Netflix: what are the 10 best series on the streaming platform?

With more than 2,300 series in its catalog, it can be difficult to choose the right series to watch on Netflix. The digital ones is here to help you separate the wheat from the chaff and has selected for you the 10 best series, produced or not by Netflix, to watch on the streaming platform.

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Netflix is ​​an application and paid subscription service that provides access to an online library of several thousand movies, series, documentaries, shows and television shows.

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• Release date: 09/14/2023

• Author: Netflix, Inc.

• License: Free license

• Categories: Video – Leisure

• Operating System: Android, Online Service, Windows 10/11, iOS iPhone/iPad

This article is regularly updated with the crème de la crème of the streaming service, as well as our latest favorites. This month, this is the miniseries. tapie.

What are the best series to watch on Netflix?

tapie

From singer to businessman, from minister to prisoner, Bernard Tapie has experienced it all. Through his successes and failures, the series traces the incredible destiny of an extraordinary personality.

The creators Olivier Demangel (November, Black Baron) and Tristán Séguéla (destiny one) know the subject well and it shows. In seven episodes, like so many facets of the character (personal, political, sports…), they capture us in a captivating portrait, between shadow and light. If it lacks incisiveness on the substance, tapie It remains a miniseries of formidable effectiveness, with fine writing and brilliant production. With a quality cast, it also owes a lot to an impressive Laurent Lafitte.

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The rest of our selection.

Analgesic

This drama exposes the causes and consequences of the opioid crisis in the United States by following its perpetrators, their victims and a lawyer who wants to expose the truth.

Analgesic offers a stunning dive into the cruel world of the pharmaceutical industry and the irreparable damage its greed can cause, through the OxyContin scandal. Through a choral and exciting story, which mixes points of view on this scandal, the series created by the duo Micah Fitzerman-Blue / Noah Harpster (Transparent) catches us without letting go throughout its six episodes. The impeccable casting ends up earning our support. Not to be missed.

black mirror

Dark and satirical, black mirror continues to examine our anxieties, fears and flaws through five new stories that unravel our ambiguous relationship with screens and technology, but also with our own morality.

Created in 2011, the series has established itself as one of the most corrosive, addictive and successful series of its time. This anthology that mixes dystopia, black humor and satire has brilliantly painted a portrait of our contemporary anxieties. The sixth and final season, released June 15 on Netflix, reinvents the formula, tries horror and science fiction and offers tasty new stories. If, of course, it remains uneven, black mirror It remains an essential program.

Relentless

This series chronicles the aftermath of a violent driving altercation between two complete strangers. Danny Cho, a struggling entrepreneur full of bitterness, faces off against Amy Lau, a colorful self-made businesswoman. Her plot gradually takes on disproportionate proportions.

Everyone loses their temper sometimes… And that is the starting point of this new series of ten episodes tinged with corrosive black humor. Mixing drama and comedy, Relentless (BEEF on VO) faces Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead, No) and Ali Wong (You will always be my maybe) for a confrontation he hired Lee Sung Jin, the talented scriptwriter of the series. 2 broke girls and It’s always sunny in Philadelphia. It’s dark, funny, gonzo like it should be and it feels good.

Breaking Bad

Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has terminal lung cancer. He joins forces with Jesse Pinkman, a former student, dimwit, drug addict and dealer, to secure his family’s financial future after his death. The unlikely duo will then synthesize and market the purest crystal methamphetamine ever seen in the Americas.

Breaking Bad It is considered by many to be one of the best series of all time. And there are arguments to back it up: an impressive immersion in the world of drug cartels, a nervous and accomplished story, twists and turns galore, characters each crazier than the last and actors at the peak of their talent. A series that has not stolen its cult status.

Arcane

The series offers a dive into the delicate balance between the prosperous city of Piltover and the underbelly of Zaun. Two events fuel tensions between these two city-states: the creation of Hextech in Piltover, which allows anyone to control magical energy; and the development of a new drug in Zaun, which turns humans into monsters. This rivalry between cities divides families and friends.

With its stylized aesthetic that mixes 3D and 2D in the service of a nervous and inventive production, the series Arcane It’s incredibly beautiful and has art direction to die for. The twisted sequences contrast with the more intimate stories of the show’s many characters. If we are fans of League of Legends Or not Arcane It is a success in every sense, an ambitious and generous series and a visual slap in the face. A recent favorite of the editorial team.

Formula 1: Pilots of their destiny

This new season offers fans front-row seats to witness the preparations of the drivers and teams that will compete in the 2022 FIA Formula 1 World Championship.

The recipe has been the same for four seasons, but it still works just as well. Never-before-seen footage, interviews, behind-the-scenes and plenty of drama, all produced by Oscar winner James Gay-Rees. Amy) and Paul Martin (the magnificent documentary Diego Maradona). This fifth season of Formula 1: drivers of their destiny It does not reinvent the gunpowder, but it proves (once again) that sport can offer one of the best series in the world, exciting, moving and enough to keep you hooked during its 10 new episodes. Formidable.

Wednesday

The series follows the adventures of Wednesday Addams, now a student at Nevermore Academy. While learning to master her new psychic powers, the young woman must also thwart a series of monstrous murders terrorizing the city and solve the mystery her parents were involved in 25 years ago, while painfully trying to establish new relationships within Nevermore.

Wednesday He brilliantly juggles criminal investigation, secret society and heart problems, not to mention an ambitious intrigue that mixes family secrets and historical traumas. An excellent surprise with complex and endearing characters, a fast-paced story full of twists and a nervous rhythm that never gets boring. A generous and deliciously macabre series that will please both rebellious teenagers and their confused parents, as well as fans of well-crafted puzzles.

Peaky Blinders

In 1919, in Birmingham, the Shelby family enjoyed a notorious reputation. Nicknamed the “Peaky Blinders”, its members earn their income primarily from gambling and theft. Tommy Shelby, the most dangerous of all, will have to fight to impose his dominance and become the leader of the underworld.

Peaky Blinders It is a series with a unique identity, accompanied by a particularly successful soundtrack, which wonderfully transcribes the violent and dirty atmosphere of England in the middle of the last century. A captivating and dazzling dive into the history of English banditry and beyond, packed with twists and turns. Above all, its cast of “mouths” as detestable as they are charismatic, with Cillian Murphy at the helm, hooks the viewer throughout the six seasons of the series without ever letting go.

Strange things

When a boy goes missing in the small town of Hawkins, his family and friends set out to find him. They will discover a mysterious adventure, secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces… and a girl with supernatural powers. An event that will trigger a war between our world and the dark and nightmarish world of the Upside Down.

How not to include Strange things on this top? This love letter to Amblin productions and the 80s has found its own identity over the years and offers an exciting and original story. The series also owes a lot to its gallery of endearing characters, and its beautiful narrative and visual ambition. While waiting for a fifth and final season, Strange things It is established as THE series for an entire generation fed by Netflix. An inevitable phenomenon.