The best part about Netflix is that I can fit a good TV series into my weekend and watch it at my own pace. Whether that means powering through a tight eight episodes of an addictive thriller in a single night, or savoring them over a couple of days, I love how all the episodes are there to watch them however I please.
With that in mind, I’ve picked three Netflix shows for the weekend that you can go either way with, and a couple of them are new to the streamer. One is a skin-crawling wedding horror, another is a brooding Scandinavian detective thriller, and the third is a Korean sci-fi that will literally get under your skin.
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Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen
It’s Twin Peaks meets Get Out in this new Netflix horror series
I know the weather is getting warmer, but watching the first episode of Haley Z. Boston’s brooding and unsettling new horror series, Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, gave me shivers I just could not shake—in a good way. With the help of executive producers the Duffer Brothers (Stranger Things), Boston has created a satisfyingly bingable eight-part chill ride that mixes Twin Peaks weirdness with the something-lies-beneath family fear of Jordan Peele’s Get Out.
Rachel (Camila Morrone) and her fiancé Nicky (Adam DiMarco) are on a road trip to Nicky’s family’s cabin in the middle of nowhere for their wedding. But something dark and supernatural has been haunting Rachel, as the pair get sidetracked by some oddities—dead foxes everywhere, a baby left in a locked car, and a creepy old man at a dive bar who asks her,” Are you sure he’s the one?” When they get to the cold, labyrinthine cabin that just screams The Shining, Rachel’s unease intensifies as she meets Nicky’s eccentric family.
The best part? Iconic actress Jennifer Jason Leigh stars as Nicky’s mother, who’s got a dark family secret that Rachel will soon discover.
Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen
Release Date
2026 – 2026-00-00
Network
Netflix
Showrunner
Haley Z. Boston
Directors
Weronika Tofilska, Axelle Carolyn, Lisa Brühlmann
Cast
Adam DiMarco
Nicky Cunningham
Camila Morrone
Rachel Harkin
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Joe Nesbo’s Detective Hole
A brooding Nordic detective thriller
Putting aside the snicker-inducing name of this Norwegian-language detective thriller’s main character, Harry Hole (pronounced Hoo-leh), Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole is anything but funny. Adapted from Nesbø’s acclaimed crime novel, The Devil’s Star, the nine-part series is a reminder of how good the Scandinavians are at creating dark and thrilling crime dramas (The Killing, Bordertown, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo).
Tobias Santelmann stars as the titular anti-hero detective, a man struggling with alcoholism and trying to get past a horrific accident that caused the death of his partner. But Harry’s got bigger herring to pickle—there’s a ritualistic serial killer on the loose, and Harry is getting close. Speaking of The Killing, though, that show’s excellent Joel Kinnaman (For All Mankind) co-stars as Harry’s nemesis, corrupt colleague Tom Waaler, who is not very nice at all.
Detective Hole is everything we love about Nordic noir shows—it’s dark, twisty, and its Oslo and wild Norwegian locations add to the brooding sparseness when it needs to. So far, the series has a 92% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes and can be binged in a weekend.
Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole
Release Date
March 26, 2026
Network
Netflix
Directors
Øystein Karlsen
Writers
Jo Nesbø
Cast
Tobias Santelmann
Det. Harry Hole
Joel Kinnaman
Det. Tom Waaler
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Parasyte: The Grey
Fill your Demogorgon deficit with this South Korean sci-fi
If you’ve found that your Netflix watch list has been lacking a certain amount of freaky Demogorgon-like monsters, then I may have found a new series for you. Parasyte: The Grey is a live-action imagining of the popular Japanese body-snatcher manga Parasyte by Hitoshi Iwaaki. Directed by Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-ho, this 100% fresh six-episode series takes place in the same universe of the manga, but switches locale to South Korea.
The series follows Jeong-Su-in (Jeon So-nee), a cashier at a supermarket who is infected by a parasitic alien entity that should have eaten her brain and turned her into a horrific shape-shifting monster. Instead, Su-in somehow bonds with the parasite, nicknamed Heidi, and they instead coexist while giving Su-in some deadly abilities. Which is good, because there’s a whole cell of other zombified “Parasites” hell-bent on taking over humanity. Su-i and Heidi take them on, with the help of Team Grey, government-led force hunting the Parasites, but they’re also hunting Su-in.
Parasyte: The Grey is gory, action-packed, full of weird and cool morphing monster effects. Its hour-long episodes are easy to get through, making it a fun weekend watch, or spread out more slowly over the week.
Parasyte: The Grey
Release Date
2024 – 2024-00-00
Directors
Yeon Sang Ho
Writers
Ryu Yong Jae, Yeon Sang Ho
As it turns out, a supernatural horror miniseries, a dark Norwegian crime saga, and a Stranger Things-level alien body-snatcher horror make for a surprisingly great weekend binge lineup. The only question is, which will you watch first?
Subscription with ads
Yes, $8/month
Simultaneous streams
Two or four
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