If Netflix autoplays these 5 shows, don’t skip them

Finding the next show to watch can be overwhelming with how flooded your recommendations seem, but occasionally the answer is right in front of you. Netflix gives you a preview of related programs after you’re done watching a title, and you can discover some incredible gems through this feature.

While I tend to skip previews for related content after a long streaming session, I sometimes let my algorithm take the reins, leading me to discover shows that I have binge-watched in one go. Here are some Netflix shows that you should not skip (or add to your watch list), because they are simply that addictive.

Travelers

Future meets past and present in this sci-fi thriller

Love sci-fi? Travelers is an addictive watch that is sure to send you down a binge-watching spiral. The show follows a group of operatives from hundreds of years in the future who send their consciousness back in time into people in the 21st century, taking over their host bodies, with the individuals picked as hosts being close to death so that the impact on the future is not huge.

Working in secret teams, they carry out high-stakes missions to prevent humanity’s collapse while trying to blend into the past reality. Simultaneously, they must stick to strict protocols and maintain contact with the director, an artificial intelligence quantum computer program monitoring the timeline from the future, who communicates with the group through prepubescent children.

Santa Clarita Diet

Get on Drew Barrymore’s smoothie diet, if you dare

Suburban comedy meets supernatural horror in this deadly, hilarious series. Santa Clarita Diet, led by Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant, focuses on Joel and Sheila Hammond, real estate agents and a long-term couple leading ordinary lives and raising their daughter, Abby. Soon, the family finds itself in a sticky situation when Sheila undergoes a metamorphosis, becomes undead, and starts craving human flesh. As the family hides her dangerous secret, they must also blend into the monotony of their neighborhood and life, keeping all suspicious eyes away from Sheila’s private affair.

Morbid humor and gripping writing carry you throughout the show’s three-season run, complemented by the lead cast’s amazing performances.

Dark

This show is the personification of an evidence board

This is one of my personal favorite sci-fi dramas on Netflix that I could not stop watching until I got through its three-season run. Dark is a German time-travel thriller that shares some similarities to Netflix’s golden child, Stranger Things. The web of complicated timelines follows an ensemble cast of four intertwined families from a small town, Winden, as their lives are thrown into chaos after a mysterious disappearance and unexplained murders. Spanning several timelines, the story takes you through a rollercoaster of events involving mysterious disappearances, time machines, and a cave that holds more secrets than Winden’s occupants.

Dark has the best casting in a show I have watched in a while and is a definite watch if you like time travel stories done differently.

Apple Cider Vinegar

One part of fraud and a dash of deception

Based on the true story of Australian wellness influencer and fraudster Belle Gibson, Apple Cider Vinegar is a psychological rollercoaster with a twisted lead character. Gibson is an influencer who fakes having cancer and competes with her friend Milla, an actual cancer survivor, with both of them using their big platforms to promote alternative medicine as a means to a cure. Gibson also uses her app, “The Whole Pantry,” to embezzle money and publishes a book outlining her fake cancer survival journey, earning her fame, money, and sponsorships.

Apple Cider Vinegar takes the audience through different points in Gibson’s life, stitching together how her scams and lies build up and, eventually, break apart.

The Gentlemen

With great money comes great responsibility

A spin-off of his film (also The Gentlemen), Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen is a comedic action thriller that entertains from the get-go. The crime drama is set in the world of British aristocracy and organized crime. It follows Eddie Horniman (Theo James), a former army captain of the United Nations, who unexpectedly inherits his family’s sprawling estate, only to discover that it is secretly home to a massive cannabis empire run by gangsters. As he tries to protect his family and navigate inherited debts, Eddie gets pulled deeper into the criminal underworld and forms unlikely alliances.

The Gentlemen has been renewed for a second season, which is expected to release sometime this year.

Are you on the lookout for more addictive shows to add to your watch list? Don’t forget to browse Netflix’s recommended titles (under any title’s preview) to find similar content. You can also surf Netflix’s Tudum for recommendations if you liked a certain show or movie.