Start Your Year Off With These 20 Netflix Picks
January 18, 2019
As new year begins, check out these picks for fresh and exciting shows and movies on Netflix.
These shows and movies range from sappy romance, to horrific thrillers.
Check out these top picks below.
10 TV shows on Netflix to watch:
1. YOU
Rating: TV-MA
Obsessed with an aspiring writer, a charming bookstore manager goes to extreme measures to insert himself into her life.
Watch this series if you like: romance, suspense, and thrillers.
2. The Office
Rating: TV-14
This hit comedy chronicles the foibles of disgruntled office workers – led by deluded boss Michael Scott – at the Dunder Mifflin paper company.
Watch this series if you like: comedy and mock documentary.
3. Riverdale
Rating: TV-14
While navigating the troubled waters of sex, romance, school and family, teen Archie and his gang become entangled in a dark Riverdale mystery.
Watch this series if you like: romance, suspense, and drama.
4. American Horror Story
Rating: TV-MA
This twisted Emmy-winning drama plays upon the power of supernatural fears and everyday horrors, exploring humankind’s unsettling capacity for evil.
Watch this series if you like: horror, thriller, gory, and mysteries.
5. Pretty Little Liars
Rating: TV-14
Rudderless without their missing leader, four formerly tight high school friends band together when a blackmailer threatens to spill their dirt.
Watch this series if you like: drama, suspense, and investigation.
6. Sherlock
Rating: TV-14
In this updated take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved mystery tales, the eccentric sleuth prowls the streets of modern London in search of clues.
Watch this series if you like: mystery, drama, and suspense.
7. Black Mirror
Rating: TV-MA
This sci-fi anthology series explores a twisted, high-tech near-future where humanity’s greatest innovations and darkest instincts collide.
Watch this series if you like: thriller and though-provoking processes.
8. Stranger Things
Rating: TV-14
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one strange little girl.
Watch this series if you like: investigation, suspense, and supernatural.
9. Switched at Birth
Rating: TV-14
In this dramatic family series, two teenagers discover they were accidentally switched at birth, setting off a chain reaction of life-altering events.
Watch this series if you like: family and drama.
10. Vampire Diaries
Rating: TV-14
Trapped in adolescent bodies, feuding vampire brothers Stefan and Damon vie for the affection of captivating teenager Elena.
Watch this series if you like: thriller, romance, and supernatural.
10 movies on Netflix to watch:
1. Room
Rating: R
Kidnapped, confined to a tiny room and raped, a young woman gives birth to a son. When he reaches his fifth birthday, she begins plotting an escape.
Watch this movie if you like: suspense-drama.
2. Before We Go
Rating: PG-13
When a young wife is robbed before boarding a train to Boston, she meets a free-spirited musician who stays with her on the adventure of a lifetime.
Watch this movie if you like: romance and adventure-filled movies.
3. Bird Box
Rating: R
Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.
Watch this move if you like: thriller, suspense, romance, and intriguing.
4. Spectacular Now
Rating: R
A charismatic, hard-partying young man strikes up an unlikely romance with a smart and focused young woman during their last year of high school
Watch this movie if you like: romance and life-style.
5. Avengers Infinity Wars
Rating: PG-13
Superheroes amass to stop intergalactic sociopath Thanos from acquiring a full set of Infinity Stones and wiping out half of all life in the universe.
Watch this movie if you like: superheroes and adventure.
6. Coco
Rating: PG
On Dia de los Muertos, young would-be musician Miguel crosses into the afterlife on a quest to meet his ancestors and understand his family legacy.
Watch this movie if you like: children movies, Hispanic representation, and life-style.
7. You Get Me
Rating: TV-MA
After a one-night stand, Holly develops a dangerous obsession with Tyler and transfers to his high school, desperate to keep their “romance” alive.
Watch this move if you like: romance and spine-chilling.
8. Black Mirror Bandersnatch
Rating: TV-MA
In 1984, a young programmer beings to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings.
Watch this movie if you like: interactive, thriller, and suspense.
9. The Kissing Booth
Rating: TV-14
When teenager Elle’s first kiss leads to a forbidden romance with the hottest boy in high school, she risks her relationship with her best friend.
Watch this movie if you like: sorrow, romance, comedy, and life-style.
10. Irreplaceable You
Rating: TV-MA
A stunning cancer diagnosis spurs Abbie to seek a future girlfriend for fiancé and childhood sweetheart Sam, who’s clueless when it comes to dating.
Watch this movie if you like: romance, sorrowful, and charismatic.