Netflix is adding 16 movies and series this week (April 6, 2025)

Your favorite streamer is back this week with a somewhat manageable 16 new titles this week. Maybe Netflix figured out that adding a hundred hours of shows in one week was a bit much, even for our binge-watching brains.

Everyone will have their favorite here, of course. Whether kids' shows or baseball are in your wheelhouse, Netflix has you covered this week. Standup comedy or an adaptation of Shakespeare, it's all here. Oh, wait, you like science fiction? Do we ever have good news for you!

I assume that by now you've watched Adolescence. If not, what the heck are you waiting for? I mean, it's only one of the best shows Netflix has introduced in a very long time. You better get crackin', cuz Netflix has more coming up for you this week. Including a new season of one of my favorite shows ever. Well, more or less.

Netflix adds thrills, pills and - ahem - unalivings - this week

Since the biggest social media site doesn't like the word that rhymes with the others, I thought I'd play along here. I mean, it's cool to allow all sorts of nonsense to be posted, but naughty naughty if you write the word certain word.

No, I'm not in jail on that site- just thought I'd point out the lunacy of that policy. Sort of like when Netflix lists the reasons a film may be rated R, for "Strong bloody violence, gore, and - oh, say it ain't so - smoking. Seeing a cigarette in a movie now has the same effect as a spotting a dial telephone - "what the heck is that thing?"

Oh yeah, the new stuff. Monday is the first day we get any new content. First up is a new show from standup comic Tony Hinchcliffe, Kill Tony: Kill or Be Killed. Based on the podcast of the same name, standup comics are selected at random and given one minute to "slay" the panel.

See, there was a reason I went into that whole "unaliving" thing after all. I don't find a single thing remotely funny about the dipstick who called Puerto Rico "a floating pile of garbage", but you do you.

A far better choice is the ever-popular kids' show host Blippi's new and exclusive Netflix offering, Blippi's Job Show. The ten-episode run promises to introduce kids to all kinds of cool and important jobs; everything from truck drivers to pizza makers, mail carriers to bloggers. Well, maybe not bloggers. Still, how cool is this?

Tuesday brings us baseball fans a real treat with The Clubhouse: A Year with the Red Sox. From Greg Whiteley, the director of Last Chance U, the series tracks the ups and downs of the Boston Red Sox 2024 season. Spoiler alert: they don't win the World Series. On the plus side for Fenway fans: neither do the Yankees.

We also get season 4 of the German crime series How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast). I picture there will be some of those warnings at the start of the show about stuff like smoking. The cool thing about Netflix - well, one of them - is now you can watch the show with a huge variety of audio tracks and subtitles. Like, a Catalan audio track and Vietnamese subtitles. Well, that's how I watched the Electric State, anyway. That could be why I enjoyed it.

We also get the debut of the next big hit on your favorite streaming service. Kian’s Bizarre B&B stars Jin of the mega-popular Korean group BTS, artist Kian, and comedian Ji Ye-eun. The celebrity trio launches a bizarre B&B on an even stranger island. The first three episodes arrive on day one. The trailer looks suitably crazy to me.

Wednesday brings us five new arrivals. I suspect Netflix brought the 1991 hit The Addams Family back on this day for some not-so-subtle reason. Maybe to remind you of the impending return of one of their biggest series? We also get the charming The Dad Quest, a comedy-drama from Spain following a father and son who aren't related after all. But Dad finds there are connections deeper than blood, after all.

We also get Chapter 3 of Unicorn Academy, a stand-alone special that picks up where season 2 of the popular animated series left off. Chapter 4 will follow this November. 2021's The Hating Game debuts on Wednesday as well. The rom-com follows two rivals from publishing companies that are forced to merge; only one will get the job. That's the weirdest meet-cute ever, but I'll check it out.

We also get another fine documentary, Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing. As laid out in the three-part series. everything wasn't quite as wonderful and happy as the videos portrayed in this case. The focus here is on the manipulation of the kids who starred in the videos. Frankly, many of the insipid pranks and challenges promoted by "influencers" aren't the healthiest for their viewers. For the record, you can play on my lawn all you want. Just don't try to eat a Tide pod while you're there.

Thursday promises to be one of those days that strains the Netflix servers. We get Frozen Hot Boys, a comedy about a group of misfits at a juvenile detention center that enters a snow-sculpting contest. And no, I did not make that up.

The animated series Moonrise debuts as well. Directed by Masashi Koizuka (seasons 2 and 3 of Attack on Titan) with character designs by Hiromu Arakawa (Fullmetal Alchemist), I picture Netflix has another hit here.

The Canadian comedy series North of North (yay Canada!) follows a young Inuk woman who must deal with the fallout from breaking up with her husband in their gossip-filled small Arctic town. How Canadian is this? Well, it was filmed in a curling arena, so, yeah, pretty Canadian. I'm bingeing all eight episodes, for sure.

I'll also be binge-watching season 7 of Black Mirror. It's the closest thing on television to the original Twilight Zone, and that includes all the remakes. Due, if I have to tell you anything about this show, you aren't interested anyway. Just don't be surprised if the steam buffers a few times for the first couple of days, okay?

Hey fam, remember I mentioned an adaptation of Shakespeare? Well, this as close as you're gonna get this week. The South African comedy Meet the Khumalos has the two rival families and the star-crossed lovers. Just with a lot less poison and friars who can't keep appointments and all the sad stuff. So, not too Shakespearean after all. But fun!

We wrap up Friday with The Gardener, a six-part series from Spain about a sweet mother who exploits her emotionless son to create a contract-killing business. Sorry, unaliving business. Complications ensue when he meets a girl, as these things do. There are about a zillion movies and shows with the same title; this is the one that looks great.

New on Netflix this week: April 6-12

April 7

• Blippi's Job Show
• Kill Tony: Kill or be Killed

April 8

• The Clubhouse: A Year with the Red Sox
• How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) season 4
• Kian’s Bizarre B&B

April 9

• The Addams Family
• Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing
• The Dad Quest
• The Hating Game
• Unicorn Academy Chapter 3

April 10

• Black Mirror season 7
• Frozen Hot Boys
• Moonrise
• North of North

April 11

• The Gardener
• Meet the Khumalos

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