Must See Shows to Binge Watch on Netflix
Must See Shows to Binge Watch on Netflix
Are you a late blooming fan? Found a show that you're into but it's no longer on air or maybe you've found a show that's an online series? Well there's a resolution - Netflix! If you're a Netflix subscriber you can choose from hundreds of shows to satisfy your entertainment pleasure. Here are the must see shows to binge watch on Netflix.
House of Cards
House of Cards
House of Cards is a political drama television series, developed and produced by Beau Willimon. The first season premiered on February 1, 2013, on Netflix. The second season premiered on February 14, 2014 ten days prior to the release of the second season, Netflix announced that the show had been renewed for a third season.
Set in present day Washington, D.C., House of Cards is the story of Frank Underwood, played by Kevin Spacey, a democrat from South Carolina's 5th congressional district, after being passed over for Secretary of State, initiates an highly structured plan to get himself into a position of power. His loyal wife, Claire Underwood, played by Robin Wright, assists him with his master minded plan. The series is about ruthless manipulation, power, and doing bad things for the greater good.
Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad is acclaimed as one of the greatest television series of all time. When the series finale aired, the series was one of the most watched cable shows on television. The show received 16 Primetime Emmy Awards, 8 Satellite Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Peabody Awards and a People's Choice Award. In 2014, Breaking Bad entered the Guinness World Records as the highest rated show of all time.
Breaking Bad is a crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. The show originally aired on the AMC network for five seasons. The main character is Walter White, played by Bryan Cranston, is a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer at the beginning of the series. He turns to a life of crime, producing and selling crystallized methamphetamine, in order to help secure his family's financial future before he dies. He teams up with his former student, Jesse Pinkman , played by Aaron Paul.
The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead
The series has been nominated for many awards - the Writers Guild of America Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama. The widely respected Nielsen group recorded ratings that included viewership of 16.1 million for its season four premiere.
The Walking Dead is an American post apocalyptic horror drama television series developed by Frank Darabont. It is based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. The series stars Andrew Lincoln as sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes, who awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world of flesh eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
The show is now in it's fifth season that is scheduled to premiere on October 12, 2014.
Mad Men
Mad Men
Mad Men is an American period drama television series created by Matthew Weiner. The seventh and final season will have 14 episodes that will be split into two seven-episode installments, airing in early 2014 and 2015. Since its premiere, Mad Men has won many awards - including 15 Emmys and four Golden Globes. It is the first basic cable series to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series.
Mad Men is set in the 1960s, initially at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue in New York City. According to the show's pilot, the phrase "mad men" was a slang term coined in the 1950s by advertisers working on Madison Avenue to refer to themselves - a claim that has since been refuted. The main point of the series is on Don Draper, played by Jon Hamm, who was initially the talented creative director at Sterling Cooper and later a founding partner at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. The plot focuses on the business of the agencies as well as the personal lives of the characters. The series also focuses on the changing moods and social attitudes of the United States across the 1960s.
Orange is the New Black
Orange is the New Black
Orange Is the New Black is a comedy-drama series created by Jenji Kohan. The series is based on Piper Kerman's memoir, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison. The book retells her experiences in prison.The show is currently in its third sason and has been received 12 Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
The series revolves around Piper Chapman, played by Taylor Schilling, a woman living in New York City who is sentenced to 15 months in a women's federal prison, for transporting a suitcase full of drug money to her former girlfriend Alex Vause, played by Laura Prepon, who is an international drug smuggler.
Sons of Anarchy
Sons of Anarchy
Sons of Anarchy is a television drama series created by Kurt Sutter, about the lives of an outlaw motorcycle club in a fictional town in California known as Charming. The show centers around Jackson "Jax" Teller, played by Charlie Hunnam. Initially Jax was the vice president of the club and is later voted in as president. Throughout the series he questions the club and himself.
Sons of Anarchy premiered on September 3, 2008, on cable network FX. After the raw nature of the first and second season, the series grew popular with viewers quickly. The series' third season attracted an average of 4.9 million viewers per week - making it FX's highest rated series ever, surpassing FX's other hits The Shield, Nip/Tuck, and Rescue Me. The following season premieres were the two highest-rated telecasts in FX's history. The show is currently in it's seventh, and final season.