Best Action & Adventure TV Shows, Ranked

Action and adventure series ranked on critic and audience scores, with the streaming home of each one.

The 25 highest-rated action & adventure series right now

1
Stranger Things (2016)
SeriScore 194102.7Audience 8.6/10 Netflix
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.
2
INVINCIBLE (2021)
SeriScore 61613.4Audience 8.6/10 Prime Video
Mark Grayson is a normal teenager except for the fact that his father is the most powerful superhero on the planet. Shortly after his seventeenth birthday, Mark begins to develop powers of his own and enters into his father's tutelage.
3
The Chosen (2019)
SeriScore 47828.1Audience 8.8/10 Prime Video
The life of Christ through the eyes of those who encountered him.
4
Rick and Morty (2013)
SeriScore 41103.1Audience 8.7/10 Hulu
Follows a sociopathic genius scientist who drags his inherently timid grandson on adventures across the universe.
5
Arcane (2021)
SeriScore 30822.8Audience 8.7/10 Netflix
Amid the stark discord of twin cities Piltover and Zaun, two sisters fight on rival sides of a war between magic technologies and clashing convictions.
6
X-Men '97 (2024)
SeriScore 29829.0Audience 8.7/10 Disney+
The X-Men, a band of mutants who use their uncanny gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them, are challenged like never before, forced to face a dangerous and unexpected new future.
7
Regular Show (2010)
SeriScore 15571.6Audience 8.6/10 HBO Max
The surreal misadventures of two best friends - a blue jay and a raccoon - as they seek to liven up their mundane jobs as groundskeepers at the local park.
8
Gravity Falls (2012)
SeriScore 8150.6Audience 8.6/10 Disney+
Twin brother and sister Dipper and Mabel Pines are in for an unexpected adventure when they spend the summer helping their great uncle Stan run a tourist trap in the mysterious town of Gravity Falls, Oregon.
9
Batman: The Animated Series (1992)
SeriScore 5926.1Audience 8.6/10 HBO Max
Vowing to avenge the murder of his parents, Bruce Wayne devotes his life to wiping out crime in Gotham City as the masked vigilante "Batman".
10
Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005)
SeriScore 4897.2Audience 8.8/10 [object Object]
In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and bring peace to the world.
11
The Owl House (2020)
SeriScore 4088.1Audience 8.7/10 Disney+
Luz, a self-assured teenage human girl, accidentally stumbles upon a portal to a magical new world where she befriends a rebellious witch, Eda, and an adorably tiny warrior, King.
12
The Spectacular Spider-Man (2008)
SeriScore 3827.6Audience 8.6/10 Disney+
Having spent the summer engaging common criminals with his new-found powers, not so typical 16-year-old Peter Parker must conceal his secret identity and battle super-villains in the real world as he enters his junior year of high school.
13
Primal (2019)
SeriScore 2511.9Audience 8.7/10 HBO Max
A caveman forms a bond with a dinosaur as they struggle to survive in a hostile world.
14
Teach You a Lesson (2026)
SeriScore 0.0Audience 9.4/10 [object Object]
An inspector from the Educational Rights Protection Bureau (ERPB) who is authorized by the government to use physical intervention and unconventional methods to discipline delinquent students and reform the educational system.
15
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (2023)
SeriScore 0.0Audience 8.8/10 [object Object]
After the party of heroes defeated the Demon King, they restored peace to the land and returned to lives of solitude. Generations pass, and the elven mage Frieren comes face to face with humanity’s mortality. She takes on a new apprentice and promises to fulfill old friends’ dying wishes. Can an elven mind make peace with the nature of life and death? Frieren embarks on her quest to find out.
16
One Piece (1999)
SeriScore 0.0Audience 8.7/10 [object Object]
Years ago, the fearsome Pirate King, Gol D. Roger was executed leaving a huge pile of treasure and the famous "One Piece" behind. Whoever claims the "One Piece" will be named the new King of the Pirates. Monkey D. Luffy, a boy who consumed a "Devil Fruit," decides to follow in the footsteps of his idol, the pirate Shanks, and find the One Piece. It helps, of course, that his body has the properties of rubber and that he's surrounded by a bevy of skilled fighters and thieves to help him along the way. Luffy will do anything to get the One Piece and become King of the Pirates!
17
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (2009)
SeriScore 0.0Audience 8.7/10 [object Object]
Disregard for alchemy’s laws ripped half of Edward Elric’s limbs from his body and left his brother Alphonse’s soul clinging to a suit of armor. To restore what was lost, the brothers seek the Philosopher’s Stone. Enemies and allies – the corrupt military, the Homunculi, and foreign alchemists – will alter the Elric brothers course, but their purpose will remain unchanged and their bond unbreakable.
18
Weak Hero (2022)
SeriScore 0.0Audience 8.7/10 [object Object]
With the aid of unexpected friends, a gifted but introverted student confronts bullies and violent foes — unaware of how dangerous his world will become.
19
Attack on Titan (2013)
SeriScore 0.0Audience 8.7/10 [object Object]
100 years ago, the last remnants of humanity were forced to retreat behind the towering walls of a fortified city to escape the massive, man-eating Titans that roamed the land outside their fortress. Only the members of the Scouting Legion dared to stray beyond the safety of the walls – but even those brave warriors seldom returned alive. Those within the city clung to the illusion of a peaceful existence until the day that dream was shattered, and their slim chance at survival was reduced to one horrifying choice: kill – or be devoured!
20
Hunter x Hunter (2011)
SeriScore 0.0Audience 8.7/10 [object Object]
Gon, a young boy who lives on Whale Island, dreams of becoming a Hunter like his father, who left when Gon was still young.
21
Ranma ½ (1989)
SeriScore 0.0Audience 8.6/10 [object Object]
Ranma Saotome, a teenage martial artist, and his father Genma travel to the 'cursed training ground' of Jusenkyo in China. There, despite the warnings of the Chinese guard, they fall into the cursed springs. From now on, whenever Ranma is doused in cold water, he turns into a girl and a cute, well-built redhead at that. Hot water changes him back into a man again, but only until the next time. To make matters worse, his father engages him to Akane Tendo, a girl who hates boys.
22
JUJUTSU KAISEN (2020)
SeriScore 0.0Audience 8.6/10 [object Object]
Yuji Itadori is a boy with tremendous physical strength, though he lives a completely ordinary high school life. One day, to save a classmate who has been attacked by curses, he eats the finger of Ryomen Sukuna, taking the curse into his own soul. From then on, he shares one body with Ryomen Sukuna. Guided by the most powerful of sorcerers, Satoru Gojo, Itadori is admitted to Tokyo Jujutsu High School, an organization that fights the curses... and thus begins the heroic tale of a boy who became a curse to exorcise a curse, a life from which he could never turn back.
23
InuYasha (2000)
SeriScore 0.0Audience 8.6/10 [object Object]
Kagome Higurashi is a modern day young girl who lives with her family by the old Higure shrine. Unbeknownst to Kagome, she is the reincarnation of priestess Kikyo and posseses the "Jewel of Four Souls" (the Shikon jewel). One ill-fated day, Kagome locates an ancient well near her home and is abruptly transported through the well and into a feudal Japan, inhabited by demons. There, she encounters Inuyasha, son of a powerful demon father and a human mother, who is pinned to a tree by an enchanted arrow.
24
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012)
SeriScore 0.0Audience 8.6/10 [object Object]
Follow the intergenerational feud between the Joestar Family and various forces of evil, the most prominent of which is Dio Brando and his followers.
25
Naruto Shippūden (2007)
SeriScore 0.0Audience 8.5/10 [object Object]
After 2 and a half years Naruto finally returns to his village of Konoha, and sets about putting his ambitions to work. It will not be easy though as he has amassed a few more dangerous enemies, in the likes of the shinobi organization; Akatsuki.