Best new movies and TV series on Netflix UK: November 2024

Each month, loads of new films and TV shows are added to Netflix UK’s library. Critic Eliza Janssen presents her picks for titles worth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down.

Top Picks: TV

Outer Banks: Season 4: Part 2 (November 7)

There’s nothing like a treasure hunt, to turn good friends into ride-or-dies. This returning teen adventure-drama arrives just in time for summer (in our lower hemisphere, at least), following the scrappy gang of “Pogues”, townie rivals to the rich-kid “Kooks” who vacation in their coastal town. Ever since our hero John (Chase Stokes) picked up the scent of a legendary golden bounty, his mates have been swashbuckling their way through episodes of romantic conflict, melodrama and the odd action sequence, revelations of pirate ancestry and missing dads flecked here and there.

There’s something joyfully childish about the show’s narrative thrust, despite the characters all being older than your Famous Fives and Goonies. The sunny setting and promised, shiny prize makes each new season (or half-season, as we’re dealing with now) feel like an inviting holiday rather than a gritty chore to show up for.

Arcane: Season 2 (November 9)

You don’t necessarily need to be a square-eyed devotee of League of Legends to appreciate this sumptuous animated adaptation: season one of Arcane was praised for its accessibility, hyping up fans and welcoming newcomers into a world caught between binaries of utopian tech and an oppressed underclass of survivors. Ella Purnell and Hailee Steinfeld voice sisters Powder and Vi, dwellers in an undercity that cowers below the wealthy burb of Piltover.

The first season ended with the pair being tragically torn apart by their convictions, and an ongoing rebellion that draws in steampunk, fantasy and (obviously) video game mechanic elements. The lore is dense and expansive at once, the voice cast are committed, and the visuals are fluid and impressive enough to justify the three-year wait we’ve suffered since 2021’s first season.

Cobra Kai: Season 6 Part 2 (November 15)

Nothing’s ever gonna keep this martial arts remix down: after a much longer run than its nostalgia-baiting premise ever suggested, Cobra Kai is finally shutting its dojo doors. Well, not finally: this sixth and last season has been broken into not the traditional two but three parts, with a final-and-we-really-mean-it-this-time chapter kicking its way onto Netflix sometime next year.

This second batch should set up all the punchy pieces, though, with the first part ending on Daniel (Ralph Macchio) questioning his beliefs and Cobra Kai’s female and male captains getting selected for a brutal tournament in Barcelona. Hopefully we’re plunged right into that international melee once this middle segment begins.

A Man On The Inside (coming in November)

A new Netflix comedy series, based on an Oscar-nominated Chilean documentary? Um, sure, especially if it stars Ted Danson. If you missed 2020’s The Mole Agent, it’s well worth a watch before you enjoy this scripted remix. But in short: the doco followed an elderly “spy” tasked with checking into and checking out an old folks’ home, his eyes and camera pen open to notice any signs of elder abuse.

Sounds like heavy stuff, but since even that non-fiction film had its funny and heartwarming moments, sitcom auteur Michael Schur is now turning it into an even funnier series, with Danson as our tech-challenged mole. Schur has worked with Danson before on existential comedy The Good Place, and the cast also includes Mary Elizabeth Ellis and Brooklyn Nine-Nine‘s Stephanie Beatriz, amongst a who’s-who of winning older talent. Watch it and then go visit your nanna.

Top Picks: Movies + Specials

The Piano Lesson (November 22)

Based on a script by acclaimed playwright August Wilson, this historical drama promises compelling performances from an all-star Black cast, including Samuel L Jackson, Denzel’s kid John David Washington (with brother Malcolm acting as director), Corey Hawkins, and the tremendous Danielle Deadwyler. Expect it to be played in a minor key rather than a jaunty major one, of uncomplex nostalgia: the setting is 1930s Pittsburgh, and our characters are a family struggling with a troublesome family heirloom.

It’s the inherited piano of the title, which features carvings from an enslaved ancestor—and you can bet each member of the Charles family is similarly marked by forces from their shared past, too. Soul and funk goddess Erykah Badu is even amongst the cast, in what should be a potent and theatrical chamber drama.

The Merry Gentlemen (November 20)

Christmas is still properly a month away, but Netflix couldn’t care less, already springing a new batch of original festive films on us. Lindsay Lohan’s got a new one—with one of those plots about exes forced to play nice over the holidays, obviously reconnecting under some mistletoe—and so does Lacey Chabert, being an indentured servant of the holiday rom-com industry by this point.

But my pick is this saucier effort, starring Britt Robertson as a dancer who must stage an all-male strip revue to save her parent’s struggling small-town performance space. It’s basically a Christmassy, yassified The Full Monty! With Chad Michael Murray bearing all in Magic Mike mode! These schmaltzy Christmas romances normally stack on the chaste sentimentality rather than any real steaminess, so perhaps buff Santas flashing some flesh could be just the stocking stuffer you’re after.

All titles arriving on Netflix UK in November

November 1

A Paris Waltz
Barbie Mysteries: Season 1
Fall Into Winter
Free State of Jones
Goosebumps
Hunter X Hunter: The Last Mission
Hunter X Hunter: Phantom Rouge
It’s All Over: The Kiss That Changed Spanish Football
Masha and the Bear: The Legend of the 12 Months
Just Go With It
Katie
Let Go
Love In The Wild
Maid in Manhattan
Mr. Peabody and Sherman
Oblivion
One Piece: Season 2
Pompeii
Sixteen Candles
Superbad
The Infiltrator
The Scorpion King
The Whale
Whiplash
Whitney

November 5

Dirty Jobs: Seasons 1-2
Love is Poison: Season 1
Love Village: Season 2

November 6

Love is Blind: Argentina: Season 1
Meet Me Next Christmas
Pedro Paramo

November 7

10 Days of a Curious Man
Born for the Spotlight: Season 1
Countdown: Paul Vs. Tyson: Season 1
Face Off: Seasons 6-8
Outer Banks: Season 4: Part 2
Si Juku: The Movie: Harta Pulau Moyet

November 8

A Holiday Engagement
Bank Under Siege: Season 1
Investigation Alien
Jurnal Risa by Risa Saraswati
Mr. Plankton: Limited Series
My Dad’s Christmas Date
The Cage: Season 1
Transformers: EarthSpark: Season 1
Umjolo: The Gone Girl
Vijay 69

November 9

Arcane: Season 2
The Lost City

November 10

Cien anos con Juan Rulfo
Focus
My Boo

November 11

Rob Peace

November 12

Adrienne Iapalucci: The Dark Queen
Fast & Furious movie collection
Rhythm + Flow: Brazil: Season 1

November 13

Emilia Pérez
Hot Frosty
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
Sister’s Feud: Season 1
Sprint: Season 2
The Mother of Penguins: Season 1

November 14

Beyond Goodbye: Season 1
The Fairy OddParents!: A New Wish: Season 1
The Lost Children

November 15

A.P. Bio: Seasons 1-4
Cobra Kai: Season 6 Part 2
Paul Vs Tyson: LIVE

November 16

Close To You
Widow Clicquot

November 18

Wonderoos: Season 2

November 19

Adam Ray Presents: Dr Phil UNPLUGGED
Zombieverse: Season 2

November 20

Adoration: Season 1
Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy
Father Figures
GT Max
Our Oceans: Season 1
Rhythm + Flow: Season 2
Shahs of Sunset: Seasons 3-4
The Merry Gentlemen

November 21

Maybe Baby 2
Tokyo Override

November 22

900 Days Without Annabel: Limited Series
Gold Rush: Seasons 1-2
Joy
Pokemon Horizons: The Series: Part 4
Spellbound
Tex Mex Masters: Season 2
The Empress: Season 2
The Helicopter Heist: Limited Series
The Piano Lesson
TRANSMITZVAH
When The Phone Rings: Season 1