This weekend, Netflix is adding the third part of a family comedy series, a Swedish TV series, a documentary series about a famous robbery, and a superhero comedy movie. The world of streaming keeps expanding with the arrival of new platforms and with that, the streaming wars are heating up again, but Netflix has nothing to worry about. The streaming giant continues to be very popular among viewers, in big part thanks to its original content, and it still adds new content – both licensed and original – every week.
Last weekend saw the arrival of the dramas At Eternity's Gates, The Pianist, and The Time Traveler’s Wife, the comedies Friends with Benefits and Legally Blonde, and the horror movies Insidious and Leprechaun, along with the pseudo-documentary series Haunted: Latin America, the Western drama Concrete Cowboy, and the crime drama miniseries The Serpent. This weekend, Netflix will welcome the documentary Coded Bias, the comedy The Stand In, and the documentary Diana: The Interview That Shocked The World.
As for original content, Netflix will bring the third part of a family comedy series, a Swedish crime TV series, a documentary on the biggest art heist in history, and a new superhero comedy movie. Here are the best movies and TV shows coming to Netflix this weekend - April 9.
Family Reunion – Part 3
The McKellans are back for a third season of the Netflix comedy TV series Family Reunion. The McKellans were revealed to be broke at the end of season 2, so M’Dear (Loretta Devine) offered the clan to stay with her for as long as they need – they may be tight on funds, but the family's never lacking in love as they power through heartache, loss, and adversity of all kinds in this new season.
Snabba Cash
Snabba Cash is a Swedish TV series based on the novel of the same name (English title: Easy Money) by Jens Lapidus and the movie trilogy. The series is set ten years after the events of the movies and centers on Leya (Evin Ahmad), a young single mom trying to make her way into the start-up scene. When the entrepreneurial world collides with the criminal one, loyalty, friendships, and business partners are put to the test in a never-ending quest for easy money.
This Is A Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist
Your dose of Netflix documentaries of the week comes with the series This Is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist. Through four episodes, the series tells the story of the biggest art heist in history: over St. Patrick’s Day weekend in 1990, legendary works by Rembrandt, Vermeer, and others worth over half a billion dollars today were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. This Is a Robbery covers the leads, dead ends, lucky breaks, and speculations that characterized the investigation of this still-unsolved mystery.
Thunder Force
Netflix's Thunder Force is a superhero comedy movie directed by Ben Falcone. Set in a world terrorized by supervillains, one woman has developed a process to give regular people superpowers – but when scientist Emily Stanton (Octavia Spencer) accidentally imbues her estranged best-friend Lydia (Melissa McCarthy) with incredible abilities, they become the first superhero team, and it’s now up to them to save Chicago from The King (Bobby Cannavale).