Shows Coming To Netflix UK In February 2018
Streaming giant Netflix has just released it’s upcoming list of content for next month on the service, and there is an interesting mix of things to keep you entertained! From sci-fi adventure in ‘Altered Carbon’ to a reboot of makeover show ‘Queer Eye’, and period dramas set in the 1930s in ‘Damnation’ and the 1990s in ‘Everything Sucks!’. Plus there is also ‘Mute’, a new movie from ‘Moon’ creator Duncan Jones! Here is our selection of things to watch out for…
Damnation: Season 1 – 1st February 2018
An epic saga about the secret history of the 1930’s American heartland, Damnation centres on the mythic conflict and bloody struggle between big money and the downtrodden, God and greed, charlatans, and prophets. The pilot introduces Seth Davenport (Killian Scott), a man masquerading as a small town Iowa preacher in the hopes of starting a full-blown insurrection against the status quo. Focused on his mission, he is unaware that an industrialist tycoon has hired a professional strikebreaker named Creeley Turner (Logan Marshall-Green, Quarry) to stop the uprising by any means necessary. But unbeknownst to those around them, these two men already share a secret bloody past.
Altered Carbon: Season 1 – 2nd February 2018
Based on the classic cyberpunk noir novel by Richard K. Morgan, ‘Altered Carbon’ is an intriguing story of murder, love, sex, and betrayal, set more than 300 years in the future. Society has been transformed by new technology: consciousness can be digitized; human bodies are interchangeable; death is no longer permanent… No BODY Lives Forever…
Queer Eye: Season 1 – 7th February 2018
It’s been fifteen years since the Emmy Award-winning series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy revolutionized reality television. The series returns to Netflix and is going global, introducing audiences around the world to a modern aesthetic, diverse perspective and a brand new Fab Five: Antoni Porowski (Food & Wine),Bobby Berk (Interior Design), Karamo Brown (Culture), Jonathan Van Ness (Grooming) and Tan France (Fashion). This season Queer Eye trades its original New York setting for communities in and around Atlanta, Georgia. Our new Fab Five will forge relationships with men and women from a wide array of backgrounds and beliefs often contrary to their own, touching on everything from LGBTQ rights and social commentary to how to make the best farm-to-table guacamole and more!
Everything Sucks!: Season 1 – 16th February 2018
https://youtu.be/HuG2uAWVlP4
A quirky, funny coming of age story that follows two groups of high school misfits, Everything Sucks! follows an A/V club and a Drama club who collide in 1996 Oregon. The series stars Peyton Kennedy (American Fable, The Captive) and Jahi Winston (The New Edition Story) as students Kate Messner and Luke O’Neil, with Patch Darragh (Sully, Boardwalk Empire) and Claudine Mboligikpelani Nako (Grimm) as their respective parents. The series also features Sydney Sweeney (“Emaline”), Elijah Stevenson (“Oliver”), Quinn Liebling (“Tyler”) and Rio Mangini (“McQuaid”).
Mute – 23rd February 2018
Berlin, the future, but close enough to feel familiar: In this loud, often brutal city, Leo (Alexander Skarsgård) – unable to speak from a childhood accident – searches for his missing girlfriend, the love of his life, his salvation, through dark streets, frenzied plazas, and the full spectrum of the cities shadow-dwellers. As he seeks answers, Leo finds himself mixed up with Cactus Bill (Paul Rudd) and Duck (Justin Theroux), a pair of irreverent US army surgeons on a mission all their own. This soulful sci-fi journey from filmmaker Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code, Warcraft) imagines a world of strange currencies in which echoes of love and humanity are still worth listening to.
On top of all those shows, you also have:
‘The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale’ – weekly from 18th February 2018
The comedian/actor take a weekly look at news, pop culture, and social media.
Derren Brown: The Push – 27th February 2018
First of 3 Netflix specials which shows mentalist Derren Brown engineer an audacious social experiment demonstrating how manipulation can lead an ordinary person to commit an appalling act.
Marlon Wayans: Woke-ish – 27th February 2018
Comedy special which sees Marlon Wayans gets raw on racism, age-appropriate rap rhymes, gay rights, raising kids and even the Kardashians.
