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This AMC drama's chemistry-teacher-turned-drug-kingpin protagonist has this full name.
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This actress played the young queen in The Crown's first two seasons.
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson share a flat at this famous fictional London address in BBC's Sherlock.
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Cillian Murphy plays this cunning gang leader at the head of a Birmingham crime family in Peaky Blinders.
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The doomed flight that crashes on the mysterious island in Lost belonged to this airline.
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The scheming queen played by Lena Headey in Game of Thrones is named this.
CERSEIThe heist crew in Money Heist wears red jumpsuits and masks modeled after this famous surrealist painter.
DALIFX's anthology series Fargo, inspired by the Coen brothers' film, is set primarily in this snowy state.
MINNESOTAThe soft-spoken restaurant owner secretly running a meth empire in Breaking Bad has this full name.
GUSFRINGThe stoic, ex-cop fixer who appears in both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul goes by this first name.
MIKEThis actor plays Joel, the grief-stricken smuggler at the center of The Last of Us.
PEDROPASCALThe Black sibling adopted into the Pearson family on the same day his birth siblings were born is named this.
RANDALLThis actor plays Mark, the severed employee at the center of Severance.
ADAMSCOTTDon Draper's first wife, a former model turned suburban housewife, is named this.
BETTYDRAPERDownton Abbey follows this aristocratic family and their household staff through the early 20th century.
CRAWLEYKevin Costner plays this ranch-owning patriarch fighting to protect his land in Yellowstone.
JOHNDUTTONJeremy Allen White plays this fine-dining chef who returns home to run his late brother's sandwich shop in The Bear.
CARMYThe oppressive theocratic regime that replaces the United States in The Handmaid's Tale is called this.
GILEADDaenerys Targaryen hatches three of these fire-breathing creatures from stone eggs.
DRAGONSThe mysterious scientific research group behind the hatches and stations on the island in Lost is called this.
DHARMAJodie Comer plays this stylish, playful assassin who becomes fixated on the agent hunting her in Killing Eve.
VILLANELLENetflix's Narcos dramatizes the rise and fall of this notorious real-life Colombian drug lord.
ESCOBARThe fictional global media conglomerate fought over in Succession is named this (one word).
WAYSTARKit Harington played this brooding Night's Watchman turned king in the north.
JONSNOWThe Marine sergeant suspected of being a terrorist sleeper agent in Homeland's early seasons is named this.
BRODYThis actor won four Emmys for playing Walter White in Breaking Bad.
CRANSTONThis actor played the philosophical, haunted detective Rust Cohle in True Detective's first season.
MCCONAUGHEYThe shape-shifting black entity that stalks the island in Lost is often called this.
SMOKEMONSTERNetflix's Mindhunter follows a young FBI agent who pioneers criminal profiling by interviewing serial killers; he's named this.
HOLDENYellowstone is set on a sprawling cattle ranch in this U.S. state.
MONTANAThe nomadic horse-riding warrior people Daenerys marries into in Game of Thrones are called this.
DOTHRAKIThis actor plays the famous detective in BBC's modern-day reboot Sherlock.
CUMBERBATCHThe tough, resourceful young Ozark local who becomes an ally to the Byrde family is named this.
RUTHThis actor played the smooth, secretive ad man Don Draper for all seven seasons of Mad Men.
JONHAMMThe 1960s Madison Avenue ad agency at the center of Mad Men is named this (two words, no space).
STERLINGCOOPERKevin Spacey played this ruthless, fourth-wall-breaking congressman turned president in House of Cards.
FRANKUNDERWOODThe shadowy biotech corporation whose employees undergo memory-severing surgery is named this.
LUMONThe nearby city evacuated after the nuclear disaster depicted in Chernobyl is named this.
PRIPYATThe time-traveling teenager at the center of the German series Dark is named this.
JONASThis Is Us follows three siblings and their parents who all share this surname.
PEARSONPedro Pascal plays this grizzled smuggler tasked with escorting a teenage girl across a ravaged America in The Last of Us.
JOELThis screenwriter created The Crown after previously writing the film The Queen.
PETERMORGANKarl Urban plays this foul-mouthed vigilante leader determined to take down corrupt superheroes in The Boys.
BUTCHERThis veteran Scottish actor played the tyrannical patriarch Logan Roy in Succession.
BRIANCOXThe pregnant, no-nonsense Minnesota police officer at the heart of Fargo's first TV season is named this.
MOLLYThis writer-producer created Breaking Bad after years working on The X-Files.
GILLIGANThe former spinal surgeon who becomes the reluctant leader of the crash survivors in Lost is simply called this.
JACKThis screenwriter wrote HBO's Chernobyl, a miniseries about the 1986 nuclear disaster.
CRAIGMAZINEvan Rachel Wood plays this android theme-park attraction who begins to gain consciousness in Westworld.
DOLORESReese Witherspoon plays this outspoken, controlling mother in Big Little Lies.
MADELINERobin Wright played this calculating first lady who eventually claims power for herself in House of Cards.
CLAIREThe Wire's beloved shotgun-wielding stick-up man who robs drug dealers is named this.
OMARLITTLEThis actor played Jon Snow throughout Game of Thrones' eight seasons.
KITHARINGTONClaire Danes plays this bipolar CIA officer convinced a rescued POW has been turned by the enemy in Homeland.
CARRIEMATHISONIn the spy thriller where Jodie Comer plays assassin Villanelle, Sandra Oh's disillusioned intelligence-officer character shares her first name with the show's title.
EVEThe Handmaid's Tale was written as a novel decades earlier by this Canadian author.
MARGARETATWOODJimmy McGill's brilliant, guarded lawyer love interest in Better Call Saul is named this.
KIMWEXLERGus Fring's fried-chicken restaurant chain, a front for his drug empire, is called Los Pollos '_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.'
HERMANOSBefore he became Saul Goodman, Bob Odenkirk's character in Better Call Saul went by this real name.
JIMMYMCGILLThe lovable lottery-winner-turned-castaway in Lost, cursed by his own numbers, is nicknamed this.
HURLEYBig Little Lies is set among wealthy families in this coastal California town.
MONTEREYBreaking Bad's shady strip-mall lawyer, later spun off into his own prequel series, is named this.
SAULGOODMANThe ancestral seat of House Stark in Game of Thrones is this northern castle.
WINTERFELLThe debt-ridden protagonist forced to compete in deadly children's games in Squid Game goes by this nickname.
GIHUNZendaya plays this drug-addicted teenager narrating her own chaotic life in Euphoria.
RUESteve Buscemi plays this corrupt prohibition-era political boss in Boardwalk Empire.
NUCKYTHOMPSONEmilia Clarke's character, mother of three dragons, is known by this first name.
DAENERYSHBO's acclaimed crime drama about drugs and institutions is set in this American city.
BALTIMOREThe White Lotus's first season is set at a luxury resort in this U.S. state.
HAWAIIBilly Bob Thornton played this manipulative, coyote-obsessed drifter and villain in Fargo's first TV season.
LORNEMALVOThe young Stark daughter who trains as an assassin with the Faceless Men is named this.
ARYASTARKAmazon's The Boys centers its satire on this corrupt, super-strength-having leader of The Seven.
HOMELANDERThe German sci-fi series Dark centers on disappearances in this small fictional town.
WINDENElisabeth Moss's character in The Handmaid's Tale is forced to go by the name Offred, but her real first name is this.
JUNEThe Crown centers on this British monarch's reign, starting from her early years on the throne.
ELIZABETHContestants must carefully carve a shape out of this brittle honeycomb candy in one of Squid Game's deadly challenges.
DALGONABreaking Bad is set in this New Mexico city.
ALBUQUERQUEThe aging, ruthless media mogul at the center of HBO's Succession is named this.
LOGANROYWalter White's former student and eventual meth-cooking partner is this character.
JESSEPINKMANBella Ramsey plays this immune teenager who may hold the cure to a fungal pandemic in The Last of Us.
ELLIEThis actress won two Emmys for playing Rue in HBO's Euphoria.
ZENDAYAThe Bear is set in a chaotic Italian beef sandwich shop in this American city.
CHICAGOLogan Roy's eldest ambitious son, often jockeying to succeed him, is named this.
KENDALLPeter Dinklage's witty, wine-loving dwarf lord in Game of Thrones has this full name.
TYRIONLANNISTERBoardwalk Empire follows a bootlegging political boss in this New Jersey seaside city during Prohibition.
ATLANTICCITYThis filmmaker created the satirical resort-set anthology series The White Lotus.
MIKEWHITEThis actress won an Emmy for playing the queen in The Crown's third and fourth seasons.
OLIVIACOLMANThe mysterious, morally ambiguous veteran guest played by Ed Harris in Westworld is known only as this.
MANINBLACKWoody Harrelson's partner detective in True Detective's first season is named this.
HARTTrue Detective's acclaimed first season is set in this Gulf Coast state.
LOUISIANAThe criminal mastermind who plans the elaborate mint heist in Money Heist is known only as this.
PROFESSORThe ambitious copywriter who rises from secretary to creative director across Mad Men's run is named this.
PEGGYOLSONOn Apple TV+'s Severance, employees who undergo the procedure develop a separate work identity known as this.
INNIEPeaky Blinders is set among a gang in this English city in the years after World War I.
BIRMINGHAMThis former Baltimore Sun journalist created The Wire based on his own reporting.
DAVIDSIMONThe mind-controlling fungus that causes the outbreak in The Last of Us is a real-world genus called this.
CORDYCEPSWalter White adopts this codename as his secret drug-dealing alter ego.
HEISENBERGThe hard-drinking, insubordinate homicide detective at the center of The Wire is named this.
MCNULTYJon Hamm's ad-agency protagonist in Mad Men hides a stolen identity behind this name.
DONDRAPERJason Bateman plays this financial advisor forced to launder money for a cartel in Ozark.
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