# The best Netflix miniseries

Stories that begin and end in one season: from The Queen's Gambit and Unbelievable to Unorthodox, Cocaine Coast, Baby Reindeer and Adolescence, according to Cineando.

- 94 votes · 13 items
- Mar 16, 2026 · sofia_maraton
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## Top 13

1. **Unbelievable (2019)** (11 · ▲11 ▼0) — A teenager nobody believes after she reports a rape, based on a true case.
2. **Adolescence (2025)** (10 · ▲10 ▼0) — A 13-year-old boy accused of killing a classmate, each episode shot in a single take.
3. **Baby Reindeer (2024)** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — Richard Gadd and the stalker who pursued him for years, from his own story.
4. **Dear Child (2023)** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — A woman escapes captivity and the police reopen a missing-person case.
5. **Maniac (2018)** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Emma Stone and Jonah Hill in a drug trial that gets inside the mind.
6. **Griselda (2024)** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Sofía Vergara as drug lord Griselda Blanco.
7. **Caliphate (2020)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Swedish series about Islamic State recruitment.
8. **The Queen's Gambit (2020)** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — Beth Harmon, from the orphanage to the chess elite, with Anya Taylor-Joy.
9. **Cocaine Coast (2018)** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — Drug trafficking in 1980s Galicia.
10. **Russian Doll (2019)** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — Nadia relives the same night in New York on a loop.
11. **The Mess You Leave Behind (2020)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — A teacher arrives in a Galician town where her predecessor died.
12. **The Minions of Midas (2020)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — A businessman blackmailed by an organisation that kills if he doesn't pay.
13. **Unorthodox (2020)** (1 · ▲4 ▼3) — A young woman flees a Hasidic community in Brooklyn for Berlin.

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