Best TV shows on Netflix : our Top 20

2008 · Vince Gilligan · 5 seasons

A New Mexico high-school chemistry teacher, told he has Stage III cancer and only about two years to live, sheds his caution and becomes fiercely determined to guarantee his family's financial security. Embracing a newfound ruthlessness, he plunges into the hazardous realm of illegal drugs and criminal activity, prepared to do whatever it takes to protect those he loves.

With Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, Dean Norris, Betsy Brandt, RJ Mitte and Bob Odenkirk

2013 · Steven Knight · 6 seasons

In the aftermath of the Great War in 1919 Birmingham, a ruthless family-run gang—infamous for sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps—uses intimidation and cunning to expand its reach. At its center, the hard-edged and calculating Tommy Shelby stops at nothing to lift his clan from the industrial streets into positions of wealth and influence.

With Cillian Murphy, Paul Anderson, Sophie Rundle, Helen McCrory, Finn Cole, Ned Dennehy and Joe Cole

2015 · Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould · 6 seasons

Six years before he crosses paths with Walter White, Jimmy McGill is a struggling, small‑time lawyer hustling to make a name for himself while barely keeping afloat. By his side — and frequently in conflict with him — is veteran fixer Mike Ehrmantraut. The series follows Jimmy’s gradual transformation into the morally flexible, fast‑talking Saul Goodman, a lawyer who comes to thrive within the criminal underworld.

With Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Rhea Seehorn, Patrick Fabian, Michael Mando, Giancarlo Esposito and Michael McKean

2016 · Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer · 5 seasons

A missing child plunges a tight-knit town into a dangerous web of clandestine experiments, unsettling supernatural phenomena, and a peculiar young girl whose secrets could either explain—or intensify—the unfolding horrors.

With Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin and Natalia Dyer

2017 · Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese · 3 seasons

A child's disappearance plunges four families into a desperate search for answers, pulling back layers of a reality-shifting mystery that reaches across three generations.

With Louis Hofmann, Lisa Vicari, Andreas Pietschmann, Jördis Triebel, Maja Schöne, Stephan Kampwirth and Paul Lux

2005 · Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Greg Daniels · 9 seasons

A close-up look at the daily routines, personal dynamics, and workplace antics of the staff at the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.

With Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, B.J. Novak, Mindy Kaling, Kate Flannery and Leslie David Baker

2020 · Scott Frank, Allan Scott · 1 season

Raised in a 1950s orphanage, a young girl uncovers an extraordinary aptitude for chess that propels her from anonymity into the competitive limelight. Her rapid rise to fame, however, is clouded by a growing addiction that threatens to derail everything she has fought to achieve.

With Anya Taylor-Joy, Chloe Pirrie, Marcin Dorociński, Matthew Dennis Lewis, Russell Dennis Lewis, Dolores Carbonari and Janina Elkin

2011 · Charlie Brooker · 7 seasons

A reality-twisting anthology that unfolds uncanny vignettes exposing humanity’s darkest impulses, its most brilliant inventions, and the unsettling costs that connect them.

With Michaela Coel, Daniel Lapaine, Hannah John-Kamen, Aaron Paul, Claire Keelan, Sinead Matthews and Anna Wilson-Jones

2021 · Christian Linke, Alex Yee · 2 seasons

Across the divided twin cities of Piltover and Zaun, two sisters find themselves on opposite sides of a conflict where magic-infused technology and irreconcilable beliefs tear their world apart.

With Hailee Steinfeld, Ella Purnell, Kevin Alejandro, Jason Spisak, Toks Olagundoye, Harry Lloyd and Remy Hii

2013 · Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland · 9 seasons

A brilliant, morally untethered scientist drags his painfully shy grandson on chaotic, galaxy-spanning escapades that pit reckless invention against reluctant conscience and blur the line between genius and madness.

With Justin Roiland, Spencer Grammer, Chris Parnell, Sarah Chalke, Kari Wahlgren, Dan Harmon and Maurice LaMarche

2013 · 4 seasons

A century ago, the last pockets of humanity sealed themselves behind the massive ramparts of a fortified city, fleeing the towering, flesh-eating giants that prowled the wilds beyond. Only the Scout Corps dared to venture into that deadly expanse, and few of their missions ended with survivors; those who remained within the walls clung to a fragile peace—until that illusion was shattered and survival came down to a single, brutal imperative: kill, or become prey.

With Yuki Kaji, Yui Ishikawa, Marina Inoue, Kisho Taniyama, Hiro Shimono, Yoshimasa Hosoya and Yu Kobayashi

2005 · Greg Daniels · 9 seasons

An ensemble workplace comedy that follows the daily routines, relationships, and small dramas of the staff working at a fictional paper company's Scranton, Pennsylvania branch.

With Brian Baumgartner, Angela Kinsey, Oscar Nunez, Kate Flannery, Creed Bratton, Leslie David Baker and Phyllis Smith

2013 · Michael Hirst · 6 seasons

Ragnar Lothbrok's life unfolds as an epic journey from restless adventurer to a legendary leader whose name reverberates across the North. The series follows his tight-knit band of Viking comrades and the family ties that shape and haunt him, chronicling raids, rivalries, and the relentless drive that pushes him toward rulership of the Norse clans. Brave in battle and guided by old rites, Ragnar's decisions are steeped in the beliefs and omens of his people — and whispers persist that his bloodline traces back to Odin, the god of war.

With Katheryn Winnick, Gustaf Skarsgård, Alexander Ludwig, Georgia Hirst, Peter Franzén, Alex Høgh Andersen and Jordan Patrick Smith

2004 · David Shore · 8 seasons

An abrasive, brilliant physician struggling with drug addiction heads a team of diagnostic specialists at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.

With Hugh Laurie, Robert Sean Leonard, Omar Epps, Jesse Spencer, Lisa Edelstein, Bobbin Bergstrom and Jennifer Morrison

2015 · Chris Brancato, Doug Miro, Carlo Bernard · 3 seasons

An unflinching portrait of the brutal campaign to uproot Colombia's most notorious and deeply entrenched drug cartels.

With Pedro Pascal, Alberto Ammann, Wagner Moura, Boyd Holbrook, Joanna Christie, Paulina Gaitán and Paulina García

2013 · Beau Willimon · 6 seasons

In contemporary Washington, D.C., a ruthless, calculating politician and his equally determined wife manipulate, seduce and betray their way through the corridors of power to seize ultimate control. The series is a dark political thriller that pulls back the curtain on the capital’s underworld of greed, sexual intrigue and entrenched corruption.

With Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly, Jayne Atkinson, Derek Cecil, Mahershala Ali and Boris McGiver

2014 · Noah Hawley · 5 seasons

Set in and around Minnesota, this intimate anthology peels back the calm surface of close communities to reveal simmering malice, sudden outbreaks of violence and the lasting fallout of murder. Each episode is a self-contained portrait of ordinary lives upended by suspicion, revenge and the haunting consequences of criminal acts.

With Allison Tolman, Chris Rock, Jessie Buckley, Jason Schwartzman, Ben Whishaw, Jack Huston and Salvatore Esposito

2011 · Aaron Korsh · 9 seasons

Fleeing the fallout of a botched drug deal, Mike Ross — a brilliant college dropout — stumbles into an interview with Harvey Specter, one of New York's most formidable legal closers. Fed up with cookie‑cutter law grads, Harvey bets on Mike, hiring him immediately after spotting his raw talent and uncanny recall.

With Gabriel Macht, Sarah Rafferty, Rick Hoffman, Patrick J. Adams, Meghan Markle, Gina Torres and Amanda Schull

2004 · David Shore · 8 seasons

A darkly comic British anthology conceived by Graham Duff and co-written with Steve Coogan, the series lampoons mid‑century UK horror films. It skewers the trademarks of studios like Amicus, Hammer and Tigon and riffs on the structure of Amicus’s 1965 anthology Dr Terror’s House of Horrors. Steve Coogan appears throughout as the macabre host, Dr Terrible, who frames each episode and takes the lead role in every story.

With Hugh Laurie, Jesse Spencer, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard, Lisa Edelstein, Jennifer Morrison and Peter Jacobson

2019 · Laurie Nunn · 4 seasons

Awkward and inexperienced, Otis, whose mother is a sex therapist, teams up with rebellious Maeve to run a clandestine sex-and-relationship counseling service for their classmates at school.

With Asa Butterfield, Gillian Anderson, Ncuti Gatwa, Emma Mackey, Connor Swindells, Kedar Williams-Stirling and Alistair Petrie