The Best TV Shows on Netflix

Every Netflix Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Boasting a rich catalog, Netflix features more than 20 shows, with broadcasting dates ranging from 1993 to 2025. Some of the best tv shows from Netflix include Raw and Black Mirror, airing in 1993 and 2011 respectively. Check out the most acclaimed shows on Netflix, with a catalog of over 20 series updated for October 2025.

  • Stranger Things
    Stranger Things (2016)8.6

    When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.

  • Lucifer
    Lucifer (2016)8.4

    Bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, Lucifer Morningstar abandoned his throne and retired to Los Angeles, where he has teamed up with LAPD detective Chloe Decker to take down criminals. But the longer he's away from the underworld, the greater the threat that the worst of humanity could escape.

  • Wednesday
    Wednesday (2022)8.4

    Smart, sarcastic and a little dead inside, Wednesday Addams investigates twisted mysteries while making new friends — and foes — at Nevermore Academy.

  • Black Mirror
    Black Mirror (2011)8.3

    Twisted tales run wild in this mind-bending anthology series that reveals humanity's worst traits, greatest innovations and more.

  • The Guest
    The Guest (2025)8.3

    A seemingly perfect household unravels when an unexpected visitor arrives, exposing hidden tensions and political aspirations that threaten to tear the family apart.

  • Sex Education
    Sex Education (2019)8.2

    Inexperienced Otis channels his sex therapist mom when he teams up with rebellious Maeve to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.

  • Alice in Borderland
    Alice in Borderland (2020)8.2

    With his two friends, a video-game-obsessed young man finds himself in a strange version of Tokyo where they must compete in dangerous games to win.

  • You
    You (2018)8.0

    A dangerously charming, intensely obsessive young man goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of those he is transfixed by.

  • Squid Game
    Squid Game (2021)7.9

    Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits — with deadly high stakes.

  • Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
    Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (2024)7.6

    The story of the Menéndez brothers, who were convicted in 1996 of murdering their parents José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menéndez.

  • Genie, Make a Wish
    Genie, Make a Wish (2025)7.6

    After a millennium, a flamboyant genie returns to grant wishes to a stoic woman. Can his magic turn her routine-bound world into one of love and fantasy?

  • Explained
    Explained (2018)7.5

    This documentary series, made in partnership with Vox, explain some of the world's current trends, from politics, to science to pop culture.

  • Monster: The Ed Gein Story
    Monster: The Ed Gein Story (2025)7.5

    The shocking true-life tale of Ed Gein, the infamous murderer and grave robber who inspired many of Hollywood's most iconic on-screen killers.

  • The Ba***ds of Bollywood
    The Ba***ds of Bollywood (2025)7.4

    In this high-stakes drama, an ambitious outsider and his friends navigate the chaotic, larger-than-life, yet uncertain world of Bollywood.

  • Burn the House Down
    Burn the House Down (2023)7.3

    After her mother took the blame for a tragic fire 13 years ago, Anzu plots revenge by working as a housekeeper under a pseudonym for her icy stepmother.

  • Raw
    Raw (1993)6.8

    A regularly scheduled, live, year-round program featuring some of the biggest WWE Superstars.

  • Néro the Assassin
    Néro the Assassin (2025)6.6

    1504, France. On the run from enemies, an assassin discovers his long-lost daughter, forcing him to choose between saving himself or her — and the world.

  • Old Dog, New Tricks
    Old Dog, New Tricks (2025)6.5

    Cash-strapped vet Antón takes a job at a fancy pet store, going from treating rural farm animals to peddling premium treats for pampered pooches.

  • Wayward
    Wayward (2025)6.5

    A small-town cop suspects that the local school for troubled teens — and its dangerously charismatic founder — may not be all it seems.

  • Billionaires' Bunker
    Billionaires' Bunker (2025)6.3

    When a group of billionaires takes shelter in a luxury bunker, an old feud between two families resurfaces amid an unprecedented global conflict.