6 Upcoming Netflix Series, Ranked by Hype

Image via Netflix Published Nov 9, 2026, 6:18 AM EST Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of watching movies and talking about them endlessly, he writes reviews and analyses on his Instagram page dedicated to cinema, and occasionally on his blog. His favorite filmmakers are Andrei Tarkovsky and Charlie Chaplin. He loves modern Mexican cinema and thinks it's tragically underappreciated. Other interests of Diego's include reading, gaming, roller coasters, writing reviews on his Letterboxd account (username: DPP_reviews), and going down rabbit holes of whatever topic he's interested in at any given point. Sign in to your Collider account As the year nears its end, Netflix subscribers still have plenty to look forward to in terms of new shows and seasons slated to come out either this year or in 2027. The streaming giant has been producing original series since 2013, and every year has seen them put out some of the most exceptional TV shows in the medium's modern history. With new shows like East of Eden and returning gems like Beef, this year has so far been no exception. And with series like Unaccustomed Earth still set to come out later in 2026, and the new season of masterpieces like Blue Eye Samurai scheduled for 2027, now's about as great a time as any to be a Netflix subscriber. There are multiple different reasons to look forward to these upcoming shows, and pure hype is probably the main one. There's such buzz and high-energy anticipation surrounding these projects, the team involved in their creation, and their production backgrounds that there's simply no way to think of these shows coming out soon and not be instantly filled with extreme excitement. Regardless of how well they actually turn out by the time they hit the small screen, one thing is certain, and that's that fans can't wait to experience all that they have to offer. 6 'The Hunting Wives' (2025–) Season 2 Premieres on November 26th, 2026 Image via Netflix Published back in 2021, the May Cobb domestic thriller novel The Hunting Wives wasn't an immediate hit, making the author feel like her career had plateaued. However, after Rebecca Cutter adapted the book as a Netflix series starring Brittany Snow and Malin Åkerman, the result ended up becoming the number one series on the streaming giant and turning Cobb's source material into a cultural phenomenon. The show's first season is a gripping piece of suspense television focused on a woman who moves from Massachusetts to a fictional East Texas town, where she's pulled into the dangerous world of an elite socialite's secret hunting and social club. Later, she becomes a prime murder suspect when a young woman's body is found in the woods. The show's first season was exceptionally entertaining and one of the most noteworthy sleeper hits of the streaming world from 2025. Just like the show's first season was exceptionally entertaining and one of the most noteworthy sleeper hits of the streaming world from 2025, season two of The Hunting Wives is one of many must-watch Netflix shows coming out in November. With the narrative heating up around an active police investigation and the promise that this new season will be even bigger and more twist-filled than the last, fans definitely have a lot more to look forward to by the end of November. As far as hype goes, few upcoming Netflix series seem more exciting than this second season of The Hunting Wives. 5 'Unaccustomed Earth' (2026) Premieres on December 17th Image via Netflix Executive-produced by the likes of John Wells, who also executive-produces The Pitt (one of those medical dramas where every episode's a masterpiece), Unaccustomed Earth is based on the collection of short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri. It's the incredible follow-up to Lahiri's first collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In it, a mother returns to her tight-knit Indian-American community in Massachusetts after a sudden medical diagnosis, reuniting with a long-lost college love and sparking a scandalous affair that upends multiple generations. Everything that ensues should prove to be every bit as dramatic as it sounds. Starring Freida Pinto and Siddharth in what will surely be a remarkable pair of lead performances, Unaccustomed Earth should benefit from also having Jhumpa Lahiri herself on board as another executive producer, which should ensure that the show will honor the deep emotional and thematic resonance of her book and prose. Indeed, this is as high-quality of a team of creatives as any Netflix show could ever get, and that should keep both people who love the source material and people who have never even heard of it unbelievably hyped. It's not often that Netflix delivers a show this high-caliber that puts such a spotlight on Bengali-American culture, offering a deeply nuanced portrait of the South Asian diaspora as a whole. 4 'The Altruists' (2026) Premieres on November 19th Image via Netflix Graham Moore began his career on the writing team of the short-lived 10 Things I Hate About You TV show, later becoming a celebrated novelist and then going on to win an Academy Award for his first-ever feature film screenplay, for The Imitation Game. Later this month, the writer will make his triumphant return to the small screen with The Altruists, which he serves as creator, writer, director, and executive producer on. Starring Julia Garner and featuring the participation of stars like Anthony Boyle and Hudson Williams, this docudrama will follow the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, focusing on the company's founder and his business and romantic partner. This is one of those upcoming miniseries that people just can't miss, also counting with the executive production of Barack and Michelle Obama as if Moore's name and that star-studded cast weren't already reason enough to tune in. With the explosive true-crime subject matter and what will surely be a very unique thematic lens through which to view one of the biggest financial scandals of the 21st century, there's virtually no reason to think that The Altruists will be anything less than enthralling. Moore has promised that the show will be framed as a kind of high-stakes toxic love story rather than just feeling like a dry Wikipedia article come to life, which is a naturally hype-worthy premise. Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which Netflix Character Would Be Your Best Friend? Dustin · Emily · Wednesday · Gi-hun Some friends drag you out of the house. Some sit with you on the worst night of your life. Netflix has written both, plus the one who tells you the truth you have been avoiding all week. Answer eight quick questions about how you actually do friendship, and find out which of them was always going to end up in your corner. 🧢Dustin(Stranger Things) 🗼Emily(Emily in Paris) 🕷️Wednesday(Wednesday) 🟢Gi-hun(Squid Game) FIND YOUR BEST FRIEND → 01 How do you usually end up making a new friend? The origin story says a lot about the friendship that follows it. AWe got loud about the same obsession and never stopped. BThey invited me somewhere before we had properly met. CWe bonded over disliking exactly the same thing. DThey noticed I was struggling and stayed with me. NEXT QUESTION → 02 What is a perfect Saturday with your best friend? Friendship is mostly built out of very ordinary hours. AA ridiculous plan neither of us should attempt. BSomewhere new, photographed heavily, ending very late. CSomewhere quiet, few people, zero small talk. DSomething simple, and a conversation that actually matters. NEXT QUESTION → 03 You call them at two in the morning. What happens? This is the real test of a friendship, and everybody knows it. AThey are already putting their shoes on. BThey answer instantly and turn it into a plan. CThey answer and say something unflattering and true. DThey listen for an hour and never check the time. NEXT QUESTION → 04 What do you want from them when you are clearly wrong? The best friendships are the ones that survive being corrected. ASupport first. We can review the mistake later. BA relentlessly positive reframe of the entire disaster. CThe blunt version. Do not soften it for me. DPatience, and no judgment about how I got here. NEXT QUESTION → 05 What do your friends actually value about you? The friend you attract says something about the friend you are. AI am all in, always, about everything. BI can turn almost any situation into a good time. CI say the thing nobody else in the room will. DI look after whoever is having the worst day. NEXT QUESTION → 06 You have a falling out. How does it go? How a friendship repairs itself matters more than how it breaks. ALoudly, briefly, then back to normal by Tuesday. BThey apologise first, enthusiastically, with a gift. CCold silence, then one dry joke that fixes everything. DWe talk until we both understand what actually happened. NEXT QUESTION → 07 What do you actually need a best friend for? Everybody is missing something. The right friend fills that gap. ATo make my life bigger than it would be alone. BTo push me out of the house and into my own life. CTo catch me when I start lying to myself. DTo be the person who never gave up on me. NEXT QUESTION → 08 Ten years from now, what keeps the two of you close? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides who you get. AWe would still drop everything for each other, instantly. BWe still make plans, and we still actually go. CWe still cut through each other's nonsense in one sentence. DThey stood by me once when it cost them something. REVEAL MY BEST FRIEND → The Group Chat Has Spoken Your Best Friend Is…Four Netflix characters, four completely different ways of showing up for somebody. This is the one who fits how you actually do friendship, and what having them in your life would be like. Dustin HendersonYou do not do friendship at half volume, and neither does he. What you want is somebody who says yes to the plan before you have finished describing the plan. Dustin is the friend the entire show runs on: loyal past the point of sense, enthusiastic about everything, and incapable of leaving anybody behind. You have the same instinct. Your friendships are loud, specific and slightly ridiculous, and they last for decades because of it. He is also the one person who would take your strangest interest completely seriously, which is far rarer than it sounds. You would have a group chat. It would never once be quiet. Emily CooperYou are the friend who makes things happen, and so is she. Together you would be mildly exhausting to everyone around you and completely delighted with yourselves. Emily treats an ordinary Tuesday as something that could be turned into an occasion, which is either the best or the worst quality in a friend depending on your energy levels. You share her refusal to sit still. Neither of you has ever accepted a night in when something was happening somewhere else. She is far more loyal than people give her credit for. She defends her friends loudly, publicly, and occasionally before checking the facts. She would post the photo without asking. You would forgive her, because it is a very good photo. Wednesday AddamsYou have no patience for pleasant lies, and she has no ability to tell them. What looks like coldness from the outside is the most reliable friendship on this list. Wednesday never says a kind thing she does not mean, which makes the rare ones count for an enormous amount. You would rather be told the truth than be made comfortable. She is constitutionally incapable of offering you anything else. Underneath all of it she is ferociously protective. She simply refuses to make a performance out of caring. Do not expect a birthday message. Do expect her to ruin anyone who wrongs you. Seong Gi-hunYou look after whoever is having the worst day. So does he. It is the least strategic way to move through the world and the best possible quality in a friend. Gi-hun is not the strongest player in Squid Game, or the cleverest. He is the one who keeps choosing to protect somebody else, over and over, at genuine cost to himself. You have the same instinct. You notice who is struggling and you stay with them, long after anybody would blame you for leaving. He is a flawed friend, and that is part of why it lands. He lets people down, then comes back and tries again, which is more than most manage. He would give you his last chance and never once mention that he had done it. ↻ RETAKE THE QUIZ 3 'Scooby-Doo: Origins' (2027) Premiere TBD Image via Netflix By this point in time, the whole Scooby-Doo franchise needs pretty much no introduction. One of the longest-running animated franchises in history, Scooby-Doo is a multimedia giant that began all the way back in 1969, with the original broadcast of the Hanna-Barbera classic cartoon on CBS. Since then, show after show and film after film, Mystery Incorporated have only kept further establishing themselves as some of the most iconic characters in the modern history of pop-culture. Next year, Netflix will give Scooby-Doo fans yet another reason to be excited: Scooby-Doo: Origins, a mystery prequel where the gang will be four teenagers solving a local supernatural mystery that may have been witnessed by a Great Dane puppy. Mckenna Grace as Daphne, Tanner Hagen as Shaggy, Abby Ryder Fortson as Velma, Maxwell Jenkins as Fred, and an actual Great Dane pup. Scooby-Doo: Origins will be the first live-action TV series in the whole franchise, and this time next year (assuming that the show, whose exact release date is still unconfirmed, has already come out by then), it should hopefully already be worthy of being counted among the best Scooby-Doo mysteries to date. Creators Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg have trustworthy resumes, and the cast couldn't possibly be more exciting: Mckenna Grace as Daphne, Tanner Hagen as Shaggy, Abby Ryder Fortson as Velma, Maxwell Jenkins as Fred, and an actual Great Dane pup as the iconic mystery-solving dog. 2 'Blue Eye Samurai' (2023–) Season 2 Premieres on January 19th, 2027 Image via Netflix People who think that animation is somehow a lesser medium than live-action have clearly not watched any of the top-tier adult animated series that Netflix have produced throughout the last decade. Case in point: Blue Eye Samurai, one of the best samurai TV shows of all time, and perhaps even one of the most perfect animated shows in history—at least so far. The first season followed a half-white-half-Japanese warrior seeking vengeance against four white men illegally remaining in Japan after the closing of its borders during the Edo period, and the series' upcoming second season will continue to follow Mizu's bloody quest for revenge. Undoubtedly one of the most hype-worthy upcoming seasons of any Netflix show, the second season of Blue Eye Samurai definitely has big shoes to fill, but it hasn't given any signs to make fans believe it won't fully succeed. With Mizu now hunting down the remaining men responsible for her origin in 17th-century England rather than her native Japan, there should be plenty of exciting culture-clash elements to look forward to, as well as new aesthetics that should match the jaw-dropping visuals of the first season. 1 'Pride and Prejudice' (2026) Premieres on December 3rd Image via Netflix Netflix always knows how to give subscribers the best holiday gifts, and this year, that gift should be the latest adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The original novel is among the most important texts in the history of romantic English literature, and as such, it's no surprise that it has been adapted as often as it has over the course of cinema and television's histories. But with Netflix money and the involvement of thespians like Emma Corrin, Jack Lowden, and Olivia Colman, this has the potential to be one of the best adaptations of that essential 19th-century classic to date. That's why, when it comes to ranking upcoming Netflix shows by hype, there's no series more deserving of the top spot than Dolly Alderton and Euros Lyn's Pride and Prejudice. Writer Alderton is an author and screenwriter known for her sharp, witty, romantic, and deeply emotional writing; and with work in shows like Doctor Who, Daredevil, and Heartstopper under his belt, Lyn's name is also one to trust. It seems like a truly elite team has been put together to deliver the best-possible adaptation and modernization of Pride and Prejudice, so there's nothing to feel in relation to this show that's not pure hype. Pride and Prejudice Release Date December 3, 2026 Network Netflix Directors Euros Lyn Writers Dolly Alderton