Best TV Shows of All Time on Netflix
Last updated August 13, 2025
Highest Rated TV Shows with a 4.0 / 5 Star Rating
Damages: Season 1
2007 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsThis legal drama stars Glenn Close as steely litigator Patty Hewes, head of the revered Hewes & Associates. Dedicated to their work, Patty, protégé Ellen Parsons and senior associate Tom Shayes battle CEO Arthur Frobisher in a class-action suit.
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Damages: Season 2
2009 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsThis season of the legal thriller finds attorney Ellen Parsons -- once a wide-eyed associate -- hardened into a cynical attorney in her own right. She's out for justice, and she may give her calculating mentor, Patty Hewes, a run for her money.
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Damages: Season 3
2010 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsGlenn Close returns as ruthless litigator Patty Hewes in this Emmy-winning drama, which follows the lawyer's merciless, win-at-any-cost schemes and her devious attempts to manipulate hotshot young protégé Ellen Parsons.
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Damages: Season 4
2011 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsThree years after their last uneasy alliance, lawyers Patty Hewes and Ellen Parsons become reluctant allies when Patty files a class action suit against a pharmaceutical giant and Ellen investigates a U.S. military contractor working in Afghanistan.
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Damages: Season 5
2012 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsThe man behind a controversial Internet site dedicated to government and business transparency gets sued when his latest information leak creates disastrous fallout, setting the stage for a decisive showdown between Patty and Ellen.
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Dance Academy: Series 1
2010 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsFifteen-year-old Tara Webster is overjoyed when she's accepted into the National Academy of Dance -- the best school in Australia. But Tara soon finds out that there's more to surviving the Academy than just dancing.
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Degrassi High: Season 1
1989 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsIt's the return of everyone's favourite gang at Degrassi High - with a few new friends along the way! As the students get older, the issues they face get more complex, such as date abuse, cancer, abortion and activism. A little levity never too far behind, the Degrassi teens also keep things entertaining with initiation, parties, crushes, rock and roll and even pies in the face.
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Degrassi High: Season 2
1990 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsIt's the return of everyone's favourite gang at Degrassi High - with a few new friends along the way! As the students get older, the issues they face get more complex, such as date abuse, cancer, abortion and activism. A little levity never too far behind, the Degrassi teens also keep things entertaining with initiation, parties, crushes, rock and roll and even pies in the face.
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Dollhouse: Season 1
2009 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsAn organization sends its operatives on missions and then wipes their memories of the assignment when completed. When agent Echo starts having troubling memories, she begins to question who she is and what the organization is doing.
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Dollhouse: Season 2
2009 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsEcho and company return for a second and final season of this intriguing sci-fi series centered on a group of brainwashed operatives controlled by a shadowy organization. Meanwhile, FBI agent Paul Ballard is obsessed with exposing the Dollhouse.
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Drop Dead Diva: Season 1
2009 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsThanks to a heavenly mix-up, a rail-thin, super-shallow model finds herself reincarnated as a whip-smart, large-size lawyer in this Lifetime dramedy. At first distraught by her new physique, Jane soon realizes something else is new -- her brain!
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Drop Dead Diva: Season 2
2010 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsWhile settling into her role as plus-sized attorney Jane Bingum, reincarnated model Deb Dobkins discovers that Jane has a husband. Meanwhile, Jane could face disbarment after violating attorney-client confidentiality.
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Drop Dead Diva: Season 3
2011 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsThis season finds the spirit of svelte, empty-headed model Deb Dobkins -- who's been reincarnated into the body of plus-sized lawyer Jane Bingum -- taking on more cases that help her discover what being beautiful really means.
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Farscape: Season 1
1999 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsWhile on an experimental space voyage, astronaut John Crichton is suddenly propelled into a wormhole that catapults him across the universe and into the middle of a clash between escaped alien inmates and militaristic authorities.
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Farscape: Season 2
2000 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsAs this season begins, the Moya's crew is forced to abandon the sentient ship's newborn to a Peacekeeper so they can continue their journey. But they must soon deal with the consequences -- and a host of hostile aliens.
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Farscape: Season 3
2001 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsRound three of this innovative sci-fi series continues to follow astronaut John Crichton and his ongoing battle against archnemesis Scorpius, the search for a way home to Earth and Crichton's persistent pursuit of romance with Aeryn Sun.
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Farscape: Season 4
2002 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsIn the show's fourth (and final) season, John Crichton's quiet life aboard a dying Leviathan is interrupted by an alien and a band of mercenaries. Later, a group of bounty hunters boards the Moya and imprisons the crew.
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Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
2009 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsWhile humanity awaits the dawn of the Green Age, ancient forces return to screw up everything, leaving Fry as the best hope for the universe -- yikes! -- in this feature-length installment. Also, Fry falls for a fembot, and Leela goes on the run.
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G.I. Joe: Renegades: Season 1
2010 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsPursued by authorities for crimes they did not commit, a team of elite G.I.s are forced to become renegades as they seek to prove their innocence, all while taking on high-tech foes from Cobra Industries, a shadowy company bent on world domination.
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George Gently: Series 1
2007 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsIn 1960s Britain, London police officer George Gently moves to England's North Country to solve the hit-and-run murder of his wife. Feared by criminals and corrupt cops, George also works with his partner, John, to stop lawbreakers of all types.
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George Gently: Series 2
2009 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsIn Series 2, a murder investigation uncovers shocking abuses in a former home for children, clues to a murder lead to a seedy hostess club, and an apparent suicide might actually be foul play.
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George Gently: Series 3
2010 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsIn this rural British detective series set in the 1960s, Inspector George Gently investigates a young woman's murder and a child's disappearance, and also looks into a mysterious death possibly linked to the anti-nuclear protest movement.
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George Gently: Series 4
2011 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsMartin Shaw is back as Inspector George Gently, a by-the-book cop from London now working in the northeast of England, a corner of the country that's just starting to experience the social changes sweeping the rest of 1960s Britain.
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H2O: Just Add Water: Season 1
2006 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsWhen three teenage girls -- Cleo , Emma and Rikki -- wander into a mystical pool while stranded on an isolated island during a full moon, they turn into mermaids with magical power, a secret they try to hide when they return home.
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H2O: Just Add Water: Season 2
2007 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsEmma, Rikki and Cleo are teenagers with a secret: They're mermaids! The girls deal with superpowers, mishaps and crushes on boys, but when ambitious and determined new girl Charlotte crashes the scene, everything changes.
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