This weekend, Netflix is bringing the final season of a teen comedy-drama TV series, a documentary series about the dark side of sports, a slasher movie based on a novel, and a new movie from a beloved franchise. As the entertainment industry continues to go back to normal with people starting to return to cinemas and studios releasing some of their biggest movies (which had to be delayed), streaming platforms haven’t lost any force, as they continue to be a preferred source of entertainment for many. In Netflix’s case, its subscribers continue to enjoy new licensed and original content every week, for all ages and tastes, ensuring that they always have something to watch.
Last weekend, Netflix welcomed a bunch of licensed content (as it does on the first days of every month), most notably A Knight’s Tale, Awakenings, The Holiday, León: The Professional, the first three movies in the Spy Kids saga, Titanic, and Zodiac, along with the documentary Britney vs Spears, the horror thriller No One Gets Out Alive, and Antoine Fuqua’s crime thriller The Guilty. This weekend will see less licensed content with season 8 of The Blacklist, the animated movie LOL Surprise: The Movie, and James Wan’s supernatural horror movie Insidious: Chapter 2.
All eyes will be on this weekend’s original content, which is formed by the final season of a teen comedy-drama TV series, a docuseries about sports, a slasher movie based on a novel, and a new Pokémon movie. Here are the best movies and TV shows coming to Netflix this weekend – October 8.
On My Block – season 4
The fourth and final season of the teen comedy-drama TV series On My Block is now available to stream on Netflix this weekend. On My Block follows four teens in a rough inner-city Los Angeles neighborhood called Freeridge, who find their lifelong friendship tested as they begin high school. Season 4 will catch up with the group two years after the events of season 3, having gone their separate ways. When a secret is unburied, they quickly learn you can’t run from the past and they will need to stick together to survive.
Bad Sport
Joining Netflix’s extensive catalogue of documentaries this weekend is Bad Sport. This six-part documentary series looks at six stories at the intersection of sports and crime, as told by the athletes, coaches, and law enforcement officials at the center of the controversies. These stories include the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic figure skating scandal; superstar Indycar driver Randy Lanier’s marijuana-smuggling operation; the Arizona State University basketball point-shaving scheme; the horse hitman at the center of an insurance fraud ring; Calciopoli, the biggest match-fixing scandal in Italian football history; and South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje’s tragic fall from grace.
There’s Someone Inside Your House
Netflix’s There’s Someone Inside Your House is a slasher movie based on the novel of the same name by Stephanie Perkins and directed by Patrick Brice. Makani Young (Sydney Park) has moved from Hawaii to quiet, small-town Nebraska to live with her grandmother and finish high school, but as the countdown to graduation begins, her classmates are stalked by a killer intent on exposing their darkest secrets to the entire town, terrorizing victims while wearing a life-like mask of their own face. With a mysterious past of her own, Makani and her friends must discover the killer’s identity before they become victims themselves.
Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle
The Pokémon franchise is going back to its 2D roots with its 23rd movie, Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle. It follows Koko (voiced by Moka Kamishiraishi), who grew up in the jungle with a solitary Zarude. When he meets Ash (Rika Matsumoto /Sarah Natochenny) and Pikachu, Koko discovers the human world and a plot threatening his home. Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle was released in Japan in December 2020, with Netflix in charge of international release, except in Korea and China.
