What to watch this week: 10 Netflix shows worth putting on your list — 13 September 2026

UKMac Watchlist

Sunday night, Netflix open, and somehow you’ve spent 20 minutes scrolling without actually choosing anything. If that sounds familiar, this is for you.

For our first UKMac Watchlist, we’ve looked at Netflix’s latest published UK Top 10 and picked out ten shows worth knowing about this week. This isn’t a claim that the chart’s ten most popular programmes are automatically the ten best — think of it as a quicker way to decide what might actually suit you.

Netflix’s latest published UK chart covers 31 August to 6 September, so rankings below refer to that period rather than pretending they’re a live Sunday-night snapshot.

1. The Gentlemen: Season 2

UK chart position: No. 1

Guy Ritchie’s crime series is the obvious place to start. Season two arrived on 3 September and immediately went to the top of Netflix’s UK chart. If you enjoyed the first run’s mix of aristocratic estates, criminal deals and very British chaos, this is the big returning Netflix show of the moment.

Watch it if: you want slick crime drama with a dark sense of humour.

2. Death of the Pastor’s Wife

UK chart position: No. 2

For viewers who routinely end up disappearing down a true-crime rabbit hole, this is the current chart heavyweight. It was No. 1 in the UK the previous week before The Gentlemen knocked it down a place.

Watch it if: true crime is your default Netflix choice and you want something people are clearly talking about.

3. The Gentlemen: Season 1

UK chart position: No. 3

One of the more telling things about season two’s arrival is that it has dragged the original season all the way back to third place in the UK. If you’ve somehow missed the series entirely, that makes this a particularly good week to start from the beginning rather than jumping straight into the new episodes.

Watch it if: everyone else seems to be discussing season two and you need to catch up.

4. Beauty in Black: Season 3

UK chart position: No. 4

Tyler Perry’s drama remains a major Netflix draw, with its third season sitting comfortably inside the UK Top 5. It’s one for viewers already invested in its world of wealth, power and family conflict rather than something we’d suggest beginning halfway through.

Watch it if: you like glossy, high-stakes melodrama and already know the characters.

5. Love Is Blind: UK: Season 3

UK chart position: No. 5

The British version of Netflix’s dating experiment is still pulling viewers in for its third season. The premise needs little introduction by now: relationships begin without contestants seeing one another, and reality inevitably catches up once they leave the pods.

Watch it if: you want easy reality television with plenty to argue about afterwards.

6. Instadocs: The Decoy Plane

UK chart position: No. 8

A newer entry on the list and a good option when committing to several seasons feels like too much effort. The documentary landed in Netflix’s global English TV Top 10 as well as making the UK chart.

Watch it if: you fancy documentary viewing rather than another multi-season drama.

7. Ted: Season 1

UK chart position: No. 9

The foul-mouthed bear has found another audience on Netflix, with the first season of Ted currently sitting inside the UK Top 10. It’s a much lighter option than most of this week’s crime and drama-heavy choices.

Watch it if: you want an irreverent comedy and already know exactly what sort of humour Ted delivers.

8. Outer Banks: Season 5

UK chart position: No. 10

Outer Banks is now into its fifth and final season, with the Pogues dealing with a major loss while chasing another potentially life-changing prize. It has slipped down the UK chart but remains one of Netflix’s established young-adult hits.

Watch it if: you’ve followed the Pogues this far and want to see how the story finishes.

9. Physical 100: Italy

If the dramas aren’t doing it for you, the Italian edition of Physical 100 arrived on Netflix on 11 September. One hundred athletes face a series of increasingly punishing physical challenges until only one remains.

Watch it if: you enjoy competition shows but would rather see strength and endurance than dating and dinner parties.

10. The Perfect Lie

Also new this week is The Perfect Lie, a thriller built around four seemingly ideal couples whose lives begin to unravel after one of their group dies in a house fire. It’s exactly the sort of premise designed for a “just one more episode” evening.

Watch it if: twisty relationship thrillers are your guilty pleasure.

UKMac pick of the week

The Gentlemen: Season 2. It’s difficult to ignore a new season that has gone straight to No. 1 in the UK while simultaneously pushing its first season back up to No. 3. If you want one obvious place to start this week, that’s it.

Coming to Netflix this week

There’s more arriving over the next few days. Monday 14 September brings season 14 of Gabby’s Dollhouse and the first two seasons of When Hope Calls. On Tuesday, The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist and I Survived a Serial Killer arrive alongside a new Jo Koy comedy special.

Thursday 17 September is the busier day. Netflix is adding The Fixers, Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, Not a Stranger and Plastic Beauty, while Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 returns for season two.

Watching through Apple gear?

Most of us don’t think much about the device once the programme starts, but Netflix fits neatly into an Apple-heavy setup. Apple TV is the obvious living-room option, while an iPad or MacBook makes a decent second screen when somebody else has commandeered the telly. AirPods are also considerably more neighbour-friendly than turning the volume up during a late-night binge.

We’ll keep UKMac Watchlist focused on what’s actually useful rather than trying to become an entertainment site overnight. If this first one works, we’ll widen the net in future editions to include Apple TV+, BBC iPlayer, Prime Video and Disney+ alongside Netflix.