3 Elite Series to Binge on Netflix This Weekend (Oct 24-25)

The Debora Cahn-created political thriller The Diplomat has grown from strength to strength since its 2023 debut, recently returning for a fourth season that has blown both critics and audiences away. Keri Russell‘s Kate Wyler returns for an even tougher test in Season 4, this time joining forces with First Gentleman Todd Penn to stop an alliance between President Grace Penn and her husband. The streaming world can’t stop talking about The Diplomat, but several other shows should also be part of the conversation. With that in mind, here’s a look at three shows you should binge-watch on Netflix this weekend.

For more recommendations, check out our list of the best shows and movies on Netflix.

Disclaimer: These titles are available on US Netflix.

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‘Blindspotting’ (2021–2023)

Rotten Tomatoes: 100% | IMDb: 6.6/10

Earlier this week, the Netflix catalog was blessed with the addition of one of this decade’s most underrated shows that was cruelly cancelled before its time. Blindspotting, a sequel to Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal‘s 2018 film of the same name, follows struggling mother Ashley Rose (Jasmine Cephas Jones) as her life is upended when her partner of 12 years is incarcerated.

Also starring the likes of Benjamin Earl Turner, Atticus Woodward, Jaylen Barron, Candace Nicholas-Lippman, and Academy Award winner Helen Hunt, this two-season series was at the top of its game when it was given the ax, although low viewership and the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes were major factors. Three years on, it’s time to look back and appreciate the 16 episodes we did have in all their dark comedic glory.

Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you
handle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive
the trilogy, and probably headline it.

You are precision with a grudge. You don’t posture, you don’t
escalate, and you don’t warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are
so careful never to be the reason you start.

• The Wick films run on discipline: an underworld with actual etiquette, a hero who
  honours every rule of it, and a world that unravels the instant someone breaks one
  against him.
• You share that quality. You are extraordinarily reasonable right up to the line, and
  then completely immovable past it.
• Focus, commitment and sheer will. You’d be the one carrying grief through three sequels
  and turning it into technique rather than noise.
• People wouldn’t call you dangerous. They’d say your name quietly and let that do the
  work.

You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about:
the cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and
you’d drive through a building for any one of them.

• This series went from street racing to orbit without ever changing its actual subject,
  because loyalty scales and plot doesn’t have to.
• You have the same instinct. You build a family out of whoever turns up, and then you
  defend it past the point of reason.
• You’d thrive here because the franchise rewards exactly your strengths: warmth, nerve,
  an absolute refusal to leave anyone behind, and a relaxed relationship with physics.
• The mission can wait. The barbecue cannot.

You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself
anyway. It looks like control, but it’s really responsibility. You have never worked out how
to ask somebody else to carry the risk.

• This is the franchise of the plan that collapses on schedule: the team, the mask, the
  rooftop, and the one person sprinting flat out because sprinting is all that’s left.
• You share that refusal to accept an outcome. Told the odds, you treat them as an
  administrative error.
• You’d thrive here because these films reward competence and loyalty in equal measure.
  The mission matters, but nobody on the team gets left on the wrong side of a door.
• Some people delegate the cliff. You have never once been that person.

You are not the most trained person in the building, the best
equipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the
end, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.

• Die Hard invented the modern action hero by making him mortal: outgunned, out-planned,
  bleeding, and extremely funny about it.
• You share that stubbornness. Adversity doesn’t make you noble, it makes you sarcastic,
  and then it makes you unstoppable.
• You’d thrive here because these films reward improvisation and nerve over preparation,
  and you’ve never had the luxury of preparing anyway.
• You didn’t want any of this. You just declined to be the person who let it happen.

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‘Lupin’ (2021–Present)

Rotten Tomatoes: 98% | IMDb: 7.5/10

The most exciting returning series to Netflix this week is, without doubt, the French heist thriller Lupin for a must-watch fourth season. If you have yet to watch the series, now is the perfect time to catch up. Created by George Kay and François Uzan, the series follows Assane Diop (Omar Sy), a gentleman thief who sets out on a mission to avenge his father.

Charismatic, charming, and effortlessly cool, Sy’s Assane is utterly captivating in every moment of this retelling of the classic French story. But Sy’s performance isn’t the only impressive thing in this acclaimed show, with talented writers, directors, and actors all helping bring this electric heist series to life over four seasons and counting. Join the rest of the world in a binge-watch of Lupin this weekend.

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‘Nobody Wants This’ (2024–Present)

Rotten Tomatoes: 95% | IMDb: 7.8/10

If a French heist thriller isn’t to your taste but you still want something fresh this weekend, then don’t miss out on the brand-new third season of Nobody Wants This on Netflix. This hit rom-com stars Adam Brody and Kristen Bell as a rabbi and a sex podcaster who become the most unlikely romantic pairing in Los Angeles, as they navigate the trials and tribulations of relationships in a chaotic modern world.

Brody and Bell, who were both nominated for Outstanding Lead Acting in a Comedy at the Primetime Emmys, shine in this brilliantly indulgent and easy-to-watch Netflix gem. They are joined by a talented ensemble, including the likes of Timothy Simons and Jackie Tohn, who have also returned in Season 3. Joanne and Noah have moved in together in the latest season, opening up a whole new world of problems to be hilariously solved.

Nobody Wants This