It's hard to imagine a time when Netflix was just a DVD mailing service-- that cool new invention your parents wanted to try so they could start that family movie night tradition.

Looking back at this point in time, a system that delivered maybe one or two movies to you at a time, usually on a weekly basis, seems downright archaic. Now the idea of watching such few movies at such a glacial pace comes across as utterly preposterous.

Since its early days, Netflix has evolved substantially. It began streaming movies and TV shows directly online, and it wasn't long before it started producing content of its own.

In time, huge networks like HBO and Showtime would struggle to push out even a fraction of the shows that Netflix was providing at a rapid pace.

Soon, many of these shows would make big waves at awards shows. Some would quickly establish themselves as future classics, sther shows... not so much.

Below is a list of Every Netflix Original Series, Ranked Worst To Best.

This list excludes foreign imports (like Happy Valley and Lovesick) and direct continuations of already existing shows (Arrested Development and Black Mirror), but reboots and revivals are fair game.

Real Rob

Rob Schneider as Real Rob

Any show with Rob Schneider's name on it is instantly primed for face-palming and endless head-shakery.

It doesn't help that the topic — a standup comedian's everyday life — has been exhausted at this point, pulled of by numerous far better shows (a couple of which are on Netflix).

Real Rob follows the life of a standup named Rob as he navigates the day-to-day with his wife, played by Schneider's wife in real life, Patricia, and their daughter, Miranda.

While Rob Schnider can be admired for funding, directing, and writing the whole show, he falls catastrophically short of the works of Louis C.K., who took a similar approach to Louie on FX and Horace and Pete.

Whether people want it to or not, Real Rob will trudge onwards into a second season this year.

Fuller House

Fuller House Season 3 Gets Expanded Episode Order

Reviving old TV shows is all the rage these days, but one has to wonder why this is when watching Fuller House.

While Fuller House must've roped in plenty of viewers for Netflix-- enough for it to get renewed for a second and then third season-- it's doubtful many walked away feeling better for having watched this Full House continuation.

Fuller House was the first big TV revival to pose the question every revival following it would have to answer: is it worth it?

The reboot focused on the next generation of Tanners, putting D.J. (here played once again by Candace Cameron Bure), front and center.

If D.J.'s plight sounds familiar — the widowed mother of three kids recruits her sister and best friend to help raise them — it's because it almost exactly duplicates the premise to Full House.

This fact reflected poorly on what Fuller House would become, which is a derivative reboot that pales in comparison to what came before.

Hemlock Grove

Landon Liboiron in Hemlock Grove

Though Netflix started it's tenure as an original content provider strong with House of Cards, it would hit a couple of stumbling blocks before it came upon it's streak of hits.

Between Cards and Orange is the New Black, Netflix sandwiched in a horror TV show called Hemlock Grove

Produced by horror fanatic Eli Roth and based on a novel by Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove managed to garner a meager cult following, enough to propel the show to three seasons. However, Grove still sticks out like a sore, sloppily made, painstakingly paced thumb in Netflix's early days.

The series followed the supernatural going-ons in Hemlock Grove, Pennsylvania. It starred Famke Janssen of X-Men and Goldeneye fame, along with Bill Skarsgård and Landon Liboiron.

While Hemlock Grove reportedly had an opening weekend better than House of Card's first season, it quickly proved its own lack of lasting power  while shows around it began to thrive.

Iron Fist

Finn Jones as Danny Rand in Iron Fist

Netflix and Marvel Television began a fruitful relationship with Daredevil back in 2015. Things only got better with Jessica Jones and Luke Cage.

Unfortunately, they can't all be winners, as Marvel's fourth show on the streaming site would prove. Whitewashing aside, there's still plenty to groan at in Iron Fist, which is Marvel's most reviled TV joint on Netflix or elsewhere.

After surviving a plane crash that killed his parents, Danny Rand spent years training monks in K'un-Lun. Danny wound up becoming a fierce warrior, but failed to become an interesting or even likable character.

With a grating main character and a premise unfortunately similar to Arrow, a far better superhero show from DC, Iron Fist crashed hard with critics. Even the fans were none too pleased.

Friends from College

Cast of Friends from College drinking wine and leaning against a bar in a line.

How a show with this cast and crew can find itself so far on the backend of this list is astonishing.

You think the cast – featuring stellar talents like Keegan Michael Key, Cobie Smulders, Nat Faxon, and Fred Savage — would have said it all, while the inclusion of creator Nicholas Stoller (director of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Neighbors) would only further emphasize the point.

Unfortunately, Friends from College is a friend to no one, least of all the people watching it.

Reckoning with the oncoming of their forties, a group of friends who went to Harvard together traverse their careers and relationships with each other in New York City.

Rest assured, there's friendship drama and harsh truths abound. The sub-genre of comedies focused on purposefully unlikable characters is a tricky one to tackle. TV fans are better off aiming for something like You're The Worst instead of Friends from College.

Marco Polo

Benedict Wong and Lorenzo Richelmy standing in front of an army in Marco Polo

When you shoot for the moon and miss, you don't always land among the stars. Such was the case for Marco Poloa harshly reviewed big budget show from Netflix that ultimately cost the streaming giant $200 million.

Being backed by the Weinstein Company, Marco Polo's margin for success wasn't exactly narrow, but it certainly wasn't wide given the show's uninspired premise and daunting expectations for production. After a mere two seasons, Marco Polo was put to bed.

Lorenzo Richelmy played the titular explorer in a series that followed his early years in the company of Kublai Khan (played by Doctor Strange's Benedict Wong).

Some critics granted Marco Polo the compliment of being easily watchable, but then had to concede how shallow the experience felt when measured against epic shows like Game of Thrones.

The Ranch

Danny Masterson and Ashton Kutcher in The Ranch

Ashton Kutcher, like Rob Schneider, is a name that doesn't instill confidence into the hearts of potential viewers. However, add a reunion with Danny Masterson, Kutcher's That 70s Show co-star, and some interests might just get piqued.

Sprinkle in supporting performances by acting virtuosos Debra Winger and Sam Elliot and you've got a show that, at the very least, is worth checking out. While The Ranch is still an underwhelming affair, it's not without its charms.

The multi-cam sitcom takes place at a fictional ranch in Colorado. It revolves around a dysfunctional family consistent of two brothers (Kutcher and Masterson), their father (Elliot), and his separated wife (Winger), who also owns the local bar.

Dysfunctional family comedies are a dime a dozen at this point in TV history. The Ranch is an inoffensive entry into that sub-genre. Certainly no more, but also no less.

The Characters

Netflix Presents: The Characters

When launching a sketch comedy series, Netflix fared better relying on the old guard (more on that further down the list), but had a decent go with these up-and-comers.

What a collection of up-and-comers it is: Paul W. Downs (Broad City), Lauren Lapkus (Crashing), and Henry Zebrowski (The Wolf of Wall Street) all claimed an episode of The Characters.

However, despite the talent involved and a unique premise, The Characters couldn't quite make Netflix a go-to spot for sketch comedy greatness.

Each of The Characters' eight episodes focused on a different young buck comedian, who would write and star in their own thirty-minute show.

Giving a show that amount of flexibility is bound to result in some high and low points throughout the series. The highs and lows of The Characters average out to a show that is ultimately good but not great.

Girlboss

Netflix has been on a canceling spree of late, and one of the casualties was Girlboss, a comedy based on entrepreneurial wunderkind Sophia Amoruso's autobiography.

While Girlboss was showing the fictionalized story of Amoruso's rise, the real Amoruso had begun to fall.

Bankruptcy and reports of wrongfully terminating pregnant employees were already hurting Amoruso's image. So maybe Girlboss was canceled in part due to bad timing, but who really knows if the show itself would have lasted based on quality alone.

Britt Robertson of Tomorrowland played Amoruso, and received praise for her compelling performance. She played Amoruso on the precipice of launching her company, Nasty Gal.

Creator Kay Cannon had serious writing chops going into Girlboss, having been on writing staffs for 30 Rock, New Girl, and penning Pitch Perfect. However, Cannon couldn't quite sell audiences on the show.

Flaked

Will Arnett in Flaked

Will Arnett became a favorite of comedy fans everywhere after playing Gob Bluth on Arrested Development.

Following that short-lived comedy gem, Arnett had difficulty headlining TV shows after that. Running Wilde and The Millers has runs that were even briefer than Arrested.

However, perhaps Arnett would have better luck on a streaming site, especially with such a personal project, but Flaked doesn't quite do the actor justice.

On Flaked, Arnett plays a recovering alcoholic named Chip. Unfortunately, a lot of the issues with Flaked stemmed from Chip being a character without many redeeming qualities.

Besides that, critics complained that the show was dull at some moments and melodramatic at others. There might be a better show hiding within Flaked, but it has yet to reveal itself.

 The OA

Brit Marling as Prairie in The OA

With The OA, Netflix stepped up its game in the mystery-driven sci-fi drama department. Building a whole show around a list of questions comes with a myriad of pitfalls, as network failures like Flashforward and The Event can attest.

However, The OA skated by on it's merits: the directing, the arresting visuals, and Brit Marling's mesmerizing lead performance.

While the show couldn't muster the following procured by another Netflix show about strange things, it still managed enough viewers to warrant a season two renewal.

In the show, Marling plays a woman named Prairie Johnson, a woman who disappeared seven years earlier when she was blind.

When the show begins she's returned, now able to see. That's a very "hook, line, and sinker" kind of premise, and The OA doesn't always do the best job of building on top of that. However, it's still food for thought that's also easy on the eyes.

 Easy

Lucy and Tom sitting together looking at a phone in Easy

Mumblecore pioneer Joe Swanberg got the chance to bring his improvisational style of overlapping dialogue to television with Easy.

The show brought in a wide range of stars (Orlando Bloom, Malin Akerman, Dave Franco, Hannibal Burress, Marc Maron, and Aya Cash to name a small portion) for a naturalistic comedy anthology series, featuring eight different stories about dating and relationships in the city of Chicago.

At times, Easy could be frustrating, but at other times, it could be inspired.

Swanberg's work is divisive. While a good deal of people were charmed by the rom-com Drinking Buddies, less people were enthused with Digging for Fire.

Easy shows off some of the director's best and worst tendencies as a storyteller. It's still worth stopping by for episodes as funny as "Vegan Cinderella" or as heartbreaking as "Chemistry Read."

F Is for Family

The Murphy's having dinner in F is for Family.

Bill Burr is not for everyone. So it makes sense that F Is for Family, the animated series he created with Simpsons writer Michael Price, would also not be for everybody.

Burr is known for his irreverent standup that frequently veers away from popular opinion, and that persona transferred seamlessly to the character of Frank Murphy.

Insufferable as Frank can be at times, he can't distract from the hilarious and surprisingly touching show F Is for Family can sometimes be.

Burr plays Frank, the patriarch of a family including his wife Sue (voiced by Laura Dern), and their three kids, Kevin (Justin Long in what might be a career best), Maureen (Debi Derryberry), and Bill (Haley Reinhart).

The show follows the Murphy family as they navigate the '70s, with all of the decade's loose parenting restrictions, economic hardships, and a coked out neighbor played by Sam Rockwell.

W/ Bob and David

David Cross Jay Johnston and Bob Odenkirk in With Bob and David

Hardcore sketch comedy nerds will reference Mr. Show as the cream of the crop. That crowd was in heaven when they heard Bob Odenkirk and David Cross would be reuniting for a Netflix show entitled W/ Bob and David

Odenkirk and Cross had moved on to great things since Mr. Show, Odenkirk with Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul and Cross with Arrested Development. However, the world would be remiss if the two didn't join forces once more.

W/ Bob and David only had a four episode first season, but it managed to pack more laughs into those four episodes than some sitcoms are able to deliver over twenty-two episodes.

Mr. Show alums like Tom Kenny, Paul F. Tompkins, and Jill Talley returned to play a part in W/ Bob and David.

Making a Murderer

Making A Murderer Netflix

It was a sensation that swept the nation. The disturbing crimes of Steven Avery captivated many a Netflix subscriber when Making a Murderer dropped in 2015.

Some people might have criticized the series, written and directed by Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, for being biased towards sympathizing Avery. It also paled in comparison to HBO's The Jinx. Still, Making a Murderer made an impression.

The show went on for ten episodes, mainly focusing on Avery's trial for the sexual assault and attempted murder of Penny Beerntsen.

He was fully exonerated in 2003 on the basis of DNA evidence. When Making a Murderer first premiered, Steven Avery replaced Adnan Syed, the subject of the podcast Serial's first season, as the premiere pop culture criminal persona.

Bloodline

Bloodline Season 2

Bloodline's greatest sin is probably being overly proud of itself. The show bombards you with a non-linear storyline, characters of questionable morality, and themes of familial obligation.

Still, Bloodline managed to entertain viewers during its three seasons, particularly fans of the creators' previous show, Damages, and of the incredible talent that is Ben Mendelsohn.

The Florida-based drama series focuses on the Rayburn family, the affluent owners of a hotel empire.

Things for the Rayburn family become disturbed when the black sheep of the family, Danny (Mendelsohn), returns home.

Bloodline earned Emmy nods for Mendelsohn and star Kyle Chandler, of Friday Night Lights fame. Though Bloodline is over, the three existing seasons are available for you to watch at your leisure.

One Day At a Time

One Day At A Time Netflix

With One Day at a Time, a remake of Norman Lear's sitcom from the '80s, finally had a successful multi-cam sitcom on its hands.

The show starred Justina Machado, best known for a regular role on Six Feet Under, along with screen acting legend Rita Moreno.

Machado played the mother at the center of the show, a nurse and Army veteran raising two kids with the support of her Cuban mother, played by Moreno.

One Day at a Time is very much a traditional, feel-good family sitcom, and for that reason it might not be everybody's cup of tea.

However, even those people can't deny it's inexcusable charms as well as it's willingness to touch on themes relevant to the world we live in today. The show covers topics like sexual orientation and PTSD.

House of Cards

House of Cards Francis Underwood behind a desk in the oval office

House of Cards deserves plenty of credit for putting Netflix on the map. With names like David Fincher, Kevin Spacey, and Robin Wright involved, how could it not?

The DC based political thriller is impossible to ignore, but for it's dark visual panache and some A-plus scenery chewing from Spacey and Wright.

Still, the show has groan frustrating at times, and seems unaware of it's own soap opera potential, instead trying to be a prestige drama.

Spacey plays Frank Underwood, a role he's reprised copious times at awards shows and in viral videos abound. Underwood connives, lies, and murders his way into the White House, all with the help of his equally cunning wife Claire (Wright).

Cards still gets Emmy nominations in its later years, but has yet to see major gold.

Sense8

Sense8 Season 2 Cast

Hearts everywhere broke when it was announced that Sense8 was canceled. The show was the brainchild of The Wachowskis, the wizards behind a little-known movie called The Matrix.

It was a high concept sci-fi drama where eight people across the globe, who suddenly find themselves linked psychically to each other.

Sense8 was bizarre to the extreme, but never forgot it's big, beating heart. The drama's niche audience will not soon forget Sun Bak, Nomi, and Riley, just a few of the characters that gave Sense8 its appeal.

Netflix seems pretty adament on its decision to cancel the show, but hopefully the show finds life again somehow, at least in its finale. It had its issues, but it also had a riveting scene set to 4 Non Blondes' "What's Up".

Grace and Frankie

Put this one in the "old people still got it" category. Reuniting the legendary comedic pairing of Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, Grace and Frankie is a half-hour comedy from Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman and Howard J. Morris.

Grace and Frankie avoided most stereotypes about older characters in television, and instead decided to be genuine and respectful towards its main characters

Grace and Frankie discover on the same night, at the same dinner, that their husbands (played by Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston) have been in a homosexual relationship with each other for the past 20 years.

With only themselves to depend on, Grace and Frankie rely on their unconventional friendship and conflicting character types to get by.