What/If is the melodramatic new Netflix thriller you'll want to binge in one sitting.

Now that winter has arrived, Netflix knows we’ll all be swapping nights out for cosy evenings in on the couch.

Along with the arrival of Dead to Me and The Society to the streaming service, the Netflix original What/If was released on May 24, and you’re going to want to add it to your list of binge-able TV series immediately.

Watch the trailer for What/If on Netflix. Post continues after video. 

With Renée Zellweger as the central protagonist, you’d be forgiven for expecting a television series rich with tubs of ice cream and Colin Firth, but What/If is far from the Bridget Jones we all know.

The show follows Renee Zellweger as Anna Montgomery, a mysterious and ruthless venture capitalist looking to help Lisa Donovan (Jane Levy), a woman desperate to secure funding for her medtech startup which seeks to help children.

But the investment has just one catch… Anna Montgomery wants to spend one night with Lisa’s husband, a former basketball star who is a paramedic.

Think Indecent Proposal, but flipped.

Created by Mike Kelley, the MA15+ series stars Blake Jenner (The Edge of Seventeen), Jane Levy (Evil Dead), Keith Powers (Straight Outta Compton),  Samantha Marie Ware (Glee), and of course Renee Zellweger (Bridget Jones’s Diary).

The ten episode Netflix series has been given the official status of “binge-watchable” by the people of Twitter.

I mean What/If on Netflix is *the* definition of addictive, binge-able TV – the drama is v real guys and Renée Zellweger is as great as ever at playing every fool who crosses her. Recommend for a twisty, melodramatic weekend binge! #WhatIf pic.twitter.com/A2alWEPSk0

— t h o m a s (@thewrightguy_) May 24, 2019

I just started WHAT/IF on Netflix and wow okay

— Kele (@SoleilLevantK) May 24, 2019

I just watched seven out of ten episodes of What/If on Netflix. I’m literally addicted ????

— . (@Gossipplife) May 24, 2019

In the first 5 1/2 minutes of WHAT/IF on Netflix, there’s an OVER THE TOP OF THE TOP Renee Zellwegger monologue and a good butt

— ???????????????????????????????? ???????????????????? ???????????????????? ???????????????? (@mathewrodriguez) May 24, 2019

Watched the first episode of What/If, my new guilty pleasure on Netflix

— JAK (@jakwall_) May 24, 2019

Other reviews, including that of Hollywood Reporter television critic Tim Goodman, were not so shiny.

What/If is the worst show Netflix has ever aired.

— Lance Richardson (@lancerichardson) May 25, 2019

Watching What/If on #netflix with my wife and I keep think “what if we never started watching this show…”

Cause its bad.

Like… real bad guys.

So fucking awful.

— Wizard Eric (@EricTheRuadh) May 25, 2019

Waiting for my @THR review of Netflix’s “What/If” starring Renee Zellweger to go up. But in the meantime I can probably say this without spoiling too much of the review: Holy shit that show is bad.

— Tim Goodman (@BastardMachine) May 24, 2019

“Official” criticisms aside, the Twitter reactions suggest What/If is the perfect trashy weekend binge watch.

Go and binge watch What/If on Netflix Australia right now.