10 Most Binge-Worthy Superhero TV Shows

Numerous DC and Marvel superhero TV shows are engaging enough to be great binge-watches. TV shows devoted to superheroes have been around for decades in both live-action and animated forms. Many DC and Marvel TV shows have also produced some of the most memorable stories involving their respective characters.

In the modern era of streaming, the concept of binge-watching has made the idea of going through an entire season or more of a given series increasingly commonplace. Numerous animated and live-action superhero TV shows have proven themselves to be engaging and gripping enough to be fully worthy of binge-watching over a long weekend, or whatever time frame is needed to fully complete them. Here are the 10 most binge-worthy superhero TV shows.

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10 Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Is Spy-Filled Fun

The Avengers Have A Great Support Team

The MCU’s first TV spin-off followed on the heels of The Avengers, with the previously thought dead Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) leading a team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents on support missions for Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is full of light-hearted fun, with Gregg’s ever-endearing Coulson truly becoming a leader after his largely comedic cameos in the MCU’s Phase 1 movies. With seven seasons of spy-centric cloak and dagger adventures to dive into, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is always fun to revisit.

9 Loki Is Disney+’s Best Marvel Show

The God Of Mischief Brings All Of His Innate Charm

The MCU’s God of Mischief gets into plenty of it in his two-season Disney+ series Loki, with Tom Hiddleston reprising his role from the mainline MCU films. As a branched variant of his old self due to the time-travel elements of Avengers: Endgame, Loki embarks on a Doctor Who-esque adventure through the multiverse and alternate timelines with his ally Mobius (Owen Wilson) and female variant Slyvie (Sophia Di Martino). Loki seemingly won’t return for season 3, but the heroic redemption Loki season 2’s ending gives to its title character makes for a very fitting emotional capstone to his arc as a villain and anti-hero in the MCU.

8 The Flash Is A Fast-Paced Adventure

The Scarlet Speedster’s Journey Is An Exhilarating Sprint Through The Speed Force

Grant Gustin brings all the happy-go-lucky joy of the Scarlet Speedster to life through his nine-year performance as Barry Allen in The Flash, which also benefits from great visual effects and action scenes to bring The Flash’s super-speed to life. The Flash’s rogue’s gallery are also fully utilized on the show, while Barry’s powers of time and multiverse travel make The Flash one of the lynchpins of DC’s multiverse (especially in the surprise meeting of Gustin and Ezra Miller’s characters in The CW’s Crisis On Infinite Earths crossover). The Flash can be a bit on the corny side at times, but its story still makes it fun to speed alongside The Fastest Man Alive.

7 Arrow Brings DC Grit To The Small Screen

Oliver Queen Embarks On A Hero’s Journey

The Emerald Archer brings his fury upon the criminals of Starling City on Arrow, which follows billionaire socialite Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) as he returns home after years of being shipwrecked and uses his new skills to become a masked vigilante. Arrow‘s leaps between present-tense and flashback storytelling keeps its surprise twists plentiful, while the show also serves as the foundation of the entire Arrowverse of interconnected DC shows on The CW. Amell’s committed performance as the taut, keen-eyed Oliver Queen combined with Arrow‘s dark tone and rough-and-tumble action scenes make the show a very bingeable treat.

6 Superman: The Animated Series Is A Fantastic Superman Adaptation

The Series Does The Man Of Steel Justice

One of the purest Superman adaptations ever made is Superman: The Animated Series, which retells the Last Son of Krypton’s origin story and rise to become a hero for the ’90s. The dynamic animation style and surprisingly mature storytelling keeps Superman: The Animated Series a fast-paced, consistently engaging watch, while the show also brings nearly every major Superman villain into play in unique and entertaining stories. Combined with Tim Daly and Dana Delany’s chemistry as Superman and Lois Lane, Superman: The Animated Series remains an animated blast from the past.

5 Batman: The Animated Series Holds Up Decades Later

The Show Helped Push Superhero Animation To New Levels

Following on the heels of Tim Burton’s Batman movies, Batman: The Animated Series brings a genuinely adult level of storytelling to the story of Kevin Conroy’s Dark Knight, but one that still works for all ages. Batman: The Animated Series remains one of the most popular and beloved Batman adaptations ever produced, with Conroy and Mark Hamill becoming universally associated with Batman and the Joker, respectively, through their vocal performances on the show. As a deep and captivating dive into the Caped Crusader’s mythos, rogue’s gallery, and allies, Batman: The Animated Series remains a binge-worthy DC blast.

4 Justice League Unlimited Is An Epic Superhero Adventure

DC’s Heroes Unite To Defend The World

The direct continuation of the early 2000’s Justice League animated series, Justice League Unlimited turns everything up to eleven, right from its guitar-riffing opening sequence. All of the Justice League’s heroes get some of their best moments outside the comics in Justice League Unlimited, with the show culminating in one of the most epic displays of strength by Superman against Darkseid (voiced by Michael Ironside). The heroes of the Justice League are superhero legends for a reason, and the enthralling adventures that Justice League Unlimited takes them on is a reminder of why.

3 Smallville Is A Powerful Superman Origin Story

Clark Kent Goes On An Epic Journey To Become The Man Of Steel

Running for an astonishing 10 seasons from 2001 to 2011, Smallville tells an epic and even heartwarming story of the young Clark Kent (Tom Welling) discovering his powers and Kryptonian heritage on his journey to eventually becoming Superman. Welling’s performance as Smallville‘s youthful Clark Kent alone makes the series worthy of a revisit long after its conclusion, while his friendship with a young Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) grounds the series in a tale of two friends whose bond is doomed by where their moral compasses will eventually lead them. Smallville also deeply mines the lore of the DC Universe and establishes its own versions of the Justice League and Justice Society of America.

2 Superman & Lois Is A Whole New Superhero Show

Clark Kent Becomes A Husband And A Father

A more mature take on the Man of Steel, Superman & Lois follows Tyler Hoechlin’s Clark Kent as he does his best to raise his teenage sons with his wife Lois (Elizabeth Tulloch) in Smallville, while maintaining his heroic life. Superman & Lois fires on all cylinders with epic action scenes well beyond any other live-action superhero show and the emotional bond of Clark with his son Jordan (Alex Garfin) as he guides him to harness his own Kryptonian powers. Superman & Lois also goes out of its way to show its appreciation for virtually every version of Superman to precede it, and catching the show’s tribute to everything from the Christopher Reeve Superman movies to Man of Steel adds to its bingeability.

1 Daredevil Brings The Man Without Fear To Life

Matt Murdock Made Hallway Fights A New Trend

The first entry of the Marvel-Netflix era, Daredevil is the crowning achievement of that streaming partnership and one of the finest comic book television shows ever made. Charlie Cox is pitch-perfect as Matt Murdock, a soft-spoken, kind-hearted attorney from Hell’s Kitchen concealing superhuman senses and fighting skills. Meanwhile, Vincent D’Onofrio is nothing less than terrifying as Wilson Fisk aka the Kingpin, a man whose barely restrained fury erupts in the most violent ways imaginable, with Fisk’s animalistic fighting style making him a real threat to Daredevil.

In its three-season run and crossover into Netflix’s The Defenders miniseries, Daredevil also sets a very new and very high standard for action on a superhero TV show with its outstanding ninja-style martial arts fights. Indeed, Daredevil‘s one-shot hallway fights are one of the show’s calling cards, while Frank Miller’s influence is felt in all aspects of the story, especially in the Born Again-inspired season 3. Marvel-Netflix’s Daredevil is the kind of superhero TV series that binging was made for, and it remains the most binge-worthy superhero TV series to date.