Let’s give a little credit to Allison Williams (a phrase you don’t hear often) for successfully shedding the role of Girls’ Marnie Michaels for horror movie lead. Or maybe we should thank Jordan Peele? I have to thank someone for the terror inflicted on us this week in the form of The Perfection. Williams plays a…

Life is hard, and for this reason, you deserve something nice, which is why I got you Nailed It!: Season 3 (Friday). There’s a lady with Iris Apfel glasses this season!

You could have set your watch by it: As soon as Netflix struck gold with Orange Is the New Black, someone had the bright idea that to make a reality show about a women’s prison. Jailbirds (Friday) looks like what would happen if the geniuses with that bright idea were the creators of Jersey Shore, which is to say that…

It’s May, and your cup runneth over—if not in all areas of your life, then at least the most important one: the area in which you recline on your sectional, eating Pop Corners while alternately watching TV and playing on your phone (some call this area the “living room”; I prefer “salon” or “parlour”). We’ve got Knock…

Two words for May, Netflixsters: Mister. Mom.

Whatever is going on in the calamitous phantasmagoria known as I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson (Tuesday) is both frightening and intriguing, and it’s the best you’re going to do on Netflix this week. Allegedly, it’s a sketch comedy show brought to you by The Lonely Island, starring Robinson, of Comedy…

The executive producers of Bridesmaids are bringing us rom-com Someone Great this weekend, and it really better be something great because I don’t watch Game of Thrones. Jane the Virgin’s Gina Rodriguez stars as a music journalist who has one last blowout with her besties before she leaves NYC. It looks funny and…

This week, Bear Grylls is literally between a rock and a hard place, and you get to choose his own adventure in the dumbly-titled interactive series You vs. Wild (Wednesday). Should he climb to the top of the cliff he’s dangling from and face the hungry mountain lion, or jump down into the rocky abyss? Should he eat…

Can America forgive Kevin Hart for his homophobic tweets? What about for The Upside? We’re about to find out when Irresponsible, Hart’s “fresh special inspired by his own mistakes,” comes to Netflix on Tuesday. I’m still working my way through the Ray Romano back catalog, so I’ll skip my dose of standup this month,…

Do you have a black belt in salary negotiation? Are you in possession of more airline miles than everyone you know combined? Would your opinions on student loan payoff plans be considered “fascinating dinner party conversation”? Could you retire next year but would prefer instead to work in a very cool job explaining…

There is an actual documentary coming to Netflix on Friday called The Legend of Cocaine Island and it looks totally ridiculous, by which I mean I am definitely going to watch it. Sayeth the capsule description:

I hate biopics! I’d so much rather watch a biographical documentary than watch actors pretend to be real live people. Sure, you’ll probably get an Oscar for your portrayal (cf. Rami Malek), but I’m not entirely sure why, because acting in a biopic involves so much impersonation, which seems like a waste of time. Just…

Our long national nightmare is over, comrades. The second half of Season 5 of Arrested Development arrives on Friday. Look, I’m trying to polish a turd here. Arrested Development has not been good since its pre-Netflix days and we all know it, but there is nothing else to watch this week. Unless you love Terrace House…

Who ordered a heartwarming comedy series “from the mind of Ricky Gervais” about a man who uses his wife’s death as an excuse to treat everyone like crap? Netflix! What are you thinking? No one is interested in After Life (Friday), Gervais’ “dark comedy” (translation: Gervais’ wife calls him fat, Gervais calls a child…

Have you watched Jeopardy on Netflix? Jeopardy on Netflix is Jeopardy without commercials, which is a cool 20 minutes per episode of nerdy trivia that is just the sort of stress-free, self-congratulatory binge we could all use. Netflix’s second “collection” of Jeopardy episodes drops on Thursday, just in time for…

Ray Romano was not kidding when he titled his very recent standup special Right Here, Around the Corner. It gives me no joy to tell you that a mere two weeks after said special dropped (if anything that Ray Romano produces could be said to have “dropped”), Ray has come back Around the Corner and he’s Right Here,…

Maybe your boss is a jerk. Maybe the team you manage has weird internal conflicts. Maybe you’re on the fence about your next career move. Maybe your cubicle neighbor is driving you bananas.

Look, I’m not making any promises about The Umbrella Academy, the latest comic book-to-Netflix Original series (Thursday). It could be terrible, but there’s something about the premise (estranged siblings with superpowers reunite after their father’s death) and the trailer, which has a sort of fairy-tale filter and…

Who among us is excited for the triumphant return to the stage of Ray Romano? Not me! But I’m assuming the same people who kept Everybody Loves Raymond on the air for 11 years have been anxiously anticipating Ray Romano: Right Here, Around the Corner, Romano’s first standup special in 23 years, which hits Netflix on…

The Edge of Seventeen is a solid, engaging, entertaining teen movie in the mold of John Hughes, and you should definitely watch it if you haven’t seen it (Friday). Hailee Steinfeld is an interesting actor! If you have a teenage kid, you could watch it with them and then have a productive conversation! Or, you could…