Being homesick is ghetto. One minute you’re fine, the next you’re missing traffic noise, street food smoke, and your mum’s unsolicited gist. But while you wait for your next trip home, Netflix has some comfort shows that feel like a long-distance hug.
From chaotic friend groups to found families that actually text back, these are the 10 best series to watch when homesickness comes knocking.
10. Shanty Town (2023)
Episodes: 6
Season: 1
Director: Dimeji Ajibola
Genre: Crime
Shanty Town unfolds in the grim underworld of Lagos, where a group of women fight to free themselves from the control of Scar (Chidi Mokeme), a brutal crime lord whose influence extends from the city’s slums to its corridors of power.
Led by Inem (Ini Edo) and the embattled Shalewa (Nancy Isime), the women’s struggle for liberation exposes a criminal syndicate built on human trafficking, drugs, and political complicity.
9. Baby Farm (2025)
Episodes: 5
Season: 1
Directors: Walter Taylaur and Kayice Kasum
Genre: Crime, Drama
Set in Lagos, Baby Farm peels back the polished surface of a charitable foundation to reveal a chilling operation built on exploitation. What appears to be a benevolent organisation, managed by an expatriate couple, is in fact a front for a baby trafficking ring.
At its centre is Adanna (Onyinye Odokoro), a young pregnant woman lured into the foundation under false pretences, only to find herself trapped in a cycle of coercion and confinement. As an investigative journalist and a group of captives work to expose the truth, the series evolves into a sharp indictment of greed, hypocrisy, and the systemic failures that enable such cruelty.
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8. To Kill A Monkey (2025)
Episodes: 8
Season: 1
Director: Kemi Adetiba
Genre: Drama, Thriller
In To Kill a Monkey, director Kemi Adetiba turns her lens to the digital underworld of Lagos, where ambition, morality, and survival collide. Efemini is a gifted but struggling programmer drawn into cybercrime by an old friend, the magnetic yet dangerous kingpin known as The Bozz.
Efe’s technological ingenuity transforms their operation into a sprawling criminal enterprise, catching the attention of a shadowy rival known only as Teacher. As Efe descends deeper into the web of power and betrayal, a determined police inspector, haunted by her own past, races to dismantle the syndicate before it consumes them all.
Watch To Kill A Monkey on Netflix.
7. Blood Sisters (2022)
Episodes: 4
Season: 1
Director: Kenneth Gyang and Biyi Bandele
Genre: Thriller
Blood Sisters begins with a celebration but spirals quickly into chaos. On the eve of her lavish engagement party, Sarah (Ini Dima-Okojie) becomes entangled in a nightmare when her best friend, Kemi (Nancy Isime), kills her abusive fiancé, Kola (Deyemi Okanlawon), in self-defence.
What follows is a gripping, fast-paced tale of a fugitive that exposes the deep fractures in Lagos society between wealth, violence, and justice.
As the two women flee, pursued by Kola’s powerful family and the machinery of influence that protects them, Blood Sisters evolves into more than a thriller. It becomes a meditation on female friendship, survival, and the suffocating pressures of power.
Watch Blood Sisters on Netflix.
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6. The Plan (2023)
Episodes: 5
Season: 1
Director: Dimbo Atiya
Genre: Drama
In The Plan, director Dimbo Atiya crafts a taut, character-driven drama about friendship, greed, and survival in the aftermath of corruption.
When Karama (Rahama Sadau), a young widow, discovers that her late husband (Ali Nuhu) had embezzled public funds and hidden a cache of stolen gold, she turns to her two closest friends for help.
What begins as an act of desperation soon becomes a moral quagmire. As the women struggle to conceal the fortune, loyalties fray and trust erodes under the weight of temptation.
5. Inside Life (2022)
Episodes: 6
Season: 1
Director: Clarence Peters
Genre: Drama, Thriller
In Inside Life, director Clarence Peters weaves a bleak, interlocking portrait of survival and consequence in contemporary Lagos.
The limited series traces the fates of several characters whose lives intersect through violence, loss, and the quiet ache of desperation. Among them are a medical student battling the weight of systemic failure and a young woman driven to a brutal act of self-defence against her abusive stepfather.
The result is a haunting exploration of trauma and the hidden economies of pain that shape urban life.
4. The Party (2025)
Episodes: 3
Season: 1
Director: Yemi “Filmboy” Morafa
Genre: Drama, Suspense
Yemi “Filmboy” Morafa’s The Party begins with glitter and ends in chaos. During an opulent birthday celebration, the host, Bobo (Kunle Remi), plunges to his death from a balcony before a stunned audience of friends and family.
Within moments, the festivities dissolve into suspicion as his powerful father seals the estate and summons the police, transforming a night of excess into a claustrophobic crime scene.
Structured as a taut, three-part chamber mystery, The Party unfolds through a series of interrogations that peel away layers of privilege, betrayal, and buried resentment.
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3. Far From Home (2022)
Episodes: 5
Season: 1
Directors: Catherine Stewart, Kayode Kasum and Kenneth Gyang
Genre: Drama
In Far From Home, the dream of upward mobility collides with the grim realities of survival. Mike Afolarin stars as Ishaya Bello, a gifted but underprivileged artist whose long-shot scholarship to the prestigious Wilmer Academy promises escape, and perhaps redemption.
But when his savings vanish in a family betrayal, desperation drives him into the orbit of a dangerous crime lord, Oga Rambo (Bolanle Ninalowo).
What begins as a tale of ambition soon unravels into a moral maze of deception, privilege, and violence.
Watch Far From Home on Netflix.
2. Seven Doors (2024)
Episodes: 6
Season: 1
Directors: Femi Adebayo, Tope Adebayo and Adebayo Tijani
Genre: Drama, Epic
Set in the mythical Ilara Kingdom, Seven Doors unfolds as a grand meditation on duty, destiny, and the weight of tradition. When Oba Adedunjoye (Femi Adebayo) ascends a throne shrouded in unrest, he inherits not only a kingdom but also a centuries-old curse.
The chief priest warns that peace can only be restored if the King performs a sacred rite that demands he open seven doors and take seven wives.
Caught between his devotion to family and the unyielding expectations of lineage, Adedunjoye faces a moral reckoning that transcends the palace walls.
1. Anikulapo: Rise of the Spectre (2023)
Episodes: 6
Season: 1
Director: Kunle Afolayan
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
In Anikulapo: Rise of the Spectre, Kunle Afolayan expands his acclaimed Yoruba folklore universe into darker, more transcendent territory.
The story follows Saro (Kunle Remi), once a man who wielded the divine power to resurrect the dead. Now, he returns to earth as a reluctant messenger of death, bound to collect twenty souls to repay his debt to the afterlife or face eternal wandering without rest.
Haunted by the weight of his past and drawn into the ambitions of a ruthless warlord, Saro’s journey becomes a sweeping allegory about fate, punishment, and redemption.
Watch Anikulapo: Rise of the Spectre on Netflix.
