Top 5 Netflix Shows That You Should Not Miss

Popular home to thousands of movies and TV shows that deserve your attention this holiday season, Netflix also offers plenty of original content that has been released over the past few years
Top 5 Netflix Shows That You Should Not Miss
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Popular home to thousands of movies and TV shows that deserve your attention this holiday season, Netflix also offers plenty of original content that has been released over the past few years. The company invested millions of dollars in its movies, TV shows, documentaries and shows for kids, and some of them have been must-see hits.

Even so, those people who are new to Netflix are probably wondering which of the company’s shows are the best to binge right now. Netflix doesn’t disclose official viewing numbers for any of them – it doesn’t even tell studios that make the shows how many people have watched them – so we'll give you some guidance.

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Narcos, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Orange Is the New Black, Jessica Jones and Master of None are the best original series you can watch this year on Netflix, many of them having been released in the past few months alone.

The list is based on Business Insider’s research into the popularity of Netflix’s original productions. The news site ignored documentaries, TV shows resurrected from other networks, shows for kids, stand-up specials and movies, and then looked at review aggregator Metacritic for critic and audience scores for each title.