15 Best Guilty Pleasure TV Shows We Can’t Stop Watching

Impossible to Quit TV Shows

These shows are your TV version of fries after a bad day; salty, addictive, and impossible to give up. When your brain’s tired, these guilty pleasure series let you escape and exhale. Ready to binge?

Sex and the City

Ever rewatched Sex and the City just to yell at Carrie for her choices? Same. The friendships feel real, the wardrobes are ridiculous, and deep down, we all kind of miss when brunch and boy talk felt like life’s biggest problems.

Riverdale

Who even knows what’s happening in Riverdale anymore, and who cares? It’s so over the top, it loops back around to genius. Serial killers, alternate timelines, and what not! It’s like someone dared the writers to make every episode wilder than the last. And somehow, we still love it!

Glee

Not gonna lie, we all thought we were too cool for Glee. Then came the mashups, the drama, the sudden hallway solos that somehow made high school look like Broadway. It’s cheesy, emotional, and sometimes totally cringe, but when they nailed a song, it hit.

Dynasty

Dynasty is pure luxury and madness rolled into one sparkly package. We love every bit of it; fights, the fashion, the one-liners, it’s all too much. very episode feels like a soap opera on caffeine, with billionaires behaving badly and no one ever learning a lesson.

Jane the Virgin

How can a show be both a telenovela parody and a heartfelt story at the same time? Jane The Virgin somehow nails it. It’s full of wild twists, secret identities, surprise pregnancies, and evil twins but it still makes you tear up when it wants to.

Outer Banks

Let’s be honest, Outer Banks isn’t about treasure hunting anymore. It’s about watching beautiful, sweaty people run through chaos like they’ve never heard of sunscreen or logic. It’s sun-soaked nonsense, and we love every second of it! It’s like summer break that never ends, and who’s complaining?

Elite

Remember when you promised you’d only watch “one more episode” before bed? Elite laughed in your face. It’s got rich-kid scandals, forbidden crushes, and secrets so messy you can’t look away. The storylines are wild, sure, but it’s all wrapped in that glossy Spanish style and just the right kind of wrong.

Gossip Girl

Gossip Girl is like the ultimate nostalgia trip back to the days of flip phones and designer drama. It’s absurd, sure but also just the right kind of toxic for you. You know these Upper East Siders are a mess, but you still want to know who’s scheming next. It’s one of those shows that makes you roll your eyes and say, “Okay, just one more episode.”

Emily in Paris

You can’t take Emily in Paris seriously, and that’s the whole point. The outfits are over-the-top, the plot makes zero sense, and somehow everyone still falls for Emily’s charm. It’s the TV version of a pretty dessert you know has no nutritional value, but you eat it anyway.

Too Much

Watching Too Much feels like scrolling through your own life in HD; embarrassing texts, awkward dates, that one friend who always says the wrong thing. It’s chaotic but weirdly comforting, like seeing your mess turned into TV. It's cringe and somehow you end up feeling relatable.

Pretty Little Liars

Tell me why we all kept believing four teenage girls could solve crimes better than the entire police department. Pretty Little Liars was full of secret texts, fake deaths, twin reveals and we still couldn’t stop watching. Every episode hooked us like it was a mystery we personally needed to solve.

Entourage

There’s something about Entourage that scratches a very specific itch; fame, friendship, and a ridiculous amount of confidence. It’s a guy fantasy, sure, but it’s also about loyalty and the dream of making it big. You roll your eyes half the time, but deep down, it’s fun to escape into that world of fast cars, endless parties, and Hollywood wins that always seem to land just right.

True Blood

Remember when vampires were everywhere and somehow True Blood made them sexy and weird? It was sweaty and absolutely unhinged but you couldn’t look away. Every episode felt like stepping into a fever dream of lust, blood, and drama.

The Vampire Diaries

Confession: we all picked a team, Stefan or Damon, and pretended it was about the plot. It wasn’t. The Vampire Diaries had every cliché possible, and we adored every one of them. Love triangles, immortal heartbreaks, dramatic stares, it was emotional junk food in the best way. Even when it went off the rails, we stayed loyal, because sometimes, you just want drama with great cheekbones.

How I Met Your Mother

Some shows feel like old friends and How I Met Your Mother is one of them. You rewatch it for the banter, the inside jokes, the comfort of knowing exactly what comes next. Sure, Ted can be annoying, but Marshall, Lily, Robin, and Barney make up for it every time. It’s like revisiting your twenties without the hangovers.