Keeping a New Year’s resolution can be difficult. You may want to go to the gym more often, but a new season of The Bachelor is also just starting and it’s cold outside. Why leave the house? And while we all may be rethinking our budgets, the world of finance is foreign to many.
Surprise — Netflix may be the answer to your biggest conundrums. Yes, the streaming service that usually helps you forget your responsibilities may also be the key to embracing your most important 2020 goals. That’s because the streamer is home to countless original series that go hand-in-hand with resolution keeping.
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Some options might be obvious, like the mental health-advocating Queer Eye or the declutter-happy Tidying Up With Marie Kondo. Still, there is so much more to self-help Netflix than those trending docuseries. Keep reading for a full guide to the best Netflix shows that will help you keep your resolutions, all broken down by goals.
Congratulations on finding the best excuse to binge a series this year.
Sex Explained
It’s good for people with the resolution to: Explore their sex life.
Why?: You can find countless sexy shows on Netflix. Sex Explained is one of the few series that will actually give your real-life information and tools to empower your own sexual decisions. Short-form episodes — all Sex Explained chapters are 26 minutes or less with some coming in around 17 minutes — will take you inside sexy topics like attraction and sexual fantasies, along with need-to-know subjects like fertility.
If that doesn’t sound alluring enough, know Miss Dirty Computer herself, Janelle Monae, is narrating every second of Sex.
Ultimate Beastmaster
It’s good for people with the resolution to: Hit the gym more often.
Why?: The contestants on competition series Ultimate Beastmaster are flying through the sky on life-threatening contraptions and plunging into the waters below when they fail. If they can do that, you’ll remember you are strong enough to head to Planet Fitness whenever you want.
Salt Fat Acid Heat
It’s good for people with the resolution to: Cook more.
Why?: It’s easy for cooking to feel like a chore. Best-selling chef Samin Nosrat and her docuseries, Salt Fat Acid Heat will remind you that creating a meal for yourself can also be one of life’s great pleasures. Nosrat will give you amazing recipes and tips you can actually use in the kitchen, while also using globe-hopping trips to prove you should deeply care about your food.
Prepare to look at cheese, soy sauce, and countless other common foods in a totally new way.
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Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
It’s good for people with the resolution to: Travel more.
Why?: Many travel shows focus on the most opulent locales possible. It’s a strategy that makes for beautiful, but alienating television. David Chang’s Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner doesn’t suffer from that problem. Instead, viewers follow celebrity chef David Chang and celebrity guests like Chrissy Teigen to the kinds of places you could imagine visiting yourself.
When you see Chang stride through the Granville Market in Vancouver with Seth Rogen or track down amazing L.A. noodles with Lena Waithe, you feel invited in. Even Chang’s trek through sumptuous Marrakech with Teigen comes off as shockingly relatable. It’s only a matter of time until you’ll be buying a plane ticket to walk in the BL&D crew’s well-fed shoes.
Brené Brown: The Call to Courage
It’s good for people with the resolution to: Take more risks.
Why?: Putting yourself out there is scary, whether we’re talking about making the leap in romantic, professional, or interpersonal settings. Brené Brown, an academic researcher in shame studies and a TED Talk veteran, spends her 75-minute special empathetically convincing viewers to jump out of their comfort zones.
If you need an extra dose of courage, this is it.
Explained
It’s good for people with the resolution to: Think about their spending habits more.
Why?: It’s difficult to find great series about budgeting on Netflix. However, the original Explained series will, well, explain a lot of our current financial system to you.
Between the current two seasons on Netflix, we recommend sampling “The Stock Market,” “Cryptocurrency,” “Billionaires,” which features Bernie Sanders, and “The Racial Wealth Gap” to start your financial journey.
Interior Design Masters
It’s good for people with the resolution to: Spruce up their home.
Why?: If you need inspiration around the house, Interior Design Masters is here for you. The competition series puts talented designers through a series of challenges to find out who is the best of the best. You're bound to leave the series brimming with ideas for your own dwelling.
Queer Eye
It’s good for people with the resolution to: Improve in nearly any way.
Why?: The magic of Queer Eye is that it isn’t obsessed with “fixing” one quality in a person. Instead, the lovable experts of the series recognize all the quirks that make up an individual. Then, they help turn their heroes into the best version of themselves. The reality show may inspire you to try on an outfit that’s out of your comfort zone, tackle an obstacle you’ve been avoiding, or invest in relationships in ways you didn’t think you could.
There’s a reason we all love the Fab Five.
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Tidying Up with Marie Kondo
It’s good for people with the resolution to: Tidy up, of course.
Why?: Tidying Up host Marie Kondo set the internet on fire with her memeable commentary. But there’s more to the decluttering expert than a good GIF. Kondo will inspire you to recognize the items you love and let go of the ones that aren’t serving the person you have become.
The Financial Diet
It’s good for people with the resolution to: Improve their financial literacy.
Why?: Financial Diet, founded by Chelsea Fagan, is a brand made by a young person to specifically help other young people with their spending and finances. The only trick? This series isn’t on Netflix. Instead, you’re going to have to head over to YouTube for Fagan’s advice.
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