Unlike many other puberty-centred comedies, Big Mouth makes as much time for its confused female protagonists as its male ones Maya Rudolph is a delight as the female hormone monster, and look out for Kristen Wiig’s wonderful turn as a talking vagina. When 12-year-old Andrew Glouberman (John Mulaney) is visited by the hormone monster (Nick Kroll, who voices many of the show’s best characters), he finds his life irreversibly – and seemingly disastrously – changed. Story continues Big Mouth (TV series, 2017–)Ĭrude, rude, and rife with surprise emissions and bodily functions, animated sitcom Big Mouth is also a sensitive, nuanced deep dive into the various horrors of teenagehood. It’s subtle, restrained and beautifully realised. They even rope their enthusiastic but irresponsible niece Sadie (Kayli Carter) into the mix, much to the horror of Sadie’s mother (Molly Shannon, turning a potentially repellent character into one worthy of empathy). Private Life (Film, 2018)īased on writer / director Tamara Jenkins’s own fertility struggles, Private Life stars Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti (both giving brilliant performances) as a spiky, loving middle-aged couple desperate to have a baby. You wouldn’t have thought that the story of a Cuban-American army veteran / nurse / single mother – who suffers from PTSD and depression – would fit into this format, but it does so beautifully, tackling issues of sexuality, racism and sexism in the process. In stark contrast to the off-beat, low-key comedy that currently rules TV – the kind that provokes a wry smirk rather than a hearty laugh – One Day at a Time is a big, bright sitcom filmed in front of an interminably enthusiastic studio audience. There are even more twists in the show’s 15 episodes than there are hostages. The heist here, led by a mysterious man known only as The Professor, involves breaking into the Royal Mint of Spain and printing off €2.4 billion. The bank heist is a tired dramatic trope these days, but don’t let that, or the show’s bland English-language title, put you off – creator Álex Pina has made something special. Known as La Casa de Papel ( House of Paper) in its native Spanish, Money Heist is Netflix’s most streamed non-English language show. To ensure your new favourite show or film doesn’t get lost in the algorithm matrix, here are some of Netflix’s best, most underrated originals. Every month, one or two Netflix originals launch a thousand memes – but what about the less buzzy ones? Which means, of course, that plenty of gems get lost in the noise.

Now, though, just about every star is getting in on the action, and you can hardly move for Netflix original content. It’s hard to believe that it was just nine years ago that Neflix commissioned its first original content – the political thriller House of Cards.Īt the time, it was a bold, audacious move, and it seemed almost puzzling that such big names ( Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright) were willing to star in a… web-series?

Netflix hidden gems money heist