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No matter how much viewers make peace with unfinished showbiz during the workweek, the weekends demand a Netflix watchlist that speaks for itself.

While September was full of high-profile releases, October is clearly no less. With several blockbusters lined up one after another, Netflix has already made the curation process easier this weekend.

As a result, our weekend watchlist comprises September favourites subscribers missed and October highlights to make things more interesting.

So, for those seated with popcorn refills, here are the five best series on Netflix to keep you company this weekend.

The five best series to stream on Netflix this weekend

East of Eden (Garth Davis and Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, 2026)

As the Netflix Original highlight of the week, it only makes sense to kick off the weekend watchlist with East of Eden, based on John Steinbeck’s 1952 magnum opus. The seven-episode limited series retells the fateful biblical sibling rivalry and free will through an intergenerational saga of the Trask and Hamilton families, spotlighting brothers Adam and Charles Trask and eventually Adam’s twin sons, Cal and Aron.

More notably, East of Eden focuses on the manipulative, indelible, enigmatic antihero Cathy Ames, chronicling her story with a re-evaluation of her complex past, her marriage to Adam, and her undoubted impact on the family and generations to follow. The Netflix miniseries investigates how a tumultuous family history, generational baggage and trauma, and the eternal struggle between good and evil shape the present.

My Sad Dead (Pablo Larraín, 2026)

The season of spook surely calls for a gritty psychological thriller, so My Sad Dead is here to grant the gory wishes. The four-part miniseries, adapted from Mariana Enriquez’s stories, follows retired 60-year-old doctor Ema, who has an unsettling ability to hear and see spirits from childhood. But instead of seeing it as a gift, she identifies the ability as a lifelong, exhausting burden. After her mother’s death, Ema moves into her late mother’s house in a public housing complex.

While mourning, she has to host her sister Lidia, her brother-in-law Tomas, and her disturbed niece Julie, who shares Ema’s supernatural connection with the otherworld, albeit far more intense and visceral. Just as Ema’s quiet life is upended with their chaotic visit, a triple homicide of teenagers in the brutalist neighbourhood causes the barrier between the living and dead to implode. My Sad Dead follows the haunting of residents as they’re forced to face buried guilt, trauma, and inner demons.

Shaque: Trust No One (Rensil D’Silva, 2026)

Shaque: Trust No One is a Hindi-language mystery thriller that’s worth adding to your watchlist if you want more suspense to define your weekend. Set against the broody, mystic atmospheric backdrop of Shimla, India, the Netflix series follows a desperate mother, Anvita’s nearly decade-long agonising search for her abducted daughter, Apeksha. The show opens with the inciting incident as Anvita gives birth to her newborn in a private hospital, and the baby is kidnapped right after.

As nine long years pass without resolution, Anvita stays determined to track the culprit and bring Apeksha back at any cost. To make things worse, she receives an annual anonymous picture from the kidnapper of Apeksha growing up, every time on her birthday. Shaque: Trust No One centres on Anvita as she grows obsessed with searching for her daughter, unaware that the psychological manipulation and dangers start at her home.

Medusa (Felipe Cano, María Gamboa, and Liliana Bocanegra, 2025-2026)

Up next on our weekend watchlist, we recommend the Spanish thriller, Medusa, which just returned on Netflix with its sophomore season. The series centres on the newly appointed CEO of an influential corporate conglomerate in Colombia, Barbara Hidalgo, who, right before taking charge of the family business empire, is assumed dead following a disastrous explosion on her yacht. Although she survives the blast, she returns in secret to track down the person responsible.

Knowing the pursuit won’t be easy, Hidalgo joins forces with an investigator named Danger Carmelo. But just as the investigation spreads, she realises she may not be looking at one, but almost every member of her dysfunctional family, as they scheme for control of the organisation. Medusa follows Hidalgo as her investigation takes her down a rabbit hole of dark family secrets and corporate sabotage.

Delusion (Chayan Laoyodtrakool, 2026)

While the weekend watchlist is absolutely not short on thrills, very on brand for October, rounding out the queue is a Thai Netflix thriller, Delusion. The Netflix series centres on a small-town schoolteacher named Wan, who lives in the quiet rural village of Chiang Khan in Northeastern Thailand, where a young teen goes missing, and his desecrated body is found deep in the woods later on.

As the incident sends townsfolk into panic, Wan’s life turns upside down as villagers start pointing fingers at her dementia-stricken father, who erratically wanders often. Although she and her doctor brother try to defend their father with a scientific dementia diagnosis and try to cut through the overwhelming spirit rumours flooding the town, a transferred cop finally intervenes to deal with the case logically instead of giving in to speculation, superstition, and conjecture.