What's New on Netflix the Week of July 26, 2020

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This week’s most significant new additions to Netflix give you a choice between diving into the tumultuous past and staring headlong into the present. It’s hard to say which offers the more upsetting vision of the world. Just kidding, it’s the latter option.

Let’s get the fun, light-hearted one out of the way first: The streaming services original superhero series The Umbrella Academy returns for its second season on Friday, July 31, with a plot that takes a sharp turn into temporal mayhem as the unusually gifted kids in the Hargreeves travel back in time to avoid one apocalypse and encounter another. They all arrive (separately) in Dallas between the years 1960 and 1963, where they will impact the timeline involving the Kennedy assassination and possibly cause a whole different end-of-the-world scenario.

A few days earlier will see the premiere of another “Netflix Original,” the Polish film festival award-winner The Hater, directed by Jan Komasa. The plot follows Tomasz, a law school failure who gets a job at a shady PR firm and discovers his new job involves weaponizing the internet: organizing smear campaigns, seeding fake news and generally making the world less safe for democracy. What’s worse, instead of being appalled, Tomasz finds he’s very good at it. It’s the kind of dystopian cautionary tale I used to like, back before they were cautionary tales and we didn’t live in a dystopia.

Here’s everything else new to Netflix this week, and what’s leaving.

Available July 26

• Banana Split
• Shameless: Season 10

Available July 28

• Jeopardy! Collection 6
• Last Chance U: Laney — Netflix Documentary

Available July 29

• The Hater— Netflix Film
• Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons: Season 4 — Netflix Original Series

Available July 30

• The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie
• Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy — Netflix Anime

Available July 31

• Get Even — Netflix Original Series
• Latte and the Magic Waterstone — Netflix Family
• Seriously Single — Netflix Film
• The Speed Cubers — Netflix Documentary
• Sugar Rush: Extra Sweet — Netflix Original Series
• The Umbrella Academy: Season 2 — Netflix Original Series
• Vis a vis: El Oasis (Locked Up) — Netflix Original Series

Available August 1

• A Knight’s Tale
• Acts of Violence
• The Addams Family (1991)
• An Education
• Being John Malkovich
• Death at a Funeral
• Dennis the Menace
• Elizabeth Harvest
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Hardcore Henry
• Iron Man Armored Adventures: Season 1-2
• Jurassic Park
• Jurassic Park III
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park
• Mad Max (1979)
• Mr. Deeds
• My Perfect Landing: Season 1
• Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea: Season 1
• The NeverEnding Story
• The NeverEnding Story 2: The Next Chapter
• The Next Step: Season 6
• Nights in Rodanthe
• Ocean’s Thirteen
• Ocean’s Twelve
• Operation Ouch: Season 1
• Operation Ouch: Special
• Remember Me
• Seabiscuit
• Super Monsters: The New Class — Netflix Family
• Toradora!: Season 1
• Transformers Rescue Bots Academy: Season 2
• The Ugly Truth
• What Keeps You Alive

Leaving July 26

Leaving July 28

Leaving July 29

Leaving July 31

• Back to the Future
• Back to the Future Part II
• Back to the Future Part III
• Can’t Hardly Wait
• Casper
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Chernobyl Diaries
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• Freedom Writers
• Godzilla
• Guess Who
• Hancock
• Hitch
• Jarhead
• Jarhead 2: Field of Fire
• Jarhead 3: The Siege
• Open Season
• QB1: Beyond the Lights: Season 1
• Resident Evil: Extinction
• Romeo Must Die
• Salt
• Scary Movie 2
• Searching for Sugar Man
• Sex and the City 2
• Stuart Little
• The Edge of Seventeen
• The Interview
• The Pianist
• The Pursuit of Happyness
• Twister
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

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