We’ve all been overwhelmed by streaming TV choices, only to give up and watch something we’ve already seen. But this curated list of the best shows on Netflix is here to narrow down your choices and help you figure out exactly which titles you want to sample next.
Every high school has its legendary scandals, notorious pranks, and perennial screw-ups. Not every high school has them chronicled in an elaborate docu-series with lavish production values. In this extremely straight-faced mockumentary that’s also one of the best comedies on Netflix, Hanover High senior Dylan Maxwell (Jimmy Tatro) is assumed to have vandalized 27 faculty members’ cars by spray-painting phallic images on them, and gets expelled for it. When he maintains his innocence, classmates Peter Maldonado (Tyler Alvarez) and Sam Ecklund (Griffin Gluck) decide to film their own investigation. Season 2 takes them to another state, and another equally juvenile high school “crime.”
In 1929 Germany, Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch) is a World War I veteran now working as a police inspector in Cologne. His assignment to unravel an extortion ring in Berlin is complicated by his use of morphine to dull his painful memories of the war; however, his efforts are soon aided by Lotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries), a sometime sex worker at one of the city’s hottest cabarets. Run, Lola, Run director Tom Tykwer is among the creative forces behind the show that debuted in 2017 and remains among the best shows on Netflix right now. Catch up on Netflix, then skip over to MHz Choice for Season 4, which started streaming there in June.
After the tremendous critical success of Breaking Bad, creator Vince Gilligan partnered with series writer Peter Gould on this prequel series, one of the best drama series streaming on Netflix. In the Breaking Bad timeline, Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) is the crooked lawyer serving Albuquerque’s underworld. Better Call Saul takes us back to his time as Jimmy McGill, the screw-up brother to Chuck (Michael McKean), one of the city’s most esteemed attorneys, and sometime paramour to the capable but occasionally corruptible paralegal turned lawyer Kim (Rhea Seehorn). All six seasons are now streaming.
