Favorite Netflix TV show ever??

Where the fuck is BoJack Horseman?

BOOOOJAAACK

Where the HELL is ARCANE!?!?!?

In all seriousness, I think it is the highest rated show on their platform on Rotten Tomatoes, with 100% critical score and a whopping 96% audience score. It swept the Annies with... 9 wins, I think? Or was it 11? A lot, anyway.

As for my personal opinion, it is also the most intriguing work of fantasy (in the sense of a world completely separate from "earth") to appear on televisions - or any other medium - that I have ever seen. So yeah, I'm going with Arcane. Big time.

My two favorite Netflix shows are Stranger Things and Cobra Kai. Since the latter was not originally on Netflix then I will give the vote to the former.

Bojack is so far ahead of everything else they have that it’s not even a competition lol

Also Stranger Things sure as hell still has a lot of goodwill for that first season, and I say this as one of its biggest champions at the time. I mean the show is still fun and I know it’s hot right now but c’mooonnnn that shit is practically the textbook definition of diminishing returns.

For some reason, those never connected with me. (No American show has ever connected with me, to be fair.) I got just a couple episodes through The Wire because I didn't like any of the characters - it may have been intelligent, but I didn't have a reason to care. Breaking Bad had some highs, but it was overlong and should have had hours cut from every season (it also wound up going off the rails towards the end). I got through one season of The Americans, and it was fine but rather dry (and IIRC, disappointingly simplistic).

A key issue I've had with television is the need for stories that continue on for several seasons without a clear roadmap. People talk about Breaking Bad being a great example of a show knowing where it was going, but to me that show was obviously made up as it went along. The first season is wildly different from the second, which struggles to figure out what direction they are taking. And then the show hits its golden period that focuses and Walter and Jesse's relationship under Gus, and that stuff is GREAT... but then it loses its way again towards the end, as the moment a certain thing happens, the show seems to be lost once again, stumbling blindly until the conclusion.

The Prisoner was a single season that didn't feel the need to extend itself (and even then, I'd argue that a few episodes were useless). To take something with a more serialized story, Madoka Magica used 12 half hour episodes to tell a tight story, with one hell of a mic drop ending that couldn't be followed up on... And then they followed it up with a movie that was my favorite film of the past decade, but the point is that they didn't feel any need to set up a continuous story. (The movie is more of a response/argument to the show, rather than a continuation.) Cowboy Bebop was episodic storytelling that showed character development by subtly repeating scenes or even whole episode plots, but from different angles and in different styles, with the characters changing and making different decisions in similar situations (the first, tenth and twenty-fifth episodes are all variations of the same "lovers on the run" story, for example).

My choice for favorite Netflix show (Arcane) is setting up a second season, but it was also a very clear self-contained narrative. If there was no hope for another season, this would work perfectly as a narrative that (mostly) finishes what it starts in terms of character arcs and thematic exploration. Everything the writers wanted to explore was explored in nine episodes. Every core character has a complete arc (with freedom to develop further in upcoming seasons). The more "YA fantasy" style may be off-putting to a lot of people and that is a valid complaint, but I felt that this was a far more effective tragedy than Breaking Bad, and it succeeded in making around a dozen characters paving their ways to hell, rather than just two.

I don't mean to start an argument, I'm just trying to supply a different viewpoint. Certainly there is room for extended serialized stories, but I've never connected with one (in any medium, not just television). They are too big for a writer to carefully map out.

My favorite is The Crown but it's not on the poll.