It focuses on the students - many of whom are highly touted as players, but deal with challenges on and off the field - as they attempt to keep up their performance both on the team and in the classroom in order to remain eligible. One of TV's best sports docuseries, every season of Last Chance U follows a different junior college football program across the U.S. Alice in Borderlandįor fans of: Squid Game, manga, puzzles that kill you if you don't solve them (Though it's not as weird as his previous show, Amazon's truly off-the-wall Too Old to Die Young.) The slow-paced and self-consciously arty show is not for everyone, but if it is for you, it's really for you. This is about as non-commercial a project as Netflix does anymore, so it's worth watching just as something different on the increasingly homogenous streaming service. Even when he fails, he fails in a style all his own. Refn is a rare contemporary filmmaker who's willing to take genuine artistic risks that sometimes don't pay off but are always distinctive.

It follows a taciturn, supernaturally gifted young woman named Miu ( Angela Bundalovic) as she goes on a revenge mission through Copenhagen's violent, neon-lit underworld. Idiosyncratic director Nicolas Winding Refn ( Drive, The Neon Demon) returns to his native Denmark after a decade in America with this noir series. Last updated May 5 newer additions are at the top Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Storyįor fans of: The insatiable urge for more BridgertonĪngela Bundalovic, Copenhagen Cowboy Angela Bundalovic, Copenhagen Cowboy These are only the most relevant and worthwhile shows to watch on Netflix.

This list is weighted toward the best shows to watch on Netflix right now, which means recently released Netflix Originals, though you'll find legacy Netflix shows further down the list. Both are recent additions to our list of the best shows to watch on Netflix right now (for different reasons, let's be honest). But if that's too far back in history for you, you can just go back to the '80s, '90s, and '00s with the final episodes of gal-pal drama Firefly Lane, starring Sarah Chalke and Katherine Heigl. (Except when it's cancelling The Baby-Sitters Club.) The streaming service knows more is better, especially when it comes to developing a mega-franchise, so it's expanded the world of Bridgerton with the prequel series Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, a very worthy spin-off that has all the regency and romance one would expect.

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