Summer is usually about being outside. But if these goose-mollman-inducing levels of heat persist, you best believe we’ll be spending a lot of time in front of the TV inside – and when the World Cup isn’t going on, Netflix has a great crop of new arrivals to enjoy on sultry evenings.
For horror fanatics, there is smile 2The terrifying story of a Sabrina Carpenter-like pop star who is terrorized by a murderous demon. If you’re more interested in extremely tasteful, low-brow melodrama, Nathan Fillion’s cop series newbie Are you covered? and then there is permanent heart failureThe feature-length culmination of the sweetest TV series ever. You bring industrial-grade AC, we’ll bring 350 pounds of ice: Here are the best new shows and movies on Netflix in July.
newbie (2018–present)
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TV headliner Nathan Fillion stars in this ridiculous, entertaining, and highly entertaining police melodrama about a middle-aged divorcee who moves to Los Angeles to become a cop. It’s kind of like the Ryan Murphy show CSI. The first season remains relatively grassroots, with Fillion’s officer John Nolan learning the ropes with his budding fellow rookies under the tutelage of his serious training officers, who call the rookies “boots” as if in some sort of bizarre college hazing ritual. But now with eight seasons under their belt, you can bet they’ll be jumping like sharks. To me, all the above seasons have blurred into one; What I can tell you is that, somewhere in the pile, there is a series of episodes that basically act as a thinly veiled silence of the Lambs remake, much of which sees Nolan in far more lethal danger than a beat cop, and even a widely ridiculed entry in which Nolan’s team is subjected to the creation of a true crime doc. Which is styled like a true crime doc. The epitome of smoothbrain genius.
