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Eliana Eisen

Ways to Relax with some of Netflix’s Top 10 Shows of All Time

Updated: May 22, 2023

After a full day of school, the most stress-relieving thing to do at the end of the day is to sit on the sofa in front of the TV and watch old reruns. It's all too easy to become engrossed in a TV character's dilemma or to laugh along with them throughout the entire show. TV is an excellent method to forget about one’s troubles and simply relax. It gives us a momentary reprieve from whatever worry is weighing us down.

The more time we spend sitting and immersed in something we like, the less anxious we get.

Because you don't have to focus on anything else while watching a movie or a show, it helps to relax the mind. Without question, watching a favorite program or movie helps many of us wind down and "de-stress" at the end of a long day.

Some great shows to watch on Netflix are Maid, Squid Game, and Bridgerton. All three are very popular shows on Netflix.

The 10 episode series Maid that ranks number 8 on the most popular shows of all time on Netflix is about working up from the poverty line. After escaping an abusive relationship, Alex, a young mother played by Margaret Qualley, seeks work cleaning houses in order to support her daughter and construct a better future for them. As the series begins, Alex is leaving her boyfriend Sean (Nick Robinson) in the dead of night, taking their daughter with her. Alex, who is homeless and unemployed, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her small daughter Maddy, played by Rylea Nevaeh Whittet. Maid, based on Stephanie Land's riveting New York Times best-selling novel Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive, will follow a single mom who resorts to housekeeping to - scarcely - get by while battling poverty, homelessness, and bureaucracy. Maid is a stunning, vivid, realistic, and uplifting investigation of poverty in America, told mostly through Alex's point of view. Maid is an unflinching portrayal of emotional and verbal abuse, which is rarely depicted on screen. The series also creates a clear picture of just how hard it is for women to escape abusive relationships, making it the kind of series that you'll be thinking about for days afterwards.


Squid Game, which still ranks number 1 in the top 10 on Netflix, has become one of the most popular shows on Netflix of all time. The plot centers around Seong Gi-hun, a divorced and indebted chauffeur who is invited to participate in a series of children's games for a chance to win a significant financial award. When he accepts the deal, he is sent to an unfamiliar place where he finds himself with 455 other players who are all severely in debt. The players are forced to wear green tracksuits and are constantly monitored by masked guards in pink jumpsuits. The Front Man, who wears a black mask and a black outfit, oversees the games. The participants quickly realize that losing the games leads to their death, with each death adding 100 million to the possible 45.6 billion grand rewards. Gi-hun forms alliances with other players, including his boyhood friend Cho Sang-woo, in order to stay alive in the games' physical and mentally challenges. Squid Game shows a broader concern about South Korea's place in the world and what it required to grow from a destitute Third World nation to one of the world's finest economies. In an odd manner, the show is about globalisation, but it has skillfully hidden its critical message in order to reach a worldwide audience.


To find a show that is not about poverty or survival, check out Netflix’s second popular show of all time, just under Squid Game, Bridgerton. Bridgerton follows Daphne Bridgerton, the oldest daughter of the prominent Bridgerton family, as she enters the competitive marriage market of Regency London. Daphne's possibilities appear to be unsurpassed at first, as she hopes to follow in her parents' footsteps and find a match ignited by genuine love. However, when her elder brother begins to rule out possible suitors, a high society gossip sheet authored by the enigmatic Lady Whistledown casts doubt on Daphne. Enter the very desired and unruly Duke of Hastings, devoted bachelor and the season's catch for the debutantes' mothers. Despite their claims that they don't desire anything the other has to give, their attraction is evident, and sparks fly as they discover themselves in an expanding war of wits while managing societal standards for their future. Bridgerton is a wonderfully salacious and romantic coming-of-age series that has a unique power to engross viewers and transport them to another world. This show is definitely for anyone wishing to get away from the 21st century for a few nights.


All three of these shows are all ranked in the top 10, with Squid Game and Bridgerton announced for a second season. Whether you're looking for a survivor's narrative, an elimination game story, or simply an incredible romance story, all three of these shows are must-sees. All of these shows help individuals to decompress and be transported to another world for a few hours. Every student has their own way of unwinding, but for many, watching television is a great way to relax, and all of these shows will make one not want to leave the couch for hours.


TOP 10 SHOWS OF ALL TIME:

  1. SQUID GAME

  2. BRIDGERTON

  3. LUPIN: SEASON 1

  4. THE WITCHER: SEASON 1

  5. LA CASA DE PAPEL: SEASON 5

  6. SEX/LIFE

  7. STRANGER THINGS: SEASON 3

  8. MAID

  9. LA CASA DE PAPEL: SEASON

  10. TIGER KING







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