With nearly 250 million subscribers globally, Netflix is the world’s largest streaming service - with around 17 million users in the UK alone.
One of the most difficult things for a Netflix subscriber is to decide what to watch, given the huge amount of choice on offer and new titles added on a daily basis.
To help you out a new study has revealed the very best Netflix Original series of all time, based on IMDb user ratings.
The study, by Heart Bingo, analysed data from IMDb’s lists of Netflix Originals, examining both average user ratings and total number of ratings for Netflix Original series.
Titles with fewer than 100,000 ratings were excluded to ensure a fair and reliable comparison.
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Each show was then ranked using a weighted scoring system that balances rating quality with audience size, preventing smaller sample sizes from skewing results.
Here’s what made the top 10.
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1. Arcane
First place goes to 'Arcane', with a score of 9.0 out of 10, based on approximately 439,000 ratings. The animated action series, starring Hailee Steinfeld and Ella Purnell, is set in the League of Legends universe and explores the origins of its iconic characters. The TV series ran through 18 episodes between 2021 and 2024. | Netflix
2. Black Mirror
Second place goes to 'Black Mirror', with a score of 8.7 out of 10, based on approximately 734,000 ratings. The anthology series, created by Charlie Brooker, was originally on Channel 4 before being snapped up by Netflix and explores the dark side of technology and modern society. The TV series has run 34 episodes since 2011. | Netflix
3. Dark
'Dark' ties for third place with a score of 8.7 out of 10 based on approximately 539,000 ratings. The German sci-fi thriller follows interconnected families across time, and ran for 26 episodes between 2017 and 2020. | Netflix
4. Narcos
'Narcos' also scores 8.7 out of 10 across approximately 525,000 ratings. It follows the rise of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, starring Wagner Moura, across 30 episodes between 2015 and 2017. | Netflix