Best TV shows on Netflix (États-Unis) : 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

2017 · 1 season

Cast and guest stars join host Jim Rash to unearth hidden facets of the Stranger Things 2 universe as they break down the newest episodes—warning: spoilers ahead.

With Jim Rash, Shawn Levy, Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, Gaten Matarazzo, Sean Astin and Joe Keery

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

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 · 8 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

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

2020 · Michael Patrick King, RuPaul · 1 season

On a cross-country journey in a dilapidated RV, flamboyant drag performer Ruby Red's routine is upended when she discovers AJ—a streetwise ten-year-old who has been hiding on board and soon becomes her unlikely companion.

With RuPaul, Izzy G., Michael-Leon Wooley, Josh Segarra, Katerina Tannenbaum, Tia Carrere and Matthew Wilkas

2022 · 1 season

Each episode follows internet creators whose modest starts explode into widespread acclaim, chronicling how they navigate love, personal growth, and the challenges of reinventing themselves while living in the public eye.

With Thomas Petrou, Larray, Sienna Mae Gomez, Kouvr Annon, Chase Hudson, Nikita Dragun and Noah Beck

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

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

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

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

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

2017 · Mark Williams, Bill Dubuque · 4 seasons

A financial advisor uproots his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks and faces a five‑year deadline to launder $500 million to placate a drug boss.

With Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, Sofia Hublitz, Skylar Gaertner, Julia Garner, Charlie Tahan and Lisa Emery

2013 · Michael Schur, Daniel J. Goor · 8 seasons

Filmed in a single-camera style, this ensemble comedy follows the personal and professional chaos of an unlikely team of detectives in a New York precinct, where a charming underachiever must turn his life around after a strict new supervisor arrives.

With Andy Samberg, Melissa Fumero, Terry Crews, Joe Lo Truglio, Stephanie Beatriz, Andre Braugher and Dirk Blocker

2017 · Joe Penhall · 2 seasons

An FBI agent in a specialized serial-crime task force pioneers behavioral profiling methods while tracking down some of the nation's most notorious serial killers and sexual predators.

With Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, Anna Torv, Sonny Valicenti, Stacey Roca, Cotter Smith and Hannah Gross

2005 · Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko · 3 seasons

A young boy awakens in a land ravaged by elemental war and embarks on a perilous mystical journey to embrace his destiny as the Avatar and restore peace and balance to the world.

With Dee Bradley Baker, Zach Tyler, Mae Whitman, Jack De Sena, Dante Basco, Jessie Flower and Mako

2016 · Tom Kapinos · 6 seasons

Weary of ruling the underworld, Lucifer Morningstar abandons his throne and crashes into life in Los Angeles, where he partners with LAPD detective Chloe Decker to hunt down criminals. But as he lingers farther from Hell, the realm's grip weakens—raising the risk that the worst of humanity (and whatever lurks below) could slip loose.

With Tom Ellis, Lauren German, Kevin Alejandro, D.B. Woodside, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Rachael Harris and Aimee Garcia

2016 · Peter Morgan · 6 seasons

A decades-spanning, behind-the-scenes chronicle of Queen Elizabeth II and the prime ministers who steered Britain through the post-war era. It peels back the curtains of Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street to expose the political maneuvers, personal entanglements and strategic rivalries that shaped the defining events of the latter 20th century. Two seats of authority, two contrasting courts — one sovereign.

With Claire Foy, Matt Smith, Olivia Colman, Vanessa Kirby, Jeremy Northam, Victoria Hamilton and Tobias Menzies

2011 · John Wells, Paul Abbott · 11 seasons

Frank Gallagher is a Chicago single father who’s more often at the bar or passed out than parenting, leaving his six clever, hardworking children to fend for themselves. Resourceful and fiercely independent, they navigate poverty and chaos on their own terms, building a makeshift family that’s rough around the edges but unapologetically true to who they are.

With William H. Macy, Jeremy Allen White, Cameron Monaghan, Emma Kenney, Ethan Cutkosky, Shanola Hampton and Steve Howey