5 Lesser-Known British Netflix Originals You Can Binge Over the Weekend

The Crown and Sex Education are some of the most popular shows on Netflix. But the streaming service also offers other British series. If you're looking for something to watch from across the pond, check out these five lesser-known shows.

The A List (2018-2021, 2 seasons, 5.5 on IMDb)

The BBC and Netflix joint venture follows Mia Blackwood, a teenager who goes to summer camp on a picturesque island. The dream vacation quickly turns into a nightmare as the characters fall in and out of love and make friends and enemies, and the island itself turns out to have a number of dark secrets that make the teens' stay at the camp less than safe.

Who Is Erin Carter? (2023, 1 season, 6.5 on IMDb)

This thriller series tells the story of the title character, a British national living in Barcelona with her husband and daughter, and working as a teacher at one of the local schools. Erin's life would seem more than ordinary if one day she and her daughter weren't caught in the middle of an armed robbery at a grocery store, forcing Erin to use her incredible fighting skills to neutralize the assailants. The incident made her family question who she is and threatened the life she'd built for them.

Fool Me Once (2024, 1 season, 6.8 on IMDb)

Based on Harlan Coben's novel of the same name, this thriller series follows Maya Stern, whose husband Joe has just been killed, leaving her to raise their infant daughter, Lily, on her own. Maya's friend Eva gave her a nanny cam to help her take care of Lily. But the gift proved to be even more useful when one day Maya saw her presumed dead husband visiting their daughter on the camera, forcing Maya to seek the truth about what's going on and how it relates to her family.

The Stranger (2020, 1 season, 7.3 on IMDb)

Based on another novel by Harlan Coben, this mystery thriller centers on a mysterious woman in a baseball cap who possesses the knowledge of several people's biggest secrets. When she appears out of the blue and reveals the secrets to other characters, they face problems and mysterious things begin to happen in their lives.

The Gentlemen (2024, 1 season, 8.1 on IMDb)

Guy Ritchie's television spin-off of his action comedy film of the same name stars Theo James as Edward Horniman. He is a former UN peacekeeper who inherited 15,000 acres of his family's estate after his father's untimely death. The new Duke of Halstead must learn how to preserve his family's legacy as problems mount and the land turns out to be involved in Bobby Glass' vast illegal weed growing empire.