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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The Real Housewives of Miami - Season 4 on Showmax

The Real Housewives of Miami S4

The ladies of the Sunshine State are turning up the heat and dialling up the drama this season.

The Real Housewives of Orange County S19 on Showmax

The Real Housewives of Orange County S18-19

In The Real Housewives OG series, we follow the lives of some of the wealthiest women and their families who live in Orange County, California.

Duster Season 1 on Showmax

Duster S1

Working on taking down a crime syndicate, the first Black female FBI agent recruits a gutsy getaway driver in this gritty series set in 1972.

Married at First Sight S2 on Showmax

Married At First Sight Mzansi S2

Eight strangers, one goal – to meet their perfect match for the very first time at the end of the wedding aisle. 

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Dexter on Showmax

Dexter S1-8

The full boxset of the classic crime thriller series about a brilliant forensic technician who hunts down murderers who have evaded justice.

Mary & George S1 on Showmax

Mary & George S1

Mary Villiers moulds her beautiful son, George, to seduce King James I, intending to gain riches and influence through outrageous schemes.

Obstruction on Showmax

Obstruction S1

A fiery netball superstar dreams of being noticed by the Gauteng provincial coach and playing for the national team… until her mom uproots her to a new school.

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Date My Family S1-12

Date My Family S1-12

Find your next bae based solely on the impression their family gives. That’s the format of Date My Family S1-12 on Showmax.

Laugh Africa Comedy Club Series on Showmax

Laugh Africa Comedy Club

A high-energy celebration of stand-up, spotlighting the continent’s finest comedic talent and international guests, straight from the iconic Laugh Africa Comedy Festival.

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The Equalizer S5 on Showmax

The Equalizer S1-5

Queen Latifah plays Robyn McCall, an enigmatic former CIA operative who uses her extensive skills to help those with nowhere else to turn.

Een Keer Om Die Son S1 on Showmax

Een Keer Om Die Son S1

Over the course of a year, the Van Wyks mourn the loss of a loved one and struggle with divorce, illness, forgiveness, high school and secrets as they heal and find each other again.

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The Valley S1 on Showmax

The Valley S1

Their lives might have slowed down, but the drama hasn’t. Vanderpump Rules’s former West Hollywood partygoers embrace the next chapter of their lives in the Valley.

Tokyo Vice S2 on Showmax

Tokyo Vice S1-2

In this powerful HBO crime thriller based on true events, a Western journalist working in Tokyo takes on one of the city’s most powerful crime bosses.

Mr Throwback S1 on Showmax

Mr Throwback S1

In this hilarious basketball comedy, a down-on-his-luck memorabilia dealer looks for redemption by reuniting with his sixth-grade teammate, NBA legend Steph Curry.

Hacks S4 on Showmax

Hacks S1-4

Emmy winner Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder make an odd partnership in the acclaimed HBO dramedy Hacks, about a legendary Vegas comedian and her new writer. 

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Binnelanders S14 is now on Showmax

Binnelanders S8-14

Binnelanders, an Afrikaans soapie set in and around a fictional private hospital, follows the trials and trauma of the staff and patients.

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S.W.A.T. S1-8 on Showmax

SWAT S1-8

Follow a SWAT sergeant and his team of highly trained men and women as they solve crimes in Los Angeles in this fan-favourite crime series.

The Bachelor S29 on Showmax

The Bachelor S29

This season of the ultimate reality dating show features Grant Ellis, who left the previous season of The Bachelorette with his hopes dashed. Will he find his future wife this time round? 

AmaGrootman on Showmax

Ama Grootman S1

Six friends confront the challenges of fixing relationships and making pivotal choices in this reality show about Port Shepstone’s elite.

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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.

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The best movies to stream

Wicked is on Showmax

Elphaba and Glinda’s Wicked little guide

Find out what Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande have to say about Wicked, pick up 10 magical behind-the-scenes facts, and explore 7 more schools of witchcraft and wizardry.

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One on Showmax

Push play on Father’s Day: Dads just want to have fun

If you’re trying to figure out what the mystery man known as dad really wants this Father’s Day, promise him one-on-one time with our Dads Just Wanna Have Fun collection.

Speak No Evil on Showmax

James McAvoy and James Watkins on Speak No Evil

Speak No Evil director James Watkins and star James McAvoy explain “host” Paddy’s creepy charisma, and we check out 6 more roles that prove you never know what to expect with James McAvoy. 

My Penguin Friend on Showmax

Celebrate World Oceans Day with My Penguin Friend

My Penguin Friend director David Schurmann and actor Jean Reno explain how you shoot a penguin. Plus, explore our World Oceans Day watchlist of 25 wet and wild movies and series.

Wild Wild Space on Showmax

Wild Wild Space and 10 more titles to join your space race

We have liftoff! As new HBO documentary Wild Wild Space takes us into low orbit, mission control has 10 more titles ready for space junkies, from Apollo 13 to Interstellar.

The American Society of Magical Negroes on Showmax

Would you join The American Society of Magical Negroes?

Writer-creator Kobi Libii cracks open his bag of tricks to reveal what’s really going on in The American Society of Magical Negroes. And we suggest 5 more Black comedies with culture.

Twisters on Showmax

Twisters and 5 other man-versus-nature nail biters

Tornado alert! A category F5 spin on the blockbuster 1996 movie Twister has just touched ground to sweep us up in the terrifying power of nature. Find out about how it was made, and what to watch next.

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol on Showmax

Which Mission: Impossible is it?

With Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning now in cinemas, we match each previous Mission: Impossible film to its most iconic scene. You know, it’s the one where…

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