Top 10 Most Killer Series of All Time
Top 10 Most Killer Series of All Time
Here we are with the most "killer" shows ever: killer as defined by body-count, that is. Murderers, gangsters, vampires, cannibals, drug dealers -- they're all in here.
Exploring the world of a killer is something TV writers do best. This week on THE WRITERS' ROOM, go behind-the-scenes of Dexter with actor Michael C. Hall, show runner Scott Buck, and the team who brought Dexter Morgan to life. Watch THE WRITERS' ROOM: DEXTER, Monday August 12 at 10pm.
Photo Credit: Randy Tepper/SHOWTIME10. Breaking Bad
"How much is enough?"
How much is enough? For Walter White, there appears to be no limit. A good man gone bad, Walter has managed to leave a fairly impressive trail of destruction in his wake; bombs, plane crashes, murdered drug dealers, murdered drug henchmen, nearly killing a child on purpose. All of this is pretty impressive, considering Mr. White went from being just a mild-mannered high school teacher and all. And so, Walter White, we salute you. You may have destroyed your family and your own life as well, but you've turned into one of the all-time best cold-blooded TV killers.
Don't miss your favorite killer shows, including Breaking Bad, featured on THE WRITERS' ROOM, Mondays at 10pm. This week it's an all new episode: Go behind-the-scenes of Dexter with actor Michael C. Hall, show runner Scott Buck, and the team who brought Dexter Morgan to life.
Photo Credit: AMC Press9. Hannibal
"Here we are; a bunch of psychopaths helping each other out."
Dr. Hannibal Lecter became a pop culture phenomenon with the The Silence of the Lambs, but the series of movies about him descended into camp and general not-good-ness, and even a terrible prequel (that'd be Hannibal Rising). But who would have thought that the psychotic cannibal would make for a great TV character? But he does. Hannibal Lecter gave birth to the serial killer "genre," and here he is, two decades later, still frightening and seducing us all in Hannibal the television show.
Don't miss your favorite killer shows featured on THE WRITERS' ROOM. All new on Monday 8/12 at 10pm: Go behind-the-scenes of Dexter with actor Michael C. Hall, show runner Scott Buck, and the team who brought Dexter Morgan to life.
Photo Credit: NBC8. The Vampire Diaries
"I think I know what can help you. "...What’s that?" "Death."
Vampires, vampires! And high school! Where did The Vampires Diaries ever get all their ideas from? Anyway, it hardly matters at this point. The Vampire Diaries has the highest kill rate on network television, with an average of 18 human deaths, and 16 non-human deaths... per episode. (Beating out even The Walking Dead, which is a TV show about dead people murdering other people.) Sure, The Vampire Diaries might be a rip-off of the other high school vampire-based thing that you're thinking of. (Hint: Twilight) But still, that's an impressive kill-count. Still; I'm embarrassed to even talk about this show. Let's never mention this again. Let's move on to the next thing.
Don't miss your favorite killer shows featured on THE WRITERS' ROOM. All new on Monday 8/12 at 10pm: Go behind-the-scenes of Dexter with actor Michael C. Hall, show runner Scott Buck, and the team who brought Dexter Morgan to life.
Photo Credit: The CW7. Game of Thrones
"What do you expect? They're savages."
It's hard to be the king. It's hard to be anywhere near the king. It's hard to be on this show without getting brutally murdered and ending up with your head on a stake. But that's just day-to-day life in the world of Westeros. If you want to be king, or queen; you've got to be ruthless, which makes Game of Thrones one of the murder-y-est shows of all time. In fact, a study shows that the series averages fourteen deaths per episode. That works out to a death every 4.2 minutes! Just another indication that in Westeros, you'd best watch your step -- and your head.
Don't miss your favorite killer shows, including Game of Thrones, featured on THE WRITERS' ROOM, Mondays at 10pm. This week it's an all new episode: Go behind-the-scenes of Dexter with actor Michael C. Hall, show runner Scott Buck, and the team who brought Dexter Morgan to life.
Photo Credit: Helen Sloan/HBO6. The Walking Dead
"Don't panic."
What if the world came to an end... and you survived? That's the set up for The Walking Dead, essentially Night of the Living Dead, as a TV show, except with even more gore. As Rick Grimes and his hearty band of survivors fight off, shoot, decapitate, and otherwise kill zombie after zombie, one might ask -- what did the zombies ever do to them? Okay, yes, sure; the zombies are trying to kill the humans too. But hey; that's their nature. Everyone's just trying to get by in this brave, zombie-eat-human kind of world.
Don't miss your favorite killer shows featured on THE WRITERS' ROOM. All new on Monday 8/12 at 10pm: Go behind-the-scenes of Dexter with actor Michael C. Hall, show runner Scott Buck, and the team who brought Dexter Morgan to life.
Photo Credit: AMC5. Twin Peaks
"..Who killed Laura Palmer?"
In the early '90s, David Lynch's Twin Peaks plunged us into a surreal world of murder and small-town eccentricity. The show revealed Laura Palmer's killer in season two; after that, Lynch took the liberties of making the show… well, more Lynchian, and ended up a classic before its time. The show was canceled, leaving Special Agent Dale Cooper forever stranded in the mysterious Black Lodge. Still, its cult following continues to grow for curious viewers looking for a "damn fine cup of coffee", a "cherry pie that'll kill ya", and the weirdest bunch of characters ever on TV.
Don't miss your favorite killer shows featured on THE WRITERS' ROOM. All new on Monday 8/12 at 10pm: Go behind-the-scenes of Dexter with actor Michael C. Hall, show runner Scott Buck, and the team who brought Dexter Morgan to life.
Photo Credit: ABC4. True Blood
"If we can't kill people, what's the point of being a vampire?"
"Blood" is right there in the title, so we pretty much know what we're getting into here. Vampires, vampires, and more vampires. Through five seasons, True Blood has tracked the life and death of vampires, werewolves, fairies, shape-shifters, and so on. But mostly vampires; with the biting and the blood, and the gushing, and so on. And these are some real vampires; not wimpy abstinence-sparkle-glitter-style vampires. So if you want some good-old-fashioned biting and killing action, True Blood is the show for you.
Don't miss your favorite killer shows featured on THE WRITERS' ROOM. All new on Monday 8/12 at 10pm: Go behind-the-scenes of Dexter with actor Michael C. Hall, show runner Scott Buck, and the team who brought Dexter Morgan to life.
Photo Credit: HBO3. Dexter
"I'm neither man nor beast. I'm something new entirely. With my own set of rules."
Perhaps the first show to ever make a serial-killer the hero, Dexter manages a high kill-count with impressive regularity. Though Dexter Morgan has a moral code (a complicated one), he's still a killer; it's the brilliant trick of the show that we come to sympathizes with, and even like, him. Michael C. Hall embodies Dexter perfectly, and he managed to breathe new life into the killer TV genre.
Don't miss your favorite killer shows featured on THE WRITERS' ROOM, Mondays at 10pm. This week it's an all new episode: Go behind-the-scenes of Dexter with actor Michael C. Hall, show runner Scott Buck, and the team who brought Dexter Morgan to life.
Photo Credit: Randy Tepper/SHOWTIME2. Six Feet Under
"You only get one life. ...And once it's over, it's over. Dreamless sleep forever and ever. So why not be happy while you're here. Really. Why not?"
It's hard to get more "killer-ish" than Six Feet Under; the show that began every episode with a death, and a caption reminiscent of a tombstone's epitaph. Following the lives of the Fisher family as they attempted to manage a funeral home, each episode focused on the death of a stranger whose body came to the funeral home. The show's message: everything everywhere eventually ends. But this is not a reason for sadness, it's a reason to enjoy life while we have it.
Don't miss your favorite killer shows featured on THE WRITERS' ROOM. All new on Monday 8/12 at 10pm: Go behind-the-scenes of Dexter with actor Michael C. Hall, show runner Scott Buck, and the team who brought Dexter Morgan to life.
Photo Credit: HBO1. The Sopranos
"Some will win, some will lose Some were born to sing the blues Oh, the movie never ends It goes on and on and on and on..."
It's impossible not to put The Sopranos at the top of this list. The ultimate "killer" show followed the ups and downs of Tony Soprano for six amazing seasons. And even when the show ended... it never really ended. After all the hits and murders, we wound up with Tony and his family sitting in a quiet diner -- and then... the screen went to black. Was Tony killed? What happened? Theories abound, but what creator David Chase did with the final episode was allow us to resolve the story in our minds -- imagine our own ending for Tony, or our own continuance. The concept of The Sopranos changed TV forever, and the Journey song playing at the diner gives us all a clue: after all, the story never ends. It just goes on and on and on.
Don't miss your favorite killer shows featured on THE WRITERS' ROOM. All new on Monday 8/12 at 10pm: Go behind-the-scenes of Dexter with actor Michael C. Hall, show runner Scott Buck, and the team who brought Dexter Morgan to life.
Photo Credit: HBO
