If You Missed These 16 Underrated TV Shows, Now's Your Chance! Netflix Has 'Em All

The satirical, comic counterpart to The Crown, The Windsors imagines a version of the British royal family that’s decidedly undignified. Rather than trying to be historically accurate, the comedy treats the world’s most famous family as any other sitcom characters, full of foibles to be roundly mocked.

Watch The Windsors on Netflix.

If you’re a huge fantasy fan, you might already know about this twist on the classic “hero’s journey.” If you haven’t heard of it, you’re missing out. A group of hedonistic students at a magical grad school find themselves battling a dimension-hopping beast and discover that all the fantasy stories they read about are not only true, but much darker (and, sometimes, funnier) than they ever dreamed.

Watch The Magicians on Netflix.

Desperate for a steady job, a young food blogger applies to be the personal chef of a wealthy tech entrepreneur. In the grand tradition of sitcoms, she finds herself in over her head, juggling supportive and not-so-supportive co-workers and an unexpected romantic spark with her new boss.

Watch Young & Hungry on Netflix.

Based on a graphic novel, this supernatural series follows the title character as she returns to her hometown to inherit the family mantle of demon protector. With the help of some colorful allies, Wynonna works to take down the escaped, reanimated criminals who were previously killed by her grandfather.

Watch Wynonna Earp on Netflix.

Remember the “blue skies” era of USA Network shows, packed with sleek, slightly soapy dramedies? Royal Pains was the flagship of that era. After losing a high-profile patient, a hotshot young ER doctor is stuck taking a job as an on-call doctor to the rich and famous in the Hamptons, which presents him with a whole new set of professional – and personal – challenges.

Watch Royal Pains on Netflix.

Loosely based on a Stephen King novel, Haven is the eerie sci-fi show you never watched but should. When an FBI agent arrives in the Maine town of Haven on a seemingly normal assignment, she instead slowly begins to uncover the town’s secrets – many of which seem to have supernatural causes.

Watch Haven on Netflix.

Although the British fantasy drama became a cult favorite, it never quite broke through to the mainstream. In Camelot, where magic is banned, the young sorcerer Merlin learns of his fate to protect King Arthur. When they first meet, Arthur is a selfish, jock prince and Merlin is his new servant, but the two men and the people around them slowly grow into the figures of legend as they edge closer to their destinies.

Watch Merlin on Netflix.

This mashup of genres plops historical and literary figures into a psychological thriller anthology, loosely connecting their stories on the streets and in the halls of Victorian England. From clairvoyants to wealthy benefactors to twisted literary legends, these characters prove that they’re much more than what you remember.

Watch Penny Dreadful on Netflix.

It was one of the lowest-rated shows on TV during its run, but don’t let that fool you. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is a brilliantly bonkers musical comedy that takes its basic premise (a woman bails on her high-powered life to follow her former theatre camp crush to West Covina, California) and turns it into a sharp, hilarious, and heartfelt musical satire that comments on gender politics, sexuality, mental health, and more.

Watch Crazy Ex-Girlfriend on Netflix.

While other shows like The Walking Dead take a dark and dramatic approach to zombie lore, iZombie keeps the horror but adds a side of absurd comedy as well. When a med student accidentally becomes a zombie, she takes a job at the coroner’s office to try to get her fix without a fuss or violence – but then discovers that eating the brains of the dead gives her insights into their memories and personalities.

Watch iZombie on Netflix.