It’s the last full week of April, and Watch With Us is eager to recommend some Netflix shows that deserve more attention.
While the rest of the world fixates on season 2 of Beef and the all-new Big Mistakes, we’ll be spending our time a little more wisely.
We want to spotlight three great shows that you might not have ever even heard of before, but are no less excellent.
Our first pick is The Gentlemen, the series spinoff of the Guy Ritchie movie of the same name, which is coming back for a second season later this year.
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‘The Gentlemen’ (2024-Present)
This spinoff of 2019’s The Gentlemen, with Matthew McConaughey as the smoother-talking lead, stars The White Lotus’ Theo James as Eddie Horniman. Eddie inherits his father’s massive English estate upon his passing, only to discover it’s home to an enormous weed empire overseen by a woman named Susie Glass (Kaya Scodelario). Reluctant at first, Eddie comes to understand that he must navigate and accept his role in the dangerous underworld of British crime to protect his family and his home from the many gangsters who threaten them.
The Gentlemen is a fun and action-packed expansion on the 2019 movie that sees original director Guy Ritchie with credits for creating, story-writing and directing two of the episodes in this eight-episode season. Yet even when bereft of Ritchie at the helm, the show does a great job of embracing his signature slick style with fast-paced dialogue, sharp humor and eccentric criminal characters. The supporting cast also includes Breaking Bad’s Giancarlo Esposito and three-time Ritchie collaborator Vinnie Jones.
‘Altered Carbon’ (2018-2020)
Based on the cyberpunk novel from 2002, Altered Carbon is set 300 years into the future, in which society has been totally transformed by technology that allows human beings to avoid death and, instead, simply interchange between different bodies. Takeshi Kovacs (Joel Kinnaman) is the sole survivor of a group of rebel warriors who attempted an uprising against the new world order and were defeated, his consciousness having been imprisoned for ages until it is suddenly allowed the chance to live again by way of wealthy businessman Laurens Bancroft (James Purefoy). However, this second chance comes with a catch: Kovacs must solve the mystery of who killed Bancroft in his former body.
Fans of Altered Carbon wax poetic on the show’s status as an incredibly underrated gem, having been axed after only two seasons, while it generally received positive reviews from critics. Nevertheless, the sci-fi thriller is still very well worth your time — the immersive, high-budget production design that fully embraces cyberpunk aesthetic, engaging noir-style mystery plot and dense exploration of mortality and human consciousness make it an ambitious must-watch. Season 2 swaps Kinnaman for Anthony Mackie, as Kovacs takes on a new body.
‘Santa Clarita Diet’ (2017-2019)
Married real estate agents Sheila (Drew Barrymore) and Joel (Timothy Olyphant) live a normal life raising their teenage daughter Abby (Liv Hewson) in Santa Clarita, California. But that quiet life drastically changes when Sheila undergoes a startling transformation: she vomits up an organ, loses her heartbeat and gains an unshakeable desire for human flesh. Sheila and Joel ultimately deduce that Sheila has somehow become a zombie, and they’ll have to maintain Sheila’s steady diet of people or she’ll become dead for real. While seeking a cure for her condition, Sheila can’t help but notice she looks better, feels better and is refreshingly uninhibited.
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This quirky horror-comedy boasts charming chemistry between Olyphant and Barrymore while serving up plenty of laughs in addition to lots of gore, and the unique premise keeps things interesting. The series only gets better and better with each season, yet it ultimately went the way of too many underserved Netflix series by bewilderingly receiving the axe after season 3. Nevertheless, Santa Clarita Diet is a show to sink your teeth into. The heartwarming family dynamics and morbid humor work together to subvert zombie tropes to create something totally unique: a life-affirming comedy about the undead in suburbia.
