If viewers are fans of Animal Kingdom, it's apparent that they are fans of television filled with crime, drama, and action. Animal Kingdom has been running since 2016 and has received great reviews from all around. After four seasons in the bag, a fifth is on its way sometime in 2020. Fans are anxiously waiting, as things took an unfortunate turn at the end of season four. To say the least, the upcoming season will be interesting, as it's up in the air as to what the Cody boys will do next.

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For now, there's a need for binge-worthy shows to fill the space while fans wait on Animal Kingdom. There are a ton of shows out there that involve crime, families with die-hard loyalty, risky business, and untrustworthy partners; this type of show isn't new to television, but the storylines keep getting better and better.

Updated January 19th, 2022 by Ben Hathaway: There are numerous crime saga shows on the air, so many that it can be hard to choose the right series to devote one's time to watching. However, some shows rise above the rest, and they're worth a watch before Animal Kingdom wraps up with its sixth and final season.

Justified (2010-2015)

Raylan Givens pointing his gun in Justified

Streaming On Hulu

FX's Justified was benefited primarily from two things: author Elmore Leonard's violent/funny sensibility and Timothy Olyphant's rock-solid lead performance as Raylan Givens.

Givens was a character in several Leonard stories and novels: Riding the RapProntoFire in the Hole, and RaylanFire in the Hole, in particular, was a major inspiration for the show in its first season. Along with Olyphant's Givens is Walton Goggins' Boyd Crowder, one of the more interesting and conflicted characters in crime TV history. In January of 2022, nearly six years after the series concluded, Justified: City Primeval was announced. It's to be a miniseries (with Olyphant returning) partially based on Leonard's City Primeval, which interestingly enough did not feature Givens. However, its occasionally grimy tone was similar to the Raylan books and Justified's most intense moments.

Godfather Of Harlem (2019- )

Forest Whitaker in The Godfather of Harlem

Streaming On Epix

Many of Godfather of Harlem's best characters are based on real-life historical figures: Malcolm X, Bumpy Johnson, Cassius Clay, Frank Costello. All of them, as well as the performances across the board, are stunningly realized.

Epix's series has another reason to watch it: Godfather of Harlem is a prequel to Ridley Scott's American Gangster. The cast is also blessed with several acting legends: Forest Whitaker, Paul Sorvino, Giancarlo Esposito, and Vincent D'Onofrio, among others. The series has been renewed for a third season.

The Sopranos (1999-2007)

The Sopranos James Gandolfini Tony Soprano money

Streaming On HBO Max

Having kicked off the era of prestige television as well as stoking audiences' appetite for crime series centered on complex antiheroes, HBO's The Sopranos has a massive, glowing reputation that precedes it. As responsible for making HBO as South Park was for making Comedy Central, the series features a substantial cast of characters, almost all of whom are given their satisfying due.

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But it's Tony Soprano who holds it all together. The late James Gandolfini's jaw-dropping performance is as noteworthy in the 2020s as it was in the late '90s and early aughts.

Sons Of Anarchy (2008-2014)

Sons of Anarchy spoiled own finale jaxs death before it released

Streaming On Hulu

Sons of Anarchy tells the story of a motorcycle club that operates legally and illegally, depending on the business they do. The club is based in a small town named Charming, where they combine the gun trade, adult films, and a motorcycle garage all together. As the old-school president of Sons of Anarchy, Clay Morrow smartly likes to keep things the way they are. Jax, the club's vice president, believes it's time for a change. Viewers will come to find that some characters are difficult to simply love or hate.

After Jax finds his father's old journals, everything changes, some for the good and for the bad. As the saga unfolds, viewers will have to find out for themselves.

Queen Of The South (2016-2021)

Veronica Falcon in Queen of the South

Streaming On Netflix

Since 2016, Queen of the South proves that strong, female leads make the best television, no matter what. When the main character, Teresa, flees her home in Mexico after her drug-runner boyfriend is killed. She ends up settling in Dallas, TX and from then on, she takes matters into her own hands to become the country's biggest and most powerful drug smuggler to avenge her boyfriend's death.

Starring actress Alice Braga, this show is filled with action, the script is excellent and the storyline keeps viewers on the edge of their seats.

Kingdom (2014-2017)

Alvey tapes up his right hand in the gym in Kingdom

Streaming On Peacock

Even though Kingdom lasted for three short seasons, it still made an impact on its viewers and was dubbed one of the most underrated shows on television. To start, when a retired MMA fighter becomes a trainer, he finds that keeping his personal and professional life afloat is much tougher than he could have ever imagined.

With two sons also on the line, Alvey Kulina, played by Frank Grillo, must make decisions and hope they're the right ones for everyone.

Succession (2018- )

The cast of Succession walking side by side

Streaming On HBO Max

Succession is an age-old story of a wealthy and brilliant patriarch, trying to hold onto his legacy for as long as he can, without his kids' help. Of course, the children don't agree with this and want him to move on a retire early.

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The show shows what greed looks like amongst siblings and the power to be in control of the company shows desperation amongst the family, which is a wild ride to watch. Brian Cox, who plays Logan Roy, does an amazing job in this role, making it one of the actor's best roles to date.

Ray Donovan (2013-2022)

Ray looking back and frowning in Ray Donovan

Streaming On Showtime

Since 2013, Ray Donovan has been picking up speed in popularity and the drama never stops throughout each season. Starring Liev Schreiber, he plays a professional "fixer" named Ray Donovan, with the rich and famous as his clients.

Living in Los Angeles, he seems like the less-political male version of Scandal's Olivia Pope, even if she didn't make the best decisions, as he makes his client's problems disappear. Donovan seems like he has everything figured out, except when it comes to his own family. Showtime wrapped up the series in 2022 with the well-received Ray Donovan: The Movie.

Bloodline (2015-2017)

The cast of Bloodline on an island

Streaming On Netflix

In 2015, a new series was born, with an incredible storyline and familiar faces as the cast. Bloodline is a show about a family that finds themselves forced to confront secrets from the past when a family member returns home.

Starring Kyle Chandler, Linda Cardellini, and Sissy Spacek, Bloodline only survived for three seasons, but in those seasons, family ties were tested and the line between good and evil was blurred when drugs are introduced into the family business.

Greenleaf (2016-2020)

The cast of Greenleaf looking in concern

Streaming On Netflix

For five seasons, Greenleaf entertained viewers as a drama/mystery about a wealthy, but dysfunctional family known as the Greenleafs. This is a great show that lets viewers into a world of the corrupt and reminds everyone that what people see on the outside, might not be the whole truth. Headed by church owners, Bishop James Greenleaf and his wife, Lady Mae Greenleaf, it's chock-full of secrets, loss, and lies.

Ozark (2020- )

Laura Linney and Jason Bateman in Netflix's Ozark

Streaming On Netflix

Ozark, a Netflix Original, is an American crime drama about a financial planner named Marty Byrde, played by Jason Bateman. Byrde suddenly had to uproot his life and because of this, moves his family from a major city to a summer resort in Missouri.

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It seems pretty straightforward until the audience finds out he has to launder money to pay off a debt to a dangerous man. This is one of Bateman's most serious roles to date, that's played perfectly and successfully.

Power (2014-2020)

Starz Series Power 50 Cent

Streaming On Hulu

James "Ghost" St. Patrick, a wealthy New York club owner, lives a life amongst the glamorous and wealthy. St. Patrick caters to the elite in Manhatten while finding the time to live a double life as a drug kingpin. Starring Omari Hardwick as St. Patrick and rap legend, 50 Cent as Kanan, Power is a thrilling ride, with a serious realism a lot of shows can't pull off.

The series shows the audience an inside view of a fictional world of the rich and famous and the dirty deeds they do to get what they want.

Peaky Blinders (2013- )

Tommy Shelby smoking in Peaky Blinders

Streaming On Netflix

Since 2013, Peaky Blinders has remained an incredibly popular show among fans who crave a different era of crime drama. It's about a crime family operating in 1919 England, a gang that uses newsboy caps embedded with razors as weapons (hence the name) and takes orders from a man named Tommy Shelby.

Peaky Blinders has no shortage of major deaths, powerful characters, and binge-worthy seasons, one after the other. In fact, this might be one of Cillian Murphy's most popular characters to date and he deserves all of the attention for it. With the upcoming sixth season being the series' last, audiences will have a good chance to give Shelby a proper goodbye.

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