01 A charming, obsessive bookstore manager whose romantic pursuits turn deadly.
12 Best Netflix Original Series
By Vlad Zakh · February 22, 2026
Stranger Things and Squid Game explain the platform’s global reach best, both becoming cultural events well outside their core genres. The Crown proved it could compete on pure prestige-drama budget, and Wednesday shows it still knows how to build a hit.
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02 A German sci-fi mystery about missing children that unravels into a multi-generational time-travel puzzle.
03 FBI agents in the late 1970s interviewing incarcerated serial killers to understand what drives them.
04 A glossy, gossip-fueled Regency-era romance anthology following London's marriage-market elite.
05 A dramatized account of Pablo Escobar's rise and the DEA agents trying to bring him down.
06 A monster hunter navigating a world where humans are often worse than the monsters.
07 A gothic, sharp-tongued spin on the Addams Family daughter navigating a school for outcasts.
08 A criminal mastermind orchestrating an elaborate heist on Spain's Royal Mint.
09 A financial planner laundering money for a drug cartel while relocating his family to the Missouri Ozarks.
10 A lavish, decades-spanning dramatization of Queen Elizabeth II's reign and the British monarchy.
11 A brutal survival competition that became Netflix's most-watched series ever.
12 A love letter to 80s genre films built around a small town's brush with an alternate dimension.