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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5. House of Cards
Tied for fifth place, with an average rating of 8.6 out of 10 across approximately 558,000 reviews, is 'House of Cards'. The political thriller stars Kevin Spacey as ambitious and unscrupulous politician Frank Underwood and Robin Wright as his equally devious wife Claire. It ran for 73 episodes through 2013–2018. | Netflix
6. Daredevil
Superhero show 'Daredevil' also scores an average of 8.6 out of 10 across around 558,000 ratings. It sees Charlie Cox star as Matt Murdock/Daredevil, a blind lawyer who spends his downtime fighting crime as a masked vigilante. There are 73 episodes which were released betwen 2013-2018. | Netflix
7. Mindhunter
'Mindhunter' makes it a three-way tie for fifth place, getting its average of 8.6 out of 10 from around 393,000 ratings. The drama stars Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, and Anna Torv, and follows the founding of the Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI. It ran for 19 episodes across 19 seasons from 2017-2019. | Netflix
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8. Arrested Development
Much-loved comedy 'Arrested Development', following the misadventures of the Bluth family and starring Jason Bateman, is the last of four shows with an average rating of 8.6 - this time from 343,000 ratings. There are 84 perfect episodes of the laughathon, which ran from 2003-2019. | Netflix