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3 Elite Series to Binge on Netflix This Weekend (September 5-6)

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For the past week, Netflix has been dominated by the big new movie on the streaming block, The Whisper Man. Starring Robert De Niro, Adam Scott, and Michelle Monaghan, the crime thriller is directed by James Ashcroft and based on the bestselling novel by Alex North, with this cocktail of talent helping shoot the film to the top of the streaming charts. The Whisper Man “doesn’t exactly reinvent the formula or offer anything particularly fresh, but it’s a solid and extremely eerie watch nonetheless,” wrote Collider’s David Caballero in his review. But with The Whisper Man now last week’s news, what should you be watching this weekend? To help you decide, here’s a list of three shows you should binge-watch on Netflix.

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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‘Major Crimes’ (2012–2018)

Rotten Tomatoes: 75% | IMDb: 7.8/10

On September 3, all six seasons of a hit police procedural joined Netflix. This weekend, don’t miss out on a binge-watch of Major Crimes, which aired between 2012 and 2018 on TNT as a continuation spin-off of The Closer, the Kyra Sedgwick-led seven-season hit from the mid-2000s.

Set in the same police division as The Closer, which is now headed by Mary McDonnell‘s lead officer of the Major Crimes Division, Sharon Raydor, Major Crimes follows her attempt to rebuild trust within a broken team while fighting dangerous criminals in Los Angeles. Created by James Duff, this excellent spin-off is packed with action and drama, exploring both internal politics in the police force and a desperate hunt for justice on the streets of LA.

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Rambo

Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.

James Bond

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Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.

Indiana Jones

Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.

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John McClane

Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.

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Ethan Hunt

Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.

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‘The Gentlemen’ (2024–Present)

Rotten Tomatoes: 75% | IMDb: 8.0/10

A list of Netflix recommendations for this weekend would be incomplete without one of the streamer’s biggest returning shows of 2026. Guy Ritchies television spin-off of his 2019 film of the same name, The Gentlemen, proved an enormous hit when it debuted in 2024, scoring an impressive 12.2 million views globally in its first three days.

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Now the series is back and bigger than before, as the criminal empire run by Theo James‘ Eddie Horniman, Bobby (Ray Winstone), and Susie Glass (Kaya Scodelario) set their sights on expansion, for better or for worse. Hilarious, pulse-pounding, and brilliantly gritty, The Gentlemen is the best of Ritchie distilled into a series, and with the show already renewed for a third season, there’s plenty more still to come.

3

‘Never Have I Ever’ (2020–2023)

Rotten Tomatoes: 94% | IMDb: 7.8/10

If police procedurals and gangster series aren’t to your taste, then perhaps a coming-of-age comedy is more your speed. Created by the prolific Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher, Never Have I Ever follows first-generation Indian-American teenager Devi Vishwakumar (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) as she balances typical teen angst with complicated romance and an exploration of her identity in modern America.

Sometimes compared to the likes of The Summer I Turned Pretty, Sex Education, and another Kaling project, The Sex Lives of College Girls, this chaotic, heartfelt tale is sure to keep you hooked as you fall headfirst into the life of Devi. Not just a charming series perfect for fans of coming-of-age comedy, Never Have I Ever is also an important milestone in modern streaming as a breakthrough series for South Asian representation in mainstream American TV.

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Release Date

2020 – 2023-00-00

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Showrunner

Lang Fisher

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Lang Fisher

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