This weekend, Netflix will add a rom-com movie, the highly-anticipated third season of a popular TV series, a British comedy TV series, and an action-comedy movie. While Netflix shakes off recent controversy regarding a massive loss of followers, potential changes to its subscription plans, and the content of some of its comedy specials, the streaming giant hasn’t changed its release plans. Netflix subscribers are still getting new licensed and original content every week for all ages and tastes, ensuring that everyone always has something to watch.
Last weekend, Netflix welcomed the documentaries Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America, Home2Home, and Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, the LGBTQ+ romantic movie Front Cover, the crime thriller Speed Kills, season 4 of Charmed, and Andy Muschietti’s IT, along with the documentary Jennifer Lopez: Halftime, the comedy TV series God’s Favorite Idiot, the documentary series Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies and the Internet, and the sci-fi thriller movie Spiderhead. This weekend, on the licensed content front, Netflix will add the tragicomedy Philomena, two seasons of Nickelodeon’s All That, Kenan and Kel, Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide, and Zoey 101, the animated musical Sing 2, the sci-fi horror movie The Mist, the action movie Backtrace, and season 18 of Grey’s Anatomy.
As for original content, the streaming giant will bring a rom-com based on a novel, the return of the Umbrella Academy, a British comedy TV series starring Rowan Atkinson, and an action-comedy movie. Here are the best movies and TV shows coming to Netflix this weekend - June 24.
Love & Gelato
Love & Gelato is a rom-com directed by Brandon Camp and based on the novel of the same name by Jenna Evans Welch. Love & Gelato follows Lina (Susanna Skaggs), a 17-year-old American who finds herself having to travel to Rome to honor her mother's memory. Now in an unknown country, too messy and full of chaos for her serious, methodical, and a little nerdy nature, Lina will find herself forced to have to deal with all her obsessions, anxieties, and fears, while also dealing with her mother's past, which hides some surprises and secrets.
The Umbrella Academy – Season 3
The Umbrella Academy season 3 is now available to stream on Netflix. Season 3 will reunite viewers with the Umbrella Academy, who after successfully stopping the apocalypse in 1963, finally returned to their present, only to find it completely different. Their father, Reginald Hargreeves, adopted other kids and formed the Sparrow Academy – smart, stylish, and about as warm as a sea of icebergs – who took their place in this timeline and are not very welcoming. However, battling the Sparrows and navigating challenges, losses, and surprises of their own is the least of their problems, as the Umbrella Academy’s jumps through time and space unleashed a new, unidentified, destructive entity that is now wreaking havoc in the universe – and they will need the Sparrows to put right what their arrival made wrong.
Man vs Bee
Man vs Bee is a British comedy TV series created and written by Rowan Atkinson and William Davies and starring Atkinson. Lovable but bumbling Trevor (Atkinson) lands a job as a housesitter, and his first assignment is a luxurious mansion with priceless artwork, classic cars, and a dog called Cupcake. However, it all gets out of control when a bee lands on the scene, and Trevor's rivalry with the bee can lead to increasingly disastrous consequences. Starring alongside Atkinson are Jing Lusi, Claudie Blakley, Tom Basden, and Greg McHugh.
The Man From Toronto
The Man From Toronto is an action-comedy movie directed by Patrick Hughes and starring Kevin Hart and Woody Harrelson. In The Man From Toronto, a case of mistaken identity arises after a screw-up sales consultant (Hart) and the world’s deadliest assassin (Harrelson), known only as "The Man from Toronto", run into each other at a holiday rental. Also starring are Kaley Cuoco, Ellen Barkin, Lela Lore, and Pierson Fodé.