These are the 36 best women series that you can stream at Netflix, Disney+ and Co.
We are firmly convinced thatWomenshould be celebrated every day and not just on. Fortunately, there are now manySeriesWith toughs, inspiring and important women in the leading roles, so that you can watch for a year, as is the case in the world of women out there.
And of course you have to clearly state that “women's series” is a strange term, because there are no “men's series”. Anyone who thinks that we only introduce sneaky dramas here is wrong: Toughs investigators and crazy fraudsters shake their hands in our top 36 of the best women's series, there are their hands together with hip girls together.
From tough investigators to documentaries to women who have actually changed something - there is enough material in the streaming services. Here we put our favorites of theWomen's serieswith a lot of women power.
1. "Fleabag" (Amazon Prime Video)
This is the series for and about women. With a lot of black humor, cynicism and situation comedy, our entertainment idol Phoebe Waller-Bridge makes"Fleabag"To an imaginary table fireworks.
The story of a young woman (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) in London is told, who not only has to deal with the death of her best friend, but also throws a guinea pig café and slides from one sexual-erotic escapade. This is never flat, but always smart: Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a feminist and has made a feminist series-but without swinging your index finger, but simply by showing a contemporary woman.
If you want to see more of the woman, who also also saved the script of the 25th James Bond strip "no time to die", you can also sit on our list of our number 12, "Killing Eve".
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2. "Das Damesangaw" (Netflix)
A woman records it with the global chess elite (Spoiler-Alert: a men's association). And wins. Anya Taylor-Joy is convincing as Elisabeth "Beth" Harmon, who blend from the orphan to chess genius. Harmon comes to terms with her children's life in an orphanage in Kentucky, which not only gives her a roof over her head, but also every day. Beth already becomes tablet- as a child and then as a teenager, also dependent on alcohol- but she is a genius on the black and white board and sets all chess matt.
"Das Damengamit"Talks in warm colors and nostalgic and beautiful pictures of a woman who prevails without much outside help and does this despite many hurdles. No wonder that "the women's gambit" is the most viewed mini series on Netflix. If you are not chess professionals: don't do anything, the game is just a supporting role in addition to Anya Taylor Joy!
3. "Matrjoschka" (Netflix)
If you had a birthday every day, it would be pretty funny - at the beginning. But if you die at the end of every day and have to start again, it goes to the substance. This happens Nadia (Natasha Lyonne) and until she doesn't find out what she should do with her life differently, she experiences her 36th birthday every day.
The main actress is tough and funny, the eight episodes of"Matrjoschka"are entertaining and no longer than a good two hours. In addition, the series catchy tune has potential: "Gotta get up" by Harry Nilsson runs at least once in every episode. The Netflix original was produced by Amy Poehler (), a second season should still appear in 2022.
4. "Self Made" (Netflix)
In"Self Made"Accompany the audience: inside CJ Walker (Octavia Spencer), who was the first person of her family to be born in the USA after the end of slavery - as a free black woman. "Self Made" is the program at this Netflix Show, because the steep climb of CJ is shown: she works upwards via a laundry job and develops the "Magical Hair Grower", a hair and men from one Scale disease and the associated hair loss freed. The "Magical Hair Grower" finally makes CJ Walker the first self-made millionaire in the United States.
In just four episodes, Cjwalker's life is told-including a bitter setbacks and mega success. This is entertaining and emotional and also like a very entertaining history hour-because the story behind "Self-Made" is really right.
5. "The Killing" (Disney+)
One believes"The Killing"It always rains in the Seattle location. And just like seven days of rainy weather, leading actress Detective Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) also sees the laundry. As a single mother, she has to educate the disappearance of a young girl. Her colleague Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman) is at your side, where you cannot be sure at the beginning whether he is gangsters or cop. Over two seasons, Sarah Linden, sometimes almost autistic, is always looking for rosie Larsen, always in knitting sweaters and all sorts of stones are put in the way.
There are four seasons in total, the last two are independent in the broadest sense. The series is based on a Swedish original. As a spectator: In fever with the brittle commissioner, you are with the brittle, who is sometimes wrongly not taken seriously by her colleagues. Linden for the Win!
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6. "Unbelievable" (Netflix)
This series is the most important show that Netflix may have ever produced or will produce. In"Unbelievable"the almost incredible story is told by Marie (Kaitlyn Dever): at the age of 18 she was raped and shows that. However, two commissioners don't believe her. Years later, two commissioners have been on the trail of a serial rapist - and also end up with Marie's case.
Here a drastic history of rape is told, in which a painful investigative error almost destroyed the life of a young woman again. And this story didn't sprout any thriller brain, but really happens like that. The report on the case was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
7. "The Wilds" (Amazon Prime Video)
A plane crashes - and with him a group of young girls. They don't know each other, but have to pull themselves together because they are stranded by help on a lonely island. The girls who come from all corners of the United States only have in common that they were on the way to a young female retreat when the plane crashed. Each of them has a dark secret that she would only like to keep to herself, but whether it succeeds?
Fast Forward: In a second level, the girls are interviewed by officials. What we know: they are saved, but by whom? And why do so strange things happen on the island that each of the young women can get to the brink of nervous breakdown? Exciting, just the right binge feed for fans of! Already in!
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8. "The Crown" (Netflix)
Oh, be a princess - that would be something for you? Better think again, because if you take a close look at the story of Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Princess Margaret, you no longer want to swap.If it manages to make history told from the monarchy: underpinned with real facts, the audience is given a deep, sometimes fictional, insight into the British royal family.
It doesn't matter whether it is about love or friendship, marriage riding or problems with the prime minister: Queen Elizabeth II carries far more than just a pretty crown on her head, rather she carries the continued existence of the British royal family on the shoulders. She is responsible for the monarchy and even if it suffers from the weight of the crown jewels often enough, she chose the crown and not for her heart several times. What we based on the royal dramas that we have awarded multiple"The Crown"have learned: being queen in the British empire requires reason and foresight - and a strong opinion that you cannot dissuade from.
9. "The Fall" (Netflix)
The ""-Hottie Jamie Dornan in a series?-Yes, please. Especially if you know who his opponent is:-Star Gillian Anderson. As a hypothermic commissioner, she is flown into Belfast in Northern Irish to clarify a series of murder. At"The Fall"It is so special that you as a spectator: in white, who is behind the murders. This is how a cat-and-mouse game develops that culminates in a phone call on the bridge in the first season.
In the following relay, the tough (and sometimes male -murdering) main commissioner adds so much to the perpetrator that he begins to make mistakes. "The Fall" is exciting and not least because of his sexy leading actor. Women should always be as cool as Gillian Anderson as super director Stella Gibson.
10. "Bad Banks" (Netflix)
Drum roll, there is a new top -class series from Germany and with an extremely strong leading actress:"Bad Banks"In the first season in six one-hour episodes, has the next stock market crash in Germany on the subject, which is brought about by the bad machinations of a very large German investment bank. The young banker Jana Liekamp (Paula Beer) loses and risks everything between mare bite and macho habit, competition and coke-but then she learns the rules of the investment games faster than her teammates. It becomes the mastermind in the middle of a deliberately concrete financial crisis.
"Bad Banks" is exciting, even if you have no idea from Frankfurt's banking parquet, scary and modern. The series sets women exactly where they should be: at the top.
11. "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" (Amazon Prime Video)
Assuming that in the 1950s as a Jewish housewife in New York you will leave his husband, a hardly talented hobby comedian, for his secretary-what do you do? In the case of the fabulous Midge Maisel you grab a bottle of wine, put a really funny stand-up drunk, end up in jail and then work in secret on your career as a comedienne. Mrs. Maisel (Rachel Brosahhan) is characterized by her will to survive - she wants to make it without her husband and parents.
Die“Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”Makes mistakes, she experiences setbacks and she bites through. And all with steadfast optimism. Role function: 100 percent.
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12. "Killing Eve" (Netflix)
You want oneLooking that makes really addictive? Then you are with"Killing Eve"well served. Eve Polastri (Sandra OH), investigator at the British secret service, and Villanelle (Jodie Comer), socopathic contract killer with absurd perfect wardrobe, follow over two seasons throughout Europe.
In a parallel universe, the two might be the best friends, but in "Killing Eve" they are passionate enemies - they cannot and without each other. Eve puts everything at risk, as is her opponent. But who wins at the end? - We don't reveal that here! By the way, mastermind behind the series is Phoebe Waller-Bridge (see "Fleabag").
13. “Insecure” (Sky)
Get to know Issa: A bit planned and often looking for great love, she takes us into her life in Inglewood, a district of Los Angeles. ISSA (Issa Rae) really starts in their young adult life between hipsters and people with a protector complex.
Issa is a woman with whom we can identify: she practices the important monologues in front of the mirror and struggles with thedaily lifeJust as we do. Career, children and wedding or rather party, laissez-faire and spontaneous fun? Or everything at once?“Insecure”Tells of this wild mix that we call life and shows us four absolutely cool, stylish women's figures.
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14. "Always there for you" (Netflix)
Kate (Sarah Chalke) and Tully (Katherine Heigl) are different, but have been friends with each other since childhood: Kate is a shy girl, Tully is her confident counterpart - and together the two run through all the ups and depths that have life to offer. At the age of 14, the two get to know each other and are an inseparable duo for the next 30 years: career opportunities and false decisions, heartache and all the other challenges that life brings with each other.
"Always there for you" (im Original: "Firefly Lane")Is a heart -warming story about an intimate friendship between two women who survives every crisis. When the two protagonists are once again before a difficult exam in their forty, you don't just have to ask yourself how to master these problems and how closely your friendship really is. "Always there for you" is a feel-good series that you simply want to see through in one go!
15. “And Just Like That” (Sky)
In the winter of 2022 nobody came on thisGone: Sarah Jessica Parker slipped into the role of Carrie Bradshaw again and set their journey fromon the present. There is a swingIn the circle around Carrie,,And so some twists with which nobody had expected.
saw a lotExposed, but that showsa microcosm of today's fifth fifts and how they have to find their way around in a metropolis in wokes.
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16. "The Sinner" (Netflix)
Hardly any other series grabbed us as "The Sinner": Jessica Biel celebrated her furious comeback in the role of the disturbed mother Cora Tanteti, who commits a murder of a lively bathing lake. The mini series is based on the novel "Die Sünder" by Petra Hammesfahr and offers space for speculations, intrigue and secrets at every nook: Why why does the mother murder an apparently unknown? Why did the contact between her and her parents break off? And what sex fantasies does the investigating commissioner try to suppress? You accompany Cora Tanteti on her sometimes painful journey back into her past and yourself. Do not do anything if you"The Sinner"look - you will only want to spend the next eight hours with Jessica Biel!
In the meantime, four seasons are available on Netflix, but Jessica Biel can only be seen in the camera in front of the camera - in season 2, 3 and 4 she is "only" active as a producer.
17. "UnReal" (Amazon Prime Video)
Do you want to know how things are going behind the scenes of a TV reality format? Then is"UnReal"Quite sure of the right series for you. The series revolves around the fictional format "Everlasting" and the associated drama. In front of and behind the camera, the producer Rachel Goldberg (Shiri Appleby) manipulates candidates in order to generate the highest possible ratings.
By the way, "Everlasting" should be on theRemember, there is a good reason: the inventor of the series, Sarah Getrude Shapiro, was actually the producer of the "Bachelor" show in the USA.
18. "Sex Education" (Netflix)
AtIf you are busy with the trials and tribulations in love and sex crazed teenagers-above all. And even if boys play a major role in the two seasons here, it is the stories of the girls that the series mostly revolves around: abortion, sexual harassment, problems of single mothers and sexual confusion in general are realistic here, never instructive, but always funny and authentic.
We love Maeve, her mercilessly honest manner, her shyness towards her love interest and her determination to want to make it alone as a woman. Every now and then we should all be a little more Maeve. All seasons of“Sex Education”Run at Netflix.
19. "I May Destroy You" (Sky)
Michaela Coel has with me"I May Destroy You"caused a sensation in 2020: its twelve -part series is like a blow to the stomach in every single episode. Author Arabella is knocked out in a bar with co-drops, after a film tear, she wakes up with a bad feeling, but no clear memory. In the course of the first season, not only a rape scenario is played through again and again, but also Arabella's friends Kwame and Terry are repeatedly dealing with their own hetero and transsexuality and all three sites are the same questions: is that normal? Is this behavior attacking? Who is victim and who is perpetrator?
"I May Destroy You" is crazy to look at in some moments and very difficult to look at in others. Trauma, rape, sex, self -doubt, the search for yourself - everything comes together here. Important that these topics appeal to someone and even more important that it is shown as relentlessly as in "I May Destroy You".
20. “The Good Fight” (Disney+)
Lawyers who show their male colleagues how to really convince in court? Welcome to “The Good Fight”! This legal series is about human rights and women who act like men - and we love it!
The series was created“The Good Wife”, but it is not a spin-off: new spectators: inside can easily get in. The series manages to mix real events with fictional cases and does not shy away from unmasking sexual harassment at work, opportunism and also racism mercilessly. Strong stories, strong women-perfect binge material!
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21. “Grace and Frankie” (Netflix)
Grace (Jane Fonda) and Frankie (Lily Tomlin) have great common ground that their two husbands are divorce lawyers in California. However, when they open up to their women that they love each other and now want to live together as a gay couple, the business woman Grace and art teacher Frankie suddenly combine more than they thought. The two women who could not suffer very well before becomes a sworn team.
Friendships, old relationships and new love, getting older and young, all of this will be in the seven season of"Grace and Frankie"treated and often shown terrific. We hope that at the age of 70 we are like these two cool women!
22. “Inventing Anna” (Netflix)
Of course, it is like fraudsters Anna Sorokin somehow nobody wants. Nevertheless toldOn Netflix from a woman who is highly poker - and loses. Anna Sorokin, who was born in Russia, grew up in Germany and wants to belong to the elite in New York, sneaked up with LUG and fell capital. She spends the night in luxury hotels, she learns thatKnow - and leads everyone around the nose.
The story ofIs wilder than a script - but is. Even if Anna Sorokin cannot serve as a flawless model, she reminds us that we should not always put our light under the bushel - but should simply exaggerate when it comes to ourselves. As a women's figure with a role model function, is good in“Inventing Anna”Incidentally, journalist Vivian, who can prevail over her male bosses and tells Anna's story.
23. “Golden Girls” (Disney+)
Classic! The “Golden Girls” from the late 80s are very best entertainment. When Rose, Blanche, Dorothy and Sophia meet life as senior citizens in Florida, you can't help but bow to the unforgettable and legendary women's combination. Broken marriages, new love affairs, for 1989 completely progressive views for, Women's policy and last but not least an all-round perfect friendship between four extremely different women make this series an absolute highlight in the streaming universe. The “Golden Girls” may be old, but, wow, they are so timeless, wise, funny, heart-warming and inspiring-also in 2023 and for non-senior: inside.
If you can, you should definitely look at the consequences in the English original. The wit is just amazing.
24. “Harlem” (Amazon Prime Video)
In “Harlem”, the audience accompanies four young women who want to become native to Harlem after the university in the New York district - and have to deal with all sorts of trouble: dating and relationships, gentrification and future visions. The central element of the story is also the title -giving district of Harlem, the black district in New York, which has been flooded by real estate sharks and hipsters in recent years. Everywhere always in the middle of it: theCamille, Tye, Quinn and Angie. And in a supporting role: Whopie Goldberg (whoopia!).
25. “Abbott Elementary”(Disney+)
Take a young teacher with unbroken idealism who wants to offer her student in a primary school in a black district of Philadelphia: the best possible training inside. Then you can find yourself inAnd Janine Teague's life again. In the award-winning Mockumentary series, Janine takes the audience into her lessons and the teaching room, in her not entirely satisfactory relationship and on the hiking day. All in all, “Abbott Elementary” is one of the best Feel-Good series that can be seen at the moment: Because the actors are nice: Quinta Brunson not only takes on the main role as Janine, but also directed, script and idea . The two seasons that currently exist run at Disney+, a third season is ordered.
26. “The law according to Lidia Poët” (Netflix)
This historical mystery series is about a real feminist icon. Lidia Poët was the first woman to graduate in law in Italy and then worked as a lawyer. The Netflix series “Das Lidia Poët” is inspired by this true person and builds a real mystery crime series outside. Lidia is cheaper than male lawyers, which is why they visit desperate mothers and wives. She solves the cases primarily with her clear mind and cunning. But she is also dependent on help when she suddenly can no longer work legally. Because although Lidia Poët is more than suitable for the profession of the lawyer, the state wants to revoke her approval. So now she not only has to start for her client: inside, but also fight against the system. And all of this in a corset common for the time.
27. “Wednesday” (Netflix)
Wednesday Addams () knows exactly what she wants - especially what her parents don't want. After a murderous “accident”, the rebellious teenager is put on the boarding school for outcasts, namely the Nevermore Academy. There, in addition to the normal daily teenage life (cliques, teachers: arguing inside and winning elaborate canoe competitions), she also has to cope with a serial killer. And suddenly there isReluctantly in the middle of a triple relationship and a Murder mystery. But one of the two prefers to be. (It's the murder.)
28. “Sex Lives of College Girls” (Amazon Prime Video)
Contrary to the suggestive title, “Sex Lives of College Girls” is actually not a. It is about a cool and emposic group of women who shares a flat share on the college in the first semester. The four girls all have different destinations, paths and obstacles, but women's friendship is top priority here. The girls grow on their experiences on the college, who simply include everything you can imagine from nude party to the first girlfriend. They emphasize each other, even when it comes to deep topics such as sexual assault. An empowering series that will definitely be passed through in one go.
29. “Survival of the Thickest” (Netflix)
Michelle Buteau can finally be seen in a leading role - and is just extremely funny. “Survival of the Thickest” has everything a good women's series needs: chaos, love, embarrassing moments and a really cool, strong and empathetic woman. If you are after your incredibly funny stand-up specialWanted to see and hear more from Michelle, then the series is absolutely perfect. Because “Survival of the Thickest” is freely adapted according to their own memoirs. Here she plays the recently single Mavis Beaumont, who tries to work up in the fashion world. She keeps coming up with hurdles, but what can a little charm, wit and good lip gloss save everything?
30. “I Am Not Okay With This” (Netflix)
belongs to the series that simply too. Nevertheless, it is worth watching the first season, because the series has so much wit and cynicism that it simply captures today's zeitgeist perfectly. Sophia Lillis plays Sydney, who, in addition to the normal teenage fear, also develops superpowers when it is very emotionally excited. A coming-of-age series that is somewhere betweenandcan be classified. The mini series is therefore perfect for a binge marathon. You shouldn't be too sad when the series ends with a huge cliffhanger. We just assume that it should be!
31. “Poker Face” (Sky)
In of this series Natasha Lyonne (“Matrjoschka”) has the seventh sense: it recognizes when someone lies. After winning in the poker for years, lies were spread over her that Charlie takes calmly. When her dark shape plays badly, she wants to make herself out of the dust - but that doesn't work without it still providing law thanks to her administration. She never loses one thing: her humor. “Poker Face” is strange, exciting, well told and well occupied with Natasha Lyonne as a danced but good protagonist.
Natasha Lyonne is a gift-but in “Poker Face” you can also look forward to the prominent supporting actors: In the inside: Oscar winner Adrien Brody (), Chloe Sevigny, Hong Chau (), Megan Suri () and Simon Helberg (“The Big Bang Theory”) put the handle into their hands here.
32. “Tiny Beautiful Things” (Disney+)
Clare (Kathryn Hahn) has problems: she has trouble with her partner, her teen daughter does not speak to her, and her job as a nurse will also be involuntary. However, she somehow stumbles into a career as a advisor who really helps people in her column. “Dear Sugar” is the name of the article series, in which readers: In the inside, really moving questions. So far, Clare has gone through so much in her life that she has an answer to almost everything - in good and bad sense.
With “Tiny Beautiful Things” you can laugh and cry. The story of Clare is just as emotional as the book template of the same name by Cheryl Strayed (“Wild - The Big Trip”). Was produced by-an empo-value all-female product.
33. “Bad Sisters” (Apple TV+)
The five Garvey sisters sometimes argue loudly and violently in the Irish province-but when it matters, they stick together. Because blood is thicker than water, Eva, Grace, Ursula, Bibi and Becka noticed the early death of their parents and then sworn together. And this cannot question that no insurance broker who believes that Grace 'man has been tameted so that the sisters come to the lucrative payout of his life insurance.
If you like black -humorous series, in which a little drama and great secrets meet rough tone, irony and wit, you should not miss “Bad Sisters”.
34. “Griselda” (Netflix)
A series about a drug baronin that was even afraid of Ober-Dealer Pablo Escobar? There are!Talks about this woman, mother and probably the most successful drug dealer in the world. Griselda Blanco came to Miami from Colombia in the 1970s and showed the machos on site how to get really rich with cocaine. In the end, the brutal godmother, but loving mother of four children, is addicted to cocaine and cracking- however, “Griselda” went into the history books as the most powerful woman in global drug trafficking.
Sofia Vergara not only took on the main role in this Netflix series, but also produced it “Griselda”. The series of origin of the series lasted several years.
35. "Echo" (Disney+)
“Echo” is an extraordinary series: The indigenous superhero Maya Lopez is deaf and has a leg prosthesis - but that does not prevent it from fighting. When her father is brutally murdered, she thinks on revenge. But only after years does she learn that she may have been taken from the wrong fitting - and finally wants justice.
is a super-exciting action series that finally does notwhiterOrigin comes to the center - without that it seems somehow. The fact that Maya Lopez is deaf and has a disability is a big step towards representation of otherwise marginalized marginal groups. Because "Echo" shows that disabilities do not have to restrict - but make a person special. Particularly cool.
36. “High Potential” (Disney+)
of three children who live their livelihood with cleaning work for the Los Angeles Police Department. What hardly anyone knows at the beginning: Morgan is hyperintelligent with an intelligence quotient of 160. When one day she loosens a case with her brilliant head in a “Good Will Hunting” move, on which the cops have bitten their teeth, Morgan will be consultant of the police department for serious crimes.
In addition, Morgan wants to find out what has encountered her first husband Roman, the father of her eldest daughter. Because it has been simply swallowed like the ground for 15 years ...
