Premieres Wednesday:

Battle Camp — A $250,000 prize awaits the victor of this competition series, which subjects stars from Netflix shows like Love Is Blind, The Ultimatum and Too Hot to Handle to a series of punishing physical challenges. Wish they would open up the playing field to their true-crime documentaries, because you just know Scott Peterson could clean up at something like this. (Netflix)

Bullet Train Explosion — A Tokyo-bound train is wired to explode if it drops below 100 km per hour in a new film that’s a remake of a beloved classic. And of course I mean the 1975 Japanese thriller The Bullet Train. If you said Speed, hang a sign around your neck that reads “I Am the Ugly Gulf of American.” (Netflix)

Carlos Alcaraz: My Way — Documentary cameras capture the watershed tennis pro’s 2024 season as he becomes the youngest player ever to be ranked No. 1 in men’s singles. Meanwhile, Pedro Pascal will always be No. 1 in single men. (Netflix)

A Tragedy Foretold: Flight 3054 — A three-part documentary shows how Brazil was forced to overhaul its aviation system after a plane crashed into a building in 2007, leaving 199 dead. Or as Pete Hegseth calls it, “a slow day at the office.” (Netflix)

Premieres Thursday:

Étoile — In the latest series from Amy Sherman-Palladino (Gilmore Girls, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), a couple of prestigious yet struggling ballet companies try to stay alive by trading lead dancers. Sounds like a winning gambit, until you realize they meant trading them to the Orioles. (Prime Video)

Vanderpump Villa — It’s time for a change of scenery in Season 2, as Lisa Vanderpump moves her hospitality operation to Italy. Among her first guests there are cast members from The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, promising plenty of scandalous fun. But if you think that’s something, just wait until the Lutherans get there. Some of those guys wear spats! (Hulu)

You — Joe has settled down to a life of quiet respectability in New York as the show’s fifth and final season begins, but the lure of his insidious past may prove too strong to resist. On the other hand, try getting anywhere to kill somebody in that town now that they’ve got congestion pricing. (Netflix)

Premieres Friday:

Fréwaka — A home-aid worker gradually adopts the superstitions of the old woman she’s been tasked to look after in a film that’s being billed as the first Irish-language horror. I guess that means we’re all forgetting Shane MacGowan now. (Shudder)

Tom Hardy in ‘Havoc’ Credit: image courtesy Netflix

Havoc — Tom Hardy takes the lead in an actioner that puts him in the shoes of a detective who’s gettin’ it from all sides: The mob, the government and even other cops are all on the list of folks who don’t like him terribly much. To his credit, though, he’s pretty popular with Juggalos. (Netflix)

Jewel Thief: The Heist Begins — A con man goes up against the Mafia in an Indian crime thriller that’s clearly the final bracket in Bollywood’s answer to March Madness. I got eliminated in the first round, because I thought the Delhi SWAT team could totally take Mowgli. (Netflix)

Weak Hero Class 2 — Yeon Si-eun transfers to a new school in Season 2, only to learn the brutal bullying there is even worse than what he just left. Sounds like he should transfer to the Unicorn Academy, because the hazing there doesn’t get much worse than the occasional hothoof. (Netflix)

Premieres Monday:

Chef’s Table: Legends — The 10th-anniversary season showcases the great contributions to the kitchen arts that have been made by Jamie Oliver, José Andrés, Alice Waters and Thomas Keller. And in a special segment taped just a few weeks before his death, David Lynch makes a compelling case for replacing one of them with Bob’s Big Boy. (Netflix)

Premieres Tuesday:

Wear Whatever the F You Want — Putting their longstanding feud to rest, Clinton and Stacy from What Not to Wear reunite for a new show that prioritizes personal style over adherence to fashion. Just don’t even think about sporting white after Labor Day, because that’s still grounds for chemical castration. (Prime Video)

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This article appears in Apr 23-29, 2025.

New on Netflix: The final season of ‘You’; Tom Hardy in ‘Havoc’; ‘Bullet Train Explosion’

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