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5 Popular Shows to Binge on Netflix this Winter

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at OSU chapter.

It is the dead of winter and there are not a lot of activities to do in snowy weather. In this case, snowy weather is the perfect time to snuggle up with some Netflix shows. So get your binge on and watch these five popular shows on Netflix. 

 

1.) Gilmore Girls

Gilmore Girls is a drama centering around the relationship between a thirtysomethig single mother and her teen daughter living in Stars Hollow, Conneticut. Gilmore Girls is truly an intelligent show with quick, witty dialogue that often refers to literature, music, movies, and pop culture. 

 

2.) Friday Night Lights

In a small town of Dillon, Texas, one night matters: Friday Night. Eric Taylor has recently been hired as the head football coach for the Dillon High School Panthers, the town’s pride and joy. Friday Night Lights displays the stress that the town gives the high school players to win, the hope that the team gives to a small town, and how they come together on their way to victory.

 

3.) One Tree Hill

One Tree Hill follows the eventful lives of some high-school kids in Tree Hill, a small but not too quiet town in North Carolina, where the greatest source of pride is the high school basketball team, the Ravens, since living memory coached by old Whitey Durham. One Tree Hill tells a story of teenage drama that deal with real issues in a human way.

 

4.) Leverage

Former insurance claims investigator Nathan Ford heads a team of former top-criminals. They handle ‘unorthodox’ cases of people unlikely to get their dues through regular channels and legal procedures. Leverage will get you hooked withing the first few minutes of the first episode.

 

5.) Pretty Little Liars

Set in a fictional town of Rosewood, Pennsylvania, the series follows the lives of four girls, Aria Montgomery, Hanna Marin, Emily Fields, and Spencer Hastings who eventually grew apart with the disapperance of their leader Allison DiLaurentis. One year later, the estranged friends friends are reunited as they begin receiving text messages from a mysterious figure name “A,” who threatens to expose their deepest secrets.