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14 Action TV Shows That Will Keep Your Heart Rate Up While Watching

By Kailey Hansen,

1 day ago

After a long and stressful day, there's nothing better than unwinding with a TV series full of high-stakes drama and nail-biting action sequences... right? Whether it's dragon battles or crime-fighting superheroes, these 15 shows will have your heart rate up from the couch.

1. Supacell (2024) — 100% on Rotten Tomatoes

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1qiIYg_0uk6LO9d00 — "In South London, a group of normal people suddenly develop superpowers, and the only apparent connection between them is that they are all Black; as they deal with the impact of their powers on their daily lives, one man must bring them together."
**Watch this if:** You like your action TV served with a side of sci-fi.
Netflix / Via tenor.com

2. The Last of Us (2023) — 96% on Rotten Tomatoes

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=277hkM_0uk6LO9d00 — "Joel and Ellie must survive ruthless killers and monsters on a trek across America after an outbreak."
**Watch this if:** Post-apocalyptic survival and zombies are your thing.
HBO Max / Via tenor.com

3. Vikings: Valhalla (2022) — 96% on Rotten Tomatoes

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1WE05p_0uk6LO9d00 — "The adventures of famous Vikings as they blaze new paths in an ever-changing Europe."
**Watch this if:** You prefer that action sequences include swords or bows and arrows.
Netflix / Via tenor.com

4. The Boys (2019) - 93% on Rotten Tomatoes

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3tjzcV_0uk6LO9d00 — "Superheroes are often as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians, and sometimes even as revered as gods. But that's when they're using their powers for good. What happens when the heroes go rogue and start abusing their powers? When it's the powerless against the super powerful, the Boys head out on a heroic quest to expose the truth about the Seven and Vought, the multibillion-dollar conglomerate that manages the superheroes and covers up their dirty secrets. Based on the comic book series of the same name."
**Watch this if:** You're in the mood for a gritty (and sometimes gory) superhero series.
Amazon Prime Video / Via tenor.com

5. Fallout (2024) — 94% on Rotten Tomatoes

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0W4TZT_0uk6LO9d00 — " Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. Two-hundred years after the apocalypse , the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind—and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them."
**Watch this if:** You enjoy otherworldly and eclectic TV.
Amazon Prime Video / Via tenor.com

6. Daredevil (2015) — 92% on Rotten Tomatoes

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1raG5O_0uk6LO9d00 — "The first in a planned series of shows detailing the Marvel universe, *Daredevil* follows Matt Murdock, attorney by day and vigilante by night. Blinded in an accident as a child, Murdock uses his heightened senses as Daredevil to fight crime on the streets of New York after the sun goes down. While Murdock's day job requires him to believe in the criminal justice system, his alter ego does not follow suit, leading him to take the law into his own hands to protect his Hell's Kitchen neighborhood and the surrounding communities."
**Watch this if:** Superhero stuff is your jam.
Netflix / Via tenor.com

7. Game of Thrones (2011) — 89% on Rotten Tomatoes

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1a96tG_0uk6LO9d00 — "George R.R. Martin's best-selling book series *A Song of Ice and Fire* is brought to the screen as HBO sinks its considerable storytelling teeth into the medieval fantasy epic. It's the depiction of two powerful families -- kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars and honest men -- playing a deadly game for control of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, and to sit atop the Iron Throne. Martin is credited as a co-executive producer and one of the writers for the series, whose shooting locations include Northern Ireland, Malta, Croatia and Spain."
**Watch this if:** You want intense battle scenes, gut-wrenching plot twists, and to invest in one of the best action/fantasy series of all time.
HBO Max / Via tenor.com

8. House of Dragon (2022) — 89% on Rotten Tomatoes

9. 24 (2001) — 87% on Rotten Tomatoes

10. Alias (2001) — 86% on Rotten Tomatoes

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0KxRdE_0uk6LO9d00 — "A young woman learns she has a familial history of undercover work and agrees to become an international spy for a supposed secret branch of the CIA. The secrecy complicates her social and love lives, but it's nothing compared to what happens when she finds out her employer has no ties to the CIA."
**Watch this if:** Shows involving spies and secret agencies strike your fancy.
ABC / Via tenor.com

11. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022) — 83% on Rotten Tomatoes

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0fjOOs_0uk6LO9d00 — "Prime Video's *The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power* brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-Earth's history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Hobbit* and *The Lord of the Rings* , and will take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads, and the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien's pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness. Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-Earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf-capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the furthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long after they are gone."
**Watch this if:** Escaping to a fantasy realm of hobbits, orcs, elves, and other mystical creatures is your ideal.
Amazon Prime Video / Via tenor.com

12. Star Wars: The Acolyte (2024) — 80% on Rotten Tomatoes

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2Fln4e_0uk6LO9d00 — "A former Padawan reunites with her Jedi Master to investigate a series of crimes but discovers the forces they confront are more sinister than they ever anticipated."
**Watch this if:** You want action sequences to involve lightsabers.
Disney+ / Via tenor.com

13. The Witcher (2019) — 80% on Rotten Tomatoes

14. Jack Ryan (2018) — 78% on Rotten Tomatoes

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