There’s one more month to binge your favorite shows before school is back in session. Thankfully, Netflix has plenty of new viewing options to enjoy as summer begins to wind down. Season four of Netflix’s hit superhero show The Umbrella Academy premieres on the streaming platform on August 8. The following day, you can add a ton of new recipes to your file when Blue Ribbon Baking Championship and its $100,000 cash prize hit the streamer. About a week later, on August 15, Emily in Paris struts its way onto Netflix for part one of its fourth season.
For those looking to escape the heat without traveling all the way to the cineplex, Netflix also has plenty of new movie options. Both parts of Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon director’s cut make their way to the streamer on August 2. Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry star in the action comedy The Union, which debuts on August 16. For those looking for more emotional fare, try the moving documentary Daughters, which hits the streamer on August 14 and follows four girls who prepare to reunite with their incarcerated fathers through a special dance in DC. And if you need a laugh, there’s a special featuring viral comedian Matt Rife doing what he does best: working a room. Matt Rife: Lucid – A Crowd Work Special hits Netflix on August 13.
Here’s more on what’s coming to Netflix in August:
Emily in Paris: Season Four, Part One
For those who want even more Paris after the Olympics, you’re in luck. On August 15, Emily in Paris is returning for part one of its two-part fourth season. Lily Collins’s and Ashley Park’s BFFs, Emily and Mindy, continue to take the city of Paris by storm, searching for romance while juggling their budding careers in the worlds of PR and nightclub singing. Emily’s ex-boyfriend Alfie (Lucien Laviscount) is back. So are her effortlessly chic boss, Sylvie (Philippine-Leroy Beaulieu), and her crush, Gabriel (Lucas Bravo)—who is having a baby with his ex, Camille (Camille Razat), who just started dating a Greek artist named Sofia (Melia Kreiling). Ooh la la!
Joe Rogan: Burn the Boats
The most talked-about man in podcasts is getting out of the hot seat and onto the stage. Ex–Fear Factor host and current comedian Joe Rogan is taking another swing at stand-up with a new comedy special, Joe Rogan: Burn the Boats, taped at the Majestic Theatre in San Antonio, Texas. It’s his third comedy special for Netflix, following Strange Times and Triggered, and it premieres on the streamer on August 3. Maybe third time’s the charm?
The Umbrella Academy
The Umbrella Academy is officially back for one final session. The Hargreeves siblings are separated and alone, attempting to exist in the world sans powers. Even so, drama unfolds as their father, Reginald (Colm Feore), returns to the public eye, overseeing a “powerful and nefarious business empire,” while a mysterious group called the Keepers are secretly plotting and preparing for a reckoning that will rock the Hargreeves. Tom Hopper and Elliot Page return for the fourth and final season of The Umbrella Academy, which premieres on August 8.
The Union
In this original Netflix action comedy, Mark Wahlberg stars as Mike, a down-to-earth Jersey construction worker who is thrust into the world of covert affairs when his high school sweetheart, Roxanne, played by Halle Berry, taps him for a top secret, high-stakes US intelligence mission in Europe. Berry’s not the only Oscar winner getting in on the action: The Union also stars Whiplash’s J.K. Simmons. You can join the Union when the film premieres on Netflix on August 16.
The full list of what’s coming to Netflix in August:
Coming Soon
The Frog (NETFLIX SERIES)
KENGAN ASHURA: Season 2: Part.2 (JP)
August 1
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (NETFLIX SERIES)
Borderless Fog (NETFLIX FILM)
From Me to You: Kimi ni Todoke: Season 3 (NETFLIX ANIME)
Love is Blind: Mexico (NETFLIX SERIES)
Mon Laferte, te amo (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)
Unstable: Season 2 (NETFLIX SERIES)
Bride of Chucky
Child's Play 2
Child's Play 3
Cult of Chucky
Curse of Chucky
Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat
Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: Batch 4
Fire Country: Season 1
Fury
Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color
Jack Reacher
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Monster House
Mr. Deeds
The Next Karate Kid
Not Another Teen Movie
Pawn Stars: Season 15
RED
RED 2
Room
Save the Last Dance
Seed of Chucky
The Spectacular Now
Tarot
White Chicks
World War Z
August 2
Modern Masters: SS Rajamouli (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)
Rebel Moon — Part One: Director’s Cut (NETFLIX FILM)
Rebel Moon — Part Two: Director’s Cut (NETFLIX FILM)
Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie (NETFLIX FAMILY)
August 3
Joe Rogan: Burn the Boats (NETFLIX COMEDY SPECIAL)
August 5
Gabby's Dollhouse: Season 10 (NETFLIX FAMILY)
August 6
The Influencer (NETFLIX SERIES)
Reminiscence
Rising Impact: Season 2 (NETFLIX ANIME)
August 7
Lolo and the Kid (NETFLIX FILM)
Love Is Blind: UK (NETFLIX SERIES)
Secret World of Sound with David Attenborough (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)
August 8
The Emoji Movie
Shahmaran: Season 2 (NETFLIX SERIES)
The Umbrella Academy: Season 4 -- NETFLIX SERIES
August 9
Blue Ribbon Baking Championship (NETFLIX SERIES)
Inside the Mind of a Dog (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)
Mission: Cross (NETFLIX FILM)
Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba (NETFLIX FILM)
Pokémon Horizons: The Series Part 3 (NETFLIX FAMILY)
August 10
Romance in the House (NETFLIX SERIES)
August 11
Night School
August 12
Matt Rife: Lucid - A Crowd Work Special (NETFLIX COMEDY SPECIAL)
August 14
Daughters (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)
Worst Ex Ever (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)
August 15
Average Joe: Season 1
Backyard Wilderness
Emily in Paris: Season 4: Part 1 (NETFLIX SERIES)
August 16
I can't live without you (NETFLIX FILM)
Pearl
The Union (NETFLIX FILM)
August 17
Love Next Door (NETFLIX SERIES)
August 19
A Discovery of Witches: Seasons 1-3
Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches: Season 1
CoComelon Lane: Season 3 (NETFLIX FAMILY)
Dark Winds: Seasons 1-2
Fear the Walking Dead: Seasons 1-8
Gangs of London: Seasons 1-2
Interview with the Vampire: Season 1
Into the Badlands: Seasons 1-3
Kevin Can F**k Himself: Seasons 1-2
Migration
Monsieur Spade: Season 1
Preacher: Seasons 1-4
That Dirty Black Bag: Season 1
The Terror: Season 1
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon: Season 1
UnREAL: Seasons 1-4
August 20
Langston Kerman: Bad Poetry (NETFLIX COMEDY SPECIAL)
Terror Tuesday: Extreme (NETFLIX SERIES)
Untold: The Murder of Air McNair (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)
Aug 21
The Accident (NETFLIX SERIES)
Back to 15: Back to 18 (NETFLIX SERIES)
Nice Girls (NETFLIX FILM)
Pop Star Academy: KATSEYE (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)
Wyatt Earp and The Cowboy War (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)
Aug 22
Baby Fever: Season 2 (NETFLIX SERIES)
GG Precinct (NETFLIX SERIES)
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos The Movie (NETFLIX ANIME)
Secret Lives of Orangutans (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)
August 23
Incoming (NETFLIX FILM)
Tòkunbọ̀ (NETFLIX FILM)
August 27
Untold: Sign Stealer (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)
August 28
Untamed Royals (NETFLIX FILM)
August 29
Chastity High (NETFLIX SERIES)
KAOS (NETFLIX SERIES)
Represent: Season 2 (NETFLIX SERIES)
TERMINATOR ZERO (NETFLIX ANIME)
August 30
A-List to Playlist (NETFLIX SERIES)
Breathless (NETFLIX SERIES)
The Deliverance (NETFLIX FILM)
(Un)lucky Sisters (NETFLIX FILM)
What’s leaving Netflix in August 2024:
Summer may be slipping away like a bottle of wine, and so are these Netflix offerings. You'll no longer be able to find the Oscar-winning Everything Everywhere All At Once everywhere, as it leaves Netflix on August 22. Marcel the Shell with Shoes on is walking out the door the very next day. By the end of the month Spiderman is swinging out of Netflix as well as Toby Maguire and Kirsten Dunst's Spiderman trilogy and Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone's The Amazing Spiderman films leave the platform.
August 3
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
August 12
The Woman King
August 13
Paddington
August 15
Dumb and Dumber To
Walk of Shame
August 22
Everything Everywhere All at Once
August 23
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
August 24
Berlin Syndrome
August 26
The Accountant
August 31
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
American Hustle
Beverly Hills Ninja
The Blind Side
Burn After Reading
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
The Edge of Seventeen
First Knight
First Sunday
The Gift
Liar Liar
Miami Vice
The Nutty Professor
The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
Pineapple Express
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man 3
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2
That's My Boy
Total Recall
Unthinkable
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