Each month, loads of new films and TV shows are added to Netflix UK’s library. Critic Eliza Janssen presents her picks for titles worth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down.
Top Picks: TV
Ripley: Limited Series (April 4)
Patricia Highsmith’s fictional creation Tom Ripley is a man of a thousand faces, able to charm and disturb in equal measure. That descriptor could also apply to Irish acting powerhouse Andrew Scott, who plays the sociopathic social climber in this slick new series adaptation. Sent to Italy to convince glamorous playboy Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn) to return to the US, Tom is instead cast into a web of lies, murder, and desire—and he’s the spider at its centre.
Parasyte: The Grey: Season 1 (April 5)
Things get Cronenbergian in this creepy South Korean sci-fi series, with alien parasites latching onto humanity and taking control. Do they have a right to nest inside us for their survival? How do we get rid of the slippery lil buggers? Director Yeon Sang-Ho, of Train to Busan fame, has the grisly answers. The gnarly CGI effects will have you craving a good thorough shower after each episode.
Heartbreak High: Season Two (April 11)
It’s a new year at Hartley High, and everyone’s still mad at Amerie! You can bet Netflix has picked up on everything audiences loved about season one, and will wisely double down. Our writer Cat Woods was pretty positive about those 2022 episodes: “This show, as the original, provides a vehicle for teenagers to start conversations with their friends, their parents, or strangers on social media: about sexual consent, gender identity, monogamy, and the fractious nature of friendships.”
Top Picks: Movies + Specials
Scoop (April 5)
This journalistic drama takes a roundabout approach to honing in on Prince Andrew’s alleged predatory ties with reviled pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, starring Gillian Anderson as one of the BBC reporters who pinned down the royal and exposed him in an excoriating TV report. Billie Piper and Keeley Hawes co-star, with Rufus Sewell sweatin’ it up as Andrew. Think of it as a scathing little addendum to the flop final seasons of The Crown.
Our Living World (April 17)
Cate Blanchett lends her contralto, dulcet narration to this globe-spanning docuseries, all about the powerful and often invisible ways in which natural systems feed into one another. From plants to weather phenomena, wild animals to we higher-order-thinking mammals; everything’s connected, and Cate’s gonna smooooothly reveal it all to us.
Rebel Moon—Part Two: The Scargiver (April 19)
Director Zack Snyder really said: “if they’re not gonna offer me a Star Wars movie, I guess I’ll have to make it myself.” The first part of his epic original sci-fi series came out in December and got intergalactically roasted by our critic Travis Johnson: , who said the film takes Kurosawa’s legendary Seven Samurai, “strips it of joy, pathos and meaning, dusts it with elements lifted from a good dozen other genre properties, and calls it good.” Second time’s the charm, maybe?
All titles arriving on Netflix UK in April
April 1
American Graffiti
Baby Driver
Battleship
Born of the Fourth of July
Ender’s Game
Glass
Great Teacher Onizuka: Season 1
Happy Gilmore
Hotel Transylvania
Hotel Transylvania 2
How to be Single
Inside Man
Inside Man: Most Wanted
It’s Kind of a Funny Story
The Magic Prank Show with Justin Willman
Molly’s Game
Mortal Engines
Night Raiders
One Piece Film: Red
Role Models
Sex and the City: Seasons 1-6
Skyscraper
Smokey and the Bandit
Smokey and the Bandit II
Split
Step Up: Revolution
Strawberry Shortcakes: Spring Spectacular
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
The Land Before Time
The Little Things
The Matrix
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Revolutions
The Theory of Everything
Wild Things
White Collar: Seasons 1-6
You’ve Got Mail
April 2
Demetri Martin: Demetri Deconstructed
Together: Tr3ble Winners
April 3
Crime Scene Berlin: Nightlife Killer
Files of the Unexplained
Zero to Hero
April 4
100 Days to Indy
Crooks: Season 1
Ripley: Limited Series
The Tearsmith
I Woke Up A Vampire: Season 2
April 5
The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem
Parasyte: The Grey
Scoop
April 8
Megan Leavey
Spirit Rangers: Season 3
April 9
Neal Brennan: Crazy Good
April 10
Anthracite: Secrets of the Sect
The Hijacking of Flight 601
Unlocked: A Jail Experiment
What Jennifer Did
April 11
As the Crow Flies: Season 3
Baby Reindeer: Limited Series
The Bricklayer
Heartbreak High: Season 2
Meekah: Season 2
Midsummer Night
April 12
Amar Singh Chamkila
Good Times
A Journey
Love, Divided
Stolen
Strange Way of Life
Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp
April 15
The Fairly OddParents: Seasons 4-5
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
April 16
Anna
Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer
Knocked Up
April 17
Black Sails: Seasons 1-4
The Circle: Season 6
Don’t Hate the Player
The Grimm Variations
Our Living World
April 18
Bros
The Upshaws: Part 5
April 19
Rebel Moon—Part Two: The Scargiver
April 21
Duran Duran: There’s Something You Should Know
April 22
Ahead of the Curve
CoComelon Lane: Season 2
Fern Brady: Autistic Bikini Queen
April 23
Anyone But You
Brigands: The Quest for Gold
Fight for Paradise: Who Can You Trust?
April 24
Deliver Me
King Richard
TLC Forever
April 25
City Hunter
Dead Boy Detectives
April 26
The Asunta Case
Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut
April 29
Boiling Point: Season 1
Honeymoonish
April 30
Fiasco
See also
* All new streaming movies & series
