The Best Netflix Original Drama Shows
Here are the best Netflix original drama shows currently streaming right now. Featuring historical dramas, murder mysteries, and crime dramas, this list of Netflix drama originals is updated with new and popular shows. What is the best Netflix original drama series?
The latest and newest Netflix original drama shows feature Hollywood's biggest stars, like Claire Foy, Jason Bateman, Pedro Pascal, and Robin Wright. Must-watch Netflix original dramas include House of Cards, The Crown, Narcos, You, and 13 Reasons Why.
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- Tom Ellis, Lauren German
Premiered: January 25, 2016
Lucifer (Netflix, 2016) is an American fantasy police procedural comedy-drama television series developed by Tom Kapinos. The series revolves around Lucifer Morningstar (Tom Ellis), the Devil, who ...more - Cillian Murphy, Helen McCrory
Premiered: September 12, 2013
A gangster drama located in the streets of post-war Birmingham on the verge of the 1920s. ...more - Lee Jung-jae, Park Hae-soo
Premiered: September 17, 2021
Squid Game (Netflix, 2021) is a South Korean action thriller television series. Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games with deadly high stakes ...more - Jeff Wilbusch, Amit Rahav
Premiered: March 26, 2020
Unorthodox (Netflix, 2020) is a German drama television series created by Anna Winger and directed by Maria Schrader based on the novel of the same name by Deborah Feldman. It follows the story of a ...more - Anya Taylor-Joy, Marielle Heller
Premiered: October 23, 2020
The Queen's Gambit (Netflix, 2020) is an American drama miniseries based on the 1983 novel by Walter Tevis. Following her life from eight to 22 years old, the show centers on orphan chess prodigy ...more - Christina Applegate, Linda Cardellini
Premiered: May 3, 2019
Dead to Me (Netflix, 2019) is an American dark comedy web television series created by Liz Feldman. After the murder of her husband, tightly wound widow, Jen (Christina Applegate) meets Judy (Linda ...more - Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany
Premiered: October 13, 2017
Mindhunter (Netflix, 2017) is an American crime thriller television series created by Joe Penhall, based on the true crime book by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker. FBI agents Holden Ford (Jonathan ...more - Olivia Colman, Tobias Menzies
Premiered: November 4, 2016
The Crown (Netflix, 2016) is an American-British biographical drama series created by Peter Morgan. A young Queen Elizabeth II's (Claire Foy) political rivalries and romances guide the events that ...more - Penn Badgley, Victoria Pedretti
Premiered: September 9, 2018
You (Lifetime, 2018) is an American television drama series created by Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble, based on the novel by Caroline Kepnes. A clever bookstore manager (Penn Badgley) relies on his ...more - Henry Cavill, Anya Chalotra
Premiered: December 20, 2019
The Witcher (Netflix, 2019) is a fantasy action-adventure series based on the series of short stories and novels by Andrzej Sapkowski. Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill), a solitary monster hunter, ...more - Alex Lawther, Jessica Barden
Premiered: October 24, 2017
The End of the F***ing World (Netflix, 2018) is an eight-part British absurdist dark comedy-drama television series, based on the comic series by Charles S. Forsman. 17-year-old James (Alex Lawther) ...more - Pedro Pascal, Arturo Castro
Premiered: August 28, 2015
Narcos (Netflix, 2015) is an American drama web-television series created by Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard, and Doug Miro. A chronicled look at the exploits of Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar ...more - Jason Bateman, Laura Linney
Premiered: July 21, 2017
Ozark (Netflix, 2017) is an American crime drama series created by Bill Dubuque. Financial planner Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman) must suddenly relocate his family (Laura Linney) from Chicago to a ...more - Chase Stokes, Madelyn Cline
Premiered: April 15, 2020
Outer Banks (Netflix, 2020) is an American drama series created by created by Jonas Pate, Josh Pate and Shannon Burke. A group of teenagers from the wrong side of the tracks stumble upon a treasure ...more - Kyle Chandler, Sissy Spacek
Premiered: March 20, 2015
Bloodline (Netflix, 2015) is an American thriller drama web television series created by Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler, and Daniel Zelman. A family of adult siblings find their past secrets and ...more - Richard Madden, Keeley Hawes
Premiered: August 26, 2018
Bodyguard (Netflix, 2018) is a British television political thriller drama series created by Jed Mercurio. Police Sergeant David Budd (Richard Madden), a heroic British Army war-veteran suffering ...more - Elliot Page, Tom Hopper
Premiered: February 15, 2019
The Umbrella Academy (Netflix, 2019) is an American television series developed by Steve Blackman, based on the comic book series by Gerard Way. A disbanded group of superheroes reunite after their ...more Shtisel
Dov Glickman, Michael AloniPremiered: June 29, 2013
Shtisel (yes Oh, 2013) is an Israeli television drama series about a fictional Haredi Jewish family living in Geula, Jerusalem. Akiva and Shulem Shtisel, father and son, sit on a little balcony ...more- Richard Armitage, Jennifer Saunders
Premiered: January 30, 2020
The Stranger (Netflix, 2020) is a British mystery thriller series based on the novel by Harlan Coben. A mysterious stranger (Hannah John-Kamen) goes around exposing secrets and lies, destroying the ...more - Jeff Daniels, Michelle Dockery
Premiered: November 22, 2017
Godless (Netflix, 2017) is an American drama series created by Scott Frank. Roy Goode (Jack O'Connell) is an outlaw on the run from his former boss, the outlaw Frank Griffin (Jeff Daniels), who took ...more - Robert Taylor, Lou Diamond Phillips
Premiered: June 3, 2012
Based on the Walt Longmire mystery novels by best-selling author Craig Johnson, this contemporary crime drama stars Australian actor Robert Taylor in the title role, the charismatic and dedicated ...more - Taylor Schilling, Natasha Lyonne
Premiered: July 11, 2013
Orange Is the New Black (Netflix, 2013) is an American comedy-drama web television series created by Jenji Kohan, based on the memoir by Piper Kerman. Convicted of a decade old crime of transporting ...more - Sacha Baron Cohen, Noah Emmerich
Premiered: September 6, 2019
The Spy (Netflix, 2019) is a television miniseries written and directed by Gideon Raff. Based on Eli Cohen's (Sacha Baron Cohen) life as Israel's top Mossad spy in Syria. ...more - Sophia Lillis, Wyatt Oleff
Premiered: February 26, 2020
I Am Not Okay With This (Netflix, 2020) is an American coming-of-age drama television series created, directed, written, and executive produced by Jonathan Entwistle and Christy Hall. Sydney (Sophia ...more
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