The streaming giant regularly updates its vast library, adding TV shows and films for your binge-watching pleasure and removing those it no longer has the rights to stream. Mix in the huge number of original series and films Netflix debuts each weekend, and there s a ton of programming to sort through if you re just looking for something new to offer distraction and calm amid a crazy world.
We have curated the best of the TV shows Netflix has available to stream as of June 2021 (in alphabetical order), from its smart new originals to absolute TV classics.
1. “Alias Grace”
Starring Sarah Gadon and Anna Paquin, this dizzyingly beautiful adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel about a historical murderess is haunting in its storytelling. The miniseries far outpaces, in both style and substance, the more famous Atwood adaptation on Hulu.
1/1/2021
After moving from YouTube to Netflix, the Karate Kid sequel returns for a third season featuring some familiar faces from the film franchise.
If the creative team behind
Cobra Kai were complacent, the
Karate Kid sequel probably would have just been a five-minute short on Funny or Die. What if Johnny, the vicious Aryan heartthrob villain from The Karate Kid, were actually the hero? Pretty funny, right? The end.
Probably ambitious still isn t the first word you would ever use to describe Cobra Kai, a half-hour dramedy that represents the precarious nature of Peak TV in that a bona fide breakout from a fledgling streaming service YouTube Red turned YouTube Premium still couldn t avoid getting cut adrift before moving to the higher-profile climes of Netflix. And yet the gap between baseline expectations (very, very low) and aspirations (not nearly as low, if not exactly