How the Netflix Originals bracket works
Netflix show tier list without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Stranger Things or Squid Game? Bridgerton or The Witcher? — and after 31 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. Nobody can hold 32 shows in their head at once, but everybody can answer "this one" — so the order you end up with is one you will actually stand behind.
This bracket runs 5 rounds at the default 32-slot size (Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 32 shows in the field. Entrants are drawn at random each time, so an early upset in one run may never happen in the next. You can also play it at 8 or 16 slots for a shorter or longer run.
31 picks, 5 rounds
- Round of 3216 matchups
- Sweet 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 2-4 minutes start to finish.
All 32 entrants
All 32 entrants are listed below, including Stranger Things, Squid Game, Bridgerton and The Witcher.
Stranger Things
2016-2025
Squid Game
2021-present
Bridgerton
2020-present
The Witcher
2019-2023
Ozark
2017-2022
The Queen's Gambit
2020
Wednesday
2022-present
You
2018-2024
Narcos
2015-2017
The Crown
2016-2023
Cobra Kai
2018-2025
Dark
2017-2020
Black Mirror
2011-present
Money Heist
2017-2021
The Umbrella Academy
2019-2024
Never Have I Ever
2020-2023
Lupin
2021-present
Outer Banks
2020-present
All of Us Are Dead
2022-present
Orange Is the New Black
2013-2019
House of Cards
2013-2018
Mindhunter
2017-2019
BoJack Horseman
2014-2020
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
2015-2019
Beef
2023
Dahmer
2022
The Night Agent
2023-present
Ginny & Georgia
2021-present
The Sandman
2022-present
Alice in Borderland
2020-2022
Daredevil
2015-2018
Master of None
2015-2021
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 32 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 7 completed Netflix Originals brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
Black Mirror
18W - 5L · won 2 brackets
78%
win rate
- 2
Money Heist
13W - 5L · won 2 brackets
72%
win rate
- 3
Stranger Things
15W - 6L · won 1 bracket
71%
win rate
- 4
Outer Banks
15W - 6L
71%
win rate
- 5
Daredevil
11W - 6L · won 1 bracket
65%
win rate
- 6
You
10W - 6L
63%
win rate
- 7
Narcos
11W - 7L
61%
win rate
- 8
Wednesday
10W - 7L
59%
win rate
- 9
Squid Game
8W - 6L
57%
win rate
- 10
Alice in Borderland
6W - 5L · won 1 bracket
55%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Judge the whole run, not just the best season, or every prestige show wins by default.
- 2The default run puts all 32 shows in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 16 slots — a quicker run over a random 16 of them.
- 3Watch for the show you keep beating reluctantly. That is usually the sign you should undo and reconsider the pick before it.
Netflix Originals bracket FAQ
How many shows are in the Netflix Originals bracket?
The pool holds 32 shows. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 31 picks across 5 rounds: Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 32 slots.
Which shows are included?
Stranger Things, Squid Game, Bridgerton, The Witcher, Ozark, The Queen's Gambit, Wednesday, You, Narcos, The Crown, Cobra Kai and Dark, plus 20 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Netflix show tier list take?
About 2-4 minutes — 31 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. It works the same on a phone as on a desktop, and no login is involved.
How does this compare to a drag-and-drop tier list maker?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other show grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 31 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two shows that never met. If you would rather place the shows into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 32 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
How did everyone else rank these shows?
Every completed bracket feeds the Netflix Originals community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 32 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I build my own netflix originals bracket?
Use the bracket maker: add your own shows, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 32 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.