The 48 Best Shows on Netflix Right Now (February 2025)

Netflix never runs out of shows (did you see that mammoth list of shows it will release in 2025?). The streaming service is continually cranking out dramas, comedies, reality shows, documentaries, animation, and every other type of show you can think of. All of those genres are represented on our list of the best shows to watch on Netflix. Recent additions include new seasons of some of Netflix’s most popular (The Night Agent), most distinctive (Mo), and cutest shows (XO, Kitty), along with new hits like Western drama American Primeval and romantic comedy Nobody Wants This, among many others. 

This list is weighted toward the best shows to watch on Netflix right now, which means recently released Netflix Originals take priority, though you’ll find legacy Netflix shows further down the list. These are only the most relevant and worthwhile shows to watch on Netflix.  

Last updated Jan. 31; newer additions are at the top.

Ramy fans don’t need an introduction to comedian Mo Amer, and they probably won’t need any introduction to Mo, either. But for everyone else (is there anyone else?), here’s the scoop: This two-season Netflix comedy, created by Amer and Ramy Youssef and produced by A24, stars Amer as Mo Najjar, a Palestinian refugee living in Houston with his family and hustling to support them. If you like Ramy, you’ll like this, and if you don’t like Ramy, you haven’t watched it. -Kelly Connolly (Trailer)

TV creator Shawn Ryan has produced some great shows — The Shield, Timeless, Terriers — and while his latest, The Night Agent, might not be on the same level of his other hits, it’s an easy binge that stays in Ryan’s lane. The political action-thriller is based on Matthew Quirk’s book, following a low-level FBI agent who mans a secret phone line in the basement of the White House. His job is a bore… until the phone rings! Then it’s all about uncovering a conspiracy that goes — say it with me — all the way to the top. –Tim Surette (Trailer)

Return to the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before Cinematic Universe (the TATBILBCU) with this series spun off from the hit Netflix films. XO, Kitty, created by Jenny Han (who also wrote the books that inspired the movies), follows Kitty Covey (Anna Cathcart) as she moves to Seoul to attend the same boarding school her late mom went to. It doesn’t hurt that her long-distance boyfriend, Dae (Choi Min-young) goes there, too. But when that relationship hits a snag, Lara Jean’s younger sister has to figure out what she really wants. -Kelly Connolly (Trailer)

This brutally violent Western limited series follows various people who represent different groups (Mormons, the U.S. government, Native Americans, etc.) colliding and trying to survive on the Utah frontier in 1857. The cast includes Taylor Kitsch, Betty Gilpin, Dane DeHaan, Shea Whigham, and many other great character actors. It’s directed by Peter Berg of Friday Night Lights, who brings his signature kinetic camera work to the proceedings, along with some really extreme color correction. -Liam Mathews (Trailer)

Who remembers playing childhood games for fun on the playground? Who remembers playing them FOR YOUR LIFE? The unexpected hit Korean drama Squid Game is more the latter, as a group of people in bad need of money are taken in by a secret organization that has them play games — like Red Light, Green Light — for money. The catch? They lose, they die. Violently. What separates this from something like Saw is the humanity given to the characters. You’ll care about some of these people… and then they will die. It’s Netflix’s biggest show; scratch that, it’s the world’s biggest show. After a three-year gap between Seasons 1 and 2, Season 3 is coming in late 2025. –Tim Surette (Trailer | More shows like Squid Game)

Do you like it your TV to feel like one long Hallmark movie? If that’s the case, you should know that few other shows are currently doing that better than Virgin River. In this adaptation of the novels by Robyn Carr, Alexandra Breckenridge stars as Mel, a nurse practitioner from Los Angeles who, after having her heart broken one too many times, starts a new life in a remote Northern California town. As these things go, she quickly meets Jack (Martin Henderson), a bartender who makes her want to love again. This show really has everything: long lost twin brothers, bombshell pregnancies where it’s a mystery who the father is, and main characters getting shot by mysterious gunmen. -Allison Picurro (Trailer)

This dark comedy has a lot of Netflix’s signature attributes: luxury real estate, famous actors, and a murder mystery. It’s about Angeleno homebuyers competing for a really good house. Like all houses, it holds secrets, but its secrets are particularly dangerous, and people will go to extreme lengths to either hide or discover these secrets if it will give them an edge on price. The show hails from Dead to Me creator Liz Feldman and features a star-studded cast that includes (deep breath) Ray Romano, Lisa Kudrow, Luke Wilson, Linda Cardellini, Abbi Jacobson, Poppy Liu, Teyonah Parris, O-T Fagbenle, and Denis Leary. -Liam Mathews
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Keira Knightley picked a good show for her first TV series. She stars as Helen, a deep cover spy working for a private espionage agency known as the Black Doves. When her lover is murdered, she goes on a mission to find out who did it and why, and if she’s next. Helping her and protecting her is Sam (Ben Whishaw), a professional assassin with demons of his own. Black Doves is a slick, darkly funny thriller that makes great use of Knightley and Whishaw’s considerable charms. -Liam Mathews (Trailer | Review)

For his first show since The Good Place, star comedy writer-producer Michael Schur linked back up with one of the stars of that beloved series, Ted Danson. Their reunion is only natural, because Schur is fond of saying that Danson is the greatest TV actor of all time, so why wouldn’t he want to work with him again? Danson stars as a lonely widower who takes a job working for a private detective (Lilah Richcreek Estrada) on a special assignment. He has to go undercover as a new resident of a retirement community in order to find out what happened to a missing ruby necklace. What he really finds, however, is a community. It’s a sweet and poignant comedy inspired by the Oscar-nominated Chilean documentary The Mole Agent, which you can also find on Netflix. -Liam Mathews (Trailer)

Everyone talks about The Last of Us being the best video game-based TV series ever made, but everyone has not watched Arcane. The series, based on characters from Riot Games’ insanely popular PC strategy game League of Legends, is an Emmy winner, a huge hit internationally, and one of the biggest surprises of the streaming era because it bucks so many trends. The fact that it’s animated — and beautifully animated, it should be noted – likely puts up a barrier for some viewers (I get it), but the very human story of sisters Jinx and Vi (brought to life by Ella Purnell and Hailee Steinfeld) torn apart by a class struggle in a futuristic steampunk-influenced world will reward anyone who ventures out of their preferred medium, and the action sequences are some of the best we’ve ever seen. The best part? You don’t need to know anything about League of Legends to enjoy it. Simply put, Arcane is one of Netflix’s greatest triumphs. -Tim Surette (Trailer)  

The producers knew what they were doing with this rom-com’s ironic title. Two of TV’s most likable actors, Kristen Bell and Adam Brody in lead roles supported by scene-stealers like Timothy Simons,  Justine Lupe, Sherry Cola, and Tovah Feldshuh? A culturally specific story — in this case, an agnostic woman falling in love with a Hot Rabbi — that feels fresh? Genuinely funny jokes? A pleasant atmosphere where the drama isn’t overly dramatic but not so low-stakes that it feels meaningless? A pace that moves so fast you’ll say “wait, they’re doing this already?” Everybody wants this. That’s why it’s already been renewed for a second season. -Liam Mathews (Trailer)

The golden-hued adventure drama Outer Banks is one of Netflix’s most popular teen shows, and one of the only ones that isn’t supernatural (though there are fantastical elements like buried treasure). They grow up in Season 4, though, as there’s a plotline that revolves around paying property taxes. What’s the point of finding buried treasure if you have to pay taxes on it?! The complete fourth season is on Netflix now, and it’s already been renewed for a fifth and final season. -Liam Mathews (Trailer)

This based-on-a-true-crime limited series originally premiered on Showtime in 2018. It was nominated for a bunch of Emmys, including Outstanding Limited Series and acting nods for stars Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Arquette, and Paul Dano, but it wasn’t a big hit at the time. Hopefully that changes as a result of the Netflix bump. Ben Stiller directs much of the series, which tells the thrilling and psychologically complex story of how convicts Richard Matt and David Sweat escaped from an upstate New York prison in 2015 with a documentary style that prizes you-are-their-authenticity. -Liam Mathews (Trailer)

I think you should leave… whatever you’re watching and binge Tim Robinson’s excellent sitcom Detroiters, one of the greatest products of Comedy Central’s golden era of the 2010s. Detroit native Robinson and real-life bestie Sam Richardson star as Detroit natives and besties Tim and Sam, who are the creatives at a small-time advertising firm in the Motor City. I said “bestie” twice in the previous sentence because it’s important to hammer home that the series is all about the duo’s friendship, an unconditional bromance that’s as wholesome as their adventures are wacky. Don’t worry, you’ll get some snippets of Robinson’s uber-popular sketch series I Think You Should Leave in Detroiters as Tim hatches ridiculous schemes, gets trapped in awkward situations, and screams, but it’s the kindness and diversity of Detroiters that really makes it work. -Tim Surette (Trailer)

It’s not perfect, not even close. But there are moments that Murphy’s latest season of envelope-pushing TV is truly great. Episodes 5 and 6 of Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story are legitimately impressive and almost make you forget about the slapdash final run of episodes or the fact that a lot of this “true story” is fabricated from rumors. The performances are grand, too; relative newcomers Nicholas Chavez and Cooper Koch are fantastic as the murderous brothers, while Javier Bardem and Chloë Sevigny are sinister as their parents. There’s a lot wrong with Monsters, but the good — and the depiction of the crazy ’90s — is worth the watch. -Tim Surette (Trailer)

Penelope

This coming-of-age series, which comes from Mel Eslyn and Mark Duplass, follows disillusioned 16-year-old Penelope (Megan Stott) as she heads into the Washington wilderness to find herself and hug some trees. It’s a quiet series about finding yourself, sort of like a YA Into the Wild, and it’s the self-reflection and calmness of the show that makes it such a treasure in a day when the loudest shows make the most noise. The slow shots of the Pacific Northwest will make you want to pack a rucksack and hop on the nearest freight train to wherever fate takes you. -Tim Surette (Trailer) 

Amelia Sacks (Eve Hewson) was about to have the wedding of the season. She’s marrying into the richest family on Nantucket, and her future mother-in-law Greer Garrison Winbury (Nicole Kidman) is known to be the hostess with the mostest. But planning for the celebration comes to a halt when a dead body appears on the beach. Amelia, along with the Winburys, find themselves in the middle of an investigation that threatens to uncover far more than the truth behind the death. Also joining the star-studded cast are Liev Schreiber, Billy Howle, Dakota Fanning, and Meghann Fahy. -Kat Moon (Trailer)

The Christmas Eve 2002 disappearance of Laci Peterson from her home in Modesto, Calif., dominated headlines as investigators tried to locate the missing pregnant woman. In April 2003, her body, and the body of her child, were found, confirming the worst. Laci’s husband Scott Peterson was convicted of her murder, and this extensive docuseries combs through every detail of the case, using interviews with both Laci’s and Scott’s families, as well as the lead investigators in the case, to paint a complete picture of what happened. This is an elevated true crime docuseries that’s fascinating from start to finish. -Tim Surette (Trailer)

It’s hard to believe that a series following the lives of Johnny (William Zabka) and Daniel (Ralph Macchio) from The Karate Kid would be as good as Cobra Kai is, but there’s some sort of indescribable magic going on that makes it work. Following up on Johnny in the present day, Cobra Kai wonders what would happen if his rivalry with Daniel continued into their adult lives, culminating in them creating their own karate dojos where a new generation of martial artists fight for respect, rumble with their parents, and get into love triangles. The show’s self-awareness holds everything together, but it’s the twisting (albeit predictable) plot that makes it so bingeable. -Tim Surette (Trailer)

If there’s anything the BBC does well, making engrossing thriller shows is it — and A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, which has been licensed to Netflix in the U.S., is the latest solid example of this phenomenon. This story follows a teen girl (Wednesday’s Emma Myers) who gets in over her head investigating a murder that happened five years earlier that everyone else thought had been solved. This is the sort of vibey and intense mystery that sucks you all the way in. -Phil Owen (Trailer)

Since the start of Bridgerton, Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) has harbored feelings for Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton). Season 3 finally explores this friends-to-lovers relationship, and make Penelope — who is secretly Lady Whistledown — the subject of her own gossip column. Bridgerton is based on Julia Quinn’s historical romance novels, and the first two seasons chronologically followed the love stories in the original titles. Season 3 skips the third book, An Offer From a Gentleman, which is focused on Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson), and adapts the fourth, Romancing Mister Bridgerton. It’s #Polin time. -Kat Moon (Trailer)

Based on the YA novel by Holly Smale, Geek Girl is a modern-day fairy tale about an awkward high schooler (House of the Dragon’s Emily Carey) who goes from pushover to makeover when she’s discovered by a modeling agency and makes a splash in the business. It’s an easy-breezy series that has a positive message about being yourself, and thanks to some enlightening depictions of neurodiversity — Carey’s Harriet is never labeled as autistic, but there are certainly indicators that she is — it’s more important than some of its peers. -Tim Surette (Trailer)

If your definition of prestige television isn’t big enough for a streaming procedural about exorcism, Evil will change that. Robert and Michelle King’s supernatural drama returned for its fourth season May 23 on Paramount+, but if you don’t have Paramount+ and you do have Netflix, this is your chance to catch the first two seasons. Evil — which stars Katja Herbers, Mike Colter, and Aasif Mandvi as a trio of investigators looking into claims of demonic activity on behalf of the Catholic Church — is sublimely cool, using its case-of-the-week formula to tell barbed parables about modern anxieties, all while having more fun than anything else on TV. The cast, which also includes Michael Emerson as our heroes’ gleeful antagonist, nails Evil’s tricky, off-kilter tone, which dances between winking playfulness and the creeping sense that something is really wrong here. On Evil, it ultimately doesn’t matter whether the shadow in the corner is a demon or it’s all in your head. What matters is that you can’t look away. -Kelly Connolly (Trailer) (More shows like Evil)

Based on a true story that was turned into a stage play by creator and star Richard Gadd, Baby Reindeer follows a middling stand-up comedian named Donny (Gadd) whose chance encounter with a lonely woman named Martha (Jessica Gunning) turns his life into a nightmare. The series is about more than just a stalker, though. The second half of Baby Reindeer details Donny’s experience as a victim of grooming and sexual abuse by a TV writer who promises to further Donny’s career, and how that informs all aspects of his life — from his evolving sexuality to his difficulties with intimacy, and even his relationship with Martha. -Tim Surette (Trailer) (More shows like Baby Reindeer)

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Parasyte: The Grey            

This South Korean sci-fi horror TV series from Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-ho is a live-action spin-off of the manga by Hitoshi Iwaaki, and depicts all the awful things that happen when parasitic organisms from outer space come to Earth and turn humans into killing machines. What’s more, all sorts of disgusting tentacles and tendrils pop out of the host bodies’ heads like jack-in-the-boxes. The story isn’t too complicated, but the action sequences will keep you glued to the screen. -Tim Surette (Trailer)

Ripley            

What if the story of The Talented Mr. Ripley was depicted as it truly is: a chilling tale of a sociopath whose lust for deviancy leads to a murdering spree? Creator Steven Zaillian takes Patricia Highsmith’s story and turns it into a polar opposite of the popular 1999 Matt Damon and Jude Law movie, filming everything in stark black and white and spending more time getting in the head of con man Thomas Ripley (played exquisitely by Andrew Scott) while he heads to Italy to convince a wealthy layabout to return home to America at the request of the father. Ripley has divided viewers, with some saying Scott is too old and the pacing is too slow, but I loved the tension and the careful character examination. -Tim Surette (Trailer)

Netflix’s biggest new series in a long time is this adaptation of Cixin Liu’s epic sci-fi novel from Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss and True Blood’s Alexander Woo. Set across multiple timelines and in different countries, 3 Body Problem is a global thriller about scientists attempting to thwart an impending alien invasion. Unlike its peers in the genre, 3 Body Problem is heavily rooted in science, and the invasion will take 400 years to arrive, so it plays with theoretical solutions rather than building a big gun. Though its heady approach is not for everyone, you should at least watch through Episode 5 to see what happens to a boat carrying pro-alien cultists. It’s rad. -Tim Surette (Trailer) (Review)

One of TV’s best comedies of the 2020s had the distinct disadvantage of being a Peacock original, but with a new life on Netflix, it’s turning in some of its best work ever. Girls5eva follows a semi-successful ’90s girl group that tries to make a comeback in the 2020s, with age, a changed entertainment business landscape, and a disinterested population getting in the way. It’s produced by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock and created by Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s Meredith Scardino, so it’s packed with rapid-fire jokes and has its sights dead set on pop culture. The main cast — Sara Bareilles, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Busy Philipps, and Paula Pell — is phenomenal, and a steady stream of well-known guest stars and original songs keep it fresh. Both Peacock seasons are now on Netflix, as is an all-new Netflix-exclusive Season 3. -Tim Surette (Trailer)

Warrior is a breakthrough in Asian representation on the screen, but that’s just a bonus of this action drama that’s reaching a new audience on Netflix after a quiet life on Cinemax and Max. Based on the writings of Bruce Lee and brought to the screen by his daughter Shannon, Warrior’s depiction of the Tong Wars in San Francisco in the late 1800s is appropriately gruesome and takes more turns than Lombard Street, showing a time, place, and people that television somehow always overlooks. It’s Peaky Blinders with an added layer of racial issues. It’s Gangs of New York with more flying kicks. But it’s also wholly original as a story of immigrants making their way in a country that only barely tolerated them and fighting back against that hatred. -Tim Surette (Trailer)

True love doesn’t happen overnight, despite what romantic dramas would lead you to believe, and in this adaptation of David Nicholls’ book, it takes decades. Leo Woodall and Ambika Mod will make you believe in love at 1000th sight, as we follow Dexter (Woodall) and Emma (Mod) on one day each year from the late ’80s to the ’00s, with all the ups and downs in between. The 14-episode limited series may seem intimidating at first, but the abbreviated run times (about 30 minutes each episode) make this a breezy binge. -Tim Surette (Trailer)

This heartwarming series is an American edition of the Australian reality documentary series following the dating lives of people on the autism spectrum. Like the original, the U.S. version is empathetic and deeply moving as it follows these lovable young people on their journeys to find love. It won the Emmy for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program in 2022. In Season 2, the show catches up with many of your favorites from Season 1 as they continue to look for love or take the next step in their new relationships. -Liam Mathews (Trailer)

Australian author Trent Dalton’s debut book Boy Swallows Universe gets adapted for Netflix in this seven-episode limited series that’s for anyone looking for a coming-of-age story with a dash of crime and a warm heart. It follows Eli Bell, a young teenager whose mom is a former drug addict, stepdad is a heroin dealer, brother is mute, and father is in prison, as he stumbles into a life of crime to help out his family. Despite that setup, it’s a warm family drama with plenty of humor to keep it humming. Look out for strong performances from Travis Fimmel and Phoebe Tonkin, as well as a star-making turn for young Felix Cameron. -Tim Surette (Trailer)

Netflix is on a hot streak with animation — just look at the next few entries on this list — but the best of the bunch might be Blue Eye Samurai, a French-American co-production about a half-white half-Japanese female samurai (Onna-musha) in 17th century Japan on a quest for vengeance against four men. The critically acclaimed series features the voice talent of Maya Erskine, Darren Barnett, Masi Oka, George Takei, and Brenda Song. It ain’t for kids though; in addition to digit-severing violence, there’s nudity that would make your mom blush. -Tim Surette (Trailer)

Pluto

Netflix might not care if you watch this gorgeous, thought-provoking anime, but we do. This adaptation of Naoki Urasawa’s acclaimed manga spins off from the ultra-popular Astro Boy franchise, following a series of murders of specific robots around the world. The deaths aren’t random; the targeted robots possess a certain amount of power, and Urasawa tells the story as a slow-burning murder mystery taken on by a detective who just so happens to be a robot. As the robots fall victim episode by episode, their stories are told, asking questions of artificial intelligence, robot rights, sentience, and, naturally, what it means to be human. What makes the series more than the sum of its parts is the emotional bombs its drops. There are moments of robo-sadness that will stick with you for a long time. -Tim Surette (Trailer)

Mike Flanagan’s final series for Netflix remixes the works of Edgar Allen Poe in a story about a pharmaceutical tycoon whose children die off one by one while he’s haunted by his past. Many of Flanagan’s repertory players return, as does his love of extreme gore and ghosts. (The murderous gorillas are new, though.) What struck me about House of Usher was the use of humor; this is by far Flanagan’s funniest series so far, and it works really well to counterbalance his sense of doom. -Tim Surette (Trailer)

Director Greg Whiteley and the team behind Netflix sports docuseries hits Cheer and Last Chance U grapple with professional wrestling in Wrestlers, which follows the owners, athletes, and fans of the Ohio Valley Wrestling league, a developmental organization that started the careers of John Cena, Brock Lesnar, Dave Bautista, and more. Sure, wrestling is more entertainment than sport, but the themes of Whiteley’s other projects — grueling competition, sacrifice, and personal demons — are all over this, with the added complexity of new owners trying to make OVW a profitable business conflicting with the creative process of big sweaty men and women tossing each other over turnbuckles. It’s not only just as good as Cheer and Last Chance U, it might be better. -Tim Surette (Trailer)

There are so many coming-of-age television series out there, but few are as brazenly honest and endearing as this one. The comedy, which just completed its fourth and final season, is a raunchy-on-the-outside and sweet-on-the-inside charmer about a teen boy who inadvertently becomes his school’s go-to sex therapist. The series explores teen sexuality in a refreshingly non-judgemental, authentic way, and it posits that whether you’re the most popular kid in school or the outcast eating lunch alone, there’s a universal and terrifying confusion in growing up that can be made more manageable by a supportive community and communication. Plus, Gillian Anderson co-stars as Otis’ eccentric divorcée mom, who is an actual sex therapist and has a house full of phallic statues, which is just a lot of fun. -Allison Picurro (Trailer)

This cute and gentle British teen drama is based on a webcomic-turned-graphic novel that’s beloved by fans of romantic coming-of-age stories. Heartstopper follows Charlie Spring (Joe Locke), an openly gay secondary school student who develops an unlikely friendship with Nick (Kit Connor), a jock with a kind heart who invites Charlie to join the rugby team. And their friendship just might be developing into something more. It’s a sweet little show that keeps some comic book-inspired stylistic flourishes. Fans of the comic, and teen drama in general, will love it. -Liam Mathews (Trailer)

This special brand of small-town drama is a fan favorite for its coziness, following the daily goings on of female friends Maddie (JoAnna Garcia Swisher), Helen (Heather Headley), and Dana Sue (Brooke Elliott) in the made-up town of Serenity, South Carolina. Expect some obstacles — but nothing too over the top — as the women navigate big and small issues with romance, careers, and family. It goes down like a cold glass of sweet tea. -Tim Surette (Trailer)

Mindy Kaling’s warm, wickedly funny spin on a classic high school comedy stars Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as Devi Vishwakumar, a high achiever desperate to reinvent herself after the sudden death of her father (Sendhil Ramamurthy, joining the ranks of TV’s hot dads even in flashbacks). As she navigates a love triangle and denies the depth of her grief, short-tempered Devi’s inner life is narrated, hilariously, by tennis legend John McEnroe. Who knew we all needed to hear John McEnroe say “thirst trap”? The series also ends with solid finality; Devi doesn’t tiptoe around her feelings. -Kelly Connolly (Trailer)

Sometimes what you want is to see your id, your most base animal instincts, the unhinged thoughts you definitely have but rarely voice, reflected on screen. You may or may not remember Tim Robinson from his time on Saturday Night Live; honestly, they didn’t really know what to do with him over there, and in retrospect it’s clear that what he needed was something of his own where he could really let his freak flag fly. That’s I Think You Should Leave in a nutshell! It’s a madcap roller coaster of a sketch series that features Robinson playing a host of weirdo characters with big personalities and strong convictions about things that don’t really matter, such as his highly memeable hot dog mascot who refuses to admit he was the one who crashed his car into a storefront. Like anything that’s really, truly hilarious, it’s sort of impossible to describe. You just have to watch it to understand. -Allison Picurro (Trailer)

This meaty dark comedy stars Steven Yeun as a troubled contractor and Ali Wong as a seemingly-has-it-all entrepreneur whose lives collide when they get into a road range incident. Each determined not to let the other get the upper hand, they embark on a battle of wills as their personal lives crumble around them. Yeun is fantastic in this, and the endless parade of unfortunate circumstances that force both of them into their laser-eyed focus on destroying each other is a nice bit of schadenfreude. Who knew hate could be so fun? This is in the conversation of the best Netflix originals ever. –Tim Surette (Trailer)

Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgely) is back for the fourth season of Netflix’s creepy stalker drama, except this time the stalker may be the stalkee! The New York murderer turned L.A. murderer is taking his questionable talents to Europe, where he’ll be masquerading as a professor, keeping tabs on his librarian crush (Tati Gabrielle), getting texts from a stalker, and palling around with privileged jerks. You can take the guy out of Gossip Girl, but you can’t take Gossip Girl out of the guy, am I right? -Allison Picurro (Trailer)

Alice in Borderland, adapted from the manga series of the same name, follows Arisu (Kento Yamazaki) as he finds himself in an alternate Tokyo where most humans have disappeared. He has no idea what happened, but must enter the mysterious competitions in order to earn “visas” that will prevent him from being executed. Along the way, he crosses paths with Usagi (Tao Tsuchiya), a rock climber who becomes Arisu’s partner in figuring out what is going on. -Kat Moon (Trailer)

Was it the right call to turn The Addams Family into a boilerplate Netflix show about a girl at a supernatural school investigating a not-very-intriguing murder mystery and navigating some not-very-original high school drama? Probably not. This show didn’t have to be a Chilling Adventures of Sabrina redux. But Jenna Ortega’s winningly droll performance as the iconic morbid teen Wednesday Addams and director/executive producer Tim Burton’s distinctive brand of macabre whimsy make it entertaining enough to watch if you’re not expecting something spectacular. -Liam Mathews (Trailer | Review)

Stranger Things is Netflix’s biggest show. Season 4 is out in its entirety after being divvied up into two lengthy parts and setting streaming records, adding a new villain, new characters, and new locations. But you’re here to hang out with your old friends, like Steve. You rule, Steve! -Tim Surette (Review | Trailer)

Peaky Blinders is one of the defining shows of the era when Netflix was ascendant — its first season came out the same year as House of Cards and Orange Is the New Black — and now it’s over. The sixth and final season of the Netfflix/BBC collaboration is now streaming, alongside the previous five seasons. It’s a stylish crime drama starring Cillian Murphy as antihero Tommy Shelby, the leader of the titular gang consisting of his relatives, as they rise to the top of the criminal underworld in interwar Birmingham. The costumes are glamorous, the anachronistic PJ Harvey-heavy soundtrack is cool, and the supporting performances from big stars like Tom Hardy and Anya Taylor-Joy are entertaining. If you never got around to Peaky Blinders, there’s no reason to not start now. -Liam Mathews (Trailer) 

There’s a tween girl inside all of us who just wants to watch a charming show about young girls trying to start a baby-sitting business. Embrace your inner Emily or Jayden or Madison and watch The Baby-Sitters Club, a true safe space in a world that wants to keep you down. Season 2 adds a few more members to the club, but the care to flesh out all its characters is still there. -Tim Surette (Trailer)