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Welcome alongside to a different roundup of all the things new on Netflix this week. We’ve received heaps to cowl as we recap the 9 new films, 18 new sequence, and one new sport that launched on Netflix this week, plus the flicks and sequence which were dominating the US every day high 10 charts all week. Let’s dive in!
Nonetheless a few new releases to keep watch over for the weekend. First up, The Penguin Lessons from Sony Footage Classics, starring Steve Coogan and Jonathan Pryce, is about to drop tomorrow. The fantastically instructed story paperwork a instructor’s tenure at a faculty in Argentina throughout political turmoil, however he finds solace by befriending a penguin. On Sunday, new episodes of the Japanese drama sequence Studying to Love will start dropping.
What to Watch on Netflix This Weekend
The Searching Wives (Season 1)
Variety of episodes: 8
Ranking: TV-MA
Language: English
Style: Drama, Thriller, Thriller
Solid: Brittany Snow, Malin Akerman, Jaime Ray Newman, Evan Jonigkeit, George Ferrier
Coming to Netflix within the US completely firstly of the week is The Searching Wives, though it notably doesn’t carry Netflix Authentic branding. Beforehand meant for launch on Starz, the sequence follows former metropolis dweller Sophie, who trades in her previous life for East Texas and falls into the magnetic orbit of a rich socialite, harboring many secrets and techniques.
The sequence has been receiving overwhelmingly optimistic critiques since its launch, boasting a 75% score on Rotten Tomatoes. In our evaluation, we gave the film a 3-star ranking, praising among the plot threads however criticizing sure characters for feeling like they adhere only to tropes.
When you’re executed with season 1 of this explicit present, you possibly can then soar straight into all three seasons of Hightown that also dropped this week, which is able to really feel loads acquainted provided that it additionally comes from creator Rebecca Perry Cutter.
Home of Lies (Seasons 1-5)
Variety of episodes: 58
Ranking: TV-MA
Language: English
Style: Comedy, Drama
Solid: Don Cheadle, Kristen Bell, Ben Schwartz
Author: Matthew Carnahan
Runtime: 28 min
Image: Showtime Networks
It was a licensing bonanza this week, with properly over 150 episodes of TV from comparatively latest to yesteryear dropping. One of many different finest new licensed sequence is Home of Lies, the customarily ignored Showtime sequence that aired on the community within the mid-2010s throughout 5 seasons. Headlined by Don Cheadle and Kristen Bell, the sequence is actually Mad Males, however fairly than promoting well-executed promoting campaigns, it’s about milking purchasers for probably the most sum of money whereas peddling utter nonsense. Whereas the sequence begins off comparatively weak, it definitely picks up in later seasons.
Comfortable Gilmore 2 (2025)
Ranking: TV-MA
Language: English
Style: Comedy, Sport
Director: Kyle Newacheck
Solid: Margaret Qualley, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller
Author: Tim Herlihy, Adam Sandler
Runtime: 117 minutes
For the previous couple of years, Netflix had boasted a major summer season blockbuster that reboots or revives a basic film franchise. Final 12 months, it was the flip of Beverly Hills Cop, and in 2025, it’s one in every of Adam Sandler’s most iconic roles: Comfortable Gilmore. With many aged acquainted faces getting back from the unique, along with numerous new faces (plus a buttload of cameos) we comply with Comfortable as he picks up his hockey stick and returns to the inexperienced.
Evaluations have been blended to date (our personal remains to be to return – thanks, Netflix, for not sending us screeners!) with the film carrying a 64% ranking on Rotten Tomatoes, which is 1 share level larger than the primary film. Criticisms lie on the door of the film being fully absurd, whereas others take that as a win. The final consensus, although, is that if you happen to liked the primary film, you’ll love this entry.
Full Checklist of New Releases on Netflix This Week
Reminder: You may view an expanded model of this record, full with poster artwork, trailers, and extra details about every title, on our ‘What’s New on Netflix’ hub page.
9 New Motion pictures Added This Week
- A Regular Girl (2025) Netflix Authentic – TV-MA – Indonesian
- Religion within the Inconceivable (2025) – TV-14 – Portuguese
- Comfortable Gilmore 2 (2025) Netflix Authentic – TV-MA – English
- Lodge Transylvania 3: Summer time Trip (2018) – PG – English
- Pagtatag! The Documentary (2024) – TV-G – Tagalog
- Sunday Finest: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan (2025) Netflix Authentic – TV-14 – English
- The Cursed (2021) – R – English
- Trainwreck: P.I. Mothers (2025) Netflix Authentic – TV-MA – English
- Till Daybreak (2025) – R – English
18 New TV Collection Added This Week
- 99.9 Prison Lawyer (Season 1) – TV-14 – Japanese
- Angi: Pretend Life, True Crime (Restricted Collection) Netflix Authentic – TV-14 – Spanish
- Chihayafuru: Full Circle (Season 1 – New Episodes Weekly) – TV-14 – Japanese
- Group Squad (Season 2) Netflix Authentic – TV-MA – Spanish
- Vital: Between Life and Dying (Season 1) Netflix Authentic – TV-MA – English
- Delightfully Deceitful (Season 1) – TV-14 – Korean
- Hightown (Seasons 1-3) – TV-MA – English
- Hitmakers (Season 1) Netflix Authentic – TV-MA – English
- Home of Lies (Seasons 1-5) – TV-MA – English
- Letters From The Previous (Restricted Collection) Netflix Authentic – TV-MA – Turkish
- Mandala Murders (Season 1) Netflix Authentic – TV-MA – Hindi
- Mighty Morphin Energy Rangers (Season 19 – Re-Ignition) – PG – English
- My Melody & Kuromi (Season 1) Netflix Authentic – TV-PG – Japanese
- New Kongsuni and Buddies (Season 1) – TV-Y – English
- The Searching Wives (Season 1) – TV-MA – English
- The Steve Harvey Present (Seasons 1-6) – TV-PG – English
- Their Marriage (Season 1 – New Episodes Weekly) – TV-PG – Japanese
- Set off (Restricted Collection) Netflix Authentic – TV-MA – Korean
1 New Recreation on Netflix This Week
- Comfortable Gilmore: Golf Mayhem ’98 (Obtainable on choose TVs and internet)
Most In style Collection on Netflix This Week
Untamed. (L to R) Eric Bana as Kyle Turner, Lily Santiago as Naya Vasquez in episode 102 of Untamed. Cr. Ricardo Hubbs/Netflix © 2025
Untamed is one in every of two titles which are completely dominating the Netflix charts this week, and its efficiency to date has earned it the bragging rights of being one of many biggest limited series launches of all time. The hard-hitting docu-series Amy Bradley is Lacking, which has revived the chilly case all these years later, is taking social media by storm. Sullivan’s Crossing rounds out the highest 3, with Season 1 nonetheless drawing in quite a lot of viewership within the US forward of Season 3’s launch in August.
- UNTAMED (80 factors)
- Amy Bradley is Lacking (70 factors)
- Sullivan’s Crossing (54 factors)
- Squid Recreation (42 factors)
- Constructing the Band (33 factors)
- The Searching Wives (32 factors)
- The Waterfront (27 factors)
- Dan Da Dan (20 factors)
- Quarterback (19 factors)
- WWE Uncooked (18 factors)
- Hightown (12 factors)
- The Sandman (11 factors)
- 7 Bears (7 factors)
- My Melody & Kuromi (7 factors)
- Tougen Anki (5 factors)
- Vital: Between Life and Dying (3 factors)
Most In style Motion pictures on Netflix This Week
Image: Netflix
There’s simply no stopping KPop Demon Hunters – the film is heading in the right direction to enter Netflix’s all-time most-watched record in simply weeks, and given the trajectory of the viewership up to now, there’s no guessing what the ceiling will probably be for the animated film. Elsewhere within the US charts, Madea’s Vacation spot Marriage ceremony continues to overperform within the US in comparison with the remainder of the world.
- KPop Demon Hunters (80 factors)
- Madea’s Vacation spot Marriage ceremony (65 factors)
- Trip Alongside 2 (55 factors)
- Comfortable Gilmore (53 factors)
- Trainwreck: Balloon Boy (42 factors)
- Despicable Me 4 (26 factors)
- Trainwreck: P.I. Mothers (24 factors)
- Brick (22 factors)
- The Cursed (18 factors)
- Penguins of Madagascar (15 factors)
- Wished (15 factors)
- Till Daybreak (9 factors)
- Lodge Transylvania 3: Summer time Trip (8 factors)
- Krampus (5 factors)
- Tyler Perry’s A Madea Homecoming (2 factors)
- The Outdated Guard 2 (1 factors)
Observe: Hottest factors are gained by spending time within the every day high 10s. First place on any given day grants 10 factors, whereas tenth place grants 1 level.
What are you watching on Netflix this week? Tell us within the feedback, and look ahead at all the new releases coming up in August 2025 here.