We're all guilty of spending hours browsing on Netflix and still ending up with nothing to watch. Netflix adds new content to its platform every week, so there is A LOT to go through to find the right show for you to binge-watch. Our guide is updated monthly to help you not waste your time browsing and more time binging. *New shows added to the guide will be marked with an Asterix.
American Crime Story
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Number of Seasons: 2
Next Season Release Date: September 27, 2020
American Vandal
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Number of Seasons: 2
Atypical
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Number of Seasons: 3
Next Season Release Date: Last season scheduled to air in February 2021
Better Call Saul
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Number of Seasons: 5
Next Season Release Date: Last season scheduled to air in 2021
Black Mirror
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Number of Seasons: 5
Next Season Release Date: Unconfirmed
Bodyguard
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Number of Seasons: 1
Next Season Release Date: Unconfirmed
Broadchurch
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Number of Seasons: 3
Conversations with a Killer : The Ted Bundy Tapes
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Number of Seasons: 1
The Crown
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Number of Seasons: 3
Next Season Release Date: Scheduled to air end of 2020
Dark*
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Number of Seasons: 4
Dead To Me
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Number of Seasons: 1
Next Season Release Date: May 8, 2020
Dear White People*
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Number of Seasons: 3
Next Season Release Date: Scheduled to air towards the end of 2020
This comedy series follows a group of students of colour who attend a mostly-white Ivy League college. It shows their struggles against cultural bias, social injustice, misguided activism and slippery politics. However, each episodes tells the story of one different character and lets you dive deeper into their lives and individual personalities. Through an absurdist lens, the series uses irony, self-deprecation, brutal honesty and humour to highlight issues that still plague today's "post-racial" society.
Dirty Money*
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Number of Seasons: 2
Next Season Release Date: Scheduled to air March 2021
Dirty Money brings together a number of documentarians, to delve into the shady dealings of big businesses around the world. Each episode features a different director tackling a different subject, ranging from the outrageous (the Volkswagen emissions scandal, the payday loan industry) to the strange (a massive heist of maple syrup, which gives the filmmaker a chance to examine the cartel-esque nature of Quebec’s maple syrup industry).
Easy
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Number of Seasons: 3
Elite
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Number of Seasons: 3
Next Season Release Date: Scheduled to air by Spring, 2021
The End of the Fu***ing World
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Number of Seasons: 2
Next Season Release Date: Unconfirmed
Friends From College
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Number of Seasons: 2
The Haunting of Hill House
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Next Season Release Date: Scheduled to air towards the end of 2020
The Haunting of Hill House is an American anthology supernatural horror series. This modern reimagining of the Shirley Jackson novel follows siblings who, as children, grew up in what would go on to become the most famous haunted house in the country. Now adults, they are forced back together in the face of tragedy and must finally confront the ghosts of their past. Some of those ghosts still lurk in their minds, while others may actually be stalking the shadows of Hill House.
House of Cards
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House of Cards is an American political thriller. Set in Washington D.C., this is a story about Frank Underwood, a Democrat from South Carolina appointed as the secretary of state. Along with his wife, who is equally ambitious, they initiate an elaborate plan to attain power. He sets out on a quest to seek revenge on the people who betrayed him while successfully rising to supremacy. This political thriller is one of the most talked about Netflix shows and is one that cannot be missed.
I Am Not Okay With This*
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Next Season Release Date: Scheduled to air in 2021
Based on graphic novel, I Am Not Okay With This follows a teenage girl who is navigating the trials and tribulations of high school, all while dealing with complexities of her family, her budding sexuality, and mysterious superpowers just beginning to awaken deep within her.
The Last Dance*
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In the fall of 1997, Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls allowed a film crew to follow them as they went for their sixth NBA title in eight seasons. That resulted in a stunning portrait of one of the sport's most iconic athletes and a celebrated team. The Last Dance follows the Bulls' 1997-98 season from start to finish, while also covering the rest of the chapters in Jordan's remarkable career. The 10-part docu-series follows the Jordan timeline from when he was an emerging star on his high school team to becoming a worldwide marketing force and cultural figure. The series takes its name from a phrase coined by then-Bulls coach Phil Jackson, who knew that the season would likely be the final run for the core members of that 1990s Bulls dynasty.
Living with Yourself
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Next Season Release Date: Unconfirmed
Living with Yourself is an existential comedy about Miles who is burned out on life and love. When we first meet Miles and Kate (his wife), it's clear their marriage is tired, and bored that also includes a long run of trying unsuccessfully to get pregnant. A struggling Miles undergoes an unusual spa treatment to make him a better person, only to discover that he has been replaced by a better version of himself.
Locke & Key
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Next Season Release Date: Scheduled to release in the first quarter of 2021
Locke & Key is an American supernatural horror series based on the comic book series of the same name by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez. After Rendell Locke is murdered at the hands of former student, his wife Nina is forced to move with her three children Tyler, Kinsey, and Bode from Seattle to Matheson, Massachusetts and take residence in Rendell's family home, Keyhouse. The children soon discover a number of mysterious keys throughout the house that can be used to unlock various doors in magical ways. However, they become aware of a demonic entity that is also searching for the keys for its own malevolent purposes.
Love is Blind
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Next Season Release Date: Scheduled to air in 2021
Singles try to find a match and fall in love. Wanting to be loved for who they are, rather than what they look like, these singles have signed up for a less conventional approach to modern dating. They need to strike and emotional connection without ever seeing each other face-to-face in order to conquer physical attraction. We’re all secretly fans of reality television. Trust us, you WILL thank us later.
Mad Men
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This is one of the most iconic shows of all time. A drama about one of New York's most prestigious ad agencies at the beginning of the 1960s. The series steers through the professional and personal lives of those who work in advertising on Madison Avenue in the 1960s. The story focuses on one of the smaller firms, Sterling Cooper, at the heart of which is one of the firm's most mysterious but extremely talented ad executives – Donald Draper. His troubled childhood, has shaped who he is as an adult and ad man – not only to sell products but sell himself to the outside world.
Making a Murderer
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Number of Seasons: 2
Next Season Release Date: Unconfirmed
Making a Murderer is an American true crime docuseries. Exonerated after spending nearly two decades in prison for a crime he did not commit, Steven Avery filed suit against Manitowoc County, Wis., and several individuals involved with his arrest. Shortly after, however, Avery found himself behind bars again, this time accused of the murder of 25-year-old photographer Teresa Halbach. She was last seen on Avery's property, where she was to photograph a vehicle. Avery and his nephew were tried and convicted of the crime. But that's not the end of the story. After Netflix took on to produce this docuseries, it generated plenty of publicity and prompted petitions to have Avery's case reviewed. The debate about his guilt or innocence rages still today.
Master of None
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Number of Seasons: 2
Comic Aziz Ansari and writer Alan Yang are the creators of this Netflix-original comedy, which is loosely based on Ansari's real-life experiences. Ansari plays the role of Dev, a New York-based actor who is struggling to identify what he really wants, both personally and professionally. The series reveals insightful examinations of a twentysomething Dev and explored current aspects in his life, including modern etiquette (regarding texting and social media), and being young and single in the city.
Mind Hunter
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Number of Seasons: 2
Next Season Release Date: Unconfirmed
Catching a criminal often requires the authorities to get inside the villain's mind to figure out how he thinks. That's the job of FBI agents Holden Ford and Bill Tench. They attempt to understand and catch serial killers by studying their damaged psyches. Along the way, the agents pioneer the development of modern serial-killer profiling. The first season saw the creation of the Behavioural Science Unit and interviews with real serial killers based on actual conversations. This series will leave you terrified to see what men are actually capable of.
Money Heist
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Number of Seasons: 4
Next Season Release Date: Unconfirmed
A criminal mastermind who goes by "The Professor" has a plan to pull off the biggest heist in recorded history -- to print billions of euros in the Royal Mint of Spain. To help him carry out the ambitious plan, he recruits eight people with certain abilities and who have nothing to lose. The group of thieves take hostages to aid in their negotiations with the authorities, who strategize to come up with a way to capture The Professor. As more time elapses, the robbers prepare for a showdown with the police.
Narcos
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Narcos Number of Seasons: 3
Narcos Mexico Number of Seasons: 2
Next Season Release Date: Unconfirmed
Netflix chronicles the rise of the cocaine trade in Colombia & Mexico and the gripping real-life stories of drug kingpins of the late '80s in this raw, gritty original series. Also detailed are the actions taken by law enforcement as they battle in the war on drugs, targeting notorious and powerful figures that include drug lord Pablo Escobar in Narcos & Felix Gallardo in Narcos Mexico. As efforts are made to control cocaine, one of the world's most valuable commodities, the many entities involved -- legal, political, police, military and civilian -- find themselves in conflict.
Never Have I Ever*
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Number of Seasons: 1
Never Have I Ever is a coming-of-age dramedy about a young woman who, after the death of her father, decides she wants to change her life and elevate her social status. However, Devi, an Indian girl raised in America, finds that her family and friends aren’t fully on board with this renaissance.
Ozark
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Number of Seasons: 3
Next Season Release Date: Unconfirmed
This drama series is the story of Marty Byrde, a financial planner who relocates his family from Chicago to a summer resort community in the Ozarks. Marty, his wife and their teenage kids are on the move after a money-laundering scheme goes wrong, forcing him to pay off a substantial debt to a Mexican drug lord in order to keep his family safe. While the Byrdes' fate hangs in the balance, the dire circumstances force the fractured family to reconnect.
Peaky Blinders
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Number of Seasons: 5
Next Season Release Date: Scheduled to air in 2021
After Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) returns from the war, he sets about trying to expand the family’s control of Birmingham, stealing a shipment of guns to give his gang an edge in the world of crime. Chief Inspector Campbell decides to nab him and put an end to the activities of his gang – The Peaky Blinder. The show follows Tommy and his family as they move up in the world, butting heads with other crime families and the British government under many different circumstances.
Queer Eye*
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Number of Seasons: 5
Next Season Release Date: Unconfirmed
The original Queer Eye for the Straight Guy introduced the world to a whole new kind of reality show. More than a decade later, Netflix rebooted the franchise with a new Fab Five and a new mission. The new Fab Five consists of a food and wine specialist, interior design, grooming consultant, fashion designer, and culture expert. Every season, they travel to new parts of the country to meet and pick up under-recognized people, helping them to find the value within themselves and accomplish a specific goal. It’s a heart-warming, provocative show that sees the Fab Five fly into cities and rural areas where they very clearly stand out and attempt to prove that we’re all not that different after all.
Schitt's Creek
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Number of Seasons: 6
When the super-wealthy Rose family are defrauded by their business manager and lose all their money, they’re forced to move to Schitt’s Creek, a backwater town they once purchased as a joke and which is now their only remaining asset. They go from living in a mansion to sharing two rooms in a rundown motel – and the sitcom derives its charm from them slowly adjusting to their new surroundings over the course of the season.
Sex Education
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Number of Seasons: 2
Next Season Release Date: Unconfirmed
Sex Education is a comedy about teens grappling with sexuality. As in a lot of high school comedies, the teens of Sex Education are having (or trying to have) a lot of sex, but for various reasons, none of them are really enjoying themselves; that’s where Otis comes in. He is the son of a sex therapist and has some pretty good knowledge on the subject. The story unfolds as Otis, an awkward teenager, along with his friend Maeve, set up an underground sex therapy clinic to deal with his classmates’ problems. But through his analysis of teenage sexuality, Otis realises that he may need some therapy of his own.
Sherlock
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Number of Seasons: 4
Next Season Release Date: Unconfirmed
In this modernized version of the Conan Doyle characters, using his detective plots, Sherlock Holmes lives in early 21st century London and acts cockier towards Scotland Yard's detective inspector Lestrade because he's actually less confident. Doctor Watson is now a fairly young veteran of the Afghan war, less adoring and more active.
The Sinner
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Number of Seasons: 3
Next Season Release Date: Scheduled to air in 2021
Detective Harry Ambrose investigates various atrocious murder cases and tries to analyse the reasons behind ordinary people committing heinous crimes. In the first season, Detective Ambrose delves into the past of a troubled woman to determine why she stabbed a man to death. In the second season, Ambrose returns to his hometown after a young boy confesses to poisoning a couple and learns secrets that the inhabitants are determined to keep buried. The third season follows Ambrose as his investigation of a fatal car accident in Upstate New York reveals a much larger and disturbing case behind it.
Space Force*
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Number of Seasons: 1
Next Season Release Date: Scheduled to air in 2021
This ten-part comedy series is, like a lot of America’s foreign policy, based pretty much entirely on one Donald Trump tweet. General Mark Naird, a tightly wound Air Force general tasked with setting up Space Force, a new branch of the US military aimed at putting boots on the moon. It might not be to everyone’s taste, but there are some genuine laugh out loud moments.
The Spy
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Number of Seasons: 1
Next Season Release Date: Unconfirmed
Inspired by an astonishing true story of Israel’s most famous spy, Eli Cohen, who successfully infiltrates the Syrian government in the 1960s. This six-part miniseries, takes place during the years leading to the 1967 Six-Day War between Israel and Syria. It follows Cohen's past in Egypt as an army reject, to his infiltration of the Syrian Ministry of Defense. He assumes the identity of Kamel Amin Thaabet and establishes himself in Syrian high society. After having befriended people who would eventually take over Syria, Cohen is appointed as the country's Deputy Defense Minister and becomes a close confidant to the future president Amin al-Hafiz.
Stranger Things
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Number of Seasons: 3
Next Season Release Date: Scheduled to air in 2020
This thrilling Netflix original is set in a small Indiana town in 1983 -- inspired by a time when tales of science fiction captivated audiences. Stranger Things tells a story about a 12-year-old, Will, who goes missing. Joyce, his mother, launches a terrifying investigation into his disappearance with local authorities. Will’s friends, Mike and gang, go on their own investigation. As they search for answers, they unravel a series of extraordinary mysteries involving secret government experiments, unnerving supernatural forces, and a very unusual little girl, El. Stranger Things soon became a cult phenomenon with it’s extreme nostalgia value.
Suits
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Number of Seasons: 9
Tiger King
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Number of Seasons: 1
Next Season Release Date: Unconfirmed
Tiger King is an exploration of big cat breeding and its bizarre underworld, populated by eccentric characters. The story goes like this - Eric Goode was filming a documentary about the reptile trade when he met a guy with a snow leopard in the back of his van. He spent the next five years and in around the big cat community in the United States, where there are more tigers in captivity than exist in the wild. This seven-part true crime series explores a feud between two of them – a gun-toting, mullet-wearing, country-singing zoo owner from Oklahoma called Joe Exotic, and animal rights activist Carole Baskin, who has some secrets of her own. Honestly one of the craziest things you will ever watch.
Unbelievable
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Number of Seasons: 1
When Marie Adler (Kaitlyn Dever) reports that she has been raped, she finds herself thrown into a deeply flawed system that makes her recant her story. Based on a true story, Unbelievable follows the aftermath of Adler's rape and the two female detectives who years later team up to uncover a series of disturbingly similar crimes to discover that crimes are clearly committed by the same monster.
Vikings
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Number of Seasons: 6
The Walking Dead
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Number of Seasons: 10
Next Season Release Date: Unconfirmed
Sheriff Deputy Rick Grimes gets shot and falls into a coma. When awoken he finds himself in a Zombie Apocalypse. Not knowing what to do he sets out to find his family, after he's done that, he gets connected to a group to become the leader. He takes charge and tries to help this group of people survive, find a place to live and get them food. This show is all about survival, the risks and the things you'll have to do to survive.
When They See Us
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Number of Seasons: 1
The Witcher*
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Number of Seasons: 1
Next Season Release Date: Scheduled to air in 2021
Based on a popular fantasy series, The Witcher follows the story of Geralt of Rivia, a solitary monster hunter with magical powers, who struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than monsters and beasts. But when destiny hurtles him toward a powerful sorceress, and a young princess with a special gift, the three must learn to navigate independently the increasingly volatile Continent.
Wild Wild Country
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Number of Seasons: 1
When a controversial guru builds a utopian city in the Oregon desert, it causes a massive conflict with local ranchers. You really must hear the story of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his “right hand”, Ma Anand Sheela. This docuseries chronicles the conflict, which leads to the first bioterror attack in the United States and a massive case of illegal wiretapping. It is a pivotal, but largely forgotten, time in American cultural history that tested the country's tolerance for the separation of church and state. Sheela is one of the most fascinating characters you’ll ever meet.
You
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Number of Seasons: 2
Next Season Release Date: Scheduled to air in 2021
What would you do for love? For a brilliant male bookstore manager who crosses paths with an aspiring female writer, this question is put to the test. A charming yet awkward crush becomes something even more sinister when the writer becomes the manager's obsession. Using social media and the internet, he uses every tool at his disposal to become close to her, even going so far as to remove any obstacle --including people -- that stands in his way of getting to her.
*All text cited from various sources such as IMDb, Wikipedia, Wired, Digital Trends, Vulture