The five best series to watch on Netflix this weekend
With Christmas and New Year breaks well behind us, all we can truly look forward to is Saturdays and Sundays. And since it’s already beginning to look a lot like the weekend, it’s time to summon the ultimate Netflix watchlist to keep you company.
Right at the start of January, Netflix added a slew of content to ensure we don’t run out of entertainment even if we run out of reasons to entertain ourselves.
While the previous weekends were all about festive offerings, this one is only about offloading with shows that hit hard and pull you in.
So, in case you were planning to stay in and under the quilt, do so with the five best series to watch on Netflix this weekend, playing on the TV.
The five best series to stream on Netflix this weekend
Run Away (Nimer Rashed and Isher Sahota, 2026)
Winter weekends call for something cosy. And nothing translates warmer than a Harlan Coben mystery to watch on Netflix. With the onset of New Year’s, Netflix dropped Run Away, based on the New Jersey-based author’s 2019 novel of the same name. The eight-episode thriller tells the story of Simon, a family man whose seemingly perfect family life comes crashing down when his eldest daughter runs away.
The next time Simon runs into Paige, it’s in a city park, appearing completely vulnerable and strung out on drugs. Although this feels like the perfect opportunity for Simon to bring his daughter back home, when he realises she’s not alone, an argument spirals into unprecedented violence. As the situation backfires, Simon loses Paige all over again. And Run Away follows Simon’s search, making him confront the deadly underworld and secrets that could upend his family forever.
11.22.63 (Bridget Carpenter, 2016)
Nothing fits the bill of a weekend watchlist as a limited series does. So, Netflix US just added the most gripping Stephen King adaptation, 11.22.63, to its library this week, and there’s no way you can skip it on your next binge session. Adapted from King’s 2011 novel, the sci-fi thriller stars James Franco as Jake Epping, a recently divorced English teacher from Lisbon, Maine.
When Jake’s friend Al Templeton discovers a time portal leading back to 1960, Jake is presented with an opportunity to travel back in time to accomplish a seemingly impossible, and equally important task: to prevent the assassination of President John F Kennedy. While Jake is sent back in time to gather intelligence on Lee Harvey Oswald and the happenings leading up to the incident, as he establishes a new identity to convince that he fits in, he falls in love with Sadie Dunhill, complicating his mission and blurring his foresight.
Land of Sin (Peter Grönlund, 2026)
If Run Away leaves you with a bigger appetite for crime dramas, don’t forget to watch Land of Sin from Netflix’s Swedish slate of productions this weekend. The Swedish whodunit consists of just five episodes, which can easily work their way onto your compact weekends. It follows the aftermath of the brutal murder of a teenager named Silas at a farmhouse on the Bjäre Peninsula.
Two detectives from Malmö, Dani, who’s perpetually always angry but equally genius and Malik, a recently graduated police colleague, are tasked with the investigation. Land of Sin revolves around this consuming process that pushes the detectives down a patriarchal rabbit hole in the Scanian countryside as they come to learn of a family dispute that’s been foreshadowing the community’s fate for generations.
HIS & HERS (Dee Johnson, 2026)
If you’re someone who can only steam off from a good thriller by hopping onto another one, Netflix has an intense new mystery thriller for you this weekend, HIS & HERS, an adaptation of the 2020 Alice Feeney novel. Set in summertime Atlanta, the Netflix thriller tells the story of a reclusive news anchor, Anna, who has been slowly distancing herself from her friends, community, and profession.
But once she overhears someone talk about a murder in Dahlonega, the Georgia town she was raised in, Anna finds a purpose to snap back, wasting no time to dive into the case and search for the answers. However, her involvement unfortunately puts her under Detective Jack Harper’s eye of suspicion, and only HIS & HERS has the answers to whether they truly get caught in each other’s crosshairs.
Soulmates (William Bridges and Brett Goldstein, 2020)
For the last pick to conclude the marathon this weekend, we really wanted to spoil you with choices. And what better way to do that than with an anthology series? Soulmates is a six-episode sci-fi series, set approximately 15 years in the future, where a test can definitively locate, find, and lead you to your soulmate. Sounds hilariously wild, right?
Well, as it turns out, it doesn’t just sound dramatic; the consequences are indeed comedic. Each episode of Soulmates tells a self-contained story of one of these couples who have had to experience various kinds of after-effects, some even tragic.