The five best series to watch on Netflix this weekend
It has barely been a week since we settled down with a good weekend watchlist on Netflix, yet here we are, back for more.
As much as weekends are considered a luxury, by now, most of you cannot help but agree that weekends with Netflix are a thing, if not a tradition. Therefore, we understand if you’d been waiting on this.
Moreover, with Netflix dropping new shows as well as returning with old ones left and right, there’s no excuse good enough to allow you to waste the weekend.
So, drag yourself up, take a sigh of relief that you don’t have to work today, and tune into the five best series to watch on Netflix this weekend.
The five best series to binge on Netflix this weekend
The Night Agent (Shawn Ryan, 2023-Present)
The wait for The Night Agent season three was over well within the workweek. However, those who couldn’t make time to tune into the instalment, the weekend is the time to make the most of it. The third season of the hit spy series sees Gabriel Basso reprising his role as Peter Sutherland, who takes on his newest mission, described as “the biggest and most dangerous assignment yet,” right after a brutal series of events in season two.
In The Night Agent season three, Peter is tasked with tracing a young Treasury agent who has escaped to Istanbul with sensitive government intelligence as a consequence of being attacked by his boss. However, the pursuit soon unravels into an international chase as the prospect of a global-spanning conspiracy from Istanbul and Mexico City to New York, Washington, and beyond starts to surface, making it a must for Peter to stay ahead of the game as well as the paid assassins at all times.
The Recruit (Alexi Hawley, 2022-2025)
If The Night Agent leaves you craving for more spy drama, The Recruit will be your saviour this weekend. The spy adventure series stars Noah Centineo as a young CIA lawyer, Owen Hendricks, whose first week at work goes completely unexpectedly and somewhat in shambles when a former asset, Max Meladze, blackmails the agency, negotiating his freedom from prison. As a result, Owen has no choice but to travel internationally, confronting every kind of danger to manage the crisis.
In The Recruit season two, the stakes are even higher as the show doubles down on the thrills. Following the chaotic cliffhanger of the first season, the second instalment follows Owen’s comeback. Although this time there’s no multinational trip to thank for, he does go to Seoul, facing even riskier situations, greater challenges, and far more formidable enemies.
How to Get to Heaven from Belfast (Lisa McGee, 2026)
When it comes to comedy thrillers, the Netflix catalogue is second to none. Still, if you want to decide for yourself, give How to Get to Heaven from Belfast a try. While you must have already heard the buzz surrounding the series, what we can assure you is that it’s not without reason. The mystery comedy series tells the story of a close-knit group of three childhood best friends, eccentric in their own ways, to say the least.
Now in their 30s, they embark on the most ambitious adventure yet: to uncover the mystery surrounding their friend’s death. How to Get to Heaven from Belfast opens at a time in the trio’s life when they receive an email informing them about their group’s fourth estranged member’s death. However, as they arrive at her wake to pay respects, a series of creepy, unsettling, questionable events sets them out to launch their own investigation.
Salvador (Daniel Calparsoro, 2026)
Despite the premise of How to Get to Heaven to Belfast, the comedy thriller works hard to keep the laughter flowing. But don’t expect any comedic outlet from the next thriller on the list, Salvador. The crime thriller follows a former doctor in recovery, Salvador, whose addictions to alcohol and betting made him miss out on the best part of life: fatherhood. In the present day, Salvador works as an ambulance technician and remains estranged from his daughter.
One night, while working the shift with his team, they are dispatched to a rally before a soccer match led by superintense fans known as ultras. After a neo-Nazi ultra group called the White Souls erupts into violence, throwing Molotov cocktails, acting extremely racist, Salvador and his team come to the rescue of those injured. That evening, they also come to the aid of a beaten-up man who was confronted at a local bar, which happens to be the headquarters of White Souls. But the surprising part is when he sees his daughter working as both an employee of the bar and a member of the group.
The Hunting Party (JJ Bailey, 2025-Present)
Netflix dropped an NBC thriller on February 15th that deserves a spot in your gritty weekend watchlist: The Hunting Party. The crime thriller follows FBI profiler Bex Henderson, who has formally turned to civilian life in the past five years to raise her adoptive daughter while catching small-time criminals. But when the attorney general of the US sends a cryptic message asking for urgent help, her life of bliss changes overnight.
When Bex attends a meeting at a secure military base and is given the file of the first serial killer she put behind bars, she’s confused about why she’s being asked to profile a dead man. But little does she know that the US government chose that he and others like him would be more suited in the Pit, the nation’s most secure prison, where a recent explosion set free several high-profile criminals, including him.