Anyone else sad we don’t get the chance to walk into a Blockbuster anymore, but also super stoked because now we have all the movies at a touch of a remote? However, one dilemma does still exist when it comes to picking a movie on Friday night (or any and all the days #quarantinelife). While we don’t aimlessly walk around the Blockbuster, hoping one stands out. We are forever scrolling through our endless options across the many movie apps. To solve this problem, I did what I typically do for all important questions. I asked the internet, specifically my Facebook followers. I asked to give me the hidden gems of Netflix. Hulu and Amazon.
This is what they said….
100 Humans (Netlflix)
One hundred people from diverse backgrounds participate in experiments exploring age, sex, happiness, and other aspects of being human.
Documentary | 1 Season
Abandoned (Hulu)
Legendary skateboarder Rick McCrank explores abandoned places in America.
Documentary | 1 Season Available
All American (Netflix)
Culture clashes and brewing rivalries test a teen football player from South Los Angeles when he’s recruited to the Beverly Hills High School team.
TV Dramas | 2 Seasons
Blacklist (Netflix)
After turning himself in, a brilliant fugitive offers to help the FBI bag other baddies, but only if rookie profiler Elizabeth Keen is his partner.
TV Dramas | 6 Seasons
Bosch (Amazon Prime)
An LAPD homicide detective works to solve a murder of a 13-year-old boy.
Drama | 5 seasons
Call the Midwife
This period drama set in impoverished East London in the 1950s follows a newly qualified midwife and her colleagues at a nursing convent.
TV Shows Based on Books | 8 Seasons
Derry Girls (Netflix)
Amidst the political conflict of Northern Ireland in the 1990s, five high school students square off with the universal challenges of being a teenager.
TV Comedies | 2 Seasons
Devs (Hulu)
In Devs, an FX limited series, a young software engineer, Lily Chan, investigates the secret development division of her employer, a cutting-edge tech company based in Silicon Valley, which she believes is behind the murder of her boyfriend.
Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller | 1 Season Available
Dead to Me (Netflix)
A hotheaded widow searching for the hit-and-run driver who mowed down her husband befriends an eccentric optimist who isn’t quite what she seems.
TV Dramas | 1 Season (Season 2 comes in May)
Dirty Money (Netflix)
From crippling payday loans to cars that cheat emissions tests, this investigative series exposes brazen acts of corporate greed and corruption.
Documentaries | 2 Seasons
Dynasty (Netflix)
The Carringtons and the Colbys feud for control over their fortune — and their children — in this updated reboot of the classic prime-time soap.
TV Dramas |2 Seasons
The End of the F***ing World (Netlifx)
A budding teen psychopath and a rebel hungry for adventure embark on a star-crossed road trip in this darkly comic series based on a graphic novel.
TV Comedies | 2 Seasons
Eureka (Amazon Prime)
In the years since World War II, the U.S. government has been relocating the world’s geniuses (and their families) to the Pacific Northwest town of Eureka. Daily life there shifts between amazing innovation and total chaos. U.S. Marshal Jack Carter learns this first-hand when his car breaks down in Eureka, stranding him among the town’s eccentric citizens. When they unleash a scientific creation still unknown to the outside world, it’s up to Carter to restore order. Subsequently, he’s let in on one of America’s best-kept secrets.
Comedy | 5 seasons
Flaked (Netflix)
In his funky California beach enclave, Chip’s the go-to guy for personal insights. But he isn’t quite as enlightened when it comes to his own baggage.
TV Comedies | 2 Seasons
Four weddings and a funeral (Hulu)
Maya, the young communications director for a New York senatorial campaign, receives a wedding invitation from her college schoolmate now living in London. She leaves her professional and personal life behind, in favor of traveling to England and reconnecting with old friends and ends up in the midst of their personal crises. Relationships are forged and broken, political scandals exposed, London social life lampooned, love affairs ignited and doused, and of course, there are four weddings…and a funeral.
Comedy, Romance • TV Series | 1 Season
Girlfriends Guide to Divorce (Netflix)
After the world learns the truth about her failing marriage, a successful self-help author tries to salvage her career and find her way as a divorcée.
TV Dramedies | 5 Seasons
Girl Boss (Netflix)
Rebellious and broke, Sophia stumbles into creating an online business and learns how to be the boss. A comedy inspired by the best-selling memoir.
TV Shows Based on Books | 1 Season
Good Girls (Netflix)
Three suburban moms orchestrate a local grocery store heist to escape financial ruin and establish independence — together.
TV Dramedies | 2 Seasons
Heartland (Netflix)
Spunky teenager Amy is reeling from the sudden death of her mother when she and her grandfather are threatened with the loss of their horse ranch.
TV Dramas | 11 Seasons
Heart of Dixie (Netflix)
Fast-talking city girl Zoe Hart winds up patching up the locals of a tiny town in the Deep South when she inherits a medical practice in Alabama.
TV Dramedies | 4 Seasons
High Fidelity (Hulu)
A record store owner revisits past relationships through music and pop culture while trying to get over her one true love.
Comedy • TV Series | 1 Season
I’m Sorry (Netflix)
Life is a series of awkward situations for comedy writer and mom Andrea, thanks to plenty of neuroses and a knack for sticking her foot in her mouth.
TV Comedies | 2 Seasons
In the Dark (Netflix)
A blind woman with vices finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation when her best friend turns up dead.
TV Dramas | 1 Season
Insatiable (Netflix)
A bullied teenager turns to beauty pageants as a way to exact her revenge, with the help of a disgraced coach who soon realizes he’s in over his head.
TV Shows | 2 Seasons
Jack Ryan (Amazon Prime)
Author Tom Clancy introduced the character of Jack Ryan in a series of books before Ryan headed to the big screen in several films. Now the former U.S. Marine is featured in an episodic series for the first time, with John Krasinski portraying Ryan in this Amazon original thriller that centers on Ryan as an up-and-coming CIA analyst. He is thrust into a dangerous field assignment for the first time and uncovers a pattern in terrorist communication. That launches him into the middle of a dangerous gambit with a new breed of terrorism that threatens destruction on a global scale.
Action | 2 seasons
Jane the Virgin (Netflix)
After vowing to remain chaste until marriage, Jane Villanueva learns she’s pregnant due to a medical slip-up and has to rethink her future.
Romantic TV Shows | 5 Seasons
Killing Eve (Hulu)
Villanelle is a psychopathic assassin, and Eve is the woman charged with hunting her down; the two fiercely intelligent women, equally obsessed with each other, go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.
Action, Drama, Crime, Thriller • TV Series | 2 Seasons Available
Kim’s Convenience (Netflix)
While running a convenience store in Toronto, members of a Korean-Canadian family deal with customers, each other and the evolving world around them.
Sitcoms | 4 Seasons
Legacies (Netflix)
Born into a rare supernatural bloodline, Hope Mikaelson attends a gifted private school to master her powers and control her evil impulses.
TV Sci-Fi & Fantasy | 2 Seasons
Little Fires Everywhere (Hulu)
Starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington, Little Fires Everywhere follows the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and an enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. Based on Celeste Ng’s 2017 bestseller, the story explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, the ferocious pull of motherhood – and the danger in believing that following the rules can avert disaster.
Drama • TV Series | 1 Season
Locke and Key (Netflix)
After their dad’s murder, three siblings move with their mom to his ancestral estate, where they discover magical keys that unlock powers — and secrets.
TV Sci-Fi & Fantasy | 1 season
Love (Netflix)
Rebellious Mickey and good-natured Gus navigate the thrills and agonies of modern relationships in this bold comedy co-created by Judd Apatow.
Romantic TV Shows | 3 Seasons
Luna Nera (Netflix)
In 17th-century Italy, a teenager learns about her destiny among a family of witches, just as her boyfriend’s father hunts her down for witchcraft.
TV Sci-Fi & Fantasy | 1 Season
Man in the High Castle (Prime)
This series, loosely based Philip K. Dick’s novel of the same name, takes a look at what the world might look like had the outcome of World War II turned out differently. In this dystopian scenario, the Axis powers won the war, leading to the United States being divided into three parts, an area controlled by the Japanese, a Nazi-controlled section, and a buffer zone between the two. Despite the oppression, a new hope emerges when films turn up that seem to show a different world. A woman believes the films contain the key to freedom and is determined to find their mysterious guardian.
Drama | 4 seasons
Mary Kills People (Hulu)
“Mary Kills People” follows a single mother and ER doctor who moonlights as an underground angel of death. Dr. Mary Harris stays one step ahead of the authorities as she helps her clients slip away on their own terms, but business is booming, and Mary’s double life is getting complicated.
Drama • TV Series | 2 Seasons
Marvelous Mrs.Mazel (Amazon Prime)
It’s the late 1950s and Miriam “Midge” Maisel has everything she has ever wanted — the perfect husband, two kids and an elegant apartment on New York’s Upper West Side. Her seemingly idyllic life takes a surprising turn when she discovers a hidden talent she didn’t previously know she had — stand-up comedy. This revelation changes her life forever as she begins a journey that takes her from her comfortable life on the Upper West Side through the cafes and nightclubs of Greenwich Village as she makes her way through the city’s comedy industry on a path that could ultimately lead her to a spot on the “Tonight Show” couch.
Historical Drama | 2 Seasons
Mozart in the Jungle (Amazon Prime)
As Amazon’s “Mozart in the Jungle” opens, Maestro Thomas takes his final bow with the New York Symphony. Applause dies down, and the orchestra’s chairwoman introduces a new conductor — young, flamboyant, talented Rodrigo, who strides onto the stage, bows and turns his baton into a rose! Conflict begins for the badly behaved genius and his stodgy predecessor, now music director emeritus. Rodrigo promises change when he icily reviews Thomas’ last concert, and it starts with auditions that alter life for a female oboist scrambling for gigs.
Comedy | 4 seasons
New Amsterdam (Hulu)
Inspired by Bellevue, the oldest public hospital in America, this unique medical drama follows the brilliant and charming Dr. Max Goodwin, the institution’s newest medical director, who sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care.
Medical, Drama • TV Series | 1 Season Available
Northern Rescue (Netflix)
After the sudden death of his wife, search and rescue commander John West relocates with his three kids to his rural hometown of Turtle Island Bay.
TV Drama | 1 Seasons
Ozark (Netflix)
A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss.
TV Drama | 3 Seasons
Outlander (Netflix/Hulu)
This epic tale adapted from Diana Gabaldon’s popular series of fantasy-romance novels focuses on the drama of two time-crossed lovers.
TV Sci-Fi & Fantasy | 3 Seasons
Poldark (Amazon Prime)
This all-new version of the vintage Masterpiece series stars Aidan Turner as Capt. Ross Poldark, a redcoat returning to Cornwall after the American Revolutionary War, only to find his father dead and his true love about to marry someone else. A Mammoth Screen production, the series is packed with action, adventure and romance.
Romance | 5 seasons
Queen Sugar (Hulu)
Produced by Oprah Winfrey, award-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay (Selma), and Melissa Carter, Queen Sugar chronicles the lives and loves of the estranged Bordelon siblings in Saint Josephine, Louisiana. Reunited by a family tragedy, the Bordelons must navigate their complicated lives in order to run an ailing sugarcane farm.
Drama, Black Stories • TV Series | 4 Seasons
Rectify (Netflix)
Convicted of rape and murder at age 18, Daniel Holden spends nearly 20 years on death row until DNA evidence brings the verdict into question.
TV Dramas | 4 Seasons
Reign (Netflix)
This vivid historical drama series tells of the rise to power of Mary, Queen of Scots, amid a court full of sexual and political intrigue.
TV Dramas | 4 Seasons
Schitt’s Creek (Netflix)
Suddenly broke, the formerly filthy-rich Rose family is reduced to living in a ramshackle motel in a town they once bought as a joke: Schitt’s Creek.
Canadian TV Show | 5 Seasons
Sex Education (Netflix)
Insecure Otis has all the answers when it comes to sex advice, thanks to his therapist mom. So rebel Maeve proposes a school sex-therapy clinic.
TV Show | 2 Seasons
Shrill (Hulu)
From Executive Producers Lorne Michaels and Elizabeth Banks comes Shrill, a comedy series starring Aidy Bryant (Saturday Night Live) as Annie, a fat young woman who wants to change her life — but not her body. Annie is trying to start her career while juggling bad boyfriends, a sick parent, and a perfectionist boss.
Comedy • TV Series | 2 Seasons
Single Parents (Hulu)
A group of single parents lean on each other.
Comedy, Sitcom • TV Series | 2 Seasons
Searching for the Sugar Man (Netflix)
Decades after Detroit singer-songwriter Rodriguez disappeared following the commercial failure of his albums, two fans try to track down their idol.
Critically Acclaimed Films | Movie (1hr 26 min)
Stranger Things (Netflix)
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one strange little girl.
TV Sci-Fi & Fantasy | 3 Seasons
The Boys (Amazon Prime)
Superheroes are often as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians, and sometimes even as revered as gods. But that’s when they’re using their powers for good. What happens when the heroes go rogue and start abusing their powers? When it’s the powerless against the super powerful, the Boys head out on a heroic quest to expose the truth about the Seven and Vought, the multibillion-dollar conglomerate that manages the superheroes and covers up their dirty secrets. Based on the comic book series of the same name.
Drama | 1 season
The Good Doctor (Hulu)
Shaun Murphy, a young surgeon with autism and savant syndrome, relocates from a quiet country life to join a prestigious hospital’s surgical unit. Alone in the world and unable to personally connect with those around him, Shaun uses his extraordinary medical gifts to save lives and challenge the skepticism of his colleagues.
Medical drama ‧ 2 seasons
The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)
A woman forced into sexual servitude struggles to survive in a terrifying, totalitarian society.
Sci-fi | 3 seasons
The Hunters (Amazon Prime)
Nazi hunters discover hundreds of high-ranking Nazi officials in 1977 New York City, conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in the U.S.; the Hunters set out to bring the Nazis to justice and thwart their new genocidal plans.
Crime | 1 season
The Let Down (Netflix)
Audrey, mother of a 2-month-old, joins a new-parents support group, where she makes some quirky friends facing various challenges and life changes.
TV Dramedies | 2 Seasons
The Magicians (Netflix)
When grad student Quentin Coldwater enters a college specializing in magic, he learns that the mythic fantasy world he once read about is very real.
TV Sci-Fi & Fantasy | 4 Seasons
The Originals (Netflix)
The Mikaelsons move to New Orleans and form an alliance with local witches in an effort to rule the city once again in this “Vampire Diaries” spinoff.
TV Dramas | 5 Seasons
The Umbrella Academy (Netflix)
Reunited by their father’s death, estranged siblings with extraordinary powers uncover shocking family secrets — and a looming threat to humanity.
TV Sci-Fi & Fantasy | 1 Season
The Witcher (Netflix)
Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster-hunter for hire, journeys toward his destiny in a turbulent world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.
TV Sci-Fi & Fantasy | 1 Season
Travelers (Netflix)
A federal agent tracks four people who suddenly seem to possess entirely new personalities, leading to a startling discovery about humanity’s future
TV Sci-Fi & Fantasy | 3 Seasons
Ugly Delicious (Netlifx)
All the flavor. None of the BS. Star chef David Chang leads friends on a mouthwatering, cross-cultural hunt for the world’s most satisfying grub.
Documentary | 2 Seasons
Virgin River (Netflix)
Searching for a fresh start, a nurse practitioner moves from LA to a remote northern California town and is surprised by what — and who — she finds.
Romantic TV Shows | 1 Season
Working Moms (Netflix)
Maternity leave is over and it’s time for these four moms to return to work while navigating kids, bosses, love and life in modern-day Toronto.
Canadian TV Shows | 3 Seasons
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