01 Uneven, but its best stretches show real promise for the character going forward.
10 Best DC TV Series
By Vlad Zakh · August 25, 2026
Watchmen and Peacemaker show how far DC TV is willing to push tone in opposite directions, prestige and pitch-black satire versus loud, profane fun. Arrow and The Flash built an entire shared universe that ran for over a decade on network television.
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02 Grounded the character in family drama in a way few prior adaptations attempted.
03 A prequel built entirely around the villains, which turned out to be the right call.
04 An animated series that found a genuinely sharp comic voice for its lead.
05 The weirdest, most purely inventive superhero show DC has ever produced.
06 A darker, more violent take on a team usually played much lighter.
07 Leaned hardest into comic-accurate multiverse chaos of the whole Arrowverse.
08 The show that kicked off an entire decade of interconnected DC network television.
09 Loud, profane, and far funnier and more emotionally sincere than the premise suggests.
10 A genuinely ambitious continuation of the original comic that stands entirely on its own.