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The Ten Best Netflix Shows You Should Be Watching (2017)

Ten shows that will keep you incredibly captivated and wanting more

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The Ten Best Netflix Shows You Should Be Watching (2017)
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1. Breaking Bad

Whether you are familiar with this series or not, it is impossible to not be glued to your tv or computer once you begin watching it. In summary, former science teacher Walter White partners with one of his old students to make and distribute meth. This uniquely created show takes you along the good and bad sides of their journey.

2. Orange Is The New Black

This series is dramatic, emotional, and even comical for anyone looking for a show with an extremely interesting storyline that never leaves you bored. The various aspects of this show are remarkable for any viewer to experience watching. The plot revolves around Piper Kerman who is locked up in a women's prison after arrested for drug smuggling with her female partner. Viewers get to know the other prisoners and the adventures of what truly goes on behind "bars".

3. Shameless

Shameless is a hilarious series following the ups and downs of an alcoholic father and his children's lives without a present role model. Although it is geared to a certain audience over a certain age, it is everything a viewer could hope a comedy would be.

4. Stranger Things

Only with one season, this series is already one of the most successful shows to be premiered on Netflix. Nothing like you have ever seen before, Stranger Things gives science fiction a whole different name and meaning. It is thought provoking and without a doubt addictive to watch. It revolves around a boy named Will's disappearance and the mysteries involving supernatural forces that have to do with it.

5. The Office

Undeniably funny and even relatable, the Office takes the viewer on a hysterical expedition through the years of an office staff's lives at work. There are funny moments, serious moments, and a steady plot to keep viewers wanting to click the next episode without any shame.

6. American Horror Story

For those who are not admittedly terrified by horror, this series gives a whole different plot of terror each season. Currently with six completed seasons, it provides brave viewers with blood, gore, and even fright to follow alongside an engaging and fascinating plot.

7. Parks and Recreation

Similar but completely different from the Office, Parks and Recreation gives a more sarcastic viewpoint of a work like scenario. It follows Leslie Knope as she tries to follow her career goal and help turn a pit in her town, Pawnee, into a park. This comical series takes a different approach each episode and will leave you laughing until your side hurts.

8. Pretty Little Liars

Revolving around girl drama and a mysterious stranger named "A", four girls who have lost their clique's leader demand answers as to where she went and who caused her to disappear. This series keeps viewers wondering what happened, who "A" could be, and why everything happens the way it does. It is an emotional rollercoaster and will leave many claiming it is their guilty pleasure after binge watching until they completely catch up.

9. How to Get Away With Murder

This drama filled show has been described as "captivating" and "original" by critics around the country. Viola Davis stars as the main character who is a law professor at Pennsylvania University that ultimately ends up involved in a mess when five of her students become involved in a murder plot.

10. Scandal

For drama lovers, Scandal provides you with all of it revolving around a crisis manager and her one of a kind staff. Olivia Pope, the main character, spends her whole life protecting and defending the "pubic images" of the nation's elite. It leaves viewers wondering who is behind the things that happen and how the plot will tie together after each episode.

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