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The Crown
The Crown premiered on Netflix in November 2016, created by Peter Morgan, and it dramatized the reign of Queen Elizabeth II across six seasons, employing a genuinely unusual production strategy of recasting its entire principal cast every two seasons to age the characters across multiple decades of British royal history. The series became one of Netflix's most expensive productions, with reported per-season budgets reaching well over $100 million at points, reflecting its lavish production design, location shooting, and costuming built to authentically recreate multiple distinct eras of 20th-century British royal life. The show drew both critical acclaim, including multiple Emmy and Golden Globe wins across its cast changes, and periodic public controversy over its blending of historical fact with dramatized speculation about the royal family's private lives, prompting Netflix to add an on-screen disclaimer describing the series as "inspired by" rather than strictly factual. The Crown's combination of its unusual recasting structure, its position as one of the most expensive scripted series ever produced, and its ongoing public debate over historical accuracy has made it one of the most significant and closely watched prestige dramas in Netflix's original programming history.
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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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