tier list ·

Every drama title on Netflix, tiered from S to D

20 ranked. 1 made S-tier.

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We scored Netflix's drama catalogue and sorted it into tiers. S-tier means the ratings are near-unanimous. D-tier means the numbers are telling you something the trailer is not.

1

Breaking Bad

BN 88.42008

Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.

S-tier (Essential) · Streaming on Netflix

2

Better Call Saul

BN 84.72015

Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix

3

Peaky Blinders

BN 83.92013

A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix

4

Anne with an E

BN 83.447m2017

A coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890s, who, after an abusive childhood spent in orphanages and the homes of strangers, is mistakenly sent to live with an elderly woman and her aging brother. Over time, 13-year-old Anne will transform their lives and eventually the small town in which they live with her unique spirit, fierce intellect and brilliant imagination.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix

5

The Umbrella Academy

BN 832019

Reunited by their father's death, estranged siblings with extraordinary powers uncover shocking family secrets — and a looming threat to humanity.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix

6

Riverdale

BN 82.945m2017

Set in the present, the series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome facade.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix

7

Dark

BN 82.42017

A missing child sets four families on a frantic hunt for answers as they unearth a mind-bending mystery that spans three generations.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix

8

Grave of the Fireflies

BN 82.41h 29m1988

In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix

9

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

BN 823h 10m1995

Raj is a rich, carefree, happy-go-lucky second generation NRI. Simran is the daughter of Chaudhary Baldev Singh, who in spite of being an NRI is very strict about adherence to Indian values. Simran has left for India to be married to her childhood fiancé. Raj leaves for India with a mission at his hands, to claim his lady love under the noses of her whole family. Thus begins a saga.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix

10

Grey's Anatomy

BN 81.92005

Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle's Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Hulu, Netflix

11

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

BN 81.82009

Disregard for alchemy’s laws ripped half of Edward Elric’s limbs from his body and left his brother Alphonse’s soul clinging to a suit of armor. To restore what was lost, the brothers seek the Philosopher’s Stone. Enemies and allies – the corrupt military, the Homunculi, and foreign alchemists – will alter the Elric brothers course, but their purpose will remain unchanged and their bond unbreakable.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix, Hulu

12

The Queen's Gambit

BN 81.82020

In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix

13

Teen Wolf

BN 81.62011

Scott McCall, a high school student living in the town of Beacon Hills has his life drastically changed when he's bitten by a werewolf, becoming one himself. He must henceforth learn to balance his problematic new identity with his day-to-day teenage life. The following characters are instrumental to his struggle: Stiles, his best friend; Allison, his love interest who comes from a family of werewolf hunters; and Derek, a mysterious werewolf with a dark past. Throughout the series, he strives to keep his loved ones safe while maintaining normal relationships with them.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix, Prime Video

14

Money Heist

BN 81.62017

To carry out the biggest heist in history, a mysterious man called The Professor recruits a band of eight robbers who have a single characteristic: none of them has anything to lose. Five months of seclusion - memorizing every step, every detail, every probability - culminate in eleven days locked up in the National Coinage and Stamp Factory of Spain, surrounded by police forces and with dozens of hostages in their power, to find out whether their suicide wager will lead to everything or nothing.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix

15

Green Book

BN 81.22h 10m2018

Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix

16

Black Mirror

BN 80.92011

Twisted tales run wild in this mind-bending anthology series that reveals humanity's worst traits, greatest innovations and more.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix

17

BoJack Horseman

BN 80.72014

Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the '90s , 20 years later. He's a curmudgeon with a heart of...not quite gold...but something like gold. Copper?

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix

18

Scarface

BN 80.62h 50m1983

After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix

19

Teach You a Lesson

BN 80.51h 10m2026

An inspector from the Educational Rights Protection Bureau (ERPB) who is authorized by the government to use physical intervention and unconventional methods to discipline delinquent students and reform the educational system.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix

20

Top Gun: Maverick

BN 80.52h 11m2022

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.

A-tier (Excellent) · Streaming on Netflix

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