From the biggest Netflix Original films to the best TV shows available in the streaming universe, check out how to get the most from your subscription with all the best new releases to watch on Netflix.
With a new show or film to stream added to the list every day, you’ll never be stuck for what to watch on Netflix again…
Thursday 2nd January: Spinning Out
New drama series about a competitive ice skater (Skins star Kaya Scodelario) who struggles to revive her career after a disastrous fall and amid ongoing personal issues. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 1st January: Messiah
New drama series that explores what might happen if a messianic figure appeared on Earth in the modern age. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 31st December: John Wick 3: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
The third chapter in the sleek and stylish action franchise has arrived on Netflix, with Keanu Reeves back in the title role and Halle Berry joining the cast. Watch on Netflix
Monday 30th December: Kevin Hart: Don’t F**k This Up
The comedian and film star opens up about troubles in his career and marriage in this new Netflix docuseries. Watch on Netflix
Sunday 29th December: Downsizing
Melancholy comedy starring Matt Damon in which the world’s overpopulation crisis has been solved by scientists, who have found a way to shrink human beings to a fraction of their normal size. Watch on Netflix
Saturday 28th December: Fighting with My Family
Florence Pugh (Midsommar) stars in this biopic about the life of WWE professional wrestler Paige, who becomes a superstar in the sport from her humble beginnings in Norwich. Watch on Netflix
Friday 27th December: Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020: Part 2
In a world where structured reality reigns king, it’s somewhat refreshing to watch a show where genuine people act totally naturally, no matter how pedestrian their lives may be. Season two part two of this Japanese sleeper hit is available now. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 26th December: You – season two
The second season of this thriller sees the unhinged Joe move to Los Angeles under a new name, where he becomes infatuated with another unfortunate woman. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 24th December: Lost in Space – season two
Picks up with the Robinson family who are still lost in the deepest reaches of space, exploring more strange planets in the hunt for their lost robot. Watch on Netflix
Monday 23rd December: Million Pound Menu
BBC series presented by First Dates’ beloved maître d’ Fred Sirieix, in which budding restaurateurs bid for investment for their madcap and occasionally brilliant ideas. Watch on Netflix
Sunday 22nd December: The Two Popes
Sir Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce star as Pope Benedict XVI and his successor Pope Francis in a fictionalised new drama exploring their one-of-a-kind handover of religious power. Watch on Netflix
Saturday 21st December: Holiday Rush
A radio DJ loses everything but finds new ways to connect with his family in this sweet seasonal movie. Watch on Netflix
Friday 20th December: The Witcher
Henry Cavill stars as monster-hunter Geralt of Rivia in this gritty fantasy drama. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 19th December: Don’t F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer
True crime series that tells the story of a group of amateur online detectives pulled into a dark underworld. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 18th December: Soundtrack season one
This romantic musical drama following a diverse group of people in LA who are connected by love and music was originally meant to be a Fox pilot, but Netflix swooped in and ordered a full season when it ultimately wasn’t picked up by the network. Jenna Dewan (Step Up, World of Dance) stars. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 17th December: Ronny Chieng: Asian Comedian Destroys America!
The Daily Show and Crazy Rich Asians star delivers another stand-up special, reflecting on modern American life, among other things… Watch on Netflix
Monday 16th December: Five Feet Apart
There won’t be a dry eye in the house in this tale of two teenagers with the progressive lung disease cystic fibrosis. Cole Sprouse (Riverdale) and Haley Lu Richardson (The Edge of Seventeen) star. Watch on Netflix
Sunday 15th December: 12 Years a Slave
A freeborn black man (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is abducted from New York and sold into slavery in this historical drama based on the autobiography of Solomon Northup. Watch on Netflix.
Saturday 14th December: RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars season four
From fan favourites to fierce villains, queens from seasons past compete for a $100,000 prize and a coveted spot in the Drag Race Hall of Fame. Watch on Netflix
Friday 13th December: 6 Underground
Michael Bay brings his blockbuster directing chops to the streaming service with this action thriller starring Ryan Reynolds as one of six billionaires who form a vigilante group after faking their deaths. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 12th December: Jack Whitehall: Christmas with My Father
The comedian invites his father onstage for a comedy extravaganza in London’s West End for a festive special. Watch out for some starry guests, too. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 11th December: Destination Wedding
Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder star in this black comedy about Frank and Lindsay, two deeply bitter and resentful people forced to endure a wedding together… Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 10th December: Michelle Wolf: Joke Show
The popular US comedian and Daily Show contributor tackles outrage culture, feminism and massages in her latest comedy special… . Watch on Netflix
Monday 9th December: How to Get Away with Murder season five
The popular legal drama returns for a fifth run. This time, law school lecturer Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) and a group of her students become involved in a twisted murder case. Watch on Netflix
Sunday 8th December: The Confession Killer
Crime documentary series examining the case of Henry Lee Lucas, an American who confessed to hundreds of unsolved murders. But was he telling the truth? Watch on Netflix
Saturday 7th December: Marriage Story
Critically lauded divorce drama from Noah Baumbach with acclaimed performances from Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson. Watch on Netflix
Friday 6th December: Fuller House season five
Fans can join the Tanner family on their adventures for one last time in the fifth and final series of the sitcom reboot – and the cast have teased that the show has saved the best till last… Watch on Netflix
Thursday 5th December: V Wars season one
Vampires meet zombies (sort of) in this post-apocalyptic offering based a comic series by multiple Bram Stoker award-winning authors Jonathan Maberry and Alan Robinson. Blood-sucking veteran Ian Somerhalder stars as a doctor trying to stop a vampire epidemic. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 4th December: Magic for Humans season two
Second series of the show from comedian and magician Justin Willman that blends good-natured fun and grown-up laughs while amazing the audience with magic tricks. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 3rd December: Tiffany Haddish: Black Mitzvah
On her 40th birthday, the popular US stand-up delivers laughs in her second Netflix special, this time exploring her Jewish roots. Watch on Netflix
Monday 2nd December: Mid90s
Jonah Hill makes his directorial debut with this acclaimed coming of age skater film, which follows a 13 year-old living in the eponymous time period. Starring Sunny Suljic, Lucas Hedges and Katherine Waterston. Watch on Netflix
Sunday 1st December: A Private War
This true-life tale delves into the life of Marie Colvin (played by Rosamund Pike), one of the most celebrated war correspondents in the US, a journalist driven to frontlines of conflict across the globe. Watch now on Netflix.
Saturday 30th November: All the Money in the World
A crime thriller from director Ridley Scott, this movie follows the true story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the efforts of his mother (Michelle Williams) to convince his billionaire grandfather (Christopher Plummer) to pay the ransom. Watch now on Netflix.
Friday 29th November: Atlantics
This much acclaimed Senegalese film is the first feature from writer/director Mati Diop and went down a storm when it debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, taking home the Grand Prix award. A supernatural love story, it concerns Ada a 17 year-old in love with a construction worker who suddenly goes missing. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 28th November: Merry Happy Whatever
Christmas themed sitcom starring Dennis Quaid and Ashley Tidsdale. The plot centres on Don Quinn (Quaid) who must deal with the stress of the festive season and all that comes with it – including his daughter bringing her new boyfriend home. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 27th November: The Irishman
A slow-burning gangster epic from Martin Scorsese, featuring three excellent performances from masters of the genre Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci. The story centres on Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran (De Niro), who recalls his involvement in the disappearance of his longtime friend Jimmy Hoffa. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 26th November: Mike Birbiglia: the New One
Comedian and regular This American Life contributor brings his award-winning Broadway show to Netflix, sharing his unique take on parenting. Watch on Netflix
Monday 25th November: Mortel
Twisty French teen drama series about three misfits who find themselves bound together by a supernatural force… Watch on Netflix
Sunday 24th November: Nailed It! Holiday! season 2
The ludicrous but fun baking show returns for another Christmas special, hosted by Nicole Byer and Jacques Torres. Watch on Netflix
Saturday 23rd November: I’m with the Band: Nasty Cherry
Entertaining reality series in which singer-songwriter Charli XCX handpicks four women to form an alt-pop band. Watch on Netflix
Friday 22nd November: Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings
An anthology drama series based on the country legend’s songs, based on new and some of her best-loved songs. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 21st November: The Knight before Christmas
Following last year’s The Princess Switch, Vanessa Hudgens returns to Netflix in this equally absurd holiday romance involving a time-travelling medieval knight. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 20th November: Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator
A Netflix Original documentary about the Bikram hot yoga founder Bikram Choudury, who was accused of sexually abusing his followers. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 19th November: Iliza: Unveiled
US comedian Iliza Shlesinger’s fifth Netflix comedy special. Newly married, this time round she delves into the world of wedding traditions. Watch on Netflix
Monday 18th November: 20 Feet from Stardom
Morgan Neville’s Oscar-winning documentary shines a spotlight on the people who are responsible for some of the best bits of our favourite songs: the backing singers… Watch on Netflix
Sunday 17th November: The Crown season 3
God save Olivia Colman! The now Oscar-winning star succeeds Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II in season three of Netflix’s royal biopic The Crown.
New episodes are set to cover the years 1964-77, delving into events such as the Apollo 11 moon landing and Prince Charles’s investiture ceremony. Watch on Netflix
Saturday 16th November: Earthquake Bird
Set in Tokyo circa 1989, this polished thriller follows a young female expat who comes under suspicion for murdering her close friend. However, all isn’t what it seems…
Stars Tomb Raider lead Alicia Vikander alongside Riley Keough (Mad Max: Fury Road) and J-Pop superstar Naoki Kobayashi. Watch on Netflix.
Friday 15th November: Klaus
A fresh animated take on Santa Claus’s origins from the writer/director of Despicable Me. Voice talent includes Rashida Jones, Jason Schwartzman and JK Simmons. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 14th November: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Remaking a classic Robin Williams film was always likely to be a risky strategy – but thanks do a stellar cast including Dwayne Johnson and Jack Black, this reboot did an excellent job. A sequel is also on the horizon, set to be released just in time for Christmas. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 13th November: Maradona in Mexico
Docuseries about the Argentine football legend’s time in Culiacán, Mexico – the heart of the Sinaloa Cartel – attempting to save local team the Dorados. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 12th November: Jeff Garlin: Our Man Out in Chicago
Perhaps best known for his role on Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, Jeff Garlin returns with his latest stand-up special touching on topics including love, loss, success and food addiction. Watch on Netflix
Monday 11th November: Let It Snow
Kiernan Shipka and Shameik Moore lead this romantic teen Christmas comedy set during a snowstorm in a small town on Christmas Eve. Watch on Netflix
Friday 8th November: Green Eggs and Ham
Animation of the iconic children’s book by Dr Seuss, produced by Ellen DeGeneres and starring Michael Douglas. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 7th November: Atypical season 3
Warm, heartfelt drama about a family whose teenage son is on the autistic spectrum. In the new third season, Sam (Keir Gilchrist) is off to college. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 6th November: Seth Meyers Lobby Baby
Seth Meyers has established himself as one of the biggest talk show hosts across the pond, and now he’s taking his talents to Netflix with his first stand-up special for the streaming giant. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 5th November: Holiday in the Wild
Starring Rob Lowe and Kristin Davis, this unusual love story sees a divorcee travel to a Zambian safari and ends up rescuing an orphan baby elephant with help from a charming pilot – eventually extending her stay over the festive period. Watch on Netflix
Monday 4th November: The King
Based on several plays from Shakespeare’s ‘Henriad’ this epic historical drama stars Timothée Chalamet as King Henry V. Also starring are Joel Edgerton, Lily-Rose Depp, Robert Pattinson and Ben Mendelsohn. Watch on Netflix
Friday 1st November: Queer Eye – We’re in Japan!
The Fab Five take the hit show abroad for the first time, bringing their makeover skills and words of wisdom to the Far East. They’ll also learn a thing or two themselves, soaking up Japanese culture with help from guide Kiko Mizuhara. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 31st October: Ghost Stories
Adapted from the award-winning stage play by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman, this frightening medley sees a paranormal debunker (Nyman) tasked with solving three ghostly mysteries. Martin Freeman also stars. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 30th October: Prank Encounters
Stranger Things star Gaten Matarazzo hosts this controversial hidden-camera trick show, which follows two people who believe they are starting in a new job… Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 29th October: Arsenio Hall: Smart & Classy
The American talk show host makes his Netflix comedy special debut. Watch on Netflix
Monday 28th October: The House of Flowers
Series two of the sinfully entertaining Mexican drama about a family who run a big florist’s shop. It’s the backdrop for a camp, cheeky soap opera full of affairs, rivalries, outlandish characters and majestic over-reactions… Watch on Netflix
Friday 25th October: BoJack Horseman season 6 part 1
The brilliant Netflix animation – about an anthropomorphic horse with a substance abuse problem – is back with the first half of its final season. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 24th October: Daybreak
A darkly comic coming-of-age series set during the apocalypse, featuring Matthew Broderick. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 22nd October: Jenny Slate – Stage Fright
The comedy actress lands her first Netflix stand-up special. Watch on Netflix
Friday 18th October: Living with Yourself
In this dark comedy, Avengers and Ant-Man star Paul Rudd plays a double role as a depressed advertising executive called Miles and his seemingly-perfect clone… Watch on Netflix
Thursday 17th October: The Hook Up Plan
The return of a French comedy drama that’s frothier than cappuccino foam: after ten months out of town, our goofy 30-ish heroine Elsa (Zita Hanrot) is back. Surely now she’ll settle down into a stable relationship..? Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 16th October: Rotten
Series two of a confrontational investigative show that aims to force you to rethink how you buy food, by pointing out the ethical and health issues with items you might have thought were benign. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 15th October: In the Tall Grass
Horror film based on Stephen King’s novella of the same name about two siblings who get trapped in a field in Kansas. . . Watch on Netflix
Monday 14th October: Insatiable season 2
The return of the controversial teen comedy about a newly thin teen who seeks revenge on those who fat-shamed her in the past. Watch on Netflix
Saturday 12th October: Fractured
A new horror film that finds a father (Sam Worthington) on the hunt for his wife and daughter, who disappear after a visit to a mysterious hospital… Watch on Netflix
Friday 11th October: El Camino: a Breaking Bad Movie
The wait is over: we finally get to find out what happened to junkie-turned-meth-maker-turned-neo-Nazi-slave Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) following his dramatic escape from captivity… Watch on Netflix
Thursday 10th October: Riverdale season 4
Archie (KJ Apa) and the gang are back for more melodramatic and supernatural hijinks in the drama based on characters from the Archie Comics… Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 9th October: Rhythm + Flow
Chance The Rapper and Cardi B lead a hip-hop talent show in the vein of The X Factor, with episodes dropping weekly… Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 8th October: Raising Dion
Sci-fi series about a single mother raising a young son with super powers after the death of her husband (played by Michael B Jordan). Watch on Netflix
Friday 4th October: Big Mouth season 3
The animated comedy series about the trials and tribulations of puberty returns, with a guest appearance from the cast of Queer Eye… Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 2nd October: Living Undocumented
Selena Gomez exec-produces this documentary about eight undocumented families facing deportation from the US as immigration policies are transformed. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 1st October: The Big Bang Theory season 12
Growing up, settling down and having kids all resulted in the Friends being put out to pasture. And with our nerd-friends at a similar stage in life, The Big Bang Theory now embarks on its own last series… Watch on Netflix
Monday 30th September: Mo Gilligan – Momentum
The British comedian’s first stand-up special for Netflix is here. Watch on Netflix
Friday 27th September: The Politician
Wealthy student Payton Hobart (Ben Platt) mounts his campaign to get elected as student body president of his high school with the help of his mother (Gwyneth Paltrow) in this satirical comedy from Ryan Murphy. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 26th September: Call Me by Your Name
Oscar and Bafta-winning romantic drama, starring Armie Hammer, Timothee Chalamet and Michael Stuhlbarg, based on the 2007 debut novel by André Aciman. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 25th September: Glitch season 3
Australian mystery drama about a group of people who return from the dead in perfect health… Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 24th September: Disenchantment part 2
Matt Groening’s fantasy animated series continues after last year’s tragic conclusion. Watch on Netflix
Friday 20th September
David Tennant and Hayley Atwell feature in this international anthology series set within the walls of a police interrogation suite. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 18th September: Marianne
This French horror series was released on Friday 13th September (of course) – a writer discovers that the evil spirit who plagues her dreams is now wreaking havoc in the real world. . . Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 17th September: Unbelievable
Merritt Wever and Toni Collette play detectives who uncover a pattern of rape cases — three years after a young woman was accused of fabricating a rape report. Watch on Netflix
Friday 13th September: Top Boy
Six years after being cancelled by Channel 4, Aubrey “Drake” Graham and Netflix have revived the British drama that centres on a group of drug dealers in Hackney, east London. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 12th September: The I-Land
Ten people wake up on a strange island with no memory of how they got there, and soon discover the world is not as it seems… Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 11th September: Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father – season 3
In the new third run, the comedian brings his curmudgeonly dad to the USA, visiting Los Angeles, Phoenix and Las Vegas. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 10th September: Elite season 2
The Spanish teen drama unveiled the killer at the heart of its murder mystery at the end of season one, but a lot of questions were left unanswered… Watch on Netflix
Sunday 8th September: The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco
In this spin-off/revival of the ITV series, Millie (Rachael Stirling) and Jean (Julie Graham) travel to San Francisco and continue to use their code-breaking skills to solve murders. Watch on Netflix
Friday 6th September: The Spy
Sacha Baron Cohen stars as real-life Mossad agent Eli Cohen, who successfully went undercover in Syria in the early 1960s. Watch on Netflix
Monday 2nd September: Falling Inn Love
A cheesy, low-stakes romcom led by Christina Milian, who plays a tech worker in Silicon Valley who uproots and moves to New Zealand after she wins an inn via an online competition. Watch on Netflix
Friday 30th August: The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Almost 40 years on, Netflix have created a prequel to Jim Henson’s beloved fantasy film, set on the planet Thra… Watch on Netflix
Read our full The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance review
Tuesday 27th August: Dave Chappelle – Sticks and Stones
The comedian returns with another controversial and defiant stand-up special filmed in Atlanta. Watch on Netflix
Friday 23rd August: 13 Reasons Why season 3
This controversial drama is back for a third season following a cliffhanger ending. What will happen to Clay Jensen (Dylan Minnette) and his classmates at Liberty High School after that failed school shooting? Watch on Netflix
Thursday 22nd August: American Factory
The first documentary from the Obamas’ production company Higher Ground, which looks at a culture clash in Ohio after a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory. Watch on Netflix
Friday 16th August: Mindhunter season 2
David Fincher’s extremely dark and twisted drama series returns. It sees Jonathan Groff’s Holden Ford, an FBI agent in the late 1970s, attempt to get inside the minds of the most depraved of serial killers, incuding, this year, Charles Manson. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 14th August: Sintonia
A coming-of-age tale set in the favelas of Sao Paolo, Brazil. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 13th August: Tiffany Haddish Presents – They Ready
The Girls Trip star introduces the world to six of her favourite up-and-coming comedians. Watch on Netflix
Friday 9th August: GLOW season 3
Geena Davis joins the cast of this Netflix comedy about a group of struggling actresses in the 1980s who build a wrestling show. This year Alison Brie’s Ruth and Betty Gilpin’s Debbie bring the action to Las Vegas, where they struggle to deal with the pressures of a nightly stage show. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 8th August: Wu Assassins
Action series which follows Kai Jin, a young Chinatown chef in San Francisco who becomes entangled with the Chinese Triad’s pursuit of deadly ancient powers. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 7th August: Otherhood
Mums Carol (Angela Bassett), Gillian (Patricia Arquette) and Helen (Felicity Huffman) drive to New York to reconnect with their adult sons. Watch on Netflix
Friday 2nd August: Dear White People
Third season of the US comedy drama that follows a group of black students in a primarily white, fictional Ivy League college, tackling topics including racism, white privilege and cultural appropriation. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 31st July: The Red Sea Diving Resort
Chris Evans leads this film inspired by real-life rescue missions, which sees a group of Mossad agents and Ethiopians smuggle thousands of refugees to Israel. Watch on Netflix
Monday 29th July: Spotlight
This extraordinary story from writer/director Tom McCarthy (The Station Agent) – which centres around a group of journalists in Boston investigating children being molested within the Catholic church – is brought vividly to life in a riveting, serious-minded drama that sticks mindfully to the facts. Watch on Netflix
Friday 26th July: Orange Is the New Black
The ladies of Litchfield are back for a seventh and final season – hankies at the ready… Watch on Netflix
Thursday 25th July: Another Life
A new sci-fi series starring Katee Sackhoff as an astronaut head out on an expedition in search of alien life. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 23rd July: Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Jerry Seinfeld is back behind the wheel, picking up comedy pals Eddie Murphy, Seth Rogen, Ricky Gervais and more in the new series of his talk show. Watch on Netflix
Friday 19th July: Queer Eye season 4
The fab five’s return to Kansas City, Missouri includes a stop-off in Jonathan Van Ness’ old high school, where they are tasked with making over his former music teacher. It’s another emotional, uplifting set of episodes from Netflix’s most positive show. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 16th July: Blown Away
A glassblowing competition show, in which contestants create sculptures for the chance to win $60,000. Watch on Netflix
Friday 12th July: Point Blank
An emergency room nurse (Anthony Mackie) teams up with an inured murder suspect (Frank Grillo) after his pregnant wife is kidnapped. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 11th July: Derry Girls season 1
Lisa McGee’s brilliant sitcom about a group of girls navigating teenage life during The Troubles in Northern Ireland in the 1990s. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 9th July: Aziz Ansari – Right Now
The comedian’s first special since he was accused of sexual misconduct – he addresses this early on – tackles woke culture, and public opinion surrounding R Kelly and Michael Jackson. Watch on Netflix
Friday 5th July: Stranger Things 3
The gang are back to face yet more danger from the invading forces of the Upside Down. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 3rd July: Bridesmaids
With an incredible ensemble comedy cast, Bridesmaids is a heady hilarious romp through western female tribal-bridal culture, starring Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph and Melissa McCarthy. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 2nd July: Glee – The Complete Series
Ryan Murphy’s beloved comedy about a high school’s musical society is here in its entirety. Watch on Netflix
Monday 1st July: Shaft
A mere two weeks after its big-screen release, Samuel L Jackson returns as the titular detective with the best theme song of all time in this long-awaited sequel, though he’ll be playing second fiddle to his son John Shaft Jr (Jessie Usher) this time around. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 26th June: Mr Iglesias
Stand-up comedian Gabriel Iglesias stars as a high school history teacher who tries to help gifted misfits in this sitcom that feels like something out of the 1980s (and not in a good “St way). Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 25th June: Doctor Who – The Curse of Doctor Mysterio
The 2016 Christmas special is now available to stream. It features Matt Lucas as the Doctor’s companion Nardole. Watch on Netflix
Monday 24th June: The Beguiled
An injured Civil War soldier (Colin Farrell) is brought into an all-female household to recover from his wounds, and causes quite a stir… Sofia Coppola’s latest. Watch on Netflix
Friday 21st June: Dark season 2
Netflix’s mind and time-bending Danish sci-fi series is back for another lot of episodes. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 18th June: The Terminator
Arnold Schwarzenegger is perfectly cast as the violent cyborg who is time-warped from the future to alter the nuclear war-torn course of history in this classic action flick from James Cameron, while Linda Hamilton shines as the bewildered waitress who will unwittingly become the saviour of the human race. Watch on Netflix
Monday 17th June: Murder Mystery
Another Netflix Adam Sandler vehicle, this time featuring Jennifer Aniston, a whodunit and a David Walliams cameo, surprisingly enough. Watch on Netflix
Friday 14th June: Jessica Jones season 3
Jessica and Trish have to team up once again to take down a psychopathic new foe in the final season of Netflix’s last standing Marvel series. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 11th June: Blue Planet II
David Attenborough’s agenda-setting series about the 70% of the earth few of us ever get to see. Watch on Netflix
Monday 10th June: Black Earth Rising
Micaela Coel stars as a Rwandan Genocide survivor who discovers that her adoptive mother, a human rights lawyer, is embroiled in a major case that will shake their lives. The series previously aired on the BBC. Watch on Netflix
Friday 7th June: Designated Survivor season 3
Back from the dead after its cancellation by Fox in the US, the third outing for the political drama sees the accidental US President (Kiefer Sutherland) mount his re-election campaign. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 6th June: Happy! season 2
This dark comedy series has just been cancelled by US network SyFy, so this second run out will unfortunately be its last. It sees grizzled, former drug-addicted detective Nick (who was sent on a mission by a pink unicorn in season 1) attempt to become a solid family man. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 5th June: Black Mirror season 5
The dystopian anthology is back with three new “stories” featuring Andrew Scott, Miley Cyrus, Anthony Mackie and more. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 4th June: Spider-Man – Homecoming
Tom Holland stars as the third – and very best – iteration of the web-slinger since the turn of the century in this standalone caper from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The film has a John Hughes vibe to it, and features a heavy nod to Ferris Bueller’s day off. All in all, it’s a lot of fun. Watch on Netflix
Monday 3rd June: When They See Us
Ava DuVernay’s harrowing, vital re-telling of the Central Park Five case, which saw five black and Hispanic teens wrongfully convicted of a rape that took place in New York City in 1989. Watch on Netflix
Friday 31st May: Always Be My Maybe
Comedian Ali Wong and Randall Park (Fresh Off the Boat) are on board as stars and co-writers in this sharp and funny romcom about two childhood friends – who happened to have lost their virginity to one another – who reunite later in life. Watch out for a bonkers cameo from Keanu Reeves. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 30th May: Rim of the World
New action adventure flick from McG (Charlie’s Angels), which sees four misfits band together to save the world during an alien invasion. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 29th May: She’s Gotta Have it season 2
Spike Lee’s comedy returns for a second helping, as Nola (DeWanda Wise) attempts to remain true to her creative ideals in the wake of newfound success. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 28th May: The Perfection
Allison Williams of Girls and Get Out fame leads another buzzed-about horror about a musical prodigy who seeks out the new star pupil of her former school, and the encounter sends the two “down a sinister path”. Watch on Netflix
Friday 24th May: What/If
Renée Zelwegger stars in this neo-noir thriller that gender-flips the plot of Indecent Proposal. A pair of newlyweds take a mysterious woman up on an offer that may cause them some trouble down the line… Watch on Netflix
Thursday 23rd May: The Lonely Island Presents – The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience
Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Andy Samberg and his musical collaborators Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer are back with a brilliant “visual poem”, which is both a parody of the self-serious feature length music videos like Beyoncé’s Lemonade, and notoriously ‘roided-up baseball players Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire. The music is surprisingly good, and it’s equal parts silly and fun. Watch out for guest appearances from Sterling K Brown, Sia, Maya Rudolph, HAIM, Jenny Slate and more. Watch on Netflix
Monday 20th May: See You Yesterday
Two Brooklyn teenagers build makeshift time machines to save their brother from being wrongfully killed by a police officer. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 16th May: Good Sam
A New York-based TV reporter (The Good Place’s Tiya Sicar) sets out to discover the identity of a “Good Samaritan” who is leaving random wads of cash on doorsteps. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 15th May: RBG
Oscar-nominated documentary centred around US Supreme Court stalwart Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 14th May: The Society
New YA drama about a group of teenagers who are suddenly transported to a facsimile of their home town – only without any parents. Watch on Netflix
Friday 10th May: Wine Country
Amy Poehler’s directorial debut sees her gather fellow Saturday Night Live alumni Maya Rudolph, Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch and Ana Gasteyer together for a 50th birthday celebration in Napa Valley. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 7th May: Dead To Me
This dark comedy, revolving around two middle-aged women who meet at a grief-counselling seminar, features a big twist in the first episode, which makes it pretty difficult to go into depth about the story. But it’s a well-written, tightly-plotted series, that features a brilliant central performance from Christina Applegate as a widow and mother of two, who welcomes a new friend (Linda Cardellini) into her home despite knowing very little about her. Watch on Netflix
Friday 3rd May: Tuca & Bertie
Odd couple-style animated comedy from BoJack Horseman animator Lisa Hanawalt, centred around a toucan (Tiffany Haddish) and a songbird (Ali Wong). Watch on Netflix
Thursday 2nd May: I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
A hilarious and sometimes unsettling sketch comedy show from former Saturday Night Live writer Tim Robinson. The series features top notch guest appearances from SNL alumni like Vanessa Bayer (in the social media behaviour-skewering piece above) and Will Forte, and is produced and directed by The Lonely Island member Akiva Schaffer. If you like your comedy to waver into the absurd from time to time, this six-episode series will have something for you. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 23rd April: Bonding season 1
A New York City student moonlighting as a dominatrix enlists her gay best friend from high school to be her assistant in this dark comedy from Barry star Rightor Doyle. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 18th April: Homecoming – a film by Beyoncé
Beyoncé’s headlining performance at Coachella in 2018 was heralded as “a gobsmacking marvel of choreography and musical direction” by the New York Times. Now, you can watch the show in full, with some behind-the-scenes tidbits from the behemoth herself spliced in for good measure. Watch on Netflix
Monday 15th April: No Good Nick
Stranger Things’ Sean Astin and original Sabrina the Teenage Witch star Melissa Joan Hart lead this sitcom about a family who unwittingly welcome a young con artist into their home. Watch on Netflix
Friday 12th April: The Perfect Date
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before star Noah Centineo stars in this teen movie about a high-schooler who creates a dating app that lets him act as a stand-in boyfriend. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 11th April: You vs Wild
Netflix’s next stage in interactive TV following Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. Gear Grylls leads an adventure series where you get to decide how to keep him safe. Good luck in the wilderness… Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 9th April: Quicksand
A Swedish crime drama based on the best-selling novel of the same name, which tells the story of a student on trial for murder after a tragedy at a prep school in Stockholm. Watch on Netflix
Monday 8th April: Unicorn Store
Brie Larson’s directorial debut stars Larson and her fellow Captain Marvel actor Samuel L Jackson, and centres around a down-and-out painter who moves back in with her parents and is invited to a shop that will “test her ideas of what it really means to grow up”. Watch on Netflix
Friday 5th April: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina part two
Kiernan Shipka returns to play the young witch in a new set of episodes which promises to be “a bit more magical – and a lot sexier” than it’s predecessor. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 4th April: Doctor Foster series two
Suranne Jones and Bertie Carvel are back for five more punchy episodes of toxic vengefulness and unwise parenting in this hit BBC drama. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 2nd April: On My Block season two
The comedy about teens in inner-city South Central Los Angeles picks up after last season’s shocking cliff-hanger. Did Ruby and Olivia survive the shooting? Log in to Netflix to find out…
Wednesday 27th March: Bodyguard
The biggest drama of 2018 – starring Keeley Hawes as Britain’s Home Secretary during a period of heightened terrorist activity and Richard Madden as the man tasked with protecting her – is now on Netflix. Watch now
Monday 25 March: The OA season 2
The bonkers sci-fi drama is back. Watch on Netflix
Friday 15th March: Queer Eye season 3
Karamo Brown, Jonathan Van Ness, Antoni Porowski, Tan France and Bobby Berk are all back for season three, along with a whole new bunch of “heroes” to make over. Watch on Netflix
Monday 11th March: Formula 1 – Drive to Survive
Behind-the-scenes documentary series covering the 2018 season of the world’s biggest racing competition. Watch on Netflix
Friday 8th March: Brooklyn Nine-Nine season 5
The fifth season of Andy Samberg’s warm-hearted sitcom has finally arrived. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 7th March: Goodfellas
Martin Scorcese’s gangster epic is here for your streaming pleasure. Watch on Netflix
Monday 4th March: The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind
Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Malawi-set directorial debut, a true story about 13-year-old William Kamkwamba, who builds a wind turbine to save his village from famine. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 27th February: Mamma Mia!
This shiny, happy romantic comedy set to Abba’s greatest hits is a delightful bit of cheese, featuring Meryl Street and Amanda Seyfried as a mother and daughter on a Grecian island. Watch on Netflix
Friday 22nd February: Chef’s Table Vol 6
Hungry for even more of Netflix’s gluttonous food series, featuring table talk with the world’s greatest chefs? Watch on Netflix
Thursday 21st February: Blackadder series 1 & 2
The classic British sitcom from Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis returns to Netflix. Watch now
Tuesday 19th February: Dating Around
Netflix’s first original dating show sees one singleton go on five blind dates, which play out concurrently over the course of the episode. There are no frills here: no narrator, no talking head spots, no follow-up information, leaving the audience to read between the lines of every interaction. It’s voyeurism at its finest, featuring a handful of embarrassing moments and two genuinely jaw-dropping faux-pas that will make you shudder. Watch on Netflix
Monday 18th February: The Breaker-Upperers
Kiwi comedy (executive produced by Taika Waititi) about two cynical best friends who set up an agency designed to break couples up. Watch on Netflix
Friday 15th February: The Umbrella Academy
Ellen Page stars in the series adapted from My Chemical Romance singer Gerard Way’s comics about a dysfunctional family of superheroes who must band together to save the world. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 14th February: Dirty John
Based on the true-crime podcast of the same name, Dirty John stars Connie Britton as businesswoman Debra Newell, whose life falls apart when she is manipulated by conman John Meehan (Eric Bana). Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 13th February: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
This action-packed, sci-fi blockbuster from 2014 stars Andy Serkis and is a sequel to the 2011 film Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 12th February: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Martin Freeman plays Bilbo Baggins in this 2012 epic in which the Hobbit sets out to the Lonely Mountain with a group of dwarves to reclaim their mountain home. Watch on Netflix
Monday 11th February: ReMastered – The Two Killings of Sam Cooke
An eye-opening investigation into the shooting of legendary musician Sam Cooke. Watch on Netflix
Friday 8th February: High-Flying Bird
Steven Soderbergh movie featuring Moonlight break-out star André Holland as a high-powered sports agent. The whole film was shot on a smartphone… Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 5th February: Ray Romano – Right Here, Around the Corner
The comedian releases his first comedy special in 23 years with jokes about surviving marriage, ageing and how to choose friends. Watch on Netflix
Monday 4th February: Velvet Buzzsaw
A highly entertaining genre mash-up set in the LA art scene featuring absurd scares and plenty of scenery-munching from Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo and Toni Collette. Watch on Netflix
Friday 1st February: Russian Doll
Natasha Lyonne co-creates and stars in a brilliant black comedy about a woman who keeps dying and reliving her 36th birthday. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 31st January: Fifty Shades Darker
The second part of the lusty, pop lit s&m trilogy. Watch on Netflix
Monday 28th January: Medici – the Magnificent
One strong cast replaces another as the Anglo-Italian anthology returns. Skipping on 20 years to meet a new generation of Florence’s hottest renaissance family. Out go Richard Madden and Dustin Hoffman, in come Sarah Parish, Daniel Sharman and Bradley James. Watch on Netflix
Friday 25th January: The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt season 4 part 2
Bid farewell to Titus, Kimmy and Jacqueline in the final set of episodes. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 24th January: Conversations with a Killer: the Ted Bundy Tapes
Archive recordings made on death row with notorious serial killer Ted Bundy are combined with present-day interviews in Netflix’s latest true crime series. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 23rd January: Pitch Perfect
A musical comedy starring Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson, set in the fiercely competitive world of a cappella groups. Aca-amazing! Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 22nd January: Trigger Warning with Killer Mike
Rapper and social activist Killer Mike (one half of Run The Jewels) explores a variety of issues in this comedy documentary series. Watch on Netflix
Monday 21st January: Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened
The story of the most calamitous music festival of recent times: the island paradise escape that turned into a nightmare. Watch on Netflix
Friday 18th January: Star Trek – Discovery season 2
The ship embarks on a new mission under the command of temporary captain Christopher Pike of the Starship Enterprise. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 17th January: The Purge – Anarchy
The purge tradition carries on, as three groups intertwine in their fight to stay alive. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 15th January: Inception
Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending sci-fi about thieves who attempt to steal information from someone’s subconscious by travelling through their dreams. Watch on Netflix
Friday 11th January: Sex Education
“A socially awkward high school virgin” (Asa Butterfield), who lives with his sex therapist mother (Gillian Anderson), joins forces with a “whip-smart bad girl” to set up an underground sex therapy clinic for their fellow students. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 10th January: Pacific Rim
Robots battling giant sea monsters, Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam and Guillermo del Toro. What more could you want of a January evening in? Watch on Netflix
Friday 4th January: Tidying Up with Marie Kondo
The Japanese organisational expert helps people sort their lives out. It’s a satisfying watch that might also help you get your act together in 2019… Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 2nd January 2019: Comedians of the World
47 comedians, seven different languages, one stand-up special. I’m a Celebrity: Extra Camp presenter Joel Dommett and The Mash Report’s Nish Kumar and Ellie Taylor represent the UK. Beat the January blues with a smile. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 1st January 2019: A Series of Unfortunate Events season three
Neil Patrick Harris returns for one final instalment of the bleak and brilliant adaptation of Lemony Snicket’s novels. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 20th December: Springsteen on Broadway
The Boss brings his autobiographical stage show to Netflix. Watch now
Wednesday 19th December: The Innocent Man
Netflix’s latest true crime series has a lot to live up to. After all, the last major true crime release in December was Making a Murderer. This six-part series focuses on two murders that shocked a small town in Oklahoma during the 1980s. The story gained national attention after thriller writer John Grisham wrote his best-selling non-fiction book, The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town. Watch on Netflix
Monday 17th December: Roma
Alfonso Cuaron’s beautiful, heart-wrenching masterpiece is now available to stream. Watch it on the biggest screen you have before the awards nominations roll in. Watch on Netflix
Friday 14th December: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Christmas special
Time to bundle up with a dark midwinter tale of delight and devilry: season one of Netflix’s Sabrina has been a charm, and this is the extra tinsel to top it all off. Perfect for when the temperature drops… Watch on Netflix
Thursday 13th December: The Big Lebowski
A 1990s slacker classic from the Coen brothers, but that’s just, like, my opinion, man. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 12th December: The Holiday
A Christmas rom-com classic following Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz as they swap houses – and find love. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 11th December: Neo Yokio – Pink Christmas
Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig’s bizarre, star-studded anime is back for a special holiday episode. Watch on Netflix
Monday 10th December: Mowgli – Legend of the Jungle
Andy Serkis’ big-budget live-action take on The Jungle Book, featuring voice talent such as Benedict Cumberbatch, Cate Blanchett and Christian Bale. Watch on Netflix
Monday 3rd December: Training Day
Do you like to get wet? You can fill your boots in this thriller about a rookie narcotics officer (Ethan Hawke) who gets partnered up with a rogue detective (Denzel Washington). Watch on Netflix
Monday 26th November: The Christmas Chronicles
Kurt Russell stars as Santa Clause in Netflix’s latest holiday flick. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 20th November: The Last Kingdom season three
The first two seasons of historical drama The Last Kingdom aired on both the BBC and Netflix, but season three will now stream exclusively on Netflix. The series is based on author Bernard Cornwell’s series of novels The Saxon Stories. Watch on Netflix
Monday 19th November: The Princess Switch
Vanessa Hudgens plays dual roles in this Christmassy take on the classic rags-to-riches role reversal story. Watch on Netflix
Friday 16th November: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Coen brothers’ latest film, and Netflix’s best Oscars hope, has arrived. It’s a six-part western anthology, featuring Liam Neeson, Zoe Kazan, James Franco and more, and a couple of its segments are up there with the Coens’ best work. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 15th November: The Windsors season 1 & 2
Harry Enfield and Hugh Skinner shine in this royal family-skewering sitcom from Channel 4. Watch on Netflix
Monday 12th November: The Sinner season 2
The crime drama returns with a new cast – and a new mystery. Watch on Netflix
Friday 9th November: Outlaw King
Chris Pine leads this historical drama about how Scottish king Robert the Bruce fought back against the English. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 8th November: John Leguizamo’s Latin History for Morons
The Colombian-American actor’s Tony-nominated, one-man Broadway show takes a satirical look at 3,000 years of Latino history. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 6th November: The Holiday Calendar
An appropriately schmaltzy Christmas romcom about a photographer who inherits an antique advent calendar that seems to be pointing her towards the love of her life. Watch on Netflix
Friday 2nd November: The Other Side of the Wind
Orson Welles’ autobiographical final film has been 48 years in the making. He never got to finish it due to financial troubles, but now editor Bob Murawski, with the help of Peter Bogdanovich and Welles’ daughter, Beatrice, has done it for him. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 1st November: The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Time to immerse yourself, once again, in JRR Tolkien’s Middle Earth.
You know the drill: Frodo, Gandalf and a few pals get together to destroy a ring. It takes a little longer than expected… Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 30th October: Line of Duty series 4
Write Jed Mercurio has won whole new legions of fans for his hit BBC1 thriller Bodyguard (now on Netflix internationally), so for anyone who hasn’t yet experienced the twisting brilliance of his police corruption drama needs to catch up now. All four series of Line of Duty are now available, with series five currently in production. Watch on Netflix
Monday 29th October: A Walk Among the Tombstones
Liam Neeson continues his weary action hero schtick as troubled ex-cop Matt Scudder on the hunt for his wife’s killers. Watch on Netflix
Friday 26th October: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Riverdale creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s dark, feminist take on the Sabrina the Teenage Witch comic series, which features a star-making performance from Kiernan Shipka, best known for playing Don Draper’s fiery daughter Sally in Mad Men. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 23rd October: Nocturnal Animals
Amy Adams stars as Susan, an art gallery owner consumed by a novel penned by her estranged ex-husband Edward (Jake Gyllehaal). The book is dedicated to her, and takes a few strange turns along the way…
It’s fashion designer Tom Ford’s sumptuous second feature, and it’s well worth your time. Watch on Netflix
Monday 22nd October: Superbad
The Seminal mid-00s teen comedy, and Jonah Hill’s first leading role, lands on Netflix. Maniac shows how far he’s come… Watch here
Friday 19th October: Making a Murderer part 2
The engrossing true crime series returns with ten brand new episodes. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 18th October: The Twilight Saga
The entire history of Edward & Bella’s romance has arrived on Netflix just in time for Halloween – watch it here
Wednesday 17th October: Dynasty – season 2
The shamelessly trashy, if slightly modernised, reboot of the glossy 1980s soap about warring tycoon families is back. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 16th October: Apostle
Dan Stevens tries to save his sister from a sinister cult (led by Michael Sheen’s prophet Malcolm Howe) on a remote Welsh island in the early 20th century. Watch on Netflix
Monday 15th October: The Goonies
Stranger Things season two featured Goonies star Sean Astin, so it was only a matter of time before the film that made his name reached Netflix. Watch now
Friday 12th October: The Haunting of Hill House
The horror TV series reimagines Shirley Jackson’s classic 1959 novel. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 11th October: Salt Fat Acid Heat
Chef and food writer Samin Nosrat serves up her culinary manifesto. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 10th October: 22 July
Paul Greengrass’s harrowing account of the Norway 2011 terror attacks. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 4th October: Four Weddings and a Funeral
Richard Curtis’ seminal British romcom lands on Netflix. Watch now
Wednesday 3rd October: Operation Finale
Sir Ben Kingsley stars alongside Star Wars’ Oscar Isaac in this historical film about the bid to track down Nazi Adolf Eichmann. Watch on Netflix
Monday 1st October: Hannibal
All three seasons of the sadly cancelled horror thriller are now available to stream. It’s not the reboot fans have been desperate for, but at least it completes the set. Watch on Netflix
Friday 28th September: The Good Place season 3
A bumper edition of the hit philoso-comedy kicks off season three, with new episodes streaming on Netflix every Friday right after broadcast in the US. Watch on Netflix
Read more: The Good Place season three is here – and people are loving it
Thursday 27th September: Norsemen
The farcical Norwegian Game of Thrones parody returns. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 26th September: Marvel’s Doctor Strange
Benedict Cumberbatch’s dazzling outing as the Sorcerer Supreme arrives on Netflix, the latest in a burgeoning Marvel movie line-up on the service. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 25th September: American Vandal season two
The breakout mockumentary series returns. If the first run was a surprise hit, this time round expectations for the true crime parody are through the roof. Can it deliver? Watch on Netflix
Monday 24 September: Maniac
Emma Stone and Jonah Hill star in one of Netflix’s most peculiar and original releases of the year. The limited series features pharmaceutical trial participants Owen (Hill) and Annie (Stone) go through a series of increasingly surreal experiments in an effort to ‘cure’ their minds. Watch on Netflix
Friday 14th September: BoJack Horseman season 5
Netflix’s cult animated comedy returns for all-new episodes. Why the long face? Watch on Netflix
Read more: BoJack Horseman season 5 puts the audience on trial
Tuesday 11th September: Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Annette Bening stars as an ageing film star who falls for a young actor in this real-life romance based on Peter Turner’s memoir. Watch on Netflix
Friday 7th September: Sierra Burgess is a Loser
Shannon “Barb from Stranger Things” Purser and To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before breakout star Noah Centineo lead this modern romcom about a girl who catfishes a kind-hearted jock into falling in love with her. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 6th September: The Bletchley Circle series 1 & 2
The ITV series about former WW2 codebreakers arrives on Netflix. Watch here
Wednesday 5th September: Gangs of New York
Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day Lewis face off in 1800s NYC in this Martin Scorsese epic. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 4th September: Iron Man 1, 2 & 3
Robert Downey Jr’s fast-quipping billionaire superhero suits up to fight bad guys – seems rather quaint now in the wake of Avengers: Infinity War, doesn’t it? Watch on Netflix
Friday 31st August: Ozark – season 2
Jason Bateman and Laura Linney return to the Byrdes’ bleak hideaway in the Ozarks for more of Netflix sleeper crime hit. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 30th August: Bridget Jones’s Baby
Renée Zellweger returns to her Oscar-nominated role with gusto, as Bridget celebrates her 43rd birthday… alone again. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 29th August: Great News – season 1
A Tina Fey-produced sitcom about an up-and-coming TV news producer whose mother begins interning at her station. Watch on Netflix
Friday 24th August: The Innocents – season 1
A British supernatural series starring Sorcha Groundsell and Percell Ascott as two teenage runaways who discover an astonishing – and terrifying – gift. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 23rd August: Follow This
A new short-form documentary series following the day-to-day workings of the Buzzfeed office. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 22nd August: 20th Century Women
Greta Gerwig and Annette Bening star in this sharp, affecting coming-of-age tale about a boy raised exclusively by women in late 1970s California. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 21st August: Stay Here
Netflix’s first home makeover show is catered towards the Airbnb generation. Designer Genevieve Gorder and real estate expert Peter Lorimer teach homemakers how to launch the perfect short-stay experience. Watch on Netflix
Monday 20th August: To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before
Twitter is going crazy over this sweet YA comedy about a teenage girl who’s secret love letters are revealed to all of her crushes. Yet further proof that the romcom is alive and well. Watch on Netflix
Friday 17th August: Disenchantment – season 1
Matt Groening’s brand new adult animated comedy is set in the fantasy medieval world of Dreamland, and boasts a voice cast to die for. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 16th August: Demetri Martin – The Overthinker
The standup comic’s latest special features musings on donut holes, dogs, sports bars, and the alphabet’s most aggressive letters. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 15th August: Blackadder seasons 3& 4
Complete the set of this British comedy favourite with the final two series. Watch on Netflix
Monday 13th August: All about the Washingtons season 1
Rapper and actor Rev Run’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. Run and his wife Justine star as fictionalised versions of themselves in this new comedy series about their attempts at balancing work, romance and family chaos. Watch on Netflix
Friday 10th August: Insatiable season 1
The trailer for this new comedy inspired outrage when it was first released, with viewers accusing the show of ‘fat-shaming‘. Will the series itself prove more nuanced? Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 7th August: Better Call Saul – season 4
Bob Odenkirk returns to his lauded role as Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman in the show’s fourth season premiere. New episodes will stream every week. Watch on Netflix
Monday 6th August: Loving Vincent
A remarkable cinematic endeavour: the first fully ‘painted’ movie, comes to Netflix a year after its theatrical release.
Friday 3rd August: Like Father
The Good Place’s Kristen Bell and Frasier’s Kelsey Grammer combine in this comedy about a jilted bride who ends up on her honeymoon cruise with her estranged father. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 1st August: A Fish Called Wanda
Monty Python alumni John Cleese and Michael Palin team up with Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline to rob a bank in London in this classic comedy. Watch on Netflix
Monday 30th July: The Bleeding Edge
A documentary about the dangers of America’s profit-driven medical device industry. Watch on Netflix
Friday 27th July: Orange is the New Black – season 6
ONe of Netflix’s first original drama hits returns, in the wake of a fifth series that was devoted to a prison riot and which fans, critics and even some of the show’s creators agreed was not a complete success. The aftermath of that cataclysm brings with it a chance to refocus. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 26th July: Jackie
Natalie Portman narrowly missed out on her second Academy Award for her incredible performance as Jackie Kennedy Onassis in this biopic. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 24th July: Last Chance U – season 3
A new season of the NFL sports documentary centred around Independent Community College in Kansas. Watch on Netflix
Friday 20th July: Final Space – season 1
David Tennant stars as the baddie in this wacky sci-fi animation series from producer Conan O’Brien. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 19th July: Suits season 8
It’s all-change as the legal drama enters its 8th season. Katherine Heigl makes her debut in the premiere, which now has a Meghan Markle-shaped hole in it following her departure to become a royal. Her on-screen husband, Patrick J Adams, has left too – but the lawyer banter is much the same. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 18th July: An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Al Gore released this follow-up to his Oscar-winning documentary in 2017, and his message of action on climate change feels all the more urgent following the election of US president Donald Trump. As the trailer above makes clear, the documentary has a clear target. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 17th July: Sugar Rush
An Americanised Bake Off, with everything turned up to eleven. Bakers face off against one another another in timed challenges to compete for a $10,000 prize. Watch on Netflix
Monday 16th July: Sherlock – series 4
Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Watson’s (Martin Freeman) latest – and darkest – adventures arrive on Netflix. Watch now
Friday 13th July: How It Ends
A new original film in which a man and his father-in-law (played by Forest Whittaker) race across the country as the apocalypse looms to be reunited with his pregnant wife. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 12th July: Somebody Feed Phil season 1 – part 2
Some much needed comfort food. TV producer-turned food tourist Phil Rosenthal travels around the world testing out the cuisine and cultural delights one city at a time – this time around in Dublin, Venice, Copenhagen and New York. It’s pleasant, easy watching. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 11th July: Drug Lords season 2
Netflix’s documentary about the real-life Pablo Escobars of the world continues with new episodes on El Chapo, Jemeker Thompson, Christopher Coke and Klaas Bruinsma. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 10th July: A Ghost Story
A stark and moving indie starring Rooney Mara as a widow and Casey Affleck (donning a cartoonish bedsheet that is NOT played for laughs) as the ghost of her husband. It’s a meditation on death and the passing of time, and it features a scene in which the grief-stricken (and vegan IRL) Mara eats an entire pie in one take, which is worthy of a clatter of awards in itself. Watch on Netflix
Monday 9th July: Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Jerry Seinfeld’s low-key chat show is back with guests Ellen DeGeneres, Zach Galifianakis, Dave Chappelle and more. Watch on Netflix
Friday 6th July: Sacred Games – season 1
A sprawling, seething drama, made by Netflix in India and based on Vikram Chanda’s 2006 state-of-the-nation novel. A phone call from a presumed dead gangster to a disillusioned cop kicks off a story painting a layered picture of boiling, corrupt Mumbai, now and in the past. It aims high, and has enough cinematic panache to carry it off. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 5th July: Good Girls – season 1
New comedy drama series about three suburban mums who orchestrate a supermarket heist, starring Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks and Parks and Recreation’s Retta. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 3rd July: Wind River
Local hunter Jeremy Renner and fish-out-of-water FBI agent Elizabeth Olsen team up to track down the killer of a young native American girl on a reservation in Wyoming in this chiller from Sicario and Hell or High Water scribe Taylor Sheridan. Watch on Netflix
Monday 2nd July: The Fast and the Furious 1-5
Burning rubber, Vin Diesel, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson… the multi-billion-dollar franchise arrives on Netflix – watch it here
Thursday 28th June: Doctor Who Season 10 Christmas Special
Relive the Christmas Special from Peter Capaldi’s last season as the Doctor. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 27th June: Denial
Moving true story about Deborah Lipstadt (played by Rachel Weisz), an American historian who was sued by David Irving for libel and had to prove to a British court that the Holocaust had happened. Watch on Netflix
Friday 22nd June: Luke Cage season 2
Luke Cage, the “bulletproof black man”, is back. Netflix’s most accessible and distinctive Marvel series yet returns with Mike Colter, Simone Missick, and newcomer Mustafa Shakir. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 21st June: Star Trek Beyond
The third instalment of JJ Abrams Star Trek reboot film series starring Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 20th June: The Vietnam War
A humongous ten-parter by highly revered documentarist Ken Burns – type his name into the Netflix search box to see some of his vast catalogue of work, including the 1990 classic The Civil War – and his regular collaborator Lynn Novick, first shown on BBC4 last year. In meticulously harvesting as many sources and perspectives as possible, it’s sprawling and murky, just like the morass of tragedies it records. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 19th June: Set It Up
This new romcom starring Zoey Deutch and Glen Powell (alongside Lucy Liu and Taye Diggs) is being lauded for harking back to the days when Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan led the genre – and it’s creating quite a buzz on Twitter. Watch on Netflix
Friday 15th June: Queer Eye season 2
Get the Kleenex out – the Fab Five are back for another round of make-overs, this time taking in a woman and a member of the trans community. It’s joyous and uplifting – reality TV at its best. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 13th June: Champions – season 1
Mindy Kaling returns with a new sitcom. She’s Priya, the mother of a 15-year-old who leaves Ohio to live with the father he’s never known in New York, but the star is JJ Totah as the boy, a whip-tongued musical theatre obsessive who shakes up the daily life of his dad, a jock-ish gym owner. The rapid cultural references should please fans of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt or Kaling’s old show The Mindy Project. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 12th June: Planet Earth II
David Attenborough’s moving documentary series arrives on Netflix after debuting on the BBC in 2016. Watch on Netflix
Monday 11th June: Sense8 – The Finale
Netflix’s cult hit, culled before its time, is back for one last hurrah – and to save the world, probably. Watch on Netflix
Friday 8th June: The Staircase
The story of Michael Peterson, who was convicted in 2003 of murdering his wife, but insisted she’d simply fallen down the stairs, has been told on TV before: BBC4’s Storyville covered it in 2005 and updated it in 2013. Netflix now has further new episodes. If you’re new to the story, this is your fresh true-crime obsession: you’ll keep changing your mind as a tale unravels of lies, coincidence and the ripple effect of a trial verdict. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 7th June: Ghostbusters (2016)
Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig lead this very enjoyable all-female remake of the 1980s classic. Watch out for a brilliant comedic performance from Avengers star Chris Hemsworth. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 6th June: You Me Her – season 3
The polyamorous relationship drama returns for a third helping. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 5th June: November 13 – Attack on Paris
Jules and Gédéon Naudet, the film-makers who witnessed the 11 September 2001 attacks on New York and documented them in 9/11, turn their attention to another date that, in France, is branded on the public’s memory: 13 November 2015, when terrorists the Stade de France, the Bataclan and elsewhere. Forty survivors recall what happened, and how they’ve tried to live since. Watch on Netflix
Monday 4th June: MirrorMask
Author Neil Gaiman and director Dave McKean’s fantastic, fantastical 2005 film is a visual treat. Produced by the Jim Henson Company, the story follows a 15-year-old girl who travels to a strange dimension to restore balance to the world. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 31st May: My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman – Howard Stern
There are shades of sardonic comedian/ podcast host Marc Maron’s infamous discussion with old friend and now disgraced comedian Louis CK in this episode of the US chat show host’s Netflix series. As seen in the clip above, the long-serving US radio host feels he owes Letterman an apology for how he behaved when the two were younger. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 30th May: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt – season 4
She’s back! Ellie Kemper returns as former hostage Kimmy, now a naively upbeat New Yorker. The impact of the character has dissipated since the sitcom’s debut, so perhaps its right that this fourth series is to be the last – but before she goes, Kimmy’s unusual approach to office etiquette looks likely to see her off on a comic high. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 29th May: Arrested Development – season 5
The Bluths return for more self-referential gags and innuendos five years after the last season dropped – a bit old and none the wiser. Watch on Netflix
Monday 28th May: The Break with Michelle Wolf
The former Daily Show correspondent gets her own weekly half-hour series. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 24th May: Fauda season 2
The Israeli political drama returns. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 23rd May: Top Gear
Amazon may have The Grand Tour, but Netflix is close behind with the latest series of BBC’s Top Gear. Matt LeBlanc, Rory Reid and Chris Harris really shifted up a gear when series 25 aired earlier this year. If you missed it first time round on the BBC, now might be the time to give the trio another chance. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 22nd May: Tig Notaro – Happy To Be Here
A new standup special from the brilliant comedian. Watch on Netflix
Monday 21st May: Cargo
A tender, heartbreaking Netflix Original film set amidst a viral outbreak (the zombifying kind) in the Australian outback. Martin Freeman, as ever, is fantastic as a father trying to safeguard his infant daughter’s passage in a hostile world. Watch on Netflix
Friday 18th May: 13 Reasons Why season 2
The controversial teen drama returns for a second season to deal with the aftermath of the suicide of Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford). Watch on Netflix
Thursday 17th May: A Little Help with Carol Burnett
The comedy veteran hosts a curious mix of chat show and kids saying the funniest things. Each episode sees a TV star – Lisa Kudrow, Taraji P Henson, Finn Wolfhard – present a moral dilemma, on which they’re advised by a panel of sassy primary schoolers. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 16th May: Bill Nye Saves the World – season 3
The excessively genial scientist returns with another series of explainers on the universe’s biggest topics. If the corny jokes and hysterically enthused studio audience ever get you down, there’s always an on-location report on its way to offer respite with some harder science (including the above from supermodel Karlie Kloss). And beneath the studied wackiness, Nye is a formidable crusader for facts that really matter. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 15th May: Ali Wong – Hard Knock Wife
Standup comedian Ali Wong performs her fantastic second special while heavily pregnant. Watch on Netflix
Monday 14th May: The Kissing Booth
This romantic teen comedy has an incredible following – and it’s even more surprising when you discover the book it was based on was written by a 15-year-old. Newport author Beth Reekles said it was “surreal” seeing her story about a girl who falls for a hot guy (who also happens to be her best friend’s brother) on Netflix. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 10th May: Safe
Michael C Hall and Amanda Abbington star in this twisting Manchester-set crime thriller. Watch on Netflix
Read more: Netflix’s Safe is soapy, silly and oddly gripping
Wednesday 9th May: Dear White People vol.2
The second season of the US comedy drama about black students fighting microcosmic political battles at a posh university. The show, based on the film of the same name, is acidly funny and touching. Watch on Netflix
Friday 4th May: The Rain
Netflix’s first Danish original series is a grim yet gripping dystopian sci-fi series, following a group of young survivors after a deadly disease devastates the population. The disease is seemingly carried in the rain; Brits would be screwed. Watch on Netflix
Read more: Netflix doubles down on dubbing with new Danish series The Rain – but is it the right strategy?
Thursday 3rd May: Roberto Saviano: Writing Under Police Protection
Meet Roberto Saviano, the man who took on the Mafia. If you’ve ever watched crime drama Gomorrah, you’ll know Saviano’s work: that series was inspired by his in-depth exposé of how organised crime operates in Naples, Italy. Ever since the book was published in 2006, he’s needed constant protection. Italian director and presenter Pierfrancesco Diliberto tracks him down. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 2nd May: Prime Suspect
Vintage British crime drama comes to Netflix UK this month, with all seven series of Prime Suspect starring Helen Mirren and recent prequel series Prime Suspect: 1973 added to the service. It’s not the only ITV series to be added either: Cold Feet and the recent Maigret adaptations starring Rowan Atkinson are both available too. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 1st May: John Mulaney – Kid Gorgeous at Radio City
New standup special from the hilarious former SNL writer. Watch on Netflix
Monday 30th April: Bobby Kennedy for President
Docuseries examining the continuing influence of JFK’s brother, who was murdered in 1968. Watch on Netflix
Friday 27th April: The Week Of
Adam Sandler and Chris Rock join forces for Netflix’s latest original comedy. The movie follows two dads in the week leading up to the wedding of their kids. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 26th April: Happy! season 1
Dark comedy series about a boozy hit man who thinks he’s losing his marbles when a cartoon unicorn only he can see urges him to rescue a girl kidnapped by Santa. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 25th April: Kevin James: Never Don’t Give Up
The star of US sitcom King of Queens and Kevin Can Wait returns to stand-up with this first comedy special in 17 years – the perfect “family friendly” comedy set. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 24th April: The Letdown – season 1
Aussie comedy-drama following a young mother navigating life with a newborn baby. Watch on Netflix
Monday 23rd April: Mercury 13
Documentary profiling women who were tested in 1961 for spaceflight, but had their dreams dashed when only men were chosen to become astronauts. Watch on Netflix
Friday 20th April: The Alienist – season 1
Dakota Fanning is the NYPD’s feisty lone female in a lush drama, set in 1896 and based on Caleb Carr’s 1994 novel. After the discovery of a gruesomely murdered boy, the cops allow an unconventional investigation, also featuring the pioneering psychologist of the title (Daniel Brühl), in what’s essentially a standard “mavericks track a maniac” serial-killer story with period trappings. What trappings, though! The world built here makes Ripper Street look cheap. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 19th April: The Chalet – season 1
A French take on the old story of friends who regret choosing a remote cabin as a holiday destination. A gang of attractive pals reunite in the very picturesque Alps, but immediately their idyll is smashed by bear traps, collapsing bridges, severed phone lines and somebody shooting at them. Old secrets from their shared past? Check. One of the group might be the killer? Mais Oui. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 18th April: Monty Python’s Flying Circus
The programme that simultaneously invented and subverted the modern sketch show. If you’re not a Python nut, what’ll surprise you is the number of risky, difficult sketches you’d forgotten. As well as every other BBC series, completists can also plough through a pile of compilations, live gigs and spin-offs, including the German specials Fliegender Zirkus. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 17th April: Chef’s Table – Pastry
This mesmerising spin-off of Netflix’s glossy documentary series sees four top-notch pastry chefs explaining the inspiration behind their creations – showstoppers to make Bake Off blush. Watch on Netflix
Monday 16th April: Come Sunday
Chiewtel Ejiofor stars as Carlton Pearson, a charismatic preacher who has a radical revelation: that heaven is for all, and hell does not exist. His epiphany was met with fury from some in his congregation, but he continues to deliver his new message. The true life movie was first shown during the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, but is now released on Netflix. Watch on Netflix
Friday 13th April: Lost in Space – season 1
The Robinsons are like many families – bantering, bonding and bickering – except they’ve crash-landed on a remote planet in the year 2046… Unlike the campy 1960s sci-fi, this measured and engaging reboot isn’t played for laughs. The opener is a Jenga tower of jeopardies but the series soon settles into a blend of grabby action, intelligent flashbacks and subtle emotional beats. Promising. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 12th April: Ram Dass, Going Home
Documentary short on the 87-year-old guru and author of seminal spirituality how-to Be Here Now (1971), as he reflects on life, death and meditation in his twilight years. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 11th April: Greg Davies – Magnificent Beast
Taskmaster host Greg Davies brings his latest standup tour to Netflix. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 10th April: Fastest Car
Is this Netflix’s answer to Amazon’s The Grand Tour? The new motoring series sees three souped-up “sleeper” cars go head-to-head with one of the world’s most sought-after supercars. Watch on Netflix
Monday 9th April: 6 Balloons
Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson stars as Katie, a woman who discovers her brother (Dave Franco), a recovering heroin addict, has relapsed. Watch on Netflix
Friday 6th April: My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with Jay-Z
Legendary rapper and business mogul Jay-Z sits down with equally accomplished chat show host David Letterman for an intimate discussion that will touch upon Trump’s America, his alleged feud with longtime collaborator and friend Kanye West and his marriage to the Queen of America, Beyoncé. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 5th April: The Great British Bake Off
Bake Off’s smooth transition to Channel 4 doesn’t mean we’ll ever stop cherishing the glory years with Paul, Mary, Mel and Sue. All seven BBC series are now available to watch again, from the pastry bicycle and the bread lion to the binned Baked Alaska. Happy days. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 4th April: American Psycho
The beginning of April is jam-packed with great movie additions, including Christian Bale’s pathological killer Patrick Bateman. Watch on Netflix
Monday 3rd April: Jaws
Head back into the water with this movie classic, available on Netflix from April. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 29th March: Alexa & Katie
Children in their early teens or below who lap up YA novels will go for this wholesome sitcom, about two girls who are about to embark on their journey through high school together – a friendship strengthened by one undergoing cancer treatment and the other vowing to stick by her every step of the way. As both a ribtickler and a tearjerker it’s a gentle proposition, but it’ll suit if you fancy some hugging and learning with the whole family. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 28th March: Game Over, Man!
A comedy crime caper from the team behind US sitcom Workaholics. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 27th March: Prisoners
A dark, traumatic thriller about child abduction from Denis Villeneuve, the visionary director behind recent sci-fi gems Blade Runner 2049. Hugh Jackman is at his brutal best as a father who goes to desperate lengths to administer his own justice after his daughter goes missing. Jake Gyllenhaal also stars. Watch on Netflix
Monday 26th March: Santa Clarita Diet season 2
Drew Barrymore returns as the flesh-craving suburban zombie for more horror comedy weirdness. Tuck in. Watch on Netflix
Friday 23rd March: The Defiant Ones
Rapper Dr Dre and label boss Jimmy Iovine are business partners, having both enjoyed rapid rises through their own sectors of the music industry. This twin bio tells a tale of the drive and insecurities behind dreamers who had what it took. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 22nd March: The Standups season 2
Six comedy stars get their first shot at a worldwide audience with a 30-minute slot on this series. Acts in season 2 include Rachel Feinstein (Trainwreck) and the hilarious Aparna Nancherla, who is no stranger to Netflix – she appeared as a ramen blogger in Master of None season 2 and voiced BoJack’s daughter Hollyhock in the latest season of BoJack Horseman. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 21st March: Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments
The supernatural series is back for season three, airing weekly on Netflix in the UK right after its US broadcast. The first episode sees the introduction of new Big Bag Lilith, aka ‘the Mother of all Demons’, played by Arrow star Anna Hopkins. Hellishly good. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 20th March: Wild Wild Country
A six-part documentary that, once the methodical first episode is out of the way, keeps springing jaw-dropping surprises. In 1981, guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and thousands of his acolytes suddenly made Antelope, Oregon their home. Cult members, traumatised locals and, most fascinatingly, Bhagwan’s combative and elusive deputy are interviewed about the chaos that ensued. Watch on Netflix
Monday 19th March: Take Your Pills
A sweat-inducing documentary about the US prescription drug industry and the people who are prescribed them. Medicines designed to combat ADH and other attention issues are part of a raging debate across the Atlantic right now, and this documentary has only added to the fire. Watch on Netflix
Friday 16th March: On My Block
An LA coming of age comedy about four awkward teens making their way through a tough neighbourhood. A refreshingly diverse cast and endearing writing could make this your next quick-fire binge. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 15th March: Dynasty
The unashamedly trashy reboot continues after a short break. New episodes drop every Saturday, just after their US broadcast. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 14th March: Terrace House: Opening New Doors: Part 1
A Japanese reality show with a difference. If Celebrity Big Brother is all about finding the most fractious people in the world and throwing them together, this series is a little more, well, convivial. Six strangers live together, love sometimes, occasionally argue, and generally sort out their problems. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 13th March: Ricky Gervais – Humanity
The Office creator returns to the stage with his first standup special in seven years. Watch on Netflix
Monday 12th March: Annihilation
Netflix’s best original film in ages – Alex Garland’s existentialist sci-fi, which sees Natalie Portman lead an all-female expedition into an extra-terrestrial entity that is spreading across the earth, threatening widespread destruction. Read our review, and watch it on Netflix here.
Friday 9th March: Love season 3
The third and final series of a defiantly unsentimental romcom starts with its characters, awkward Gus (Paul Rust) and unstable Mickey (Gillian Jacobs) at the make-or0break stage in their relationship. A simple happy ending would e anathema to a show that revels in cynicism, messy reality and never taking the easy path. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 8th March: Jessica Jones season 2
This Marvel adaptation remains the one to start with if your interest in superheroes is minimal. Krysten Ritter is fiercely excellent as a misanthropic private investigator who, in the tumultuous and daring first series, was given reason to be angry. She keeps the show on track as the second run, understandably, at first takes time to take stock. Read our spoiler-free review here. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 7th March: Bullet Head
Adrien Brody. John Malkovich. Antonio Banderas. With an eclectic cast like that, is it weird that a dog upstages them all? The crime thriller tells the story of three career criminals who are trapped in a warehouse with a vicious canine. Reservoir Dogs… with actual dogs. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 6th March: Gad Elmaleh: American Dream
The wildly popular French comedian performs his first English language set. If you love podcasts, his story of trying to break America is a must listen. Watch on Netflix
Monday 5th March: Calvary
Darkly comic drama about a Catholic priest in the west of Ireland (the brilliant Brendan Gleeson) who’s life is anonymously threatened by a member of his community. Watch on Netflix
Friday 2nd March: Flint Town
A powerful documentary series telling the story of Flint, Michigan through the eyes of both its beleaguered police force and the citizens who have lost faith in law enforcement. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 1st March: Designated Survivor season 2
As the Beast from the East bites, get addicted to this West Wing-meets-24 treat from the US. New episodes of Designated Survivor starring Kiefer Sutherland are released on Netflix in the UK every Thursday following their US broadcasts. However, if you haven’t watched it yet, all 21 episodes from the first season are already available. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 28th February: 10 Cloverfield Lane
John Goodman keeps Mary Elizabeth Winstead captive in an underground shelter, allegedly for her own good, after a widespread chemical attack. But does he have sinister intentions? It’s easily the best of the Cloverfield Bunch. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 27th February: Derren Brown – The Push
The master manipulator brings his last Channel 4 special (previously known as Pushed to the Edge) to Netflix. It finds him orchestrating a scenario in which an unwitting member of the public is willed to commit murder. Watch on Netflix
Monday 26th February: Ugly Delicious – season 1
A funny, earthy travelogue that travels the globe looking for the best, simplest comfort food, finding the best exponents of classic dishes like barbecued meat or pizza. But it has a wider purpose, tracking the political impact of fusion and multi-ethnic cookery. An episode about fried rice, for example, becomes an intriguing essay on Chinese-American culture. Watch on Netflix
Sunday 25th February: The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale
Netflix’s comedy sketch and entertainment show streams weekly with a new episode released every Sunday. Community star Joel McHale leads with Bridesmaids director Paul Feig as exec producer. This week Frozen and The Good Place star Kristen Bell guest stars. Watch on Netflix
Saturday 24th February: Seven Seconds
The death of a 15-year-old African American teenager in Jersey leads to police cover-up and conspiracy in this new Netflix Original TV series. The provocative drama is created by Veena Sud, the showrunner responsible for adapting Danish hit The Killing for the US. Watch on Netflix
Friday 23rd February: Mute
Director Duncan Jones has finally found a home for Mute, a labour of love in the vein of his brilliant sci-fi chamber piece Moon. The film follows Alexander Skarsgard (Big Little Lies) as Leo – a bartender who is unable to speak as a result of a childhood accident – on a search for his missing girlfriend. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 22nd February: The Interview
Ah, the halcyon days of 2014, when the greatest threat to international relations between North Korea and the USA was this comedy from James Franco and Seth Rogen, who star as a TV show and producer wrapped up in a CIA plot to assassinate Kim Jong-Un. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 21st February: Brave Miss World
This deeply affecting documentary tells the story of Linor Abargil, an Israeli beauty pageant contestant who was raped in the weeks leading up to her Miss World win at the age of 18. It explores the way in which the assault changed the course of her life, and follows her as she helps rape survivors around the world to tell their story. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 20th February: Hellboy
Guillermo del Toro took home the best director award at the Baftas on Sunday – overdue recognition for his 30-plus year career, which is dotted with gothic romance gems like Crimson Peak and otherworldly fairytales like Pan’s Labyrinth and Shape of Water. Here, he puts his spin on comic book hero/demon Hellboy. It’s a good chance to catch up with this before the upcoming David Harbour-fronted reboot relegates it to obscurity. Watch on Netflix
Monday 19th February: FullMetal Alchemist
A live action adaptation of the hit Japanese manga series, FullMetal Alchemist is part of Netflix’s huge expansion of Japanese Original content. The win for Japanese viewers is a win for the rest of us too – dive straight in to the new movie or check out the original series first. Watch on Netflix
Friday 16th February: Everything Sucks!
This retro reference heavy comedy drama follows a group of misfit high school teens and their equally misfit parents in Oregon in 1996. It’s all here: geeks, freaks, girls, paper fortune tellers, and really slow internet… Just be glad you’re not trying to watch on dial-up. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 15th February: Chris Rock – Tambourine
“You’d think every once in a while the cops would shoot a white kid just to make it look good,” Rock says at the beginning of his first standup special in 10 years. He’s unafraid, as ever, to find humour in serious topics. He doesn’t let himself off the hook, touching upon his infidelity and his addiction to pornography. It’s a brilliant, at times brutal, hour of comedy. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 14th February: The Pursuit of Happyness
Will Smith reins in his customary exuberance to deliver a beautifully understated performance as real-life San Francisco father Chris Gardner, who, in the 1980s, battled against astonishing adversity to achieve his American Dream. Gardner’s child is brilliantly played by Smith’s real-life son Jaden. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 13th February: The Peanuts Movie
Sixty-five years after US cartoonist Charles M Schulz first created Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy and the rest of the Peanuts pack, and 35 years since the most recent feature release, they finally make a return to cinemas with this cute and charmingly computer-generated outing. Watch on Netflix
Monday 12th February: Seeing Allred
A glimpse into the world of American women’s rights attorney Gloria Allred, who, across a 40 year career has taken on Donald Trump, Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein. Watch on Netflix
Friday 9th February: My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman: George Clooney
The second episode in David Letterman’s laid back long form interview show: actor George Clooney is a suave follow-up to the opening exchange with Barack Obama. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 8th February: 8 Mile
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy. There’s vomit on his sweater already, mom’s spaghetti – Eminem’s hip hop origin movie has arrived on Netflix. Watch here
Wednesday 7th February: Queer Eye
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is back – with a brand new ‘Fab Five’. The cult US reality series returns for a brand new run of eight episodes. Find out more about the series and the five new stars here. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 6th February: Fred Armisen – Standup for Drummers
A very niche standup special from former Saturday Night Live cast-member and impersonation maestro Fred Armisen. Watch on Netflix
Monday 5th February: The Cloverfield Paradox
No marketing, no prior warning – just one trailer released during the Super Bowl, and that’s it. A multimillion dollar movie available instantly. Does the film hang together? Well, probably not. But when the tease is this good, that probably won’t stop you watching it, will it? Watch on Netflix
Friday 2nd February: Coach Snoop
Notoriously hedonistic rapper Snoop Dogg displays his socially aware side in a heart-warming reality-doc. Snoop mentors disadvantaged LA boys playing in a football (American) league that he has inaugurated himself. Can he stop them making the mistakes he made as a youth? Watch on Netflix
Thursday 1st February: Damnation – season 1
A farmers’ strike in 1930s Iowa is the setting for a drama about the eternal battle between haves and have-nots. It trots through themes of wealth, power, sex and violence like countless other dramas, but it has a grand old time doing it and looks grimly stylish. In the cast are Killian Scott – Augustus Dove in Ripper Street – as a fiery preacher and Melinda Page Hamilton as a ruthless strikebearer-for-hire. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 31st January: Despicable Me 2
The minions and Gru return for more inventive visual gags. Oh, and there’s a fart gun too. Modern comedy legends Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig provide the voice talent. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 30th January: One Day at a Time – season 2
Series two of the sitcom revival based on the CBS show that ran for nine seasons in the 1970s and 80s. Justina Machado is a force of nature as Penelope, a Cuban-American single mom with kids who are rapidly growing up. It’s a near-perfect family sitcom, easily mixing modern sensibilities with traditional studio-sitcom presentation. Watch on Netflix
Monday 29th January: Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Soon-to-be Oscar winner Gary Oldman stars as the titular vampire in Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of the classic novel. Watch on Netflix
Friday 26th January: A Futile and Stupid Gesture
Netflix’s latest original movie tells the story of National Lampoon founder Doug Kenney. His bright idea started life as a uni magazine but by the late 70s had become a comedy giant.
“Kenney was at the centre of the 70’s comedy counter-culture which gave birth to Saturday Night Live and a whole generation’s way of looking at the world,” says the Netflix spiel. Judging by the trailer above, the man himself isn’t quite as sold on the hyperbole… Watch on Netflix
Thursday 25th January: Joy
Jennifer Lawrence is magnetic in this fizzing feminist dramedy about real-life inventor and entrepreneur Joy Mangano, directed by David O Russell. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 24th January: Todd Glass: Act Happy
US stand-up comedian Todd Glass may not be a big name in the UK, but his intimate set complete with live band is just the show to seek out if you want to know what’s hot in US comedy. It’s a hell of a performance, independent and fresh and full of the kind of audience interaction that should have everyone upping their game. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 23rd January: Black Lightning – season 1
A TV transfer for the DC comic about a school principal in a rough urban area who would rather not use his ability to generate and manipulate electricity. Has the soapy gloss of The Flash and Riverdale, but the racial politics of the character and hte set-up are intact, as he faces up to gang violence and police brutality. Watch on Netflix
Monday 22nd January: Fargo – season 3
The Minnesota-based anthology series returns with another alluring mystery and a new batch of actors including Ewan McGregor, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and David Thewlis. Watch on Netflix
Friday 19th January: Drug Lords
Like Narcos? Obviously. Well, now delve into the real stories behind Pablo Escobar and his infamous ‘peers’ with this new documentary series. The series features testimony from those affected by these crime bosses – and the people tasked with bringing them down. Made by ITN Productions, the company behind award-winning Channel 4 Syria war documentary Children on the Frontline. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 18th January: The Secret Agent
Toby Jones’s hangdog expression is just perfect for this dark, dour and gripping BBC adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s novel. Jones plays Verloc, a Russian spy in Victorian London who is about to get in too deep, betraying his wife (Line of Duty star Vicky McClure) as he falls. Watch on Netflix
Read more: Vicky McClure on corsets, Soho sex shops and (not) being a secret agent
Wednesday 17th January: Rita season 4
The Danish comedy drama follows ‘unconventional’ (read: weird) primary school teacher and single mother. The fourth season has just landed on Netflix, and is proof that Danish TV isn’t all about Wallander and gruesome murder mysteries. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 16th January: Homeland – season 6
Get your fix of the CIA-centric drama, which stars Claire Danes as bipolar operative Carrie Mathison, before the new season kicks off on Channel 4 next month. Season 6 sees a new, female president sworn in – though she must battle senior CIA officers with their own agenda. Watch on Netflix
Monday 15th January: Eye in the Sky
Helen Mirren stars as an army officer in this tense thriller about the moral implications of drone strikes. Also features Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul, and the final on-screen role of the late Alan Rickman. Watch on Netflix
Friday 12th January: My Next Guest Needs No Introduction
David Letterman is back with a big fluffy beard and a monthly interview series on Netflix. His first guest is former US president Barack Obama, and he does his best to keep the standard up from there: George Clooney, Tina Fey, Jay Z, Howard Stern and Malala Yousafzai. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 11th January: Good Time
Robert Pattinson leads this chaotic and inventive crime thriller about a bank robber trying to break his mentally challenged younger brother out of jail. Watch on Netflix
Wednesday 10th January: Jiro Dreams of Sushi
A thoughtful doc about an 85-year-old sushi chef who owns a 10-seat, 3 Michelin-starred, $280 per plate restaurant in a Tokyo subway station. If you’re looking for inspiration to perfect your craft, whatever the field may be, look no further. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 9th January: Concussion
Will Smith stars as the pathologist who discovers the alarming extent to which American Football injuries can be linked to brain damage. The 2015 drama based on a real story also stars Alex Baldwin and Gugu Mbatha-Raw. Watch on Netflix
Monday 8th January: Star Trek: Discovery
Back after its mid-season break, new episodes of Star Trek: Discovery will land on Netflix in the US less than 24 hours after its US broadcast. There are six new episodes to come, with a second season already confirmed. Watch on Netflix
Read more: What’s happened so far in Star Trek: Discovery – and what could happen in Chapter 2?
Sunday 7th January: The End of the F***ing World
First released on Channel 4 in 2017, now available globally on Netflix, the comedy follows loner and possible psychopath James and new arrival Alyssa on a peculiar and peculiarly British road trip. Watch on Netflix
Read more: The End of the F***ing World review – an effing triumph
Saturday 6th January: Rotten
Not one to watch with your dinner on your lap. Rotten takes a cold, hard look at the global food industry, and exactly what it takes to keep a meat-hungry, binge-eating populace in bread. The US is its focus, but where their food industry leads, the rest of the world follows. We should all take note. Watch on Netflix
Friday 5th January: Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Jerry Seinfeld’s does-what-it-says-on-the-tin chat show started out as a YouTube series, but with big guests guaranteed the series quickly motored on to Netflix. All 59 existing episodes dropped on 5th January, with more on their way later this year. Watch on Netflix
Thursday 4th January: The Good Place
New episodes of this confident, sharp comedy hit Netflix UK every week, fresh from the States where it’s pretty much the most talked about show on TV. Kristen Bell stars as the not-exactly-good but now definitely dead Eleanor Shellstrop, who, thanks to a bureaucratic mix-up, has found herself in a secular heaven – ‘The Good Place’ – rather than ‘The Bad Place’ where she was meant to have been sent.
But that’s just the setup for a series that isn’t afraid to take viewers in some surprising directions. The whole of the first season is available now, with new season two episodes dropping every Friday. Watch on Netflix
Read more: You’re going to love The Good Place on Netflix – but you’re going to have to watch the whole thing
Wednesday 3rd January: He Named Me Malala
An intimate documentary portrait of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, who was shot and severely wounded by the Taliban when returning home on her school bus in Pakistan’s Swat Valley. The opening animation above is a delight, and just one of a number of beautiful designs that lift this movie. Animation designer John Carpenter won an Emmy for his work in 2016. Watch on Netflix
Tuesday 2nd January: Lovesick season 3
Love, happiness, disappointment, awkward British social situations – UK comedy Lovesick has it all. It also has one of the most quietly impressive casts around, from singer/songwriter/actor Johnny Flynn, Daniel Ings (recently making big waves as Commander Mike Parker in The Crown, and Misfits star Antonia Thomas. The series began life on Channel 4 as Scrotal Recall, and there’s still some of that slightly icky original title here – but, ultimately, it’s way more sweet than sour. Watch on Netflix
Monday 1st January 2018: Friends
The One We’ve All Been Waiting For. Netflix users in the US have been able to stream Friends for years, but the comedy series has been out of bounds to UK subscribers. Until now. Watch on Netflix
Read more: What are the funniest EVER moments on Friends – and which episodes do they appear in?
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