The weekend is here, and with it a handful of new releases on Netflix - including stand-up comedy, time travel drama, a rock band biopic, and the long-awaited second season of The OA.
Last week's Netflix releases included a dose of true crime in docuseries The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann, an action-packed heist in the Ben Affleck-led movie Triple Frontier, and the latter half of Arrested Development season 5. Still to come in the next few weeks are new seasons of On My Block, Santa Clarita Diet, and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, as well as Netflix Original movies like The Highwaymen, The Perfect Date, and Someone Great. The streaming service has been aggressively building its library of original content, which outpaced acquired content for the first time in 2018.
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That's good news for those who are always looking for something new to binge-watch - and if you're one of them, here are the new Netflix releases to choose from this weekend.
The OA Season 2
More than two years after season 1 of Netflix Original series The OA debuted and enticed fans down a winding road of mystery, show creators Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij have returned with The OA: Part II. Marling once again plays Prairie Johnson a.k.a. The OA a.k.a. Nina Asarova, who now finds herself living in an alternate dimension where she is a wealthy Russian heiress. We also learn more about what happened to Hap and his four other captives, continue to follow BBA and the boys in the other dimension, and embark on a new mystery involving a strange house and a missing teenager.
The Dirt
A band as famous for their off-stage antics as their music, Mötley Crüe get the biopic treatment in Netflix Original film The Dirt, based on the book of the same name written by the band and Neil Strauss. The film adaptation rights were first bought back in 2006 by Paramount Pictures and MTV Films, but the project ended up languishing in development hell for more than a decade before it was finally picked up again by Netflix. The Dirt was directed by Jeff Tremaine, best known for his work on the Jackass TV show and movies, and he seems well suited to capture the wild, anarchic lifestyles of band members Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Vince Neil, and Nikki Sixx in the early days and eventual heights of Mötley Crüe's success.
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Mirage
Fans of The Butterfly Effect and other movies with time-travel conundrums may want to check out Netflix Original Mirage, directed by Oriol Paulo. This Spanish-language film is about a woman called Vera who discovers a camcorder with a recording made in 1989, on the night that a man killed his wife and their son, while fleeing the house, was killed by a car. During a strange storm, Vera finds herself able to communicate with the boy through the camcorder, and warns him about his imminent death, changing history. However, in doing so she creates a new timeline where her own daughter has been erased from existence.
Amy Schumer Growing
Following her 2017 stand-up special for Netflix, Amy Schumer: The Leather Special, Amy Schumer returns to the streaming service with another show - and this time, she's doing stand-up for two. In Amy Schumer Growing, the comedian riffs on the "joys" of pregnancy and settling down into marital bliss after years of enjoying single life. As the title suggests, this special is all about growth - both literal and figurative - as well as the things that stay the same.