The 50 Best Netflix Shows Ever, According to Critics
FROM FIERCE FEMALE WRESTLERS TO CHILLING CRIMES BASED ON TRUE EVENTS, THESE ARE THE SERIES CRITICS LOVE.
We've all experienced it: being so overwhelmed by streaming offerings that we spend more time scrolling through options than actually enjoying a new show or movie. Netflix, for one, has an incredibly vast stable of original TV shows, in many languages and of almost every genre you can think of. How are you supposed to choose what to watch next? Fortunately, the site Rotten Tomatoes, which aggregates expert reviews, has your back. To help you narrow down your next binge, we've rounded up the top 50 shows on Netflix right now, according to critics.
To keep things manageable and mostly fiction-based, we excluded docuseries and reality shows from this list. (We can assure you, however, that the baking fail competition show Nailed It! is worth your time.) Ahead, you'll find drama, comedy, thrillers, horror, and several combinations of two or more of those things. So read on to learn about the prevailing critical opinion of your favorite Netflix series and maybe find a few acclaimed gems you've yet to start. And for more classic TV you loved tuning into, check out The 40 Longest-Running American TV Shows of All Time.
50
Queen Sono
Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 91 percent
49
Teenage Bounty Hunters
Tina Rowden/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 91 percent
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48
Gentefied
Kevin Estrada/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 91 percent
47
The Last Kingdom
Joe Alblas/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 91 percent
46
Medical Police
Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 92 percent
45
Marvel's Daredevil
David Lee/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 92 percent
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44
GLOW
Ali Goldstein/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 92 percent
43
Carmen Sandiego
Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93 percent
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42
The Midnight Gospel
Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93 percent
41
Money Heist
Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93 percent
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40
Castlevania
Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93 percent
39
Bodyguard
Sophie Mutevelian/World Productions/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93 percent
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38
Peaky Blinders
Robert Viglasky/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93 percent
37
The End of the …. World
Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93 percent
36
The Haunting of Hill House
Steve Dietl/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93 percent
35
Bojack Horseman
Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93 percent
34
Stranger Things
Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93 percent
33
Love
Suzanne Hanover/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 94 percent
32
Sex Education
Jon Hall/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 94 percent
31
Cobra Kai
Guy D'Alema/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 94 percent
30
On My Block
Gilles Mingasson/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 95 percent
29
Unorthodox
Anika Molnar/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 95 percent
28
Dark
Julia Terjung/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 95 percent
27
Dear White People
Lara Solanki/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 95 percent
26
Kingdom
Juhan Noh/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 96 percent
25
Special
Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 96 percent
24
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
Lara Solanki/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 96 percent
23
Never Have I Ever
Lara Solanki/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 96 percent
22
When They See Us
Atsushi Nishijima/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 96 percent
21
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Joe Lederer/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 96 percent
20
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Eric Liebowitz/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 96 percent
19
Elite
Manuel Fernandez-Valdes/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 97 percent
18
Lady Dynamite
Beth Dubber/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 97 percent
17
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 97 percent
16
Russian Doll
Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 97 percent
15
Mindhunter
Patrick Harbron/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 98 percent
14
Lovesick
Brian Sweeney/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 98 percent
13
Tuca & Bertie
Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 98 percent
12
Unbelievable
Beth Dubber/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 98 percent
11
American Vandal
Scott Patrick Green/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 98 percent
10
Alias Grace
Sabrina Lantos/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 99 percent
9
Big Mouth
Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 99 percent
8
One Day at a Time
Ali Goldstein/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 99 percent
7
Crazyhead
Steffan Hill/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 100 percent
6
Middleditch & Schwartz
Jeffery Neira/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 100 percent
5
Girl/Haji
Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 100 percent
4
Feel Good
Eric Liebowitz/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 100 percent
3
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return
Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 100 percent
2
The Baby-Sitters Club
Kailey Schwer
Rotten Tomatoes score: 100 percent
1
Master of None
K.C. Bailey/Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes score: 100 percent