The seven most bingeable series to stream this weekend: From Shogun and American Conspiracy to Kin and Mr and Mrs Smith
As the evenings start to become longer and the temperatures gradually increase, the idea of spending your weekends in watching a whole TV series may not sound as tempting as it did a couple of weeks ago.
However, we have not quite reached pub-garden weather just yet, so a couple more nights-in with the box may still be on your agenda for much of March.
But this is not something to complain about, as there are a number of high quality shows available on all streaming platforms right now.
Finding the right one to press play on can sometimes be an arduous task, so MailOnline has compiled a list of the seven most bingeable series to stream this weekend.
From the gory Disney+ blockbuster Shogun to the BBC‘s dramatic gangster thriller Kin, these shows will have you glued to your sofa and regularly hitting the ‘continue watching’ button on your screen.
American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders (Netflix)
Researcher Christian Hansen (pictured) pushes to uncover the secrets behind Casolaro’s death and the story that killed him.
An investigative journalist mysteriously found dead in a bathtub whilst pursuing a major political conspiracy? Sounds like the perfect story for a Netflix docu-series.
This four-part film explores the death of Danny Casolaro and the conspiracy theory that he claimed would rewrite American history.
Police ruled his death as suicide, but his family and friends have long insisted that he had been murdered for investigating a conspiracy group he had called The Octopus.
This hidden organisation was believed to have dealt with stolen spy software, unsolved murders, money laundering, drug trafficking and Ronald Reagan’s White House.
Director Zachary Treitz’s engrossing series has already reached number two on Netflix’s TV show ratings chart and is expected to be a major hit for the streaming service.
Danny Casolaro’s lifeless body was discovered by a housekeeper in the bathtub of a motel in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in August 1991
One Day (Netflix)
An adaptation of the 2009 best-selling novel by David Nicholls, follows the lives of Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew, who meet for the first time on their last day as students at the University of Edinburgh in 1988.
The 14-part series starring Ambika Mod, 28, and Leo Woodall, 27, launched on February 8 and has since captivated hearts with its moving storyline and gut-wrenching ending.
Each 30-minute episode sees the characters meet again on the same day each year, July 15, as they grow, face challenges, and navigate their friendship through changing times.
The show has surpassed 15.2million views since it premiered on Netflix 11 days ago.
And even US star Kim Kardashian has fallen in love with the story, recommending the tearjerker to her 364million fanbase on Instagram.
Ambika Mod (left) and Leo Woodall (right) in a scene from the new Netflix mini-series One Day
Ambika Mod (left) stars as Emma ‘Em’ Morley, a chippy working-class northerner, alongside Leo Woodall (right) who plays Dexter ‘Dex’ Mayhew, a pampered southern toff
Mr and Mrs Smith (Amazon)
Adapting the iconic 2005 spy thriller starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie may not be the top of everyone’s list for prestige TV, but Amazon’s new series is quickly becoming a hit.
The show stars Donald Glover, 40, and Maya Erskine, 36, as ‘John and Jane Smith’, a married couple who on the surface are just your everyday neighbours – but behind closed doors are actually spies.
The Prime Video show was so-created by Glover, Francesca Sloane, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who was set to play Mrs. Smith.
However, Phoebe parted ways with Donald and the show over ‘creative differences’ and was ultimately replaced by Erskine who pulls in a star-making performance alongside Glover.
The show stars Donald Glover (left) and Maya Erskine (right) as ‘John and Jane Smith’, a married couple who on the surface are just your everyday neighbors – but behind closed doors are actually spies
Fans of the original film and newcomers to the story will enjoy this action-packed eight-episode series
True Detective Night Country (Now TV)
Fans and critics alike have lauded the latest installment of the much-loved True Detective series.
Season four, which stars Jodie Foster and Kali Reis as Detectives Liz Danvers and Evangeline Navarro, in the harsh and sinister town of Ennis, Alaska.
The show centres on two men who operate a remote research station and mysteriously vanish.
To solve the case, Detectives Danvers and Navarro will have to confront the darkness themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.
Those who loved the bickering odd couple duo of Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey in season one will enjoy with the crackling love-hate relationship between Foster and Reis this time around.
Jodie, 61, was singled out for particular praise for her character’s role in the final episode of season four
Kin (BBC)
Set around a Dublin family embroiled in a bloody gangland war, Irish drama Kin has left British viewers hooked since first airing on the BBC in November last year.
When Michael Kinsella, scion of a Dublin crime clan, gets out of prison, he wants to turn his back on the family business.
But as anyone who has ever watched a drama about organised crime, knows – just when you think you are out, they pull you back in.
The drama follows the fictional Kinsella family, as they battle an international drug cartel and other Irish crime groups to remain at the top of the heap in Dublin’s drug trade.
The shows nine episodes grips its viewers from minute one and makes great use of the Dublin cityscape to tell this dramatic story.
It’s no hardship watching top Irish operators such as Ciarán Hinds (above, right), Aidan Gillen (centre) and Daredevil’s Charlie Cox (left)
Frank Kinsella, who is played by Aidan Gillen, before a meeting with rival Eamon Cunningham
Shogun (Disney+)
Disney+’s gory new blockbuster is bein touted by fans as the next Game of Thrones.
The hotly-anticipated action-drama is set is 17th century showcases the brutality of feudal Japan and centres around a military chief battling for his life in a series of savage, violent clashes.
Based on the acclaimed 1975 novel by James Clavell, the 10-epiosde series features brutal beheadings, people boiled alive and sliced open with katanas – with fans already celebrating it as one of the most blood-thirsty smash hits of the year.
The fantasy epic is getting rave reviews across the world from viewers and critics alike.
The hotly-anticipated action-drama is set is 17th century feudal Japan and centres around a military chief battling for his life in a series of savage, violent clashes
Disney+ has dropped its gory new blockbuster series Shogun – which is being touted by fans as the next Game of Thrones
Slow Horses (Apple TV)
Spy drama Slow Horses is quickly becoming everyone’s favourite new spy thriller and its third season on Apple TV+ has been released to rave reviews.
It’s led by an excellent performance from an Oscar-winning Hollywood A-lister, a British rising star and was written by an author dubbed the successor to John Le Carre.
Gary Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, who works part of an MI5 agency who battle all the obstacles that land in their way as they try to do their jobs.
Since its premiere in 2022, Slow Horses has been celebrated as ‘undoubtedly the best spy series on television’ and a ‘forceful, funny, and conspiratorial’ series.
The Harry Potter stars as Jackson Lamb, who works part of an MI5 agency who battle all the obstacles that land in their way as they try to do their jobs
All of the episodes from season three receiving a near-perfect approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes
All three seasons are available on Apple, with the latest batch of episodes receiving a near-perfect approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Those looking to start the show are advised to do so sooner rather than later, as filming has already taken place for season four, with a release date expected to be announced soon, while a fifth edition is also confirmed to be on the way.
