Shows

Netflix provides a diverse array of TV shows catering to a global audience with varied interests. Its expansive library includes popular original productions across numerous genres, such as gripping sci-fi horror (Stranger Things), period romance (Bridgerton), true crime (DAHMER – Monster), and international hits like the Korean survival drama (Squid Game) and French mystery series (Lupin). In addition to its high-budget original programming, the platform licenses many popular shows from other networks, offering everything from reality TV and anime to sitcoms and documentaries.

Netflix's Three Most Popular Shows

Squid Game Squid Game is a South Korean survival thriller series that explores the deep societal critique of capitalism and class disparity through a brutal, high-stakes game. The narrative centers on Seong Gi-hun, a divorced, indebted gambling addict who, along with 455 other participants in severe financial trouble, accepts a mysterious invitation to play a series of children's games for a massive cash prize. Upon arriving at an isolated, secret facility, they discover that "elimination" from a game means instant death, with each fatality adding more money to a ₩45.6 billion (roughly $38 million USD) jackpot. Season 1 of the series follows Gi-hun as he navigates the physical and psychological trauma of the games, which include deadly versions of "Red Light, Green Light" and "Marbles," while forming tenuous alliances with characters like his childhood friend Cho Sang-woo and a North Korean defector, Kang Sae-byeok. In the end, Gi-hun wins the game, but at a tremendous personal cost, as he is forced to ensure the deaths of all his allies, including a final, tragic confrontation with Sang-woo. He returns to the outside world traumatized and apathetic to his winnings, only to discover a year later that the elderly Oh Il-nam, a man he befriended in the game, was actually the twisted creator and VIP host of the entire operation, seeking entertainment from the desperation of the poor. In the second and third seasons, which were filmed back-to-back and released in late 2024 and mid-2025, the story expands as Gi-hun, now motivated by a desire to end the brutal games for good, chooses to re-enter the competition to expose its dark secrets. He is joined by the police detective Hwang Jun-ho (who survived being shot in Season 1 by his own brother, the Front Man) and new allies. The final two seasons delve deeper into the mechanics of the organization and the morality of its participants, as Gi-hun fights to bring down the Front Man and his wealthy VIP associates.

Wednesday The series centers on Wednesday Addams, the deadpan and macabre daughter of the iconic Addams Family, as she is sent to Nevermore Academy, a boarding school for supernatural "outcasts." After being expelled from her "normie" high school for an incident involving piranhas in the pool, Wednesday arrives at Nevermore, a place her parents attended, where she struggles to fit in even among other outcasts. Her time there becomes a "sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery" as she works to master her emerging psychic abilities, solve a local killing spree, and unravel a mystery tied to her parents' past 25 years prior. In the first season, Wednesday's investigation reveals a murderous monster terrorizing the nearby town of Jericho. She discovers the creature is a Hyde, a monster with a human master, and uses her new psychic visions to connect with her long-dead ancestor, Goody Addams. After a series of twists and turns, Wednesday uncovers the true villain: Miss Thornhill, the seemingly friendly "normie" botany teacher who is actually Laurel Gates, the last descendant of a zealot family with a vendetta against Nevermore. Laurel manipulates the sheriff's son, Tyler, into becoming the Hyde monster and uses Wednesday's blood to resurrect her ancestor, Joseph Crackstone, in the finale. With the help of her roommate Enid, who finally transforms into her werewolf form, Wednesday defeats the villains, but the season ends with the threat of a new, anonymous stalker watching her. Season 2, released in two parts in late 2025, picks up with Wednesday reluctantly returning to Nevermore as a campus celebrity and dealing with the unwanted attention from a new principal and a dangerous stalker. Wednesday is haunted by new visions of Enid's death and a mystery tied to a local psychiatric hospital called Willow Hill. This season delves further into the Addams family dynamics, with her brother Pugsley and her Grandmama enrolling at the school, while Wednesday uncovers a conspiracy involving a secret program to steal outcasts' powers. The plot leads Wednesday to confront a new tormentor and an old enemy, ultimately preventing a dark prophecy from being realized as she continues to develop her psychic potential.

Stranger Things Stranger Things is a science-fiction horror series set in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, in the 1980s, where a group of young friends witnesses supernatural forces and uncovers secret government experiments. The story begins in November 1983, when 12-year-old Will Byers vanishes, sparking a desperate search by his mother Joyce, Police Chief Jim Hopper, and his friends Mike, Dustin, and Lucas. The friends soon encounter Eleven, a young girl with psychokinetic powers who has escaped from the mysterious Hawkins National Laboratory, and learn that Will has been taken to a dark, alternate dimension they call the "Upside Down" by a creature known as the Demogorgon. The subsequent seasons expand the narrative scope, dealing with the fallout of these events and introducing new threats from the Upside Down. Season 2, set in October 1984, sees Will rescued but still connected to the other dimension, experiencing premonitions as a larger entity, the Mind Flayer, begins to possess him and threaten the town. Season 3 takes place in the summer of 1985, where a new mall becomes the center of a secret Russian plot to open a gateway to the Upside Down, using the Mind Flayer's influence on the townspeople, including the teenager Billy Hargrove. Eleven and the group must band together repeatedly to fight the evolving threats, with the help of the older teens like Steve, Nancy, and Jonathan, as the battle between their world and the Upside Down intensifies. Season 4 (1986) moves the action outside of Hawkins for the first time, as the Byers family and Eleven relocate to California, while Hopper is imprisoned in Russia. A new, powerful psychic entity called Vecna begins killing residents in Hawkins, opening new, massive gates between the dimensions with each murder. The separate groups work to understand and defeat this new villain, who is revealed to be the first test subject from the lab, 001/Henry Creel. The season ends with Vecna's plan succeeding in bringing the Upside Down into Hawkins, leaving the town scarred and the groups preparing for a final battle. The fifth and final season, currently in development, will bring all the characters together in Hawkins for one last stand against the darkness as they attempt to find and kill Vecna once and for all.