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Ozark
Ozark premiered on Netflix in July 2017, created by Bill Dubuque and Mark Williams, starring Jason Bateman as a financial planner who relocates his family to Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks after a money-laundering scheme for a Mexican drug cartel goes wrong, forcing him into an escalating cycle of criminal entanglement. Bateman, previously known primarily for comedic roles, also directed numerous episodes across the series' four-season run, and his performance alongside Laura Linney as his increasingly ruthless wife drew significant critical acclaim and multiple Emmy nominations and wins across the show's run. The series became one of Netflix's most consistently high-performing original dramas by internal viewership metrics, and its Ozarks lake-region setting, though largely filmed in Georgia, helped drive a genuine tourism interest in the actual Lake of the Ozarks region in Missouri following the show's popularity. Ozark's combination of Jason Bateman's genre-shifting lead performance and directing work and its sustained multi-season viewership success has made it one of Netflix's most critically and commercially significant original crime dramas.
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Squid Game
Squid Game premiered on Netflix in September 2021, created by South Korean director Hwang Dong-hyuk, and it became the platform's most-watched series ever at the time of its release, a genuinely unprecedented global phenomenon for a non-English-language series on any streaming platform. The show's premise — financially desperate contestants competing in deadly versions of Korean children's games for a massive cash prize — combined sharp social commentary on economic inequality with high-stakes thriller storytelling, and its distinctive visual design, including the contestants' green tracksuits and the guards' pink jumpsuits, became instantly recognizable global pop-culture imagery. Hwang reportedly spent over a decade trying to get the project made before Netflix agreed to produce it, and the show's massive success became a significant case study in the value of Netflix's global content strategy, demonstrating that a Korean-language series could achieve genuinely unprecedented worldwide viewership without an English-language remake. Squid Game's combination of its recording-setting global viewership, its sharp economic-inequality social commentary, and its validation of Netflix's non-English-language content strategy has made it one of the most culturally and commercially significant series in the entire history of streaming television.
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