Dubbed “action-packed but disappointing” in Therese Lacson‘s review for Collider, Outer Banksreturned for its fifth and final season last week and immediately stormed to the top of the streaming charts. The return of John B (Chase Stokes), Sarah (Madelyn Cline), Kiara (Madison Bailey), Pope (Jonathan Daviss), and Cleo (Carlacia Grant) for one more season of twists, turns, and laughs was always going to be a hit, with no series currently managing to come close to its popularity on Netflix. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t other shows worth watching. With that in mind, here are three shows you should binge-watch on Netflix this week.
Disclaimer: These titles are available on US Netflix.
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‘Yellowjackets’ (2021–Present)
Rotten Tomatoes: 92% | IMDb: 7.7/10
Not only have we been treated to the first teaser footage for Season 4 of the hit series Yellowjackets, but this past week we learned that it will officially debut on Paramount+ on November 20. Ahead of its arrival, whether you’ve watched before or it has thus far passed you by, why not begin a binge of one of the most indulgent, inventive thrillers of the decade on Netflix?
Following a talented high school girls’ soccer team that becomes stranded in the remote Canadian wilderness after a plane crash, Yellowjackets blends a time-weaving story with some truly terrific performances for a series you won’t want to put down. Having earned 10 Primetime Emmy nominations so far, the series is a huge hit with both fans and critics, with the many twists and turns all culminating in one explosive final season this November.
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Collider Exclusive · Horror Survival Quiz Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving? Jason Voorhees · Michael Myers · Freddy Krueger · Pennywise · Chucky
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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
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🪆Chucky
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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.
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Where are you most likely to find yourself when things go wrong? Setting is everything in horror. Where you are determines which rules apply.
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What is your most reliable survival asset? Every survivor has a quality the villain didn’t account for. What’s yours?
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What kind of fear is hardest for you to fight through? Knowing your weakness is the first step to not dying because of it.
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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.
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What’s the horror movie mistake you’re most likely to make? Honest self-assessment is a survival skill. Denial is not.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Camp Crystal Lake · Friday the 13th
Jason Voorhees
Jason 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.
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Haddonfield, Illinois · Halloween
Michael Myers
Michael 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.
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Elm Street · A Nightmare on Elm Street
Freddy Krueger
Freddy 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.
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Derry, Maine · It
Pennywise
Pennywise 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.
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Chicago · Child’s Play
Chucky
Chucky’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.
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‘Revival’ (2025)
Rotten Tomatoes: 90% | IMDb: 6.5/10
Netflix is known for resurrecting plenty of hidden gems, adding them to its catalog and boosting their popularity. The latest to receive this treatment is Revival, which aired last summer on SyFy and has only been available on PVOD since. Starting Monday, August 24, you can stream each of the show’s 10 episodes on Netflix, making for the perfect week-long binge.
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This intelligent supernatural series begins on a seemingly normal day in rural Wisconsin, when the dead are suddenly revived. However, they do not reappear in zombie form; instead, they return seemingly exactly how they were before they died. The task of putting the pieces together on this strange puzzle falls to Officer and single mother Dana Cypress (Melanie Scrofano). Also starring Romy Weltman as Martha, David James Elliot as Wayne, Andy McQueen as Ibrahim, and more, this true 2025 gem should be at the top of your watchlist.
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‘The Four Seasons’ (2025–Present)
Rotten Tomatoes: 82% | IMDb: 7.2/10
One of the best returning shows on Netflix this year so far has been The Four Seasons, and it’s about time you caught up. This adaptation of the 1981 movie of the same name stars Nick (Steve Carell), who, after divorcing his wife of 25 years, Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver), brings his much younger new girlfriend along on a trip with their close-knit, lifelong friendship group, altering the dynamics forever.
This cozy, often hilarious, and always relatable comedy doesn’t just feature Carell and Kenney-Silver; it boasts one of the most exciting ensembles in streaming comedy today, also starring Tina Fey, Will Forte, Marco Clavani, Erika Henningsen, Colman Domingo, Julia Lester, and Ashlyn Maddox. Each of these many stars has perfect chemistry with each other, capturing every eye-roll, awkward glance, knowing smile, and heartfelt moment that comes with lifelong friendship. For a slice of joy this week, don’t miss The Four Seasons.
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Release Date
2025 – 2026-00-00
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Network
Netflix
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Directors
Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman, Oz Rodriguez, Colman Domingo, Jeff Richmond, Lang Fisher
Writers
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Dylan Morgan, John Riggi, Josh Siegal, Lang Fisher, Lisa Muse Bryant, Matt Whitaker, Tina Fey, Tracey Wigfield, Vali Chandrasekaran
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