The canine days of August end and with them the winter slump. Netflix is preparing to launch a September list full of intriguing new series and original films with the utmost sensible talent, and for you to solve the impasse, and in the popularity of These Times, I highlight some of the most notable exclusives and rank them on the pandemic tension induction scale.
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Guaranteed Love (Netflix film, September 3): desperate to save her troubled personal practice, attorney Susan (Rachael Leigh Cook) takes the case of Nick (Damon Wayans Jr.), who needs to create a date making sure she will locate the true love of her clients… “But as the case warms up, Susan and Nick’s emotions do the same.” Pandemic tension induction level: Hallmark film.
Away (Netflix Original Series, September 4): Hillary Swank stars in this original series through executive makers Jason Katims (Friday Night Lights) and Matt Reeves (The Batman) about a female astronaut who chooses to leave her family circle and embark on a three-year solo project to Mars. As The Martian has taught us, nothing ever happens on Mars. Pandemic Stress Induction Level: Grow potatoes on your own.
I’m thinking about the end of things (Netflix movie, September 4): Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation) released his first action film since Synecdoche in 2008, in New York. Based on Ian Reid’s haunting thriller, she follows a woman (Jessie Buckley) who accompanies her new boyfriend (Jesse Plemons) to a stop at her parents’ house (Toni Collette, David Thewlis) in the midst of a snowstorm. and falls into a kind of dimensional rupture, when other people start mixing with each other and time begins to turn against them. Pandemic tension induction level: Malkovich, Malkovich?
The Social Dilemma (Netflix Documentary, September 9): This documentary explores what spending our whole life on Facebook and Twitter makes our brains and that of our society. Pandemic tension induction level: presidential tweets.
Sings! (Netflix Original Series, September 16): The incomparable Titus Burgess of the incomparable Kimmy Schmidt presents a new series of truth in which competitors’ karaoke skills are judged through a computer as they compete for a prize pool that only increases with the passage of the episode. Pandemic tension induction level: Black Peeno.
Here’s the full of Netflix’s comings and goings by September 2020.