25 Best TV Shows About Angels You Need to Watch
In today’s article, we are bringing you the best show about angels you can watch right now. Some of them include angels of good kinds, while some other angels don’t have such good intentions.
Still, in case you are looking for shows about angels, you can’t go wrong with any from the list below. Check them out and find your next watch.
Miracle Workers (2019– )
A comedy set in the offices of Heaven, Inc. After God decides to destroy the Earth, two low-ranking angels must convince him to save the human race. The series is based on the book “What in God’s Name” by Simon Rich.
Angel (1999–2004)
Angelus or Angel is a vampire whose human soul is returned by the gypsies as a punishment for killing one of them. After almost a century of killing and torturing innocents, Angel’s returned soul is torn by guilt and remorse. In order to redeem himself, Angel works as a private detective in Los Angeles, where he and his associates help the desperate, restoring faith and saving the souls of those who have lost their way.
This includes battles with demons, sometimes even angels, and people on the side of demons, primarily associated with the demonic law firm Wolfram&Hart. But Angel must also do battle with his own demonic nature.
Kevin (Probably) Saves the World (2017–2018)
Kevin, a down-on-his-luck man who survived a suicide attempt, moves in with his twin sister Amy, an engineer and professor at the local college, and Amy’s teenage daughter Reese. Shortly after, he encounters a celestial being named Yvette; Yvette claims that God has tasked Kevin with saving the world, and sent Yvette to guide and protect him.
At first, Kevin was the only one who could see and hear Yvette, so his conversations appear to be hallucinations to those around him. Kevin must perform good deeds to build up his spiritual powers, forcing him to become a better person. The series also explores a mystery, as there are supposed to be 36 righteous souls in each generation, but for unknown reasons, Kevin is the only one known to be left.
The series ended with Kevin having located three other righteous souls, and in a surprise revelation, allowed Yvette to appear in front of Amy, as she was now called upon to help Kevin in their quest.
Angel or Demon (2013–2017)
Masha, a typical teenage girl with a crush on Den, a handsome boy in her class, finds herself caught up in an ongoing war between the demonic forces of chaos and the angelic defenders of life.
The Good Place (2016–2020)
Due to a mistake, Eleanor Shellstrop was sent to a Good Place after her death, where she does not belong at all. While hiding from Michael, the wise architect of the Good Place who does not know that he has made a mistake, she decides to throw away her old way of life and become better.
Wynonna Earp (2016–2021)
On the eve of her 27th birthday, Wynonna Earp, a descendant of the great gunslinger Wyatt Earp, reluctantly returns to her hometown because of a legendary family curse.
Good Omens (2019–2022)
The end of the world is coming, which means that a petty angel and a wanton demon (overused to life on Earth) are forced to form an unlikely partnership to stop the apocalypse.
Unfortunately, they have lost the Antichrist, an eleven-year-old boy who is unaware that he is the cause of the end of the world, which forces them to embark on an adventure to find him and save the world before it is too late.
Shadowhunters (2016–2019)
Clary Fray is a normal teenager living in Brooklyn with her mother. One day, she discovers that she is descended from a line of Shadowhunters; humans born with angelic blood that fight to protect our world from demons.
After her mother is kidnapped, Clary must team up with three Shadowhunters: Jace, Alec and Isabelle and her best friend Simon on a quest to find her mother and recover her past.
Lucifer (2016–2021)
Lucifer is unhappy because he is tired of being the Lord of Hell and leaves his throne and his kingdom to go to the wonderful, brilliant madness that Los Angeles has to offer, where he helps the LAPD in punishing criminals.
Charmed (1998–2006)
The three Halliwell sisters discover that they are descendants of witches – each with a special power (stopping time, moving objects, seeing the future) and can also combine their abilities to fight demons, angels, wizards and other evils.
Angel’s Last Mission: Love (2019)
Lee Yeon-seo (Shin Hye-sun) is a supremely talented and successful ballerina who can say anything that she wants with her family’s Fantasia Ballet Company but suffers a devastating accident during acting on stage that leaves her blind.
She is bitter and abusive towards her staff, including her loyal secretary and butler, her sly family, and everyone else. Dan (Kim Myung-soo) is an optimistic, carefree angel who is always getting into trouble. In order to return to heaven he is given the seemingly impossible mission of finding true love for Yeon-Seo, but ends up falling for her himself.
Drop Dead Diva (2009–2014)
Deb, a shallow model’s sudden demise results in her being reincarnated as Jane, a plus-size lawyer with astonishing intelligence. As Deb sees life through Jane’s eyes, she realizes it doesn’t matter how big you are, just how you accept it and know you’re beautiful no matter what people say.
Fallen (2007)
Fallen stars Paul Wesley as Aaron Corbett, a good-natured high school student who discovers he is a Nephilim, human-angel hybrid.
Dominion (2014–2015)
God vanishes and in his absence the archangel Gabriel and his army of lower angels wage war against mankind, believing them to be the cause of God’s absence. Although most higher angels remain neutral, Gabriel has convinced the lower angels, the “dogs of Heaven,” called “eight-balls” by humans for their black eyes, to fight alongside him.
Twenty-five years later, mankind survives in a few fortified cities. The archangel Michael has chosen to side with humanity against Gabriel, living among humans in the fortified city of Vega (once Las Vegas) until the time a prophesied savior appears to save mankind.
Constantine (2014–2015)
John Constantine, a demon hunter and dabbling master of the occult, must struggle with his past sins while protecting the innocent from the converging supernatural threats that constantly break through to our world due to the “Rising Darkness”.
Balancing his actions upon the line of good and evil, Constantine uses his skills and a supernatural scry map to journey across the nation to send these terrors back to their own world, all for the hope of redeeming his soul from eternal torment.
Preacher (2016–2019)
“Preacher” is a supernatural and darkly comic story that follows Jessen Custer, a West Texas preacher who has lost his faith on his way to heaven. Thanks to a mysterious creature that haunts him, Jesse develops very unusual powers, and teams up with his wicked ex-girlfriend Tulip and an Irish tramp named Cassidy. The three of them end up in an unusual world inhabited by characters from heaven, hell and purgatory, and during their journey they will meet avengers, demons and angels.
Touched by an Angel (1994–2003)
Throughout the series, Monica is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives. From season three onward, they are frequently joined by Andrew (John Dye), the Angel of Death.
Supernatural (2005–2020)
This television drama is about two brothers, Sam and Dean, who were raised by their father, John, to hunt and kill all things that go “bump in the night” after his wife, Mary, was murdered by something supernaturally evil when the boys were young.
22 years later the brothers set out on a journey, fighting evil along the way, to find their recently missing father who, when they finally meet up with, reveals he knows what killed their mother, a demon, and has found a way to track and kill it. Meanwhile, Sam starts to develop frightening abilities that include death visions, and visions of people dying before it actually happens.
These visions are somehow connected to the demon who murdered his mother and its mysterious plans that seem to be all about Sam. When their father dies striking a deal with the very same devil that had killed his wife, the brothers, now alone and without their mentor…
The show after that goes in all directions, often fighting alongside and against angels and demons.
Midnight, Texas (2017–2018)
On the run from his past, young psychic Manfred Bernardo is told by the ghost of his grandmother to seek out refuge in Midnight, Texas. There, he will find a community that can help him. Full of diverse characters—including a vampire, a witch, a fallen angel, a half-demon and a were-creature—Midnight faces numerous threats from the outside world as it welcomes the newcomer.
Warrior Nun (2020– )
Warrior Nun revolves around the story of a 19-year-old woman who wakes up in a morgue with a new lease of life and a divine artifact embedded in her back. She discovers she is now part of the ancient Order of the Cruciform Sword that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth, and powerful forces representing both heaven and hell want to find and control her.
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020)
When a gruesome murder shocks the city, detective Tiago Vega (Daniel Zovatto) and his partner Lewis Michener (Nathan Lane) find themselves in the middle of an epic story that reflects the rich history of Los Angeles: from the construction of the first freeway and deep ties to Mexican-American folklore to dangerous espionage operations The Third Reich and the rise of radio gospel. Soon Tiago and his family find themselves fighting powerful forces that threaten them.
The Messengers (2015)
A mysterious object plummets to Earth, sending out a shock wave that causes five strangers to die, only to miraculously come back to life moments later. The members of the group are Vera (Shantel VanSanten), a struggling radio-astronomer living in New Mexico who is searching for her missing son; Erin (Sofia Black-D’Elia), a young mother in Tucson, Arizona, who is desperate to protect her seven-year-old daughter Amy from her abusive policeman ex-husband; Peter (Joel Courtney), a troubled high school student and orphan in Little Rock, Arkansas; Raul (J. D. Pardo), a federal agent in Mexico who is looking to escape his dangerous and violent undercover assignment; and Joshua (Jon Fletcher), a charismatic second-generation televangelist in Houston, Texas.
Most mysterious of all is the figure known only as The Man (Diogo Morgado), who offers Vera the location of her abducted son if she will help him with one morally complicated task. The task puts her on a collision course with Rose (Anna Diop), a nurse in Houston who has been in a coma for seven years, after being shot by an unknown hitman. Drawn together by fate and biblical prophecy, “The Messengers” soon learn that they now have supernatural gifts which might be the only hope for preventing the impending Rapture.
Hellbound (2021– )
Hellbound is a series about a nation that has to deal with a new situation in which it finds itself, with a new phenomenon of “sinners” who are literally cursed and a religious sect in the making, led by Jung Jin-soo (Yoo Ah-in). Police detective Jin Kyung-hoon (Yang Ik-june) investigates this phenomenon of “proclaiming” and ritualistic murders.
The mysterious sects are investigated by journalist Bae Young-jae (Park Young-min) and the lawyer of accused sinners Min Hey-jin (Kim Hyun-joo). Together, these three investigators try to find answers.
Highway to Heaven (1984–1989)
The series starred Michael Landon as Jonathan Smith, an angel sent to Earth in order to help people in need. Victor French, Landon’s co-star from his previous television series, Little House on the Prairie, co-starred as Mark Gordon, a retired policeman who travels with and helps Smith with the tasks or “assignments” to which he is referred.
Angels in America (2003)
Set in 1985, the film revolves around six New Yorkers whose lives intersect. At its core, it is the fantastical story of Prior Walter, a gay man living with AIDS who is visited by an angel. The film explores a wide variety of themes, including Reagan-era politics, the spreading AIDS epidemic, and a rapidly changing social and political climate.
