Netflix's 2026 lineup is absurdly stacked. Between literary adaptations with Oscar-winning casts and Will Ferrell doing whatever Will Ferrell wants, t
Netflix’s 2026 lineup is absurdly stacked. Between literary adaptations with Oscar-winning casts and Will Ferrell doing whatever Will Ferrell wants, the streamer has assembled a slate that feels like it was curated by someone who knows exactly what your bookmark bar looks like. Whether you’re a prestige drama purist, a trashy soap devotee, or the person who still quotes Talladega Nights at parties, there’s something here for you.
We’ve ranked the most anticipated upcoming Netflix shows to support you plan the rest of your year around your TV because, priorities. Some of these have premiere dates locked in, others are hovering in a vague “fall 2026” window that’s keeping us up at night. All of them deserve a spot on your watchlist.
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‘Little House on the Prairie’ (July 9)
The Ingalls family looking out at something in ‘Little House on the Prairie’Image via Netflix
The woman who wrote for The Boys and The Vampire Diaries is now running Netflix’s Little House on the Prairie adaptation, and if that combination doesn’t make you at least a little curious about what this version of the Ingalls family looks like, nothing will. Rebecca Sonnenshine’s series follows the Ingalls as they establish a homestead on the Kansas prairie in the 1870s, facing fever, fire, wolves, and the daily realities of frontier survival. Ten-year-old Alice Halsey plays Laura (fans might recognize her as Brie Larson’s daughter in Lessons in Chemistry), with Luke Bracey and Crosby Fitzgerald as Charles and Caroline.
What separates this from a nostalgia reheat is its scope. The up-to-date series directly engages with the Osage people whose land the Ingalls settled on, casting Native actors like Meegwun Fairbrother, Alyssa Wapanatâhk, and Wren Zhawenim Gotts in roles that the 1974 original largely ignored. Sonnenshine has described it as part family drama, part survival epic, part origin story of the American West, and members of the original show’s cast have publicly endorsed this version while shooting down the “woke reboot” discourse. Plus, Willa Dunn has already been cast as Nellie Oleson for season two, so the villain we need is on deck.
Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz
Which Taylor Sheridan
Show Do You Belong In?
Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
Yellowstone
Landman
Tulsa King
Mayor of Kingstown
FIND YOUR WORLD →
01
Where does your power come from?
In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
ALand, legacy, and a name that’s been feared and respected for generations.
BKnowing the deal better than anyone else in the room — and being willing to walk away first.
CReputation. I’ve earned it the difficult way, and everyone in the room knows it.
DBeing the only person both sides will talk to. That makes me indispensable — and threatening.
NEXT QUESTION →
02
Who do you put first, no matter what?
Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
AFamily — blood or chosen. The ranch, the name, the people who carry it with me.
BThe company — or whoever’s signing the cheques. Loyalty follows the contract.
CMy crew. The men who stood with me when it counted — I don’t abandon them for anything.
DMy community — even when my community is a powder keg and I’m the only thing stopping it from blowing.
NEXT QUESTION →
03
Someone crosses a line. How do you respond?
Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
AQuietly, decisively, and in a way that sends a message to everyone watching.
BI outmanoeuvre them legally, financially, and politically before they even know I’ve moved.
CDirectly. Old school. You cross me, you hear about it to your face — and then you deal with the consequences.
DI absorb it, calculate the fallout, and find the move that keeps the whole system from collapsing.
NEXT QUESTION →
04
Where do you feel most in your element?
Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
AWide open land — mountains, sky, silence. Somewhere you can see trouble coming from a mile away.
BThe oil fields of West Texas — brutal, lucrative, and indifferent to whoever happens to be standing on top of them.
CA mid-size city where the rules haven’t quite caught up yet — fertile ground for someone with vision and nerve.
DA rust-belt town built around a prison — where everyone’s life is shaped by what’s inside those walls.
NEXT QUESTION →
05
How do you feel about operating in the grey?
Nobody in a Sheridan show has spotless hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
AI do what has to be done to protect what’s mine. I’ll answer for it eventually — but not today.
BGrey is just business. The line moves depending on what’s at stake, and I move with it.
CI have a code — it’s not the law’s code, but it’s mine, and I don’t break it.
DI’ve made peace with it. Keeping the peace requires compromises most people don’t have the stomach for.
NEXT QUESTION →
06
What are you actually fighting to hold onto?
Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
AA way of life that the state-of-the-art world is doing everything it can to erase.
BMy position — and the leverage that comes with being the person everyone needs to close a deal.
CRelevance. I’ve been away, I’ve been written off — and I’m proving that was a mistake.
DWhatever feeble order I’ve managed to build — because without it, everything burns.
NEXT QUESTION →
07
How do you lead?
Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
ABy example and force of will. People follow me because they believe in what I’m protecting — and because they know what happens if they don’t.
BThrough negotiation and leverage. I don’t need people to like me — I need them to need me.
CBy being the smartest, most experienced person in the room and making sure everyone quietly knows it.
DBy being the serene centre of a situation that would spiral without me — and accepting that nobody thanks you for it.
NEXT QUESTION →
08
Someone up-to-date arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction?
Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
AThey’ll learn. Or they won’t. Either way, the land was here before them and it’ll be here after.
BI figure out what they want, what they’re worth, and whether they’re an asset or a problem — brisk.
CI was the outsider once. I give them a chance — one — to show they understand respect.
DNew players destabilise everything I’ve built. I assess the threat and manage it before it manages me.
NEXT QUESTION →
09
What has your position cost you?
Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
AMy family’s peace — maybe their innocence. The ranch demands everything, and I’ve let it take too much.
BRelationships, time, any version of a normal life. The job eats everything that isn’t nailed down.
CYears. Decades in some cases. Time I can’t get back — but I’m not done yet.
DMy conscience, mostly. And the ability to ever fully trust anyone on either side of the wall.
NEXT QUESTION →
10
When it’s over, what do you want people to say?
Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
AThat I held the line. That the land is still ours and everything I did was worth it.
BThat I was the best at what I did and that no deal ever got closed without me at the table.
CThat I built something real, somewhere nobody expected it, and I did it on my own terms.
DThat I kept the peace when nobody else could — and that the town is still standing because of it.
REVEAL MY SHOW →
Sheridan Has Spoken
You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
Yellowstone
Landman
Tulsa King
Mayor of Kingstown
You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the state-of-the-art world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are skinny, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: piercing, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re astute enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
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‘The Hunting Wives’ S2 (Late 2026)
Brittany Snow as Sophie learning how to employ a gun with Malin Åkerman as Margo in ‘The Hunting Wives.’Image via Netflix
The Hunting Wives was not supposed to become a streaming phenomenon. A soapy crime drama about wealthy Texas housewives, guns, and a truly unhinged wig that had its own narrative arc? Yeah, that’s the kind of fare critics write off without even finishing their screening kit. But somehow, the Brittany Snow and Malin Akerman-led series became Netflix’s most-watched show in the U.S. within a month of its July 2025 debut. Season one ended with multiple bodies in the ground and Sophie (Snow) crashing her car into Margo’s (Akerman) brother, so season two has a lot of mess to spotless up. According to the logline, the two are “on the outs” before “old secrets and new foes” drag them back together.
The up-to-date season adds John Stamos, Dale Dickey, Cam Gigandet, and, in a casting choice nobody saw coming, WNBA All-Star Angel Reese as “Trainer Barbie.” (She was a vocal fan of the show on social media before landing the role, so we kind of get it.) Filming wrapped in March 2026 and star Dermot Mulroney has already confirmed a third season is in development, so Netflix clearly knows what it has here. A premiere date hasn’t been set yet, but expect it behind schedule 2026. Bring your boxed wine.
5
‘The Hawk’ (July 16)
Jimmy Tatro, Will Ferrell, and Luke Wilson in ‘The Hawk’Image via Netflix
Will Ferrell’s first TV comedy casts him as Lonnie “The Hawk” Hawkins, a former world No. 1 golfer whose 2004 peak is now two full decades in the rearview mirror but who remains convinced he’s got one more major left in him. His ex-wife (Molly Shannon) thinks he’s delusional, his son Lance (Jimmy Tatro) has already replaced him as golf’s golden boy, and the PGA Tour would very much like him to go away. Lonnie, however, needs one more major to complete the Grand Slam, and he’s not going to let a little thing like reality get in the way.
The cast is stacked with comedy veterans who know how to sell ridiculous material, including Fortune Feimster, Luke Wilson, and Chris Parnell, and the series was co-created by Ferrell, Harper Steele, and Chris Henchy with Rian Johnson’s T-Street producing. All ten episodes drop on July 16th, which means this is a mid-summer palate cleanser for anyone who’s been overdoing it on prestige TV. If it channels even half the energy of Ferrell’s best sports comedies, we’re in.
4
‘Pride & Prejudice’ (Fall 2026)
Mrs. Bennett walking in a field with her daughtersImage via Netflix
A up-to-date Pride & Prejudice always arrives with the same unspoken question: why bother when the 1995 and 2005 versions exist? Netflix’s answer appears to be Emma Corrin as Lizzie Bennet, Jack Lowden as Darcy, Olivia Colman as Mrs. Bennet, and a script from Dolly Alderton. Rufus Sewell plays Mr. Bennet. Jamie Demetriou, the man who gave us Stath from Stath Lets Flats, is Mr. Collins. Louis Partridge is Wickham. Daryl McCormack is Bingley. Fiona Shaw is Lady Catherine de Bourgh. At a certain point, you stop reading the cast list and start wondering if there’s anyone left in British acting who didn’t get a call.
The six-part series, directed by Euros Lyn (Heartstopper), is Alderton’s first major literary adaptation, and her sensibility seems tailor-made for Austen’s sharpest novel. Corrin is also executive producing, and the first teaser, which played ahead of Wuthering Heights screenings in the UK, reportedly sent the internet into a yearning spiral. We’re in the middle of a full-blown Regency renaissance right now, and this feels like the centerpiece.
3
‘Nobody Wants This’ S3 (Fall 2026)
Joanne and Noah sitting on the bleachers together in Nobody Wants This Season 2Image via Netflix
At this point, Nobody Wants This runs on a reliable annual cycle: drop in October, dominate Netflix’s global charts, get renewed within two weeks, and leave everyone arguing about conversion plotlines in the group chat. Season two held the No. 1 spot for two consecutive weeks, which means season three was never really in question. Erin Foster’s rom-com returns with Kristen Bell, Adam Brody, Justine Lupe, Timothy Simons, and Jackie Tohn all back. The season two finale saw Joanne (Bell) finally decide to convert to Judaism after Esther (Tohn) helped her realize she wasn’t doing it for Noah (Brody), she was doing it for herself. That’s a satisfying landing point that opens up genuinely captivating territory for season three: what does this relationship look like when the central obstacle is gone and the couple actually has to, you know, be together?
Foster has called the show’s core tension the push-pull between changing for a partner and changing for yourself, and three seasons in, Bell and Brody’s chemistry has only gotten better. Here’s hoping the show’s release schedule stays consistent because we need “Hot Rabbi” content now more than ever.
2
‘The Gentlemen’ S2 (Fall 2026)
Kaya Scodelario as Susie Glass standing to the side of Theo James as Eddie Horniman in a warehouse in Episode 4 of Season 1 of The GentlemenImage via Netflix
Guy Ritchie’s Netflix crime comedy was one of the streamer’s biggest hits of 2024, and the second season is expanding in every direction. There’s a one-year time jump, a geographical shift from the English countryside to the Italian lakes, and a cast that’s somehow gotten even more ridiculous: Hugh Bonneville, Michele Morrone, Giancarlo Esposito (returning), Benedetta Porcaroli, Chris Eubank Jr., and Maya Jama join Theo James, Kaya Scodelario, and Daniel Ings. Eight episodes, all directed or co-directed by Ritchie alongside Eran Creevy and newcomer Nick Rowland.
The plot picks up with Eddie (James) and Susie (Scodelario) running the criminal empire overseas, and the early word from James is promising. He’s described the up-to-date season as “still funny, but darker” and confirmed it “goes a little wild,” which, coming from a show that already featured gun-toting chickens and drug-dealing aristocrats, should alarm and delight in equal measure. The energetic between Eddie and Susie, two people who genuinely like each other but will never fully trust each other because they come from completely different worlds, was the engine of season one, so pressure-cooking that in the Mediterranean tropics should be captivating.
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‘East of Eden’ (Fall 2026)
Florence Pugh as Cathy in ‘East of Eden’Image via Netflix
Zoe Kazan has been trying to adapt East of Eden since she first read the novel as a teenager. That her grandfather, Elia Kazan, directed the 1955 film version makes the project feel almost fated. That Florence Pugh is leading it makes it feel like appointment television. Kazan’s seven-episode constrained series centers on Cathy Ames, Steinbeck’s mercurial, manipulative, endlessly debated antiheroine, and surrounds Pugh with a supporting cast that borders on absurd: Christopher Abbott (Poor Things) and Mike Faist (Challengers) as brothers Adam and Charles Trask, Ciarán Hinds as the Irishman who made his way to California, Tracy Letts, Martha Plimpton, and Hoon Lee as the intellectual caretaker whose still presence anchors much of the novel.
Where previous adaptations have filtered the sprawling story through the Trask brothers, Kazan’s version reorients it around Cathy, a character most readers either love or find genuinely unsettling, and sometimes both at once. Garth Davis (Lion) directs the first four episodes, Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre (The Mustang) takes the final three. Pugh playing a woman this morally complicated, with this cast behind her and Kazan’s family legacy baked into every frame, is the fall TV event we’re building our schedules around.
