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A year full of strong Netflix series like Wednesday, Sandman and Dahmer is behind us. But what highlights can series fans look forward to on Netflix in 2023? The streamer is releasing again this year numerous titles that are already eagerly awaitedlike the live-action adaptations of Avatar and One Piece or the sci-fi epic The Three Body Problem.

We’ve taken a look at the 100+ new Netflix series for 2023 and a selection of 20 upcoming series highlights put together that should start this year and that you should definitely make a note of.

1. Netflix Highlight 2023: A Man in Full

The adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s novel tells the story of real estate mogul Charlie Croker. As his company faces bankruptcy, he must defend his empire from those who seek to capitalize on its decline. The people involved are exciting: Showrunner is David E. Kelley (The Lincoln Lawyer), while the cast boasts big names like Jeff Daniels and Diane Lane.

2. Netflix Highlight 2023: All the Light We Can’t See

The war drama based on Anthony Doerr tells the story of the blind teenager Marie-Laure, who meets the German soldier Werner in occupied France. The four-part miniseries is directed by Stranger Things producer Shawn Levy. The well-known cast includes Hugh Laurie, Mark Ruffalo, Lars Eidinger and Dark star Louis Hofmann.

3. Netflix Highlight 2023: Avatar: The Last Airbender

One of the best animated series of all time gets a live-action serial adaptation. The epic story of Avatar Aang and his friends Katara and Sokka is staged here with modern volume technology. Avatar: The Last Airbender could be the biggest fantasy hit of 2023 – or the biggest fantasy disappointment since M. Night Shyamalan’s first live-action Avatar.

4. Netflix Highlight 2023: Beef

Beef does not mean meat, but a dispute between two parties. In this case, between a man and a woman who are completely consumed by their conflict after a traffic incident. Much more is not known so far. Nevertheless, we should definitely make a note of Beef. The series not only comes from the renowned indie studio A24, but also boasts two fantastic leading actors: comedienne Ali Wong and Steven Yeun, who has been enthusiastic in almost every role since leaving The Walking Dead. 5. Netflix Highlight 2023: Berlin

Two years after the end of the Heist hit Money Heist, fan favorite Berlin is getting its own prequel series. In this, the robber known as Andrés de Fonollosa (Pedro Alonso) leads his own gang of thieves several years before the attack on the Spanish banknote printing works, with which he carries out spectacular robberies.

6. Netflix Highlight 2023: Black Knight

Fans of South Korean series should put Black Knight on their watch list. The exciting sci-fi concept takes us into the post-apocalypse of the year 2071. The rest of the population, drastically reduced due to deadly air pollution, lives locked in houses and are taken care of by delivery drivers called knights. These include the driver 5-8, who transports essential goods while fighting dangerous robbers.

7. Netflix Highlight 2023: Bodies

One of the most ambitious and exciting crime formats of the year awaits us with Bodies. Because here a mysterious series of murders in London employs four different investigators over a period of 150 years. The case stretches from Victorian London in the 1890s to the post-techno apocalypse of 2050. The four main characters play Shira Haas, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Amaka Okafor and Kyle Soller, who most recently delighted in Andor.

8. Netflix Highlight 2023: Copenhagen Cowboy

In the Danish noir series Copenhagen Cowboy, the heroine Miu embarks on a revenge trip to the neon-colored underworld of Copenhagen. The mix of brutal gangster thriller and fantasy was staged by Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn, who previously delivered a fascinating series work for Amazon with Too Old To Die Young.

9. Netflix Highlight 2023: Fubar

For fans of action legend Arnold Schwarzenegger, there is no getting around a Netflix series in 2023. The Terminator star stars as a former spy who is drawn into a global adventure with his daughter (Monica Barbaro).

10. Netflix Highlight 2023: Chaos

One of the most promising fantasy highlights on Netflix is ​​Kaos, a darkly humorous reimagining of Greek mythology. In it, Jeff Goldblum, as the father of the gods Zeus, finds himself in an existential crisis when a wrinkle on his forehead reveals all his insecurities and fears about his own downfall. His escalating paranoia now throws the lives of the other narcissistic and neurotic deities into chaos.

11. Netflix Highlight 2023: Dear Child

With the six-part German miniseries, Netflix is ​​adapting Romy Hausmann’s thriller Liebskind about the young protagonist Lena, who is able to free herself from captivity after almost 13 years. But her tormentor doesn’t want to let her escape.
12. Netflix Highlight 2023: Obliterated

While Cobra Kai fans are eagerly awaiting Season 6 (the one not yet ordered), the creators of the martial arts series have not been idle and have already filmed a new Netflix series. Obliterated is exciting action-fun about a Special Forces team who must stop a terrorist attack after a night out with Hangover in Las Vegas.

13. Netflix Highlight 2023: On Record

Only Murders in the Building fans should definitely check out the darkly humorous Netflix thriller On Record. Here, a group of true crime podcasters (including Will Forte) end up in an Irish coastal town in search of the next big story. But the case of the mysterious disappearance of three people soon becomes much more complex and confusing than they could have imagined. The series is produced by Barack and Michelle Obama, among others.

14. Netflix Highlight 2023: One Piece

Hardly any Netflix series is as eagerly awaited in 2023 as the live-action adaptation of the cult manga and anime One Piece. The story follows young pirate Luffy as he and his Straw Hat crew embark on an exciting adventure to find the legendary treasure One Piece and one day become the Pirate King. Can the Netflix series live up to the original’s fantastic worldbuilding and visually intoxicating combat (including Luffy’s body-stretching superpowers)?

15. Netflix Highlight 2023: Queen Charlotte – A Bridgerton Story

Netflix hit Bridgerton is bringing forth a spin-off series this year that explores Queen Charlotte’s backstory. She is married to King George III at a young age and has to deal with numerous intrigues at court. As the Queen Charlotte prequel delves into the past, fans can look forward to some younger versions of well-known characters like Lady Danbury and Violet Bridgerton.

16. Netflix Highlight 2023: The Fall of the House of Usher

Mike Flanagan has been a guarantor of spooky, emotionally jarring, and damn good horror shows on Netflix for years. This era will now come to an end in 2023 with a final series, as the horror master is now working with Amazon. Inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher tells of family, madness and decay. Many well-known stars of the “Flanaverse” are gathered, to which Mark Hamill now also belongs.

17. Netflix Highlight 2023: The Gentlemen

Hardly anyone saw that Guy Richtie’s action comedy The Gentlemen would be continued in series form with a Netflix spin-off. Theo James wants to take over the drug empire from Matthew McConaughey’s Mickey Pearson as Eddie Halstead. The exciting cast includes James, Kaya Scodelario, Vinnie Jones and (again) Giancarlo Esposito. Whether there will be a reunion with the film characters is not yet known.

18. Netflix Highlight 2023: The Three Body Problem

It could be the biggest sci-fi epic of the year. Based on Cixin Liu’s best-selling novel The Three Suns (the prelude to the Trisolaris trilogy), former Game of Thrones showrunners DB Weiss and David Benioff bring to life the complex tale of mankind’s conflict with the Trisolarian civilization, who inherited the Earth as the new have chosen home.

19. Netflix Highlight 2023: Yu Yu Hakusho

Yu Yu Hakusho is the Japanese live-action film adaptation of the hit manga of the same name. In the supernatural fantasy adventure, after his death, the youth Yusuke is sent back to earth as an underworld investigator and embroiled in mysterious events involving humans, ghosts and demons.

20. Netflix Highlight 2023: Two in One Day

David Nicholls novel Two in a Day or One Day was already made into a feature film in 2011 with Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess. Now adapted as a series, Leo Woodall (The White Lotus) and Ambika Mod (This is Going to Hurt) will take on the roles of Dexter and Emma, ​​who meet each year on July 15th.

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Which upcoming Netflix series are you looking forward to the most?