New to Netflix UK: March 2022

The raunchy guilty-pleasure hit of 2020, season one of Bridgerton immediately shot up the Netflix charts and grew into a cultural phenomenon. Secret Cinema was even inspired to create an immersive event themed around the series.

The premise sounds like your bog-standard period-drama: set in Regency Britain, mingling with high society, and parents finding potential husbands and wives for their children. But there’s a silliness and a sex appeal to Bridgerton: something you watch purely to laugh at and be seduced by, to empty your mind and escape.

Season two was delayed because of Covid, but we're looking forward to another cheesy slice at the end of March. This season focuses on the sleazy eldest Bridgerton brother Anthony (Jonathan Bailey). From a recently released clip, he has a new love interest: the outspoken and feministic Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley).

4 reasons why you should watch Bridgerton

Many of us have solidified ideas about our parents during childhood, and those gradually dissolve into more nuanced perspectives as we get older. But for the 30-year-old Andy (Bella Heathcote) in Pieces of Her, based on the Karen Slaughter thriller, those coming-of-age realisations become much more explosive.

In a restaurant in Georgia, Andy’s chatting with her apparently conventional mother Laura (Toni Collette) when a sudden act of violence erupts nearby. Laura springs out of her chair and takes the assailant down, making her a viral sensation. Dangerous forces close in and Andy discovers more about Laura's past. Did she really know her mother at all? The End of the F***ing World's Jessica Barden also stars.

Although Jason Segel is best known for his comedy roles like in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and his nine-year stint on How I Met Your Mother, he’s dived into more dramatic roles over the last few years. He even played the revered academic author David Foster Wallace in The End of the Tour. Continuing that streak, but with some humour sprinkled in, he stars in the new Netflix film Windfall as a man who breaks into the house of a rich couple.

Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog) and Lily Collins (Emily in Paris) play the rich couple who are, understandably, shocked to encounter this man in their home. After being caught, the burglar holds them hostage and attempts to negotiate a larger monied exchange.

Ryan Reynolds is becoming Netflix’s go-to bankable star, following the company’s shake-up to create more Hollywood-budget Original films. After starring alongside Gal Gadot and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson in the heist movie Red Notice, he's now taking on the Spielbergian time-travel drama The Adam Project.

This new sci-fi film from Stranger Things director Shawn Levy has Reynolds play a pilot flying through time, eventually finding his childhood self and coming ‘to terms with his past while saving the future’. Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldana and Jennifer Garner also star.

Swindlers and con artists seem to be the latest trend in Netflix’s true-crime roster, ranging from the feature-length doc The Tinder Swindler to the nine-part Anna Delvey series Inventing Anna. The newest addition, Bad Vegan, focuses on the former Manhattan restauranteur Sarma Melngailis, who owned one of the most popular raw-vegan restaurants in New York – attracting the likes of Anne Hathaway and Stevie Wonder.

Melngailis was accused of stealing $2 million from the business for the benefit of Anthony Strangis, a man she had met on Twitter. The strangest part of the story? Allegedly, she believed Strangis had the power to make her dog, Leon, immortal.

Tuesday 1 March
Worst Roommate Ever

Wednesday 2 March
Against the Ice

Thursday 3 March
Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale
The Weekend Away

Friday 4 March
Nightride
Pieces of Her

Tuesday 8 March
Last One Standing
Taylor Tomlinson: Look At You

Wednesday 9 March
The Andy Warhol Diaries
The Last Kingdom, season 5
Queer Eye: Germany

Friday 11 March
The Adam Project
Formula 1: Drive to Survive, season 4
Life After Death with Tyler Henry

Tuesday 15 March
Catherine Cohen: The Twist…? She’s Gorgeous.
Team Zenko Go

Wednesday 16 March
Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives.

Thursday 17 March
Rescued by Ruby
Soil

Friday 18 March
Alessandro Cattelan: One Simple Question
Black Crab
Human Resources
Standing Up
Top Boy 2
Windfall
Young, Famous & African

24 March
Love Like the Falling Petals

Friday 25 March
Bridgerton, season 2

Tuesday 29 March
Johnny Hallyday: Beyond Rock

Wednesday 30 March
All Hail
Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King