If you're like us, you're getting a bit frustrated about having to wait for all of your favorite streaming shows to finish filming and come back with a fresh new batch of episodes. (We're looking at you, "Bridgerton," "The Diplomat" and "Emily in Paris.")
If that's the case, these top-notch Netflix shows with a lot of seasons — we're talking a minimum of six, at least — should certainly keep you busy (and entertained) while you wait. Unlike one-and-done miniseries, these lengthy shows have the scope and space to stretch out, letting viewers get to know their characters and follow them across several years. (Or, at the very least, across several days, if you're a binge-watcher.)
Whether you're in the mood for a crime-family drama led by an Oscar winner, a cackle-worthy sitcom starring two undeniable legends, or a prison-set saga that pretty much put the streaming service on the map, here are three Netflix shows with a lot of seasons that you should add to your next watch list.
'Orange is the New Black'
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To say that "Orange is the New Black" is a huge reason for Netflix's dominance today isn't an understatement — running for seven seasons from 2013 to 2019, it was one of Netflix's first original series and brought in both commercial popularity and critical acclaim during the streamer's early years, including 16 Emmy Award nominations and four wins.
Over 91 episodes, "OITNB" follows the lives, loves, losses and legal battles of the women inmates at Litchfield Penitentiary, a minimum-security women's federal prison in Upstate New York, with Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) — a clean-cut public relations executive whose drug-running past eventually catches up with her, landing her in prison for 15 months — acting as the audience's proxy.
Along the way, Chapman has to adjust to life behind bars as well as the often eccentric, sometimes violent, always interesting convicts now populating her new life.
Watch "Orange is the New Black" on Netflix now
'Peaky Blinders'
Before he was winning an Academy Award for his explosively great portrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer," Cillian Murphy was making things blow up on the small screen as Tommy Shelby, the leader of a notorious street gang in post-WWI Birmingham in "Peaky Blinders."
The BBC drama series, which took on a new life when it was added to Netflix's library in 2014, only had 36 episodes across six seasons (this is a British show, after all), but it manages to pack in a lot, following Murphy's unrelentingly ambitious crime boss as he deals with the Italian mafia, corrupt Catholic priests, Russian aristocrats, dastardly Irish cops, lingering wartime PTSD and more.
Watch "Peaky Blinders" on Netflix now
'Grace and Frankie'
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We'd watch Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in anything, but especially in "Grace and Frankie," the seven-season comedy that sees the two legendary performers playing our eponymous pair of women — sharp-tongued cosmetics mogul Grace Hanson and quirky artist Frankie Bergstein, respectively — who form an unlikely friendship after their husbands reveal they are in love with each other and plan to get married.
Over 94 half-hour episodes, Frankie and Grace will have you interchangeably laughing and crying as you watch them hilariously and heartwarmingly get through such a major change in their family dynamics, and become family for each other in the process.
Watch "Grace and Frankie" on Netflix now
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