Sometimes, deciding what your next Netflix watch will be can be a bit of a challenge.
One of the big reasons we still include it on our list of the best streaming services on the market is because Netflix still has an impressive, ever-changing content library. The problem is, that constantly-evolving collection can also mean it's difficult to nail down the best show for you.
Even if you just turn to the Netflix Top 10 shows list for recommendations, you're still having to choose between 10 individual shows ... which is precisely why we at Tom's Guide frequently highlight the best three trending TV shows that you should be streaming on Netflix right now. That way, you don't need to constantly be keeping up with what's new on Netflix each and every week.
Right now, our three recommendations are a buzzy rom-com that we've branded "near-perfect" that's still in the Top 10, the new season of a popular Netflix legal drama, and a 2018 crime drama that has just crashed the rankings.
If none of those sound like your thing, be sure to look through our list of the best shows on Netflix or our round-up of everything new to Netflix in October 2024 for more help finding what to watch on Netflix. Otherwise, here's a little bit more info about our top three picks.
This article is based on what was in the Netflix Top 10 shows list in the U.S. as of 9:30 a.m ET on Friday, October 25, 2024.
'The Lincoln Lawyer'
Micky Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) is back for another case. Yes, "The Lincoln Lawyer" season 3 landed a few days ago, and fans catapulted the series straight into the Netflix Top 10 (at one point it held the top spot).
The series revolves around Haller, an "iconoclastic idealist" legal expert who runs his practice out of the back seat of his Lincoln Continental, tackling cases big and small from across Los Angeles. The third season is based on the fifth book in Michael Connelly's Lincoln Lawyer series, "The Gods of Guilt" and sees Haller defending the person accused of murdering a former client.
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'Escape at Dannemora'
Netflix has just recently added Ben Stiller's 2018 true crime drama, "Escape to Dannemora", and viewers sent it straight into into the Netflix Top 10 right after release. This can't possibly have anything to do with all the excitement for Stiller's other show, "Severance", having just dropped a season 2 trailer, could it?
This fascinating, Emmy-nominated true-crime series is based on a recent true story. In 2015, two convicted murderers, Richard Matt and David Sweat, broke out of an upstate New York prison.
The series depicts how inmates they broke out with the aid of prison employees including that of Joyce "Tilly" Mitchell (Patricia Arquette), and follows the trio in the days before and after the escape.
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'Nobody Wants This'
"Nobody Wants This" is a bingeable rom-com that shot straight to the No. 1 spot in the Netflix Top 10 after its debut last month, but it's only recently dropped to the lower part of the rankings.
The series revolves around Joanne (Kristen Bell), an agnostic sex and dating podcaster, and Noah (Adam Brody), a newly single rabbi. After connecting at a dinner party, the pair quickly strike up a relationship — though their spark could be threatened by plenty of modern obstacles, from differing outlooks on life and their well-meaning (but occasionally self-sabotaging) families.
If you're one of the many viewers who's been keeping "Nobody Wants This" near the top of the Netflix Top 10 list, you'll be pleased to know that Netflix has now confirmed that "Nobody Wants This" will return for a second season.
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Netflix top 10 shows right now
- "This is the Zodiac Speaking"
- "Tyler Perry's Beauty in Black"
- "The Lincoln Lawyer"
- "Territory"
- "Escape at Dannemora"
- "Love is Blind"
- "Nobody Wants This"
- "Outer Banks"
- "The Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox"
- "Car Masters: Rust to Riches"
