Netflix adding 22 new movies and shows this week (Feb. 2, 2025)

For your viewing pleasure, Netflix has added 23 new shows and movies to your rotation. Well, not yours personally, as that would be presumptuous and a bit rude. But I'm pretty sure you'll find something to like in this week's offerings.

Your favorite streaming service kicked off February with a pretty busy slate. But that was just a taste of what's coming up. This week brings 22 more great shows and movies to your living room, weekly commute, or that window you've got open during another endless Zoom meeting. You know who you are.

The week begins with an acclaimed biographical drama starring Michael Keaton, and wraps up with an acclaimed biographical drama starring Kristen Stewart. Between those two films, you're invited to have a chat on the big red couch, chase through the jungles of Costa Rica, investigate a murder, jump back into your college days, and so much more. Speaking of jumping, let's take that first leap.

Michael Keaton gets your Netflix week started with taste

That's assuming your taste runs to biographies of businessmen. A term I truly dislike is "nothingburger". It's a word that's a great example of its definition: something of little worth or insubstantial. I only bring it up because The Founder is anything but insubstantial.

The story of Ray Kroc, the man who turned a single hamburger stand into a two-hundred-billion-dollar business, is fascinating. Credit a great script and the talents of Batman - I mean, Keaton. Sadly there's no truth that the end credits feature a scene with him chasing down the Hamburglar.

Bogota: City of the Lost tells the story of a young Korean man in Colombia who follows the classic path to success. He fights his way up from life in the gutters to the top of the drug trade - all without filing a single patent for a fake diagnostic test. That's a different story. Bogota has an exceptional rating of 7.4 on imdb.com.

Time to switch gears as The Graham Norton Show arrives on Netflix. That's a bit of a cheat, as these aren't full episodes but fifteen-minute highlight reels of the best talk show on the air. True, it would be great if we got the full-length episodes (45 minutes), but it beats those three-minute clips you get on YouTube. Speaking of those - enjoy a sample of the madness:

Ahh, so good.

OMG, we're only up to February 5th. Alright, I'm just going to hit my personal highlights now. A bunch of stuff lands on Wednesday. That includes season 2 of Envious, the Argentinian rom-com series with an 80 percent ripe score on Rotten Tomatoes. The Costa Rican jungles are the setting for Celebrity Bear Hunt, where carefully staged survival show star Bear Grylls tracks down a dozen British stars, Hey, Mel B is in it, and I love her. And Boris Becker, for some reason. Umm... okay.

Amy Schumer leads the cast of Kinda Pregnant. I might watch it for Will Forte, but others here on NetflixLife have high hopes for the film. The survival reality show genre finally gets a series I'd watch in Alone Australia season 1. Considering the number of plants and animals that can unalive you Down Under, I'm shocked there are 12 episodes.

Apple Cider Vinegar is a six-episode series that spins the real-life story of a would-be wellness guru into a profound look at the power of social media. Yeah, that sounds as dry as the Sahara, but this fictionalized story of Belle Gibson's self-promotion and staggering lies may be the week's best bet. The Guardian highlights it as the week's best on any streaming service. That's good enough for me.

Sweet Magnolias returns with season 4, as A Different World debuts with all six seasons. Dr. Huxtable is most assuredly not tending bar at the sorority parties. Season 6 of The Conners arrives as well, as does Season 4 of Wrong Side of the Tracks. The Spanish crime drama has earned consistently solid audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB, so I'd expect nothing less from the final season.

Netflix wraps up the first week of February with the historical drama Spencer, the story of Lady Diana. Kristen Stewart earned raves for her portrayal of the much-loved Princess of Wales. Yes, it feels weird to write that this is a historical drama, but an entire generation has grown to adulthood since she passed in 1997. Catch the trailer below.

New on Netflix this week: Feb. 2-8

February 2

• The Founder

February 3

• Bogota: City of the Lost

February 4

• The Graham Norton Show

February 5

• Alone Australia
• Celebrity Bear Hunt season 1
• Envious
• Grimsburg season 1
• Kinda Pregnant
• Prison Cell 211
• Sintonia season 5

February 6

• Apple Cider Vinegar
• The Åre Murders
• Cassandra
• Golden Kamuy - the Hunt of Prisoners in Hokkaido
• Supreme Models
• Sweet Magnolias season 4

February 7

• The Conners season 6
• A Different World seasons 1-6
• The Greatest Rivalry: India vs Pakistan
• Pokémon Horizons: Season 2: The Search for Laqua (part 1)
• Wrong Side of the Tracks season 4

February 7

• Spencer

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