The 8 Most Fun Netflix Shows of All Time, Ranked

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Netflix has a massive collection of excellent shows across genres, but above all else, the streaming platform's original series are most notable for being truly addictive. Netflix shows make the perfect binge-watches, from suspenseful drama series like Stranger Things and Dark, to hilarious but gut-wrenching dark comedies like BoJack Horseman and Dead to Me. The best Netflix shows are absolutely captivating, drawing viewers in early on with their unique premises and strong characters.

Netflix has a number of intense original series that will each take viewers on an emotional roller coaster ride, but it also has some of the most fun shows of recent years. The streaming platform boasts reality competition and dating shows that are the perfect escape, as well as light and fun comedies that will have viewers laughing from start to finish. These are the 8 most fun Netflix original series of all time, ranked.

8 'Running Point' (2025–Present)

Kate Hudson, Brenda Song, Drew Tarvey, Scott MacArthur and Fabrizio Guido in Running Point.

Running Point is a hilarious and silly sitcom that follows Isla Gordon (Kate Hudson), a member of the wealthy family that owns a fictional basketball team called the Los Angeles Waves. The team is a family business, and when Isla's oldest brother, Cam (Justin Theroux), has to step down as the team's president, he installs her in his place. Isla has never been taken seriously in the family business, so she feels a great deal of pressure to prove herself, particularly because nearly everyone around her believes that she is going to fail.

Running Point is the perfect blend of a workplace sitcom and a family comedy, putting the messy and chaotic Gordon family front and center. At the same time that Isla is adjusting to her new role, she and her siblings learn that they have a secret younger half-brother named Jackie (Fabrizio Guido). Running Point is such a fun and entertaining series, with hilarious dialogue and wonderfully flawed characters.

7 'Alexa & Katie' (2018–2020)

Alexa Mendoza and Katie Cooper hugging in a treehouse in Alexa and Katie.

Alexa & Katie is a coming of age sitcom that follows two best friends named Alexa Mendoza (Paris Berelc) and Katie Cooper (Isabel May). Alexa and Katie have been counting down the days until they could start high school for as long as they could remember, but now, their freshman year is going to be very different from what they had in mind. Alexa has leukemia, and all she wants is to keep her cancer a secret and have as normal of a high school experience as possible. Katie, meanwhile, is worried about Alexa, and she's having a hard time pretending that everything is okay.

Despite its seemingly heavy premise, Alexa & Katie is not a show about Alexa's cancer. Instead, it is primarily about what comes next once she starts to recover, as she struggles to live her life the way she wants to despite her illness. The reality of this includes Alexa's arch-nemesis suddenly and suspiciously being weirdly kind to her, Alexa and Katie's families getting up to schemes from their neighboring houses, and Alexa rebelling in order to get people to stop feeling bad for her. Alexa & Katie is a very fun and cozy series, and it makes for the perfect binge-watch.

6 'A Man on the Inside' (2024–Present)

Ted Danson as Charles Nieuwendyk talking into a voice recorder stealthily in A Man on the Inside.

A Man on the Inside is a detective comedy that follows Charles Nieuwendyk (Ted Danson), a widower and retired college professor whose life has become increasingly isolated since the death of his wife. After his daughter, Emily (Mary Elizabeth Ellis), expresses concern, Charles answers an ad in the paper by a private investigator named Julie Kovalenko (Lilah Richcreek Estrada). There has been a recent string of robberies at a local retirement community, and Julie needs someone to go undercover as a resident and investigate this mystery.

Charles is eager to take on this new role, but he knows nothing about being undercover, and the result is absolutely hilarious. As Charles tries to fly under the radar and figure out what's going on, he unexpectedly starts to form real connections with the people he's investigating. A Man on the Inside is a heartfelt series about starting over and healing, but it is also sharply funny and delightfully over-the-top.

5 'Bridgerton' (2020–Present)

Anthony (Jonathan Bailey) and Kate (Simone Ashley) looking amused in 'Bridgerton'

Based on the series of romance novels of the same name by Julia Quinn, Bridgerton is a Regency-era romance series that follows a wealthy family called the Bridgertons. Each season of the show centers around the romance of a different Bridgerton sibling and their love interest: Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) and Simon Bassett (Regé-Jean Page) in Season 1, Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey) and Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley) in Season 2, Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) in Season 3, and Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson) and Sophie Baek (Yerin Ha) in Season 4.

The upcoming fifth season of Bridgerton is set to be released in 2027, and it will tell the long-awaited love story of Francesca Bridgerton (Hannah Dodd) and Michaela Stirling (Masali Baduza). Bridgerton certainly has its fair share of more intense storylines, but it's still one of Netflix's most fun shows. It has swoonworthy romances, funny dialogue, and an excellent modern twist on the Regency aesthetic with its beautiful costumes and iconic classical-style covers of current hit songs.

Collider Exclusive · TV Medicine Quiz Which Fictional Hospital Would You Work Best In? The Pitt · ER · Grey's Anatomy · House · Scrubs

Five hospitals. Five completely different ways medicine goes sideways on television — brutal, chaotic, romantic, brilliant, and ridiculous. Only one of them is the ward your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out exactly where you belong.

🚨The Pitt

🏥ER

💉Grey's

🔬House

🩺Scrubs

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A critical patient comes through the door. What's your first instinct? Medicine under pressure reveals who you actually are.

AStay completely present — block everything else out and work through it step by step, right now. BTriage fast and delegate — get the right people on the right problems immediately. CTrust my gut and move — I work best when I stop overthinking and just act. DAsk the question everyone else is ignoring — what's the thing that doesn't fit? ETake a breath, make a joke to cut the tension, and then get to work — panic helps no one.

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Why did you go into medicine in the first place? The honest answer says more about you than the one you'd give in an interview.

ABecause I wanted to be where it matters most — right at the edge, when someone's life is actually on the line. BBecause I wanted to help people — genuinely, one patient at a time, in a system that makes it hard. CBecause I was drawn to the intensity of it — the stakes, the drama, the feeling of being fully alive. DBecause medicine is the most interesting puzzle there is — and I needed a problem worth solving. EBecause I wanted to make a difference — and also, honestly, I didn't know what else to do with my life.

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What do you actually want from the people you work with? Who you want beside you under pressure is who you are.

ACompetence and calm — I need people who don't fall apart when things get bad. BTrust and reliability — I want to know that when I pass something off, it's handled. CConnection — I want colleagues who become family, even if that gets complicated. DIntelligence and the willingness to be challenged — I have no interest in people who just agree with me. EFriendship — people I actually like spending twelve hours a day with, because those hours are going to happen either way.

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You lose a patient you fought hard to save. How do you carry it? Every doctor who's worked a long shift has had to answer this question.

AI carry it. All of it. I don't look for ways to put it down — that weight is part of doing this work honestly. BI process it and move — you have to, or the next patient suffers for the one you just lost. CI feel it deeply and lean on the people around me — I don't think you're supposed to handle that alone. DI go back over every decision — not to punish myself, but because I need to understand what I missed. EI grieve it genuinely, find some way to laugh about something unrelated, and try to be kind to myself — imperfectly.

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How would your colleagues describe the way you work? Your reputation on the floor is usually more accurate than your self-image.

AIntense and completely present — no small talk during a shift, but exactly who you want there. BSteady and dependable — not the flashiest in the room but never the one who drops something. CPassionate and occasionally chaotic — brilliant on the hard cases, prone to drama everywhere else. DBrilliant and difficult — right more often than anyone else, and everyone knows it, including me. EWarm and self-deprecating — not the most intimidating presence, but genuinely good at this and easy to like.

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How do you feel about hospital protocol and procedure? Every institution has rules. What you do with them is a choice.

AProtocol is the floor, not the ceiling — I follow it until the patient needs something it can't provide. BI respect it — the system is broken in places, but the structure is there for a reason and I work within it. CI follow it until my instincts tell me not to — and my instincts are usually right, even when they cause problems. DRules are for people who haven't thought hard enough about when to break them. EI try to follow it and mostly do — with a few memorable exceptions that still come up in meetings.

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What does this job cost you personally? Nobody works in medicine without paying a price. What's yours?

AEverything outside these walls — I've given this job my full attention and the rest of my life has gone around it. BMy idealism, mostly — I came in believing the system could be fixed and I've made a complicated peace with that. CStability — my personal life has been as chaotic as the OR, and that's not entirely a coincidence. DMy relationships — I am not easy to know, and the people who've tried to would probably agree. EMy sense of gravity — I use humour as a coping mechanism, which not everyone appreciates in a hospital.

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At the end of a long shift, what keeps you coming back? The answer to this question is the most honest thing about you.

AThe fact that it's real — that nothing else I could be doing would matter this much, right now, today. BThe patients — individual human beings who needed something and got it because I was there. CThe people I work with — I have walked through impossible things with these people and I'd do it again. DThe next unsolved case — there's always another puzzle, and I'm not done yet. EBecause despite everything — the exhaustion, the loss, the absurdity — I actually love this job.

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Your Assignment Has Been Made You Belong In…

Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others. This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for.

The Pitt

You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that puts you inside a single fifteen-hour shift and doesn't let you look away.

You need your work to be real, not romanticised — meaning over drama, honesty over aesthetics.
You find purpose inside the work itself, not in the chaos surrounding it.
You've made peace with the fact that this job takes from you constantly, and gives back in ways that are harder to name.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center demands exactly that kind of person — and you would not want to be anywhere else.

You are the person who keeps the whole floor running — not the most brilliant in the room, but possibly the most essential.

You show up, do the work, absorb the losses, and come back the next day without needing the job to be anything other than what it is.
You care about patients as individual human beings, not as cases to solve or dramas to live through.
You believe in the system even when it fails you — and you understand that emergency medicine is about holding the line just long enough.
ER is television about endurance. You have it.

Grey's Anatomy

You came to medicine with your whole self — your ambition, your emotions, your relationships, your history — and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door.

You feel things fully and form deep attachments to the people you work with.
Your personal and professional lives are permanently, chaotically entangled — and that entanglement drives both your greatest disasters and your most remarkable saves.
You understand that extraordinary medicine often happens at the intersection of clinical skill and profound human connection.
It's messy at Grey Sloan. You would not have it any other way.

House

You are drawn to the problem above everything else — the symptom that doesn't fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one.

You're not primarily motivated by the patient as a person — though you are capable of caring, even if you'd deny it.
You work best when the stakes are highest and the standard answer is wrong.
Princeton-Plainsboro exists to house one extraordinary, impossible mind — and everyone around that mind is there because they're smart enough to keep up.
The only way forward here is to think harder than everyone else in the room. That is exactly what you do.

Scrubs

You understand that medicine is tragic and absurd in almost equal measure — and that the only sane response is to hold both of those things at the same time.

You are warm, self-aware, and funnier than most people in your field.
You use humour to get through terrible moments — and at Sacred Heart, that's not a flaw, it's a survival strategy.
You lean on the people around you and let them lean back. The laughter and the grief are genuinely inseparable here.
Scrubs is a show about learning to become someone worthy of the job. You are still very much in the middle of that process — which is exactly right.

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Now about six years since it first premiered, Love Is Blind is one of Netflix's most iconic reality shows. The dating series questions whether love really is blind, by giving strangers the opportunity to fall in love before they ever meet for the first time. At the start of each season, the singles get to know each other in a speed-dating-style rotation, where they spend time talking to each other individually in isolated pods.

The couples have to get engaged before they're allowed to meet, and then they all go on a vacation together. When they get home, they have to see if their normal lives are compatible, as the season builds up to the weddings of the couples who remain. At the end of each season, the couples have to decide at the altar if love really is blind. Love Is Blind is such a fun and messy dating show, with each season full of wildly entertaining and unexpected curveballs.

3 'Emily in Paris' (2020–Present)

Emily in Paris Interview | Lilly Collins & Ashley Park

Emily in Paris follows Emily Cooper (Lily Collins), an American woman who unexpectedly gets the opportunity to fill in for her boss and take a marketing position working in Paris. Emily's whole life is back in Chicago, and she doesn't speak any French, but she takes this new change in stride. She instantly makes new friends, starts chronicling her experience of Paris on social media, and works to prove herself at her new job.

Emily in Paris is the perfect mental vacation, with its beautiful sights and entertaining characters. Emily's life in Paris is a dream, but it is certainly not without its drama. Emily constantly finds herself getting caught in the middle of love triangles and messy conflicts, both within her personal and professional lives. Emily in Paris makes for an excellent binge-watch for viewers looking for something light and fun that will transport them to beautiful places and make them laugh.

2 'Julie and the Phantoms' (2020)

A band playing on stage at a party in Julie and the Phantoms.

Julie and the Phantoms follows Julie Molina (Madison Reyes), a teenage girl who's grieving the death of her mother a year earlier. Julie and her mother both shared a love of music, but since her death, Julie has been unable to sing or play at all. Now at risk of losing her spot in her school's music program, a dejected Julie goes to clean out her mom's old studio, when she accidentally awakens three ghosts. Luke (Charlie Gillespie), Reggie (Jeremy Shada), and Alex (Owen Patrick Joyner) were in a band together before their deaths 25 years earlier, and they also have unfinished business with music.

Initially, the ghosts try to help Julie reconnect with music so that she can regain her spot in the music program. In the process, they discover that they can be seen and heard when they play onstage with her. Thus, the four of them start a band, all the while pretending that the ghosts are just holograms. Julie and the Phantoms is a fun, emotional, and heartwarming series with amazing music, lovable characters, and creative ghost lore.

1 'The Circle' (2020–2024)

Sammie from The Circle wearing a tight dress standing in the living room with her arms outstretched and her mouth open.

Netflix has countless reality shows that are fun, entertaining, and addictive. That said, The Circle stands out as the most enjoyable one to watch. The reality competition series takes a group of contestants and has them all stay in the same apartment building, but in different rooms. Throughout the duration of the competition, they never meet in person. Instead, they all join an online chat where they get to know each other and compete to be the most liked player.

Contestants can choose to play as themselves, or to catfish as someone else. They set up an online profile, talk to other players as whoever they have chosen to be, and compete in different mini-games. The Circle is an incredibly entertaining and silly series. It's a lot of fun to watch the players try to scheme against one another, and it's very entertaining to see how the players unknowingly form connections with those catfishing and working against them.