#Netflix

ionscifi's picture

Mild Megan and Nick

Comedy couple Megan Mullally (Will and Grace, Parks and Recreation) and Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) heve joined the cast for the fourth and final season of Netflix's Umbrella Academy.

As "a pair of mild-mannered Midwestern community college professors".

ionscifi's picture

Neon Dust

Netflix continue to expand their mobile gaming library - available to Netflix subscribers without any of those pesky microtransactions.

Their latest addition is futuristic wild west twin stick, roguelite shooter Dust & Neon.

ionscifi's picture

Pluto Peek

Just now we spoke of another trailer tickling our B grade nerve. Netflix's "sneak peak" at upcoming anime film Pluto kicked our WTF-nerve.

We regard speaking to our computer screen as somewhat gauche but those three words erupted nonetheless.

ionscifi's picture

Skull Crushed

Netflix's lingual plague series Hot Skull has been cancelled.

While we loved the concept and clever title the trailer was brimming over with over-used dialog and left us feeling cold.

ionscifi's picture

DC Drops Doom and Titans

DC's Doom Patrol and Titans series have been cancelled with HBO promising that their currently on hiatus (in the US) fourth seasons were written to provide "proper" endings.

The news wouldn't be super surprising to anyone. Four seasons is a solid run for a superhero show and new bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran had heralded intentions to unify the DC universe.

ionscifi's picture

Nielsen Data 2022

Viewership monitoring company Nielsen have published their data for 2022 and Netflix sci-fi series Stranger Things (all 34 episodes) took two crowns - most streamed original and most streamed overall program with 52 billion minutes.

Other strong sci-fi performers were Amazon series The Boys and Netflix series The Umbrella Academy, earning 11th and 13th positions for original programs.

ionscifi's picture

Sci-Fi to the Rescue

Netflix have had great success with Korean series and films among international audiences. Their recently release JUNG_E though being bizarrely trashed by some reviewers is truly brilliant and we hope it does well.

One series which performed very well in Asia but not more broadly is Crash Landing on You, a romantic drama about a South Korean heiress who accidentally paraglides into North Korea and ends up falling in love with a North Korean officer.

ionscifi's picture

Awesom_e JUNG_E

The first reviews for Train to Busan and Hellbound director Yeon Sang-ho's JUNG_E are trickling in and frankly look brutal.

We watched it ourselves before reading any of those reviews and found the film to be brilliant. Our only criticism is what might be some subtitle errors for early onscreen setting the scene text.

ionscifi's picture

Make My Day

This morning we discovered a new sci-fi anime series called Make My Day coming to Netflix next month which had slipped beneath our radar. How did we miss it?

It seems like Netflix revealed it during their Geeked Week event in 2021 - before our blog's time - and then quietly published the trailer to the Netflix site, skipping YouTube and social media.

ionscifi's picture

Netflix 2023 Films

Following the reveal of their slate of Korean films and series for 2023, Netflix have unveiled their full film slate for the year. With an accompanying trailer.

How much sci-fi is there? You'd think that would be an easy question to answer, but no.

Pages

Subscribe to Netflix