The Flash and the 5 best superhero shows on Netflix

The Flash tops our list of the best superhero offerings currently available on Netflix

It’s hard not to feel a bit of superhero paralysis today given how many superhero shows and movies are available to watch. Netflix has quite a selection to choose from its too brief deal with Marvel and the slate of the Arrowverse series. For anyone curious to jump into the superhero genre, which shows are a must-watch?

Well to help you find your way through this popular genre, we have a list of five of our favorite superhero series available on Netflix. From family-friendly to something a bit more mature, let’s start the list with The Flash.

The Flash

It’s a good time to start watching The Flash as Netflix just added its sixth season to the library. With enough time and dedication (and who doesn’t have time these days), anyone can get caught up with the series.

In The Flash, we follow Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) who gains the power of super-speed following an explosion of dark matter. With his team of friends and family, Barry battles all sorts of metahumans, evil speedsters, aliens, and interdimensional menaces over the course of six seasons. The Flash is the highest-rated series of The CW’s Arrowverse and has maintained a strong presence on Netflix six seasons in.

With season 7 of The Flash set for January 2021 along with Grant Gustin letting it slip that there were talks of seasons 8 and 9 with The CW before the pandemic shutdown, it looks like this series may go as long as Smallville. Needless to say, if there is any superhero series you should catch-up on now, then it’s this one.

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow

Amongst fans of superhero shows, Legends of Tomorrow is the best series that people aren’t watching. Yes, it is a shame because Legends is amazing.

Made up of second-string characters from the Arrowverse, Legends of Tomorrow takes this rotating band of former assassins, clones, magic wielders, semi-reformed criminals, and more on one of the strangest rides ever. Legends of Tomorrow is a series where Confederate zombies are as much of a possibility as a demon fighting a giant fluffy blue Elmo rip-off named Beebo.

It’s weird. It’s funny. It’s heartfelt and emotional.

Legends of Tomorrow is the series that embraces all the weirdness of superhero series. Plus, there is time travel.

To be fair, the first season of Legends Of Tomorrow is…mediocre at best. Our recommendation is just find a good recap of the first season and then dive into season 2, which is when the show really started to find its voice. Season 5 is currently airing on The CW and will appear on Netflix in June.

Jessica Jones

Be forewarned, Jessica Jones is not a series to be watching with your kids. Starring the perfectly cast Krysten Ritter in the title role, Jessica Jones follows the superpowered PI through the streets of New York as she battles her own inner demons, enemies and allies around her, and external threats. The first season won a Peabody Award and is probably one of the single best seasons of any television series, regardless of genre. Period.

Jessica Jones is not an easy watch by any stretch of the imagination. Jessica is someone who struggles with PTSD, surviving being captive and controlled by a mind-controller named Kilgrave (David Tennant). She struggles with that trauma throughout the entire series as her relationships come apart and together, time and again.

Still Jessica Jones challenges the preconceptions of what a superhero show can look like and be today. It’s definitely a series more than worth your time and attention.

Raising Dion

Raising Dion offers a fresh perspective on the superhero genre. In this case, the point of view character is a single mother named Nicole (Alisha Wainwright), whose eight-year-old son Dion (Ja’Siah Young) exhibits superpowers. It’s hard enough to be a single mom, but superpowers make it all the more difficult.

Together with her deceased husband’s best friend Pat (Jason Ritter), Nicole tries to keep Dion safe from those who want to exploit him along with figuring out where those powers came from. Raising Dion proved popular with both critics and audiences. Netflix renewed the series for a second season.

Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir

Fan of animated superhero series? Check out this very original animated take with Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. In modern-day Paris, two teenagers, Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Adrien Agreste, transform into the superheroes Ladybug and Cat Noir to fight evil. The catch? Neither of them knows of the other’s civilian identity.

Ladybug and Cat Noir fight against the villainous Hawk Moth, who covets their powers and attempts to steal them. Using his Akuma, butterflies filled with negative energy, Hawk Moth transforms random citizens full of negative emotions in supervillains. It’s up our heroes to turn them back to normal.

Miraculous: Tales of Lady & Cat Noir is insanely popular with a dedicated fanbase online. It’s still ongoing with five seasons and 130 episodes. For any animation fans, it’s the perfect time to do a serious binge-watch of this charming series.

What are your favorite superhero series on Netflix right now? Let us know in the comments below!