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Everybody loves weekends with Netflix, but not many want to undergo the harrowing experience of curation, and it makes sense.

Although many insist that you have to love the journey to make the most of the destination, that’s simply not the case with Netflix & Chill.

If anything, we just want a watchlist that offers the best of what’s there without having to doomscroll the home screen.

So, if you’re one of the team waiting for the routine marathon, here are the five best series to stream on Netflix this weekend.

The five best series to binge on Netflix this weekend

The Doll (Paweł Maślona, 2026)

Based on Bolesław Prus’s classic 1890 novel, The Doll is a Polish period drama that tells the story of a self-made, wealthy businessman, Stanisław Wokulski, in 19th-century Warsaw, who becomes obsessively consumed by an intense infatuation for Izabela, a cold, strong-willed aristocrat, whose family is on the brink of absolute financial decline. Using his wealth and her family’s financial desperation, he sees Izabela as the gateway to the world he wants to reign over.

But Izabela wants nothing more than to break free from the shackles of the rigid, orthodox aristocratic order. In fact, she wants to carve her own footing in a rapidly changing society with ambitions of writing for a women’s progressive newspaper. The Doll centres on the unconventional bond they develop, each driven by fierce agendas and dreams that ironically defy their respective social positions of the time.

Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story (Max Winkler and Sarah Adina Smith, 2026)

Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan just introduced the first female monster in their critically acclaimed biographical anthology series Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, which chronicles and dramatises the life and crimes of the titular murder suspect. The fourth season of the true-crime series tracks Lizzie Borden, who was tried and acquitted of the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts.

Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story tracks Borden’s youth trapped in a wealthy New England Victorian-era household built on humiliation and abuse. The series follows the repressed daughter and her rebellious maid who spiral into a shared fantasy of sex, power, and revenge, exploring the shocking crimes that followed, the intense media frenzy, the trial and acquittal that gave birth to an icon who forged a gory legend of her own.

The Fixers (Hung Tzu-hsuan and Henri Chang, 2026)

The Fixers is Netflix’s newest Taiwanese crime drama with a comedic touch. The series follows a debt-ridden mobster, Felix Chiang, who inadvertently gets recruited by a mysterious organisation, Ching He, as a fixer. Ching He operates from a century-old temple where its members discreetly solve problems involving dangerous criminals, divisive politicians, successful business moguls, and anyone and everyone incapable of cleaning their own mess.

Following his recruitment, Felix teams up with an arrogant heir of a powerful political family, and safe to say, they clash constantly. But over time, they form a bond unlike any other. However, just when it seems all is well, Ching He’s longtime nemesis, Yeh Yueh Tong, starts joining forces with enemy factions. The Fixers centres on Ching He’s latest and older recruits, including Chiang, who gives it all to fight against the rival forces.

Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 (Eric Robles, Sarah Partington, Phil Allora, J.J. Conway, Ben Choi, and Ashe Jacobson, 2026-Present)

Alongside its newest additions, Netflix brought some sci-fi nostalgia on its coattails with the second season of Stranger Things: Tales from ’85, which promises to send fans directly to the shadow dimension they first stepped into in 2016. The latest instalment picks up where the debut season finale left off, with the Hawkins gang comprising Eleven, Mike, Will, Max, Lucas, and Nikki, back to arcade gaming and HIC missions.

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, a strange phenomenon seems to take centre stage in the quaint town. Out of nowhere, beautiful flowers keep popping up over Hawkins, and while they look dreamy on the surface, they carry supernatural secrets embedded in the petals. To make matters worse, Max and Nikki plan to sell these flowers, which screams danger for the second season of Stranger Things: Tales from ’85.

Not a Stranger (Mert Baykal, 2026)

To wrap up the weekend marathon, we recommend Netflix’s latest Turkish psychological thriller Not a Stranger. The gripping new mystery drama follows Funda, who plans to revive her art career after taking a long break from the artistic world following the birth of her child. As a result, she tries to balance motherhood and her art career by hiring a new nanny to look after her child. This decision is the inciting incident.

What she fails to realise is that the new caregiver arrives wrapped in hidden motives and high-stakes secrets. So, instead of bringing peace and composure to her household and fanning the flames of her dreams, the mysterious nanny becomes responsible for unpredictable disruptions. Although Not a Stranger starts as an ordinary domestic drama, the tension and suspense gradually build to create a puzzle that’s far from easy to solve.