With the ever-growing rise of streaming platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney+, there are more and more people choosing to watch their TV predominantly on these services, and who can blame them? These platforms bring out new series and releases every month, with well over a hundred different TV series to watch on each one! However, this can often cause people more difficulty in choosing what to watch rather than the positive of it giving you more choice and chance of finding something that is a niche to you. Due to the large amount of shows and movies on these platforms, you can often find yourself scrolling endlessly trying to find the next good thing to watch, but watching a trailer or reading a description will never be a good enough insight into the show and if you don’t quite like it, because there’s so much you can just continue scrolling. Maybe you’ve also just finished a show you really loved, and you think to yourself that nothing will be able to top that last one and don’t know where to turn to. If this sounds like you and you’re endlessly scrolling trying to find the next great show to immerse yourself in with the drama, then don’t worry, you’ve come to the right place! As today, we’ve made a list of the best drama series, specifically on Netflix. The best way to watch these shows is on a large screen TV, mounted to the wall for the best viewing experience. For professional TV mounting, click here.
Ozark
This show is now finished with 4 pretty jam-packed seasons so there’s plenty of watching and you don’t need to wait to finish the show to its conclusion point. Telling the story of The Byrdes and their teenagers Charlotte and Jonah, who provide the image of an ordinary family leading an ordinary life, which for the most part they are. Except that Marty, a Chicago financial planner and husband/father, is also the second-largest drug gang in Mexico’s top money launderer. When things go wrong, he has to move his family away from the Chicago skyscrapers and into the Missouri Ozarks’ quiet lake area. The story takes numerous twists and turns with Marty using different methods and places for his money laundering scheme, as the family get in some trouble with the locals of the Ozarks and the Cartel! This show is full of surprises and suspense, and with its storyline, it definitely makes it onto this list for the best drama series.
All of Us are Dead
This Korean series, makes it into the list for the best drama series, following on from the most recent popular Korean Dystopian series, Squid Game, this one looked to be the next big one in that line, and it doesn’t fail! For the pupils of a Korean high school, the day had been typical—that is, until a kid came back from the science lab afflicted with an unidentified illness. While his kids battle to survive until aid arrives, the military urgently questions the mad science teacher who began it all as the illness spreads outside of the school and throughout the region.
Midnight Mass
This series is a mix between drama and horror but still makes it on the list for the best drama series, with just how dramatic and tense the series is. The story of a small, remote island town whose already-existing divides are exacerbated by the entrance of a charismatic priest and the return of a disgraced young man. A newfound religious enthusiasm sweeps the village when Father Paul shows up on Crockett Island at the same time as mysterious and seemingly miraculous occurrences. But might these miracles come with a cost? This series surrounds the theme of religion, with it turning dark and twisted towards the end, this show is not for the faint hearted! However, it is a brilliant watch.
Behind Her eyes
The single mother Louise’s world is turned upside down when she has an affair with her new boss, David, and things become even crazier when she forms an unusual relationship with his wife, Adele. Behind Her Eyes tells her story. When Louise becomes entangled in a dangerous web of secrets where nobody is as they appear, what begins as an unusual love triangle quickly turns into a dark, psychological story of suspense and twisted disclosures. This series focuses on lucid dreaming and how it can be used in darker ways, with the ending being extra dramatic, this show is another must-watch!
Ratched
Starring Sarah Paulson, who is infamous for playing parts in dramatic and suspenseful series, does her part for this series again as this is the final entry on our list of the best drama series. The genesis tale of asylum nurse Mildred Ratched is told in the thrilling drama series Ratched. Mildred travels to Northern California in 1947 to look for work at a prestigious mental health facility where new, ominous experiments on the human mind have just started. The wheels are always turning, and as Mildred begins to infiltrate the mental health care system and those within it, her fashionable exterior belies the growing darkness that has long been building within, revealing that true monsters are made, not born. On a covert mission, Mildred presents herself as the ideal representation of what a dedicated nurse should be.
