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    From fierce female wrestlers to chilling crimes based on true events, these are the series critics love.

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We've all experienced it: being so overwhelmed by streaming offerings that we spend more time scrolling through options than actually enjoying a new show or movie. Netflix, for one, has an incredibly vast stable of original TV shows, in many languages and of almost every genre you can think of. How are you supposed to choose what to watch next? Fortunately, the site Rotten Tomatoes, which aggregates expert reviews, has your back. To help you narrow down your next binge, we've rounded up the top 50 shows on Netflix right now, according to critics.
To keep things manageable and mostly fiction-based, we excluded docuseries and reality shows from this list. (We can assure you, however, that the baking fail competition show Nailed It! is worth your time.) Ahead, you'll find drama, comedy, thrillers, horror, and several combinations of two or more of those things. So read on to learn about the prevailing critical opinion of your favorite Netflix series and maybe find a few acclaimed gems you've yet to start. And for more classic TV you loved tuning into, check out The 40 Longest-Running American TV Shows of All Time.

                50 | Queen Sono
            
        NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 91 percent

                49 | Teenage Bounty Hunters
            
        Tina Rowden/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 91 percent
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                48 | Gentefied
            
        Kevin Estrada/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 91 percent

                47 | The Last Kingdom
            
        Joe Alblas/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 91 percent

                46 | Medical Police
            
        NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 92 percent

                45 | Marvel's Daredevil
            
        David Lee/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 92 percent
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                44 | GLOW
            
        Ali Goldstein/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 92 percent

                43 | Carmen Sandiego
            
        NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 93 percent
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                42 | The Midnight Gospel
            
        NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 93 percent

                41 | Money Heist
            
        NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 93 percent
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                40 | Castlevania
            
        NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 93 percent

                39 | Bodyguard
            
        Sophie Mutevelian/World Productions/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 93 percent
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                38 | Peaky Blinders
            
        Robert Viglasky/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 93 percent

                37 | The End of the .... World
            
        NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 93 percent

                36 | The Haunting of Hill House
            
        Steve Dietl/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 93 percent

                35 | Bojack Horseman
            
        NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 93 percent

                34 | Stranger Things
            
        NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 93 percent

                33 | Love
            
        Suzanne Hanover/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 94 percent

                32 | Sex Education
            
        Jon Hall/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 94 percent

                31 | Cobra Kai
            
        Guy D'Alema/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 94 percent

                30 | On My Block
            
        Gilles Mingasson/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 95 percent

                29 | Unorthodox
            
        Anika Molnar/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 95 percent

                28 | Dark
            
        Julia Terjung/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 95 percent

                27 | Dear White People
            
        Lara Solanki/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 95 percent

                26 | Kingdom
            
        Juhan Noh/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 96 percent

                25 | Special
            
        NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 96 percent

                24 | I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
            
        Lara Solanki/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 96 percent

                23 | Never Have I Ever
            
        Lara Solanki/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 96 percent

                22 | When They See Us
            
        Atsushi Nishijima/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 96 percent

                21 | A Series of Unfortunate Events
            
        Joe Lederer/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 96 percent

                20 | Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
            
        Eric Liebowitz/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 96 percent

                19 | Elite
            
        Manuel Fernandez-Valdes/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 97 percent

                18 | Lady Dynamite
            
        Beth Dubber/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 97 percent

                17 | She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
            
        NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 97 percent

                16 | Russian Doll
            
        NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 97 percent

                15 | Mindhunter
            
        Patrick Harbron/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 98 percent

                14 | Lovesick
            
        Brian Sweeney/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 98 percent

                13 | Tuca & Bertie
            
        NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 98 percent

                12 | Unbelievable
            
        Beth Dubber/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 98 percent

                11 | American Vandal
            
        Scott Patrick Green/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 98 percent

                10 | Alias Grace
            
        Sabrina Lantos/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 99 percent

                9 | Big Mouth
            
        NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 99 percent

                8 | One Day at a Time
            
        Ali Goldstein/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 99 percent

                7 | Crazyhead
            
        Steffan Hill/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 100 percent

                6 | Middleditch & Schwartz
            
        Jeffery Neira/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 100 percent

                5 | Girl/Haji
            
        NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 100 percent

                4 | Feel Good
            
        Eric Liebowitz/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 100 percent

                3 | Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return
            
        NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 100 percent

                2 | The Baby-Sitters Club
            
        Kailey SchwerRotten Tomatoes score: 100 percent

                1 | Master of None
            
        K.C. Bailey/NetflixRotten Tomatoes score: 100 percent
 
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