3 Elite Series to Binge on Netflix This Weekend (Sep 19-20)

Image via Netflix Published Sep 18, 2026, 8:41 AM EDT In over three years at Collider, senior author Jake has now penned over 3000 articles covering a wide range of TV and film for the resources, lists, utilities, news, and interview teams. Alongside interviewing stars such as Selin Hizli, Rose Ayling-Ellis, Harlan Coben, and Chelsea Peretti, Jake was lucky enough to visit the set of Aardman and Netflix's Wallace and Gromit: A Vengeance Most Fowl in 2024, getting the chance to chat with four-time Academy Award winner Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham. Jake has also worked for other publications, including Agents of Fandom. You can also hear Jake every week as the resident film and TV journalist on Track Radio. Sign in to your Collider account Reports last week confirmed that Season 2 of Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen had earned only 6.7 million views in its first few days on streaming, a 45% drop from Season 1. This has been followed by a decline in the Netflix top 10 for the biggest new arrival of the month, which has been replaced at the streaming summit by Crew Girl, Netflix's newest teen soap. Despite poor reviews from critics, including Collider's own Jessica Toomer, Crew Girl is proving its doubters wrong. But there's plenty more to watch if you, like Toomer, aren't a fan of Crew Girl. With that in mind, here are three shows you should binge-watch on Netflix this week. For more recommendations, check out our list of the best shows and movies on Netflix. Disclaimer: These titles are available on US Netflix. 1 'Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story' (2026) The 'Murphyverse' is expanding again, as the prolific Ryan Murphy adds a new season to his hit Monster anthology series. Having debuted last Thursday, Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story tells the story of the infamous 1892 axe murders in Fall River, Massachusetts, and marks the series' first time focusing on a female lead, portrayed by If I Had Legs I'd Kick You's Ella Beatty. After Season 1 focused on Jeffrey Dahmer, Season 2 on the Menendez brothers, and Season 3 on Ed Gein, this fourth season promises yet more headline-grabbing serial killer drama sure to divide viewers. Charlie Hunnam, Rebecca Hall, and Vicky Krieps also star, with the season featuring eight episodes in total, which are destined to shoot straight to the top of the Netflix charts. Collider Exclusive · Horror Survival Quiz Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving? Jason Voorhees · Michael Myers · Freddy Krueger · Pennywise · Chucky Five killers. Five completely different ways to die — if you're not smart enough, fast enough, or self-aware enough to avoid it. Only one of them is the villain your particular set of instincts gives you a fighting chance against. Eight questions will figure out which one. 🏕️Jason 🔪Michael 💤Freddy 🎈Pennywise 🪆Chucky TEST YOUR SURVIVAL → 01 Something feels wrong. You can't explain it — you just know. What do you do? First instincts are the difference between the survivor and the first act casualty. ALeave immediately. I don't need to understand a threat to respect it. BStay quiet and observe. If I can see it, I can understand it. If I can understand it, I can avoid it. CStay awake. Whatever this is, I am not going to sleep until I feel safe again. DConfront it directly. Fear grows in the dark — I'd rather know what I'm dealing with. ECheck everything, trust nothing. The threat might be closer than I think — and smaller. NEXT QUESTION → 02 Where are you most likely to find yourself when things go wrong? Setting is everything in horror. Where you are determines which rules apply. ASomewhere remote — a cabin, a campsite, off the grid and away from people. BA quiet suburban neighbourhood where nothing ever happens. Except tonight. CIn my own head — the most dangerous place of all, depending on what's already in there. DWherever children are — because something about this place attracts the worst things. ESomewhere ordinary — a house, a toy store, a place where the last thing you'd expect is a threat. NEXT QUESTION → 03 What is your most reliable survival asset? Every survivor has a quality the villain didn't account for. What's yours? APhysical fitness — I can run, I can swim, I can outlast something that relies on brute persistence. BSpatial awareness — I always know the exits, the hiding spots, the fastest route out. CPsychological resilience — I've faced my worst fears before. They don't have the same power over me. DEmotional steadiness — I don't panic. Panic is what gets you caught. EScepticism — I don't underestimate threats because of how they look. Size is irrelevant. NEXT QUESTION → 04 What kind of fear is hardest for you to fight through? Knowing your weakness is the first step to not dying because of it. AThe unstoppable — something that will not stop, cannot be reasoned with, and is always getting closer. BThe invisible — a threat I can feel but can't locate, watching from somewhere I can't see. CThe psychological — something that uses my own mind and memories against me. DThe unknowable — something ancient, shapeless, that feeds on the fear itself. EThe mundane — a threat so ordinary-looking that no one will believe me until it's too late. NEXT QUESTION → 05 You're with a group when things start going wrong. What's your role? Horror movies are brutally clear about who survives group situations and who doesn't. AThe one who says "we need to leave" first — and means it, even when no one listens. BThe one who stays quiet, watches the others, and figures out the pattern before anyone else does. CThe one who holds the group together when panic sets in — because someone has to. DThe one who asks the questions nobody wants to ask — because ignoring them gets people killed. EThe one who takes the threat seriously when everyone else is laughing it off. NEXT QUESTION → 06 What's the horror movie mistake you're most likely to make? Honest self-assessment is a survival skill. Denial is not. AGoing back for someone — I know I shouldn't, but I can't leave them behind. BAssuming I'm safe once I've found a hiding spot. That's when it finds me. CFalling asleep when I absolutely cannot afford to. Exhaustion is its own enemy. DLetting my curiosity override my instincts — I always need to understand what I'm dealing with. EDismissing the threat because of how it looks. That's exactly what it wants. NEXT QUESTION → 07 What's your best weapon against something that can't be stopped by conventional means? Every horror villain has a weakness. The survivors are always the ones who find it. AThe environment itself — I use the terrain, the water, the geography against it. BPatience — I wait, I watch, and I strike at the one moment it doesn't expect. CLucidity — if I can stay in control of my own mind, it loses its primary weapon. DCourage — facing it directly, refusing to run, taking away the fear it feeds on. EImprovisation — I use whatever's at hand, however unconventional. Creativity over brute force. NEXT QUESTION → 08 It's the final scene. You're the last one standing. How did you make it? The final survivor always has a reason. What's yours? AI kept moving. I never stopped, never hid for too long, never let it corner me. BI figured out the pattern before anyone else did — and I used it against the thing following it. CI stayed awake, stayed lucid, and refused to give it the one thing it needed most. DI stopped being afraid of it. And the moment I did, everything changed. EI took it seriously from the start — and I never once made the mistake of underestimating it. REVEAL MY VILLAIN → Your Survival Odds Have Been Calculated Your Best Chance Is Against…Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck. Jason VoorheesJason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit. He moves in straight lines toward his target. He doesn't strategise, doesn't adapt, doesn't outsmart. He simply pursues. Your ability to keep moving, use the environment, and resist the panic that freezes most victims gives you a genuine edge. The Crystal Lake survivors were always the ones who stopped running in circles and started thinking about terrain, water, and distance. You think like that. Which means Jason, for all his indestructibility, would face someone who simply refused to be where he expected. Michael MyersMichael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it's too late for anyone who isn't paying close enough attention. But you are paying attention. You notice the shape in the window, the car parked slightly wrong, the silence where there should be sound. Michael's power lies in the invisibility of ordinary suburbia — the fact that nothing ever looks wrong until it already is. Your spatial awareness and instinct to map every room, every exit, and every shadow before you need them is precisely the quality Laurie Strode had. You are not a victim waiting to happen. You are someone who already suspects something is wrong — and acts on it. Freddy KruegerFreddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised. You are harder to destabilise than most. You've faced uncomfortable truths about yourself and you haven't looked away. The survivors on Elm Street were always the ones who understood what was happening and chose to face it rather than flee from it. Freddy's greatest weakness is that his power evaporates in the presence of someone who refuses to give him the fear he feeds on. Your psychological resilience — the ability to stay grounded when reality itself becomes unreliable — is exactly the quality that keeps you alive here. PennywisePennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it. The Losers Club didn't survive because they were braver than everyone else. They survived because they faced their fears together, and faced them honestly. You ask the questions others avoid. You look directly at what frightens you rather than turning away. That directness — the refusal to let fear fester in the dark — is Pennywise's worst nightmare. It chose the wrong target when it chose you. You are exactly the kind of person whose fear tastes like nothing at all. ChuckyChucky's greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it's already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is. You don't have that gap. You take threats seriously regardless of how they present — and you never make the mistake of underestimating something because of its size or appearance. Chucky relies on surprise, on the delay between recognition and response. You close that delay faster than almost anyone. Your instinct to treat every unfamiliar thing with appropriate scepticism — rather than dismissing it because it seems absurd — is the exact quality that keeps you breathing. Against Chucky, not laughing is already winning. You are very good at not laughing. ↻ RETAKE THE QUIZ 2 'Stranger Things: Tales From '85' (2026–Present) Rotten Tomatoes: 61% | IMDb: 5.9/10 Monster isn't the only big series returning this weekend on Netflix. Another that should be at the top of your watchlist is Stranger Things: Tales From ’85, which returns for a second season just five months after the first season debuted. After the Hawkins Investigators Club defeated the Horde Queen, the second season picks up directly in the aftermath, with things not about to get any easier for the gang. Whether you're excited for Season 2 or have yet to try this animated series, this weekend is the perfect time to start a binge-watch. Eleven (Brooklyn Davey Norstedt), Mike (Luca Diaz), Will (Benjamin Plessala), Dustin (Braxton Quinney), Lucas (Elisha "EJ" Williams), Max (Jolie Hoang-Rappaport), and Nikki (Odessa A'zion) all return for a second installment of the Flying Bark Productions animation, which will feature 10 new episodes. 3 'Pokémon Horizons: Rising Hope' (2026) Anime fans are in for a treat this weekend as the final part of Pokémon Horizons Season 3, Rising Hope, bursts onto Netflix. As Japan begins a new arc called "Wonder Voyage," Pokémon Horizons Season 3 will come to a vibrant, action-packed end on Netflix in the U.S., as the curtain closes on the journey of Laqua and the Explorers. Pokémon is one of the longest-running and best-loved franchises of all time for good reason, and Horizons has been one of the best series it has produced so far. After 25 years of Ash Ketchum, the character — or at least how he functions in the series — has been reinvented for a new audience, helping move the franchise along and prove that its future as a major part of our viewing habits is secure. Don't miss out on an epic conclusion in the latest chapter this weekend. Release Date April 14, 2023 Network TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TV Aichi, TVh, TVQ, GBS, TSC, Nara Television Directors Fumihiro Ueno, Hiromichi Matano, Ayumi Moriyama, Yūichi Abe, Junya Koshiba, Hiroyuki Okuno, Masashi Tsukino, Makoto Ooga, Satoshi Saga Writers Kureha Matsuzawa, Naruki Nagakawa, Dai Sato, Michihiro Tsuchiya, Naohiro Fukushima, Deko Akao Franchise(s) Pokemon Cast Daisuke Namikawa, Mitsuki Saiga, Eiji Wentz, Kenta Miyake, Yuka Terasaki, Kei Shindo, Yu Shimamura, Ayane Sakura, Taku Yashiro, Daiki Yamashita, Eriko Matsui, Ikkyu Juku, Minori Suzuki, Hironori Kondo, Chiaki Kobayashi, Kanade Ueda, Asei Miki, Miki Kousei, Yuki Onodera, yama, Yoshino Aoyama, Kotaro Koizumi, Megumi Okada, Tatsuki Kobe, Ai Satou Creator(s) Satoshi Tajiri