Netflix began in 1998 as a DVD by mail delivery system. Then in 2007, began streaming movies and television shows online. It helped low-rated cable shows find their audiences like “Breaking Bad.” It was only natural in 2013 that it would begin airing original shows of their own with breakout shows “House of Cards” and “Orange is the New Black.” Please enjoy our gallery above of Netflix Top 50 Original Shows.
Original Release Date: March 31, 2017
Based on Jay Asher’s 2007 young adult novel “Thirteen Reasons Why,” the drama tells the story of a high school student who commits suicide after recording her reasons for doing so on cassette tapes.
Original Release Date: November 23, 2017
Based on the Margaret Atwood novel of the same name, set in 19th-century Canada, a psychiatrist (Edward Holcroft) weighs whether a murderess (Sarah Gadon) should be pardoned due to insanity.
Original Release Date: February 2, 2018
Set in a future where consciousness is digitized and stored, a prisoner returns to life in a new body and must solve a mind-bending murder to win his freedom.
Original Release Date: September 15, 2017
A mockumentary that explores the aftermath of a costly high school prank that left twenty-seven faculty cars vandalized with phallic images. The series is a satire that pokes fun of another popular Netflix Series; “Making a Murderer”
Original Release Date: August 11, 2017
Sam (Keir Gilchrist), an 18-year-old on the autism spectrum, decides it’s time to find a girlfriend, a journey that sets Sam’s mom (Jennifer Jason Leigh) on her own life-changing path as her son seeks more independence.
Original Release Date: April 21, 2017
Scientist Bill Nye explores various problems and misconceptions from a scientific point of view.
Original Release Date: March 20, 2015
A family of adult siblings find that their past secrets and scars are revealed when their black sheep of a brother returns home.
Emmy Wins:
2016 — Best Drama Supporting Actor (Ben Mendelsohn)
Original Release Date: August 22, 2014
Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the ’90s – 20 years later. BoJack Horseman was the star of the hit TV show “Horsin’ Around,” but today he’s washed up, living in Hollywood, complaining about everything, and wearing colorful sweaters.
Original Release Date: April 26, 2015
Chef’s Table goes inside the lives and kitchens of six of the world’s most renowned international chefs. Each episode focuses on a single chef and their unique look at their lives, talents and passion from their piece of culinary heaven.
Original Release Date: May 11, 2016
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Chelsea Handler interviews a number of celebrities, academics and professionals.
Original Release Date: March 9, 2018
Detective Kip Glaspie (Carey Mulligan) investigates a seemingly random murder of a pizza delivery man uncovering a convoluted case of interlocking circumstances amid a cross-section of British society.
Original Release Date: November 4, 2016
The early reign of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is portrayed by actress Claire Foy.
Emmy Wins:
2017 — Best Drama Supporting Actor (John Lithgow)
2017 — Best Period/Fantasy Costumes for a Series, Limited Series/TV Movie,
2017 — Best Production Design for a Narrative Period Program (One Hour or More)
Original Release Date: April 28, 2017
Based on the 2014 film of the same name it follows a diverse group of students, at a predominantly white Ivy League college as they navigate various forms of racial and other types of discrimination.
Original Release Date: December 18, 2015
Created by Bill Burr and Michael Price, Netflix’s animated romp “F Is For Family” returned to the streaming service for its 16-episode second season on May 30, 2017. Burr lends his voice as main character Frank Murphy, a rant-prone baggage handler who’s married to his loving wife Sue, voiced by Laura Dern.
Original Release Date: March 2, 2018
Documentary following the police department in Flint, Michigan as they struggle with dwindling resources and crumbling infrastructure in a community crippled by violence and a contaminated water crisis.
Original Release Date: July 14, 2017
A group of friends from Harvard are facing down their forties. With interwoven and oftentimes complicated relationships with one another. “Friends from College” is a comedic exploration of old friendships, former romantic entanglements and balancing adult life with nostalgia for the past. The multi-talented ensemble includes Keegan-Michael Key, Colbie Smulders and Fred Savage.
Original Release Date: August 12, 2016
A ragtag group of teenagers run wild in the streets of the Bronx in the late 1970s.
Original Release Date: June 23, 2017
In 1985 Los Angeles, Alison Brie stars as Ruth Wilder, a struggling actress, who joins the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (GLOW).
Original Release Date: November 22, 2017
In the 1880s American West murderous outlaw gang leader Frank Griffin (Jeff Daniels) hunts for ex-protege Roy Goode (Jack O’Connell.) Frank’s chase leads him to La Belle, New Mexico, inhabited mostly by women including the twice-widowed Alice (Michelle Dockery) and the not to be messed with Mayor’s Widow Mary Agnes (Merritt Wever).
Original Release Date: May 8, 2015
Finding out that their husbands are not just work partners, but have also been romantically involved for the last 20 years, two women with an already strained relationship try to cope with the circumstances together.
Original Release Date: October 14, 2016
The odd ball family life of Miranda Sings, an incredibly confident, totally untalented star on the rise who continues to fail upward by the power of her belief that she was born famous, it’s just no one knows it yet.
Original Release Date: April 19, 2013
A teenage girl is brutally murdered, sparking a hunt for her killer. But in a town where everyone hides a secret, will they find the monster among them?
Original Release Date: February 1, 2013
A Congressman works with his equally conniving wife to exact revenge on the people who betrayed him.
Emmy Wins:
2013 — Best Drama Directing (“Chapter 1,” David Fincher)
2013 — Best Cinematography
2013 — Best Drama Casting
2014 — Best Sound Mixing
2015 — Best Drama Guest Actor (Reg E. Cathey)
2015 — Best Music Composition (“Chapter 32”)
2017 — Best Original Dramatic Score
Original Release Date: May 20, 2016
The comedy is based on what Maria has accepted to be “her life.” The occasionally surreal episodes, refracted across multiple periods of the actor/comedian’s life, tell the story of a woman who loses – and then finds – herself.
Original Release Date: February 19, 2016
A program that follows a couple who must navigate the exhilarations and humiliations of intimacy, commitment and other things they were hoping to avoid.
Original Release Date: December 18, 2015
Filmed over a 10-year period, Steven Avery, a DNA exoneree who, while in the midst of exposing corruption in local law enforcement, finds himself the prime suspect in a grisly new crime.
Emmy Wins:
2016 — Best Documentary or Nonfiction Series, Directing, Writing and Editing
Original Release Date: December 12, 2014
In a world replete with greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry, “Marco Polo” is based on the famed explorer’s adventures in Kublai Khan’s court in 13th century Mongolia.
Original Release Date: April 10, 2015
Blind lawyer Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), with his other senses super-humanly enhanced, fights crime by day and is a vigilante by night.
Original Release Date: March 17, 2017
Finn Jones stars as martial arts guru Danny Rand, who has the unique ability to call upon the power of the Iron Fist.
Original Release Date: November 20, 2015
A former superhero (Krysten Ritter) decides to reboot her life by becoming a private investigator.
Emmy Wins
2016 — Best Main Title Theme Music
Original Release Date: September 30, 2016
Given super strength and durability by a sabotaged experiment, a wrongly accused man (Mike Colter) escapes prison to become a superhero for hire.
Emmy Wins:
2017 — Best Drama Series, Limited Series/TV Movie Stunt Coordination
Original Release Date: November 17, 2017
After the murder of his family, Marine veteran Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal) became a vigilante known as “The Punisher” with only one goal in mind, to avenge them.
Original Release Date: October 13, 2017
Based on the true crime book: “Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit” In the late 1970s two FBI agents; Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) and Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) with the help of psychologist Wendy Carr (Ann Torv) work together to expand criminal science by delving into the psychology of murder and getting uneasily close to all-too-real monsters.
Original Release Date: January 12, 2018
Comedian David Letterman interviews people he finds fascinating. Past guests have included President Barack Obama, Tina Fey, Jay Z and George Clooney.
Original Release Date: November 6, 2015
The personal and professional life of Dev (Aziz Ansari), a 30-year-old actor in New York.
Emmy Wins:
2016 — Best Comedy Writing (“Parents,” Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang)
2017 — Best Comedy Writing (“Thanksgiving” Aziz Ansari and Lena Waithe)
2017 — Best Comedy Single-Camera Picture Editing
Original Release Date: August 28, 2015
A chronicled look at the criminal exploits of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
Original Release Date: December 16, 2016
Having gone missing seven years ago, the previously blind Prairie returns home, now in her 20s with her sight restored. While many believe she is a miracle, others worry that she could be dangerous.
Original Release Date: January 6, 2017
A reimagining of Norman Lear’s iconic sitcom that lasted nine seasons, Netflix’s version of “One Day at a Time” follows three generations of a Cuban-American family as they navigate the ups and downs of life in hilarious fashion.
Original Release Date: July 11, 2013
The story of Piper Chapman, a woman in her thirties who is sentenced to fifteen months in prison after being convicted of a decade-old crime of transporting money to her drug-dealing girlfriend.
Emmy Wins:
2014 — Best Comedy Guest Actress (Uzo Aduba)
2014 — Best Comedy Casting
2014 — Best Comedy Editing
2015 — Best Drama Supporting Actress (Aduba)
Original Release Date: July 21, 2017
Martin Byrde (Jason Bateman) and his wife Wendy (Laura Linney) secretly relocate their teenagers to the Missouri Ozarks when his dealings with a drug cartel go awry.
Original Release Date: September 30, 2014
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.
Original Release Date: April 1, 2016
The son of a Colorado rancher returns home from a semi-pro football career to run the family business.
Emmy Wins:
2017 — Best Cinematography for a Multi-Camera Series
Original Release Date: February 3, 2017
Sheila (Drew Barrymore) and Joel (Timothy Olyphant) are married real estate agents in Santa Clarita, California. When Sheila dies and comes back to life as an undead person their lives take a dark turn.
Original Release Date: June 5, 2015
A group of people around the world are suddenly linked mentally, and must find a way to survive being hunted by those who see them as a threat to the world’s order.
Original Release Date: January 13, 2017
After the loss of their parents in a mysterious fire, the three Baudelaire children face trials and tribulations attempting to uncover dark family secrets in the adaption of the Lemony Snicket books.
Original Release Date: July 15, 2016
When a young boy disappears, his mother, a police chief, and his friends must confront terrifying forces in order to get him back.
Emmy Wins:
2017– Best Drama Series Casting
2017 — Best Drama Single-Camera Picture Editing
2017 — Best Main Title Design
2017 — Best Original Main Title Theme Music
2017 — Best Sound Editing for a Series
Original Release Date: March 6, 2015
A woman (Ellie Kemper) is rescued from a doomsday cult and starts life over again in New York City.
Netflix Revival Date: July 31, 2015
The comedy follows the counselors and campers on their first day at Camp Firewood in the summer of 1981. It’s set to return as “Wet Hot American Summer: 10 Years Later.”
Original Release Date: August 4, 2017
The campers and counselors of Camp Firewood meet ten years after their last day at camp.
Original Release Date: March 16, 2018
When the world’s most controversial guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho), his one-time personal assistant Ma Anand Sheela and their followers builds a utopian city in Wasco County, Oregon conflict with the locals escalates into a national scandal. A true story.
