When I moved into my new apartment, I was introduced to the money-draining, limited channel cable provider known as Verizon Fios. I can’t believe I’m saying this but I miss having Spectrum in my former apartment, despite the terrible connection issues I frequently had. At least my TV allowed me to watch every channel + HBO…

Seeing that adding ANY of my 5 favorite channels to my Fios plan would cost me $30/each per month, I started heavily relying on my Netflix membership to wind down & enjoy at the end of each work day. Since April, I’ve binge-watched A LOT of existing TV series & Netflix Original Series.

Personally, I’m someone who likes to laugh at stupid humor, so a majority of the shows I watched are similar in genre. However, there’s a few others that I came across that strongly peaked my interest & led me to another binge-watching all-nighter.

Here’s what I’ve watched so far, as well as a list of the shows you guys recommended when I asked for new series suggestions on IG:

Arrested Development

Type: American Sitcom

Starring: Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Will Arnett, Michael Cera, & more

About: 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.

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Chef’s Table

Type: Netflix Original Series

About: Some of the most renowned chefs in the world share their deeply personal stories, inspirations, and unique styles. Each chef’s discipline and culinary talent is explored while he or she prepares an awe-inspiring creation.

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Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee

Type: Netflix Original Series

Starring: Jerry Springer

About: Comic Jerry Seinfeld is the creator, executive producer and host of this unique series that features vintage cars, funny conversations and a lot of caffeine. Jerry picks up each guest in a special car — including the likes of a 1977 Volkswagen camper bus, a 1978 AMC Gremlin, a 1964 Studebaker Avanti, and a 1970 Ford Mustang — and heads to a cafe or restaurant. While the guests are typically comics, one episode features a drive around the White House grounds with President Barack Obama in a 1963 Chevy Corvette Stingray.

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Friends

Do I need to explain this show…? Didn’t think so.

Watch this behind-the-scenes clip I found while amidst my obsession of re-watching all 10 seasons 3x in a row…

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Grace & Frankie

Type: Netflix Original Series

Starring: Jane Fonda & Lily Tomlin

About: For as long as they can recall, Grace and Frankie have been rivals. Their one-upmanship comes crashing to a halt, however, when they learn that their husbands have fallen in love with each other and want to get married. As everything around the ladies is coming apart, the only thing they can really rely on is each other. This Netflix original re-teams Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin (“9 to 5”) as Grace and Frankie, respectively, bringing their chemistry to the small screen. It’s a casting reunion on a grand scale, as Tomlin is reunited with her co-star from “The West Wing,” Martin Sheen, who plays Grace’s husband, Robert. And Fonda is back with Sam Waterston, her co-star from “The Newsroom,” who plays Frankie’s husband, Sol.

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Great News

Type: American Sitcom

Starring: Briga Heelan, Andrea Martin, Adam Campbell, Nicole Richie, & John Michael Higgins

About: Every workplace is a family. But for Katie, a producer at cable news network MMN, it goes one step further when her mom, Carol, is hired as an intern. That’s just scratching the surface of this slightly offbeat team, which includes old-school newsman Chuck and hip millennial Portia, the two co-anchors who only get along when the cameras are rolling. Then there’s Greg, the young, ambitious but uptight executive producer, and Justin, the laid-back video editor and voice of reason for this oddball crew. Together, they may be a little dysfunctional, but that won’t stop them from doing what they do best: breaking the news. Ps, this series is co-produced by Tina Fey!

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The Haunting of Hill House

Type: Netflix Original Series

Starring: Timothy Hutton, Carla Gugino, Michiel Huisman, Kate Siegel, Elizabeth Reaser, Victoria Pedretti, & Oliver Jackson-Cohen

About: This modern reimagining of the Shirley Jackson novel follows siblings who, as children, grew up in what would go on to become the most famous haunted house in the country.. Now adults, they are forced back together in the face of tragedy and must finally confront the ghosts of their past. Some of those ghosts still lurk in their minds, while others may actually be stalking the shadows of Hill House

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Magic For Humans

Type: Netflix Original Series / American Reality Show

Starring: Justin Willman

About: 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.

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The Office

Here’s another show I don’t think I have to explain what it is, unless you live under a rock..

Enjoy this hilarious compilation of the best pranks Jim plays on Dwight.

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Parks & Recreation

Type: American Sitcom

Starring: Amy Poehler, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Pratt, Adam Scott, Aziz Ansari, Rashida Jones, & Rob Lowe

About: Leslie Knope, a midlevel bureaucrat in an Indiana Parks and Recreation Department, hopes to beautify her town (and boost her own career) by helping local nurse Ann Perkins turn an abandoned construction site into a community park, but what should be a fairly simple project is stymied at every turn by oafish bureaucrats, selfish neighbours, 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 himself.

Please also enjoy this video compilation of the Top 10 Funniest Moments from Parks & Rec.

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Schitt’s Creek

Type: Canadian Sitcom

Starring: Eugene Levy, Daniel Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Annie Murphy, Emily Hampshire, & Chris Elliot

About: A wealthy couple — video store magnate Johnny and his soap opera star wife Moira — suddenly find themselves completely broke. With only one remaining asset, a small town called Schitt’s Creek, which the Roses bought years earlier as a joke, this once-wealthy couple must give up life as they know it. With their two spoiled children in tow and their pampered lives behind them, the Rose family is forced to face their newfound poverty head-on and come together as a family to survive.

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Stranger Things

Type: Netflix Original Series

Starring: Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Noah Schnapp, & Sadie Sink

About: It’s the fall of 1984, about a year after Will Byers was found, and he has been plagued by seeing visions of the Upside Down featuring a more dangerous monster. That leads the boy to see a suspiciously friendly new doctor, with the possibility that Will’s visions are the result of suffering from PTSD. Nancy deals with survivor’s remorse over the death of best friend Barb. Meanwhile, a new sinister entity threatens the Hawkins residents who survived the year-earlier events. New to the town is tomboy Max, who befriends the boys and attracts the romantic interests of Dustin and Lucas.

Series You’ve Recommended:

Black Mirror

Type: British TV Series

About: Featuring stand-alone dramas — sharp, suspenseful, satirical tales that explore techno-paranoia — “Black Mirror” is a contemporary reworking of “The Twilight Zone” with stories that tap into the collective unease about the modern world. Each story features its own cast of unique characters, including stars like Bryce Dallas Howard (“The Help”), Alice Eve, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Cullen and Jerome Flynn (“Game of Thrones”). Joe Wright, Dan Trachtenberg, and James Watkins are among the featured directors.

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Friends From College

Type: Comedy Series

Starring: Keegan-Michael Kay, Fred Savage, Nat Faxon, Annie Parisse, Jae Suh Park, & Cobie Smulders

About: Years after becoming friends at Harvard, Ethan, Lisa, Sam, Nick, Max and Marianne are heading into a new era — their 40s. This series, created and executive produced by Nicholas Stoller, delves into interwoven and complicated relationships, including former romantic entanglements and comedic explorations of old bonds. As everyone tries to manage their lives as adults, they also experience nostalgia.

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Gypsy

Type: Thriller Series

Starring: Naomi Watts,

About: Academy Award-nominee Naomi Watts stars in this Netflix-original psychological thriller as Jean, a therapist in New York with a successful practice and a life that seems picturesque. As Jean starts to develop intimate and illicit relationships with the people in her patients’ lives, the borders of her professional life and personal fantasies become blurred. Jean descends into a world where reality and the forces of her desires are disastrously at odds, which impacts her life and the lives of those around her.

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Insatiable

Type: Netflix Original Series

Starring: Debby Ryan

About: For years Patty was overweight, which caused her to be bullied, ignored and underestimated by the people around her. But she is now thin and seeking revenge against those who ever made her feel bad about herself through fat-shaming. Enter Bob Armstrong, a disgraced attorney with a passion for coaching beauty pageant contestants. As one of the only people who sees Patty’s potential, he takes her under his wing — first as a legal client, then as a pageant contestant. Bob hopes to coach Patty to the top of the pageant game, but he and wife Coralee have no idea how deep her rage goes or how far she will go to exact revenge on the people she feels have wronged her.

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Master of None

Type: Netflix Original Comedy

Starring: Aziz Ansari

About: Comic Aziz Ansari and writer Alan Yang are the creators of this Netflix-original comedy, which is 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 (regarding texting and social media), and being young and single in the city. Other important people in Dev’s life are featured, including Dev’s parents, played by Ansari’s real-life mother and father, Fatima and Shoukath.

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Riverdale

Type: American Drama Series

Starring: K.J. Apa, Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes, & Cole Sprouse

About: Archie Andrews starts the school year with the world weighing on his shoulders. He’s decided he wants to pursue a future in the music business, but his recently ended clandestine relationship with the music teacher has left him without a mentor, and his friendship with Jughead Jones is in a bad place. Things look like they might be turning around when Veronica Lodge, a new girl, arrives. Despite the instant chemistry, Veronica is hesitant to risk a friendship with Betty — who has a crush on Archie — to pursue anything. Amidst all the small-town banality lurks a mystery: the recent tragic death of Jason Blossom, the twin brother of beautiful and popular troublemaker, Cheryl.

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The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Type: Netflix Original Series

Starring: Kiernan Shipka

About: This adaptation of the “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” tale is a dark coming-of-age story that traffics in horror and the occult. In the reimagined origin story, Sabrina Spellman wrestles to reconcile her dual nature — half-witch, half-mortal — while standing against the evil forces that threaten her, her family — including aunts Hilda and Zelda — and the daylight world humans inhabit.

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Quantico

Type: American TV Series

Starring: Priyanka Chopra, Jake McLaughlin, & Johanna Brady

About: This drama from executive producers Josh Safran and Mark Gordon explores the lives of young FBI recruits who have come to the Quantico base in Virginia for 21 weeks of training to become special agents. The recruits have been thoroughly vetted and are considered the best and the brightest – but each one possesses secrets, including hidden reasons for enlisting. One recruit is harbouring the biggest secret of all, and he ends up being suspected of masterminding the most deadly attack on U.S. soil since 9/11

WHAT NETFLIX SHOWS (OR MOVIES) ARE YOU CURRENTLY BINGE-WATCHING?