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Welcome along to another roundup of everything new on Netflix this week. We’ve got lots to cover as we recap the nine new movies, 18 new series, and one new game that launched on Netflix this week, plus the movies and series that have been dominating the US daily top 10 charts all week. Let’s dive in!
Still a couple of new releases to keep an eye on for the weekend. First up, The Penguin Lessons from Sony Pictures Classics, starring Steve Coogan and Jonathan Pryce, is set to drop tomorrow. The beautifully told story documents a teacher’s tenure at a school in Argentina during political turmoil, but he finds solace by befriending a penguin. On Sunday, new episodes of the Japanese drama series Learning to Love will begin dropping.
What to Watch on Netflix This Weekend
The Hunting Wives (Season 1)
Number of episodes: 8
Rating: TV-MA
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Cast: Brittany Snow, Malin Akerman, Jaime Ray Newman, Evan Jonigkeit, George Ferrier
Coming to Netflix in the US exclusively at the beginning of the week is The Hunting Wives, although it notably doesn’t carry Netflix Original branding. Previously meant for release on Starz, the series follows former city dweller Sophie, who trades in her old life for East Texas and falls into the magnetic orbit of a wealthy socialite, harboring many secrets.
The series has been receiving overwhelmingly positive reviews since its release, boasting a 75% score on Rotten Tomatoes. In our review, we gave the movie a 3-star rating, praising some of the plot threads but criticizing certain characters for feeling like they adhere only to tropes.
Once you’re done with season 1 of this particular show, you can then jump straight into all three seasons of Hightown that also dropped this week, which will feel plenty familiar given that it also comes from creator Rebecca Perry Cutter.
House of Lies (Seasons 1-5)
Number of episodes: 58
Rating: TV-MA
Language: English
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Cast: Don Cheadle, Kristen Bell, Ben Schwartz
Writer: Matthew Carnahan
Runtime: 28 min
Picture: Showtime Networks
It was a licensing bonanza this week, with well over 150 episodes of TV from relatively recent to yesteryear dropping. One of the other best new licensed series is House of Lies, the often overlooked Showtime series that aired on the network in the mid-2010s across five seasons. Headlined by Don Cheadle and Kristen Bell, the series is essentially Mad Men, but rather than selling well-executed advertising campaigns, it’s about milking clients for the most amount of money while peddling utter nonsense. While the series starts off relatively weak, it certainly picks up in later seasons.
Happy Gilmore 2 (2025)
Rating: TV-MA
Language: English
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Director: Kyle Newacheck
Cast: Margaret Qualley, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller
Writer: Tim Herlihy, Adam Sandler
Runtime: 117 mins
For the past couple of years, Netflix had boasted a significant summer blockbuster that reboots or revives a classic movie franchise. Last year, it was the turn of Beverly Hills Cop, and in 2025, it’s one of Adam Sandler’s most iconic roles: Happy Gilmore. With many old familiar faces returning from the original, in addition to lots of new faces (plus a buttload of cameos) we follow Happy as he picks up his hockey stick and returns to the green.
Reviews have been mixed thus far (our own is still to come – thanks, Netflix, for not sending us screeners!) with the movie carrying a 64% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which is 1 percentage point higher than the first movie. Criticisms lie at the door of the movie being completely absurd, while others take that as a win. The general consensus, though, is that if you loved the first movie, you’ll love this entry.
Full List of New Releases on Netflix This Week
Reminder: You can view an expanded version of this list, complete with poster art, trailers, and additional information about each title, on our ‘What’s New on Netflix’ hub page.
9 New Movies Added This Week
- A Normal Woman (2025) Netflix Original – TV-MA – Indonesian
- Faith in the Impossible (2025) – TV-14 – Portuguese
- Happy Gilmore 2 (2025) Netflix Original – TV-MA – English
- Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018) – PG – English
- Pagtatag! The Documentary (2024) – TV-G – Tagalog
- Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan (2025) Netflix Original – TV-14 – English
- The Cursed (2021) – R – English
- Trainwreck: P.I. Moms (2025) Netflix Original – TV-MA – English
- Until Dawn (2025) – R – English
18 New TV Series Added This Week
- 99.9 Criminal Lawyer (Season 1) – TV-14 – Japanese
- Angi: Fake Life, True Crime (Limited Series) Netflix Original – TV-14 – Spanish
- Chihayafuru: Full Circle (Season 1 – New Episodes Weekly) – TV-14 – Japanese
- Community Squad (Season 2) Netflix Original – TV-MA – Spanish
- Critical: Between Life and Death (Season 1) Netflix Original – TV-MA – English
- Delightfully Deceitful (Season 1) – TV-14 – Korean
- Hightown (Seasons 1-3) – TV-MA – English
- Hitmakers (Season 1) Netflix Original – TV-MA – English
- House of Lies (Seasons 1-5) – TV-MA – English
- Letters From The Past (Limited Series) Netflix Original – TV-MA – Turkish
- Mandala Murders (Season 1) Netflix Original – TV-MA – Hindi
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Season 19 – Re-Ignition) – PG – English
- My Melody & Kuromi (Season 1) Netflix Original – TV-PG – Japanese
- New Kongsuni and Friends (Season 1) – TV-Y – English
- The Hunting Wives (Season 1) – TV-MA – English
- The Steve Harvey Show (Seasons 1-6) – TV-PG – English
- Their Marriage (Season 1 – New Episodes Weekly) – TV-PG – Japanese
- Trigger (Limited Series) Netflix Original – TV-MA – Korean
1 New Game on Netflix This Week
- Happy Gilmore: Golf Mayhem ’98 (Available on select TVs and web)
Most Popular Series on Netflix This Week
Untamed. (L to R) Eric Bana as Kyle Turner, Lily Santiago as Naya Vasquez in episode 102 of Untamed. Cr. Ricardo Hubbs/Netflix © 2025
Untamed is one of two titles that are absolutely dominating the Netflix charts this week, and its performance thus far has earned it the bragging rights of being one of the biggest limited series launches of all time. The hard-hitting docu-series Amy Bradley is Missing, which has revived the cold case all these years later, is taking social media by storm. Sullivan’s Crossing rounds out the top 3, with Season 1 still drawing in a lot of viewership in the US ahead of Season 3’s release in August.
- UNTAMED (80 points)
- Amy Bradley is Missing (70 points)
- Sullivan’s Crossing (54 points)
- Squid Game (42 points)
- Building the Band (33 points)
- The Hunting Wives (32 points)
- The Waterfront (27 points)
- Dan Da Dan (20 points)
- Quarterback (19 points)
- WWE Raw (18 points)
- Hightown (12 points)
- The Sandman (11 points)
- 7 Bears (7 points)
- My Melody & Kuromi (7 points)
- Tougen Anki (5 points)
- Critical: Between Life and Death (3 points)
Most Popular Movies on Netflix This Week
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There’s just no stopping KPop Demon Hunters – the movie is on course to enter Netflix’s all-time most-watched list in just weeks, and given the trajectory of the viewership so far, there’s no guessing what the ceiling will be for the animated movie. Elsewhere in the US charts, Madea’s Destination Wedding continues to overperform in the US compared to the rest of the world.
- KPop Demon Hunters (80 points)
- Madea’s Destination Wedding (65 points)
- Ride Along 2 (55 points)
- Happy Gilmore (53 points)
- Trainwreck: Balloon Boy (42 points)
- Despicable Me 4 (26 points)
- Trainwreck: P.I. Moms (24 points)
- Brick (22 points)
- The Cursed (18 points)
- Penguins of Madagascar (15 points)
- Wanted (15 points)
- Until Dawn (9 points)
- Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (8 points)
- Krampus (5 points)
- Tyler Perry’s A Madea Homecoming (2 points)
- The Old Guard 2 (1 points)
Note: Most popular points are gained by spending time in the daily top 10s. First place on any given day grants 10 points, whereas 10th place grants 1 point.
What are you watching on Netflix this week? Let us know in the comments, and look ahead at all the new releases coming up in August 2025 here.
