6 Upcoming Netflix Series, Ranked by Hype

As the year nears its end, Netflix subscribers still have plenty to look forward to in terms of new shows and seasons slated to come out either this year or in 2027. The streaming giant has been producing original series since 2013, and every year has seen them put out some of the most exceptional TV shows in the medium’s modern history. With new shows like East of Eden and returning gems like Beef, this year has so far been no exception. And with series like Unaccustomed Earth still set to come out later in 2026, and the new season of masterpieces like Blue Eye Samurai scheduled for 2027, now’s about as great a time as any to be a Netflix subscriber.

There are multiple different reasons to look forward to these upcoming shows, and pure hype is probably the main one. There’s such buzz and high-energy anticipation surrounding these projects, the team involved in their creation, and their production backgrounds that there’s simply no way to think of these shows coming out soon and not be instantly filled with extreme excitement. Regardless of how well they actually turn out by the time they hit the small screen, one thing is certain, and that’s that fans can’t wait to experience all that they have to offer.

6

‘The Hunting Wives’ (2025–)

Season 2 Premieres on November 26th, 2026

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Published back in 2021, the May Cobb domestic thriller novel The Hunting Wives wasn’t an immediate hit, making the author feel like her career had plateaued. However, after Rebecca Cutter adapted the book as a Netflix series starring Brittany Snow and Malin Åkerman, the result ended up becoming the number one series on the streaming giant and turning Cobb’s source material into a cultural phenomenon. The show’s first season is a gripping piece of suspense television focused on a woman who moves from Massachusetts to a fictional East Texas town, where she’s pulled into the dangerous world of an elite socialite’s secret hunting and social club. Later, she becomes a prime murder suspect when a young woman’s body is found in the woods.

Just like the show’s first season was exceptionally entertaining and one of the most noteworthy sleeper hits of the streaming world from 2025, season two of The Hunting Wives is one of many must-watch Netflix shows coming out in November. With the narrative heating up around an active police investigation and the promise that this new season will be even bigger and more twist-filled than the last, fans definitely have a lot more to look forward to by the end of November. As far as hype goes, few upcoming Netflix series seem more exciting than this second season of The Hunting Wives.

5

‘Unaccustomed Earth’ (2026)

Premieres on December 17th

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Executive-produced by the likes of John Wells, who also executive-produces The Pitt (one of those medical dramas where every episode’s a masterpiece), Unaccustomed Earth is based on the collection of short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri. It’s the incredible follow-up to Lahiri’s first collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In it, a mother returns to her tight-knit Indian-American community in Massachusetts after a sudden medical diagnosis, reuniting with a long-lost college love and sparking a scandalous affair that upends multiple generations. Everything that ensues should prove to be every bit as dramatic as it sounds.

Starring Freida Pinto and Siddharth in what will surely be a remarkable pair of lead performances, Unaccustomed Earth should benefit from also having Jhumpa Lahiri herself on board as another executive producer, which should ensure that the show will honor the deep emotional and thematic resonance of her book and prose. Indeed, this is as high-quality of a team of creatives as any Netflix show could ever get, and that should keep both people who love the source material and people who have never even heard of it unbelievably hyped. It’s not often that Netflix delivers a show this high-caliber that puts such a spotlight on Bengali-American culture, offering a deeply nuanced portrait of the South Asian diaspora as a whole.

4

‘The Altruists’ (2026)

Premieres on November 19th

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Graham Moore began his career on the writing team of the short-lived 10 Things I Hate About You TV show, later becoming a celebrated novelist and then going on to win an Academy Award for his first-ever feature film screenplay, for The Imitation Game. Later this month, the writer will make his triumphant return to the small screen with The Altruists, which he serves as creator, writer, director, and executive producer on. Starring Julia Garner and featuring the participation of stars like Anthony Boyle and Hudson Williams, this docudrama will follow the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, focusing on the company’s founder and his business and romantic partner.

This is one of those upcoming miniseries that people just can’t miss, also counting with the executive production of Barack and Michelle Obama as if Moore’s name and that star-studded cast weren’t already reason enough to tune in. With the explosive true-crime subject matter and what will surely be a very unique thematic lens through which to view one of the biggest financial scandals of the 21st century, there’s virtually no reason to think that The Altruists will be anything less than enthralling. Moore has promised that the show will be framed as a kind of high-stakes toxic love story rather than just feeling like a dry Wikipedia article come to life, which is a naturally hype-worthy premise.

3

‘Scooby-Doo: Origins’ (2027)

Premiere TBD

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By this point in time, the whole Scooby-Doo franchise needs pretty much no introduction. One of the longest-running animated franchises in history, Scooby-Doo is a multimedia giant that began all the way back in 1969, with the original broadcast of the Hanna-Barbera classic cartoon on CBS. Since then, show after show and film after film, Mystery Incorporated have only kept further establishing themselves as some of the most iconic characters in the modern history of pop-culture. Next year, Netflix will give Scooby-Doo fans yet another reason to be excited: Scooby-Doo: Origins, a mystery prequel where the gang will be four teenagers solving a local supernatural mystery that may have been witnessed by a Great Dane puppy.

Scooby-Doo: Origins will be the first live-action TV series in the whole franchise, and this time next year (assuming that the show, whose exact release date is still unconfirmed, has already come out by then), it should hopefully already be worthy of being counted among the best Scooby-Doo mysteries to date. Creators Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg have trustworthy resumes, and the cast couldn’t possibly be more exciting: Mckenna Grace as Daphne, Tanner Hagen as Shaggy, Abby Ryder Fortson as Velma, Maxwell Jenkins as Fred, and an actual Great Dane pup as the iconic mystery-solving dog.

2

‘Blue Eye Samurai’ (2023–)

Season 2 Premieres on January 19th, 2027

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People who think that animation is somehow a lesser medium than live-action have clearly not watched any of the top-tier adult animated series that Netflix have produced throughout the last decade. Case in point: Blue Eye Samurai, one of the best samurai TV shows of all time, and perhaps even one of the most perfect animated shows in history—at least so far. The first season followed a half-white-half-Japanese warrior seeking vengeance against four white men illegally remaining in Japan after the closing of its borders during the Edo period, and the series’ upcoming second season will continue to follow Mizu’s bloody quest for revenge.

Undoubtedly one of the most hype-worthy upcoming seasons of any Netflix show, the second season of Blue Eye Samurai definitely has big shoes to fill, but it hasn’t given any signs to make fans believe it won’t fully succeed. With Mizu now hunting down the remaining men responsible for her origin in 17th-century England rather than her native Japan, there should be plenty of exciting culture-clash elements to look forward to, as well as new aesthetics that should match the jaw-dropping visuals of the first season.

1

‘Pride and Prejudice’ (2026)

Premieres on December 3rd

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Netflix always knows how to give subscribers the best holiday gifts, and this year, that gift should be the latest adaptation of Jane Austen‘s Pride and Prejudice. The original novel is among the most important texts in the history of romantic English literature, and as such, it’s no surprise that it has been adapted as often as it has over the course of cinema and television’s histories. But with Netflix money and the involvement of thespians like Emma Corrin, Jack Lowden, and Olivia Colman, this has the potential to be one of the best adaptations of that essential 19th-century classic to date.

That’s why, when it comes to ranking upcoming Netflix shows by hype, there’s no series more deserving of the top spot than Dolly Alderton and Euros Lyn‘s Pride and Prejudice. Writer Alderton is an author and screenwriter known for her sharp, witty, romantic, and deeply emotional writing; and with work in shows like Doctor Who, Daredevil, and Heartstopper under his belt, Lyn’s name is also one to trust. It seems like a truly elite team has been put together to deliver the best-possible adaptation and modernization of Pride and Prejudice, so there’s nothing to feel in relation to this show that’s not pure hype.

Pride and Prejudice

Release Date

December 3, 2026

Network

Netflix

Directors

Euros Lyn

Writers

Dolly Alderton