tasked with recruiting both heroes and villains, Rip brings together a ragtag team of divergent talents, which includes Sara Lance, Jay Jackson, Ray Palmer, Hawkgirl, Captain Cold and Heat Wave.
15. GOTHAM
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Stars: Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue, David Mazouz, Sean Pertwee
Creators: Bruno Heller
Storyline: In crime ridden Gotham City, Thomas and Martha Wayne are murdered before young Bruce Wayne's eyes. Although Gotham City Police Department detectives, James Gordon, and his cynical partner, Harvey Bullock, seem to solace's the case quickly, things are not so simple. Inspired by Bruce's traumatized desire for justice, Gordon vows to find it amid Gotham's corruption. Thus begins Gordon's lonely quest that would set him against his own comrades and the underworld with their own deadly rivalries and mysteries. In the coming wars, innocence will be lost and compromises will be made as some criminals will fall as casualties while others will rise as super villains. All the while, young Bruce observes this war with a growing obsession that would one day drive him to seek his own justice against the evil of Gotham as The Batman.
16. BANSHEE (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Stars: Antony Starr, Ivana Milicevic, Ulrich Thomsen, Frankie Faison
Creators: David Schickler, Jonathan Tropper
Storyline: A recently paroled master thief assumes the identity of Sheriff Lucas Hood in Banshee, Pa., where his former lover and partner in crime relocated years ago and reinvented herself as Carrie Hopewell, the wife of the town's prosecutor. As Lucas attempts to reunite with Carrie and keep his past a secret, he resumes his life of crime, even as he's hunted by the shadowy gangsters he betrayed years earlier, including a mob boss who seeks revenge against Lucas and Carrie for the jewel heist that landed Lucas in prison.
17. MARVELS DAREDEVIL
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Stars: Charlie Cox, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Vincent D'Onofrio
Storyline: Matt Murdock, with his other senses superhumanly enhanced, fights crime as a blind lawyer by day, and vigilante by night.
18. THE GIFTED (2017)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Stars: Hayley Lovitt, Garret Dillahunt, Jermaine Rivers, James Sterling
Creators: Matt Nix
Storyline: The Gifted (2017–) Frank Adler (Chris Evans) is a single man raising a child prodigy - his spirited young niece Mary (Mckenna Grace) - in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the 7-year-old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother, Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan), whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary.
19. VAN HELSING (TV SERIES 2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Stars: Kelly Overton, Vincent Gale, Trezzo Mahoro, Christopher Heyerdahl
Storyline: In this reimagining of the classic Dracula story, the world is dominated by vampires, requiring humans to work together to survive. The series centers on Vanessa Helsing, daughter of famed vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing, who wakes up after a five-year coma to discover a vampire-controlled world. She soon learns that she possesses a unique blood composition that makes her immune to vampires and able to turn the creatures into humans. That power puts humanity's last hope to return the world to how it once was before the vampires took over in Vanessa's hands.
20. SPARTACUS
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography
Stars: Manu Bennett, Daniel Feuerriegel, Peter Mensah, Lucy Lawless
Creators: Steven S. DeKnight
Storyline: Spartacus: War of the Damned (2010 2013) The inspiration behind this series is the Thracian Gladiator Spartacus, who led a slave uprising against the Roman Republic. The Thracians had been persuaded by Claudius Glaber to serve as auxiliaries in the Roman legions in a campaign against the Getae, who had often plundered Thracian lands. However after Glaber reneges on the deal and switches his attentions from the Getae to attack Mithridates in Asia Minor, the Thracians feel betrayed and mutiny. Captured by Glaber, Spartacus is condemned to death as a Gladiator, whilst his wife Sura is condemned to slavery. Spartacus, however, proves to be a formidable gladiator, and defeats the four gladiators tasked with executing him.
21. THE LAST KINGDOM
Genre: Action, History, Romance
Stars: Eliza Butterworth, Simon Kunz, Alexander Dreymon, Ian Hart
Storyline: As a child, Uhtred witnessed his father being killed and the Saxon army defeated by invading troops. Danish warlord Earl Ragnar captured Uhtred and raised him in a Danish camp alongside fellow captive Brida, a sharp-tongued girl. Years later, Uhtred is a valiant warrior who is dealt another tragic blow when his home is deliberately set on fire, killing his surrogate family, including Ragnar. Now exiled -- alone except for Brida by his side -- he vows to avenge Ragnar's death and reclaim his homeland. But, he must choose between his birth country and the people who raised him. If he is going to help birth a new nation and ultimately recapture his ancestral land he must walk dangerous path between both sides.
22. ARROW (TV SERIES 2012 -)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime
Stars: Stephen Amell, David Ramsey, Willa Holland, Paul Blackthorne
Creators: Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg
Storyline: Arrow (TV Series 2012 -), When presumed-dead billionaire playboy Oliver Queen returns home to Starling City after five years stranded on a remote island in the Pacific, he hides the changes the experience had on him, while secretly seeking reconciliation with his ex, Laurel. By day he picks up where he left off, playing the carefree philanderer he used to be, but at night he dons the alter ego of Arrow and works to right the wrongs of his family and restore the city to its former glory. Complicating his mission is Laurel's father, Detective Quentin Lance, who is determined to put the vigilante behind bars.
23. LETHAL WEAPON
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Stars: Damon Wayans, Clayne Crawford, Keesha Sharp, Kevin Rahm
Creators: Matthew Miller
Storyline: Rebooting the hit movie franchise of the same name, "Lethal Weapon" is set in modern-day Los Angeles, where Detective Roger Murtaugh works a crime-ridden beat. Some of Murtaugh's colleagues at the LAPD include Detective Bailey, Capt. Brooks Avery, and a pathologist named Scorsese. Murtaugh, married to Trish, and a father of three, finds himself working with Detective Wesley Cole, a former international CIA operative who has been everywhere and seen everything. Cole must adjust to life on the West Coast while navigating his partnership with Murtaugh.
24. KINGDOM (2019 )
Genre: Action, Thriller
Stars: Doona Bae, Greg Chun, Jun-ho Heo, Ji-Hoon Ju
Storyline: Kingdom (2019 ) While strange rumors about their ill king grip a kingdom, the crown prince becomes their only hope against a mysterious plague overtaking the land.
25. The Terminal List (2022)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Stars: Chris Pratt, Jared Shaw, Constance Wu
Storyline: The Terminal List 2022 The series follows James Reece after his entire platoon of Navy SEALs is ambushed during a high stakes covert mission Reece returns home to his family with conflicting memories of the event and questions about his culpability However, as new evidence comes to light, Reece discovers dark forces working against him, endangering not only his life but the lives of those he loves.
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