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06 May 2025

Netflix’s May Lineup: From Judy Blume Reimagined to ABBA’s 50th Anniversary

Netflix’s May lineup offers a variety of new and returning shows, including reimaginings of Judy Blume classics, a restoration of Spielberg’s first feature film, and new seasons of an animated science fiction/horror anthology.

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07 Apr 2025

April’s Netflix Lineup: ‘Black Mirror’ Returns and ‘You’ Concludes

Netflix is offering a variety of new and returning shows in April, including “Black Mirror” and “The Age of Innocence”, as well as a new docuseries about the NFT market and a reality show about running a B&B on Ulleungdo Island.

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10 Apr 2025

Eat, Game, & Sing in San Francisco This Spring!

It’s Springtime in San Francisco, which means it’s time to put your phone on silent for a while and step out into our fair city to sing, eat, and play with the wonderful people and programming on offer. Whether in the flesh or on a live stream, the journalists and

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05 Mar 2025

Netflix’s March Must-Watch: White House Whodunit and Korean Thriller

Netflix’s March highlights include a new Shondaland series about a murder investigation at the White House, a Korean thriller about the clash between revenge and faith, and a Spanish thriller about a prison riot.

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24 Jul 2024

5 Netflix True Crime Docs Everyone Raved About (Even Though They’re Garbage)

BY XAN HOLBROOK In Decline of the English Murder, George Orwell observed that Sunday newspapers, and their readers, could not get enough of the foul business of killing. But, unless the MOs, victims and deaths followed a particular pattern, the crime stories were not fit for consumption.  Netflix’s recent penchant

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03 Jul 2024

All The Cool Stuff Coming To Netflix In July 2024

Feel the call of adventure from your couch?  It might be because some of this July’s Netflix offerings are calling to you.  This July, you could be scaling Mount Everest with the first female sherpa or hanging with Admiral Janeway in the new Voyager-A.  But the line might need to

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08 Jun 2024

All The Cool Stuff Coming To Netflix In June 2024

Unlike Hulu, Netflix’s June 2024 programming does not seem to prioritize LGBTQ+ content despite June being Pride Month.  Seeing Sean Baker’s “Tangerine” and a documentary history of queer stand-up comedians feels more like a sop rather than an answer to demands for more queer-friendly programming.  Queer folks can only go

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02 Feb 2024

The Cool Stuff Coming To Netflix in February 2024

It’s February, so of course films about romance are notably present among this month’s Netflix offerings.  But that fact doesn’t mean a few curves can’t be thrown.  Try a series from Taiwan about an Asian family trying to have frank conversations about sex.  Or how about a Thai series set

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24 May 2023

Why We’re Pausing Our Netflix & Hulu Previews Until the WGA Strike is Over

Dear Broke-Ass Reader, This writer’s digest of the upcoming month’s offerings on Netflix and Hulu has been interrupted by the Writers’ Guild of America (WGA) strike. This interruption will continue until the strike is resolved, hopefully in the WGA’s favor.   To understand why this action was taken, this nice summation

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