Exploring the thousands of titles on Netflix can be both exciting and overwhelming. Content of all types abounds, from dramas and comedies to reality shows and documentaries. It’s a good thing there’s a list to help narrow your decision by letting you see the most popular Netflix shows. That’s right, every week, Netflix releases its list of the 10 most-watched TV shows over a recent seven-day period.
True crime always plays well on Netflix, especially when it involves a notorious serial killer. This Is the Zodiac Speaking, a new three-part docuseries, is currently the No. 1 show on Netflix. New shows in the top 10 include Beauty in Black at No. 3, Territory at No. 4, and Escape at Dannemora at No. 7. Below, we have listed the top 10 shows in the U.S. from October 21 to October 27, along with general information about each show, including genre, rating, cast, and synopsis.
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10. I Am a Killer season 5 (2018)
7.3/10I Am a Killer, the eye-opening true crime docuseries, returns for its fifth season. This show is definitely not for the faint of heart. I Am a Killer features death row inmates convicted of capital murder sharing their stories about how they committed deadly crimes. Each episode focuses on a new inmate as they recount the murder that landed them in prison.
However, many of these killers believe their actions were in self-defense and try to show the audience how they’ve changed as people. Some of the featured killers in season 5 include an armed robber who mistakenly fired a loaded gun and a man who murdered his grandmother. It’s a fascinating view into the mind of a death row inmate.
9. Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (2024)
7.9/10In 1989, brothers Erik and Lyle Menéndez walked into their family home and murdered their parents, José and Kitty. Years later, they were convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Since then, the brothers have maintained their innocence, saying they killed José in self-defense after years of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. Kitty was allegedly complicit in the abuse, so the boys killed her, too.
This notorious case is dramatized in Ryan Murphy’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. Cooper Koch and Nicholas Alexander Chavez star as Erik and Lyle Menéndez, while Javier Bardem and Chloë Sevigny play José and Kitty. Are the brothers the monsters the public propped them up to be, or is there more to the story?
8. Love Is Blind season 7 (2020)
62%
6.2/10Love is Blind is back for season 7. Netflix’s dating experiment welcomes 30 new singles to the pods as they search for love. The singles try to form relationships by talking to each other through a speaker. When the daters make a connection, they can extend a marriage proposal.
If a marriage proposal is accepted, the contestants can finally meet each other face-to-face. After a couples retreat and a multiweek stint living together, it all comes down to the wedding. Will the couples go through with the marriage or end the engagement? New episodes will be released every Wednesday this month, with the finale airing on October 23.
7. Escape at Dannemora (2018)
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7.9/10Escape at Dannemora, Showtime’s 2018 crime series, is so unfathomable that you must see it to believe it. Based on a true story from 2015, Escape at Dannemora explores an escape attempt at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York. Richard Matt (Benicio del Toro) and David Sweat (Paul Dano) are two convicted felons serving long murder sentences.
Matt has a history of escapes, and he begins planning his next getaway with Sweat. The key to this plan involves Tilly Mitchell (Patricia Arquette), a married security guard who becomes romantically involved with Matt and Sweat. Matt’s scheme works, and the duo eventually flees the prison. However, getting out was only the beginning.
6. Outer Banks season 4 (2020)
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7.5/10The Pogues are back for another treasure-hunting adventure in Outer Banks season 4. After finding El Dorado, the Pogues — including John B (Chase Stokes), Sarah (Madelyn Cline), JJ (Rudy Pankow), Kie (Madison Bailey), Pope (Jonathan Daviss), and Cleo (Carlacia Grant) — return to the Outer Banks to start new lives.
With their money from the gold, the Pogues build a surf shop and live together on the property. However, a few costly decisions drain their savings, forcing them to return as treasure hunters. Their new task is to find Blackbeard’s treasure. Per usual, the Pogues are not the only ones looking for the treasure, as they come into contact with dangerous enemies. Season 4, part 2, will launch on November 7.
5. Nobody Wants This season 1 (2024)
73%
8.2/10Kristen Bell and Adam Brody are millennial royalty. During the mid-2000s, Bell starred in the titular role on Veronica Mars, while Brody played the lovable goof, Seth Cohen on The O.C. 20 years later, Bell and Brody are older, but their charm is still there in Nobody Wants This, a rom-com series from Erin Foster.
Joanne (Bell) is an agnostic woman who hosts a sex and relationship podcast with her sister, Morgan (Justine Lupe). Noah (Brody) is a kind, attractive rabbi. Joanne and Noah meet at a friend’s dinner party and instantly hit it off. Their courtship eventually turns into a relationship. However, their opposing views and familial backgrounds threaten to derail this love story.
4. Territory season 1 (2024)
71%Head to the Australian outback for Territory, a drama that combines Yellowstone with Succession. Marianne Station is the world’s largest cattle station. The Lawson family has owned Marianne Station for generations. Key members of the family include Emily Lawson (Anna Torv), Graham Lawson (Michael Dorman), Colin Lawson (Robert Taylor), and Marshall Lawson (Sam Corlett).
Here’s the problem: Marianne Station does not have a clear successor. With no clear heir to the throne, the Lawson family prepares for an ugly battle of succession. The Lawson family war leaves them vulnerable to outside forces, and Australia’s most powerful factions try to swoop in and claim Marianne Station for themselves.
3. Beauty in Black season 1 (2024)
4.6/10Thanks to his first-look deal with Netflix, Tyler Perry’s first series with the streamer, Beauty in Black, is now available on the service. In Atlanta, two women on completely different paths become linked after a chance encounter. Kimmie (Taylor Polidore Williams) is a sex worker trying to make ends meet.
Mallory Bellaire (Crystle Stewart) is the CEO of the Beauty In Black hair product company. However, Mallory’s family is behind a trafficking scheme at Magic City Strip Club, Kimmie’s place of employment. Like many of Perry’s shows, Beauty in Black will have drama and plenty of twists and turns throughout the eight-episode first season.
2. The Lincoln Lawyer season 3 (2022)
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7.7/10The man who loves to work out of the back of his car is back in The Lincoln Lawyer season 3. Manuel Garcia-Rulfo stars as Mickey Haller, the unorthodox, but brilliant lawyer who does his best work from the back seat of his Lincoln Navigator. Mickey has a habit of taking on seemingly impossible cases. Yet, Mickey continues to find a way to win.
Season 3 is based on The Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly. In a strange twist of fate, Mickey is hired to defend Julian La Cosse (Devon Graye), the man accused of killing Mickey’s former client, Gloria Dayton (Fiona Rene). The case proves challenging for Mickey, who grapples between doing his job as a lawyer and seeking revenge for the death of his friend.
1. This Is the Zodiac Speaking season 1 (2024)
7.0/10The Zodiac Killer case is one of the most controversial crime cases in American history. In the late 1960s, a serial murderer known as the Zodiac Killer terrorized Northern California, murdering and injuring multiple people. The killer sent coded messages to newspapers as his calling card. The top suspect was Arthur Leigh Allen. However, Allen was never convicted.
The three-part true crime docuseries This Is the Zodiac Speaking revisits the case with new evidence and interviews that support the theory that Allen was the killer. The series features interviews with Robert Graysmith, an investigative reporter who covered the case, and Rita Williams, a news reporter who interviewed Allen before his death.
