A new month has begun, but it remains much of the same at the top of the U.S. Netflix charts. The Boroughs, the latest project from Stranger Things creators the Duffer Brothers, is once again one of the most-watched shows in the country, after it was revealed in a report that the series has hit 35 million hours viewed in three days of release. However, the most-watched show on Netflix in the U.S. is The Four Seasons, an adaptation of the 1981 movie of the same name, which returned for its Steve Carell-less second season last week. But what about the rest of this streamer’s vast catalog? To help you decide, here’s a list of three shows you should binge-watch on Netflix.
Disclaimer: These titles are available on US Netflix.
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‘Hawaii Five-0’ (2010ā2020)
Rotten Tomatoes: 73% | IMDb: 7.4/10
At a time when reboots of old favorites are hugely common, it’s easy to assume they are low-risk. However, in 2010, to reboot a show as beloved as Hawaii Five-0 was a huge risk, although one that would pay off for CBS. Now, 16 years on since it debuted and six years since it officially came to an end, you can catch the first five seasons of this slick revival on Netflix.
After returning home to find his father’s killer, United States Navy officer Steve McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) is tasked with setting up his own crime-fighting group: Five-0. Featuring over 240 episodes, of which roughly half are available to stream on Netflix, the Hawaii Five-0 reboot will keep you busy for the next few weeks. During its decade-long run, the show won an impressive four Primetime Emmys, as well as securing countless other prizes and nominations.
Collider Exclusive Ā· Action Hero Quiz Which Action Hero Would Be Your Perfect Partner? Rambo Ā· James Bond Ā· Indiana Jones Ā· John McClane Ā· Ethan Hunt
Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive ā with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back.
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You’re dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner? The first few seconds tell you everything about who belongs beside you.
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You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel? How you get there is half the mission.
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You’re pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do? This is when you find out what someone is really made of.
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The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest? Who someone is when the pressure drops is who they actually are.
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How do you prefer your partner to communicate mid-mission? Good communication is the difference between partners and a liability.
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Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them? The approach to the enemy defines the partnership.
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Things go badly wrong and you’re captured. What do you trust your partner to do? Who someone is when you need them most is the only thing that matters.
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What does your ideal partner bring to the table that you couldn’t replace? A great partner fills the gap you didn’t know you had.
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Every partnership has a cost. Which of these can you live with? No one comes without baggage. The question is whether you can carry it together.
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It’s the final moment. Everything is on the line. What do you need from your partner right now? The last question is the most honest one.
Your Partner Has Been Assigned Your Perfect Partner Isā¦
Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back ā for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
Rambo
Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics ā he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable ā one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
James Bond
Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters ā and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters ā when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing ā Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
Indiana Jones
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible ā but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable ā and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
John McClane
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema ā a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
Ethan Hunt
Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability ā technically, physically, and intellectually ā and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him ā and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
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‘A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder’ (2024āPresent)
Rotten Tomatoes: 86% | IMDb: 6.8/10
Right now, production on Wednesday Season 3 is well underway, with hopes high that it won’t be long before we return to Nevermore Academy. To keep you entertained in the meantime, one of the show’s stars has returned with a second season of her hit British detective series. Available to binge in full now, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is also currently one of the 10 most-watched Netflix shows in the world.
Based on Holly Jackson‘s popular book trilogy, the series follows Emma Myers as Pip Fitz-Amobi, as her investigation into the mysterious murder of a local schoolgirl leads to her discovery that she has a talent for crime-solving. With the second season adapting the beloved second installment in the novel trilogy, Good Girl, Bad Blood, there are few shows right now worth binge-watching more than A Good Girl’s Guide to Murderāāāāā.
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‘Never Have I Ever’ (2020ā2023)
Rotten Tomatoes: 94% | IMDb: 7.8/10
Who doesn’t love a coming-of-age comedy? With an abundance of the genre available on Netflix, why not pick out this Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher-created gem? Never Have I Ever follows Devi Vishwakumar (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan), a first-generation Indian-American teenager, who must battle the usual struggles of teen angst on the cusp of adulthood, whilst also balancing an understanding of her cultural position in a divided America.
A charming, hilarious, emotionally poignant series boasting several memorable performances, this is Kaling’s mind at its best. A breakthrough series for South Asian representation in mainstream America, Never Have I Ever is often compared to The Summer I Turned Pretty, offering the perfect replacement for the Prime Video favorite ahead of its feature film return.
