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It's rare that a Hollywood star is this convincing as someone thinking of throwing himself into a volcano.

Netflix has a new show that it's added to its service with a 96% Rotten Tomatoes score across four seasons. Three are on Netflix right now.

'Nobody Wants This' is back for season 3 on Netflix, and fans are wondering if it will return for season 4. Here's the latest information on

Netflix’s new Stanford Prison Experiment reality show reveals why Americans are so easily recruited into a culture war that makes everyone miserable, writes Arthur Brooks. Last Wednesday, I started watching Netflix’s new reality show, The New Stanford Prison Experiment. The six-episode series re-creates the central premise of Philip Zimbardo’s original 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the most famous social science investigations ever conducted, which randomly assigned 24 college-age participants to the roles of prisoners—confined in a simulated jail—and guards—who were given uniforms, authority, and the responsibility to maintain order. The researchers wanted to investigate the question of whether abusive behavior derives from an individual’s personality, or whether ordinary people become abusive simply because they are placed in positions of power. The Netflix series is entertaining. In total, 30 Americans are invited to a real-life prison in Georgia; eight members of the group are assigned to be guards, while 22 are prisoners. As a social scientist, I have quibbles about the experiment design: A proper study would compare different groups with varying degrees of power, in a treatment and control format. But, of course, this is a television show, meant to entertain—which it does, while also providing some fascinating insights into human behavior. (Some spoilers follow.) The New Stanford Prison Experiment corrects many of the flaws of the original experiment, which resulted in most of the guards becoming increasingly tyrannical and subjecting prisoners to humiliation and arbitrary punishment, while the prisoners became depressed and helpless. The original was terminated after just six days (of the intended 14) because of the escalating maltreatment and distress. The general conclusion was that ordinary, healthy people can become cruel, abusive, and authoritarian when placed in social situations that give them power over others.

“Love Is Blind” star Jacqueline “Jax” Guelli expected a Kennedy look-alike. After meeting her fiancé face to face, she said she saw Mitt Romney, and ended the engagement shortly afterward. Guelli and Scott “Stew” Stewart became engaged without seeing each other, as the Netflix show’s premise requires. But their first meeting ended with Jax walking ...

Keanu Reeves is attached to star in "Maelstrom" at Netflix, a revived project that recently had fellow action hero Alan Ritchson of "Reacher" cast in the lead role

Shogun’s Moeka Hoshi stars as a travelling caster-out of ghosts who confronts a wounded and recalcitrant spirit in this inventive chiller If you watched this Japanese-language ghost-story horror thriller cold, you might be a little surprised that the credits reveal that the director is one Dave Boyle – and not someone from Japan, so steeped is it in Japanese lore and culture. It turns out that Boyle has been interested in Japan for a long time, and even wrote, directed and starred in the 2006 feature film Big Dreams Little Tokyo, about an American sharing a flat with an aspiring sumo wrestler. More recently, Boyle was a key director-producer for the Netflix series House of Ninjas, and Never After Dark seems to have evolved as a spun-off side hustle between Boyle and Ninjas star Kento Kaku, who produced it and takes a supporting role. Continue reading...

WWE Raw on Oct. 26 streams live on Netflix from Fresno at 8 p.m. ET. Here’s the full card, including Becky Lynch vs. Stephanie Vaquer, and the Crown Jewel lineup.

Budgets of Hollywood blockbusters have become increasingly harder to justify in recent years and the advent of streaming has hidden the yardstick of success from public view as box office numbers aren’t reported for each production.

The new Netflix film "The Mosquito Bowl" recounts the true story of All-American football stars who volunteered for the Marines following Pearl Harbor – and fought in the Battle of Okinawa, the last and costliest World War II battle in the Pacific. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin talks with director Peter Berg ("Friday Night Lights") about translating the story of young men trained for war to the screen.

Netflix’s new documentary “Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald” feels like a philosophical guide from the late, great comedian. Narrated primarily by the legendary comic himself, the documentary shows why Macdonald’s sharp-tongued, deadpan humor still hits home today. Directed by his close friend Judd Apatow, it uses clips from talk shows, old “Saturday Night Live” ...

The series revisits one of psychology’s most notorious experiments, but its producers’ efforts to manufacture conflict undermine the question the show claims to examine.

A great Netflix show is back with a new 100% scored season, bringing its four season up to a 98% in all. It's been gone for a long, long time.

Michael Che's Netflix special opens with jokes about Charlie Kirk's killing and repeatedly uses the R-word to mock President Donald Trump and MAGA supporters.

In this week’s newsletter: Stalling subscriber numbers have led to a corporate bloodbath, but the streaming giant has an inherent quality problem that will be a lot harder to fix In all the fevered hype around a certain three-hour, form-breaking documentary portrait of a disgraced tech CEO , another big Hollywood story this week has been relatively sidelined: the drama at Netflix, where sluggish subscriber numbers and a general lack of Wall Street enthusiasm has led to a remarkable spree of sackings. A thousand employees, or 6% of its entire workforce, have been laid off – including some very big names. Among a clutch of other execs, chief content officer Bela Bajaria – the figure most synonymous with Netflix’s tone and ethos over the past decade – has been fired. The company’s head of film, Dan Lin, has gone too. That shade of red on the streamer’s logo has never looked more bloody. You Can See Everything getting very messy indeed. We’ve been here before, of course. Netflix – giant, controversial, inescapable – is the sort of company people love to make grand speculations about. Pencils were sharpened in 2022 when Netflix lost subscribers for the first time and saw its share price plummet as a result, before the company enjoyed a notable resurgence. Just as the obituaries written for the streamer were premature then, writing it off now would be foolish too. Continue reading...

It’s not TV, it’s Netflix. HBO changed the face of cable television in the late 1970s, and now Netflix is doing the same in the streaming revolution. The phrase “Netflix and chill” frightened Hollywood to its core. What if moviegoers opted for Netflix originals at home over their friendly neighborhood theaters? Now, it’s Netflix’s turn ...

Looking for something new to stream this week? Here’s every major new movie and show hitting Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, Apple TV and more.

Netflix released a documentary about the legendary late comedian last week. But what I remember most about him is something he said in a 2018 tweet: ‘How could a man be a cynic? It is a sin,' writes Josh Kaplan. I’ve long believed that to understand a society, a culture, its people, there’s no better place to look than comedians. Comedy is a medium that does its best to defy performative opinions. It lives and dies on the instant feedback of a raucous chorus of laughter, the desperate silence of a failed punch line. There’s no room for ambiguity. Something is funny or it is not; you cannot fake a laugh. It follows, then, that comedians are some of the most honest brokers in cultural life. They have to see the world and describe it how it is—otherwise they will fail. The late great Norm Macdonald was not only an incredible comedian; he was also someone relentlessly clear-eyed in how he saw the world. Saturday Night Live’s most famous Canadian son—and the subject of Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald, a new Judd Apatow documentary released on Netflix last week—was as much a great thinker as he was a great joke teller. He developed many distinct followings over his career, launching a cult classic YouTube podcast that inspired a generation of comedians with absurd jokes that would never have aired outside of his own channel. I discovered Norm late, only a few years before his death in 2021, but I was transfixed. His deadpan delivery, his commitment to the bit above all else, the fact that he could bring actual humor to an awards show red carpet, made me fall in love with his jokes in a million different ways. And now, nearly a decade later, his witticisms have crept into my speech and I find myself frequently looping back to jokes he made—including his final perfect punch line, when he reacted to hearing that Adolf Hitler had died decades ago with the deadpan, “Did he? I didn’t even know he was sick.” Millions repeated that joke after he passed away from cancer—a disease he’d kept secret for 10 years.

Erin Foster, the creator of the Netflix show "Nobody Wants This," disagrees with comments about Palestine and Israel from the show's lead actor, Adam Brody.

After Brody called out the ‘death and misery’ in Palestine, the Netflix hit’s Jewish creator said they don’t see eye to eye The creator of the hit Netflix comedy Nobody Wants This has responded to star Adam Brody’s recent support of Palestine amid the Israel-Gaza war . “Everyone is entitled to a different opinion,” Erin Foster said in an interview with the Not Skinny Not Fat podcast when asked about Brody calling for a free Palestine. Continue reading...

These are just a few of the new releases arriving on streaming this week.

The third season of the hit Netflix show is set for release at some point in 2027.

How does the third installment in Netflix's rom-com come to a close?

Greta Gerwig's Netflix "Narnia: The Magician's Nephew" trailer sparks backlash as fans question the $250 million adaptation's tone and direction.

Internationally acclaimed actor Koji Yakusho stars as a man clawing his way up from rock bottom in this comedic and compelling Netflix series.