If you are a Netflix fan (like we are – we watch it every night!), you’ll love this!
There are so many TV shows out there, so how would you know what to watch? Well, we’re here to help you. We have here 60+ TV shows that you can find on Netflix. We have seen all of these, and they are our all-time faves!
1. Animal Kingdom
Stars: Ellen Barkin, Scott Spedman, Shawn Hatosy
Our score: 8/10
This TV series is based on the Australian movie of the same name. 17-year-old Joshua moves in with his estranged grandmother after his mother overdoses on heroin. His grandmother is a feisty small criminal matriarch called ‘Smurf’ who, together with her four sons, work hard and play hard, organising skilled robberies and high-adrenaline heists whilst covering their tracks from the law.
Trivia: The original Australian movie starred Jacki Weaver, Guy Pearce, and Joel Edgerton.
2. Atypical
Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Amy Okuda
Our score: 8/10
Sam, an 18-year-old on the autism spectrum, decides it’s time to find a girlfriend, a journey that sets Sam’s mum on her own life-changing path as her son seeks more independence.
Trivia: Atypical is like any other family shows, though seen through the eyes of a teen on the autism spectrum. It has some pretty funny moments! Worth the watch.
3. Black Mirror
Stars: Daniel Westwood, Hannah John-Kamen, Beatrice Robertson-Jones
Our score: 8/10
A television anthology series that shows the dark side of life and technology. Every episode is independent (so a whole story per episode) and it will WOW you! Probably one of the best TV series made by the British. Worth the watch.
Trivia: Black mirror is a reference to the effect of a TV or computer screen when switched off, giving a dark reflection of the onlooker.
4. Broadchurch
Stars: David Tennant, Oliver Colman, Jodie Whittaker
Our score: 9/10
A really well-done detective series. The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart. Both seasons should be watched close together (in other words, just binge watch the hell out of it!)
Trivia: By the end of its first series, it had built an audience of 8.7 million.
5. Call the Midwife
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Jenny Agutter, Laura Main
Our score: 9/10
The show chronicles the lives of a group of midwives living in East London in the late 1950s to early 1960s.
Trivia: Stephen McGann (Dr Patrick Turner) is married to series writer Heidi Thomas.
6. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Stars: Rachel Bloom, Vincent Rodriguez III, Donna Lynne Champlin
Our score: 7.5/10
A young woman abandons a choice job at a law firm and her life in New York in an attempt to find happiness in the unlikely locale of West Covina, California. There is lots of singing – but good singing. It is pretty fun (and a bit weird!) – like a Broadway show but on TV!
Trivia: The lowest-rated show on broadcast television ever to get a third season renewal.
7. Forensic Files
Stars: Peter Thomas, Skip Palenik, Tom Bevel
Our score: 6/10
A series featuring detailed accounts on how notable crimes and diseases were solved through forensic science.
Trivia: Episodes of the series have been used by the United States Department of Justice to help train their personnel.
8. Friends from College
Stars: Keegan-Michael Key, Cobie Smulders, Annie Parisse
Our score: 6/10
A group of friends from Harvard are facing down their forties, with interwoven and oftentimes complicated relationships with one another.
Trivia: Keegan-Michael Key guest-starred in the television series How I Met Your Mother, which also starred Cobie Smulders. Look, this certainly isn’t the most brilliant series. It is kind of like How I Met Your Mother and Friends – but set 10 years later. But good for a few laughs.
9. Glow (Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling)
Stars: Alison Brie, Marc Maron, Betty Gilpin
Our score: 8/10
A look at the personal and professional lives of a group of women who perform for a wrestling organisation in Los Angeles. It is funny, cringe-worthy and a true story.
Trivia: Based on the true story of the real GLOW: Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.
10. Happy Valley
Stars: Sarah Lancashire, Siobhan Finneran, Shane Zaza
Our score: 8.5/10
Catherine Cawood is the sergeant on duty when flustered and nervous accountant Kevin Weatherill comes into her West Yorkshire station to report a crime.
Trivia: The prison canteen was actually filmed in a high school close to where Happy Valley was shot.
11. Homeland
Stars: Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, Damian Lewis
Our score: 9.5/10
A bipolar CIA operative becomes convinced a prisoner of war has been turned by al-Qaeda and is planning to carry out a terrorist attack on American soil.
Trivia: To prepare for her role in the series, Claire Danes met with CIA officers. She also watched videos made by people with bipolar disorder and consulted with author Julie Fast who suffers from the same disorder.
12. Horrible Histories
Stars: Mathew Baynton, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick
Our score: 8/10
Yes, this is a kids show. But I love it so much I watch it with the kids every night. A group of British comedians show the sides of history they don’t teach you in school. From the ‘Savage Stone Age’ to the ‘Troublesome 20th Century’, you see the full side of history.
Trivia: The ‘Gorgeous Georgians’ title slide has a few bars from the Blackbeard’s song Horrible Histories playing over it.
13. House of Cards
Stars: Kevin Spacey, Michel Gill, Robin Wright
Our score: 9.5/10
A congressman works with his equally conniving wife to exact revenge on the people who betrayed him.
Trivia: Michel Gill (President Walker) and Jayne Atkinson (Catherine Durant) are married in real life.
14. Larva
Stars: Aisha Bulahova, Nikita Yusov, Elena Orlova
Our score: 8/10
Another super cute kids TV show that will make grownups giggle like mad (yeah I did!) Two larvae are living in a drain – see them compete for food in the most hilarious way.
Trivia: The production of the series is entirely done in Russia.
15. Longmire
Stars: Robert Taylor, Katee Sackhoff, Lou Diamond Phillips
Our score: 8/10
Walt Longmire is the dedicated and unflappable sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming. Widowed only a year, he is a man in psychic repair but buries his pain behind his brave face, unassuming grin and dry wit.
Trivia: On its premiere in June 2012, the series became A&E TV’s most watched original series launch of all time with 4.1 million total viewers.
16. Luther
Stars: Idris Elba, Warren Brown, Dermot Crowley
Our score: 9/10
A crime drama series starring Idris Elba as a near-genius murder detective whose brilliant mind can’t always save him from the dangerous violence of his passions.
Trivia: All three seasons end with the same line of dialogue: “Now what?”
17. Mad Men
Stars: Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser
Our score: 9/10
A drama about one of New York’s most prestigious ad agencies at the beginning of the 1960s, focusing on one of the firm’s most mysterious but extremely talented ad executives, Donald Draper. One of the most brilliant series on TV ever IMO!
Trivia: Jon Hamm is the only actor to appear in every episode. Yummy!
18. Making a Murderer
Stars: Dolores Avery, Steven Avery, Ken Kratz
Our score: 8/10
Filmed over a 10-year period, this follows the true story of Steven Avery, a DNA exoneree who, while in the midst of exposing corruption in local law enforcement, finds himself the prime suspect in a grisly new crime.
Trivia: Neither Steven Avery nor Brendan Dassey has seen the show. That’s because prisons don’t have access to Netflix. Brendan Dassey has now been released from jail.
19. Marcella
Stars: Anna Friel, Ray Panthaki, Nina Sosanya
Our score: 7/10
Marcella Backland left the Metropolitan Police for the sake of her family, only to have her husband leave her. She returns to her job on the murder squad, investigating a case that seems disturbingly familiar to her.
Trivia: The name Marcella is pronounced “march-ella” in this series, using the Italian pronunciation.
20. Daredevil
Stars: Charlie Cox, Vincent D’Onofrio, Deborah Ann Woll
Our score: 7/10
Matt Murdock, with his other senses, superhumanly fights crimes as a blind lawyer by day and a vigilante by night.
Trivia: The series was watched so many times that Netflix actually released the ratings for this show. Netflix never releases ratings.
21. Iron Fist
Stars: Finn Jones, Jessica Henwick, Jessica Stroup
Our score: 7/10
A young man is bestowed with incredible martial arts skills and a mystical force known as the Iron Fist.
Trivia: Rosario Dawson is the only actress to appear in all four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe shows on Netflix: Daredevil (2015), Jessica Jones (2015), Luke Cage (2016), and Iron Fist (2017).
22. Jessica Jones
Stars: Krysten Ritter, Rachael Taylor, Eka Darville
Our score: 8/10
Following the tragic end of her brief superhero career, Jessica Jones tries to rebuild her life as a private investigator, dealing with cases involving people with remarkable abilities in New York City.
Trivia: Krysten Ritter put on 10 pounds (4.5 kg) of muscle for her role and trained for two months before filming began.
23. Luke Cage
Stars: Mike Colter, Simone Missick, Theo Rossi
Our score: 7/10
When a sabotaged experiment gives him super strength and unbreakable skin, Luke Cage becomes a fugitive attempting to rebuild his life in Harlem and must soon confront his past and fight a battle for the heart of his city.
Trivia: The show’s working title is “Tiara”. In the comics, Luke Cage wore a tiara as part of his costume.
24. Misfits
Stars: Charlie Saxton, Byron Bertram, Jake Cannavale
Our score: 9/10
A drama based on a hit British series, a group of twenty-somethings are exposed to a mysterious chemical and subsequently developed peculiar superpowers. Brilliantly cast and acted!
Trivia: Iwan Rheon’s character Simon was originally intended to be a villain.
25. Narcos
Stars: Pedro Pascal, Wagner Moura, Boyd Holbrook
Our score: 8/10
A chronicled look at the criminal exploits of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, as well as the many other drug kingpins who plagued the country through the years. The first season was amazing, but I wasn’t as sold on the next one.
Trivia: During his peak, Pablo smuggled US$70 million worth of cocaine every week amounting to about US$20 billion profits a year, making him one of the richest men in the world. It is said that he spent approximately US$3000 in buying rubber bands for his money each month. Rats nibbled at 10 percent of his money amounting to a loss of US$2 billion each year.
26. Orange is the New Black
Stars: Taylor Schilling, Danielle Brooks, Taryn Manning
Our score: 7/10
Convicted of a decade-old crime of transporting drug money to an ex-girlfriend, normally law abiding Piper Chapman is sentenced to a year and a half behind bars to face the reality of how life-changing prison can really be.
Trivia: Taylor Schilling injured herself while filming a sex scene at the beginning of season three. While taking off her shirt, her prison name-tag caught the side of her mouth, leaving a small gash. Filming had to be halted for an hour to ensure that the injury wasn’t too severe. The gash can be seen in the final cut.
27. Outlander
Stars: Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Duncan Lacroix
Our score: 9/10
An English combat nurse from 1945 is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743. Based on the best selling book series by Diana Gabaldon, it has achieved cult following around the world. Well, the story is amazing and Sam Heughan…..say no more!!
Trivia: Sam Heughan was one of the first to be cast even though creator Ronald D. Moore thought he would be the last. Caitriona Balfe was cast just weeks before shooting. The sex scenes are pretty darn hot!
28. Penn & Teller: Fool Us
Stars: Penn Jillette, Teller, Jonathan Ross
Our score: 7/10
A one-hour competition series celebrating magic and featuring the legendary duo Penn and Teller. They have a series of amateur magicians performing their tricks to see if they can fool the masters of magic, Penn and Teller.
Best bit: The Penn and Teller trick at the end of the show is always entertaining and amazing!
29. Project Runway
Stars: Katia Beauchamp, Christine Hunsicker, Rebecca Minkoff
Our score: 6/10
Aspiring fashion entrepreneurs present their companies to several investors in hopes to gain a deal and grow their businesses.
Trivia: Season 6 is the only season to not be hosted in New York.
30. Real Detective
Stars: Michael Douglas Cake, Liana Montoro, Tyrone Benskin
Our score: 7/10
Each episode is a crime solution reenactment of a real murder. The actual detectives offer commentary throughout the show.
Trivia: All the episodes of Real Detective (2016) are shot on location in Laval, suburb of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, even though the action is supposedly set all over the United States.
31. Santa Clarita Diet
Stars: Drew Barrymore, Timothy Olyphant, Liv Hewson
Our score: 7/10
Sheila and Joel are married real estate agents in Santa Clarita, California. When Sheila dies, their lives take a dark turn. It has unfortunately been cancelled this year by Netflix after its third season.
Trivia: The character of Sheila was written with Drew Barrymore in mind.
32. Sense8
Stars: Doona Bae, Jamie Clayton, Tina Desai
Our score: 7/10
A group of people around the world are suddenly linked mentally and must find a way to survive being hunted by those who see them as a threat to the world’s order. It is fairly confusing at first until you get to know all the characters and how they interact. The series has now been cancelled, but it is certainly interesting.
Trivia: Jamie Clayton is transgender, just like her character, Nomi.
33. Shameless (US)
Stars: Emmy Rossum, William H. Macy, Ethan Cutkosky
Our score: 9/10
An alcoholic man lives in a perpetual stupor while his six children with whom he lives cope as best they can.
Trivia: Unusual for a television show, creator John Wells has a very strict policy of no scripts allowed on-set. The actors and actresses have to know their lines by heart.
34. Shooter
Stars: Ryan Phillippe, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Shantel VanSanten
Our score: 8.5/10
A conspiracy thriller that follows the journey of Bob Lee Swagger, a highly decorated veteran, who is coaxed back into action to prevent a plot to kill the president.
Trivia: All of season one’s episodes, except episode 3, Musa Qala, are common military terms. Season two has been cut short by two episodes as Ryan Phillippe broke his leg while on a break from shooting.
35. Stranger Things
Stars: Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Winona Ryder
Our score: 9/10
When a young boy disappears, his mother, a police chief, and his friends must confront terrifying forces in order to get him back.
Trivia: Millie Bobby Brown, who plays Eleven, was 11 years old during casting and filming.
36. Suits
Stars: Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams, Meghan Markle, Katherine Heigl.
Our score: 8/10
On the run from a drug deal gone bad, Mike Ross, a brilliant college dropout, finds himself a job working with Harvey Specter, one of New York City’s best lawyers.
Trivia: The whole view of the city landscape in the background of the main characters’ offices are not real. Rather, they are curtains.
37. The 100
Stars: Eliza Taylor, Bob Morley, Marie Avgeropoulos
Our score: 7/10
Set 97 years after a nuclear war has destroyed civilisation, when a spaceship housing humanity’s lone survivors sends 100 juvenile delinquents back to Earth in hopes of possibly re-populating the planet.
Trivia: None of the show’s cast members appear in every episode, including Eliza Taylor and Bob Morley, the stars of the show. Both have missed one episode.
38. The Bletchley Circle
Stars: Rachael Stirling, Julie Graham, Sophie Rundle
Our score: 7/10
In 1952, four women who worked at the wartime code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park, reunite to track down a serial killer.
Trivia: Steven Robertson, who plays Crowley, plays a serial killer in this series. He would later go on to star in a very different role as a homicide detective in the TV series Shetland (2013).
39. The Crown
Stars: Claire Foy, Matt Smith, Victoria Hamilton
Our score: 9/10
Follows the political rivalries and romance of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign and the events that shaped the second half of the 20th century.
Trivia: Claire Foy is four years older than Vanessa Kirby in real life, which is the same age difference between their real-life characters Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret.
40. The Inbetweeners
Stars: Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison
Our score: 10/10
Follows four friends and their antics during their final years of school. It is rude, inappropriate, embarrassing and lewd.
Trivia: The fake ID that Jay uses in episode 1 is a real Australian driver’s licence from Victoria, and the address is real too.
41. The Killing
Stars: Mireille Enos, Joel Kinnaman, Billy Campbell
Our score: 9/10
A police investigation, the saga of a grieving family, and a Seattle mayoral campaign all interlock after the body of 17-year-old Rosie Larsen is found in the trunk of a submerged car.
Trivia: Joel Kinnaman was ecstatic to hear that he could drop the F-bomb during the final season because of Netflix purchasing the show. He also went on to star in House of Cards.
42. Vikings
Stars: Gustaf Skarsgård, Katheryn Winnick, Alexander Ludwig
Our score: 8/10
The world of the Vikings is brought to life through the journey of Ragnar Lothbrok, the first Viking to emerge from Norse legend and onto the pages of history – a man on the edge of myth.
Trivia: The name “Ragnar” means “keeper of the fort”. Travis Fimmel who plays the lead role is an Aussie.
43. The Fall
Stars: Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan, John Lynch
Our score: 9/10
A seemingly cold but very passionate policewoman goes head to head with a seemingly passionate father who is in fact a cold serialist in this procedural out of Belfast. The only thing they share is their common complexity.
Trivia: The character of Paul Spector, like Stella Gibson, is named after two types of guitars, the Spector guitar (named after Stuart Spector) and the Les Paul guitar.
44. Bad Blood
Stars: Kim Coates, Louis Ferreira, Sharon Taylor
Our score: 8/10
Vito Rizzuto, a mafia boss, seeks to unify all the Montreal criminals and bring peace to the world.
Trivia: Bad Blood was inspired by the true story of a family that’s still alive today.
45. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Stars: Andy Samberg, Stephanie Beatriz, Terry Crews
Our score: 8/10
This follows the story of Jake Peralta, a talented and quite stubborn NYPD detective, whose life became complicated when Captain Raymond Holt, a strict and very professional commanding officer, took over the Brooklyn’s 99th precinct where he works at.
Trivia: The show became successful because it follows the occurrences, especially the humour, within a real-life office setting.
46. How to Get Away with Murder
Stars: Viola Davis, Billy Brown, Jack Falahee
Our score: 8/10
After having been involved in one murder crime, the lives of 5 law students changed for the worse and they now have to deal with a series of more murder plots that make their lives even more twisted.
Trivia: When the director started the production of How to Get Away with Murder, he was uncertain about Annalise Keating’s personality. It was just after the first season that he was able to decide.
47. Lucifer
Stars: Tom Ellis, Lauren German, Kevin Alejandro
Our score: 8/10
Lucifer Morningstar is a devil that chose to live with the human beings on Earth to understand humanity. He also sometimes helps them through his supernatural abilities.
Trivia: Lucifer in the TV series is a DC character. He was made by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, and Mike Dringenberg.
48. The Big Bang Theory
Stars: Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco
Our score: 8/10
Leonard and Sheldon are introverted physicists who don’t know how to socialise normally and how to deal with women. When Penny, an aspiring actress, moves in to the apartment room across theirs and eventually becomes their friend, they realise there’s more to life than being stuck in the laboratory.
Trivia: The Big Bang Theory’s supposed-to-be title was “Lenny, Penny and Kenny”.
49. Friends
Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow
Our score: 9/10
This follows the story of 6 friends as they go on with the ups and downs of life in Manhattan.
Trivia: Friends will leave Netflix in 2020.
50. How I Met Your Mother
Stars: Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders
Our score: 8/10
It’s in the year 2030 when Ted Mosby shares the story on how he met his wife to his two children who are already teenagers that time. He began the story 25 years ago, in the year 2005, when he was still starting his career as an architect.
Trivia: The characters of Ted, Marshall, and Lily were based on real people, which are Carter and Craig, Late Show with David Letterman writers, and Rebecca, Craig’s now-wife.
51. 13 Reasons Why
Stars: Dylan Minnette, Katherine Langford, Christian Navarro
Our score: 9/10
Hannah Baker killed herself for a lot of reasons, and they were all recorded on tapes. Those tapes, contained in a box, were delivered to the house of Clay Jensen, Hannah’s classmate and friend, and were then all be passed to and listened by the other people who were also mentioned there.
Trivia: 13 Reasons Why is based on the book of the same title written by Jay Asher.
52. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Stars: Kiernan Shipka, Ross Lynch, Lucy Davis
Our score: 8/10
Sabrina, half witch and half human, must fight against the evil forces while being a normal high school student.
Trivia: The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’s story is connected to Riverdale’s.
53. The Haunting of Hill House
Stars: Victoria Pedretti, Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino
Our score: 9/10
The Haunting of Hill House is about a haunted home that was once occupied by a group of siblings when they were still young. When they grew older, they decided to go back to the house and reminisce the tragedies that occurred in their past.
Trivia: The Crain children represent the five stages of grief: Denial (Steven), Anger (Shirley), Bargaining (Theo), Depression (Luke), and Acceptance (Nell).
54. The Umbrella Academy
Stars: Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda
Our score: 8/10
When Sir Reginald Hargreeves died, a group of children he adopted and trained to be superheroes when he was still alive decided to reunite and save the world together.
Trivia: The Umbrella Academy was written by the My Chemical Romance lead singer, Gerard Way.
55. Trinkets
Stars: Brianna Hildebrand, Kiana Madeira, Quintessa Swindell
Our score: 7/10
This follows the story of a group of teenage girls who are skillful in stealing. They all met in a shoplifting group called Shoplifters Anonymous.
Trivia: Moe has never tried stealing before she met Tabitha and Elodie.
56. American Horror Story
Stars: Lady Gaga, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett
Our score: 8/10
American Horror Story is a series that does not focus on a single plot. Every season tells a different story and the only thing that’s stable is the presence of terror.
Trivia: Jyoti Amge, the one who portrayed Ma Petite, is a deity in India.
57. Sherlock
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs
Our score: 9/10
Set in 21st century London, this is a modernised series version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes.
Trivia: The original pilot episode of Sherlock has never been shown to the public.
58. The Society
Stars: Kathryn Newton, Gideon Adlon, Sean Berdy
Our score: 7/10
A group of teenagers have to survive in a town where everyone else seems to have been mysteriously disappeared.
Trivia: The second season of The Society will be aired in 2020.
59. Riverdale
Stars: KJ Apa, Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes
Our score: 7/10
Upon the death of Jason Blossom on the 4th of July, Archie, Veronica, Betty, and Jughead find interest in unveiling the real cause of his death to discover the mysteries happening in the small town of Riverdale.
Trivia: Cole Sprouse (Jughead Jones) and Lili Reinhart (Betty Cooper) are real-life couple.
60. Shadowhunters
Stars: Katherine McNamara, Dominic Sherwood, Alberto Rosende
Our score: 7/10
On her 18th birthday, Clary found out she’s actually one of the shadowhunters who protect the world from the demons that put people in danger. When her mother was kidnapped, she teamed up with other shadowhunters to save her and the world.
Trivia: Shadowhunters will not have season 4 anymore.
What do you think of our list? Well, these TV series will certainly keep you busy watching for a while!
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