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  • 6 Underground
    • The world is a mess, with global politics falling apart and terrorists essentially running countries. So a team of six people, lead by an eccentric billionaire, decide to take matters into their own hands.
  • Anon
    • In a future where everyone had implants that record everything they see and hear, what happens when people find ways to spoof the feeds, to disappear entirely? We take a look at the film to see just how well it depicts this future.
  • Apostle
    • A man goes to an island to find his kidnapped sister. Waiting for him there, though, is a strange cult, a nature goddess, and a mystery that might just claim his very soul.
  • Army of the Dead
    • Zack Snyder does his Zack Snyder thing, for better and worse, in this original zombie property.
  • Atlas
    • A woman has to go across the universe to fight the evil A.I. that killed her mom (and a good chucnk of humanity) in this half-baked sci-fi film.
  • Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
    • Axel returns to Beverly Hills after 30 years away to help protect his daughter and solve a murder involving lots of drugs and very bad cops.
  • Blood Red Sky
    • A mother and son take a plane ride to hopefully cure her of a disease, only for things to go off the rails forcing her to fight monster without... and within.
  • Bright
    • Will Smith tries to spin up a franchise about fantasy cretures living on Earth, but the cop movie that results falls very flat.
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
    • Hey, remember Crouching Tiger? That awesome wuxia epic of love, loss, and killer sword fights? Did you ever wonder why they never made a sequel? Well they did, and it sucked. Let's see why.
  • Damsel
    • A princess has to battle after getting betrayed by royalty in this fun, if flawed, action adventure.
  • Day Shift
    • Jamie Foxx and Dave Franco star in this silly, midling horroc-action-comedy flick.
  • Enola Holmes
    • Younger sister of the famous Sherlock, Enola has to go on her own mission to solve a mystery when her mother goes missing.
  • Enola Holmes 2
    • Enola returns with her own detective agency, and a case to find a missing matchstick girl.
  • Fear Street
  • Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
    • Benoit Blanc returns for another mystery, this time involving a tech billionaire on his private island.
  • Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters
    • In this lackluster anime reboot, humanity has fled from Earth only to come back thousands of years later to try and defeat Godzilla and reclaim their home. Meanwhile, we all struggle to care.
  • The Gray Man
    • The Russo Brothers bring out a new CIA wet-work hero to take on bad guys within the agency in this messy, but fun, action flick.
  • Gunpowder Milkshake
    • An assassin on the run from the men that once employed her is forced to take ground with the only person she can trust: her mother.
  • In the Shadow of the Moon
    • A cop is on thee hunt for a serial killer, one that he thought he'd killed years earlier, but decade after decade she keeps showing up, almost as if my magic or some kind of freaky science.
  • Kate
    • A assassin gets poisoned and has to go on a journey of revenge, and redemption, before she dies.
  • Luther: The Fallen Sun
    • DCI John Luther (well, former DCI) is back, out of prison and on the case of a deranged serial killer. Just another day in Luther land, then.
  • The Night Comes for Us
    • A brutal, over-the-top martial arts film, The Night Comes for Us promises no-stop-action and bloody-good fights. But does it deliver?
  • Nimona
    • A disgraced knight teams up with a magical, shape-shifting girl to take on an evil institution in this fun, family adventure.
  • The Old Guard
    • Over the centuries, an elite group of immortal warriors has banded together to fight the battles that need fighting. But when a wealthy tech-magnate sets his sights on the band, it's hunt or be hunted for the fate of humanity.
  • Pinocchio
    • Guillermo Del Toro brings us a wonderfully animated version of the Italian story of a wooden boy thrust into a world he shouldn't be forced to understand.
  • Polar
    • A retiring assassin gets pulled in for one last job only to discover the real hit is his own in this tylish, but stupid, neo-noir.
  • The Prom
    • It's singing and dancing and self-congratulation in Netflix's 2020 musical.
  • Rebel Moon: Part One - A Child of Fire
    • Zack Snyder brings his off-brand Star Wars to Netflix, with predictable results.
  • Rebel Moon: Part Two - The Scargiver
    • Snyder continues his (supposed) epic with a sequel long on battles but short on characters you can care about.
  • Red Notice
    • Ryan Renolds and The Rock are a mismatched pair on a heist for their life in this tired crime caper.
  • SAS: Rise of the Black Swan
    • This Die Hard-style film can't really muster much action, or style, or even morals, creating something vastly less than its ambitions.
  • See You Yesterday
    • Two teenagers travel through time to prevent the death of their friend in this fun, African-American-led production.
  • Stowaway
    • Three crew memebers head off on a mission to Mars, only to find a fourth hidden on the ship, leading to a moral dilemma about who should live or die so that the ship has enough resources to support the rest of the crew.
  • The Titan
    • Earth is dying. To save humanity, a new kind of human is needed. Enter genetic engineering. Let's explore this movie and see if the astronauts it invents are really up to the task.
  • Velvet Buzzsaw
    • Art people are so weird, right? So what if you juxatapose a horror movie against the hoity-toity art world? I guess that's a setup that someone wanted to explore.
  • The Wandering Earth
    • The biggest blockbuster China has ever produced, this film proposes a future where the only way to save teh Earth is to blast it out into space, like a giant spaceship. It's... not really a great idea.

Marvel Television on Netflix

  • Daredevil
    • He's a blind lawyer with superpowers (enhanced senses and an amazing skill at fighting) taking on the darkest parts of the city... and himself. Let's all wallow in the darkness with Daredevil
  • Iron Fist
    • Part of the Netflix corner of the MCU, Iron Fist debuted in 2017 and quickly became known as the worst series in the stable. What went wrong with the first season, and was that assessment really fair?
  • Jessica Jones
    • The second series from the MCU to come out on Netflix (after Daredevil, this show exchanged mystical powers and blindfighting for hard drinking detective noir. And, for the first season or so, it really worked.
  • Luke Cage
    • Part of the MCU, Luke Cage has been working to clean up Harlem and fight thee threats, both homegrown and supernatural, that just keep coming to his part of NYC.
  • The Punisher
    • Spun-off from the second season of Netflix's Daredevil, this series follows Frank Castle as he wages a one-man war against the criminal element in New York.

Comedy Series

  • American Vandal
    • A (fictional) true-crime series about outcast kids and crimes at their school. When a serial vandal strike, the show is there to ask the hard-hitting question: "Who did the dicks?"
  • Arrested Development
    • This is the story of a television show too smart and funny for the time it came out in, and the creators and producers that wouldn't let it die even after it being off the air for years and years.
  • Disenchantment
    • After The Simpsons and Futurama, fans of Matt Groening were dying to find out what genre he'd tackle next. And the answer was: Fantasy. We explore the series to see what works and what might need improvement.
  • The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale
    • After the cancellation of The Soup, Joel McHale took his clip-show format to Netflix to take another stab at a regular series. Sadly, it only lasted one season. Let's explore the show to see what happened and why it didn't catch on.
  • Mystery Science Theater 3000
  • Teenage Bounty Hunters
    • Two teenage twins, Blair and Sterling, get mixed up with a bounter hunter, Bowser, and end up finding a real knack for catching criminals on the run in this lighthearted action-comedy.

Drama Series

  • Cobra Kai
    • Years after the original films we join back up with the Karate Kid 'verse, but this time with Cobra Kai bad-boy Johnny in a lead role as he gets him life together and restarts the rival dojo.
  • GLOW
    • Back in the 1980s there was women's wrestling league called the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, or GLOW for short. This semi-fictional series explores that league, and we review it to see if really packs a punch.
  • House of Cards
    • In 2013 Netflix launched a slate of original content, with his Kevin Spacey-starring political thriller in the pole position. A smash at launch, the show continued on through various evil plots and political machinations, but was hobbled in the end by the firing of Kevin Spacey (for being Kevin Spacey and doing all kinds of terrible things in his life). It continued on, so we take a look at the whole run to see how the show sends itself off.
  • Kaleidoscope
    • A group of criminals come together to pull off the heist to end all heists in a story told in a random, mixed up order.
  • The Last Kingdom
    • He is Uhtred, Son of Uhtred, and his adventures have moved permanently to Netflix after first debuting on BBC America. We take a dive into this historical epic about an English lord, raised by Danes, and watch to see if he ever reclaims his honor and his destiny.
  • The Lincoln Lawyer
    • Michael Connelly's lawyer shows up in a new series that somehow misses the spark of it's main character.
  • Mindhunter
    • Set in the 1970s (and after), this series follows a team at the FBI has they begin the construction of a new unit that would interview mass murderers (soon to be dubbed "serial killers" to figure out what drives them... and maybe use that knowledge to catch other killers.
  • The Queen's Gambit
    • We follow young Beth Harmon, and up-and-commer in the 1960s Chess world, as she works to become the next World Champion of Chess (while fighting her own demons).
  • Orange is the New Black
    • One of Netflix's first experiments with original content, OITNB focused on the lives and troubles of a group of women in a female prison. Although the series is still going strong, we only checked in on the first season and then never went back.
  • Secret City
    • Set in Australia, this series explores the political turmoil just under the surface of the government. But is the show tense and thrilling, or simply trying to do too much?

Fantasy Series

  • Castlevania
  • The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
  • Cursed
    • A young woman is thrust into the middle of a war between her people, the fae, and the humans when a mad religious sect starts killing all of her kind. But with the help of knights, a magical sword, and her own pluck, maybe she can reshape the Arthurian world.
  • Dead Boy Detectives
  • Dracula (2020)
    • Created by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat (of Sherlock fame), this mini-series has a lot of spectacular ideas, solid production value, and a pretty great story. Like a lot of Gatiss/Moffat productions, though, it falls apart at the five-yard-line.
  • First Kill (2022)
    • It's young love and lesbian romance in this "Romeo and Juliette" tale of a vampire who falls in love with a vampire slayer.
  • The Haunting of Hill House
    • Years ago, a family moved into a spooky old house. Eight weeks later, most of the fled those very same walls. What happened at Hill House to drive a family away in terror? Let's find out.
  • Lucifer
  • Masters of the Universe: Revelation
    • When He-Man and Skeletor die in battle against each other the truth of He-Man's real identity comes out, sending Teela, the newly knighted "Master of Arms" off on her own journey away from the kingdom. But the magic of the realm needs help and Teela is the best hero for the job of restoring magic and saving the world.
  • The Sandman (2022)
    • Based on the comics by Neil Gaiman, this series works to adapt tha authors ethereal tales for the small-screen, with sometimes limited results.
  • Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
  • Warrior Nun
    • In the battle between good and evil, Heaven and Hell, one group stands between our world and total annihilation: the Catholic Church and their band of warrior nuns.
  • Wednesday
    • The creepy and kooky Addams Family returns to the small screen, this time with a CW-level adventure focused on the teen daughter, Wednesday.
  • The Witcher

Sci-Fi Series

  • Altered Carbon
    • In the future people can live forever by switching skins, their souls and personalities installed on discs that move from body to body. But not everyone likes this immortality (that mostly benefits the rich, of course) and the very foundations of the future could quickly crumble.
  • Another Life
    • An alien artifact lands on Earth sending future-humanity into a real tizzy. Suddenly, the United Space Force throws a crew together to head to the alien homeworld, but their journey, and events on Earth, conspire to make the mission far more complicated than first expected.
  • Black Mirror
    • A British import, this surrealistic anthology series moved to Netflix for its third season, carrying on showing us a world very like our own, but twisted enough to reveal the flaws within.
  • Cowboy Bebop (2021)
    • We groove through the galaxy following bounty hunters Jet Black, Spike Speigel, and Faye Valentine, in this live-action adaptation of the classic anime.
  • The Innocents
    • With so many superhero shows on television, it takes a lot for a new series to stand out, especially when it's based on an original concept. Does the YA series The Innocents do enough to stand out? Let's see.
  • Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous
    • Taking place parallel to Jurassic World, this show follows the first six campers ever to enjoy the delights of the camp attached to the park... right up until all hell breaks loose in the camp proper.
  • Maniac
    • Set in a trippy not-quite future but not quite retro version of our world, we follow two damaged people, Owen and Annie, as they seek help (or maybe just a quick fix) from a weird new drug study.
  • Stranger Things
    • When the U.S. Government starters running weird tests in the middle of Indiana, only a group of kids can stop these evil actions. Set in the early 1980s, Strangers Things is powered by horror, '80s nostalgia, and the magic of being a kid. But can is translate that into a winner series?
  • Umbrella Academy
    • When a whole group of children are all spontaneously born on the same day (to women who, before that day, weren't pregnant at all), one might say it's a little weird. Or you could be a rich industrialist and purchase seven of the kids to raise as your own. Why? So they can be superheroes and save the world, of course.

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