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Netflix: new this week
Unlocked: A Jail Experiment Season 2 – 7 January
Documentary series. Coming up on two years since the first season debuted, Netflix is releasing a new season of this eye-opening reality series. Inside an Arkansas detention facility, a controversial sheriff implements a radical social experiment to grant incarcerated men more agency. Watch the trailer.
His & Hers – 8 January
Limited Series. Based on Alice Feeney’s 2020 novel of the same name, this brand new limited mystery-thriller series follows two estranged spouses – one a cop, the other a news reporter – as they compete to solve a murder case in which each believes the other is a prime suspect.
Starring Tessa Thompson, Jon Bernthal, Pablo Schreiber, Marin Ireland, Sunita Mani, Rebecca Rittenhouse and Crystal Fox.
People We Meet on Vacation – 9 January
Film. Pack your bags – Emily Henry’s bestselling romance novel is getting the Netflix movie treatment. Poppy’s a free spirit. Alex loves a plan. After years of summer vacations, these polar-opposite best pals can’t help but wonder if they could be a perfect romantic match.
Starring Emily Bader, Tom Blyth, Sarah Catherine Hook, Lukas Gage and Jameela Jamil. Watch the trailer.
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Stranger Things 5: The Finale – 1 January
Series finale. Netflix has certainly been milking all the publicity it can get from the fifth and final season of Stranger Things. The season’s release was divvied up into three staggered volumes – with the first four episodes coming out on 27 November, then the next three episodes dropping as a Boxing Day treat on 26 December, and the standalone final episode kicking off the new year with a big ending, streaming from 1 January 2026.
Stranger Things 5: The Finale – 1 January
Series finale. Netflix has certainly been milking all the publicity it can get from the fifth and final season of Stranger Things. The season’s release was divvied up into three staggered volumes – with the first four episodes coming out on 27 November, then the next three episodes dropping as a Boxing Day treat on 26 December, and the standalone final episode kicking off the new year with a big ending, streaming from 1 January 2026.
Stranger Things 5: Volume 2 – 26 December
Series. With Hawkins under lockdown, El in hiding and danger lurking at every turn, the entire party unites with a single goal: to hunt and kill Vecna.
Starring Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton.
Goodbye June – 13 December
Film (2025). Kate Winslet directs and joins Helen Mirren, Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn and Andrea Riseborough in a tender tale of a family’s farewell to their mother.
Starring Kate Winslet, Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn, Andrea Riseborough, Timothy Spall, Helen Mirren.
Emily in Paris Season 5 – 18 December
Series. Emily trades bonjour for buongiorno as she seeks to reinvent herself in Rome, but when love, career and loyalty collide, la dolce vita gets complicated.
Starring Lily Collins, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Ashley Park, Lucas Bravo, Samuel Arnold, Bruno Gouery, William Abadie, Lucien Laviscount.
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery – 12 December
Film (2025). Detective Benoit Blanc teams up with an earnest young priest to investigate a perfectly impossible crime at a small-town church with a dark history.
Starring Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, Thomas Haden Church.
