Articles about Netflix
Vlad tidings
What does it take to bring an unreliable narrator to life? As Vladimir debuts on Netflix, creator Julia May Jonas discusses casting Rachel Weisz, embracing ambiguity and holding her nerve through strikes, notes and self-doubt.
Netflix releases Jo Nesbo’s Detective Hole teaser
TRAILER: Tobias Santelmann is Harry Hole in the first teaser for upcoming crime drama Jo Nesbo’s Detective Hole, coming to Netflix on March 26, 2026.
Making waves
From script competition winner to Netflix series creator, Michele Giannusa discusses the long and bumpy road to bringing her first original series, Ripple, to the screen and how it blends multiple stories of people in search of new connections.
Scripting Secrets
Writer Ingeborg Topsøe tells DQ why she wanted to explore the world of au pair culture in Danish drama Reservatet (Secrets We Keep), a Netflix series that follows the fallout from a young woman’s disappearance in a leafy Copenhagen suburb.
Living on the Edge
Finding Her Edge blends romantic and familial love with drama in a story of three sisters chasing their ice-skating dreams. Showrunner Jeff Norton tells DQ about adapting Jennifer Iacopelli’s novel for Netflix, forging love triangles and casting the show’s champion skaters.
Netflix discovers How to Get to Heaven from Belfast
TRAILER: Roísín Gallagher, Sinéad Keenan and Caoilfhionn Dunne star in How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, the new series from Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee that debuts on Netflix on February 12, 2026.
Running it back
Run Away lead writer and executive producer Danny Brocklehurst reveals why he wanted to bring Harlan Coben’s novel to Netflix, the challenge of dramatising internal monologues and how he developed the show’s unique flashbacks for its opening scenes.
Ready to run
James Nesbitt and Ruth Jones speak to DQ about teaming up for Run Away, Netflix’s newest Harlan Coben thriller, which follows a father’s desperate bid to find his missing daughter after she falls into a dangerous world of addiction and crime.
Perfect Stranger
Stranger Things director and executive producer Shawn Levy reflects on a decade of working with the Duffer Brothers on Netflix’s global hit series, balancing character with standout action sequences, and why he wants the show’s legacy to be its rule-breaking ambitions.
Tobias Santelmann is Jo Nesbo’s Detective Hole
FIRST LOOK: Tobias Santelmann stars as Norwegian detective Harry Hole in a new series called Jo Nesbo’s Detective Hole, coming to Netflix on March 26, 2026.
Adolescence honoured with 2025 DQ Craft Award
Adolescence, Netflix’s one-take-per-episode limited series, is the recipient of the 2025 Drama Quarterly Craft Award.
Netflix decides to Run Away
TRAILER: James Nesbitt, Ruth Jones, Minnie Driver and Alfred Enoch head the cast of Run Away, the latest Harlan Coben adaptation coming to Netflix. The eight-part series debuts worldwide on January 1, 2026.
Netflix uncovers Stranger Things S5
TRAILER: Tune into the trailer for the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, the Netflix sci-fi phenomenon that will see its unlikely band of heroes reunite for one final adventure this November.
Stepping into Boots
Boots creator and co-showrunner Andy Parker tells DQ how he was inspired by a memoir and his own experiences to tell the comedic and dramatic coming-of-age story of a Marine recruit confronting his sexuality when it was illegal to be gay in the US military.
A look less ordinary
DQ takes a closer look at the VFX, makeup and prosthetics work that is key to creating the world and characters of Netflix series Wednesday, and discovers the secrets behind black tears, a head in a jar and a zombie called Slurp.
Scream team
Wednesday production designer Mark Scruton joins costume designers Colleen Atwood and Mark Sutherland to share some of the secrets behind their work on Netflix’s supernatural series and how they collaborate with Tim Burton.
Netflix toasts House of Guinness
TRAILER: Netflix has unveiled the trailer for House of Guinness, Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight’s epic series inspired by one of Europe’s most famous and enduring family dynasties. It debuts on September 25.
Helming Hostage
Isabelle Sieb tells DQ about taking on her first lead director role with Netflix’s Hostage, reuniting with star Suranne Jones and why she didn’t want the political thriller’s camerawork to go “full Blair Witch Project.”
Hostage situation
DQ speaks to star Suranne Jones and showrunner Matt Charman about making Netflix political thriller Hostage, their actor-writer partnership and why peanut butter was an integral part of the show.
Netflix opens doors to House of Guinness
FIRST LOOK: Anthony Boyle, Louis Partridge, Emily Fairn, Fionn O’Shea and James Norton lead the cast of House of Guinness, a period drama from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight coming to Netflix on September 25, 2025.