10 best Netflix shows with more than 5 seasons, ranked

What began as a neo-noir teen drama with a healthy dose of mature content quickly became a guilty pleasure featuring increasingly ludicrous storylines. The cast changes almost every season, with new additions coming and old cast members going. Elite is far from great. However, it offers enough salacious content to secure a spot among Netflix’s lengthiest offerings.

If there’s one area where Netflix excels, it’s adult animation, and Big Mouth proves it. The series explores the troubles of adolescence, focusing on three teenagers who must deal with confusion, love, the pressures of high school, and their blossoming sexual desires in suburban Westchester County, N.Y.

Orange Is the New Black is the show that put Netflix on the map. Based on Piper Kerman’s memoir, the show follows Piper Chapman, who is sentenced to 15 months in a minimum-security prison for transporting a suitcase full of drug money 10 years before the show’s start. In prison, Piper reunites with her former lover and reexamines her privileged life while making all sorts of chaotic new acquaintances.

Peaky Blinders is a true modern classic, benefiting from a riveting central performance from Murphy and an equally enthralling portrayal by the late Helen McCrory. The show featured guest turns from guest stars like Anya Taylor-Joy (Furiosa), Tom Hardy, and Sam Claflin, quickly cementing itself as an influential part of modern television. While never an awards darling, Peaky Blinders enjoyed immense critical and fan acclaim, lasting six seasons before wrapping its violent, yet insightful story on a satisfying note.

Juggling different genres and presenting remarkably challenging storylines that pushed the envelope, BoJack Horseman quickly became one of Netflix’s crown jewels. The show centers on the titular character, an anthropomorphic horse and has-been sitcom star who plots a comeback with an autobiography penned by a ghostwriter.

It wouldn’t be an overstatement to call BoJack Horseman Netflix’s best and most thematically rich and complex series. It dealt with complicated issues including mental health, trauma, addiction, suicide, sexism, racism, and many other crucial social issues. Yet, it was never preachy, addressing them with a degree of humor and humanity that few other shows could ever hope for. Occasionally ruthless and harrowing, yet always engaging, BoJack Horseman is a unique and poignant piece of entertainment. In hindsight, it’s impressive that it lasted six seasons, but Netflix is all the better for allowing the show to grow and thrive.

Starting on the British network Channel 4, Black Mirror moved to Netflix in season 3, and the rest is history. The anthology show explores several themes, mainly revolving around technology, media consumption, and human detachment. Most of its episodes are set in dystopias where technology has increased its dominance, leading to an increasingly fractured human condition.

Black Mirror is widely regarded as one of the finest, most ambitious, and thematically complex shows of the 21st century. While not every episode is a winner, those that are have become true landmarks of modern television, generating intense conversations and acting as genuinely chilling cautionary tales about the dangers of unchecked technology. Thought-provoking, occasionally humorous, and always riveting, Black Mirror is the modern Twilight Zone, a show that is as unnerving and eerie as it’s entertaining.

It wouldn’t be an overstatement to call The Crown Netflix’s most acclaimed original. The show and its cast earned a plethora of awards, with season 4 claiming the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series. It arguably peaked during the early Diana years, with seasons 3 and 4 capturing the zeitgeist and ruling most award shows. While seasons 5 and 6 didn’t reach the heights of the earlier ones, The Crown remains a prestige drama that offers a rare insight into one of modern history’s most elusive and impenetrable figures.