What’s New On Netflix?
New Netflix titles are always cause for celebration. On the streaming giant’s roster for April? The conclusion of an intensely creepy crime thriller and the much-anticipated return of a buzzy sci-fi behemoth.
Here are just some of the most exciting new releases on Netflix.
Anna Kooris1/17Pulse (3 April)
Small-screen medical dramas are currently in the midst of a renaissance (see also: The Pitt), so, of course, Netflix has jumped on the bandwagon, too. The streamer’s high-stakes, heart-pumping offering – spearheaded by Zoe Robyn and Carlton Cuse, and starring Willa Fitzgerald and Colin Woodell – centres on a dedicated crew of ER doctors scrambling to deliver the best care for their patients in hurricane-plagued Miami. Across 10 episodes, they’ll fall in love, jostle for power, save lives and find their chosen family. Grey’s Anatomy stans assemble.
Netflix2/17Black Mirror: Season 7 (10 April)
Tracee Ellis Ross, Harriet Walter, Issa Rae, Emma Corrin, Awkwafina, Rashida Jones, Cristin Milioti, Paul Giamatti, Chris O’Dowd, Will Poulter, Michele Austin, Peter Capaldi – basically every star in Hollywood is set to feature in the hotly anticipated next season of Charlie Brooker’s eerily prescient dystopia, and who could blame them? It’s been a two-year wait since he last perturbed us with his vision of the future, and these latest six episodes, two of which are almost feature-length – comprising razor-sharp satire, pitch-black comedy, mind-bending sci-fi, hair-raising horror and a return to season four’s USS Callister, the first sequel in Black Mirror history – are sure to be just as thrilling. Brace yourselves.
Courtesy of Netflix © 20253/17You: Season 5 (24 April)
For the past eight years, Penn Badgley’s Joe Goldberg, a supremely toxic knight in shining armour-turned-serial murderer has been lurking in hedges wearing baseball caps, falling for bookish women, holding them captive in glass boxes and racking up a pretty impressive body count. Now, this blood-thirsty (and, honestly, increasingly preposterous) rampage concludes, fittingly, where it all began: New York City, where our beloved anti-hero is living with his new partner (Charlotte Ritchie’s wealthy Kate Lockwood), though his head is being turned by a new love interest (The Handmaid’s Tale’s Madeline Brewer). Will he be brought to justice? I don’t know and I’m not sure I even care – I only know that I will be watching it as soon as it drops.
Netflix4/17Havoc (25 April)
A rip-roaring action epic built around a gruff Tom Hardy, this gritty procedural from Gangs of London co-creator Gareth Evans casts the Oscar nominee as a jaded detective wading through a murky criminal underworld, trying to get to the bottom of a murder case while also occasionally smashing baddies to bits with a metal pipe. Joining in on all the fun – breathless car chases, brutal deaths and jaw-dropping stunts – is Forest Whitaker, Timothy Olyphant, Shadow and Bone’s Jessie Mei Li and Wednesday’s Luis Guzmán.
Below, see more of Netflix’s recent releases.
Erin Simkin/Netflix © 20245/17The Residence (20 March)
Before we get Daniel Craig’s next outing as Benoit Blanc in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, enjoy Uzo Aduba in sharp tailoring and cosy knits as Cordelia Cupp, an eccentric investigator dispatched to the White House to look into the sudden death of a senior official (Giancarlo Esposito) at a glitzy state dinner. Written by Scandal’s Paul William Davies and executive produced by Shonda Rhimes, this twisty, eight-part romp – a game of Cluedo, of sorts, with 157 suspects scattered across 132 historic rooms – also features Randall Park, as a sceptical FBI agent, the Watson to Cordelia’s Sherlock Holmes; Paul Fitzgerald as the fearful president; and Kylie Minogue, of all people, in a bonkers cameo. As political rivalries arise and lies are exposed, the plot thickens.
Ben Blackall6/17Adolescence (13 March)
A harrowing examination of contemporary young adulthood, this four-part nerve-jangler co-created by and starring Stephen Graham centres on a father who finds his teenage son (Owen Cooper) accused of a heinous crime. Penned by Jack Thorne and helmed by Philip Barantini, who directed the one-shot 2021 thriller Boiling Point, it employs a similar style to the latter, with each gut-wrenching episode playing out in real time through a single continuous take, as the boy is arrested and interrogated. With Top Boy’s Ashley Walters and Game of Thrones’s Faye Marsay as the detectives assigned to the case, and The Crown’s Erin Doherty as the psychologist supporting the accused, it’s one hell of a ride – and one which will leave you with plenty to think about afterwards.
Lucia Iuorio/Netflix © 20257/17The Leopard (5 March)
The impossibly beautiful Deva Cassel, the model daughter of Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel, dons floor-skimming, lace-trimmed ball gowns, elaborate headpieces and eye-popping jewellery for this scintillating, sun-drenched period piece – a sumptuous six-part, Italian-language retelling of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s 1958 classic of the same name, which follows Don Fabrizio Corbèra (Kim Rossi Stuart), the Prince of Salina, who is slowly coming to terms with the seismic impact of the Italian revolution in 19th-century Sicily. Cassel, in turn, takes the part of the wealthy and captivating Angelica Sedara, whose marriage to the prince’s nephew (Saul Nanni) could save their aristocratic family. Combine that with gilded palaces, candlelit balls and slow-burning romances, and you have a bingeable treat to fill the Bridgerton-shaped hole in your life, but with added historical heft.
Courtesy of Netflix © 20248/17With Love, Meghan (4 March)
As soon as it was revealed that the Duchess of Sussex would be returning to Netflix post 2022’s explosive Harry & Meghan, this time with a light-hearted lifestyle series in which she’ll be cooking up a storm with famous friends, the internet erupted with hot takes and takedowns. After that, the show was, understandably, pushed back due to the wildfires then ravaging California, and the discourse only grew, further fuelled by the news that the royal’s lifestyle brand, As Ever, would be launching this spring, too. (American Riviera Orchard? We don’t know her.) And then, we finally got to see it for ourselves: eight episodes of baking, beekeeping, flower-arranging, picking fresh produce from the garden, plating up crudités, sharing hosting tips and kicking back at a Montecito farmhouse with everyone from Mindy Kaling and Suits alum Abigail Spencer to chefs Roy Choi and Alice Waters. Now bring on season two.
