Little in the way of new streaming titles, but there are some real bangers. With movies like the “Knives Out” sequel “Glass Onion” and series like “The Witcher: Blood Origin”, the next seven days on Netflix have it all.
Christmas is just around the corner. And although for many the festive season is a time of contemplative togetherness with loved ones away from the screen, the days off are also often used to work through the Netflix watchlist – especially as the streaming service is once again providing some top-class new films and series in the (almost) last days of the year, as our traditional preview of the upcoming seven days shows.
Here are the Netflix highlights for the week of 19 to 25 December 2022, sorted by day of the week.
MONDAY: CALM BEFORE THE STORM
On Monday, Netflix is still refraining from releasing any notable new titles so you can wrap up the streaming leftovers from the past few weeks to be best prepared for the upcoming resupply…
TUESDAY: CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
Naturally, brand new festive fare from Netflix itself cannot be missing in the (pre-)Christmas season. After films such as the Lindsay Lohan comeback “Falling For Christmas” recently found their way onto the platform, on Tuesday we can expect the Mexican comedy “Not So Merry Christmas”, which doesn’t sound quite so festive at first. In it, grumpy Chuy (Mauricio Ochmann) is cursed to wake up every Christmas without remembering the rest of the year, so that he is always confronted with the consequences of his other actions at the festival of love.
Meanwhile, anime fans can look forward to the first part of the new “The Seven Deadly Sins” movie spin-off “Grudge Of Edinburgh”.
WEDNESDAY: NEW EPISODES OF “EMILY IN PARIS “
For a year, the many fans of “Emily in Paris” had to wait for new episodes of the hit series by “Sex And The City” creator Darren Star. As with season 2, the time has come just in time for Christmas: the third season can be binged on Netflix from Wednesday. In it, American Emily (Lily Collins), who has emigrated to France for a job at a fashion company, faces what are arguably the most difficult decisions of her life, both in her career and in her love life.
New episodes are also available for the popular true-crime docu-series “I Am A Killer”, which is now in its fourth season. On the other hand, the heartfelt chaos cinema comedy “The Goldfish” from 2019 offers something to laugh about, in which Tom Schilling really mixes up a disabled flat-sharing community after a devastating accident.
THURSDAY: THE BETTER “SQUID GAME”?
We’ll have to wait until 2024 for the second season of the hyped Netflix hit “Squid Game”. However, you can shorten the long wait a little with “Alice In Borderland”, which is already entering its second season and is even being celebrated as the better “Squid Game” in some online discussion forums. Here, too, the action centres on an uninitiated troupe that fights for bare survival in games that are as sadistic as they are life-threatening, while certain death awaits anyone who leaves the game zone without authorisation.
After the two main characters Arisu (Kento Yamazaki) and Usagi (Tao Tsuchiya) found themselves in a seemingly deserted alternative Tokyo in season 1, they now have to deal with even more dangerous death games in a post-apocalyptic version of the Japanese capital.
FRIDAY: A NEW CASE FOR BENOIT BLANC
With “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” Netflix recently provided a late 2022 movie highlight. And just one week later, the streaming service delivers another of its best films of the year with “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”. In the sequel to Rian Johnson’s congenial crime thriller “Knives Out”, eccentric investigator Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) lands this time on the Greek private island of tech billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton), where he has to solve a new tricky murder case – and provides just as much fun as in part 1.
