Streaming studio
Netflix
The series and films Netflix made itself, from House of Cards and Squid Game to The Irishman, graded.
Netflix went from mailing DVDs to making the shows everyone argued about in under a decade, and then the films. This collection keeps to what it made itself: no licensed library titles, no series another network aired first, and no finished films it bought. Every one is graded on the scale the rest of the site uses, beside the episodes and the characters people still bring up.
The episodes
The hours people point to when they explain why a streaming show could be as good as anything on air, ranked.
- Two StormsThe Haunting of Hill House, 2018
- Free ChurroBoJack Horseman, 2018
- Episode 3Adolescence, 2025
- GganbuSquid Game, 2021
- AberfanThe Crown, 2019
- Chapter Four: Dear BillyStranger Things, 2022
- End GameThe Queen's Gambit, 2020
- The Monster You CreatedArcane, 2021
The characters
The people the shows are remembered by.
- Stranger Things, 2016ElevenA lab experiment with a shaved head who became the show's conscience.
- Squid Game, 2021Seong Gi-hunPlayer 456: a gambler with nothing left to lose but his decency.
- The Queen's Gambit, 2020Beth HarmonA prodigy playing the board and her own worst habits at the same time.
- BoJack Horseman, 2014BoJack HorsemanA washed-up sitcom horse, and the most honest portrait of depression on television.
- Mindhunter, 2017Ed KemperCourteous, patient and entirely reasonable, which is where the horror lives.
- Ozark, 2017Marty ByrdeA financial planner laundering cartel money one spreadsheet at a time.
- Arcane, 2021JinxA little sister turned into a weapon by everyone who loved her.
- Wednesday, 2022Wednesday AddamsDeadpan as a worldview, and a dance that went everywhere.