This weekend, Netflix is bringing a new animated series for adults, a documentary, an animated movie, an action movie, and the fourth season of a historical fiction series. Streaming platforms keep seeing a bigger flow of users and activity due to the coronavirus pandemic, but Netflix continues with its own schedule without any big changes and keeps adding content every week, ensuring that its subscribers have a lot to choose from.
Last weekend saw the arrival of the biographical drama Sergio, the second season of The Last Kids on Earth, the documentary series The Innocence Files, and the series #blackAF. On the licensed content front, Netflix welcomed Despicable Me, Hail, Caesar!, Jem and the Holograms, Catfish (the documentary), A Champion Heart, and The Green Hornet. This weekend, subscribers will get to enjoy the horror movie The Vatican Tapes, the black-and-white movie The Artist, and Quentin Tarantino’s western Django Unchained.
As for original content, Netflix is adding an animated series for adults, a documentary about a very peculiar bookstore, an animated movie, an action movie starring Chris Hemsworth, and the fourth season of a drama series. Here are the best movies and TV shows coming to Netflix this weekend – April 24.
The Midnight Gospel
Netflix’s The Midnight Gospel is a new animated series from Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward and comedian Duncan Trussell, though this one definitely isn’t for children. It follows Clancy (Trussell) a spacecaster (video podcaster in space, of course) who thanks to an illegal multiverse simulator travels to different worlds nearing their destruction and interviews some of their residents. The particularity of Clancy’s interviews (which are based on those from Trussell’s podcast, The Duncan Trussell Family Hour) is that they end up being more serious and philosophical than expected, touching on topics like drugs, meditation, and life itself, all this with trippy animation as background.
Circus of Books
Circus of Books is a Netflix documentary by Rachel Mason. It centers on the story of the historic gay landmark Circus of Books, a bookstore and gay pornography shop in West Hollywood and in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, which was run by her parents from 1982 until 2019. Though it was a successful business and gave the LGBT+ community a space to socialize and freely celebrate themselves, it also had a strong impact on the Masons’ lives – and, of course, there were some people who weren’t accepting of what they did.
The Willoughbys
Netflix’s The Willoughbys is an animated movie based on the book of the same name by Lois Lowry. It follows the Willoughby siblings – Tim, Jane, and creepy twins Barnaby and Barnaby – who after being neglected by their parents, decide to send them on a fake vacation to get rid of them. When a nanny arrives unexpectedly, they will join forces with her so they can stay together and be the family they have always wanted.
Extraction
Netflix Original movie Extraction is an action thriller directed by Sam Hargrave and with a screenplay by Joe Russo, based on the comic Ciudad by Ande Parks, Joe Russo, Anthony Russo, Fernando León González, and Eric Skillman. Extraction follows Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth), a black-market mercenary with the mission of rescuing Ovi (Rudraksh Jaiswal), the son of an imprisoned international crime lord – but in the murky underworld of weapons dealers and drug traffickers, an already deadly mission will become nearly impossible.
The Last Kingdom – season 4
Historical fiction series The Last Kingdom is back with its fourth season on Netflix this weekend. The show is based on Bernard Cornwell’s series of novels The Saxon Stories, and is set in the late 9th century AD, with England divided into seven separate kingdoms. Now that Alfred the Great is dead, The Last Kingdom season 4 will focus on the new King, Edward, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be battles (and drama) along the way.
