Netflix doesn’t always make it easy for viewers to find anything they aren’t looking for. The algorithm is meant to point subscribers to the hot new shows, and even a lengthy search through Netflix’s library tends to give viewers multiple series that the streamer believes they’ll want to watch based on the things they’ve already watched rather than what they’re looking for.
For the shows that slipped through the cracks, we’ve put together this roundup of the best hidden gems on Netflix. Some of these series may have arrived on the streamer with a big splash, only to be forgotten when the next big thing came along. If you’re looking for something off the beaten path for your next binge watch, then you’ve come to the right place.
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Behind Her Eyes (2021)
54%
7.2/10At first glance, Behind Her Eyes is a standard thriller about a woman, Louise Barnsley (Simona Brown), who comes between her new boss, Dr. David Ferguson (Based on a True Story’s Tom Bateman), and his wife, Adele (Eve Hewson).
It doesn’t take long for Louise to have an affair with David, but she also finds herself becoming close to Adele, at the latter’s insistence. There are things about this couple and the way they relate to each other that don’t make sense to Louise. As she gets deeper into their web, Louise is slowly initiated into a world beyond what she knew, with a supernatural aspect that may be the death of her.
Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan (2021)
7.4/10Fans of Shōgun may want to check out Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan, a documentary series that partially doubles as a scripted reenactment of the legendary struggle to seize control of the land of the rising sun in the 16th century.
When Oda Nobunaga (Masayoshi Haneda) makes his move to control the entire nation of Japan, it sets off a conflict that will have far-reaching consequences for everyone involved. Nobunaga’s ambition may not be fulfilled in his lifetime, but waiting in the wings is Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Masami Kosaka), and beyond him, Tokugawa Ieyasu (Hayate Masao). The samurai may bring peace to Japan, but first, they’ll bring war.
That Dirty Black Bag (2022)
7.1/10Spaghetti Westerns are even rarer than traditional Westerns, but That Dirty Black Bag briefly revived the genre as an AMC+ original series. Preacher‘s Dominic Cooper stars in the miniseries as Sheriff Arthur McCoy, a lawman and furthest thing from a hero.
McCoy soon makes an enemy out of Red Bill (Douglas Booth), a bounty hunter who has a tendency to behead his targets rather than lugging their bodies around. When McCoy refuses to pay Red Bill the bounties he’s collected, it sets off a dangerous contest of wills between the two men. As the town of Greenvale threatens to fall apart, Red Bill and McCoy seem destined to wind up with their hands wrapped around each other’s throats.
White Gold (2017)
7.3/10White Gold is a British sitcom set in the 1980s, and it may remind you of other period series. Vincent Swan (Ed Westwick) is a windows salesman with fewer morals than Mad Men‘s Don Draper and a libido that may prove to be the end of his marriage with Sam Swan (Linzey Cocker).
Vincent also feels threatened by the talents of his colleague, Brian Fitzpatrick (James Buckley), and he’s willing to take some extreme measures and make some very shady deals to ensure that he remains the top salesman. But even when Vincent’s schemes start to fall into place, his actions have unforeseen consequences for himself and the people around him.
Gangs of London (2020)
67%
8.0/10Sope Dirisu stars in Gangs of London as Elliot Carter, a policeman who has successfully infiltrated the Wallace crime family. Elliot sees his shot to rise to prominence in the family when the patriarch, Finn Wallace (Colm Meaney), is murdered. That leaves Finn’s son, Sean Wallace (Joe Cole), to take the reins of the family’s underworld interests.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and so do London’s criminals. With Finn out of the way, Sean and the rest of the Wallace family are seen as vulnerable to both their allies and rivals. The only way for Elliot to bring down Sean’s empire is to keep him alive and prove his value. As events take their course, Elliot’s loyalties come into question as he risks his own life to see his mission through to the end.
The Innocents (2018)
70%
6.3/10June McDaniel (Sorcha Groundsell) and Harry Polk (Percelle Ascott) aren’t the first pair of teenagers to run away together in hopes of escaping their problems. Unfortunately for the young lovebirds, The Innocents isn’t that kind of show. Their lives veer into the supernatural and strange when June demonstrates shape-shifting abilities that she can barely control.
Harry’s mom, Christine Polk (Nadine Marshall), and June’s stepfather, John McDaniel (Sam Hazeldine), want to bring them home. However, the enigmatic Dr. Ben Halvorson (Guy Pearce) wants to get his hands on June to study her power. In fact, he’s been conducting horrific experiments on her long-missing mother, Elena (Laura Birn), for years.
A.P. Bio (2018)
61%
7.4/10Not every sitcom is going to be light and fluffy. Especially not A.P. Bio, the show that has remarkably few teaching scenes because the lead character, Jack Griffin (Glenn Howerton), isn’t much of a science teacher. Jack was a philosophy professor at Harvard, at least until his nemesis, Miles Leonard (Tom Bennett), got the job that he wanted.
Most of the kids in Jack’s new science class are bright, so he taps them for his revenge plans against Miles. Given Jack’s circumstances, even getting payback on Miles won’t bring back the life of privilege that he lost. So Jack will keep on using his students to advance his schemes, even as he gets more involved with the school and the faculty than he’d like to admit.
Pantheon (2022)
77%
8.4/10Pantheon may be an animated series, but it’s far from a cartoon. Much like Blue Eye Samurai, AMC’s short-lived sci-fi show transcends its medium to deliver a story that resembles a live-action drama. It also presents an alternate present where AI is already obsolete compared to UI — Uploaded Intelligence.
UIs were once people, but now their minds only exist inside of computers. Somehow, a UI is involving itself in the life of a teenage girl named Maddie Kim (Katie Chang). Maddie soon comes to believe that this ghost in the machine may actually be her father, David (Daniel Dae Kim). Meanwhile, Maddie’s online friend, Caspian Keyes (Paul Dano), has an even deeper connection to the UIs than he suspects. And Caspian’s entire life is a carefully constructed lie by the Logorhythms corporation, which has its own agenda for his future.
Detroiters (2017)
75%
8.2/10Although Detroiters only had a brief two-season run on Comedy Central, it’s getting a second shot at finding a large audience on Netflix. The show follows Sam Duvet (Sam Richardson) and Tim Cramblin (Tim Robinson), two best friends whose personal and professional lives have been entwined their entire lives. Tim is married to Sam’s sister, Chrissy (Shawntay Dalon), even though the guys spend more time with each other.
Tim and Sam are ad men who are trying to build Tim’s company, Cramblin Advertising, into something greater. This duo may not always be able to follow through on their grand ambitions, but they do get a shot at a few big companies. Series producer Jason Sudeikis has a recurring role on the show as Carter Grant, a Chrysler executive who may stand in the way of Tim and Sam’s chance of landing their biggest client to date. And Sudeikis isn’t the only familiar face to show up as Tim and Sam pursue their dreams, no matter how out of reach they seem.
The Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox (2024)
If you’ve never heard of the Curse of the Bambino, it was coined after Babe Ruth was traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees. The Red Sox then went 86 years without winning the World Series. That curse was broken two decades ago by the 2004 Boston Red Sox, who defeated the Yankees in grand fashion on their way to the World Series.
The Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox is a three-part documentary that recounts the team’s storybook season with many of the players, coaches, and employees who played a part in writing a new chapter for the Red Sox. Even though the outcome is well-known two decades later, it still makes for some riveting viewing in the present.
The Queen of Villains (2024)
The name Dump Matsumoto isn’t going to mean much to American audiences unless they are really big on Japan’s wrestling scene from the ’80s. She was a cultural icon in her home country and one of the biggest heels, or villains, in All Japan Women’s Pro-Wrestling. The Queen of Villains pulls explores Dump’s storyfrom the start, when she was simply Kaoru Matsumoto (Yuriyan Retriever).
Wrestling was Kaoru’s chance to escape poverty, and she proved to be a natural brute in the ring. After taking Dump Matsumoto as her ring name, Kaoru climbs the ranks of the women’s division and has a long rivalry with Chigusa Nagayo (Victoria Grace) that plays out in and out of the ring.
Heels (2021)
75%
8.0/10Heels blends modern professional wrestling with what it used to be during the territory days. Before WWE became a national promotion, small wrestling federations like the show’s fictional Duffy Wrestling League held sway in different states. But in the present, DWL is barely staying afloat while its new owner, Jack Spade (Arrow’s Stephen Amell) tries to keep his late father’s business alive.
Jack is also the top in-ring star of the DWL as a dastardly heel (villain), while his younger brother, Ace Spade (Alexander Ludwig), is rapidly on the rise as the territory’s biggest face (hero). And Jack is so wary about ceding the spotlight to his brother that their sibling rivalry will spill out of the ring and force both men to make some tough choices.
Average Joe (2023)
73%
7.3/10The title character of Average Joe really is named Joe (Deon Cole), and his existence is like a dramatic sitcom right up until the Russian mafia inserts itself into his life. It turns out that Joe’s late father had close ties to the Russians, and they think that Joe is in possession of the millions that his dad stole from them.
Joe makes it out of his first encounter with the Russians, but there’s no escaping their reach without finding the money they claim he already has. As Joe’s friends and family get roped into this new phase of his life, the only thing he can hope for is a chance to get away with the people he cares about before the consequences of his father’s actions — and Joe’s — come back to haunt them.
Aquarius (2015)
36%
7.0/10Just over a decade ago, NBC took a big swing with Aquarius, a period crime drama set in the 1960s that finally gave The X-Files’ David Duchovny someone other than aliens to chase. Duchovny plays LAPD Detective Sam Hodiak, who has been asked to investigate the disappearance of a teenager, Emma Karn (Emma Dumont).
Emma has come under the sway of Charles Manson (Gethin Anthony), and the series slowly expands Manson’s real-life history. There’s even an unofficial crossover between the show and Once Upon a Time In Hollywood since Madisen Beaty plays Manson family member Patty Krenwinkel in both. And both the show and the movie play a little fast and loose with actual history.
Kevin Can F**K Himself (2021)
65%
7.1/10Kevin Can F**k Himself is perhaps the only show in the history of AMC that can’t be said on the cable channel without adding a bleep. The series stars Annie Murphy as Allison Devine McRoberts, and the show resembles a traditional network comedy when depicting her miserable life with her husband, Kevin McRoberts (Eric Petersen). He’s every sitcom husband you’ve ever seen all rolled into one, and Annie hates him with a passion.
When Annie decides that murder is the only solution for her Kevin problem, the show takes a turn out of Breaking Bad as she tries to find a way to end his life that won’t be traced back to her. The problem for Annie is that she’s not a criminal genius, and most of her plans blow up in her face and leave Kevin seemingly better off than before. So Annie may have to take matters into her own hands …
Loudermilk (2017)
76%
7.9/10For a series that never had a very big audience in the first place, Loudermilk does have a passionate following. That may be due its masterful blend of comedy and drama, as well as the performance of Ron Livingston as Sam Loudermilk. Before the series begins, Sam was a music critic and an alcoholic. Now, he’s a mostly recovered alcoholic in the present who has a new purpose in life as a substance abuse support group counselor.
Sam’s problem is that he can’t turn off his acerbic wit, and he does have a tendency to alienate people around him. Two of the few people who can stand Sam are his sponsor, Ben Burns (Will Sasso), and Claire Wilkes (Anja Savcic), the young woman Sam is sponsoring. Their dynamic makes the show.
Archive 81 (2022)
73%
7.3/10Archive 81 is based on a horror podcast of the same name and stars Mamoudou Athie as Dan Turner, a man who is hired by Virgil Davenport (Martin Donovan) to restore videotapes of a project run by Melody Pendras (Dina Shihabi) years before. It could have been just a standard job, but weird things keep happening. Dan even discovers that his late father, Steve Turner (Charlie Hudson III), appears on Melody’s tapes.
Dan’s friend, Mark Higgins (Matt McGorry), convinces him to stay with the project to discover how his father is connected. But as Dan learns more about the cult connections to Melody’s work, he may not be able to escape with his newfound knowledge.
The End of the F***ing World (2017)
77%
8.0/10Despite the title, The End of the F***ing World is not about an apocalypse. Instead, it’s a black comedy that follows James (Alex Lawther) and Alyssa (Jessica Barden), a pair of teenagers who go on the run together out of a desire to escape their lives.
Unbeknownst to Alyssa, James shows some psychopathic tendencies and he only runs away with her to get a better opportunity to murder her. And yet even James starts to feel something real for Alyssa as they get into a lot of trouble on the road. Once they go down this path, James and Alyssa may never be able to go home again.
Wildfire (2005)
7.5/10Wildfire was an original series on ABC Family in 2005 before the channel was renamed Freeform. The story follows Kristine “Kris” Furillo-Davis (Genevieve Cortese), a teenager who is just getting out of juvenile detention when she gets a chance to rebuild her life by working at a ranch.
Kris’ passion for animals leads her to prevent a horse named Wildfire from being slaughtered. Their mutual bond also allows Kris to pursue a new destiny as a race jockey with Wildfire as her steed. But even Kris’ newfound celebrity may not be enough to keep the ranch open.
Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer (2021)
70%
7.5/10For over a year, Richard Ramirez terrorized the Los Angeles area as the Night Stalker. And then the people of Los Angeles fought back. Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer is a four-part true crime series that rolls back the clock to the mid ’80s, as the public and the police realized that there was a serial killer in the City of Angels.
The show focuses on the detectives who pursued Ramirez’s true identity, the media frenzy, and what happened once Ramirez was exposed and hunted and pursued by ordinary citizens.
Goodbye Earth (2024)
What would you do if you knew for certain that the world was going to end in 200 days? Hopefully, we’ll never have to answer that question. The same can’t be said of the people in Goodbye Earth, a Korean drama that deals with the impending destruction of the planet due to an asteroid hurtling toward the planet. And there’s no chance of anyone going up in space to blow it up, as they did in Michael Bay’s Armageddon.
Jin Se-kyung (Ahn Eun-jin) has come up with an answer for herself. For whatever time Se-kyung has left, she intends to dedicate it to protecting the schoolchildren in her care. But as society falls apart around her, this may be a promise that Se-kyung can’t keep.
Our Living World (2024)
Netflix has a number of wonderful nature programs in its lineup, but Our Living Planet takes a different tack than most. As narrated by Cate Blanchett, this four-part miniseries stresses the interconnectedness of the human and animal worlds in some surprising ways.
But the core message of the show is clear: We need the animals, and they need us to help protect the ecosystem while we still can. There aren’t any easy answers to be found here, but it’s far from just doom and gloom about the future of the world. Where there’s life, there’s hope.
The Good Cop (2018)
53%
7.0/10The Good Cop feels a lot like Netflix’s take on Castle, with a little bit of Monk thrown in. Tony Danza stars as Anthony “Tony” Caruso Sr., a former cop who did seven years behind bars for corruption. Tony’s son, Anthony “TJ” Caruso Jr. (Josh Groban), is so by the book that he’s the polar opposite of his ex-con father.
Because Tony Sr. wants to prove that he’s changed and reformed, he risks violating his parole to help his son solve murders. Some of TJ’s cases even revolve around his father in unexpected ways.
HAPPY! (2017)
6%
8.1/10Law & Order: Organized Crime star Christopher Meloni headlined the Syfy original series Happy!, based on the comic of the same name by Grant Morrison and The Boys co-creator Darick Robertson. Meloni plays Nick Sax, an alcoholic ex-cop who has fallen so far that he now works as a hitman.
Sax’s life is changed when he meets Happy (Patton Oswalt), an imaginary friend of a young girl named Hailey Louise Hansen (Bryce Lorenzo). Hailey has been kidnapped, and she sent Happy to bring help. What Sax doesn’t initially realize is that Happy is not only real, but he can see Happy because Hailey is his daughter. And it will take a leap of faith for Sax to follow Happy back to the man holding Hailey captive.
Fisk (2021)
7.9/10You’ll have to excuse the title character of Fisk for being a bit of a misanthrope. In short order, Helen Tudor-Fisk (Kitty Flanagan) has had her husband run off with another woman and watched while her legal career has gone down the drain. Can you blame her for souring on people after that?
To avoid dealing with clients, Helen takes a job at Gruber & Gruber, an Australian law firm that specializes in probate cases. But much to Helen’s disappointment, working on behalf of recently deceased clients is even more taxing than she anticipated.
The Vince Staples Show (2024)
77%
7.8/10The tagline for The Vince Staples Show notes that its main character is “kind of famous and sort of rich” thanks to his career as a rapper, which may draw comparisons to FX’s Dave. But this particular series is closer in tone to Donald Glover’s Atlanta or even The Chris Isaak Show from two decades ago. You may not have heard of him, but Vince Staples is a real rapper who is playing himself in slightly exaggerated and comedic situations.
For the most part, Staples’ fame is just large enough to create some awkward interactions with his family, friends, and strangers. He’s also stuck somewhere between having a normal life and having people paying too much attention to him.
One Day (2024)
76%
8.2/10You may recall that there was a film adaptation of David Nicholls’ One Day in 2011 with Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess in the leading roles. That movie is more of an abridged version of the novel, while the updated version of One Day extends to a whopping 14 episodes, which is a lot more than Netflix shows tend to get.
The series follows Dexter (Leo Woodall) and Emma (Ambika Mod), two strangers who meet and almost hook up on their last day in college. Although they don’t immediately become lovers, their bond with each other is powerful enough to keep them in each other’s orbits for the next two decades. From the highs to the lows, Dexter and Emma keep crossing paths as they try to determine what they want, and if they’re meant to be together.
The Tourist (2022)
81%
7.0/10The title character of The Tourist is a man played by Jamie Dornan who has no idea who he is or why he’s in Australia. The audience only initially gets to see the incident that landed the man in the hospital, but without any context as to why someone tried to kill him.
Without many leads to go on, the man visits a café where he encounters Luci Miller (Shalom Brune-Franklin), a waitress who knows a lot more about the man than she lets on. But she may be one of the only allies that he has. Eventually, the man is going to get his answers, assuming that he doesn’t get himself killed in the process.
Detective Forst (2024)
5.6/10Fans of detective dramas will recognize a lot in Detective Forst, especially the lead character Wiktor Forst (Borys Szyc). He’s just got no time for the rules as laid down by his boss, Chief Inspector Edmund Osica (Andrzej Bienias), and Forst takes being thrown off of his latest case as more of a suggestion than an order. As long as there’s a serial killer running around, Forst isn’t backing down.
What separates this show from the pack is the Polish setting and culture, as well as a mystery that isn’t immediately obvious. The killer is sending a message, but even Forst needs some help making sense out of the clues that were left behind.
Boy Swallows Universe (2024)
68%
8.2/10Despite the name, the Australian drama Boy Swallows Universe is not about some eldritch horror that’s gobbling up galaxies. It’s about a boy, Eli Bell (Felix Cameron), whose world is coming apart at the seams. Eli’s mother, Frankie (Phoebe Tonkin), is hopelessly addicted to drugs and in jail, leaving Eli and his older brother, Gus (Lee Tiger Halley), who struggles with selective mutism, to live with their stepfather, Lyle Orlik (Travis Fimmel).
Lyle’s no saint himself, as he’s dealing drugs out of the misguided idea that it’s the only way he can provide for his family. Eli wants a way out for both Lyle and his mother, which leads him to a local crime boss, Bich (HaiHa Le), who brings Eli into her employ. But the deeper he goes in the criminal underworld, the harder it will be for Eli to get out.
The Deep State (2023)
6.5/10The Deep State is a true rarity, even on Netflix. This is a Kuwaiti political thriller that seems destined for an American remake down the line. Bashar Al-Shatti and Khalid Al Muthafar co-star as intelligence officers Bashar and Khaled, neither of whom is sure that they can trust each other. The one thing that Bashar and Khaled have in common is their shared belief that National Security Minister Adnan (Faisal Al-Ameri) is innocent of criminal culpability in a plane crash that claimed the life of a pilot.
Proving Adnan’s innocence turns out to be dangerous for both Bashar and Khaled. Once they leave the country to get answers, they may find coming home to be much more difficult.
The 100 (2014)
64%
7.6/10During its seven-season run on The CW, The 100 inspired a passionate fanbase, but the series hasn’t fully crossed over into the mainstream. The show has a digital afterlife on Netflix, and it’s worthy of another chance to bring people into the story. The series is set in the future after Earth has been rendered nearly uninhabitable. With the remnants of humanity now living in orbit on the Ark, the future of the human race is in peril.
One hundred teenagers, including Clarke Griffin (Eliza Taylor), Bellamy Blake (Bob Morley), and Octavia Blake (Marie Avgeropoulos) are expelled from the Ark and forced to determine if it’s possible to reclaim the Earth. The group soon discovers that there are other factions of survivors on their homeworld, and there may not be a safe haven for anyone when the Ark itself is threatened with destruction.
Cunk on... (2018)
If you remember Sacha Baron Cohen’s Ali G and Borat, then you may have a better idea of what to expect from Cunk on Earth. This is a mockumentary produced by The Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker that features Diane Morgan reprising her role as Philomena Cunk, a blithering idiot who interviews real experts on the show.
This series has a really dry sense of humor, and much of the comedy comes from Morgan’s ability to keep herself from breaking character in the face of some of her incredulous interview subjects. This is a parody of nearly every documentary you’ve ever seen, which makes it so much fun to watch.
Last Chance U: Basketball (2021)
90%
8.3/10Blue Eye Samurai (2023)
86%
9.0/10Blue Eye Samurai is an unusual anime that appears to be picking up traction with fans who aren’t typically into animation. That’s because this is a series that fully embraces drama, as Mizu (Maya Erskine), a young woman passing herself off as a man, cuts a bloody path of vengeance in 17th century Japan when half-Caucasian and half-Japanese people like Mizu were considered abominations.
Mizu is accompanied on her quest by Ringo (Masi Oka), a handless man who proves to be a loyal friend. Mizu also finds an unexpected ally in Taigen (Darren Barnet), a swordsman who comes to respect her despite wanting to duel her to the death to restore his honor for a defeat at Mizu’s hands. This is an intricately plotted and executed series, which is just as compelling and interesting as any live-action series.
The Pacific (2010)
86%
8.3/10The Pacific is currently streaming on Netflix on a temporary basis, so don’t get too used to seeing it here. This was originally an HBO production produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg nearly a decade after their acclaimed World War II miniseries, Band of Brothers. The Pacific returns to the same timeframe while exploring the battles in the Pacific from the point of view of PFC Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale), Cpl. Eugene Sledge (Joseph Mazzello), GySgt. John Basilone (Jon Seda), and others.
This miniseries is based on the real accounts of the men who fought in the war, and it’s an unflinching look at combat during wartime and the high cost it demands from everyone involved.
Medici: The Magnificent (2018)
Thanks to Netflix, international series like Medici: The Magnificent, which is a rare drama that is set during the events of the Italian renaissance. The Magnificent is a two-season continuation set two decades after the initial season of Medici.
Daniel Sharman stars as Lorenzo Medici, the heir to the family’s wealth and their powerful bank. Unfortunately, Lorenzo has to step up and prematurely assume control over both the family and the bank in order to prevent Florence from being invaded. But there are still plenty of enemies that Lorenzo has to deal with, both inside and outside of the city.
Good Girls (2018)
60%
7.7/10Chances are good that you missed Good Girls during its four seasons on NBC, but the series has a second chance to find an audience on Netflix. The titular good girls are anything but, yet not without reason. Elizabeth “Beth” Boland (Christina Hendricks), her sister, Annie Marks (Mae Whitman), and their friend, Ruby Hill (Retta), are all facing serious financial issues when they band together to rob a grocery store.
Pulling off the heist wasn’t the problem. The real issue of the series is that Beth’s small gang has unintentionally come in the crosshairs of Rio (Manny Montana), a criminal who was previously using the grocery store as his money laundering front. Now, Rio wants the three women to work for him, and they don’t have the leverage to say no.
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (2022)
72%
7.0/10If you’re looking for some scary short stories this Halloween, then director Guillermo del Toro has a treat for you. Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities is a horror anthology series that features eight episodes of standalone stories, including one written by del Toro himself.
Although del Toro didn’t direct any of the episodes himself, he recruited horror directors Jennifer Kent, Ana Lily Amirpour, Panos Cosmatos, Catherine Hardwicke, Guillermo Navarro, David Prior, Vincenzo Natali, and Keith Thomas to each bring to life their own visions of terror.
Everything Now (2023)
6.7/10Talk to Me‘s Sophie Wilde stars in Everything Now as Mia Polanco, a 16-year-old girl who has just been released from treatment for serious eating disorders. Mia not only feels like she’s under the microscope from her family and peers, but she also thinks that she missed far too much time from what should be the best years of her life.
In her eagerness to fix that, Mia recruits her friends Becca (Lauryn Ajufo), Will (Noah Thomas), and Cam (Harry Cadby), as well as acquaintances Alison (Niamh McCormack) and Carli (Jessie Mae Alonzo) ,to help her get through a bucket list of things that she missed. Mia wants to make up for lost time, even if she should probably slow down. But where’s the fun in that?
Top Boy (2019)
85%
8.4/10The underrated British crime drama Top Boy has come to an end, and Netflix is the streaming home for both the original show and the three-season run of the revival series. But both incarnations of the show revolve around Dushane (Ashley Walters) and Sully (Kane Robinson), a pair of drug dealers in London whose friendship is sorely tested by their desires to rise in the criminal underworld.
While Dushane and Sully are initially on the same page, their goals diverge and they ultimately come into conflict with each other. Sometimes they’re even at each other’s throats, but they keep reluctantly joining forces. Yet in the end, there can only be one “Top Boy.’
Inventing Anna (2022)
57%
6.8/10Inventing Anna is loosely based on the true story of Anna “Delvey” Sorokin (Julia Garner), a Russian con artist who was successfully able to worm her way into New York’s high society by convincing them that she was a rich German heiress. Because her newfound friends and contacts believed that Anna was rich, they were willing to give her access to their money as well.
The miniseries also focuses on Vivian Kent (Anna Chlumsky), a reporter who is obsessed with chasing down Anna’s story as she awaits trial. While some of Anna’s victims are willing to talk, Vivian finds it difficult to get the full story.
Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga (2022)
Thanks to the film Dumb Money, the 2021 GameStop short squeeze is once again a popular topic. Netflix’s documentary, Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga, is a three-part look back at the tumultuous turn of events when amateur investors outmaneuvered the professional stock traders by driving up GameStop’s stock so high that the short sellers couldn’t buy back the stock without losing millions.
This documentary doesn’t quite cover all of the bases, but it’s still an intriguing look back at a Wall Street revolt that didn’t quite end the way most of the investors wanted it to.
Echoes (2022)
46%
5.9/10The Midnight Club (2022)
64%
6.6/10Unsolved Mysteries (2020)
Unsolved Mysteries will satisfy your desire for both true crime and docuseries about the unknown and paranormal activity. Each episode is a compartmentalized story, which means you can scan the summary and pick and choose what you’re in the mood to watch. Whether it’s the story of a successful businessman who mysteriously vanishes, UFO sightings, or a cold case murder rife with theories, rest assured every episode will leave you with tons of questions, opinions, and a desire to get to the bottom of what truly happened.
Netflix’s version is a revival of the original series that first aired in the late 1980s, and it has been resurrected multiple times through the decades. Now in its third season, the new Unsolved Mysteries presents an eclectic mix of captivating stories to keep you wanting more.
Love & Anarchy (2020)
7.4/10One Day at a Time (2017)
82%
8.1/10El Marginal (2016)
8.1/10Derry Girls (2018)
83%
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