RELATED: The 15 Best Movies Coming to Netflix This Month. In this new Netflix sitcom, Emily Osment plays a smartypants who moves in with her more happy-go-lucky sister (Olivia Macklin) and her three equally anti-intellectual roommates. While lots of the laughs come out of booksmarts colliding with Instagram influencers, the comedy is also focused on the strengthening bond between siblings who always thought they were too different to really connect. The strangest Netflix matchmaking show is back with a second season. Sexy Beasts takes the concept of blind dates to the extreme, with singles donning animal and creature masks for their meet-cutes. Imagine getting to tell that story to your grandchildren. If you’re a baking show stan, you’ve seen it happen: a gorgeous creation folds, collapses, or totally falls apart before it can be judged. Well, now there’s a show devoted solely to the kinds of cakes that can stand up to any circumstances. Baking Impossible gives each team of bakers an engineer to help them design their edible works of art, then subjects them to a barrage of structural tests to prove that they can survive anything. Netflix’s teen-focused drama returns for its fourth and final season, which continues to follow its four high schooler protagonists as they weather adolescence in their Los Angeles neighborhood. For more recommendations sent right to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter. Whether you can’t stop quoting its most enduring episodes or you’ve actually never seen Seinfeld, now is your time. All nine seasons of the celebrated sitcom are officially available to stream on Netflix. Be forewarned though: some diehards are disappointed that the streaming version of the series is in a different aspect ratio, meaning that it may look a little wonky on your TV. Margaret Qualley has been receiving glowing reviews for her performance in Maid as a young single mom trying to keep her little family financially afloat by cleaning other people’s houses. The new Netflix drama is based on Stephanie Land’s memoir, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive, and also features Anika Noni Rose, Nick Robinson, and Qualley’s mom, Andie MacDowell, in supporting roles.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb The ’90s Nickelodeon horror series that traumatized a generation got a revival in 2019, and the first season of the new Are You Afraid of the Dark? is now streaming on Netflix. Just like the original, it centers on the Midnight Society, a group of teens who meet in the wee hours of the morning to tell each other terrifying tales, which we then see play out on screen. Caught up on all your documentaries and true crime podcasts? This new six-episode Danish crime series may be the perfect bite-sized mystery for your weekend. In The Chestnut Man, the murder of a young woman comes with two major clues: her hand is missing, and there’s a figurine made of chestnuts hanging over her body. The show is co-created and based on a novel by Søren Sveistrup, who also created the 2007 international crime thriller hit, The Killing. RELATED: The One Show Everyone Is Watching on Netflix Right Now.
title: “8 New Shows To Watch On Netflix This Weekend Best Life” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-17” author: “Robert Lugo”
RELATED: 7 New Movies You Can Watch on Netflix This Weekend. Okay, so maybe you can’t watch all of the newest season of The Great British Baking Show this weekend, but you can certainly enjoy the premiere. Starting today, Netflix will drop one episode of the beloved competition reality show every Friday until the Master Baker of this crop of contestants is named. So tune in for more soggy bottoms, Paul Hollywood handshakes, and unfailingly nice English people. Mike Flanagan, who also created the Netflix hits The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor, is back with a new spooky show—this one not based on a book. In Midnight Mass, a young priest (Hamish Linklater) establishes himself in a small, close-knit town, which seems to be the genesis of some incredible (and bone-chilling) events. Just like the Haunting series, expect a mix of genuine scares and meditations on grief, regret, and love that will likely stay with you for much longer. Ahead of the new Sopranos prequel movie premiering on Oct. 1, get a taste of the real thing. This Italian-language docuseries tracks the conflict between two Sicilian public figures, journalist Pino Maniaci and judge Silvana Saguto. Both Maniaci and Saguto claim to be anti-mafia and working to bring organized crime down, but both accuse the other of being corrupt. A period piece set in Spain, Jaguar puts an espionage spin on a post-World War II story. The thriller follows a survivor of a concentration camp who is recruited onto a secretive team of individuals looking to hunt down Nazis who’ve hunkered down in the country.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb For more recommendations sent right to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter. The fourth and final season of the series adaptation of the film with the same name just dropped on streaming. Dear White People stars an ensemble cast of co-eds led by Logan Browning and revolves around Black students at a primarily white Ivy League university. In a bold turn, this senior year season is practically a musical, with several cast members busting out their versions of ’90s R&B hits. Netflix’s bright and bubbly British comedy just returned for Season 3, in which a new head teacher (Jemima Kirke) stifles its expressive student body in the hopes of turning Moordale’s “sex school” reputation around. That won’t stop these teenagers from exploring their gender, sexuality, and new relationships, however. And these new Sex Education episodes bring the show’s signature balance of wholesomeness and graphically honest humor. Now that we’ve covered The Great British Baking Show, which is actually about making gorgeous, scrumptious pastries, let’s move on to a baking competition where getting it wrong is the whole point. Nicole Byer continues to host Netflix’s surprise success, Nailed It, which brings together some of the country’s worst bakers to attempt to whip up some complicated treats. The resulting messes have been known to make even the camera operators laugh until they cry. Season 6 is now on the service. Also back for another season is the hilarious and heartwarming travelogue, Jack Whitehall: Travels With My Father. In this series, the British comedian, most recently seen in Disney’s Jungle Cruise, takes a series of trips with his stoic dad, Michael Whitehall. In addition to a hefty dose of father/son bonding, Travels with My Father serves up surprise guests and more than a few vacation ideas. RELATED: 17 TV Shows You Can Watch From Start to Finish This Weekend.
title: “8 New Shows To Watch On Netflix This Weekend Best Life” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-06” author: “Doris White”
Netflix’s social-media-themed reality competition show has just returned for a third season. The Circle drops each of its cast members into their own solo apartment, from which they communicate with the rest of the group via the show’s social media channels. They can represent themselves however they like, meaning they can be totally honest, bend the truth a bit, or boldly catfish their competition, all in the hopes of not being voted out. And because every season of The Circle features new contestants, you can hop right in and join the conversation, even if you haven’t seen Seasons 1 and 2. Plus, rather than being released all at once, new episodes stream weekly so you don’t have to worry about getting spoiled! Actor and writer Julie Delpy (of the Before trilogy) created and co-stars in this new Netflix drama about four women in their 40s who feel like they’ve traveled off course and ended up in lives that don’t suit them. Decider says On the Verge “sort of feels like Girls if all the characters were twenty years older and in full midlife crisis mode,” which should give you an idea of whether or not this series is for you. The title pretty much says it all: this new Netflix reality competition show pits torch-wielding artists against each other to create some incredible and intricate metal showpieces, with comedian Jo Koy as the host.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb RELATED: 12 New Movies You Can Watch on Netflix This Weekend. The sixth and final season of Lucifer, which Netflix rescued after it was canceled by Fox, is now available to stream on the platform. The titular character is the Lucifer—as in, the guy downstairs—who reinvents himself as a Los Angeles nightclub owner who moonlights as a consultant for the LAPD. In addition to the series finale, Season 6 will include a highly anticipated animated episode. Money Heist, titled La Casa de Papel in its native Spain, has become a cult hit on Netflix. The show starts out with a team of strangers known only by their code names who are brought together to rob the Royal Mint of Spain. Though it was originally meant to be a limited series about that one job, Money Heist became so popular that the story has expanded—and the first part of Season 5, its true final season, is now available on Netflix. Champion bull rider Dale Brisby has brought the art of modern cowboy-ing to YouTube with his popular channel Rodeo Time. In this new Netflix reality show, set on his Radiator Ranch, Brisby trains a group of interns in roping, riding, and building an audience on Snapchat. For more recommendations sent right to the inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter. This five-part documentary may seem like another attempt to contextualize the Sept. 11 attacks in history on its 20th anniversary, but it stands out from the pack. Turning Point not only looks at the impact of the tragedy, but also digs into the past, particularly that of Afghanistan, as well as the United States’ interests in the Middle East. Sean Hayes, David Harbour, Wanda Sykes, and Laurie Metcalf are among the voice cast of Q-Force, a new Netflix animated adult comedy series about a group of LGBTQ spies. Tired of being underestimated, they embark on a mission to prove their worth, but they get saddled with a token straight agent (Harbour) in order to do it. RELATED: The Best TV Show of 2020, According to Critics.
