50 Best Shows to Binge Watch on Netflix – November 2018

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Bodyguard 2018- This will have you gasping for air after each of its six episodes. Don't sleep on this one: both seasons are currently streaming on Netflix right now, with season three currently airing on the CW. Because they're infused with equal parts camp, drama, suspense, and humor -- even this ostensibly scary one.

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The hook of 3% is simple: The world is divided between a world of wealth called the Offshore and a world of poverty called the Inland. The Elysium-like premise is explored with real emotional depth, and director César Charlone, the cinematographer responsible for City of God's stunning visuals, shoots everything with a gritty glow. The 4400 2004-2007 Produced by The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola, this underrated sci-fi series imagines what would happen if 4,400 people suddenly vanished from the face of the planet in the early 20th century... The mystery unfolds through the eyes of some superlative performances, including newly minted Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali as a US Air Force pilot who disappeared but somehow has a daughter in the present. Aggretsuko 2018 This unlikely totally succeeds as a standalone project from the branding that might otherwise subsume Aggretsuko, the super-cute red raccoon character who blows off steam from her shitty job by doing death metal karaoke. For anyone who's held down a clock-watching, 9-to-5 office gig, you'll root for Aggretsuko when she tells off her boss at an off-site drinking event, empathize with her when she falls into dating a schlubby guy around the office, and headbang during her solo karaoke sets. Altered Carbon 2018- Adapted from the 2002 Richard K. Morgan novel of the same name, Altered Carbon is a flashy, jargon-y, and, at times, dizzying descent into sci-fi decadence. The show follows a 22nd-century mercenary Joel Kinnaman who's hired to solve the murder of a highly influential aristocrat. Said aristocrat is still alive, because in this version of the future, the wealthy can't really die -- instead, their consciousness is essentially uploaded to the cloud and downloaded into new bodies. In a world without death, the ensuing caper boasts the same jaw-dropping visuals and world-building as Blade Runner and the same thought-provoking intrigue as HBO's Westworld. And over the course of 10 episodes, what looks like a complicated murder mystery detours as a complicated love story and a complicated look at social stratification. In other words, showrunner Laeta Kalogridis packs A LOT to digest in here, but that means there's A LOT to appreciate if you're patient. Though it takes a few episodes for Altered Carbon's dense story to really take off, it's an ambitious ride that's well worth sticking around for. In fact, we can't wait to see more. American Crime 2015- Like its completely unaffiliated basic-cable contemporary American Crime Story, this ABC anthology series uses a repertory-style cast to tell a different story each season. But rather than focusing on a celebrity-driven or headline-making case each time, like The People v. Simpson, writer and director John Ridley 12 Years a Slave trots out an original story. If you prefer your social consciousness fictionalized, this is the heart-wrenching, family-oriented show to check out next. American Horror Story 2011- Why do people love Ryan Murphy shows so much? Because they're infused with equal parts camp, drama, suspense, and humor -- even this ostensibly scary one. Whether you're watching the Murder House, Freak Show, Hotel, or recent Roanoke installment, you're in for unforgettable characters, stomach-curdling gore, jaw-dropping plot twists, and brutal finales.  American Vandal 2017- American Vandal, about teen documentarians who investigate the innocence of a classmate accused of vandalism Jimmy Tatro , is much more than a four-hour dick joke. After the first couple episodes, the phallic material fades into the background, allowing the show to satirize high school and today's criminal justice system in a meaningful way. It's parody, homage, addictive teen drama all wrapped in one -- an underrated win for the streaming service. Arrested Development 2003- There's always money in the banana stand, and there are always laughs to be found in Arrested Development, Mitchell Hurwitz's sly, self-aware family sitcom. While the most recent Netflix-produced season occasionally devolved into discursive, indulgent meta-humor, the show's original three seasons established a freewheeling comic sensibility that many of your favorite sitcoms -- Parks and Recreation, 30 Rock, Community, Archer, Kroll Show -- were influenced by. Don't hold the show's obnoxious fans against it. After watching a few episodes, you'll be quoting Tobias Fünke, too. Evil Dead 2015- If you're a fan of the original Evil Dead trilogy and haven't seen Ash vs. Evil Dead yet, what have you even been doing with your spare time? Set 30 years after Army of Darkness, when the Deadites were neutralized, the demon curse of the Necronomicon is back, baby, and it's up to our skeezy hero Ash Williams still Bruce Campbell to do the thing he does best, which is cutting up the possessed. Sam Raimi and crew bring the same dark humor and over-the-top gore to the revived series that's just entering its third season on Starz, but is thankfully also on a streaming service people actually use.  Being Mary Jane 2013- Mara Brock Akil's rom-dram stars the ageless Gabrielle Union as a single 30-something TV news anchor trying to juggle her intense professional ambitions with her needy family and a steamy sex life. Mary Jane embraces its contradictions: it's soapy as all get-out, with nonsensical plotlines involving the acquisition of an ex-lover's sperm, while still confronting race and gender issues head-on. Black Mirror 2011- Each installment of 's addicting anthology takes a current techno-social phenomenon -- topics that range from to -- to its extreme and asks whether human nature can coexist with it. Part satire and part , the series presents an appropriately grim view of the future, one that will definitely make you worry for the next generation and maybe even. Binge this delicious platter of paranoia cautiously. Bodyguard 2018- This will have you gasping for air after each of its six episodes. Richard Madden Game of Thrones stars as David Budd, a war veteran and member of the Protection Command tasked with serving as the personal bodyguard of Britain's Home Secretary, Julia Montague Keeley Hawes. Various conspiracies and personal relationships intersect at a dizzying rate in a story that's about the various ways in which power is used and abused in contemporary Western society. BoJack Horseman 2014- It's a goofy animated comedy unlike those that came before it -- a middle-aged man read: horse consistently struggles to stay out of trouble while dealing with the downside of fame. Though you'd be hard-pressed to come across any moment in the series that isn't a side-splitting one, BoJack Horseman also boasts some surprisingly dark and emotionally ambitious moments that'll hook you from beginning to end. The Break with Michelle Wolf 2018 Even though Netflix decided to cancel The Break after the first season -- before the show's schtick even had a chance -- the newsy single season that remains on the streaming service will be worth revisiting for a while to come. The writing smacks with its alt-humor and wouldn't you know, some former Clickhole folks were on the writing staff and takes a decidedly leftist political stance, which is a breath of fresh air from other talk shows that pretend they're seeing things from all sides. Breaking Bad 2008-2013 Despite originally airing on AMC,  Breaking Bad is the ultimate Netflix show. Filled with moments of shocking violence and wry humor, the rise and fall of Walter White Bryan Cranston -- and his co-conspirators Jesse, Skyler, Gus, and Mike -- is probably best experienced in wild, indulgent weekend binges. That's what many fans did throughout the show's five-season run, catching up on old episodes on Netflix to prepare for the must-see moments that occurred during its final stretch. With the acclaimed spinoff Better Call Saul now inspiring similar conversations, there's never been a better time to take the dive. You don't just watch this show; it consumes you. Broadchurch 2013-2017 The murder of a young boy stirs up a media frenzy and divides a tight-knit English coastal town, and the proper order of things is further disrupted by the unfiltered hotshot inspector David Tennant who arrives just in time to take on the baffling crime and vex a local detective Olivia Colman who wanted his job. Starring Ted Danson as the ex-Red Soxxer and reformed alcoholic slinging drinks, Cheers, too, had a very long run -- 271 episodes! Chef's Table 2015- With an explosion of food television comes elevated standards; Netflix's Chef's Table forages for those standards, brings them to the restaurant for dinner service, treats them with respect, turns them into a whimsical play on a dish remembered from childhood, and earns a couple Michelin stars and the admiration of its peers in the process. The point is that Chef's Table, from creator David Gelb Jiro Dreams of Sushi , is an exceptional food show that manages to make humans the centerpiece. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina 2018- From the creator of Riverdale comes another Archie-adjacent series, only much witchier. You may remember Sabrina the Teenage Witch as the friendly, upbeat witch from ABC's TGIF lineup in the '90s, but in the new Netflix adaptation, the occult is far more present. The result is a dark, engaging showcase for Kiernan Shipka, and.  Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee 2012- Jerry Seinfeld has a shitload of expensive cars lying around, so he decided to film himself giving other funny people rides in them. And after a run as Crackle's only viable original program, Seinfeld will take his talents later this year to the king of the streaming game for now. TV treatment here doesn't really mean adaptation, though; it means a platform to be fucking insane and hilariously surreal. Your favorite comedians think Andy Daly, Sarah Silverman hit Aukerman's couch with special guests who range from Tony Hawk to Kevin Bacon to publicist extraordinaire Rodney Waber to improv some magic, participate in off-the-wall bits, and make you ask, What the hell am I watching? Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 2015- Many armchair critics tried to dismiss former YouTube sensation Rachel Bloom's CW series for what they presumed to be a sexist title -- a notion she bites back at from the opening credits on. In fact, the series is quietly revolutionary, offering sharp yet subtle commentary about the way women treat each other and themselves, and casually featuring one of the most diverse casts on TV.  CXG draws its rom-com antics from heroine Rebecca's compulsive behavior and past traumas, all while satirizing the conventions of musicals with song-and-dance numbers worthy of Sondheim. It's a downward spiral, for sure, but psychosis has never been this entertaining. Dark 2017- Dubbed the German version of Stranger Things, this foreign supernatural drama following a boy who goes missing is an absolute mind fuck.  Dear White People 2017- Justin Simien's scorching send-up of post-racial America received the green light from Netflix for 10 30-minute episodes, with Logan Browning stepping in for Tessa Thompson. As in the movie, the streaming version follows a diverse group of students pushing back against discrimination at a mostly white Ivy League school. Contrary to what the trolls want you to believe, Simien's work is not white-genocide propaganda; it's an illuminating look at what equality means in the 21st century. My job isn't to protect your feelings. It's to show you who you are. Sometimes that will be joyful. It's doesn't try to be joke-for-joke funnier than The Simpsons, nor does it relegate the ventures of its own universe to singular episodes like Futurama. Disenchantment takes an episode or two to settle in, but once you've come around on the drunken shenanigans of Princess Bean Broad City's Abbi Jacobson and her unlikely sidekicks -- Elfo Nat Faxon , a spacey, naive elf, and Luci Eric Andre , a cat-like demon who curses Bean on her arranged wedding day -- prior expectations dissipate. Disenchantment is more like the streaming equivalent of The Princess Bride on mushrooms. Which is why the true brilliance of Documentary Now! The tone demands a lot of the audience: Can you empathize with the human struggle of a kid who wants to kill, kill, kill?  Fauda 2015- Fauda, an action thriller about an elite team of undercover Israeli commandos working in Palestine, is perhaps the best of Netflix's recent foreign-language shows, a frantically paced and politically charged melodrama filled with sequences of white-knuckle suspense straight out of Homeland or 24. But unlike those spy dramas, Fauda spends nearly as much time on the private lives of Palestinians as it does on its gun-toting heroes. It's got a moral complexity that its more simplistic American counterparts often lack. Fawlty Towers 1975; 1979 Monty Python vet John Cleese teamed with then-wife Connie Booth to create Fawlty Towers, a legendary testament to the charms of British humor. The show centers on the lives of a comically inept and bad-tempered hotel owner and his wife, their employees, and the guests they inevitably alienate. If you like wacky comedy with intellectual sensibility, Fawlty Towers is a must-watch.  Frontier 2016 - A showcase for the charismatic brutality only Jason Momoa can muster, about the literally cutthroat 18th-century North American fur trade. The adventure series has more in common with breezy syndicated fare like Hercules: The Legendary Journeys than it does with Momoa's star-making Game of Thrones, but if you squint hard enough at the right moment you'll swear that it's Khal Drogo himself cutting off that poor sap's ear. Gilmore Girls 2000-2007; 2016 In case you haven't heard,  -- so you can catch up with this wisecracking mother-daughter duo before watching the four-episode follow-up. The show takes place in the quirky small town of Stars Hollow and features a dynamic supporting cast so fully fleshed, you'll feel like a local after your first hour. For extra credit, the dissects the series episode by episode, providing a present-day watercooler for your thoughts on a 17-year-old show. Girlboss 2017 Co-produced by Charlize Theron and helmed by Kay Cannon, this streaming series takes its name from Sophia Amoruso's memoir but fictionalizes the entrepreneur's rocky rise to the top. Britt Robertson plays Amoruso, the young shoplifter-turned-mogul who founded popular fashion retailer Nasty Gal. While Netflix ultimately canceled this series, we wholly recommend watching the self-contained first season, which tethers episodic joy into what ultimately feels like three feature-length films. GLOW 2017- It's odd that it took so long for someone to make a fun comedy about professional wrestling. Where Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler turned the plight of a washed-up grappler into a Sisyphean struggle in spandex, GLOW, which was inspired by a real life wrestling women's wrestling promotion from the '80s, takes a sunnier but still no-holds-barred approach. Community's Alison Brie excels as an actress who gets cast by a washed-up filmmaker Marc Maron to play the villain in the rag-tag operation, but, like producer Jenji Kohan's Orange is the New Black, it's the side characters, like Britney Young's second-generation brawler Machu Picchu, who really help this show get over. The Good Place 2016- Created by Parks and Rec mastermind Michael Schur, this whimsical comedy sends the World's Most Selfish Woman, Eleanor Shellstrop Kristen Bell , to the afterlife. More specifically: the titular Good Place, something like heaven minus all the religious stuff. Things go swimmingly until Eleanor realizes she's been mistaken for someone else -- a glitch in the system that sends the utopia into a downward spiral. It's tons of fun seeing Bell and her onscreen soulmate Chidi William Jackson Harper try to fool everyone into believing this Eleanor can be a good person and deserves to stay. Grace and Frankie 2015- Netflix users of a certain age have likely overlooked this dramedy from Marta Kauffman Friends and Howard J. Morris The Starter Wife , about two septuagenarian friends Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin who shack up together after their husbands Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston announce they're in love and intend to marry. With notes of The Odd Couple and The Brady Bunch -- both couples have grown kids as equally knocked out by the news -- Grace and Frankie is down-to-earth viewing that's rich with observational wit on the progressive notion of being true to one's identity, and the time-worn cliche that everyone gets older with age. If you've indulged in the low-key, picture-perfect comedies of Nancy Meyers It's Complicated, Something's Gotta Give , give this one a try. Great British Baking Show 2010- If you still haven't indulged in this confectionary U. Hosts Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, along with judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood, mix charm and no-holds-barred cooking criticism as they navigate a sea of bakers vying to become the next masters of dough-proving, top-glazing, and edge-icing. There's something absolutely pure about Great British Baking Show, making it one of the nicest -- and we mean that as a plus -- reality shows ever to hit television. Halt and Catch Fire 2014-2017 Man, if you like how pseudo-psychotic, bold, and impossibly ahead-of-the-game Tom Hardy is on Taboo, you'll love Lee Pace on Halt and Catch Fire. Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers' period saga sends the actor to Texas in the '80s, where he plays a tech visionary hell-bent on disrupting the computer revolution. Loosely inspired by Compaq's , Halt and Catch Fire delivers with complex character relationships and top-notch acting shout-out to the always-underrated Toby Huss. Hap and Leonard 2016- Writer-director Jim Mickle adapted Joe Lansdale's pulpy noir novel Cold in July before diving all in on adapting the author's rootin'-tootin' crime franchise. Hap Collins James Purefoy is an ex-con trying to make enough cash to stay afloat. Leonard Pine Michael Kenneth Williams is a gay black Vietnam vet with a short temper. Together they solve crimes -- and it never goes smoothly. Happy Valley 2014- A police sergeant Sarah Lancashire is investigating the kidnapping of a local businessman's daughter by conspiring West Yorkshire locals; one of them is connected to the rape of her own daughter, who committed suicide eight years earlier. Tension builds at crime scenes and in familial moments, as Catherine swallows her suffering to parent her daughter's illegitimate son. The series leaves room for flawed characters to make mistakes: Catherine isn't Sherlock Holmes, nor are her culprits Moriarty types. On this show, murders happen by accident -- which is even scarier than premeditation. Cheers, Seinfeld, and Frasier all mastered it. But by the 2000s, the notion of shooting comedy in front of a live studio audience was all but dead -- at least in America. The IT Crowd, starring Chris O'Dowd Bridesmaids , Richard Ayoade, and Katherine Parkinson as a lowly tech team residing in the basement of a major British corporation, proved there was still joy to bouncy dialogue and silly sight gags in a modern setting. Tremendously goofy and heartfelt, this show could easily replace hanging out with your actual friends. The Keepers 2017 True-crime docs are a dime a dozen these days, but The Keepers takes the genre to another level by dealing in both micro and macro layers of a story involving sexual abuse, murder, police corruption, and the Catholic Church. At its center is the strange disappearance and death in 1969 of a schoolteacher nun named Sister Cathy Cesnik, a case that continues to be investigated by her former students, who the filmmakers follow. Numerous shocking twists are revealed over the course of the seven-episode series, as the haunting mystery turns disturbing exposé and then circles back around again. Lady Dynamite 2016-2017 Maria Bamford's semi-autobiographical, surreal spin on mental illness in Hollywood was a summer sleeper hit for Netflix. The comedian's self-aware hijinks share obvious DNA with Arrested Development: Mitch Hurwitz and Pam Brady are executive producers; there are sight gags, wordplay, and mockery of Los Angeles idiocy galore; and it features countless comedy-world cameos, extended fantasy sequences, and genuine self-introspection. It'll take you a few episodes to get invested, or even to wrap your head around WTF you're watching. But once you're hooked, you're hooked. Now that streaming is standard, you don't have to surf cable for a late-night insomnia salve or a hungover Sunday time-killer. You can drop in on Detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson whenever you desire the simple satisfaction of fighting for justice in an unjust world. Love 2016-2018 Romantic comedies can often feel more like fantasy with their meet cutes and perfect endings rather than depicting an attainable relationship. Rather than falling into these tropes, Love, an aptly named Netflix original series, feels almost too real. The series with co-creator Judd Apatow at its helm follows two flawed individuals, addict and wise-cracking Mickey Gillian Jacobs and people pleasing Gus Paul Rust , who organically meet and inevitably fall for each other despite being seemingly wrong for each other.  Luther 2010-2016 Idris Elba looks really good in a suit. There are plenty of reasons to watch Luther, but The Wire actor's calming sartorial presence has to be what draws most fans into this psychologically rich British detective drama. The Affair's Ruth Wilson also impresses as Alice Morgan, a manipulative murderer who becomes an obsession for Elba's weary cop John Luther. It's a cat-and-mouse game worthy of Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling. Plus, the whole Idris Elba-in-suits thing. The series spans many eras as we travel throughout time: the 1960s change the people around Don, and the second half of the final season, set in 1970, is momentous. Betty confronts her own mortality. Peggy discovers that  isn't as clean-cut as she thinks. Pete breaks his life in two so that he can put it back together again. And then there's Don Draper: well-meaning, self-destructive, creative genius Don Draper, who dreams big and falls hard over and over and over again.  Mad Men asserted itself as the Great American Television Show by being hyper-specific -- designed down to the desk stapler -- and universally opaque. As the documentary team behind this essential Netflix binge, which rivals The Staircase and season 1 in its capacity to inspire righteous anger and rabbit-hole quests for the truth, details without exceeding skill, justice for Avery and his nephew, tragically swept up in the deplorable affair, has most definitely not been served. With , prepare to be enraged all over again.  Manhunt: Unabomber 2017 This eight-episode miniseries which may or may not spawn follow-up series -- we'll see! But sometimes you just can't stop yourself from bingeing a nicely paced true-crime dramatization with unlikely actors in the crucial roles, like we have here with Avatar's Sam Worthington as a dogged FBI agent who uses linguistics to track down the Unabomber , Avengers: Age of Ultron's Paul Bettany as the hermetic, manifesto-writing mad bomber , and Party Down's Jane Lynch as Janet Reno! Maniac 2018 This trippy series, directed by True Detective Season 1 helmer Cary Joji Fukunaga, follows two troubled people who sign up for the trial of a drug that promises to be better than traditional talk therapy. Suffice to say things do not go as planned. Emma Stone and Jonah Hill star as the two guinea pigs, and their stories become increasingly intertwined as they float from dream world to dream world attempting to confront and destroy their inner demons. Much of it reads as nonsense, but it's beautifully shot and features a hilarious take on Freudian dynamics between Justin Theroux's Dr. Mantleray and Sally Field's Dr. Like a sampling platter at one of , the show presents a series of familiar tropes -- showbiz satire, friends hanging out, family squabbles, a budding relationship --. Instead, Ansari and co-writer Alan Yang let their carefully honed comedic sensibility hold all of these disparate ideas together, moving elegantly between delightful absurdity and melancholy self-reflection goodbye, long-term relationships! Mindhunter 2017- David Fincher loves serial killers. The director of Seven, Zodiac, and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo launched Netflix into the world of original television when he applied his dark, brooding aesthetic to a different kind of sociopath: obscenely ambitious politician Francis Underwood, focal point of House of Cards. The show follows a young, self-assured FBI agent, Holden Ford Jonathan Groff ; his mentor, Bill Tench Holt McCallany ; and psychologist-turned-consultant Dr. You feel not only for the agents and their decidedly second-priority romantic partners, but also for the killers, some of whom possess knife-edge intelligence and a caustic self-awareness, while others inspire near-instant revulsion. Add in the time-tested conventions of true crime mysteries, plus a steadfast unwillingness to write another FBI hagiography, and Mindhunter is highly bingeable, yet offers a depth that rewards slow-burn viewing. Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return 2017- Could a new crew of comedians revive the effortless magic of public-acess-born Mystery Science Theater 3000. With the nerdy Jonah Ray The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail locked in the new spaceship, once again backed by Crow and Tom Servo but with new voices, Hampton Yount and Baron Vaughn , spearheaded by , and produced by original host Joel Hodgson, the new incarnation pelts jokes at late-night schlock and half-assed blockbusters with relentless force. There's a musicality to the jokes in MST3K: The Return, punctuating every bit of dead air in the god forsaken movie choices, and everyone is at the top of their game. Narcos 2015- This thriller is a treat for history buffs, unpacking the horrifying, drug-laden history of Colombia during the reign of legendary kingpin Pablo Escobar. As Escobar, Wagner Moura is both terrifying and captivating, and his opposition, two DEA agents fighting their way through a convoluted mystery, give a scarily real sense of the American efforts to end the war on drugs. Moura is SO convincing that I'd probably spit on him if I ran into him on the street on behalf of the Colombian people -- he's that good at being bad.  Narcos' mix of archival footage and contemporary fictionalization keeps you engaged, and reminds you that a literal genocide had to happen just so yuppies could blow coke in the Hamptons during the '80s only kind of kidding. Nobel 2016- Amid the Homelands and Zero Dark Thirtys of the world, it's easy to forget that the United States decades-long global war on terror is just that: global. The coalition of nations that fought with America in Afghanistan included Norway, and it's in a foreign camp that the show begins with a tense military operation to take out a suspected suicide bomber. Make no mistake, though: This is not a war series, but a political one, focusing on the treacherous ripples terrorism sets off through national politics. In this case, the political implications are told through the lives Erling Riiser Aksel Hennie , who served in Afghanistan, and his wife, Johanne Tuva Novotny , a government worker who must navigate the business interests related to Norway's involvement in the region. The OA 2016- If Stranger Things was a little too basic for you, give this wonky sci-fi series from co-creators Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij a shot. The otherworldly Marling stars as Prairie, a blind woman who returns to society after years in captivity and quickly starts a youth group with some troubled teens. It gets crazier from there. Yes, there are weird flashbacks to Russia. Yes, it will leave you scratching your head and searching the internet for clues. But sometimes the crazy shows are the ones you love the most. The Office 2001-2002 Fans of Dunder Mifflin have Ricky Gervais to thank for the genesis of Michael Scott. This show's the OG, in other words. Though it only ran for two seasons, Gervais' British Office paved the way for a new wave of awkward comedy, turned banal jobs into fertile ground for producing side-splitting workplace laughs, and inspired Greg Daniels and Michael Schur to be their best. It's worth noting that Gervais' original character lives on in Netflix's Life on the Road -- the kind of catch-up project we'd love to see for a certain Agent Michael Scarn. The Office 2005-2013 Go ahead and try to prevent your brain from firing off loads of oxytocin as soon as those opening piano notes hit your eardrums. As scenes from Scranton and the Dunder Mifflin office play across the screen, you'll find it difficult to resist falling into a wormhole of nostalgia, knowing all along that SPOILER Jim and Pam get together in the end. If you're watching for the first time, you'll understand why so many people fell for Michael Scott and the soft-bellied, straight-faced humor that reinvented network television.  One Day at a Time 2016- Like The Ranch, its red state cousin, One Day at a Time is a throwback family sitcom in a world that can be unkind to audience laughter, big comedic performances, and that stage-bound multi-camera look. But single-camera purists should get over their hang-ups. Anchored by a lived-in performance from Justina Machado Six Feet Under , the show finds familiar laughs in the way generations clash and families wage war, but it's also culturally specific, socially engaged, and leisurely paced in a way that makes it stand out from your average CBS family show -- or Netflix's own dire Fuller House. Orange Is the New Black 2013- The scripted original that put Netflix on the map sorry, Kevin Spacey! Ozark 2017- It's easy to see why early critics compared Ozark to Breaking Bad: Drug money and morally gray characters abound in both. But as Marty Byrde -- a brilliant Chicago-based financial advisor who moves his family to Missouri's Ozarks on a life-or-death deadline to wash truck loads of cash for Mexico's second biggest drug cartel -- Jason Bateman never goes full Heisenberg. In fact, his character's main motivation for doing anything is to protect his family. Along with Bateman, Laura Linney Marty's wife , Jason Butler Harner an undercover fed , and Julia Garner one sketchy family's substitute don deliver particularly memorable turns to help make this slow-burn work wonders over its tense 10-plus hour runtime. The Byrde saga might not yet be as good as its spiritual forefather, but it's better than a lot of its cousins even Bloodline! It'd be a mistake to not give it a shot. Watching this show now is like being treated to a buffet of comedic royalty; there's Amy Poelher! Their performances cemented Parks and Rec's place in network comedy lore.  Parts Unknown 2013-2018 CNN's Parts Unknown was obligatory viewing even prior to the of , but currently available on Netflix as well as the 8 final episodes yet to be added from the show's currently airing 11th season now stand as an essential part of the , host's legacy. While ostensibly about food, Parts Unknown was more interested with exploring and documenting the ways communities around the country and the world build, nurture and examine themselves. Peaky Blinders 2013- Cillian Murphy stars in this early-20th-century period drama as Thomas Shelby, a World War I vet-turned-patriarchal crime boss who wants to up his family's social and financial status in England. The Shelbys' story plays out as historical fiction, loosely inspired by the exploits of real-life gangs based in Birmingham around the late 1800s and early 1900s. Rivaling bands of thugs clash for underworld influence here in a way that is not unlike on Game of Thrones just on a less fantastical scale: high-stakes political power plays, shady back-room dealings, and gritty tussles abound, with. The show's name comes from the razor blades stitched in the Shelbys' flat caps, after all.  And if you still miss GoT, take comfort in appearances from Locke Noah Taylor , Doran Martell Alexander Siddig , and the Night King Richard Brake. Planet Earth and Planet Earth 2 2006; 2017 It's difficult to convey the splash Planet Earth made when it arrived on American television screens in 2006. Like, holy shit, that great white shark captured in super-slow motion? No one had seen anything like it before, and each episode felt like a new experience, bringing more attention to the environmental and conservation movements than anything since Silent Spring, no small feat. It's worth a rewatch, because it holds up even after 2017's Planet Earth 2 -- the follow-up features more advanced camera work, but it doesn't quite match the massive scale of the original, because nothing really can. Portlandia 2011-2018 Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein have been skewering hipster preciousness for years, but it's all coming to an end. Catch up on the series that turned Portland, Oregon into a metonym for twee hipsterdom. Crochet a bird-adorned scarf and snuggle in for a night of self-aware laughs.  Riverdale 2017- A modern CW take on the yuk-yuk teen comic Archie may sound like a shot of arsenic to prestige TV binge-watchers, but with a murder mystery undercurrent, soap drama worthy of The O. Watch Riverdale and you'll be sifting through grocery store comic shelves in a week. Robotech 1985 This is the godfather of anime television in the United States. Robotech -- released as an American adaptation of three unrelated sci-fi robot series -- first introduced American audiences to classic space opera anime tropes. And then he died in her arms on the couch. It also has transforming robots. Sacred Games 2018- Netflix's first original Indian series is an insanely watchable, not-to-miss cat-and-mouse cop thriller. Based on the 2006 novel by Vikram Chandra, this eight-part series works off of a familiar premise -- determined cop hunts down a high-profile drug kingpin and uncovers ungainly connections and hushed corruption -- set in Mumbai, showing Western audiences that there's way more to Indian entertainment than Bollywood movies. Shameless 2011- A remake of the popular British series of the same name, Shameless follows the patriarch William H. Macy of a dysfunctional family as he tries, with very modest success, to keep everyone's lives from totally falling apart. As he struggles to stay sober, his daughter Fiona Emmy Rossum takes the reigns on raising her five siblings with much disdain for her dead beat dad. Disaster ensues and fires are frequently put out with scrappy plans, giving the show a dramedic leaning that makes bingeing very doable.  She's Gotta Have It 2017- Nola Darling is an artist, an activist, a Brooklynite, and a sex-positive polyamorous pansexual with three emotionally volatile boyfriends. But who is she? Spike Lee made his directorial debut with 1986's She's Gotta Have It, and 30 years later, expands the character study with the help of a writer's room including his sister Joie Lee, and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage into his first TV series, a rhythmic exploration of sex, Brooklyn, and black life. Lee's signature, syncopated style -- bright colors, up-close-and-personal confessionals, jolts of pop music and album art, Bruce Hornsby's melancholy piano filling the gaps -- is intact, tracking Nola through the gentrifying brownstone labyrinth of Fort Greene like an epistolary novel. Sons of Anarchy 2008-2014 Hogs. Led by actor Charlie Hunnam, Sons of Anarchy follows members of the eponymous motorcycle club as they wage war in NorCal's underground, one brimming with rival gangs, but devoid of speed limits and order. It's not all douche central, though, as creator Kurt Sutter makes sure to mix the action with compelling personal tragedies and conflict -- don't sell crank to someone's pregnant ex-wife, for example. You might be surprised how addicted you get to this show, which is well worth the ride. The Staircase 2004-2018 Years before the streaming revolution gave viewers unfettered on-demand access to true-crime hits like and , French director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade gained unprecedented access to North Carolina writer Michael Peterson, who was accused of murdering his wife in 2001.  The Staircase will almost certainly be the next big summer binge-watch. Star Trek: The Next Generation 1987-1994 After a string of The Original Series-inspired movies and miscalculations on how to revive the sci-fi franchise for television, Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek boldly went where no concept had gone before with The Next Generation, a shinier, headier, all-around better yeah, we said it saga in the United Federation of Planets' history. Led by Patrick Stewart and helped by an iconic supporting cast, The Next Generation followed the TOS mission to speculate about and empathize with social issues of the day, filtered through a lens of A-grade sci-fi writing that stands the test of time. Stranger Things 2016- If you haven't binged Netflix's '80s paranormal throwback... It's all your friends talked about last summer, and the second season, due in October, looks bonkers. If you've already done your time in the Upside Down, bide your time with the time-jumping Travelers, the alien-invasion saga Colony, the goofy fantasy series Shannara, and the one-season mind-bender Awake. Terrace House 2012- Call it what you will, Terrace House's brand of neo-anti-no-wave-reality TV show from Japan is back for another installation of its third series Opening New Doors, following Boys and Girls in the City and Aloha State with Netflix. A rotating cast of six strangers live in an amazing and huge house together, weathering drama levels ranging from nonexistent to low-level tension, while continuing with their daily lives. They talk about their dreams, respectfully date each other, and do group activities, all of which is filmed and recut for a panel to scrutinize. It might seem like the epitome of boring TV you wouldn't think to watch, but trust us: you want to hop on the Terrace House bandwagon ASAP. The Twilight Zone 1959-1964 Every lauded sci-fi movie or television show owes Rod Serling residuals. Over 156 episodes, Serling speculated and dreamed, refracting his present day through the trippiest scenarios to ever beam through mild-mannered American homes.  The Twilight Zone still speaks volumes. Buckle up and fly into a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. Twin Peaks 1990-1991 David Lynch and Mark Frost's detective series is often credited with instilling television with artful potential. Without Twin Peaks, there'd likely be no Mad Men or Breaking Bad, and both shows nodded to the ABC series. And yet, the show's dreamy, saturated look is really a cherry on top.  Twin Peaks is a steady stream of oddball characters and fantastical twists, encountered by FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper Kyle MacLachlan as he hunts for the murder of a small town teenager. Your weird friends love this show. It's finally time to understand those Log Lady Halloween costumes. Ellie Kemper plays the freed kidnapping victim, who heads to the Big Apple without a clue on how to exist in the modern world. Luckily, Titus, a penny-pinching, Broadway-belting man in desperate need of a roommate, takes her in and trains her in the art of living. The Vampire Diaries 2009-2017 Here's the pitch: not one, but two hot vampire brothers. While it premiered back in 2009 at the sparkly peak of Twilight mania, this supernatural teen soap has more in common with co-creator Kevin Williamson's witty '90s work -- Dawson's Creek and Scream -- than it does with Stephenie Meyer's po-faced novels. Based on a series of books by YA writer L. Smith, the show brings you into the inner life of a newly orphaned high-schooler named Elena Nina Dobrev who gets pursued by sultry, good vamp Stefan Paul Wesley and his equally sultry, evil bro Damon Lost's Ian Somerhalder. There are love triangles, complicated mythology, crazy plot twists, and countless scenes where yokels get bit in the neck by pale guys with great hair. But it's the wry, almost Buffy-like comic tone that keeps you coming back.   The West Wing 1999-2006 Don't hold The Newsroom against him: Aaron Sorkin's political fable is smarter, funnier, and less bombastic than some of the Oscar-winning screenwriter's later television work. In telling the story of President Jed Bartlet Martin Sheen and his workaholic senior staff, Sorkin found the perfect subject matter for his farcical, monologue-heavy, walk-and-talk style. Though the show lost some of its charm when Sorkin left after the fourth season, the later episodes -- complete with an Obama-like presidential candidate played by Jimmy Smits -- work as a liberal wish-fulfillment fantasy in these very, uh, un-Bartlet-ey times. The strength of this series is its willingness to poke fun at the very nature of the repetitive, sequel-driven boom TV and movies are experiencing, with the same actors playing the characters they originally portrayed as though no time has passed in the decade-and-a-half since the movie appeared. A-listers Amy Poehler, Paul Rudd, and Elizabeth Banks give game performances that are bolstered by new faces like John Slattery and Jordan Peele. The show never makes you feel as though you're participating in a cynical nostalgia play though, let's face it, you kind of are , and while 10 Years Later took a dip in quality, succumbing to the dopiness of its own premise, the steady laughs have us recommending both seasons. Wynonna Earp 2016- Wynonna Earp is a faster, sexier, funnier show than it has any right to be. The pitch is simple: the great-great-granddaughter of legendary gunslinger Wyatt Earp must lead the charge against an army of zombies. A hero fighting the undead? A badass woman in charge? If you love action TV, this one's for you. Earp totes a gigantic, legendary magic pistol called Peacemaker. There are several love triangles with the undead. One of those love triangles happens to involve Doc Holliday in the present. With the big-ass gun.

Whether you agree or not, Netflix has more or less captured the essence of the Korean film industry with an unlimited supply of Korean dramas, movies, and documentaries to begin with. He plays Marty, a self-employed financial adviser who lives with his family in Chicago. Penelope Christina Ricci was born with a curse and the only way to break it is to find true love. This Netflix original series traces the rise and fall of real-life drug kingpin Pablo Escobar Wagner Mouraand the U. If you've met in the low-key, picture-perfect comedies of Nancy Meyers It's Complicated, Something's Gotta Givegive this one a try. But once you're hooked, you're hooked. Altered Carbon 2018- Adapted from the 2002 Richard K. Like Cheers and Frasier, Friends is a must-watch sitcom from the late 20th century of difference when sitcoms were the most-popular shows on the air.