Best new movies and TV series on Netflix Australia: June 2024

Each month, loads of new films and TV shows are added to Netflix Australia‘s library. Eliza Janssen presents her picks for titles worth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down. Also, check out Craig Mathieson’s top 50 movies on Netflix list.

Top Picks: TV

Sweet Tooth: Season 3 (June 6)

Set in a post-apocalyptic world populated with ever-so-cute human-animal hybrids, this returning adventure series got a pretty solid review from Luke Buckmaster back in its first season. He admired its complex tone, as the show “ventures to dark places…it needs to, in order to offset elements that might have come across as twee in lesser hands.” Make sure to read the celebrated graphic novel it’s based on before diving in, or treat yourself to a read once you’re done with the new episodes: this instalment will be the third and final chapter.

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Bridgerton: Season 3 Part 2 (June 13)

“I’ll admit, I hated season one”, our columnist Clarisse Loughrey said of Netflix’s bodice-ripping romance hit: “but the series has mellowed out since then, and while season two went for borderline Austen fan fiction, season three has settled for a distinctly romcom tone.” The first four episodes of Bridgerton’s latest season are already available, with shy Penelope’s quest for love wrapping up in mid-June. It’s thrilling to see a fan fave graduate into the main character big leagues—and, we presume, into a saucy friends-to-lovers affair?

That ’90s Show: Part 2 (June 27)

A shameless hit of pre-millennium nostalgia—in both subject matter and form, being a distinctly daggy multi-cam sitcom—this returning comedy sets its second season in the summer of 1996. Let’s see what was going down at that point in time: the Spice Girls had just released “Wannabe”, Charles and Diana officially split, and the Summer Olympics in Atlanta got shaken up by a bomb scare. Will all these once-hot topics provide comic fodder in these new-old episodes? You can count on it.

Top Picks: Movies + Specials

Hit Man (June 7)

Delighting audiences at last year’s Venice film fest, this action rom-com from director Richard Linklater has star and screenwriter Glen Powell wearing plenty of hats—both behind the camera, and before it, as a dweeby undercover cop who code-switches to suit his criminal clientele’s perfect ideal of an assassin. It’s a fun and showy chance for Powell to goof off, to shapeshift, to exhibit the star power we’ve enjoyed in his string of romantic comedies but with a respected artsy director backing him up. A love affair with unhappily married Adria Arjona causes complications, when she wants one of our hero’s alter egos to kill her horrible husband—while he’s in the process of falling deeply in love with her.

Black Barbie (June 19)

A certain pink doll absolutely ruled our cinema screens last year, but this insightful doco suggests there are other, more meaningful colours that should be noticed when we remember our beloved childhood playthings. By following the careers of three Black women who strived to make Mattel’s perma-blonde, white-skinned Barbie more inclusive, director Lagueria Davis tackles questions of representation and intersectionality. Barbie might be kids’ stuff, but she’s also formative in how little girls see themselves—the feature-length doco should make you think back to your own toybox days with warmth and intelligence.

Trigger Warning (June 21)

Since the peak of her noughties stardom, Jessica Alba has mostly been busy running a skincare brand—so this return to our screens, in a straight-up action hero role, no less, should excite plenty of millennials. She’ll take revenge on a pack of hometown boneheads who may or may not have caused her father’s death, being (of course!) a retired Special Ops commando who they had no idea was The Wrong Person To Mess With. It seems we’re still not through with the cinematic impact of John Wick, so why shouldn’t Alba have a crack at the well-loved, bullet-ridden format?

All titles arriving on Netflix Australia in June

June 1

Too Old for Fairy Tales 2

June 3

Little Baby Bum: Music Time: Season 2

June 4

Jo Koy: Live from Brooklyn
The Price of Nonna’s Inheritance

June 5

Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial
How to Rob a Bank
Under Paris

June 6

Baki Hanma Vs Kengan Ashura
Basma
Kübra: Season 2
Nelma Kodama: The Queen of Dirty Money
Rafa Marquez: El Capitan
Sweet Tooth: Season 3

June 7

Hierarchy
Hit Man
The Greatest Showman
Perfect Match: Season 2

June 11

Keith Robinson: Different Strokes
Tour De France: Unchained: Season 2

June 12

King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch: Season 2
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman: Season 5
Mysteries of the Terracotta Warriors