New to UK Netflix October 2017
Autumn is upon us. Get in your pyjamas (these ones) and snuggle up with Netflix October 2017's best new TV shows and film releases, including Stranger Things 2
MINDHUNTER, UK Netflix
Netflix Original releases October 2017
MINDHUNTER
UK Netflix release date: 13 October
David Fincher – the director of House of Cards – returns to TV this October for a mind-bending, dark Netflix drama following two FBI agents who set about trying to understand how serial killers are wired. Based on the 1997 crime classic by John Douglas, Fincher investigates the early years of criminal profiling and the lengths that agents went to understand the convicts.
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Stranger Things 2
UK Netflix release date: 27 October
Stranger Things, the crepuscular, spine-shivering thriller set in the fictional rural town of Hawkins that captured the hearts of Netflix fans last year, has announced it's official return date on 27th October 2017. Spectacular news.
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Suburra
UK Netflix release date: 6 October
Based on the novel by the same name, this ten-part Netflix original crime thriller series is set in Rome (and in Italian, so you'll have to be OK with subtitles). It follows three young men who come together to achieve their deepest desires. But, it's really about how the Church, the state, organized crime, local gangs, and real estate developers collide and blur the lines between the legal and the illicit in their quest for power.
1992
UK Netflix release date: 20 October
Forget It, watch Stephen King from the comfort (and safety) of your own house as 1922, based on a 131-page Stephen King story, comes to Netflix. The tale is told from from the perspective of Wilfred James, who admits to killing his wife, Arlette, with his son in Nebraska. But after he buries her body, he finds himself terrorized by rats and, as his life begins to unravel, becomes convinced his wife is haunting him...
Wheelman
UK Netflix release date: 20 October
Starring Frank Grillo (Kingdom, Captain America: Civil War), this is the story of a getaway driver thrust into a high stakes race-to-survive after a bank robbery goes terribly wrong. With a car full of money and his family on the line, the clock is ticking to figure out who double-crossed him and the only person he can trust... his thirteen-year-old daughter. All reasons to think fast and drive faster. Expect guns, violence and high stakes.
The series coming to Netflix October 2017
Star Trek: Discovery season one
UK Netflix release date: New episode every Monday
Designated Survivor season two
UK Netflix release date: weekly from 28 October
Designated Survivor Season 2 arrives on Netflix with Tom Kirkman, a lower-level cabinet member who is suddenly appointed President of the United States following an attack on the US Capitol. Kirkman struggles to keep the country and his family from falling apart.
Rick and Morty season three finale
UK Netflix release date: 7 October
Rick and Morty is the American, adult science-fiction cartoon sitcom by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon following the misadventures of a mad scientist Rick Sanchez and his manipulatable grandson Morty Smith. This October the finale of season three comes to UK Netflix.
Riverdale season two
UK Netflix release date: 12 October
Archie Andrew's in his small town of Riverdale continues hunting for the darkness hidden behind the town's perfect veneer. From the look of the trailer, season two picks up from the shooting of Archie's father. 'It looks like the angel of death had come to Riverdale...' Terrifying.
Dynasty season one
UK Netflix release date: weekly from 12 October
Meet the 1% of the 1%, the richest of the rich and the worst of the worst. Dynasty is a glorious, glamorous drama following the power struggles between a daughter and new wife as they go head-to-head over Daddy's love and money. Grab the popcorn.
UK Netflix October film releases
The Notebook
UK Netflix release date: 1 October
The 2004 romantic drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes, based on the romance novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks and staring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams finally comes to Netflix. It follows the story of a young couple who fall in love during the early 1940s.
Notting Hill
UK Netflix release date: 17 October
Richar Curtis' famous film about an American actress Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) who falls in love with a frumpy British bookstore clerk William Thacker (Hugh Grant). Enjoy a stand-out performance by Rhys Ifans, as William's eccentric Welsh housemate.
Rain Man
UK Netflix release date: 1 October
Directed by Barry Levinson and starring Dustin Hoffman (who won an Oscar for best actor in this performance), Tom Cruise and Gerald R. Molen, this is a deeply sensible drama about the struggles between two very different brothers.
Good Will Hunting
UK Netflix release date: 1 October
Will Hunting (Matt Damon) is twenty year old genius who, because of his background, scrubs floors as a janitor at MIT. The one thing this bright, disillusioned young man can't do, which is talk his way out of an impending jail sentence. Fortunately he's picked up by Sean McGuire (Robin Williams), a college professor-turned-therapist who believes in the young man's future.
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