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Weekend screen time is at an all-time high, and Netflix users can blame it on the pre-holiday lineup. But now that the blame game is over, there’s little left to do other than hit resume on the series you probably started and left unfinished earlier this week.  

When that’s done and dusted, they can always quietly slide over to check what’s new on Netflix. Once they do, they’re more likely to spend another hour or two, deciding which one to go for. And then, what if the process repeats throughout the weekend as Netflix makes it a mission to raise the stakes of entertainment?

Well, either subscribers can resist and miss out on a good bid, or play and win the jackpot. Personally, though, we would have preferred to go all in on the second option, considering the last few weekends left in the year.

So, before the reunion and holiday parties grab the spotlight on the calendar, make this weekend one to remember with these five best series on Netflix.

The five best series to stream on Netflix this weekend

The Body (Quinn Shephard, 2026)

Netflix served perfection on a plate just when subscribers needed it the most with its modern psychodrama The Body, to beat the post-Halloween blues. Created by Quinn Shephard, the psychological horror thriller set in 2004 at a Catholic high school in the Northeast follows St Mark’s Lions, an all-girls dance team, whose drug-fuelled Halloween initiation ceremony and mock sacrificial ritual for new recruit Grace go ominously wrong.

After secretly taking an exotic substance at the ritual party, supplied by the Lions’ co-captain Anya, Grace falls increasingly sick and falls into a deep, unexplainable coma. But as rumour mills swirl about dance team members hallucinating terrifying prophetic visions of Grace, a mass hysteria takes over with townspeople debating whether the condition is a result of a medical tragedy, a demonic possession, or a divine miracle.

ChiaroScuro (Jan Maria Michelini, 2026)

While Netflix crime dramas come in all shapes and sizes, this week, it came in a light-hearted Italian series: ChiaroScuro. The cheeky crime thriller centres on an unlikely alliance between a determined police officer and an eccentric art expert to hunt a serial killer in Rome. The Netflix Original series opens with the discovery of a body, distinctly arranged like a legendary work of art inside a high-security Roman museum, where police inspector Angelo Tiberi enlists specialised help.

To help with the investigation, Tiberi recruits Cosmo Speranza, a genius art consultant whose sharp-sightedness in spotting forgeries is second to none. ChiaroScuro follows their joint investigation as it spirals into a mind-boggling puzzle when every crime scene starts referencing paintings and events tied to Cosmo’s past, including the death of his father, Rufo Speranza, an art professor and master forger, whose suicide is now suspected to be a murder.

Black Doves (Alex Gabassi, Lisa Gunning, and Joe Barton, 2024-Present)

We understand if you’re dealing with showbiz backlogs, so we’d like to help. If you’re stuck between shows you started earlier, not this week, but a week before- leave your excuses behind and finish off the second season of Black Doves, simply because it’s non-negotiable. In the explosive new season of the hit spy thriller, Helen Webb’s secret double life as a Black Doves agent comes to a head with Wallace’s game-changing political ascent as the UK’s new Prime Minister.

At the same time, when multiple Black Doves agents are being targeted and eliminated, Helen heads to Paris with Wallace and secretly works with her field agent to steal an important file from a Russian Oligarch. The file traces back to a brutal Berlin operation, carried out by Black Doves and Mrs Reed, but if you think that’s bad, you still don’t know what Sam is dealing with to wipe out incriminating blackmail footage of Helen.

Miracles of the ER (Isaac Li and Huang Ching-tsu, 2026)

Up next on our weekend watchlist is Miracles of the ER, Netflix’s new Taiwanese medical workplace drama set in the high-stakes world of emergency medicine at Yang-Da University Hospital. The series opens with Associate Director of Emergency Medicine Chou Cheng-jun’s bold, but debated decision to accept Lin Geng-ming, an average-performing medical school graduate, into the hospital’s ER residency program.

Despite scepticism and surveillance, Lin joins the emergency department, working shoulder-to-shoulder with an elite team of peers, including Tang Hsi and Chiang Tung-yen. As they’re signed under senior attending physician He Yu-hua, they navigate relentless shifts and round-the-clock medical emergencies, and Miracles of the ER explores the reality of high-pressure hospital crises, complex ethical dilemmas, and administrative power struggles.

North of North (Zoe Leigh Hopkins, Anya Adams, Danis Goulet, Yael Staav, Aleysa Young, Renuka Jeyapalan, Jason Priestley, and Lisa Jackson, 2025-Present)

Like Black Doves, if your backlog watchlist also has the second season of North of North, it’s time for you to pick up the pace. The sophomore season of the beloved Arctic comedy follows young Inuk mother Siaja as she tries to upgrade her life in every possible way. Fresh off a breakup with her husband, Siaja goes all in on community building by pitching a winter ball and convincing her boss to make her the project lead.

While she already has a lot on her plate, that doesn’t stop Siaja from seeking more as she starts digging deep into long-held family secrets and silences by trying to know more about the half-sister she never knew existed. The second season of North of North tests Siaja’s boundaries professionally, personally, psychologically, and emotionally, as she tackles local challenges, reopens her heart to romantic possibilities, and builds a promising future for her daughter.