Purely by accident, the last dozen or so things we’ve watched on Netflix have been made by female directors.

We say accident because until now the streaming platform hasn’t offered a section that groups these titles together, so we weren’t aware that we were doing it until after the fact. But taking a brief look over the offering in Netflix’s brand new female directors category today has made it abundantly clear: movies and television shows made by women are something special.

Think of the wide variety of female-helmed projects on Netflix at the moment: the thriller Bird Box directed by Susanne Bier, the romantic comedies Dumplin’ directed by Anne Fletcher, Set It Up (Claire Scanlon), Like Father (Lauren Rogen) and To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before (Susan Johnson), the intimate drama Private Life, the comedy specials like Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette and Relatable from Ellen Degeneres, the documentaries Seeing Allred and Take Your Pills… All directed by women, all equally as compelling and bingeable.

Netflix now has a category just for female directors