What’s New on Netflix in November, From ‘The Crown’ and ‘Blockbuster’ to ‘Wednesday’

This three-part documentary series investigates the 1995 Valentine’s Day shooting death of bodybuilding champion Ray McNeil by his wife Sally, who is currently serving his 19-year to life sentence at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, California. Was the murder really premeditated or an act of self-defense? Friends, family and acquaintances make appearances on the show with Sally herself, recounting her rocky marriage, her husband’s abuse and the motive for his crime.

Fans of ‘The Office’, ‘Parks and Recreation’, ‘Superstore’ and other workplace comedies will also enjoy Netflix’s upcoming ‘Blockbuster’ series. Randall Park stars as Timmy, the manager of the last Blockbuster Video store on Earth, alongside Melissa Fumero as Eliza, Timmy’s longtime crush and recently divorced co-worker. Together, the couple and their co-workers are fighting to keep their store both relevant and in business.

This is the second time Netflix has used the Blockbuster brand. The streamer first featured the brand in a 2020 documentary called “The Last Blockbuster” which also spotlights Blockbuster’s last store in Bend, Oregon.

Millie Bobby Brown and Henry Cavill reprise their roles as Enola Holmes and Sherlock Holmes in the 2020 film sequel, which is also based on Nancy Springer’s young adult fiction series of the same name. Trying to escape the shadow of her brother Sherlock, Enola is eager to start her own practice and solve her first official mystery case, which involves a missing match factory worker. Along with her new detective responsibilities, Enola struggles to maneuver a budding crush as well as the most serious issues of her time, including ageism and sexism.

Written and directed by acclaimed film critic Elvis Mitchell, “Is That Black Enough For You?!?” is a documentary film that examines “the evolution – and revolution – of black cinema from its origins to the hard-hitting films of the 1970s”.

Earlier this month, Mitchell told Variety that the documentary was inspired by her own life experiences: “As a black viewer, I found myself confronting what was unspoken about my people, and I wondered why movies were so slow to respond to black audiences — who paid big bucks to see movies — and even the social changes wrought by the civil rights movement.”

In addition to Mitchell’s commentary and analysis, the documentary features interviews with prominent black stars in Hollywood, including Laurence Fishburne, Whoopi Goldberg, Samuel L. Jackson, Suzanne de Passe, Billy Dee Williams and Zendaya.

Filmed over a two-year period, this documentary explores the story of Zarifa Ghafari, who became one of Afghanistan’s first female mayors and the youngest to hold the post at 26. “In Her Hands” documents Ghafari’s “struggle for survival against the backdrop of his country’s accelerating collapse as Western forces announce their retreat and the Taliban begin their return to power.”

In September, “In Her Hands” won the Audience Award at the 18th Camden International Film Festival. The documentary is directed by Tamana Ayazi and Marcel Mettelsiefen with Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea serving as executive producers.

Based on Emma Donoghue’s 2016 period novel, “The Wonder” stars Florence Pugh as nurse Lib Wright, who travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to observe a young girl from 11-year-old named Anna O’Donnell (Kíla Lord Cassidy), who hasn’t eaten in four months. Although Anna’s fast has been hailed as a miraculous phenomenon, Lib soon realizes the gravity of the situation and attempts to use both science and faith to save the young girl’s life.

Directed by Andrew Renzi, this four-part docuseries tells the story of a ridiculous Pepsi campaign involving an expensive fighter jet and a teenager who decides to challenge one of America’s biggest corporations. The 1996 promotional gambit encouraged consumers to buy Pepsi products en masse to accumulate “Pepsi Points” in exchange for “Pepsi Stuff” or prizes, including a $23 million Harrier Jump Jet.

Pepsi executives assumed the plane’s astronomical “price” would make it impossible for anyone to reach it, but they were clearly wrong after a student named John Leonard accepted the offer as a challenge and then sued Pepsi for the price of the fighter jet that never existed in the first place.

The animated adult workplace sci-fi comedy series follows Reagan Ridley, a talented but socially awkward robotics engineer who works for shadow government organization Cognito Inc., struggling to deal with the aftermath of major betrayal. from his father. Season 2 also features Adam Scott, voicing a key member of the Illuminati, Cognito’s main rival corporation.

“Inside Job” also features the voices of Christian Slater, Clark Duke, Andrew Daly, Bobby Lee, John DiMaggio, Tisha Campbell, Chris Diamantopoulos and Brett Gelman.

Noah’s third stand-up special on Netflix, titled “I Wish You Would,” is lighter in nature than his usual segments on “The Daily Show.” Viewers can expect to hear about Noah “learning to speak German, modern communication and his love for curry,” according to Netflix.

The special also comes after Noah announced in September that he was officially ending his tenure as host of “The Daily Show” on December 8.

Based on Wednesday Addams from “The Addams Family,” Netflix’s upcoming supernatural mystery comedy series stars Jenna Ortega as the title character. As a high school student at Nevermore Academy, Wednesday investigates a monstrous local shooting while making new friends – and enemies.

Alongside Ortega, Luis Guzmán stars as Gomez Addams, the family patriarch; Catherine Zeta-Jones portrays Morticia Addams, the family matriarch; and Isaac Ordonez stars as Pugsley Addams, Wednesday’s younger brother. Christina Ricci, who notably starred in the 1991 film “The Addams Family” on Wednesday, also makes an appearance as Marylin Thornhill, the lair mother of the Nevermore Academy female students.

Following the release of the 2020 docuseries “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich,” comes “Ghislaine Maxwell: Filthy Rich,” which now shines a light on the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, a socialite, convicted sex offender, and accomplice of Epstein, as well as only stories of the survivors.