The 50 Best TV Shows on Netflix Right Now

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Sign up for our Watching Newsletter to get recommendations on the best films and TV shows to stream and watch, delivered to your inbox.Netflix adds original programming at such a steady clip that it can be hard to keep up with which of its dramas, comedies and reality shows are must-sees. And that’s not including all the TV series Netflix picks up from broadcast and cable networks. Below is our regularly updated guide to the 50 best shows on Netflix in the United States, ranked alphabetically. Each recommendation comes with a secondary pick, too, for 100 suggestions in all. (Note: Netflix sometimes removes titles without notice.)Here are our lists of the best movies on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, along with the best TV and movies on Hulu and Disney Plus.

This intense thriller was co-created by its lead actor, Lior Raz, who plays an IDF agent drawn out of retirement by the prospect of taking down a terrorist he thought he’d already killed. That one mission leads to unexpected complications and further side operations, some of them involving the hero’s going undercover with his adversaries. The matter-of-fact scenarios in “Fauda” are an attempt to reflect the tricky politics and daily sacrifices of crimefighting in Israel. Our critic wrote that its story “spirals out in increasingly messy strands of betrayal and violence.” (For another crime drama about cultures in conflict, try “Giri/Haji.”)

In the British reality series “The Repair Shop,” a team of skilled tinkerers, carpenters and restorers offer their services to people whose family heirlooms are broken. A concentrated half-hour of happiness, each episode features fine details about how to fix old gadgets and furniture, with an emotional payoff when the customers see their parents and grandparents' old treasures, looking as good as new. In a Times article about the comfort of low-intensity BBC programming during times of trouble, Amie Tsang called this show “gentle escapism.” (For more fascinating scenes of craftsmen at work, watch “Blown Away,” a reality competition for glass-blowers.)

The Emmy-winning television writer and producer Rod Serling said he created this creepy science-fiction anthology series in part because he was tired of having TV executives nix the social commentary in his scripts. With “The Twilight Zone,” Serling and a handful of top fantasy writers riffed on paranoia, prejudice, greed and alienation in twisty stories about inexplicable supernatural phenomena. Some of the best episodes have stuck with viewers for decades, coloring the way they see the world. In a Times appreciation, the writer Brian Tallerico called the show, “an indelible part of the cultural lexicon.” (For a 21st century spin on “The Twilight Zone,” watch “Black Mirror.”)