Best Showmax series to binge-watch

Best Showmax series to binge-watch

Looking for the best Showmax series to binge-watch? We’ve done the hard work for you by finding the most popular, most addictive series available from the very beginning. These are the long-running series to add to your watchlist when you’re looking for something comforting to keep you company for hours and hours and hours. And when you’re done, start right back at the beginning again.

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Power Book III: Raising Kanan S4 on Showmax

Power Book III: Raising Kanan S1-4

Teenaged Kanan Stark works to join the family drug business in Queens in the prequel series to the hit show Power.

Plan B on Showmax

Plan B

In the shady world of art heists and romance scams, an unlikely alliance develops between the owner of a bookshop, and former military operators.

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The Real Housewives of Durban S5 on Showmax

The Real Housewives of Durban Season 5

Three new faces join the OGs on The Real Housewives of Durban in Season 5, bringing luxury, glamour and drama to your screens. New episodes every Friday.

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The Cleaning Lady S4 on Showmax

The Cleaning Lady S1-4

Cambodian doctor Thony becomes a cleaning lady for an organised crime syndicate in the US to keep her ill son alive in this fan-favourite series.

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Gangs of London S3 on Showmax

Gangs of London S1-3

When a shipment of cocaine is spiked, rocking the Gangs and causing hundreds of deaths, the hunt is on for who is responsible in the third season of this British crime thriller.

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Brilliant Minds on Showmax

Brilliant Minds S1

Follow a gifted neurologist with a rare condition and an unconventional approach to tackling puzzling psychological cases in this medical drama series.

The Righteous Gemstones S4 is on Showmax

The Righteous Gemstones S1-4

Danny McBride created this outlandish, star-studded HBO comedy about a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed and charitable work.

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Mr Robot S1-4

Mr Robot S1-4

All seasons of the addictive drama-thriller that Vice called “The defining show of the 2010s”.

Party Down on Showmax

Party Down S1-3

A group of struggling actors and dysfunctional dreamers wait for their big break while they are stuck working at a Hollywood catering company.

The Real Housewives of Potomac S9 on Showmax

The Real Housewives of Potomac S8-9

The reality series follows several well-to-do women who live in a community of rolling hills and gated mansions in Potomac.

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Next Level Chef S2

Next Level Chef S2-3

Gordon Ramsay levels up cooking competitions with this multi-level culinary challenge that awards the best contestants the coveted title of Next Level Chef.

Frasier S1-11 on Showmax

Frasier S1-11

The iconic comedy series that took the world by storm. After years spent at the Cheers bar, Frasier moves home to Seattle to become a radio psychiatrist.

Dawson's Creek S1-6 on Showmax

Dawson’s Creek S1-6

Childhood besties Dawson and Joey’s friendship is tested when they both start relationships with other people in their teens. A classic to binge-watch.

Red Eye S1 on Showmax

Red Eye S1

A London police officer is escorting a man back to Beijing where he has been accused of a crime, when an escalating conspiracy unfolds on board flight 357.

Mnakwethu Happily Ever After? S4 on Showmax

Mnakwethu Happily Ever After S1-4

The behind-the-scenes follow-up to polygamist Musa Mseleku’s reality series, Mnakwethu, with plenty of drama and surprises.

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The Rookie S6 on Showmax

The Rookie S6

The oldest rookie in the LAPD uses his life experience, determination and sense of humour to keep up with colleagues 20 years his junior.

The Bachelorette S21 on Showmax

The Bachelorette S21

A single bachelorette dates multiple men over several weeks, narrowing them down to hopefully find her one true love. On this journey, she gets to know the bachelors, meets their families and gets to know herself better.

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Colin From Accounts S2 on Showmax

Colin from Accounts S1-2

Ashley and Gordon are two single-ish, complex humans brought together by a car accident and an injured dog in this hilarious series.

Love Island UK S11 on Showmax

Love Island UK S11

Gorgeous singles live in a luxury villa – with the added possibility of meeting their soul mate – in this fun and flirty reality series.

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Love Island USA on Showmax

Love Island USA S6

The American version of the hit show moves the action to Las Vegas, but the premise remains: the most beloved couple will sashay away with $100 000. 

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The best movies to stream

Boy Kills World and 5 more deliciously deadly action flicks

Boy Kills World and 5 more deliciously deadly action flicks

Looking for some blood-soaked action, gun-fu, laughs and hit-the-replay fight scenes? We’ve got you. Come try Boy Kills World and 5 more films that are just killing it!

A Quiet Place: Day One on Showmax

An easy guide to 10 alien invasions

From Teacup’s Assassins and Harbingers, to A Quiet Place’s Death Angels, we break down what to expect when aliens take an interplanetary holiday to raise hell on Earth.

Venom: The Last Dance on Showmax

10 inspiring villain origin stories on Showmax

If you want to become a superhero just get bitten by a spider or find some tacky magic jewellery, loser! If you want to become a villain, though, that takes hard work – just ask Knull in Venom: The Last Dance.

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes on Showmax

The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, plus 10 real-life revolutionaries

Discover the origins of The Hunger Games in The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, and then stream 10 more shows and movies about real-life revolutionaries. 

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes on Showmax

7 iconic Gen Z characters in series and movies on Showmax

Documentary series The Habits of Gen Z asks defining questions about South Africa’s youth. So we’ve turned to 7 series and movies to place Gen Z in a global context.

Perfect Match on Showmax

Showmax and Joburg Film Festival support emerging filmmakers

7 films from the first-time director slate will have their world premieres at this year’s Joburg Film Festival, from 11-16 March 2025, before streaming on Showmax from April.

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Soos Pynappel op Pizza on Showmax

Where to see Schalk Bezuidenhout on Showmax

South African comedian Schalk Bezuidenhout stars in these unmissable homegrown series and movies streaming on Showmax.

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Girls Trip on Showmax

11 Galentine’s Day movies

Love? Whatever. Friends forever! Gather your girl gang and get ready to celebrate the people who’ll be in your corner for the rest of your life with these 11 movies.

Reality series you'll love

Nigerian Idol S10 premieres live on Showmax

Nigerian Idol S10 premieres live on Showmax

Nigerian Idol S10 premiered on 20 April 2025 – and all the action will be screening live on Showmax. 

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The Real Housewives of Lagos S3 on Showmax

The Real Housewives of Lagos S1-S3

Binge-watch The Real Housewives of Lagos S1-3 and catch the explosive reunions, streaming from 14 and 21 April on Showmax, express from Africa Magic.

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Paris & Nicole: The Encore on Showmax

10 things that are “so hot” in Paris & Nicole: The Encore

Two decades after The Simple Life, BFFs Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie are back with a brand new project: Sanasa…the opera. We raised our opera glasses to look it over.

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Paris & Nicole: The Encore on Showmax

Paris & Nicole: The Encore S1

Twenty years ago, OG reality icons Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie took the world by storm in the fans’ favourite, The Simple Live. The life-long friends are reunited as they celebrate their legendary friendship.

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The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills on Showmax

Where to watch The Real Housewives franchise online

Showmax is the home of The Real Housewives, giving an inside look at the lives of these glam women from Durban, Abuja, Lagos, Joburg, Nairobi and more. Plus, go on vacation with The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip!

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The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills on Showmax

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills S14

The series follows six of the most affluent women in the country as they enjoy the lavish lifestyle that only Beverly Hills can provide.

Kwanele Kubheka on The Real Housewives of Durban S5 on Showmax

Kwanele on joining The Real Housewives of Durban, her marriage and more

Kwanele Kubheka talks about joining the new season of The Real Housewives of Durban, the drama and overwhelming reactions from viewers to her personal story. New episodes land every Friday on Showmax.

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Lo Sithelo on The Real Housewives of Durban S5 on Showmax

Lo Sithole on The Real Housewives of Durban Season 5

Lo Sithole opens up about joining The Real Housewives of Durban S5 and what viewers can expect from her. Catch new episodes every Friday on Showmax.

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