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Note: This list of the 100 best shows on Netflix will be updated monthly as shows and seasons are added and removed from the service.
Because we know there is no such thing as watching too much TV, and since you’re always on the lookout for a new TV series to binge, we have pulled together our recommendations for the 100 best shows on Netflix right now.
From the best Netflix original series to shows that originally aired on other channels, everything you could possibly need to keep you firmly planted on your couch for as long as possible can be found below.
Are you ready to discover your latest viewing obsession? Good. Here we go… The 100 best shows on Netflix right now!
Descriptions for each show come from either Netflix, IMDb, Wikipedia, Google, or a combination thereof.
The 100 – 5 seasons, 81 episodes
Stars: Eliza Taylor, Paige Turco, Marie Avgeropoulos
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97 years after a devastating nuclear apocalypse wipes out almost all life on Earth, thousands of people live in a space station orbiting the planet, which they call the Ark, constructed of connecting space stations and spacecraft. 100 juvenile detainees are sent to Earth in a final attempt to determine whether it is habitable. The 100 attempt to survive the harsh surface conditions, battle hostile Grounders and establish communication with the Ark.
A Series of Unfortunate Events – 3 seasons, 25 episodes
Stars: Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Warburton, Malina Weissman
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Follows the misadventures of the three Baudelaire children, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny, following the deaths of their parents in the destruction of their home. While the children are shuffled between various foster homes, they are pursued by Count Olaf who desires to gain control of the vast Baudelaire inheritance before the children come of age. Along the way, the Baudelaires discover their parents’ connections to an elusive secret society.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – 5 seasons, 110 episodes
Stars: Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet
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The worldwide law-enforcement organization known as S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division) employs an elite team of agents who investigate strange occurrences around the globe and beyond. Its members — each of whom brings a specialty to the group — work to protect those who cannot protect themselves from extraordinary and inconceivable threats, including a formidable group known as Hydra.
Altered Carbon – 1 season, 10 episodes
Stars: Joel Kinnaman, Chris Conner, Renée Elise Goldsberry
More than 300 years in the future, society has been transformed by new technology, leading to human bodies being interchangeable and death no longer being permanent. Takeshi Kovacs is the only surviving soldier of a group of elite interstellar warriors who were defeated in an uprising against the new world order. His mind was imprisoned for centuries until impossibly wealthy businessman Laurens Bancroft offers him the chance to live again. Kovacs will have to do something for Bancroft, though, if he wants to stay resurrected.
American Crime Story – 2 seasons, 19 episodes
Stars: Sterling K. Brown, Kenneth Choi, Darren Criss
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American Crime Story is a dramatization of true events. The first season, subtitled The People v. O. J. Simpson, presents the murder trial of O. J. Simpson. The second season, subtitled The Assassination of Gianni Versace, explores the murder of designer Gianni Versace by spree killer Andrew Cunanan.
American Horror Story – 7 seasons, 96 episodes
Stars: Sarah Paulson, Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates
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An anthology series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an insane asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a possessed farmhouse, a cult, and the apocalypse.
Another Life – 1 season, 10 episodes
Stars: Katee Sackhoff, Samuel Anderson, Blu Hunt
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After a massive alien artifact lands on Earth, astronaut Niko Breckinridge leads her young crew on an interstellar mission, facing unimaginable dangers as they go on a high-risk mission to track down its source and make first contact.
Arrested Development – 5 seasons, 84 episodes
Stars: Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Tambor, Michael Cera
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Michael Bluth finds himself forced to stay in Orange County and run the family real estate business after his father, George Bluth Sr., is sent to prison for committing white-collar crime. He tries to juggle the wants and needs of his spoiled and eccentric family while being a good role model for his teenage son, George Michael.
Arrow – 7 seasons, 160 episodes
Stars: Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, David Ramsey
When presumed-dead billionaire playboy Oliver Queen returns home to Starling City after five years stranded on a remote island in the Pacific, he hides the changes the experience had on him, while secretly seeking reconciliation with his ex, Laurel. By day he picks up where he left off, playing the carefree philanderer he used to be, but at night he dons the alter ego of Arrow and works to right the wrongs of his family and restore the city to its former glory.
Bates Motel – 5 seasons, 50 episodes
Stars: Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, Max Thieriot
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A contemporary prequel to Psycho, in a modern-day setting, that gives a portrayal of how Norman Bates’ psyche unravels through his teenage years, and how his complicated bond with his mother Norma forged a serial killer.
Beauty and the Beast – 4 seasons, 70 episodes
Stars: Kristin Kreuk, Jay Ryan, Nina Lisandrello
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While investigating a murder, Detective Catherine Chandler, discovers a clue that leads her to Dr. Vincent Keller, a man who supposedly died in Afghanistan in 2002. She realizes that she has met him before, years earlier when he saved her from an assault that left her mother dead, and that he suffers from a condition that causes rage to turn him into a monster, which has forced him out of society. Catherine agrees to keep his identity secret in exchange for his help untangling the truth about her mother’s murder.
Better Call Saul – 3 seasons, 30 episodes
Stars: Bob Odenkirk, Rhea Seehorn, Jonathan Banks
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Set six years before he begins to represent Albuquerque’s most notorious criminal, Saul Goodman is Jimmy McGill, a small-time attorney hustling to make a name for himself. He’s a forceful champion for his low-income clients, an underdog whose morals and ambitions often clash. Jimmy works with private eye Mike Ehrmantraut, a former Philadelphia cop and recent transplant to the Southwest. Mike has a specialized skill set — he’s a “fixer” of sticky situations — that Jimmy soon learns to appreciate.
Big Mouth – 2 seasons, 21 episodes
Stars: Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, Jessi Klein
The series follows Andrew and 7th grader friends as they navigate their way through puberty with struggles like: masturbation, and sexual arousal all in the suburbs of New York City. Andrew is learning that first hand as he experiences the nightmare that is growing up in this animated series geared toward adults. Along for the ride are friends Nick and Jessi, who develop a budding romance along the way.
Black Lightning – 2 seasons, 29 episodes
Stars: Cress Williams, China Anne McClain, Nafessa Williams
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High school principal Jefferson Pierce, who retired from his superhero persona Black Lightning nine years ago after seeing the effects it had on his family, is forced to become a vigilante again when the rise of the local gang called The 100 leads to increased crime and corruption in his community of Freeland.
Black Mirror – 5 seasons, 23 episodes
Stars: Anthony Mackie, Miley Cyrus, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
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Black Mirror is a science fiction anthology television series that examines modern society, particularly with regard to the unanticipated consequences of new technologies. Episodes are standalone, usually set in an alternative present or the near future, often with a dark and satirical tone.
The Blacklist – 5 seasons, 111 episodes
Stars: James Spader, Megan Boone, Diego Klattenhoff
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For decades, ex-government agent Raymond “Red” Reddington has been one of the globe’s most wanted fugitives. But then he agreed to work with the FBI to catch his “blacklist” of mobsters, spies and international terrorists — on the condition that he must work with profiler Elizabeth Keen. Red’s true intentions — choosing Liz, a woman with whom he seemingly has no connection — are unclear.
Bloodline – 3 seasons, 33 episodes
Stars: Kyle Chandler, Ben Mendelsohn, Linda Cardellini
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A family finds themselves forced to face their past full of dark secrets and scars when the black sheep returns home for the 45th anniversary of his parents’ seaside hotel.
Bodyguard – 1 season, 6 episodes
Stars: Richard Madden, Sophie Rundle, Vincent Franklin
The series is set around Police Sergeant David Budd, a British Army war veteran suffering from PTSD, who is now working for the Royalty and Specialist Protection Branch of London’s Metropolitan Police Service. He is assigned as the principal protection officer (PPO) for the ambitious Home Secretary Julia Montague, whose politics he despises.
BoJack Horseman – 5 seasons, 60 episodes
Stars: Will Arnett, Amy Sedaris, Alison Brie
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The series takes place mostly in Hollywood in an alternate world where humans and anthropomorphic animals live side by side. BoJack Horseman, the washed-up star of the 1990s sitcom Horsin’ Around, plans his big return to celebrity relevance with a tell-all autobiography to be written by his ghostwriter Diane Nguyen.
Breaking Bad – 5 seasons, 62 episodes
Stars: Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn
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The series tells the story of Walter White, a struggling and depressed high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with stage-3 lung cancer. Together with his former student Jesse Pinkman, White turns to a life of crime by producing and selling crystallized methamphetamine to secure his family’s financial future before he dies, while navigating the dangers of the criminal underworld.
Broadchurch – 3 seasons, 24 episodes
Stars: David Tennant, Olivia Colman, Jodie Whittaker
Broadchurch is a serial crime drama which focuses on police detectives Alec Hardy and Ellie Miller and the impact of grief, mutual suspicion and media attention the mysterious death of local 11-year-old Danny Latimer brings on the town and threatens to tear the community apart.
Cheers – 11 seasons, 275 episodes
Stars: Ted Danson, Rhea Perlman, Woody Harrelson
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The regulars of the Boston bar Cheers, owned by Sam Malone, a former major league baseball pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, share their experiences and lives with each other while drinking or working at the bar where everybody knows your name.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina – 2 seasons, 21 episodes
Stars: Kiernan Shipka, Ross Lynch, Lucy Davis
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The series is centered on the Archie Comics character Sabrina Spellman, who must reconcile her dual nature as a half-witch, half-mortal while fighting the evil forces that threaten her, her family and the daylight world humans inhabit.
The Confession Tapes – 2 seasons, 11 episodes
The Confession Tapes is a true crime television documentary series that presents cases of possible false confessions leading to murder convictions of the featured people. In each case, the documentary presents alternate views of how the crime could have taken place and features experts on false confessions, criminal law, miscarriages of justice and psychology.
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes – 1 season, 4 episodes
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Ted Bundy was one of America’s most notorious serial killers. He was convicted in the deaths of more than 30 women before being caught in 1978. Thirty years after Bundy’s 1989 execution, this docuseries brings together archival footage and audio recordings of Bundy that were made while he was on death row to provide the unique perspective of hearing the killer analyze his own life and motives.
Daredevil – 3 seasons, 39 episodes
Stars: Charlie Cox, Vincent D’Onofrio, Deborah Ann Woll
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Daredevil follows Matt Murdock, attorney by day and vigilante by night. Blinded in an accident as a child, Murdock uses his heightened senses as Daredevil to fight crime on the streets of New York after the sun goes down. While Murdock’s day job requires him to believe in the criminal justice system, his alter ego does not follow suit, leading him to take the law into his own hands to protect his Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood and the surrounding communities.
Dark – 2 seasons, 18 episodes
Stars: Louis Hofmann, Karoline Eichhorn, Stephan Kampwirth
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Dark concerns the aftermath of a child’s disappearance which exposes the secrets of, and hidden connections among, four estranged families as they slowly unravel a sinister time travel conspiracy which spans across three generations. Throughout the series, Dark explores the existential implications of time and its effects on human nature
Death By Magic – 1 season, 8 episodes
Stars: Drummond Money-Coutts
Death by Magic stars and was created by British magician Drummond Money-Coutts. It features Money-Coutts researching the myths and legends behind magic tricks and stunts that allegedly led to a performer’s death. After learning the details of the original stunt gone wrong, Money-Coutts attempts to recreate each performance.
Dexter – 8 seasons, 96 episodes
Stars: Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, Julie Benz
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The series centers on Dexter Morgan, a forensic technician specializing in blood spatter pattern analysis for the fictional Miami Metro Police Department, who leads a secret parallel life as a vigilante serial killer, hunting down murderers who have slipped through the cracks of the justice system.
The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann – 1 season, 8 episodes
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The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann takes a detailed look at the disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine McCann, who vanished from the seaside resort of Praia de Luz in Portugal, while on holiday with her family.
Evil Genius: the True Story of America’s Most Diabolical Bank Heist – 1 season, 4 episodes
Evil Genius: The True Story of America’s Most Diabolical Bank Heist is a 2018 true crime documentary series about the murder of Brian Wells, a high-profile 2003 incident often referred to as the “collar bomb” or “pizza bomber” case.
F Is for Family – 3 seasons, 26 episodes
Stars: Bill Burr, Laura Dern, Justin Long
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Set in the 1970s, this animated raunchy comedy is inspired by the life of stand-up comic Bill Burr, who is a co-creator and executive producer of the series. Burr also voices the character of Frank Murphy, a short-tempered veteran who lives in the suburbs with his wife, Sue and their three children. Frank, who works at an airport, has a penchant for shouting and profanity-filled rants.
The Fall – 3 seasons, 17 episodes
Stars: Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan, John Lynch
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Metropolitan Police Superintendent Stella Gibson, a senior investigating officer tasked with reviewing investigations, is seconded to the Police Service of Northern Ireland in order to assess the progress of a murder investigation that has remained active longer than 28 days. When it becomes apparent a serial killer is on the loose, local detectives must work with Stella to find and capture Paul Spector, who is attacking young professional women in the city of Belfast.
Fastest Car – 1 season, 8 episodes
In each episode, there are three sleeper cars going up against one supercar in a quarter-mile drag race. The winners of the first seven episodes get to move on to the championship at El Mirage dry lake bed.
The Flash – 5 seasons, 114 episodes
Stars: Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Danielle Panabaker
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The Flash is based on the DC Comics character Barry Allen/Flash, a costumed superhero crime-fighter with the power to move at superhuman speeds. It is a spin-off from Arrow, existing in the same fictional universe. The series follows Allen, a crime scene investigator who gains super-human speed, which he uses to fight criminals, including others who have also gained superhuman abilities
Formula 1: Drive to Survive – 1 season, 10 episodes
This docuseries gives viewers exclusive, intimate access to the people in one of the world’s greatest racing competitions. Formula 1: Drive to Survive reveals the true story of the high-octane sport, which goes beyond the fight to be No. 1. There’s also a battle for the heart, soul and direction of the multibillion-dollar business. Storylines include changes that a team undergoes after an ownership change and the pressure felt to outperform other drivers.
Friends – 10 seasons, 236 episodes
Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow
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The series depicts six friends’ comedic and romantic adventures and career issues, such as auditioning for roles or seeking jobs in the fashion industry. The characters each have many dates and serious relationships, with main characters Ross and Rachel’s intermittent relationship the most often-recurring storyline.
From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series – 3 seasons, 30 episodes
Stars: D.J. Cotrona, Zane Holtz, Jesse Garcia
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Bank robber Seth Gecko and his violent brother, Richie, are on the run — a robbery gone bad left several people dead — and the FBI and Texas Rangers are in pursuit. As they head for Mexico, the brothers meet the Fuller family heading the same way. They take the family hostage and continue the trip in the Fullers’ RV. Chaos breaks out when they stop at a bar to meet the cartel king who offered them shelter.
Frontier – 3 seasons, 39 episodes
Stars: Jason Momoa, Landon Liboiron, Zoe Boyle
There’s money to be made in the fur trade in the 1700s, which is why Declan Harp is trying to get a piece of it. The outlaw trapper is leading a campaign to breach the Hudson’s Bay Company’s monopoly on fur in Canada. Lord Benton, on the other hand, is bent on restoring the company’s stranglehold on fur and is on a mission to stamp out Harp, who turns to an old ally when bounty hunters close in on him.
GLOW – 2 seasons, 20 episodes
Stars: Alison Brie, Marc Maron, Betty Gilpin
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In Los Angeles in 1985, Ruth Wilder, a struggling actress, auditions along with many other women in a fledgling professional wrestling promotion called the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (GLOW). She is at odds with GLOW’s director Sam Sylvia due to her tendency to overact. When Ruth’s former best friend, retired soap opera actress Debbie Eagan, arrives at the ring, their confrontation promises to either make or break the show.
Gotham – 4 seasons, 88 episodes
Stars: Ben McKenzie, David Mazouz, Donal Logue
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The series follows Gotham City Police Department recruit Jim Gordon, who is paired with detective Harvey Bullock to solve crimes in Gotham City. At the time, Gotham’s criminal underworld is emerging after the murder of billionaire Thomas Wayne and his wife Martha, whose son Bruce is in care of their family butler Alfred Pennyworth.
Grey’s Anatomy – 15 seasons, 342 episodes
Stars: Justin Chambers, Ellen Pompeo, Chandra Wilson
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This series focuses on the lives of surgical interns, residents, and attending physicians, as they develop into seasoned doctors while trying to maintain personal lives and relationships and closely follows Dr. Meredith Grey, the daughter of an esteemed general surgeon.
Halt and Catch Fire – 4 seasons, 40 episodes
Stars: Lee Pace, Scoot McNairy, Mackenzie Davis
Taking place over a period of more than ten years, the series depicts a fictionalized insider’s view of the personal computer revolution of the 1980s and later the growth of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s. The show’s title refers to computer machine code instruction HCF, the execution of which would cause the computer’s central processing unit to stop working.
The Haunting of Hill House – 1 season, 10 episodes
Stars: Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, Henry Thomas
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In the summer of 1992, Hugh and Olivia Crain and their children – Steven, Shirley, Theodora, Luke, and Nell – move into Hill House to renovate the mansion in order to sell it and build their own house, designed by Olivia. However, due to unexpected repairs, they have to stay longer, and they begin to experience increasing paranormal phenomena that results in a tragic loss and the family fleeing from the house. Twenty-six years later, the Crain siblings and their estranged father reunite after tragedy strikes again, and they are forced to confront how their time in Hill House had affected each of them.
Hitler’s Circle of Evil – 1 season, 10 episodes
Stars: Jonathon Michaels, Alisdair Simpson, Conan Sweeny
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The story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich told like the drama it really was: through the personal relationships of the movers and shakers of the Nazi Party.
House of Cards – 6 seasons, 78 episodes
Stars: Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly
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House of Cards is set in Washington, D.C. and is the story of Congressman Frank Underwood, a Democrat from South Carolina’s 5th congressional district and House Majority Whip, and his equally ambitious wife Claire Underwood. Frank is passed over for appointment as Secretary of State, so he initiates an elaborate plan to attain power, aided by Claire. The series deals with themes of ruthless pragmatism, manipulation, betrayal, and power.
The Innocent Man – 1 season, 6 episodes
Two murders that shook the small town of Ada, Okla., in the 1980s gained national attention and even led to renowned author John Grisham writing a nonfiction book about the crimes. Now Grisham serves as an executive producer for this six-part docuseries — which shares its name with his 2006 book — that takes a closer look at the notorious deaths.
iZombie – 4 seasons, 70 episodes
Stars: Rose McIver, Malcolm Goodwin, Rahul Kohli
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Seattle medical resident Olivia “Liv” Moore has turned into a zombie while attending a boat party. Instead of feeding by killing innocent people, Liv decides to take a job at the King County morgue and eat the brains of the corpses she autopsies. Liv finds out that whenever she eats a dead person’s brain, she temporarily inherits some of their personality traits and skills, and she experiences flashbacks of that person’s life. Her secret is guessed by her boss who soon becomes her friend and confidant, and as a scientist, is intrigued by her condition.
Jessica Jones – 3 seasons, 39 episodes
Stars: Krysten Ritter, Rachael Taylor, Eka Darville
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When a tragedy puts an end to her short-lived career as a superhero, Jessica settles in New York City and opens her own detective agency, called Alias Investigations, which is often called into cases involving people who have special abilities. Suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome, Jessica wants to do good, but her primary interest isn’t in saving the world, it’s saving her apartment and getting through each day.
The Keepers – 1 season, 7 episodes
The Keepers is documentary series that explores the unsolved murder of nun Sister Cathy Cesnik, who taught English and drama at Baltimore’s Archbishop Keough High School, and her former students’ belief that there was a cover-up by authorities after Cesnik suspected that a priest at the school, A. Joseph Maskell, was guilty of sexual abuse of students.
Last Chance U – 4 seasons, 31 episodes
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This documentary series’ first season explores the football program at East Mississippi Community College, which features several collegiate athletes that have had trouble in their lives and struggled with finding structure. The players are then required to perform at the junior college (JUCO) level, under the stewardship of coach Buddy Stephens, in order to prove themselves and return to Division I.
Legends of Tomorrow – 4 seasons, 67 episodes
Stars: Brandon Routh, Caity Lotz, Dominic Purcell
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Time-traveling rogue member of the Time Masters Rip Hunter has to recruit a team of heroes and villains (based on the characters of DC Comics) to help prevent an apocalypse that could impact not only Earth, but all of time.
Losers – 1 season, 8 episodes
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We live in a winner take all society where losing is laughed off, dismissed and shamed. But what do we miss when we turn our back on the lessons that failure gives us? This series profiles athletes who have turned the agony of defeat into human triumph.
Louis Theroux: Miami Mega Jail – 1 season, 2 episodes
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Documentarian Louis Theroux tours Miami-Dade County’s huge jail complex, where he interviews some of the 6,000 inmates and discovers a culture of combat. The program follows Theroux as he spends time in the Miami-Dade County jail system: the Pre-Trial Detention Center (PTDC) (formerly known as DCJ or “Main Jail”); Metro West Detention Center (Metro West); Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center (TGK); and the Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation Department Boot Camp Program (Boot Camp).
Lucifer – 4 seasons, 67 episodes
Stars: Tom Ellis, Lauren German, Lesley-Ann Brandt
The series focuses on Lucifer Morningstar, the Devil, who is bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell. He resigns his throne in defiance to his father (God) and abandons his kingdom for Los Angeles, where he ends up running his nightclub Lux. He becomes involved in a murder case with Detective Chloe Decker, and is subsequently invited to be a consultant to the LAPD. Throughout the series, several celestial and demonic threats come to L.A.; at the same time, Lucifer and Chloe develop a closer relationship.
Luke Cage – 2 seasons, 26 episodes
Stars: Mike Colter, Simone Missick, Alfre Woodard
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This drama follows the evolution of Luke Cage, a man with super strength and unbreakable skin caused by a sabotaged experiment. After a failed relationship with fellow superhero Jessica Jones, Cage tries to rebuild a quiet life in Harlem, New York — until he is pulled out of the shadows and forced into a battle for his city. Along the way, Cage cannot avoid confronting his past, which he has worked hard to bury.
Mad Men – 7 seasons, 92 episodes
Stars: Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser
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Mad Men focuses on the day-to-day business of the advertising agencies, as well as the personal lives of the characters, thereby depicting the changing moods and social mores of the United States throughout the 1960s. The series began in March 1960 and ended on November 1970, with the conclusion of season seven. Don Draper is the focus in the series, initially as the talented creative director at Sterling Cooper, and later as a founding partner at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, and so the plot tracks the people in his personal and professional lives.
Magic For Humans 1 season, 6 episodes
Stars: Justin Willman
Magician Justin Willman blends good-natured magic with grown-up laughs in this series that sends him out on the streets and into locations like schools to baffle unsuspecting people. He aims to wow the marks as he performs the tricks and illusions in front of them, with no camera tricks to assist him. Along the way, Willman squares off against a robot in a magic battle and delivers a surprise proposal to a woman who married herself.
The Magicians – 3 seasons, 39 episodes
Stars: Jason Ralph, Stella Maeve, Hale Appleman
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Quentin Coldwater enrolls at Brakebills University for Magical Pedagogy to be trained as a magician, where he discovers that the magical world from his favorite childhood books is real and poses a danger to humanity. Meanwhile, the life of his childhood friend Julia is derailed when she is denied entry, and she searches for magic elsewhere.
Making a Murderer – 2 seasons, 20 episodes
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This documentary tells the story of Steven Avery, a man from Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, who served 18 years in prison for the wrongful conviction of sexual assault and attempted murder of Penny Beerntsen. He was again charged in 2005 and convicted in 2007 for the murder of Teresa Halbach. The connected story is that of Avery’s nephew, Brendan Dassey, accused and convicted as an accessory in the murder.
Maniac – 1 season, 10 episodes
Stars: Jonah Hill, Emma Stone, Sonoya Mizuno
Two strangers are drawn to the late stages of a mysterious pharmaceutical trial. Each has a different reason for participating in the experiment — she is disaffected and aimless, while he has struggled with a disputed diagnosis of schizophrenia. The radical treatment, using pills that the inventor claims can repair anything about the mind, draws them into a trial that they’re told will permanently solve all of their problems. Unfortunately, things don’t go as planned.
Master of None – 2 seasons, 20 episodes
Stars: Aziz Ansari, Eric Wareheim, Lena Waithe
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Loosely based on Ansari’s real-life experiences, Ansari plays the role of Dev, a New York-based actor who is struggling to identify what he really wants, both personally and professionally. The series reveals glimpses of Dev’s younger years, and explores current aspects of his life, including modern etiquette, and being young and single in the city.
Mindhunter – 1 season, 10 episodes
Stars: Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, Anna Torv
In the late 1970s, FBI agents Holden Ford and Bill Tench expand criminal science by delving into the psychology of murder and getting uneasily close to all-too-real monsters in an attempt to understand and catch serial killers by studying their damaged psyches. Along the way, the agents pioneer the development of modern serial-killer profiling.
Money Heist – 3 seasons, 30 episodes
Stars: Ursula Corbero, Itziar Ituno, Alvaro Morte
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A criminal mastermind who goes by “The Professor” has a plan to pull off the biggest heist in recorded history — to print billions of euros in the Royal Mint of Spain. To help him carry out the ambitious plan, he recruits eight people with certain abilities and who have nothing to lose. The group of thieves take hostages to aid in their negotiations with the authorities, who strategize to come up with a way to capture The Professor. As more time elapses, the robbers prepare for a showdown with the police.
Murder Mountain – 1 season, 6 episodes
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Murder Mountain is the story of Garret Rodriguez, who left home in San Diego to seek his fortune in the marijuana fields of Humboldt County, California. Within a year he vanished, touching off a series of bloody events that still haunt local residents to this day. Set against the backdrop of marijuana legalization, Humboldt’s outlaws are now speaking out for the first time about Garret’s fate and the group of vigilantes who done brought him home.
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction… – 2 seasons, 13 episodes
Stars: David Letterman
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Each episode includes a far-reaching conversation with a single guest. The intimate conversations take place both inside and outside of the studio. While there’s no monologue, there are field pieces that bring Dave to locations that help him express his curiosity and to dig deeper on a specific topic related to that episode’s guest. The A-listers who chat with Dave include former President Barack Obama, George Clooney, Jay Z, and Kanye West.
Narcos – 3 seasons, 30 episodes
Stars: Pedro Pascal, Wagner Moura, Boyd Holbrook
Narcos chronicles the rise of the cocaine trade in Colombia and the gripping real-life stories of drug kingpins of the late ’80s in this raw, gritty original series. Also detailed are the actions taken by law enforcement as they battle in the war on drugs, targeting notorious and powerful figures that include drug lord Pablo Escobar.
Nikita – 4 seasons, 73 episodes
Stars: Maggie Q, Shane West, Lyndsy Fonseca
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The story of Nikita, a young woman who was rescued from death row by a secret government agency known as Division. Division faked Nikita’s execution, giving her a chance to start a new life and serve her country. At least, that’s what she is told. In reality, she is trained to be a spy and assassin. After three years in hiding, Nikita seeks retribution against her former bosses.
The Office (U.S.) – 9 seasons, 201 episodes
Stars: Steve Carell, Jenna Fischer, John Krasinski
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The series depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. To simulate the look of an actual documentary, it was filmed in a single-camera setup, without a studio audience or a laugh track.
Orange Is the New Black – 7 seasons, 91 episodes
Stars: Taylor Schilling, Danielle Brooks, Laura Prepon
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In her mid-30s, public relations executive Piper Chapman is sentenced to spend time in a minimum-security women’s prison in Connecticut for a decade old crime of transporting drug money to an ex-girlfriend. Forced to trade power suits for prison orange, Chapman makes her way through the corrections system and adjusts to life behind bars, making friends with the many eccentric, unusual and unexpected people she meets.
Ozark – 2 seasons, 20 episodes
Stars: Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, Julia Garner
Marty Byrde, a financial planner who relocates his family from Chicago to a summer resort community in the Ozarks. With wife Wendy and their two kids in tow, Marty is on the move after a money-laundering scheme goes wrong, forcing him to pay off a substantial debt to a Mexican drug lord in order to keep his family safe. While the Byrdes’ fate hangs in the balance, the dire circumstances force the fractured family to reconnect.
Parks and Recreation – 7 seasons, 125 episodes
Stars: Amy Poehler, Nick Offerman, Aziz Ansari
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Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in an Indiana Parks and Recreation Department, hopes to beautify her town, but is stymied at every turn by oafish bureaucrats, selfish neighbors, governmental red tape, and a myriad of other challenges. Leslie’s colleague Tom Haverford, who delights in exploiting his position for personal gain, is as likely to undermine her efforts as to help her, while her boss, Ron Swanson, is adamantly opposed to government in any form, even though he’s a bureaucrat.
Peaky Blinders – 4 seasons, 24 episodes
Stars: Cillian Murphy, Helen McCrory, Paul Anderson
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Britain is a mixture of despair and hedonism in 1919 in the aftermath of the Great War. Returning soldiers, newly minted revolutions and criminal gangs are fighting for survival in a nation rocked by economic upheaval. One of the most powerful gangs of the time is the Peaky Blinders, run by returning war hero Thomas Shelby and his family. But Thomas has bigger ambitions than just running the streets.
Penny Dreadful – 3 seasons, 27 episodes
Stars: Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton, Eva Green
This psychological thriller that takes place in the dark corners of Victorian London. Sir Malcolm is an explorer who has lost his daughter to the city’s creatures, and he will do whatever is needed to get her back and to right past wrongs. His accomplice, seductive clairvoyant Vanessa Ives, recruits charming American Ethan Chandler to help locate Sir Malcolm’s daughter and slay some monsters.
The Punisher – 2 seasons, 26 episodes
Stars: Jon Bernthal, Amber Rose Revah, Ben Barnes
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After exacting revenge on the people responsible for the murders of his wife and children, Frank Castle uncovers a conspiracy that runs deeper than New York’s criminal underworld. Now known as The Punisher, he must dig deep into the conspiracy to discover the truth about injustices that affect more than just him and his family. Later, Castle, who has been living a quiet life on the road, drawn into the mystery surrounding the attempted murder of a teenage drifter with a mysterious past, forcing him to decide if he should embrace his life as The Punisher.
QB1: Beyond the Lights – 2 seasons, 20 episodes
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QB1: Beyond the Lights follows three high school quarterbacks from different backgrounds, playing in different environments as they face immense pressure and similar challenges in trying to be successful high school quarterbacks.
The Rain – 2 season, 14 episodes
Stars: Alba August, Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
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The world as we know it has come to an end, due to a rain-carried virus that wiped out nearly everybody in Scandinavia. Six years after that event, two Danish siblings emerge from the safety of the bunker where they have been staying. After discovering all remnants of civilization gone, they join a group of fellow young survivors, and together they head out on a danger-filled quest throughout the abandoned land in search of signs of life.
Rectify – 4 seasons, 30 episodes
Stars: Aden Young, Abigail Spencer, J. Smith-Cameron
Daniel Holden spends nearly 20 years on death row for the rape and murder of a teenage girl before new DNA evidence nullifies his conviction. He returns home, but he’s far from welcomed. He’s an outsider now in a town that remains divided by his alleged crime, and contributing to his uncertain future is the man who prosecuted him — riding that notoriety to become a state senator — is plotting to reopen the case.
Russian Doll – 1 season, 8 episodes
Stars: Natasha Lyonne, Charlie Barnett, Greta Lee
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A cynical young woman named Nadia is on a journey to be the guest of honor at a party in New York City, but she gets caught in a mysterious loop as she repeatedly attends the same event and dies at the end of the night each time — only to awaken the next day unharmed as if nothing had happened.
Scandal – 7 seasons, 124 episodes
Stars: Kerry Washington, Darby Stanchfield, Katie Lowes
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Olivia Pope, a former media consultant to the president, is ready to move on with her life and opens her own crisis-management firm, but she can’t seem to shake ties with her past. Olivia’s staff includes Quinn Perkins, who has a complicated history, and hacker extraordinaire Huck. As she moves forward it becomes clear that, while her staffers may specialize in cleaning up the lives of other people, they can’t seem to do the same for themselves.
Sense8 – 2 seasons, 24 episodes
Stars: Doona Bae, Jamie Clayton, Tina Desai
Eight strangers around the globe find themselves connected — first by a violent vision, then by their shared ability to connect with one another’s thoughts and actions, and finally by the urgent need to find out what happened and why. Their need to know goes beyond simple curiosity — as they pursue answers, a mysterious organization hunts them down, intent on destroying them.
Sex Education – 1 season, 11 episodes
Stars: Simone Ashley, Asa Butterfield, Gillian Anderson
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Socially awkward high school student Otis may not have much experience in the lovemaking department, but he gets good guidance on the topic in his personal sex ed course — living with mom Jean, who is a sex therapist. Being surrounded by manuals, videos and tediously open conversations about sex, Otis has become a reluctant expert on the subject. When his classmates learn about his home life, Otis decides to use his insider knowledge to improve his status at school.
Shameless – 8 seasons, 96 episodes
Stars: Emmy Rossum, William H. Macy, Ethan Cutkosky
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Frank Gallagher is a single father of six who spends much of his free time drinking at bars. The Gallagher children — led by oldest daughter Fiona — who takes on much of the child-rearing responsibility due to her mother’s absence — manage to raise themselves in spite of Frank’s lack of parenting and unusual parenting style when he does choose to act like a father.
Sherlock – 4 seasons, 13 episodes
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs
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In this contemporary version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories, Dr. John Watson is a war vet just home from Afghanistan. He meets the brilliant but eccentric Holmes when the latter, who serves as a consultant to Scotland Yard, advertises for a flatmate. Almost as soon as Watson moves into the Baker Street flat, they are embroiled in mysteries, and Sherlock’s nemesis, Moriarty, appears to have a hand in the crimes.
Shot in the Dark – 1 seasons, 8 episode
Shot in the Dark follows rival freelance stringers who scour the streets at night looking to film crime scenes, fires, accidents, and anything else they can sell to the media. It’s a cutthroat profession that sees the videographers looking for newsworthy events, not knowing what kind of situations they’ll find themselves in until they actually happen. As with most reality shows, personal drama and conflicts between the rivals tend to get in the way of their jobs at times.
The Sinner – 2 seasons, 16 episodes
Stars: Jessica Biel, Bill Pullman, Dohn Norwood
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Detective Harry Ambrose returns to his hometown in rural New York to assess an unsettling and heart-wrenching crime — parents murdered by their 11-year-old son with no apparent motive. As Ambrose realizes there’s nothing ordinary about the boy or where he came from, the investigation pulls him into the hidden darkness of his hometown. He’s pitted against those who will stop at nothing to protect its secrets — and the mysterious Vera, who proves to be a complicated, enigmatic piece to this haunting puzzle.
Stranger Things – 3 seasons, 25 episodes
Stars: David Harbour, Winona Ryder, Millie Bobby Brown
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Stranger Things is set in the fictional rural town of Hawkins, Indiana, during the 1980s. The nearby Hawkins National Laboratory ostensibly performs scientific research for the United States Department of Energy, but secretly does experiments into the paranormal and supernatural, including those that involve human test subjects. Inadvertently, they have created a portal to an alternate dimension, “The Upside Down.” The influence of the Upside Down starts to affect the unknowing residents of Hawkins in calamitous ways.
Supergirl – 3 seasons, 65 episodes
Stars: Melissa Benoist, Chyler Leigh, David Harewood
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At 12-years-old, Kara Zor-El escapes doom on planet Krypton to find protection on Earth with the Danver family and learns to hide the extraordinary powers she shares with her cousin, Superman. Now an adult living in National City, Kara finds her days of keeping her abilities a secret are over when super-secret agency head Hank Henshaw enlists her to help protect the city’s citizens from threats. Finally coming into her own, Kara must juggle her new responsibilities with her very human relationships.
Typewriter – 1 season, 5 episodes
Stars: Mikhail Gandhi, Sara Gesawat, Palomi Ghosh
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A haunted house and a haunted book stir the imaginations of young wannabe ghost hunters, as three friends in Goa plan to search an old villa for ghosts, but when a new family moves in, the home’s buried past resurfaces in chilling ways.
Turn Up Charlie – 1 season, 8 episodes
Stars: Idris Elba, Piper Perabo, Frankie Hervey
Charlie is a struggling DJ and eternal bachelor. He gets a final chance at finding success, plotting to rebuild his music career, at the same time that he reluctantly becomes a manny to Gabby, his famous best friend’s problem-child daughter. The spoiled girl is wise beyond her years, pushing the boundaries — and the sanity of her nannies — to the extreme in order to try to get the attention of her negligent, career-driven parents.
The Twilight Zone (Original) – 4 seasons, 138 episodes
Stars: Rod Serling
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The Twilight Zone is the brainchild of Emmy Award-winner Rod Serling, who served as host and wrote more than 80 episodes of the original show’s 150-plus episode run. It’s a strange mix of horror, science-fiction, drama, comedy and superstition. Serling introduced each episode, and many of the black and white episodes concluded with a surprise ending.
Twin Peaks – 2 seasons, 30 episodes
Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Mädchen Amick
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A crime drama mixed with healthy doses of the surreal, this series is about FBI Agent Dale Cooper, who travels to the small logging town of Twin Peaks to solve the murder of seemingly innocent high schooler Laura Palmer. Almost nothing is as it seems, however, and the show’s sometimes eerie visuals, oddball characters and wild dream sequences drive the point home.
The Umbrella Academy – 1 season, 10 episodes
Stars: Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda
On one day in 1989, 43 infants are inexplicably born to random, unconnected women who showed no signs of pregnancy. Seven are adopted by billionaire industrialist Sir Reginald Hargreeves, who creates The Umbrella Academy and prepares his “children” to save the world. In their teenage years, the family fractures and the team disbands. Fast forward to present time and the six surviving members reunite to work together to solve a mystery surrounding their father’s death, but divergent personalities again pull the family apart, and a global apocalypse is threatened.
Van Helsing – 2 seasons, 26 episodes
Stars: Kelly Overton, Jonathan Scarfe, Vincent Gale
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The series centers on Vanessa Helsing, daughter of famed vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing, who wakes up after a five-year coma to discover a vampire-controlled world. She soon learns that she possesses a unique blood composition that makes her immune to vampires and able to turn the creatures into humans. That power puts humanity’s last hope to return the world to how it once was before the vampires took over in Vanessa’s hands.
The Walking Dead – 8 seasons, 115 episodes
Stars: Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride
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This gritty drama portrays life in the months and years that follow a zombie apocalypse. Led by former police officer Rick Grimes, his family and a group of other survivors find themselves constantly on the move in search of a safe and secure home. But the pressure each day to stay alive sends many in the group to the deepest depths of human cruelty.
Weeds – 8 seasons, 102 episodes
Stars: Mary-Louise Parker, Hunter Parrish, Alexander Gould
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Widowed suburbanite Nancy Botwin starts growing and selling marijuana to make enough money to support her family after her husband’s unexpected death leaves her in big debt. Nancy has associates in her pot-growing business, which include Andy, who is her brother-in-law, and pot-smoking City Councilman Doug Wilson. They just have to keep the whole thing a secret from people like her neighbor Celia.
The West Wing – 7 seasons, 156 episodes
Stars: Martin Sheen, Rob Lowe, Allison Janney
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Cutthroat presidential advisers get their personal lives hopelessly tangled up with professional duties as they try to conduct the business of running a country. Fictional Democratic President Josiah “Jed” Bartlet suffers no fools, and that policy alienates many. He and his dedicated staffers struggle to balance the needs of the country with the political realities of Washington, D.C.
Wild Wild Country – 1 season, xx episodes
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When a controversial guru builds a utopian city in the Oregon desert, it causes a massive conflict with local ranchers. This docuseries chronicles the conflict, which leads to the first bioterror attack in the United States and a massive case of illegal wiretapping. It is a pivotal, but largely forgotten, time in American cultural history that tested the country’s tolerance for the separation of church and state.
Wormwood – 1 season, 6 episodes
Stars: Peter Sarsgaard, Molly Parker, Christian Camargo
Wormwood examines the 1953 death of scientist and CIA employee Frank Olson. Olson fell from the window of his New York City hotel room and the death was originally ruled a suicide, but a 1975 report tied his death to a top-secret experiment. The series follows Olson’s son, Eric, on his decades-long quest to identify the mysterious circumstances surrounding his father’s death and figure out exactly what happened.
You – 1 season, 10 episodes
Stars: Penn Badgley, Ambyr Childers, Elizabeth Lail
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A brilliant male bookstore manager crosses paths with an aspiring female writer, and a charming yet awkward crush becomes something even more sinister when the writer becomes the manager’s obsession. Using social media and the internet, he uses every tool at his disposal to become close to her, even going so far as to remove any obstacle — including people — that stand in his way of getting to her.