3 Elite Netflix Series to Binge This Weekend (Nov 14-15)
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Another week of streaming has come to an end, and it's the return of a fantasy favorite that is dominating the headlines. After a shaky second season, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power returned this week, trying to find form once again. Although Collider's Therese Lacson called Season 3 "a story that's finally worthy of J.R.R. Tolkien's sprawling universe," this latest installment has so far earned the lowest average critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes in the series. So if you don't plan on watching The Rings of Power, what should you watch instead? To help you decide, here's a look at three shows you should binge-watch on Netflix this weekend.
For more recommendations, check out our list of the best shows and movies on Netflix.
Disclaimer: These titles are available on US Netflix.
1 'The Body' (2026)
Rotten Tomatoes: 100%
Of all the new titles on streaming this weekend, this should be the first on your radar. The Body, which is already earning comparisons to Stephen King's Carrie, stars Kristina Bogic and Sara Boustany as Anya and Elise, two of a group of misbehaving Catholic school girls whose lives change when they start to inexplicably experience prophetic visions, sending their town into chaos.
"The Body is like nothing else on streaming right now," wrote Gabrielle Moss in Collider's review, one of several glowing responses to this new series that have helped it reach a perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Sofia Wylie, Geena Meszaros, Shirley Chen, and The Traitors' winner Gabby Windey also star in this series, which is guaranteed to find its way to the top of the Netflix streaming charts. Don't miss out on the bandwagon this weekend.
Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes What Is Your Biggest Horror Nightmare? Elm Street · Chucky · Scream · The Conjuring
Four horror franchises. Four completely different ways of scaring you. One waits until you fall asleep. One makes sure nobody believes you. One is already in your group of friends. And one is in the house with your family. Answer eight quick questions about how you actually watch horror, and find out which nightmare was built for you.
😴Elm Street(Freddy Krueger)
🧸Chucky(Child's Play)
📞Scream(Ghostface)
🕯️The Conjuring(The Warren Files)
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Which horror scene makes you cover your eyes? Four classic images. One of them is worse than the others for you.
02
You are home alone and you hear a noise. First thought? Everybody has one. It arrives before you have decided anything.
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Which horror movie rule would you break first? Everybody thinks they would survive. Almost nobody actually does.
04
Something genuinely frightening happens. What do you do? Not in a film. In your actual living room, tonight.
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How do you actually watch a horror film? Be honest about this one. Nobody is checking.
06
Somebody offers you serious money. Which do you still refuse? The amount does not matter. There is one on this list you are not doing.
07
Which feeling stays with you a week after the film? Good horror does not stop when the credits do.
08
Something wakes you at 3am. What is the worst possibility? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your nightmare.
The Lights Just Went Out Your Nightmare Is…
Four franchises, four completely different ways of getting underneath your skin. This is the one built out of your particular fear, why it works so well on you, and what it would leave behind.
Elm Street
Your nightmare does not wait outside the door. It waits for you to close your eyes, which you are going to have to do eventually, because nobody has ever won that particular argument.
- Freddy is horror's cruellest idea: a threat that lives in the one place you cannot guard, cannot lock, and cannot avoid forever.
- You are the one who is fine during the film and wide awake at two in the morning. Your own head is where this does its damage.
- These films understood exhaustion as a horror engine. The kids on Elm Street do not lose because they are weak. They lose because they are tired.
- You can lock every door in the house. You still have to sleep.
Chucky
Your nightmare is not really the doll. It is the face of the person you tell, and the way they decide, very kindly, that you have imagined all of it.
- Chucky works precisely because he is absurd. That is the trap: the more accurately you describe him, the less anybody is going to believe you.
- You are the one shouting at the screen because the characters are not listening. You know that feeling from real life too.
- The franchise is at its best when the adults in the room are the real obstacle, and you have met those adults.
- By the time somebody finally believes you, you will have handled most of it on your own.
Scream
Your nightmare has your number, knows your name, and has almost certainly been inside your house before. The worst part is that you already know them.
- Scream is the only one of these where the killer takes the mask off and turns out to be somebody who was at the party.
- You are the person who calls the twist out loud before it lands. You watch people the same way you watch films.
- The franchise made the rules of horror part of the plot, which means the survivors are the ones paying attention. You would be paying attention.
- Everybody is a suspect, including the person who just offered to walk you home.
The Conjuring
Your nightmare is not really about you. It is about the people asleep down the hall, and the feeling that whatever is here is not interested in leaving.
- The Conjuring films are domestic horror. The house, the family, the perfectly ordinary room that quietly stops feeling ordinary.
- Your instinct is to get everybody into one room. Your fear is protective rather than personal, which is rarer than it sounds.
- This is the one franchise where belief is the weapon. The people who come through it are the ones who are not alone and refuse to be.
- Whatever is here did not come for you. It came for the household, and you are the one standing in the hallway.
2 'The Neighborhood' (2018–2026)
Rotten Tomatoes: 67% | IMDb: 6.8/10
After coming to an end on CBS with its eighth season earlier this year, sitcom favorite The Neighborhood made the move to Netflix earlier this month. Created by Jim Reynolds, this cozy series stars Max Greenfield and Cedric the Entertainer as next-door neighbors who, despite their opposing personalities, become unlikely friends after the former moves to a predominantly Black neighborhood in Los Angeles.
A welcoming, heartwarming series packed with humor and not to be taken too seriously, The Neighborhood is a perfect option to keep your weekend light. Over eight seasons, the show premiered 155 episodes and even earned a Primetime Emmy nomination earlier this year for Outstanding Picture Editing for a Multi-Camera Comedy Series. With so many episodes available, there's no better time to finish a binge-watch than now.
3 'Below' (2026)
Rotten Tomatoes: 87% | IMDb: 6.3/10
One of the most exciting Netflix releases last month might've fallen under your radar, so why not make up for lost time this weekend and binge-watch Below? Written and created by The Umbrella Academy's Jesse McKeown, the series follows Josh Hartnett as fisherman Calvin, who must fight to defend his humble community from the threat of a mysterious sea creature.
Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things), Mackenzie Davis (The Martian), Ruby Stokes (Rocks), and more star alongside Verity's Hartnett in a series bursting with tension. "By the time you've concluded your own visit to Below, you might not be tempted to return, but you won't regret spending a weekend there," wrote Collider's Carly Lane, who awarded it a 7/10 in her review, so why not do just that and indulge in all six episodes now?
- Release Date
- 2026 - 2026-00-00
- Network
- Netflix
- Showrunner
- Jesse McKeown
Cast
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Calvin Penney
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Fonda Howander
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Wade Penney
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Ruby Stokes
Mary Penney
- Directors
- Jamie Childs, Stephen Dunn, Helen Shaver
- Writers
- Perry Chafe, Jesse McKeown, Karen Walton, Natty Zavitz
- Creator(s)
- Jesse McKeown
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