Every month, Netflix adds movies and TV shows to its library. Here are our picks for some of April’s most promising new titles for U.S. subscribers. (Note: Streaming services occasionally change schedules without giving notice. For more recommendations on what to stream, sign up for our Watching newsletter here.)
‘Pulse’ Season 1
Started streaming: April 3
Fans of frenetic, bloody scenes of emergency room traumas have been well served lately, first with the Max hit “The Pitt” and now with Netflix’s new medical drama “Pulse.” Created by Zoe Robyn (who runs the show alongside the veteran writer/producer Carlton Cuse), “Pulse” has Willa Fitzgerald playing Danny, an E.R. resident at a Miami hospital, who is promoted to a position of authority after an H.R. complaint is lodged against a colleague, Xander (Colin Woodell). While trying to rally the skeptical staff in the middle of several escalating crises — including a hurricane and its aftermath — Danny reflects via flashbacks on her messy personal and professional relationship with Xander.
‘The Clubhouse: A Year With the Red Sox’
Starts streaming: April 8
The Boston Red Sox finished the 2024 baseball season at 81-81, missing the playoffs for the third straight year. But they had stretches when they showed real promise, thanks to a core of talented young players like Jarren Duran, Rafael Devers and Brayan Bello. The latest docuseries from the producer and director Greg Whiteley (“Last Chance U,” “Cheer”) covers the Sox’s highs and lows last year, from spring training until game 162. Whiteley is known for getting intimate access to his subjects, and “The Clubhouse” is no exception. Baseball is full of big personalities, and this series gets up close and personal with them. Whiteley’s crew catches the complex preparations that go into every game, along with the mental and emotional struggles modern athletes endure when they make mistakes.
‘Black Mirror’ Season 7
Starts streaming: April 10
Season 6 was a bit of a departure for the satirical science-fiction anthology “Black Mirror,” with more folklore-focused episodes and fewer stories about futuristic technology. Season 7 gets back to basics, with episodes that ask the kind of unsettling, ripped-from-the-zeitgeist questions the series’s creator, Charlie Brooker, is known for. What if a lifesaving medical intervention were available only as a subscription service? Could super-advanced computing programs alter our memories? Can A.I.-aided replications of pop culture be as satisfying as the originals? These ideas and more are explored by casts that include Rashida Jones, Issa Rae, Paul Giamatti, Peter Capaldi and Cristin Milioti. The season also includes the first “Black Mirror” sequel, in a feature-length episode that revisits the world of the Season 4 fan-favorite “U.S.S. Callister.”
‘You’ Season 5
Starts streaming: April 24
The TV adaptation of Caroline Kepnes’s “You” novels comes to an end with Season 5, completing the saga of Joe (Penn Badgley), a handsome and charming young man who has a habit of becoming dangerously, murderously obsessed with women. The show began as a twisted riff on romantic comedies, imagining what those stories might be like if their Prince Charmings had a secret violent streak. But as Joe has met other sociopaths and tried to control his impulses, “You” has evolved into a pitch-dark serial-killer thriller, depicting a world teeming with predators. The final season begins with our antihero married and seemingly secure, but it does not take long before some new characters — including a quirky bibliophile (Madeline Brewer) and a ruthless corporate schemer (Anna Camp) — provoke Joe into resuming old habits.
‘The Eternaut’ Season 1
Starts streaming: April 30
In 1957, the Argentine comic book writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld co-founded the anthology magazine “Hora Cero,” for which he began writing the adventures of a time-traveling, dimension-hopping, alien-fighting, scuba-mask-wearing Everyman. One of the first sustained attempts at a mature, science-fiction comics series, “The Eternaut” became a favorite of genre connoisseurs; and for decades, movie and TV producers have tried to adapt it. Netflix and the writer-director-producer Bruno Stagnaro have finally gotten the job done with a series that begins with an apocalyptic event — a freakish, deadly summer snowfall, descending on Buenos Aires — and then follows an ordinary guy, Juan Salvo (Ricardo Darin), as his simple fight for survival turns gradually into something more epic.
Also arriving:
April 2
“Banger”
“Love on the Spectrum” Season 3
April 3
“Devil May Cry” Season 1
“Jurassic World: Chaos Theory” Season 3
April 4
“Karma” Season 1
April 7
“Blippi’s Job Show” Season 1
“Kill Tony: Kill or Be Killed”
April 8
“How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)” Season 4
“Kian’s Bizarre B&B” Season 1
April 9
“Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing”
“The Dad Quest”
April 10
“Frozen Hot Boys”
“Moonrise” Season 1
April 11
“The Gardener” Season 1
April 15
“The Glass Dome” Season 1
April 16
“The Diamond Heist”
“Project U.F.O.”
April 17
“Ransom Canyon”
April 18
“iHostage”
April 21
“Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey”
April 23
“Battle Camp” Season 1
“Bullet Train Explosion”
“Carlos Alcaraz: My Way”
“A Tragedy Foretold: Flight 3054”
“UnBroken”
April 25
“Havoc”
April 28
“Chef’s Table: Legends”
April 30
“Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight” Season 1
