4 Shows You Need to Binge Watch on Netflix This Month

While navigating the complex world of online television, consider putting these shows on your map.

Remem­ber the days when you would come home after a long day of school and watch your favorite tele­vi­sion show?

You would run home from the bus stop just to catch the begin­ning of your favorite Dis­ney or Nick­elodeon show. Or, you would snug­gle up at night and watch the lat­est episode of “Gos­sip Girl” or “Grey’s Anato­my.” Nowa­days, hard­ly any­one watch­es reg­u­lar tele­vi­sion shows. You know, the ones with long com­mer­cial breaks where you have to wait a whole week to see what hap­pens next. Those days are long gone now with stream­ing ser­vices such as Netflix.

Now, you can watch what­ev­er you want, when­ev­er you want and wher­ev­er you want. In today’s enter­tain­ment cul­ture, it’s all about hav­ing what­ev­er you want to watch right at your fin­ger­tips. No more annoy­ing com­mer­cials or wait­ing to find out the big finale. Study­ing in the library? Watch the entire first sea­son of “How I Met Your Moth­er.” Sit­ting at home on a Sat­ur­day night? Binge watch “House of Cards” until 3 a.m.

What’s the best part about stream­ing ser­vices like Net­flix? They have new con­tent every sin­gle month, so if you get sick of one show, they bring in new ones, or if you’ve caught up on all of the sea­sons, they have the new one avail­able for you to watch instantly.

With the start of Octo­ber, Net­flix has brand new shows stream­ing this month that are ready for you to binge. It can get a lit­tle over­whelm­ing, though, with all of the new shows mixed in with the exist­ing ones, so here’s the four shows that you need to binge watch this month on Netflix.

1. Stranger Things

This smash-hit took Net­flix by storm last fall with its per­fect­ly blend­ed hor­ror, sci­ence fic­tion and comedic plot points to meet anybody’s go-to show needs. It was even nom­i­nat­ed for best tele­vi­sion series at the Gold­en Globes.

Fans fell in love with the rag-tag group of boys try­ing to find their friend Will, who goes miss­ing out of the blue. Dur­ing their inves­ti­ga­tion, they find Eleven, a girl who was the byprod­uct of gov­ern­ment exper­i­ments and has psy­choki­net­ic pow­ers. Togeth­er, the group tries to find Will and uncov­er more thrilling mys­ter­ies along the way.

It’s been a long wait for many of the shows’ fans, but on Octo­ber 27th, the wait will be over with its new sea­son. While Net­flix has kept a tight lid on the new sea­son, it is sure to incor­po­rate the 1980s thrill like last sea­son and leave many fans at the edge of their seats.

2. Amer­i­can Hor­ror Sto­ry: Roanoke

Who doesn’t love a good, fright­en­ing show to keep you on your toes for hours on end?

That’s the beau­ty of “Amer­i­can Hor­ror Sto­ry,” with its chang­ing plot and char­ac­ters every year to ensure each sea­son is fresh and just as scary as the last. Sea­son six, “Roanoke,” is a change of pace from the pre­vi­ous sea­son with its faux para­nor­mal doc­u­men­tary style about an inter­ra­cial cou­ple who buy a house in the North Car­oli­na woods.

Things start to take a turn when the house turns out to be a for­mer nurs­ing home owned by mur­der­ous sis­ters and the land they live on is inhab­it­ed by old-timey colonists who don’t like tres­passers. Unless, of course, if they can use the tres­passers for their blood sac­ri­fice. Oh, and there’s also creepy pigs, so the sea­son basi­cal­ly has every­thing you would expect in an “Amer­i­can Hor­ror Sto­ry” season.

Sea­son six is now avail­able to stream on Net­flix, so you should prob­a­bly clear your sched­ule for the next few days.

3. Mind­hunter

This brand-new Net­flix orig­i­nal series takes a more dra­mat­ic route with Char­l­ize Theron as the pro­duc­er and Jonathan Groff, the voice of Krisoff from “Frozen,” as the main char­ac­ter, Hold­en Ford.

Set in the 1970s, Ford and his part­ner dive into the psy­chol­o­gy of ser­i­al killers by inter­view­ing them and study­ing their psy­che. This show is based on the 1966 book “Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Ser­i­al Crime Unit,” writ­ten by two for­mer agents John Dou­glas and Mark Olshak­er. The book chron­i­cles their days hunt­ing the most noto­ri­ous ser­i­al killers and rapists, using pro­fil­ing meth­ods to inter­view the criminals.

Dou­glas and Olshaker’s book has already inspired sev­er­al pop­u­lar shows and movies like “Crim­i­nal Minds,” “The Silence of the Lambs” and “Zodi­ac.” This show will defin­i­tive­ly blend all of those togeth­er with the intrigue of mur­der and the sus­pense of the chase.

“Mind­hunters” debuts on Net­flix Octo­ber 13th, so be sure to mark your cal­en­dars and get ready for a roller­coast­er of emotions.

4. Big Mouth

What hap­pens when you put Nick Kroll, Fred Armisen, Maya Rudolph and Jor­dan Peele in a room togeth­er? They make “Big Mouth,” a hilar­i­ous Net­flix orig­i­nal ani­mat­ed com­e­dy about puberty.

This show tack­les teenage puber­ty, but not in a Dis­ney, PG-13 way, in a bru­tal­ly hon­est way that every­one can relate to. It tack­les every uncom­fort­able teenage hard­ship from get­ting your first peri­od, to mus­ter­ing up the courage to ask your crush on a date. The show is cen­tered around two best friends in mid­dle school, Andrew and Nick, try­ing to fig­ure out how to sur­vive their emo­tion­al and bod­i­ly changes.

There’s even a hor­mone mon­ster who’s basi­cal­ly every teenager’s rag­ing and unpre­dictable voice in their head telling them to do all of the wrong things. While this show is a bit graph­ic, it takes the most awk­ward years of a person’s life and doesn’t sug­ar coat any expe­ri­ences, ulti­mate­ly leav­ing you cry­ing from laugh­ter. It will def­i­nite­ly take you back to your awk­ward mid­dle school days when you were just try­ing to fig­ure out all of the changes in your life.

“Big Mouth” is now avail­able to stream on Net­flix, so if you’re look­ing for a new show that will make you laugh and cringe at the same time, this is the per­fect show for you.