If you’ve been looking for a great time to catch up on all of the Netflix shows you’ve been meaning to watch, a three-day holiday weekend has arrived just in time.
Netflix’s global productions are so numerous that it’s a rare when the streamer doesn’t have some incredible international series that are just waiting to be discovered by a global audience.
This week, Netflix has a high-profile limited series called Sirens as well as the noir-ish drama from Denmark called Secrets We Keep.
To close out the final selection on the Watch With Us team’s underrated Netflix shows to watch this weekend, we went with a true crime story set in the Vatican.
House of the Dragon‘s Milly Alcock has a central role in Sirens as Simone DeWitt, the devoted personal assistant to billionaire Michaela “Kiki” Kell (Julianne Moore). But when Simone is tracked down by her older sister, Devon DeWitt (Meghann Fahy), she can’t see that she’s been taken in by a cult of personality surrounding Michaela. Simone may have more power than the rest of Michaela’s followers, but she’s just as trapped as they are and doesn’t even realize it.
Even Michaela’s husband, Peter Kell (Kevin Bacon), acknowledges that the hold she has on Simone and her other employees is abnormal. But Devon is the only one willing to stand up to Michaela to do something about it, whether Simone wants her help or not.
Sirens is streaming on Netflix.
‘Secrets We Keep’ (2025)It’s time to turn on the subtitles for another Nordic noir. Unless you’re fluent in Danish, of course. Secrets We Keep revolves around Cecilie (Marie Bach Hansen), a woman living with her husband, Mike (Simon Sears), and their children in an affluent neighborhood. Cecilie and her au pair, Angel (Excel Busano), both become concerned about Ruby (Donna Levkovski), the au pair for their neighbors, Katrina (Danica Curcic) and Rasmus (Lars Ranthe).
Ruby confided in Cecilie that she wasn’t happy living with her employers, and the next day she went missing. It’s very suspicious that Ruby is nowhere to be found, but her money and passport have been left behind. Neither Ruby’s employers nor the police seem that concerned about her fate, with perhaps the lone exception of the town’s new detective, Aicha (Sara Fanta Traore). To figure out what happened to Ruby, Cecilie and Aicha may have to work together to get the ugly truth out in the open.
Secrets We Keep is streaming on Netflix.
‘Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi’ (2022)
The Vatican, as seen in the recent hit Conclave, isn’t just the heart of the Catholic Church — it’s also a sovereign country. And it’s not without occasional mysteries or scandals of its own. One of the most infamous examples of that is the still-unsolved case of Emanuela Orlandi, a 15-year-old girl who went missing in 1983.
Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi dives into the backstory of the story surrounding that event. There’s more speculation than answers awaiting viewers here, but the theories point the finger at everything from terrorist plots to organized crime and even the Catholic Church itself. It’s been over 40 years since Orlandi vanished, but her family hasn’t stopped asking the Vatican to share anything the church knows about what happened to her.
Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi is streaming on Netflix.
