Best shows on Stan to watch in Australia


Best shows on Stan

What are the best shows on Stan to watch this month? With hundreds of TV series available to watch on Stan, choosing can be a bit hard.

To make things a little bit easier we have selected some of the best titles available on the platform now, giving you an easy, digestible selection of content to choose from. Start streaming TV shows today!

Best shows on Stan

Stan is home to hundreds of movies and TV series, including new originals and latest releases added to the library every week!

The best part is you can kick it all off with a 30-day free trial, which gives you instant access to all the best shows on Stan – including the titles listed below.

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Your Honor

Your Honor

A well-respected judge decides to interfere with justice being served when his teenage son becomes involved in a hit-and-run. Finding out that his son has killed the son of a mob boss, their lives become drastically laced with lies and danger.

  • Details: 2 Seasons, 17 Episodes
  • Genre: Drama
  • Developed by: Peter Moffat
  • Stars: Bryan Cranston, Hunter Doohan, Hope Davis
  • IMDB: 7.6/10

Wu-Tang: An American Saga

Wu-Tang: An American Saga

The biographical drama explores the origins of the hip hop collective Wu-Tang Clan, from its formation to its eventual success with its members choosing music over a life of crime.

  • Details: 3 Seasons, 30 Episodes
  • Genre: Drama
  • Creators: The RZA, Alex Tse
  • Stars: Ashton Sanders, Shameik Moore, Siddiq Saunderson
  • IMDB: 8.3/10

Yellowstone

Yellowstone

One of the best shows on Stan, Yellowstone follows the Dutton family, led by John Dutton (Kevin Costner). As the owners of the largest ranch in the country, they constantly find themselves in a never-ending conflict with those it borders.

After that shocking third season finale, Yellowstone’s season 4 is finally here to answer all those lingering questions that the previous season has brought.

  • Details: 4 Seasons, Episodes 39
  • Genre: Drama
  • Creators: Taylor Sheridan, John Linson
  • Stars: Kevin Costner, Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, Wes Bentley
  • IMDB: 8.6/10

Doctor Who

Doctor Who S13

Season 13 of the popular British sci-fi series finally arrives in Australia on Stan. Even better, Stan also offers complete seasons 1-12 so you won’t have to miss anything.

  • Details: 13 Seasons, 153 Episodes
  • Genre: Sci-Fi
  • Creators: Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber, Donald Wilson
  • Stars: Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, John Bishop
  • IMDB: 8.4/10

New Amsterdam

New Amsterdam

Dr. Max Goodwin is the new medical director at America’s oldest public hospital. Aspiring to provide the best medical care possible, he intends to tear down the bureaucracy that’s always known to get in the way of helping others. Season 5 is the show’s final season.

  • Details: 5 Seasons, 82 Episodes
  • Genre: Medical Drama
  • Creator: David Schulner
  • Stars: Ryan Eggold, Janet Montgomery, Jocko Sims
  • IMDB: 8/10

Walker

Walker TV series

This reboot of the 1990s western drama, Walker, Texas Ranger, stars Jared Padalecki (Supernatural), as Cordell Walker. Returning home to Austin after being undercover for two years, he becomes resolved to rid his hometown of crimes and injustices in ways he knows how.

  • Details: 3 Seasons, 42 Episodes
  • Genre: Action, Drama
  • Based on: Walker, Texas Ranger by Leslie Greif
  • Stars: Jared Padalecki, Lindsey Morgan, Molly Hagan
  • IMDB: 6.1/10

The Serpent Queen

The Serpent Queen

Fancy watching the regal life of a royal, only this time you get more of the grim and the outrageous? If deliciously dark cynicism sounds like something you’d wanna indulge in, The Serpent Queen follows the life of the French Queen Catherine de’ Medici, viewed through a modern lens and bolstered by Samantha Morton’s brilliant performance.

  • Details: 1 Season, 7 Episodes
  • Genre: Period drama
  • Creator: Justin Haythe
  • Stars: Samantha Morton, Amrita Acharia, Barry Atsma
  • IMDB: 7.7/10

Bump S

Bump Season 2

Stan’s most-watched original series, Bump, is finally returning for Season 2. It follows overachieving student, Oly, who has her life already planned out – get high grades, study international relations in college, work for the UN, and make a difference in the world – until her pregnancy.

Shocked, she does not acknowledge her pregnancy entirely. In Season 2, Oly and her boyfriend, Santi, are still figuring things out together, being new parents and their lives changed forever.

  • Details: 2 Seasons, Episodes 20
  • Genre: Comedy Drama
  • Creators: Claudia Karvan, Kelsey Munro
  • Stars: Claudia Karvan, Nathalie Morris, Carlos Sanson Jnr, Angus Sampson
  • IMDB: 7.7/10

Landscapers

Landscapers 2021 series

This true crime series is inspired by real events, involving married couple Susan and Christopher Edwards. It delves into their crime, killing Susan’s parents and burying them in the back garden of their home, which remained undiscovered for more than 10 years.

  • Details: 1 Season, Episodes 4
  • Genre: True crime/Black comedy
  • Creator: Ed Sinclair
  • Stars: Olivia Colman, David Thewlis
  • IMDB: 7.1/10

Station Eleven

Station Eleven 2021 series

Station Eleven revolves around a group of people who survived a flu pandemic years ago. Making their living as traveling performers, they come across a vicious and dangerous cult.

  • Details: 1 Season, Episodes 10
  • Genre: Sci-Fi
  • Creator: Patrick Somerville
  • Stars: Mackenzie Davis, Himesh Patel, David Wilmot, Nabhaan Rizwan
  • IMDB: 7.7/10

The Great

The Great Elle Fanning

Catherine the Nothing rises to Catherine the Great and the journey to royal greatness is not without its wild humour. The saga continues as The Great returns for a second season of more anti-historical exploration through 18th-century Russia.

  • Details: 2 Seasons, Episodes 20
  • Genre: Comedy Drama
  • Creator: Tony McNamara
  • Stars: Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult, Phoebe Fox, Sacha Dhawan
  • IMDB: 8.1/10

Power Book II: Ghost

Power Book II: Ghost

Tariq St. Patrick is a student who divides his time between school and working to pay for his mother’s lawyer. Desperate and hopeless to make ends meet, he’s pulled back in the dangerous drug game.

  • Details: 2 Seasons, Episodes 10
  • Genre: Crime Drama
  • Creator: Courtney A. Kemp
  • Stars: Michael Rainey Jr., Shane Johnson, Gianni Paolo, Melanie Liburd
  • IMDB: 6.9/10

One Of Us Is Lying

One of us is lying cast

Five high school students enter detention together but only four of them walk out alive. With this shocking death, all four of them are questioned and suspected but a mystery lies beneath it all. For sure, though, one of them is lying. This new series is based on Karen McManus’s bestselling debut novel of the same name.

  • Details: 2 Seasons, 16 Episodes
  • Genre: Mystery Drama
  • Director: Jennifer Morrison
  • Stars: Mark McKenna, Marianly Tejada, Cooper van Grootel
  • IMDB: 6.8/10

High Town

High Town poster

High Town follows Jackie Quinones, a National Marine Fisheries officer who constantly finds herself entangled in mysterious crimes. After the events of the first season, she finally achieves her dream of becoming a cop, but this time she’s intent on taking on drug dealer Frankie Cuevas.

  • Details: 2 Seasons, Episodes 18
  • Genre: Crime Drama
  • Creator: Rebecca Cutter
  • Stars: Monica Raymund, Riley Voelkel, Shane Harper
  • IMDB: 6.5/10

Hitmen Reloaded

Hitmen Season 2

Fran and Jamie are best friends with only each other to rely on. They also rely on being assassins for hire to earn for a living, but their assignments are often laced with their constant bickering, misadventures, and even incompetence. The duo’s misadventures only continues with the upcoming second season titled Reloaded.

  • Details: 2 Seasons, Episodes 12
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Creators: Joe Markham, Joe Parham
  • Stars: Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins, Asim Chaudhry
  • IMDB: 5.3/10

Billions

Billions Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti

Nothing tells a story about greed, power, and bitter rivalries than Billions does. With strong performances from lead stars Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti, viewers are constantly thrust into a world of brilliant scheming and twisted alliances, making this TV drama as riveting as it should be.

  • Details: 6 Seasons, 72 Episodes
  • Genre: Drama
  • Creators: Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Stars: Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis, Maggie Siff, David Costabile
  • IMDB: 8.4/10

Chapelwaite

Chapelwaite Adrian Brody

Based on Stephen King’s short story, Jerusalem’s Lot, Chapelwaite follows Captain Charles Boone. After his wife dies at sea, he relocates with his three children to his ancestral home in Preacher’s Corners in Maine. Settling proves to be difficult and frightening as his family’s dark history reawakens to haunt them.

  • Details: 1 Season, Episodes 10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Developed by: Jason Filardi, Peter Filardi
  • Stars: Adrien Brody, Emily Hampshire
  • IMDB: 7.5/10

Godfather of Harlem

Godfather of Harlem series

America in the 60s was a melting pot of cultures, free love, and crime. Harlem provides a perfect setting for a gangster, Bumpy Johnson, to stamp his mark on the city and relegate his rivals. The series offers a time capsule to an era that defined America, and the rest of the world. Don’t miss the second season of Godfather of Harlem dropping on Stan this month.

  • Details: 2 Seasons, Episodes 16
  • Genre: Crime – Drama
  • Creators: Chris Brancato, Paul Eckstein
  • Stars: Forest Whitaker, Lucy Fry, Nigel Thatch
  • IMDB: 8/10

Dr. Death

Dr. Death Joshua Jackson

A young, charismatic doctor in Texas establishes himself in the local medical community with his successful neurosurgery practice. But when his patients start leaving his operating room either dead or permanently disabled, two fellow surgeons and a prosecutor must do everything it takes to put a stop to his crimes. Based on the true story of Dr. Christopher Duntsch.

  • Details: 1 Season, Episodes 8
  • Genre: Crime – Drama
  • Creators: Patrick Macmanus
  • Stars: Joshua Jackson, Alec Baldwin, Christian Slater, Grace Gummer
  • IMDB: 7.7/10

Miracle Workers

Miracle Workers S3

This anthology comedy series features a new storyline each season. The first one is set in heaven and had Steve Buscemi playing God who’s gotten indifferent to the world’s plight that a low-level angel decides to take on the task of preventing Earth’s destruction. The second season combines adventures and shenanigans during the Dark Ages. Finally, Season 3 returns and heads West with Miracle Workers: Oregon Trail, bringing the highs and the lows of the American Old West with it. 

  • Details: 3 Seasons, 22 Episodes
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Creators: Simon Rich
  • Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Geraldine Viswanathan, Karan Soni, Steve Buscemi
  • IMDB: 7/10

Power Book III: Raising Kanan

Power Book III Raising Kanan 2021

Power Book III: Raising Kanan follows Kanan Stark in his early years during the ’90s. It is the third story to the Power franchise and the prequel to the original.

  • Details: 1 Season, Episodes 6
  • Genre: Crime – Drama
  • Creators: Sascha Penn
  • Stars: Malcolm M. Mays, Mekai Curtis, Omar Epps
  • IMDB: 7/10

Drag Race Down Under

Drag Race Down Under poster

The ultimate drag show finally lands Down Under. Ru Paul brings the signature competition to participants from Australia and New Zealand. Will the different culture and different climate affect the show? Watch the new season to find out.

  • Details: 1 Season, Episodes 8
  • Genre: Reality
  • Creator: RuPaul Charles
  • Stars: RuPaul, Michelle Visage, Rhys Nicholson
  • IMDB: 5.4/10

No Activity

No Activity series

This series is testament to the fact that hell is actually being stuck with another person. No Activity takes a funny look at working relationships: two low level cops with nothing much to do; two dispatch workers who cannot get along; a couple of tunnel diggers in Mexico confined in a close space. Hilarious comedy ensues with a touch of bittersweet drama.

  • Details: 3 Seasons, Episodes 24
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Creators: Patrick Brammall, Trent O’Donnell
  • Stars: Patrick Brammall, Sunita Mani, Amy Sedaris
  • IMDB: 6.8/10

Girls5eva

Girls5eva series

The 90s were the boom time for girl bands. Then came the new millennium. A one hit wonder from the 90s gets a rare second shot at fame when a new, popular artist samples their song. Will the girls be able to handle fame and each other once again? A fun new show to watch.

  • Details: 2 Seasons, 16 Episodes
  • Genre: Musical Comedy
  • Creator: Meredith Scardino
  • Stars: Sara Bareilles, Busy Philipps, Paula Pell
  • IMDB: 7.1/10

The Bold Type

the bold type series

Navigating work and personal relationships can be tough anywhere. Even more so in New York City. Three young women find their own way through the maze of life, overcoming different obstacles and challenges. All while working for one of the most popular women’s magazine in the world. They definitely are The Bold Type.

  • Details: 5 Seasons, Episodes 52
  • Genre: Drama, Comedy
  • Creator: Sarah Watson
  • Stars: Katie Stevens, Aisha Dee, Meghann Fahy
  • IMDB: 8/10

The Handmaid’s Tale

The Handmaid's Tale S3

The Handmaid’s Tale is definitely one of the best shows on Stan. It follows June Osbourne as he resumes her fight in a brand new season of this harsh, dystopian series. She is stronger and more determined to not only survive the horrors around her but also face her oppressors. 

  • Details: 4 Seasons, Episodes 46
  • Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
  • Creator: Bruce Miller
  • Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Joseph Fiennes
  • IMDB: 8.4/10

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