Netflix famously produces a ton of content, more than any one person can ever hope to watch or even know about. That means that a lot of great shows slip through the cracks, be they drama, comedy, sci-fi, or fantasy.
And yet, these shows are still rolling on, entertaining audiences smaller than they deserve. There are quite a few underrated Netflix series returning for new seasons sooner or later, and now is the perfect time to get caught up with them.
If you want a great binge, start with these finished Netflix shows
These 10 Netflix TV shows will delight you from start to finish.
3 Body Problem
The fourth problem is that this show isn’t more popular
Based on the Remembrance of Earth’s Past book trilogy by Cixin Liu, 3 Body Problem is one of the smartest sci-fi series currently on TV. It’s about how humanity prepares for an incoming extraterrestrial invasion, which will take a few hundred years to get here. So the focus isn’t exactly on fighting the aliens, but on developing humanity to the point where we’ll be ready to meet them. Some humans want to take on the aliens, and some think we should worship them as our new gods. Things get very messy, imaginative, and compelling.
Netflix has plans to adapt the whole trilogy. Season 2 will air sometime in 2026, with Season 3 finishing things sometime after that.
- Release Date
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March 21, 2024
- Directors
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Minkie Spiro, Derek Tsang
- Writers
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David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Alexander Woo
The Gentleman
Guy Ritchie’s growling English slugfest
The Gentlemen is an action-comedy series from Guy Ritchie, the British director of movies like Snatch, Sherlock Holmes, and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. The Gentlemen finds him in familiar territory as we follow Edward “Eddie” Horniman (Theo James), an army captain who inherits his father’s royal title when he dies…as well as his dad’s illegal pot empire, which Eddie did not know existed. Eddie must deal with British gangsters, moneyed interests, and his unpredictable brother Freddy (Daniel Ings) if he’s to get things under control.
The Gentlemen, which is a kind of reimagining of the 2019 movie of the same name, is funny, bloody, and energetic. A Second season is due out on Netflix in the fall of 2026.
Dept. Q
From the makers of The Queen’s Gambit
Detective series never seem to go out of style, and Netflix has a bunch of good ones. One of the most overlooked is Dept Q., about an abrasive but brilliant Scottish detective (Matthew Goode) who’s banished to a cold case unit after a traumatic shooting. Together with his small team, he starting looking into a disappearance.
Moody and intense, Dept. Q has sympathetic characters, a well-written story, and a grim sense of humor that helps the episodes go down easy. The show is the brainchild of A. Scott Frank, who also worked on Netflix series like The Queen’s Gambit and Godless, not to mention movies like Logan and Out of Sight. Dept Q. is as good as anything else he’s done, just not as popular.
…or at least, not yet. The show should return for a second season in 2027.
- Release Date
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May 29, 2025
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Netflix
- Directors
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Elisa Amoruso
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Matthew Goode
DCI Carl Morck
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Chloe Pirrie
Merritt Lingard
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Jamie Sives
DCI James Hardy
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Alexej Manvelov
Akram Salim
Forever
Judy Blume never misses
Forever is a heartfelt romance about two high school athletes, Keisha Clark (Lovie Simone) and Justin Edwards (Michael Cooper) who fall in love. The romance is sweet and the stakes, while real, are refreshingly low; Keisha and Justin have to deal with pressure from their parents to focus on their futures rather than each other, but neither of them is dying or in grave danger or anything. It’s a very down-to-earth story.
Forever is based on the book of the same name by Judy Blume, known for excelling with stories like this. A second season should be on its way in 2027.
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2025 – 2025-00-00
- Network
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Netflix
- Directors
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Regina King
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Lovie Simone
Keisha Clark
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Michael Cooper Jr.
Justin Edwards
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Karen Pittman
Dawn Edwards
Blue Eye Samurai
Bloody and beautiful
Blue Eye Samurai is an animated series about a half-white, half-Japanese onna-musha (female warrior in pre-modern Japan) named Mizu (Maya Erskine). Mizu is out to get revenge on four white men, one of whom is her father, who are in Japan illegally at a time when the country has closed its border. The series is grim, violent, brutal, and incredibly entertaining.
It’s also gorgeous to look at, with dazzling animation and heart-pounding action scenes. Of the shows on this list, Blue Eye Samurai is one of the more popular, but it’s still not the phenomenon it deserves to be. Maybe that will change when the second season lands on Netflix sometime later this year or is 2027.
- Release Date
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November 3, 2023
- Showrunner
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Michael Green, Amber Noizumi
- Directors
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Jane Wu
- Writers
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Michael Green, Amber Noizumi
The Eternaut
The worst snow day ever
Netflix makes a lot of great foreign language content, and every once in a while, one such series will break out internationally. The Eternaut, based on a 1957 comic book by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López, hasn’t quite blown up, but it should.
The Eternaut is about a group of people in Buenos Aires that find themselves dealing with a toxic snowfall that kills anyone it comes into contact with. Adjusting to life afterwards is difficult, but everyone must come together when it’s revealed that the snowfall was the first wave in an extraterrestrial attack.
The Eternaut is eerie, gripping, and very well-produced. The first season got rave reviews and a second is due out in 2027.
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April 30, 2025
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Netflix
- Directors
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Bruno Stagnaro
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Dante Mastropierro
Maquinista
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Jorge Sesán
Maquinista 2
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Ricardo Darín
Juan Salvo
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Another Self
Another great underseen series
Another Self is a Turkish series about three friends, one of whom has been diagnosed with cancer, who leave their lives in Istanbul for a while to visit a seaside town where they connect with their spirituality and explore how the struggles of their ancestors are still affecting them today.
Another Self is funny, romantic, and dramatic, but it’s exactly a straight-forward sitcom, romance, or drama. It’s successfully forged its own path and gained a loyal following, but it deserves a lot more eyeballs on it. The first season was well-liked and the second even more so. A third season will air on Netflix on June 24, 2026.
The Chestnut Man
Chilly Nordic noir for springtime
The Chestnut Man is a great “Nordic noir” series about a pair of detectives who team up to investigate a murder that ends up being the work of a serial killer who’s been at this for many years. The first season is based on a book of the same name by author Søren Sveistrup, a huge name in Nordic noir. The upcoming second season is based on his new book Hide and Seek. The show has taken several years off to allow Sveistrup time to finish his new novel, which is a good sign that the producers want to make a new season that’s actually worthy of the original, since they could have just gone ahead and made up a new story themselves instead of waiting.
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September 29, 2021
- Network
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Netflix
- Directors
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Kasper Barfoed, Mikkel Serup
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Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
Mark Hess
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Danica Ćurčić
Naia Thulin
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Villje Katring-Rasmussen
Olivia Kvium
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Get on board sooner rather than later
The new season of The Chestnut Man debuts on Netflix on May 7, 2026, so you don’t have much time to catch up on the first season, if you’re even reading this before the new episodes drop. But even if you missed that window, there are a ton of other great, ongoing Netflix series you still have time to discover, binge, and love.
