The five best series to watch on Netflix this weekend
Does it ever happen that whenever you decide to keep the weekend Netflix watchlist ready early on, the tiresome process of selection holds you back? We know it because we have all been on the same boat at some point or another.
In all honesty, Netflix is always raining cats and content. But when the workweek is at a peak and scrolling doesn’t get you too far, count on Best of Netflix to save you from the task.
Since the festive mood is in full swing and weekends are packed with party plans, we have curated shows that fit your tight schedule. In a few cases, they can also fit right in even when you’re on the move, which means no extensive commitment and no waiting around for a follow-up.
Get those comfy quilts if you may, or call in your pals for a watch party, unlike before, with the five best series to watch on Netflix this weekend.
The five best series to binge on Netflix this weekend
The Åre Murders (Joakim Eliasson and Alain Darborg, 2025)
When it comes to the crime catalogue, nothing really surpasses Netflix’s spine-tingling collection. So, this weekend, we leave it to two unlikely Swedish detectives to transport you into the gritty world of The Åre Murders. The five-episode crime series is set in a Swedish ski resort town called Åre and follows a Stockholm police officer, Hanna, dealing with heartbreak. To take a break, she moves into her sister’s vacation home in the same town, when a teenage girl goes missing on the eve of a Swedish holiday.
While drowning in her own personal battles, Hanna has no choice but to come to terms with the responsibility of her duty, as the local police department is understaffed. But even though Officer Daniel unwillingly accepts the partnership, the deeper they both investigate the case, the less trustworthy they become of each other.
Secrets We Keep (Ingeborg Topsøe, 2025)
Secrets We Keep opens in one of the most well-to-do neighbourhoods outside Copenhagen, where almost every family hires an au pair from the Philippines. The Danish thriller follows an affluent couple, Cecilie and Mike, who have an endearing au pair, Angel, who takes care of everything around the house, including their preteen son. When the pair’s next-door neighbour, Rasmus and Katarina, find an au pair, it turns out to be Angel’s dear friend, Ruby.
But to everyone’s shock, Ruby goes missing one fine day, and something tells Cecilie that their neighbours may be involved with whatever could have happened to her. However, the deeper her investigation grows, the more sinister the secrets take shape.
Unbelievable (Susannah Grant, Ayelet Waldman, and Michael Chabon, 2019)
Unbelievable is based on the 2008-2011 Washington and Colorado serial rape cases, and is inspired by the Pulitzer Prize-winning article by T Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong for ProPublica and The Marshall Project, An Unbelievable Story of Rape.
The Netflix miniseries, which boasts a whopping 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, tells the story of a woman, Marie, who was implicated for reporting she was raped. While it’s an unsettling account of a horrific trial, Unbelievable is believed to be an eye-opener.
The Asset (Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm and Kasper Barfoed, 2025)
The Asset is a new Danish thriller from Netflix, which has been making a buzz online despite its recent release. The series revolves around a washed-out cadet, Tea Lind, who’s informally put off from the cadet program. While surrendering to what feels like rock bottom, she’s hired by an enigmatic director of an undercover division at PET.
Even though she lacks an undercover training, he sends Tea on a deadly mission, which could end with a potential job at PET if she manages to succeed. The catch is that she has to go undercover as a jeweller, befriending Denmark’s kingpin cocaine dealer’s girlfriend, Ashley.
Bodkin (Jez Scharf, 2024)
To end the marathon, we have a black comedy thriller, Bodkin. The seven-episode series revolves around an American podcaster who goes to Bodkin, an Irish coastal town, to probe into a cold case surrounding the disappearance of three people, who went missing during a Samhain celebration. While the curiosity might make you feel that the case is contemporary, it is actually from several decades ago.
At the same time, joining him is a Dublin-born investigative journalist, who’s on a mission to uncover the truth following the death of a government whistleblower who also happens to be her trusted source. Bodkin revolves around this series of parallel investigations, which uncannily intertwines the past and the present, unravelling a cobweb of secrets plaguing the town surrounding a criminal syndicate involved in eel smuggling.