After nearly a year of restrictions and ‘stay-at-home’ orders, many of us have spent the newly gained free time kicking back to the latest Netflix movies and dramas. According to the site’s official figures, 15 million new users joined the streaming platform in 2020 alone - as well as numerous hit shows such as ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ and the highly anticipated fourth season of ‘The Crown’.
However, despite an almost limitless sense of options, it’s easy to struggle when deciding what to watch. I was talking to a friend just last week, who complained on how she ‘felt like she had watched everything’. I couldn’t help but agree. Sometimes, I spend longer scrolling through the home page than I actually do watching a show!
If you are anything like me, you may too find it tricky choosing from the thousands of options at the swipe of a button and the click of a controller. It's overwhelming - however, it doesn’t have to be that way.
50 Netflix shows to fit every feeling…
When you need family friendly humour that’s actually funny, British edition. Optimum viewing between 3-6pm, harmless and perfect afternoon-fill.
1. Outnumbered
2. Friday Night Dinner
When you need family friendly humour that’s actually funny, American edition. Optimum viewing between 3-6pm, harmless and perfect afternoon-fill.
3. Modern Family
4. Schitt’s Creek
5. Brooklyn 99
6. Friends
When you want slightly less family friendly humour, but still afternoon-fill.
7. New Girl
8. The Office (US and UK)
9. Big Mouth
When you have a thing for American Politics. Optimum viewing 9pm onwards, actually quite educational (at least that’s what I tell myself).
10. House of Cards
11. Knock Down the House
12. Designated Survivor
13. The Great Hack
14. The Final Year
When that spy obsession is in need of fuelling and you want sophisticated action with a modern edge. Optimum viewing time 9pm, definitely not to be watched with younger siblings or children.
15. Homeland
16. Bodyguard
17. Manhunt: Unabomber
When you want it all. The best of the best. Optimum viewing anytime (but not with young children).
18. Breaking Bad
19. Better Call Saul
When you need to revise languages but don’t want to. The perfect compromise. Also optimum viewing all day, because its revision, right?
20. Money Heist
21. Baby
22. Lupin
23. Dark
When in need of a good rom-com, but like, an actually good one. Optimum viewing time 8pm onwards with snacks.
24. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (*nothing can top this one)
When you want to feel intelligent without picking up a book. Optimum viewing time all day because knowledge is power.
25. Dirty Money
26. SpyCraft
27. Suits
28. Explained
29. The Business of Drugs
When you want to watch a horror, but don’t like jump scares. Real life, real stories, real victims. Hard-hitting. Optimum viewing time definitely not past 10.
30. Night Stalker
31. The Mind of Aaron Hernandez
32. Jeffrey Epstein- Filthy Rich
33. Don’t F**k With Cats
34. World’s Most Wanted
When you just ended something amazing and need something else to fill the hole. Fantastic dramas at a fast and furious pace.
35. The People vs OJ Simpson
36. Narcos
37. Top Boy
38. How to Get Away With Murder
39. Fargo
When looking to embrace your creative side or perhaps take on some DIY projects. Optimum viewing all day long, seeing as we are in another lockdown!
40. Next in Fashion
41. Stay Here
42. Glow Up
When you need something comfortable, warming and nostalgic. Optimum viewing time 7pm and optimum location when raining outside and hot chocolate in hand.
43. Gilmore Girls
44. Sister Sister
45. Jane the Virgin
46. 13 Going on 30
When you just want to watch some trash. Because, lets be honest, reality TV is sometimes the best comfort.
47. Selling Sunset
48. Keeping Up With the Kardashians
49. Instant Hotel
50. Yummy Mummies
