Ben Affleck's 10/10 Masterpiece Thriller Is Officially Leaving Netflix Soon
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Ben Affleck's masterpiece psychological thriller is going to leave Netflix soon, and both those who have yet to watch the movie for the first time or who want to rewatch a genre classic have just a little longer to do it. Affleck's career is filled with excellent movies the actor was involved with in some form over the years.
By that I mean that Affleck is not only one of Hollywood's most well-known actors, with great dramatic range and the impressive physique to pull off demanding roles in action thrillers and universes like the DCEU movie franchise, but he also does great work behind the scenes. After all, while Affleck has never won an Oscar for his acting, the star has a couple of other areas.
When it comes to writing, Affleck penned 1997's Good Will Hunting alongside lifelong friend Matt Damon, which netted them the Best Original Screenplay Oscar early in their careers. As a director, Affleck helmed 2012's Argo, which took home the Academy Award for Best Picture. Throughout his career, Affleck has led many exciting thrillers both behind and in front of the cameras.
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Squid Game shattered records on launch in 2021, becoming Netflix’s biggest-ever series debut. Hwang Dong-hyuk’s South Korean thriller centres on a desperate gambler named Seong Gi-hun. What is his player number?
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✗ Eliminated! The answer is 456. Gi-hun’s number is the very last of the 456 players. 067 is Sae-byeok the defector, 218 is Sang-woo the Stanford grad, and 001 is the mysterious old man Oh Il-nam whose identity becomes the series’ biggest reveal. Squid Game became Netflix’s most-watched launch ever, hitting #1 in 94 countries.
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The Tim Burton-directed Addams Family spin-off set at Nevermore Academy became Netflix’s second-biggest English-language debut in 2022 and launched a TikTok dance craze. Which young actress plays the deadpan title character?
✓ Correct! Jenna Ortega — a Disney Channel graduate and indie-horror favourite (X, Scream VI) — took the role Christina Ricci made iconic in the 1990s films and made it entirely her own. Her now-famous cello-accompanied dance scene became an overnight TikTok phenomenon, and her performance earned Wednesday two Emmy nominations despite airing mid-season.
✗ Eliminated! The answer is Jenna Ortega. Millie Bobby Brown is Eleven on Stranger Things, Sadie Sink plays Max Mayfield (also Stranger Things), and Maya Hawke plays Robin. Ortega’s deadpan Wednesday Addams — and her viral cello-dance scene — turned the show into a global phenomenon in late 2022.
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In 2013, Netflix released a dark political thriller starring Kevin Spacey as a ruthless congressman breaking the fourth wall. It became the first major streaming original to land a Primetime Emmy nomination and effectively invented prestige streaming TV. Which show was it?
✓ Correct! House of Cards — adapted by Beau Willimon from the 1990 BBC series — became Netflix’s first prestige original and proved a streaming service could go toe-to-toe with HBO. Kevin Spacey’s Frank Underwood and his asides to camera defined early streaming TV. Orange Is the New Black followed months later in July 2013 and became Netflix’s longest-running original at the time.
✗ Eliminated! The answer is House of Cards (February 2013). Orange Is the New Black launched five months later (July 2013), Arrested Development’s Netflix revival came in May 2013, and Hemlock Grove was a horror effort the same spring. House of Cards was the flagship — the first streaming original to earn a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Drama Series.
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Peter Morgan’s The Crown famously recast its entire ensemble every two seasons to age the royal family. After Claire Foy played Queen Elizabeth II in seasons 1-2, which Oscar-winning actress took the crown for seasons 3-4?
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✗ Eliminated! The answer is Olivia Colman. Imelda Staunton took over for the final two seasons (5-6). Helena Bonham Carter played the chain-smoking Princess Margaret during seasons 3-4 alongside Colman. Gillian Anderson delivered an Emmy-winning Margaret Thatcher in season 4. Colman anchored the show’s middle era fresh off her 2019 Oscar win.
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The Duffer Brothers’ 1980s nostalgia juggernaut sees Eleven and the gang battle inter-dimensional horrors from a portal beneath the town’s Hawkins National Laboratory. In which fictional US town and state is the series set?
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✗ Eliminated! The answer is Hawkins, Indiana. Derry, Maine is the fictional town from Stephen King’s It. Hill Valley is Marty McFly’s home in Back to the Future. Twin Peaks, Washington is David Lynch’s famous fictional town. Hawkins is The Duffer Brothers’ deliberately ordinary Midwestern setting — the flat, unassuming backdrop that makes Vecna’s horrors hit harder.
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Netflix’s Regency romance juggernaut — based on Julia Quinn’s novels and famous for its colour-blind casting, string-quartet pop covers, and narrated gossip column — is produced by which prolific showrunner’s production banner?
✓ Correct! Shonda Rhimes — the creator of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal — produces Bridgerton through her Shondaland banner as the first major fruit of her massive 2017 Netflix deal. Chris Van Dusen created the show, but Shondaland’s signature ensemble-romance DNA is all over it. Julian Fellowes did Downton Abbey, Ryan Murphy did Monster/Dahmer, and Jenji Kohan did Orange Is the New Black.
✗ Eliminated! The answer is Shonda Rhimes (Shondaland). Ryan Murphy produces true-crime anthologies like Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. Julian Fellowes is the Downton Abbey/Gilded Age creator — a different period drama entirely. Jenji Kohan is behind Orange Is the New Black and Weeds. Bridgerton was the first big payoff of Rhimes’ nine-figure Netflix deal.
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La Casa de Papel (Money Heist) became a global phenomenon on Netflix after a modest Spanish TV debut — partly thanks to its gang’s instantly recognisable red jumpsuits paired with a mask of which famous figure?
✓ Correct! The Salvador Dalí mask — with its upturned moustache — became the show’s defining visual alongside the red jumpsuits, a nod to Spanish artistic rebellion and surrealist individuality. It inspired protest iconography worldwide, from Lebanon to France. The original Antena 3 version underperformed; Netflix acquired it in 2017, re-edited it, and turned it into a global sensation.
✗ Eliminated! The answer is Salvador Dalí. Guy Fawkes is the V for Vendetta mask that Anonymous adopted. Che Guevara is a common revolutionary image but not the heist crew’s mask. Picasso is a frequent wrong answer given he’s the more globally-known Spanish artist — but the Dalí mask, with its iconic moustache, is the one fused forever with Money Heist’s red jumpsuits.
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Netflix’s 2020 limited series about a Cold War-era chess prodigy named Beth Harmon caused a global surge in chess-set sales and was one of the streamer’s most-watched shows that year. Who played Beth?
✓ Correct! Anya Taylor-Joy — already a cult favourite from The Witch and Emma — broke out globally as Beth Harmon, winning the Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Queen’s Gambit pulled 62 million households in its first 28 days and caused such a chess-boom that Chess.com and retailers ran out of sets. It also made Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel a surprise bestseller almost 40 years later.
✗ Eliminated! The answer is Anya Taylor-Joy. Florence Pugh (Midsommar, Oppenheimer), Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird), and Daisy Edgar-Jones (Normal People, Where the Crawdads Sing) are all frequent competitors in similar roles. Taylor-Joy’s Beth Harmon earned her a Golden Globe, a SAG Award, and turned Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel into a sudden bestseller.
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That said, it was with a starring role in the spotlight in a movie helmed by one of the best directors of all time, the master of tension and suspense, David Fincher, that Affleck perhaps shone the most in the genre. That would be Gone Girl, based on the Gillian Flynn novel of the same name, with screenplay by the author herself. It leaves Netflix soon.
Netflix Is Losing Gone Girl From October 2026
Affleck's list of great movies runs pretty long. Talking just about thrillers, that list includes movies like The Town, Gone Baby Gone, Argo, and more. If we are counting all the movies Affleck has directed, produced, written, or starred in, in any genre, then you also have to include films like Good Will Hunting, Air, Dazed and Confused, Chasing Amy, and more. No matter which metric you take, Gone Girl has shown time and again that it deserves to be on that list. The psychological thriller was a box office hit, grossing $370.9 million against a reported budget of $61 million.
Gone Girl also stands as one of Affleck's movies that proved to be universally beloved. On Rotten Tomatoes, Gone Girl boasts a stellar 88% critics' score based on 376 reviews with a similarly high 87% audience score. In an Oscar-nominated performance, Rosamund Pike gave life to Amy Elliott Dunne, a master manipulator who mysteriously disappears and leaves her husband, Affleck's Nick Dunne, as the main suspect, though he maintains that he had nothing to do with it.
Gone Girl is a masterclass in suspense, slowly building complex characters riddled with flaws, making them feel tangible and grounded. Beyond Affleck and Pike, the R-rated psychological thriller also assembled a star-studded cast under Fincher, including names like Neil Patrick Harris, Carrie Coon, Boyd Holbrook, Tyler Perry, and more. The fact that Affleck has always been in the public eye, with every relationship he has widely publicized all over magazines and the internet, played into the image Fincher created for Nick in Gone Girl, making it one of the actor's pitch-perfect performances.
Netflix Is Losing Gone Girl From October 2026
If you are interested in watching Gone Girl for the first time, or just want to rewatch the movie on streaming while you are still able to do so, there are only a couple of weeks left to do it on Netflix. According to a new report from What's on Netflix, Gone Girl will be leaving Netflix on October 1, being one of the many titles that will soon become unavailable to subscribers.
With Gone Girl's last day to stream on Netflix being September 30, Affleck's masterpiece thriller directed by Fincher will depart at the start of the next month alongside movies like A Beautiful Day In the Neighborhood, Ghostbusters, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Fifth Element, and more. As such, those who want to check out Ben Affleck's Gone Girl on Netflix might feel inclined to do so in a movie binge to make the most out of the time that is left with so many films on the streamer.
- Release Date
- October 3, 2014
- Runtime
- 149 minutes
- Director
- David Fincher
- Writers
- Gillian Flynn
- Producers
- Arnon Milchan, Ceán Chaffin, Joshua Donen
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