Netflix subscribers have been spoilt for choice in recent months. From the historical drama House of Guinness from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight to crime drama Black Rabbit starring Jude Law and Jason Bateman. It’s no wonder TV fans may be overwhelmed with options.
Netflix’s wide range of TV shows means there’s something for everyone: true crime fans may be interested in Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, while romance fans should give Bridgerton a go. The streaming platform also boasts fan favourites, including the historical drama The Crown and the comedy drama Sex Education.
We’ve put together this guide to help you decide what’s worth watching from Netflix’s vast catalogue in April. If it’s raining and miserable over Easter, grab the controller, that sneaky box of chocolate eggs and chillax.
Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen
Horror, one season, 2026
With Stranger Things done and dusted, its creators, the Duffer brothers, are the executive producers of this new twisty genre offering, an eight-part absurdist horror story that begins as a road movie before morphing into a modern-day retelling of The Old Dark House. Centred around Rachel and Nicky (Camila Morrone and Adam DiMarco) and their impending marriage in the mansion of Nicky’s eccentric matriarch (Jennifer Jason Leigh), it has the feel of a nerve-racking Charlie Kaufman narrative that is edging towards a disturbing denouement.
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
Drama, one-off movie, 2026
Rock’n’roll swagger, flat caps and pop history return, as Steven Knight brings his TV series Peaky Blinders back for some rollicking feature-film high jinks. It’s 1940 and the rogue Blinder Duke Shelby (Barry Keoghan) is in cahoots with the Nazis while his estranged father, Tommy (Cillian Murphy), has retreated to a ghostly mansion. If only Tommy would return to the Peakies… Does the film work? The top-tier acting duo of Murphy and Keoghan brings unexpected poignancy to an otherwise familiar Oedipal clash and it begins with Tim Roth hissing to camera, “Heil f***ing Hitler.” Game on.
Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere
Documentary, one-off, 2026
Louis Theroux enters a world where a man’s biceps are a direct indicator of his worth — along with his bank account, his success with women and his Matrix-inspired ability to see the “truth” — and being a successful documentary-maker doesn’t make the grade. Theroux takes a strong line on this ultra-masculine global community radicalising young men, meeting the Andrew Tate-style influencers who are pushing not only financial products but also extreme misogyny, conspiracy theories, violent pranks and antisemitism. Parents of boys should be as freaked out as parents of girls as Theroux shows how these Matrix-obsessed men behave.
The Dinosaurs
Natural history, one season, 2026
After the mixed reception to Life on Our Planet, his previous Netflix natural history series, the executive producer Steven Spielberg has scaled this one back to give the people what they want: more scales! Narrated (once more) by Morgan Freeman, this new CGI-animated documentary series promises to tell the story of “nature’s greatest empire”. If you have already seen the David Attenborough-narrated Prehistoric Planet you know what to expect, a visually stunning rise-and-fall palaeontology lesson, just with a lot more hyperbole and loud toothy combat.
How to Get to Heaven from Belfast
Comedy drama, one season, 2026
Lisa McGee’s follow-up to Derry Girls begins with three friends receiving an email. Saoirse (Roísín Gallagher), Robyn (Sinéad Keenan) and Dara (Caoilfhionn Dunne) — who are in their late thirties, so slightly younger than those 1990s teenagers would be now — are told that Greta, an estranged member of their group, has died in an Irish village. They drive there together, and are already finding its atmosphere unsettling when an accident at the wake reveals the body in the coffin is not Greta’s. The trio flee, vowing to solve the double puzzle of her disappearance and the corpse’s identity.
Bridgerton
Period drama, four seasons, 2020-
The housekeepers throw back the curtains on this fourth series of faux-Austeniana, its glorious nonsense and sensibility based on the novels of Julia Quinn. Benedict (Luke Thompson) dances into the spotlight, his rakish sexual tastes not quite fitting the spare-heir future Lady Bridgerton (Ruth Gemmell) has mapped out for her son. Can the appearance of a Cinderella figure (Yerin Ha) at his mother’s masquerade ball draw him back into polite society?
Take That
Docuseries, one-off, 2024
“Nothing beats being in a band,” says Gary Barlow at the start of this three-part documentary about the rise, fall and resurrection of Take That. The film briefly confirms his point, with hugely evocative early-1990s footage showing Barlow and his bandmates — Robbie Williams, Howard Donald, Mark Owen and Jason Orange — larking about backstage like leather-trousered puppies. Yet what Williams calls “the golden ticket… your one chance to not f*** your life up” quickly tarnishes as jealousy, ego, fame and — for the obsessive songwriter Barlow — the pressure to write more hits, pushes the band towards a messy implosion.
Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials
Crime drama, one season, 2026
The former Doctor Who showrunner and Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall has adapted Agatha Christie’s 1929 novel The Seven Dials Mystery for Netflix, sensibly swerving the overfamiliarities of Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple for a story that revolves around the plucky young aristocrat Lady Eileen “Bundle” Brent (Mia McKenna-Bruce). She is forced to turn detective after a clock-related death at a grand house party. With Helena Bonham Carter as Bundle’s mother, Lady Caterham, Martin Freeman as Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard and an excess of elegant country-house glamour, it ticks along in high-class style.
Stranger Things
Sci-fi fantasy, five seasons, 2016-2026
After ten years, more than a billion views and a level of fandom not seen since Game of Thrones, Stranger Things is done, and its final season was never going to be anything less than a monumental epic. How else do you see off a world-threatening tendrilled ghoul named Vecna once and for all? Overblown, frantic, monstrous, sentimental, perceptive — everything Stranger Things can be, it pretty much was. What a mad rollercoaster this pop-cultural behemoth has been. The long, tear-drenched coda is hugely satisfying, with the 1980s charm, the humour and the coming-of-age sentiment back again.
Emily in Paris
Romantic comedy, five seasons, 2020-
It’s been five years since we first met the fish-out-of-water American marketing executive Emily Cooper (Lily Collins) as she struggled to negotiate the baroque boulevards of Parisian culture. Little changed in the half-decade that followed. Her life remained glamorous, her relationships complicated, her French terrible. But, wait! For season five everyone has moved to Rome. Have no fear — the grand costumes and the romantic entanglements are as wild as ever, even if the views are different. And the whole thing slides by with the same effortless decadent charm.
The Beast in Me
Thriller, one season, 2025
There can be few better actors working today than Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys. To have them acting opposite each other is treat enough, but what if they were also starring in one of the TV thrillers of the year? Danes plays Aggie Wiggs, a trauma-blocked author whose world is turned upside down by the arrival of a new neighbour, Nile Jarvis (Rhys), a cold and calculating property mogul who possibly murdered his first wife. If that sounds like familiar Harlan Coben fare, take note: this is a gold-standard crime drama that outfoxes the canny viewer, replete with two central performances that crackle with dangerous energy.
Nobody Wants This
Rom-com, two seasons, 2024-
Noah (Adam Brody) and Joanne (Kristen Bell) are living together as the rom-com’s second series begins, and the rabbi and the non-Jewish podcaster now want to throw a dinner party bringing together their siblings and friends — amid scepticism about whether their love will survive from people as different as Morgan (Justine Lupe), Joanne’s possibly jealous sister and podmate, and members of Noah’s congregation. Inevitably the feast is a fiasco, recalling disastrous meals in Curb Your Enthusiasm, but where everyone around the table is acting like Larry David. The worst moment is a disagreement between the hosts as to whether the agnostic Joanne has agreed to convert. That this is no laughing matter is shown by a later scene at the synagogue, where Noah is reminded that he can’t win promotion to senior rabbi with a shiksa girlfriend.
The Diplomat
Political thriller, three seasons, 2023-
Hurrah! One of TV’s snappiest political thrillers is back for a third season. Apart from Keri Russell’s beguiling central performance as Kate Wyler, our smart yet slobby US ambassador to the UK, Debora Cahn’s soapy serial is awash with attractions, from a flawless supporting cast to dialogue that zings with snappy, self-aware wit. Season two ended with a shocking departure and a surprise arrival. On the strength of the first two episodes, season three is not about to slow down any time soon.
House of Guinness
Period drama, one season, 2025
If you had to imagine how Steven Knight would remake Succession, you might guess that the Peaky Blinders creator would turn it into a costume drama, with the rich behaving sleazily and men in caps causing mayhem (plus striking and eclectic music, of course). And that’s what we get with his succession saga about the Dublin dynasty. Guests at Benjamin Guinness’s funeral in 1868 — in this show the patriarch is already dead — are greeted by his heirs: Arthur (Anthony Boyle), Edward (Louis Partridge), Anne (Emily Fairn) and Benjamin (Fionn O’Shea). Meanwhile, Fenian rebels are marching, and later set barrels ablaze. It’s an enthralling opener, but maybe too many characters are introduced. Among those who stand out are James Norton’s Sean — the family’s enforcer and the closest thing to Tommy Shelby — and Niamh McCormack’s Ellen, a Fenian spy.
Black Rabbit
Drama, one season, 2025
Jake (Jude Law) is the driven, charismatic boss of a vibrant big-city restaurant named after an animal, who dreams of leading an easier life running a fine-dining eatery with richer customers. Sounds familiar? Black Rabbit seems so keen to offer itself as a New York version of The Bear that it even borrows tropes such as a gifted black female chef and a tense evening when a key reviewer shows up. Perhaps it’s also indebted to BBC2’s drama Guilt, as back into Jake’s world after a sojourn in Nevada comes his ne’er-do-well brother Vince (Jason Bateman), who — we know this but his sibling doesn’t — has killed a crook who robbed him, and owes $140,000 to loan sharks. Short-staffed on the night the New York Times critic is in, Jake gives him a temporary job on his team — an arrangement that is unlikely to go well.
Wednesday
Supernatural drama, two seasons, 2023-
The second batch of season two episodes picks up where its finale left us: Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday was pushed through a window by Tyler and seriously injured, perhaps killed. But is this a suspenseful “cliffhanger”? Netflix recently announced that there will be a third series, which is unlikely to happen without the title character; and anyway it takes a lot to kill someone in this show without any chance of them making a comeback. That’s demonstrated in the second part by the resurrection of Weems (Gwendoline Christie) as a spirit guide. With the mystery of the crow murders now solved, we can expect the drama to become more of a thriller and less of a whodunnit. Lady Gaga is due to appear and should fit in well in Nevermore’s unhinged version of Hogwarts.
Hostage
Thriller, one season, 2025
It’s been seven years since Jed Mercurio’s thriller Bodyguard starring Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes set everyone talking about “kompromat” as if their day job also involved snipers and Cobra meetings. This new drama from the Bridge of Spies co-writer Matt Charman is unlikely to blow up quite so explosively at the watercooler, but it does have a dynamic power of its own. Suranne Jones plays the embattled British prime minister Abigail Dalton, desperately trying to solve an NHS-wide shortage of cancer drugs by striking a deal with the right-veering French president Vivienne Toussaint (Julie Delpy). When Dalton’s husband is kidnapped in French Guiana, the priorities of their summit shift — although it soon transpires that Toussaint has vulnerabilities of her own.
KPop Demon Hunters
Animated musical, 2025
The breakout Netflix hit of 2025, this joyous animated musical tells the simple tale of the popular South Korean girl group Huntr/x, who use their chart-topping antics as a cover for the fact that they are a trio of demon slayers, tasked with defending humanity for all eternity. Gorgeous to look at, and bursting with ridiculously catchy pop songs, KPop Demon Hunters also offers an object lesson in how to tell a fantasy story speedily and economically, with no tiresome excursions into ponderous lore. A sequel is promised, but can we have a proper series next?
Too Much
Rom-com, one season, 2025
After discovering her long-term boyfriend in bed with an influencer, Jess (Megan Stalter) quits Brooklyn for London as Lena Dunham’s series opens. There her expectations are unhelpfully shaped by Jane Austen, the Brontës, Merchant Ivory and Nineties and early-Noughties movies such as “British Jones’s Diary”. But instead of finding “my Mr Darcy, my Rochester, my Alan Rickman” she runs into Felix (Will Sharpe), a droll indie musician, in a pub loo. It’s clearly relevant that Dunham’s husband, Luis Felber, is a British indie musician and credited as Too Much’s co-creator. Like Girls, this playful, messy take on the Anglo-American rom-com features fine lines, excellent music choices and a stellar supporting cast, including, in the opener, Emily Ratajkowski (as the influencer), Jessica Alba (as herself) and Rhea Perlman.
Squid Game
Survival drama, three seasons, 2021-25
No one, not even Netflix, expected this South Korean dystopian horror to become one of the biggest shows ever on the platform when it launched in 2021. Four years and a second series later, there’s a great deal of expectation resting on this final chapter. It picks up where the second left off, with Gi-hun’s (Lee Jung-jae) rebellion on the point of failure, let down by the cowardice of one miserable soul. So the games will continue but with a weakened cohort of the frightened, elderly and self-interested players, which means the double-crossing Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) will require something spectacular for the VIPs who are soon to arrive on the island. The face-off between the Front Man and Gi-hun might appear to be a simple battle between evil and good, but will Squid Game have something more to teach us about humanity?