Table of ContentsTable of ContentsMo (2024-2025)Atypical (2017-2021)American Primeval (2025)Escape At Dannemora (2018)Territory (2024-present)Virgin River (2019-present)The Diplomat (2023-present)The Empress (2022-present)Yellowjackets (2021-present)The Lincoln Lawyer (2022-present)Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (2024)Heels (2021-2023)Fire Country (2022-present)Prison Break (2005-2008, 2017)Dark Winds (2022-present)Lost (2004-2010)Greys Anatomy (2005-present)Boiling Point (2023)Your Honor (2020-2023)Dexter (2006-2013)Designated Survivor (2016-2018)Baby Reindeer (2024)Queen of the South (2016-2021)Black Sails (2014-2018)One Day (2024)The Resident (2013-2023)The Gentlemen (2024-Present)Madam Secretary (2013-2019)The Blacklist (2013-2023)Six Feet Under (2001-2005)My Life with the Walter Boys (2023-Present)This Is Us (2016-2022)Shameless (2011-2021)Ozark (2017-2022)Friday Night Lights (2006-2011)Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (2016)Maid (2021)Call the Midwife (2012-Present)How To Get Away With Murder (2014-2020)The Crown (2016-2023)Beef (2023)Peaky Blinders (2013-2022)Band of Brothers (2001)Breaking Bad (2008-2013)Better Call Saul (2015-2022)NCIS (2003-Present)Outlander (2014-Present)Mindhunter (2017-2019)New Amsterdam (2018-2023)S.W.A.T. (2017-Present)February was a very dry month for dramas on Netflix. If it hadnt been for the second season of Mo which premiered on January 30 there wouldnt have been any new shows to add to our roundup of the best Netflix drama shows. As it is, we already had to dive into Netflixs catalog to find a second show to add: Atypical.The first month of the year opened on a strong note for dramas with American Primeval followed byShowtimesEscape At Dannemora. You can find these series and the rest of the best drama shows on Netflix below.Recommended VideosIf youre looking for more content, check out the best new shows to stream this week, the best shows on Netflix, the best shows on Hulu, and the best shows on Amazon Prime.RelatedNetflixMo only had a short run on Netflix of two seasons, but it was critically acclaimed for its premise and the performance of the leading actor and series co-creator Mo Amer. In the show, Amer plays Mohammed Mo Najjar, an immigrant living in Texas who wants to find his own piece of the American dream.Unfortunately, Mos path is complicated by his status as a Palestinian refugee, and by the fact that hes not a U.S. citizen. Getting asylum and his citizenship is an uphill battle, but the United States is the only home hes ever really known. If Mo comes up short, hell be deported and sent back to a place that now feels completely foreign to him.Watch Mo on Netflix.NetflixAtypical follows Sam Gardner (Keir Gilchrist), an autistic teenager who has only just realized that he may have more of a future than he envisioned for himself. More specifically, Sam wants to find a girlfriend, and thats not going to be easy especially since the first woman he crushes on is his therapist, Julia Sasaki (Amy Okuda).Sams desire to break away also has consequences for his parents, Elsa (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and Doug Gardner (Michael Rapaport). There was clearly trouble in this relationship ahead of time, but just as Sam starts exploring his romantic possibilities, so too does Elsa outside of her marriage.Watch Atypical on Netflix.NetflixTheres nothing fun or romantic about the frontier in the Old West as seen in American Primeval. Instead, its a brutal look at how far some men are willing to go for land. For example, Brigham Young (Kim Coates), the leader of the LDS church, wants to claim the Utah territory for his followers. And if he has to engineer a massacre to get it, he will. Those actions leave one of his followers, Jacob Pratt (Dane DeHaan), clinging to his life and faith as he attempts to find his missing wife.Meanwhile, Sara Holloway (Betty Gilpin) is on a desperate journey with her son, Devin (Preston Mota), and a young Native American woman, Two Moons (Shawnee Pourier). Sara is a fugitive with a price on her head. The only hope she has for safety is help from Isaac Reed (Taylor Kitsch), a man raised by the Shoshone tribe. Isaac has his own cross to bear, but hell see this mission through regardless of the cost.Watch American Primeval on Netflix.ShowtimeBefore Ben Stiller helmed Apple TV+s Severance, he directed Showtimes Escape At Dannemora, a miniseries inspired by the 2015 jailbreak at New Yorks Clinton Correctional Facility. Patricia Arquette stars as Joyce Tilly Mitchell, a prison guard who isnt happy with her marriage. And that leaves Tilly open to having sexual relationships with two of her prisoners, Richard Matt (Benicio del Toro) and David Sweat (Paul Dano), both of whom are convicted murderers.Tilly is so drawn in by the pair that she helps them break out of prison, which causes massive collateral damage in her own life. Theres no way for Tilly to take back that mistake, and once the convicts are in the outside world, the manhunt begins.Watch Escape At Dannemora on Netflix.NetflixSome of the parallels between Yellowstoneand Territory are uncanny, including the way both shows have seismic changes to their status quos in their respective first episodes. Theres also a touch of Succession in Territory, as Colin Lawson (Robert Taylor) controls the largest cattle ranch in Australia, and as far as hes concerned, most of his family doesnt deserve to inherit it except his youngest son, Daniel (Jake Ryan).When Daniel winds up getting killed, the question of who will control the ranch threatens to tear the family apart again. Emily Lawson (Anna Torv) has perhaps the weakest claim since she married into the family through her husband, Graham (Michael Dorman). However, Emily may also be the Lawson familys best hope of holding on to their land as their enemies smell blood in the water and start trying to steal the ranch out from under them.Watch Territory on Netflix.NetflixVirgin River is about second chances for Melinda Mel Monroe (Alexandra Breckenridge) and Jack Sheridan (Martin Henderson). The couple didnt even meet until Mel came to Virgin River to escape her suffocating life in Los Angeles. However, Mel quickly clashed with her new boss, Vernon Doc Mullin (Tim Matheson), who didnt see the value in her skills. And her romance with Jack was anything but smooth.Season 6 demonstrates how much things have changed. Mel is firmly established in the town and almost ready to walk down the aisle and exchange wedding vows with Jack. But theres still drama ahead for this couple, as well as a potentially very unpleasant surprise that leads into the seventh season. Virgin River is hanging around for a long run on Netflix, which is a rarity in the streaming age.Watch Virgin River on Netflix.NetflixKeri Russells Kate Wyler has really come up in the world in Netflixs political thriller The Diplomat. Kates the new ambassador to the U.K., and shes on the short list for becoming the next vice president of the United States, assuming she can defuse the aftermath of an apparent terrorist attack and prevent her country and the U.K. from getting sucked into a war. So, no pressure, really.Season 2 finds Kate embroiled in another mystery closer to home, as a car bombing claims the life of someone close to her. This only puts more pressure on Kates marriage to Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell), who can plainly see that hes losing her love to the U.K. Foreign Secretary, Austin Dennison (David Gyasi). The current vice president, Grace Penn (Allison Janney), also enters the picture this season, and shes not going to step down without a fight.Watch The Diplomat on Netflix.NetflixEmpress Elisabeth may not be famous in America, but she was an important figure in the royal family of Austria and Hungary. Her story is retold in the German drama The Empress. It begins in 1854 when Elisabeth (Devrim Lingnau) meets Emperor Franz Joseph (Philip Froissant), the man who was originally going to marry her older sister, Duchess Helene (Elisa Schlott).Elisabeths marriage is strained largely due to the interference of her mother-in-law, Sophie (Melika Foroutan), the archduchess of Austria. The second season finds Elisabeth narrowly hanging on to her marriage and her position of power. Elisabeths saving grace may be her ability to emotionally connect to the commoners of her country. But shes still got plenty of enemies inside the Emperors court.Watch The Empress on Netflix.ShowtimeIf Yellowjackets were only about the survival of a girls soccer team lost in the wild, then it probably still would have ended up as one of Showtimes biggest hits, which is currently on loan to Netflix. The very first episode teased that dark times are ahead for the young women on the Yellowjackets, and the show hasnt even caught up to that point yet. What we have seen is that the Yellowjackets are largely on their own and increasingly desperate to simply live.That part of the show takes place 25 years in the past. The present-day sequences of Yellowjackets reveal that at least some of the girls made it out alive and grew up to become damaged women, as played by Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis, and Lauren Ambrose. Almost all of those characters would much rather let the past die than reveal what really happened between them in the wilderness. The mysteries of this series are still unfolding, and Yellowjackets season 3 is coming to Showtime in 2025, so consider this your chance to dive in early.Watch Yellowjackets on Netflix.NetflixThis season, The Lincoln Lawyer isnt making fans wait by splitting the show into two halves. David E. Kelleys adaptation of Michael Connellys legal thriller novels has instead dropped all 10 episodes of season 3 while unleashing a deeply personal case for its title character, Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo).Mickeys friend, Glory Days (Fiona Rene), has been killed. The titular lawyer is now defending Julian La Cosse (Devon Graye), the man police have fingered for the crime. Is Julian being railroaded for a murder he didnt commit? Or has Mickey found himself unwittingly aiding the man who murdered someone close to him?Watch The Lincoln Lawyer on Netflix.NetflixMonsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is both a standalone story and the second season in the Monster franchise that previously featured Jeffrey Dahmer. Lyle (Nicholas Alexander Chavez) and Erik (Cooper Koch) didnt eat anyone like Dahmer did, but they did murder their parents, Jos (Javier Bardem) and Kitty Menndez (Chlo Sevigny).The open questions in this nine-episode season are simple. Were the Menndez brothers the callous killers of their parents as portrayed in the media? Or were the siblings the victims of abuse at the hands of their parents? Theres also an argument that they could the victims and monsters of their own story.Watch Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story on Netflix.Paramount Television/Lionsgate TelevisionThe wrestling business isnt what it used to be in Heels, a drama series that ran for two seasons on Starz. Following his superhero turn in Arrow, Stephen Amell plays Jack Spade, the owner of a local wrestling territory in Georgia and one of the top stars as a bad guy/heel. Jacks brother, Ace Spade (Alexander Ludwig), is a rising star in the promotion as a good guy character/face.Sensing that Ace could displace him as the No. 1 draw of the promotion, Jack reneges on an agreement to let his brother defeat him. This sends Ace into a downward spiral that may kill his wrestling career unless he and Jack can come up with an even better gimmick for him.Watch Heels on Netflix.CBS StudiosTelevision audiences love a good redemption story, and thats part of the appeal of Fire Country. Fire season in California is so severe and dangerous that there really is a California Conservation Camp Program that recruits prison inmates to be volunteer firefighters in exchange for reduced sentences. Bode Donovan (Max Thieriot) is one of those inmates, and hes wasted enough of his life behind bars.Bodes desire to rebuild himself gets him sent back to his hometown, where he has to reunite and reconcile with his family while working alongside his fellow inmates and professional firefighters. Fire Country is one of the handful of shows on Netflix that are still producing new seasons on broadcast television. So when you finish the two seasons on Netflix, it should be just in time for Fire Country season 3 on CBS.Watch Fire Country on Netflix.20th TelevisionLincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) is a man on death row for a crime he didnt commit in Prison Break. But Lincolns younger brother, Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller), is not about to let that happen. Michael is literally a genius, and he concocts a daring plan to get himself sent to the same prison as Lincoln in order to break him out. But before they can pull off that stunt, theyll need to make allies behind bars.Michael had to take this step because the man that Lincoln supposedly killed was the brother of the vice president of the United States. That means powerful forces are invested in keeping both brothers locked up. Lincolns ex-girlfriend, Veronica Donovan (Robin Tunney), leads the fight to prove his innocence, only to discover that shes been targeted by the conspiracy that framed him.Watch Prison Break on Netflix.AMCDark Winds is the kind of show that could only have a home on AMC or a streaming service. There arent many thrillers set in 1970s Navajo County, but the series does an outstanding job of adapting Tony Hillermans novels. Zahn McClarnon stars as Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, and hes got plenty of problems before the thieves behind an armored truck heist hide in his territory.The FBI sends Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon) into the tribal police as an undercover deputy, but Leaphorn is too smart to be fooled by that trick. Instead, Leaphorn convinces Chee to help him solve a double homicide that soon proves to have a link to thieves hiding among them. There are only six episodes in each season of the series, so the storylines move quickly. And a third season of Dark Winds is on the way.Watch Dark Winds on Netflix.ABC StudiosYou may be wondering why Lost is on the list of the best dramas on Netflix. And the answer is that we dont exclude genre shows from this roundup, especially when Lost picked up an Emmy for Best Drama series in 2005. The early seasons of the show werent as heavy on sci-fi and fantasy as the later seasons were. Even after those elements were introduced, Losts stories kept viewers coming back to follow the fates of a large cast of characters. That not only gave the show exceptional depth, but it also meant that nearly anyone could be killed off even main characters.Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox), Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly), John Locke (Terry OQuinn), James Sawyer Ford (Josh Holloway), and Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews) are among the survivors of a plane crash on an uncharted island. Staying alive is hard enough for this group, but the island has plenty of mysteries waiting for them to discover. And in this tropical paradise, what the survivors dont know can definitely kill them.Watch Lost on Netflix.ABC StudiosSome shows seem destined to live forever, like The Simpsonsand Greys Anatomy. To put this in perspective, 20 seasons used to be the record for the longest-running show on TV before the Law & Order franchise made mincemeat out of that mark. Greys Anatomy has now matched that mark with 20 seasons, all of which are on Netflix ahead of the season 21 premiere on ABC this fall.One of the few cast members to stay on from the beginning of the show to the present is Ellen Pompeo, who plays Meredith Grey. Pompeo has taken a reduced role in the more recent seasons while maintaining top billing. It is her show, after all. Viewers have witnessed Merediths growth from a young resident doctor at Seattle Grace Hospital to a formidable researcher who is searching for new ways to defeat Alzheimers disease.Theres currently a new crop of young cast members to pick up the slack now, but were partial to the original cast including Patrick Dempsey, Sandra Oh, Katherine Heigl, Justin Chambers, T. R. Knight, Isaiah Washington, and Chandra Wilson, who, like Pompeo, is still with the show. There are currently 430 episodes streaming on Netflix, so this is one binge that you can stretch out for a long time.Watch Greys Anatomy on Netflix.BBCYou may notice some thematic similarities between Boiling Point and The Bear. This miniseries is a sequel to the 2021 Boiling Point film, which depicted the worst night in the life of Andy (Stephen Graham), as his restaurant dreams went down in flames.The show picks up a significant amount of time later, and brings Carly (Vinette Robinson) to the forefront as she runs her own restaurant with many of Andys former kitchen staff now working for her. This has led to some very hard feelings between Carly and Andy, with the latter harboring some resentment toward her. Unfortunately for Carly, shes learning firsthand just how difficult it is to manage a successful restaurant. And for all of her hard work and effort, Carlys restaurant may meet the same fate as Andys.Watch Boiling Point on Netflix.ShowtimeAfter watching Breaking Bad (which is also on Netflix), is it really a shock to see Bryan Cranston play a father who is rapidly losing the ideals and traits that made him a good man? At least Cranstons Michael Desiato has a more selfless reason for his moral failings. As a judge in New Orleans, Michael is respected and admired. But hell throw all of that away when his son, Adam (Hunter Doohan), is involved with a fatal hit-and-run accident.Michaels first instinct is to tell his son to confess to his crimes and face justice. Unfortunately for the Desiatos, the victim of the accident was the son of a mob boss, Jimmy Baxter (Michael Stuhlbarg). No amount of legal consequences for Michael would ever satisfy Jimmy or his wife, Gina Baxter (Hope Davis). And so, in the name of protecting his son, Michael bends his own code and does things he never would have dreamed of before.Watch Your Honor on Netflix.ShowtimeAt first glance, Showtimes Dexter could almost be mistaken for one of the endless police procedurals on CBS. Michael C. Hall stars as Dexter Morgan, a socially awkward yet respected member of Miami Metro Police Department who is a forensic analyst who has a gift for understanding blood spatter patterns. Those are all the characteristics of a police hero if Dexter werent also a serial killer.Dexter has little interest in quieting his urges to kill, but his late adoptive father, Harry Morgan (James Remar), taught him to target only the criminals who escaped justice, including rapists and murderers. This gives Dexter a sense of vigilante justice, but even these killings dont go unnoticed. Throughout the shows nine seasons, Dexters secrets threaten to unravel and bring down the otherwise ordinary life that hes led.Watch Dexter on Netflix.NetflixAfter saving the nation countless times as Jack Bauer on 24, getting to play the president on Designated Survivor may seem like a promotion for Kiefer Sutherland. But this series has its own type of thrills, and Thomas Kirkman (Sutherland) doesnt become president in a conventional way. As the secretary of housing and urban development, Kirkman is the only surviving member in the presidential line of succession following a successful terror attack during the State of the Union.Kirkman is quickly thrust into the nations highest office, which few people believe that he is capable of handling. Even if President Kirkman can silence his doubters, he has to face the prospects of more terrorist attacks while attempting to govern a nation that badly needs leadership.Watch Designated Survivor on Netflix.Ed Miller / NetflixTheres something deeply ironic about comedian and actor Richard Gadd using his real-life experience with an alleged stalker to make his hit Netflix series Baby Reindeer, only for the resulting publicity to bring the woman back into his life. Gadd changed the names for the show, including his own. The series follows Donny Dunn (Gadd) as he shows kindness to a woman named Martha Scott (Jessica Gunning) before coming to regret it.After some initially sweet reactions, Martha becomes obsessed with Donny and sends him an unusually large number of messages. And when Donny tries to let Martha down easy, it only invites her wrath. Donny finds out too late that Martha has been convicted of stalking before, and getting her to back down will be no easy task.Watch Baby Reindeer on Netflix.Universal Cable ProductionsQueen of the South is not entirely unlike Breaking Bad, especially in the way that Teresa Mendoza (Alice Braga) rises from poverty to prominence in the criminal underworld. But that doesnt happen overnight. At the beginning of the series, Teresa is forced to flee from Mexico to escape the wrath of a drug cartel. In the U.S., Teresa finds shelter in the employ of Doa Camila Vargas (Veronica Falcn), the head of the Vargas Cartel in Dallas.Through shrewd moves born out of desperation and ambition, Teresa not only makes herself invaluable to Vargas, but she carves out her own drug empire as well. Part of the price for her rapid ascent is that Teresa loses the best parts of her self as she makes multiple moral compromises to stay alive.Watch Queen of the South on Netflix.StarzBlack Sails takes place in the Golden Age of Piracy during the early 18th century, but Captain James Flint (Toby Stephens) knows that the golden age may not last long. The long and creeping reach of civilization is threatening the pirates way of life in New Providence, and Flints solution is to start positioning himself to be the pirate king.Flints more immediate problem is that his crew is angry and on the verge of mutiny. Meanwhile, a new addition to Flints crew, Long John Silver (Luke Arnold), has his own agenda and hes willing to do just about anything to survive. Flint doesnt realize it yet, but his fate is linked to Silvers, and the future of New Providence depends upon both of them.Watch Black Sails on Netflix.NetflixOne Day gives fans 14 episodes to witness the two-decade relationship between Emma Morley (Ambika Mod) and Dexter Mayhew (Leo Woodall). On their last day of college, Dexter and Emma blew a chance to hook up, but the connection they made with each other proves to be more enduring than either of them suspected.As the years pass, and they date other partners, Emma and Dexter keep finding their way back to each other as friends. They just need to keep working on themselves before theyll be ready to commit to being with each other.Watch One Day on Netflix.20th Century Studios TVThe Resident was Foxs answer to Greys Anatomy for six seasons, although it was less soapy than that show. Matt Czuchry headlined the series as Conrad Hawkins, the chief resident at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital, who forms a strong bond with Nicolette Nic Nevin (Emily VanCamp), a nurse practitioner at the hospital.As an ensemble series, The Resident has a large cast that fluctuates across the shows run. The thing that remains the same throughout the series is that Hawkins and his fellow doctors work tirelessly to save and treat their patients while also navigating their personal drama.Watch The Resident on Netflix.Kevin Baker / NetflixGuy Ritchie revisits the world of The Gentlemen in this Netflix original drama, but the show isnt a rehash of Ritchies 2019 movie of the same name. The story follows Edward Eddie Horniman (The White Lotus Theo James), a young man who has just inherited his fathers title as the Duke of Halstead and all the wealth and responsibilities that go with it.If only Eddies dad had warned him that the family was deep in the marijuana business with a gangster, Robert Bobby Glass (Ray Winstone), then perhaps it wouldnt have come as such a shock. Now, Eddie needs to work alongside Glass daughter, Susan Glass (Kaya Scodelario), and navigate the criminal underworld before it drags him and his family down.Watch The Gentlemen on Netflix.CBS TV StudiosAlthough Madam Secretary has yet to be embraced on Netflix series like some of the other former network dramas, its six-season run gave it a lot of episodes for binge-viewing. Ta Leoni stars as the title character, Elizabeth Bess Adams McCord, a CIA analyst who finds herself thrust to the forefront of Presidential politics when she is named Secretary of State.Tim Daly co-stars as Elizabeths husband, Henry McCord, a man whose military background leads to stints at the NSA and the CIA during the course of the series. The show primarily revolves around Elizabeths handling of high-stakes situations in her job while attempting to balance her home life with her husband and their children. And much like a real-life Secretary of State, Elizabeth eventually sets her sights on the Presidency for herself.Watch Madam Secretary on Netflix.Sony Pictures TelevisionJames Spader had the role of a lifetime as Raymond Red Reddington during his decade-long stint on The Blacklist. Reddington is a former U.S. Naval Intelligence officer-turned-master criminal who shocks the FBI task force assigned to capture him by suddenly surrendering at FBI headquarters. Reddington also offers his help to Assistant Director Harold Cooper (Harry Lennix) to find some of the most dangerous criminals in the world but only if he can work directly with rookie profiler Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone).Elizabeth is naturally suspicious about Reddingtons interest in her, but the FBI is unable to turn him down when he provides results. However, Reddingtons manipulations and true motivations are difficult to predict, and he successfully gives Elizabeth good reasons to doubt the identity of her husband, Tom Keen (Ryan Eggold).Watch The Blacklist on Netflix.HBOEveryone dies sooner or later in Six Feet Under, and it falls upon the Fisher family to prepare the bodies for their graves. Nate Fisher (Peter Krause) and his brother, David (Michael C. Hall), inherit their funeral home family business following the sudden death of their father. The show also follows their mother, Ruth Fischer (Frances Conroy), and their younger sister, Claire Fisher (Lauren Ambrose), as the entire family deals with their emotional traumas while also coming to terms with all of the death surrounding their familys chosen profession.This show was an HBO original series and one of the brands signature dramas. That means it wont be around on Netflix forever, so catch it while you can.Watch Six Feet Under on Netflix.NetflixBack when The CW network was called The WB, a soapy teenage drama likeMy Life With the Walter Boys would have been right at home there. Instead, Netflix is filling that void with this adaptation of Ali Novaks novel of the same name. The story is about Jackie Howard (Nikki Rodriguez), a teenage girl who loses her entire family in a car accident. Out of compassion, Jackies guardians, George (Marc Blucas) and Katherine Walter (Sarah Rafferty), welcome her into their home, which forces Jackie to move from New York City to a small town in Colorado.As the name of the show implies, the Walters already have several sons of their own, including Cole (Noah LaLonde), Alex (Ashby Gentry), and Danny (Connor Stanhope). Even while facing her personal tragedy, Jackie feels a strong connection to the brothers. Whether shell also find love with one of them remains to be seen.Watch My Life With the Walter Boys on Netflix.20th TelevisionThe Pearson family is at the heart of This Is Us, but get ready to go on a roller coaster of emotions as the narrative jumps from the past to the present and the future, not necessarily in that order. Jack Pearson (Milo Ventimiglia) and his wife, Rebecca Pearson (Mandy Moore), were supposed to have triplets, but only two of their children, Kate and Kevin, survived. So they adopted another son, Randall, creating the Big Three.In the present, Kate (Chrissy Metz) and Randall (Sterling K. Brown) have families of their own, while Kevin (Justin Hartley) remains a work in progress. Even though their bonds are tested by time and the space between them, the Pearsons remain a family even in the face of heartache and pain.Watch This Is Us on Netflix.Warner Bros. TelevisionThe American version of Shameless had an incredible 11-season run on Showtime before settling into its digital afterlife on Netflix. Although Frank Gallagher (William H. Macy) is the patriarch of his family, hes also an irresponsible alcoholic who is prone to abandoning his kids for extended periods of time. Thats why it falls on Franks oldest daughter, Fiona Gallagher (Emmy Rossum), to take over the parental role, even at the cost of her own dreams and ambitions.The Bears Jeremy Allen White co-stars as Fionas brother, Philip Lip Gallagher, alongside Cameron Monaghan as Ian Gallagher, Emma Kenney as Debbie Gallagher, and Ethan Cutkosky as Carl Gallagher. Each of the Gallagher children has their own trials to face, and most of them dont handle adversity very well.Watch Shameless on Netflix.NetflixArrested Developments Jason Bateman got to take a dive into much darker territory in the crime drama Ozark. Bateman stars in the series as Martin Marty Byrde, a financial adviser who has spent nearly a decade working with a Mexican drug cartel as part of a money-laundering operation in Chicago. When the scheme comes apart, Marty saves his own life by suggesting that he can set up an even bigger operation in the Ozarks.Martys wife, Wendy Byrde (Laura Linney), is with him all the way, although their children, Charlotte (Sofia Hublitz) and Jonah (Skylar Gaertner), dont have much of a say in the matter. But if Marty expected to set up shop in the Ozarks without facing any repercussions from the local criminals, then he is sorely mistaken. And the Byrde family soon has more rivals and adversaries than they can handle.Watch Ozark on Netflix.Paul Drinkwater / NBCIn the small town of Dillon, Texas, high school football isnt just a big thing its often the only thing that matters to many of the players and fans in the stands. Friday Night Lights builds on the movie that came before it and focuses on Coach Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler), his wife Tami (Connie Britton), their daughter Julie (Aimee Teegarden), and all of the young people that hes coaching.During the early seasons, Taylors players include Matt Saracen (Zach Gilford), Landry Clarke (Jesse Plemons), Brian Smash Williams (Gaius Charles), and Tim Riggins (Taylor Kitsch). The players change over the years, but the core of Coach Taylors teachings remain. Clear eyes, full hearts. Cant lose.Watch Friday Night Lights on Netflix.NetflixThe Gilmore Girls series got a second chance at crafting an ending for the show in the four-part miniseries Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. Years after the original show ended, Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) has pursued a career as a writer while carrying on an affair with her ex-boyfriend, Logan Huntzberger (Matt Czuchry), despite his engagement to another woman.Back in Stars Hallow, Rorys mother, Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham), finally works out the trajectory of her romance with Luke Danes (Scott Patterson). Meanwhile, Lorelais mother, Emily Gilmore (Kelly Bishop), comes to terms with the death of her husband, Richard (Edward Herrmann), and charts a different path for herself as well. All three generations of Gilmore Girls will come back together, because they still love and need each other. They just dont always agree about their respective life choices.Watch Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life on Netflix.Warner Bros. TelevisionThe Leftovers standoutMargaret Qualley stars in Maid as Alexandra Alex Russell, the young mother of Maddy Boyd (Rylea Nevaeh Whittet). Alex is willing to do anything to get away from her abusive ex-husband (and Maddys father), Sean Boyd (Nick Robinson), even if that means Alex has to take on a dead-end job as a maid-for-hire.Despite having work, Alex finds that she is still dependent on government assistance and her unstable mother, Paula Langley (Andie MacDowell). As a maid, Alex gets a glimpse of a life of luxury that she could never have, wile taking on increasingly difficult and draining assignments while fighting her ex for custody of their daughter.Watch Maid on Netflix.BBC/PBSCall the Midwife is a popular ongoing British drama that shows no sign of slowing down. The series initially began 12 years after World War II as Jenny Lee (Jessica Raine) worked as a midwife alongside Beatrix Trixie Franklin (Helen George) and Cynthia Miller (Bryony Hannah) at a convent of nuns in Londons Poplar district. In this era, medical assistance wasnt ready available for poor mothers who were due to give birth, and the midwifes were frequently called upon when women were in labor.Each of the three original midwives eventually left the show, and the cast has greatly changed over the shows 13 seasons, as Call the Midwife explored the larger changes in British society during the 50s and 60s. At the rate this show is going, it will be exploring the 70s soon enough. Viewers can watch the new seasons of Call the Midwife on PBS, while Netflix is the streaming home for the older seasons.Watch Call the Midwife on Netflix.ABC StudiosBefore she brought Bridgertonto Netflix, Shonda Rhimes executive produced How To Get Away with Murder, the show that helped make Viola Davis a star. The series follows a prominent criminal defense attorney, Annalise Keating (Davis), and five of her favored students from her law classes at Middleton University. The Keating 5 include Wes Gibbins (Alfred Enoch), Connor Walsh (Jack Falahee), Michaela Pratt (Aja Naomi King), Asher Millstone (Matt McGorry), and Laurel Castillo (Karla Souza).Annalises students will do anything for her, which is one of the reasons why they murder her husband, Sam Keating (Tom Verica), after his mistress, Lila Stangard (Megan West), is also killed. Now, Annalise has to help her students keep out of jail, while also keeping police unaware of anything that could implicate her in the murder as well. More secrets come out as the series progresses, as Annalises legal expertise is put to the test in court and she works to evade the consequences of her actions.Watch How To Get Away With Murder on Netflix.NetflixQueen Elizabeths life and reign have been chronicled across six seasons of The Crown, one of Netflixs most acclaimed series. When the series begins, Elizabeth (Claire Foy) is still a young woman attempting to settle into her reign. Olivia Colman and Imelda Staunton portray Elizabeth at later points in her life when The Crown jumps forward in time.The fifth and sixth seasons have largely centered on the marriage of Prince Charles (Dominic West) and Princess Diana (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3s Elizabeth Debicki), as well as their divorce and public falling out. The newly released episodes on Netflix also retell the last days of Dianas life as the royal family is taken aback when even in death, the Princess of Wales continues to overshadow them.Watch The Crown on Netflix.NetflixBeef was one of the breakout shows on Netflix in 2023, and it left quite an impression on viewers. Steven Yeun and Ali Wong co-headline this limited series as Danny Cho and Amy Lau, two strangers who might have otherwise never met each other if they hadnt had a mutual road rage incident. Danny and Amy could have simply let it go, but they keep escalating the situation by tracking each other down and retaliating.It gets to the point where the feud between Danny and Amy is destroying their lives and each other. And neither of them cares as long as the other person goes down first.Watch Beef on Netflix.BBC/NetflixOppenheimers Cillian Murphy headlined all six seasons of Peaky Blinders, the BBCs original crime series that never seemed to lack established co-stars including Sam Neill, Adrien Brody, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sam Claflin, and House of the Dragons Paddy Considine.The series begins in the aftermath of World War I, as Tommy Shelby (Murphy) and his Peaky Blinders gang attempt to expand their criminal empire. However, this earns both Tommy and the gang new enemies on both sides of the law. And no matter how much power Tommy amasses for the gang, it never seems to be enough for him.Watch Peaky Blinders on Netflix.HBOHBOs Band of Brothers is on loan to Netflix, so it wont be around on the streamer forever. But while its here, it is unquestionably one of Netflixs best dramas. Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg co-created the miniseries which follows Major Richard Dick Winters (Billions Damian Lewis) and the rest of Easy Company, a Parachute Infantry unit during World War II.The miniseries is based on the true exploits of Easy Company, which begin in training and extend to Europe for some of the most memorable battles of the war, including the invasion of Normandy. The reason why Band of Brothers remains so beloved by fans is that it never loses sight of the fact that these characters were ordinary men who were thrust into incredibly dangerous situations. And not all of them got to go home again.Watch Band of Brothers on Netflix.Sony Pictures TVAlthough Netflix no longer has the streaming rights to Mad Men, it still has the other show that has been hailed as one of the best of the 21st century: Breaking Bad. Malcolm in the Middles Bryan Cranston leaves sitcom silliness behind as he fully inhabits the role of Walter White, a high school science teacher who is dying from cancer. Out of a desire to provide for his family, Walt approaches his former student, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), to help him cook and sell meth.Walt may have had the best intentions when he started, but once he goes down this road, he becomes capable of murder, poisoning, and all sorts of crimes that ultimately horrify Jesse. That slow transformation and the incredible way it unfolds is the primary reason why Breaking Bad is so beloved by critics and fans. The show has been over for a decade, and its reputation has not diminished.Watch Breaking Bad on Netflix.AMCWhere Breaking Bad goes, the spinoff series, Better Call Saul, isnt far behind. This show is both a prequel and a sequel to the series that spawned it. Some even argue that it surpasses Breaking Bad in part because of the way it presents Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) before he became the corrupt criminal lawyer, Saul Goodman. In this series, Jimmy is a struggling lawyer who just wants to prove himself to his older brother, Chuck McGill (Michael McKean). In the beginning, Jimmy is very sincere about wanting to be a good man and a good lawyer.Unfortunately, Jimmy just cant escape his roots as a con artist, or the lower expectations that it gives his brother. On the upside, Jimmys darker impulses help him attract Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn), a brilliant lawyer who loses sight of her moral compass when Jimmy is around. This show also explores the backstory of a beloved supporting character, Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks), and the origins of Breaking Bads cartel storyline. Yet its the relationship between Jimmy and Kim that drives this show all the way to the end.Watch Better Call Saul on Netflix.CBS StudiosWhen someone calls NCIS one of the most popular shows on TV, it isnt an exaggeration. Only 15 of the shows 20 seasons are on Netflix, but that should be more than enough for fans of the series. The show follows the agents of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, an agency that has broad authority to look into any crimes relating to the Navy and the Marines.Mark Harmon headlined the show for 18 seasons as the leader of the shows NCIS team, Supervisory Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Over the years, the fan-favorite characters tend to leave after lengthy stays. But the franchise just keeps on going.Watch NCIS on Netflix.StarzOnly five of the six-and-a-half seasons of Outlander are currently on Netflix, but its a great sampler of the hit historical fantasy based on Diana Gabaldons novels. Caitrona Balfe plays Claire Fraser, a married nurse during World War II, who is unexpectedly sent back in time to 1743. With no apparent way home, Claire is forcibly taken in by Clan MacKenzie from the Highlands of Scotland.Despite being married in her own time, Claire marries one of the clan members, Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan), for both protection and for love. While Claire lives with her new extended family, she attempts to remain free from the clans mortal enemy, Jonathan Black Jack Randall (Tobias Menzies), the direct ancestor of Claires husband, Frank Randall (Menzies).Watch Outlander on Netflix.NetflixMindhunter only had a two-season run on Netflix, but this serial killer series was a cut above the rest. A lot of the credit for that has to go to showrunner and creator Joe Penhall and executive producer David Fincher, who helmed several episodes of the show. The series starts in the late 70s when serial killers were known, but not understood. FBI agents Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) and Bill Tench (Holt McCallany), as well as psychologist Wendy Carr (Anna Torv), decide to change that because they believe it will help them track and capture active killers.But to breakdown the mindset of these serial killers, the trio has to actively engage with the murderers that have already been captured. And there are always more monstrous killers running loose that Ford and Tench have to find before they can strike again.Watch Mindhunter on Netflix.Universal TVWe should all have doctors like Max Goodwin (Ryan Eggold), the lead character in New Amsterdam. He blows into New Amsterdam Medical Center like a force of nature on the day he takes over and immediately starts cutting through the red tape and taking advice from the other doctors about how he can help them provide better care for their patients.Maxs personal life isnt as easy to corral. This is a drama after all, and his relationship with Dr. Helen Sharpe (Freema Agyeman) has a lot of ups and downs. But they are far from the only doctors at New Amsterdam with personal entanglements at work. All five seasons of the series are now on Netflix, which makes this show a perfect binge-watch for anyone who wants to see the storylines run from beginning to end.Watch New Amsterdam on Netflix.Sony Pictures TVMost television viewers probably arent aware that S.W.A.T. is a reboot of a TV series that first aired in the 70s. The current show is more modern and deals with the complexities facing both the police and the people of Los Angeles. Thats exemplified through the lead character, Daniel Harrelson (Shemar Moore), who shares a bond with his fellow cops and the ordinary citizens that they are meant to protect.Harrelsons Special Weapons and Tactics team includesJim Street (Alex Russell), David Kay (Jay Harrington), and III Victor Tan (David Lim). This unit goes into the most dangerous situations that ordinary cops cant handle by themselves. And the teams personal lives also add a lot of drama to the show.Watch S.W.A.T. on Netflix.Editors Recommendations