By Culture Editor
Netflix is serving up freshest content all April long, so get ready to check out the best movies and shows streaming now. Keep reading for the streamer’s best new contents coming this month.
Weathering (Released April 1)
Weathering is a brand new thriller film on Netflix that follows a journalist whose life and sanity begin to completely unravel after she loses her baby, and nearly her own life, while in labor. Now as she is home alone grieving what she lost and what could have been, she finds herself plagued by disturbing visions and frightening attacks from within her own mind.
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Obsession (Released April 13)
Adapted from Josephine Hart’s 1991 novel Damage, this romantic mystery mini-series follows a risky and taboo love triangle that emerges when enigmatic Anna Barton (Murphy) begins a sultry and intense affair with her fiancé’s father, William (Armitage).
But while Anna attempts to keep both relationships alive, William spirals deeply into an obsessive desire for Anna, potentially putting both the relationship and life of his own son at immense risk.
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Seven Kings Must Die (Released April 14)
Acting as a sequel to the The Last Kingdom television series, Seven Kings Must Die is a brand new Netflix original historical drama film that is set to bring the sweeping story to its final conclusion. Alexander Dreymon returns as Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg, ruler of Northumbria, who has yet to pledge his land to the English throne despite its new era of tentative peace and relative unity. But with the death of King Edward, that peace is threatened as the late ruler’s potential heirs, Aethelstan and Aelfweard, battle for the crowing. What will it cost to created a truly united kingdom? Find out in Seven Kings Must Die.
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The Diplomat (Released April 20)
Netflix’s The Diplomat stars The Americans’ Keri Russell as the titular, newly appointed ambassador, who must juggle her new job with her turbulent marriage to a rising political star, played by Rufus Sewell. Created by Debora Cahn (she of The West Wing and Homeland), expect great, weighty things.