Netflix, Max, Amazon & Hulu to Add 280 New Titles This Weekend – Here’s the 3 Most Interesting

By Phillip Swann
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Netflix, Max, Hulu and Amazon’s Prime Video this weekend (October 31-November 3, 2024) plan to add 280 new TV shows and movies to their streaming lineups. Here’s the three most interesting, in my humble opinion:

The Diplomat (Season two)

Keri Russell, who shined so brightly as a Russian agent in FX’s The Americans, returns to the political/espionage stage playing a U.S. ambassador to England who must manage a series of international conflicts while watching her marriage crumble. I watched several episodes of season one and was hooked on Russell’s performance as the diplomat-in-distress, but the show does tend to get a bit soapy (and talky) at times. Season two debuts on Thursday, October 31. Season one now on Netflix.

Whiplash (2014) – Netflix

Damien Chazelle’s brilliant direction (his debut) and the exceptional performances by Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons make Whiplash one of the best films of the century to date. Teller plays a young drummer who will sacrifice anything (including relationships, personal health and mental well being) to succeed while Simmons is a ruthless (and cruel) music teacher who lives to mold talent into greatness regardless of the consequences. Whiplash is an amazing exploration of what it takes to reach the top. Great film! Debuts on Netflix on Friday, November 1.

Rosemary’s Baby (1968) – Amazon

The spooky 1968 drama from Polanski stars Mia Farrow as a pregnant young woman who suspects a mysterious group wants to kidnap her baby. Farrow is brilliant and haunting as the paranoid (or is she?) mother and film auteur John Cassavetes plays her loving (but possibly suspicious) hubbie to perfection. Made before the horrific Manson family murders, the film now takes on overtones of the massacre that took Polanski’s wife (Sharon Tate) in 1969, a parallel that has haunted the director throughout his life. The connection only makes the film more powerful and poignant in retrospect. There may be newer films being added this weekend but perhaps none more interesting than Rosemary’s Baby. Debuts Friday, November 1 on Amazon’s Prime Video.

Complete List of New Titles Coming This Weekend to Netflix, Max, Hulu and Amazon:

Netflix
Thursday, October 31
The Diplomat: Season 2 — Netflix Series
Murder Mindfully — Netflix Series

Friday, November 1
Barbie Mysteries: The Great Horse Chase
It’s All Over: The Kiss That Changed Spanish Football
Let Go
60 Days In: Season 7
A Paris Christmas Waltz

Fall Into Winter
Free State of Jones
Goosebumps
Just Go With It
Love in the Wild: Season 2

Maid in Manhattan
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Oblivion
Pompeii
The Scorpion King

Sixteen Candles
Superbad
The Whale
Whiplash

Max
Thursday, October 31
Dark Souls Among Us (aka Senales del Mas Alla), Season 1

Friday, November 1
A Christmas Carol (1938)
A Christmas Story (1983)
Another Earth (2011)
Big Miracle (2012)
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant (2009)

Dirty Harry (1971)
Elf (2003)
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
Goodfellas (1990)
He’s Just Not That Into You (2009)

Janet Planet (2023) (A24)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Jurassic Park III (2001)
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)
The Addams Family 2 (2021)

The Extra Man (2010)
The Full Monty (1997)
The Hangover (2009)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
The Other Side of the Door (2016)

The Polar Express (2004)
Unforgiven (1992)
Unstoppable (2010)

Saturday, November 2
Cleats & Convos, Episode 104

Sunday, November 3
Before They Kill Again, Season 1 (ID)
Invincible Fight Girl, Season 1 (Adult Swim)
Like Water For Chocolate (Como Agua Para Chocolate), Season 1 (HBO Original)

Hulu
Thursday, October 31
60 Seconds to Sell Complete Season 1
The Best And Worst U.S. Presidents Complete Season 1
Born in the Wild Complete Season 1
Duck Dynasty Complete Seasons 6 and 7
Living in Secret Complete Season 1

Miracles Decoded Complete Season 1
MysteryQuest (2022) Complete Season 1
Pawn Stars Complete Season 19
Transition of Power: Presidential Legacy Complete Season 1
Washington The Warrior Complete Season 1

Friday, November 1
Are You The One?: Complete Seasons 2 and 6
Naruto Shippuden: Complete Sesaon 9 (Dubbed)
A Christmas Carol (1984)
Ad Astra (2019)
Aliens (1986)

Billy Madison (1995)
Carpool (1996)
Christmas on the Ranch (2021)
Christmas With The Kranks (2004)
Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (2005)

The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
Crazy Heart (2010)
Deck the Halls (2006)
Desierto (2015)
Downhill (2020)
Eddie Murphy: Raw (1987)

Ghost Rider (2007)
Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance (2012)
Goodbye Lover (1999)
Grown Up (2010)
Grown Ups 2 (2013)

Hanging Up (2000)
Happy Gilmore (1996)
Hellboy (2019)
Higher Learning (1995)
Hitman (2007)

Holiday in Handcuffs (2007)
Hollow Man (2000)
Hotel Transylvania (2012
Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)
I’ll Be Home For Christmas (1998)

Inherit the Viper (2020)
Jingle All The Way (1996)
Just Friends (2005)
La La Land (2016)
The Last Duel (2021)

Lazareth (2024)
Madea Goes To Jail (2009)
The Mistle-Tones (2012)
National Treasure (2004)
National Treasure: Book Of Secrets (2007)

New Year’s Eve (2011)
The Nutcracker (1993)
Operation Mistletoe (2024)
The Personal History Of David Copperfield (2020)
Predators (2010)

Renovation Romance (2024)
Same Time, Next Christmas (2019)
Santa Baby 2: Christmas Maybe (2009)
Santa’s Little Helper (2015)
Second Best (1994)

Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
Teddy Kollek (1995)
Tigerland (2000)
Waitress (2007)
The Wedding Planner (2001)

Whip It (2009)
White Men Can’t Jump (1992)
Why Him? (2016)
Wild (2014)

Saturday, November 2
Endurance: Special Premiere

Amazon’s Prime Video
Thursday, October 31
Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End (2024)
Thursday Night Football: Texas vs. the Jets. Coverage starts at 7 p.m. ET.

Friday, November 1
2 Days of Christmas Eve
3 Ninjas Knuckle Up
50 To 1
A Knight’s Tale
Absolute Deception

Across The Universe
Agent Cody Banks
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
Airplane II: The Sequel
Airplane!

All Saints
Almost Christmas
Anacondas: The Hunt For The Blood Orchid
Anger Management
Apache

Bad Company
Battlefield Earth
Battleship
Big Night
Blizzard

Blown Away
Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
Boomerang
Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star
Carrie (1976)

Carrie (2013)
Casualties Of War
Catch Me If You Can
Catch-22
Children of Men

Cold Mountain
Comes A Horseman
Cowboys & Aliens
Crazy In Alabama
Dear Christmas

Dear John
Death Wish 3
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
Death Wish II
Die Hard

Disturbia
Double Team
Driven
Dumb And Dumber To
Dune

Equals
Escape From Alcatraz
Exodus
F/X
Fame

Flash of Genius
Flight
Gladiator
Gone Baby Gone
Good Boy!

Good Will Hunting
Gorky Park
Gosford Park
Guns Of The Magnificent Seven
Harriet the Spy

Hell is for Heroes
Hour Of The Gun
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Identity Thief
In & Out

Invasion of the Body Snatchers
It Takes Two
Jacob’s Ladder
Jingle All the Way
Escape from L.A.

John Grisham’s The Rainmaker
Johnny Mnemonic
Just Like Heaven
Kill Your Darlings
Kingdom of Heaven

Les Miserables
Leviathan
Libre
Loch Ness
Lords of Dogtown

Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone
Margot At The Wedding
Mean Girls
Meet John Doe
Men

Michael Jackson’s This Is It
Midnight in Paris
Mr. Mom
Murphy’s Law
Neighbors

Of Gods and Men
One Direction: This Is Us (Extended Cut)
Pan’s Labyrinth
Play Misty For Me
Popeye

Radio Flyer
Rambo III
Reba McEntire’s Christmas In Tune
Return Of The Seven
Ride Along With Gag Reel

Rio Lobo
Roboshark
Rosemary’s Baby
Roxanne
Run Lola Run

Rust
Santa Claus: The Movie
Saving Silverman
School of Rock
Scrooged

She’s So Lovely
Silver Linings Playbook
Slackers
Small Soldiers
Sonic the Hedgehog

Star Trek VIII: First Contact
Steel Magnolias
Steve Jobs
Still of the Night
Straw Dogs

Surviving Christmas
Target
The Animal
The Apartment
The Aviator

The Christmas Edition
The Eiger Sanction
The Family Stone
The Godfather
The Godfather, Part II

The Good Shepherd
The Great Escape
The Holiday
The Italian Job
The King’s Man

The Lady In The Van
The Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven Ride
The People vs. Larry Flynt
The Pursuit Of Happyness

The Saint
The Soloist
The Spectacular Now
The Swan Princess And The Secret Of The Castle
The Swan Princess Christmas

The Terminator
The White Buffalo
The Wonderful Country
The Theory of Everything
To Sleep With Anger

Tom & Jerry
Tower Heist
Turbulence
Ultraviolet
Universal Soldier: Day Of Reckoning

Walk of Shame
Walking Tall
War of The Worlds
Zona Mortal
Bones S1-16

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