March arrived quietly and then detonated. Over the past two weeks, Netflix dropped a long-awaited Peaky Blinders film, a second season of the best live-action anime adaptation in years, a Rachel Weisz limited series, and a Bob Odenkirk action sequel — plus a Duffer Brothers horror show landing Thursday. If your watchlist hasn't been touched since January, this is the weekend to fix that.
Here are ten things on Netflix right now worth your time.
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
Film | Dropped March 20
Four years after the series finale, Tommy Shelby is back. It's WWII now, which means the stakes got considerably higher than Birmingham gang turf wars. Cillian Murphy, fresh off his Oscar for Oppenheimer, returns to the role that made him a household name. Creator Steven Knight wrote the film specifically as a cinematic continuation, not a cash-grab epilogue. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 92% rating based on 71 reviews (at the time of writing). It dropped today, which means you can watch it before anyone spoils it.
ONE PIECE Season 2
Series | Dropped March 10
In its first four days, the show pulled 16.8 million views, reaching number one in 43 countries. Critics handed it a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, a major jump from Season 1's 84%, and on Metacritic it sits at 80/100, on par with prestige titles like The White Lotus. Season 2 picks up with Luffy and the Straw Hats heading into more dangerous waters, and critics are calling it bigger and better than the first. If you haven't started Season 1 yet, that's good news: you have a whole weekend's worth of TV ahead of you.
Vladimir
Limited Series | Dropped March 5
Rachel Weisz plays a college professor who becomes dangerously fixated on a younger colleague, and the whole thing unravels from there. Based on Julia May Jonas's acclaimed novel, it's sharp, uncomfortable, and intentionally provocative. The kind of limited series that exists specifically to make you argue about it afterward. Weisz is essentially a one-woman reason to watch anything she touches.
Nobody 2
Film | New to Netflix
Bob Odenkirk as an ex-assassin is still one of the more delightful premises in recent action cinema, and the sequel delivers more of it. It holds a 76% on Rotten Tomatoes from critics and an 88% audience score. It's not trying to be anything other than what it is, which is exactly why it works.
Anatomy of a Fall
Film | New to Netflix
If you skipped this during its Oscar run, you made a mistake, and now you can correct it. On Rotten Tomatoes, 96% of critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.5/10, and the consensus calls it "a smart, solidly crafted procedural anchored in family drama, with star Sandra Hüller and director Justine Triet operating at peak power." One of the best films of the decade so far, now finally streamable.
Jo Nesbø's Detective Hole
Series | New Episodes Weekly
For the Scandi-crime crowd, this is the adaptation they've been waiting for. Harry Hole is one of crime fiction's great antiheroes, a brilliant, tormented homicide detective going head-to-head with a corrupt colleague while hunting a serial killer. If The Snowman left a bad taste (it did, for everyone), this is the version of Jo Nesbø done right.
War Machine
Film | Dropped March 6
Alan Ritchson fights a giant robot. That's the pitch. It's currently sitting at 70% on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics agreeing it's a fun popcorn movie that delivers exactly what it promises. Sometimes that's exactly what a Saturday afternoon calls for.
Virgin River Season 7
Series | Dropped March 12
It's Netflix's longest-running original series now, which is a fact that should tell you something. Season 7 debuted at No. 2 on the US chart and No. 3 globally, with Mel and Jack navigating newlywed life while the mystery of Charmaine's disappearance pulls the town back into chaos. Not every weekend needs prestige cinema. Sometimes it needs 10 episodes of small-town drama in a place that looks like it was designed by someone who really loves rain and flannel. This is that show.
The Dinosaurs
Limited Documentary Series | Dropped March 6
Executive produced by Steven Spielberg, made by the Our Planet team, covering 150 million years of prehistoric life. It functions as ambient television that occasionally stops you mid-scroll to actually watch. Good for Sunday morning. Good for any morning, honestly.
The Plastic Detox
Documentary | Dropped March 16
This documentary follows six couples who embark on a plastic detox within their homes, examining what microplastics are doing to our health, from hormone disruption fueling a worldwide fertility crisis to increasing rates of cancer, early heart attack, and stroke. Directed by Louie Psihoyos, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind The Cove. You will look at a water bottle differently by the time it's over. Whether that's a good reason to watch or a reason to avoid it entirely is between you and your anxiety.
