The fifth and final season of Stranger Things has wrapped up, but there ARE other reasons to watch stuff on Netflix. In fact, despite whatever misgivings people may have about the service — rising subscription prices, added commercials — it still gives you the best bang for your buck, with a reliable user interface and a deeper content library than anything else on the market.
And that library is always getting bigger. If you’re looking for something brand new to watch this weekend, you have several options.
Queer Eye season 10 (January 21)
The final season of the iconic reality show
The Queer Eye franchise goes way back to the 2003, when the show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy premiered on Bravo. In that show, a group of five gay men, each with a different life specialty (fashion, food, culture, etc) met up with a different straight man and gave him a mild makeover that usually ended with the guy feeling a bit more comfortable in his own skin. The Netflix revival more or less sticks to that formula, with Antoni Porowski advising on food and wine; Jeremiah Brent taking on interior design; Jonathan Van Ness (the breakout star of the show) weighing in on grooming; Karamo Brown handling culture; and Tan France lending fashion expertise.
But the revival expanded things. Not all of the clients are straight men, and there’s more of a focus on the friendships between the “Fab Five” themselves, something the original show probably wasn’t willing to do at a time when queer people were just starting to appear on popular TV shows. While the advice is still useful — who couldn’t benefit from learning to cook? — the revival puts more emphasis on generally improving people’s lives, getting clients to open up and take better care of themselves and their loved ones.
Queer Eye has a reputation for getting people to tear up, both on camera and at home. The vibes are very wholesome and positive. Expect more of that from the show’s final five episodes, which are set in Washington, D.C.
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February 7, 2018
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Netflix
- Showrunner
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David Collins
- Directors
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David Collins
- Writers
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David Collins
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Jonathan Van Ness
Uncredited
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Karamo Brown
Self – Grooming
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Antoni Porowski
Self – Food & Wine
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Tan France
Self – Interior Design
Finding Her Edge (January 22)
The OTHER ice-skating romance show
Finding Her Edge is a new romance series based on a young adult novel of the same name by Jennifer Iacopelli. It follows Adriana Russo (Madelyn Keys), a family of competitive ice skaters, who enters into a fake relationship with her new ice skating partner, Brayden Elliott (Cale Ambrozic), in order to raise her profile, which will increase her chances of winning an upcoming competition and save her family’s struggling ice rink. But then she starts developing actual feelings for Brayden, which is complicated by the return of her former skating partner and ex-boyfriend, Freddie O’Connell (Olly Atkins).
This show has love triangles, it’s got a plucky underdog trying to save her family business, and it has ice skating scenes…it all adds up to a solid comfort watch over the weekend. It also can’t help but remind me of Heated Rivalry, an entirely different ice skating romance show based on a book. That one is streaming over on HBO Max, another streaming service with a lot to recommend it. I guess when it rains ice-skating romances, it pours ice-skating romances.
The first season of Finding Her Edge will have eight episodes. It’s not clear yet if it’ll be back for a second season. Maybe your binge will make the difference.
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January 22, 2026
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Netflix
- Writers
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Jennifer Iacopelli
Cast
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Madelyn Keys
Adriana Russo
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Alice Malakhov
Maria Russo
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Alexandra Beaton
Elise Russo
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Skyscraper Live (January 23)
Not for a billion dollars would I try this
Netflix has had a lot of luck with live events lately, including celebrity boxing matches between Jake Paul and the likes of Mike Tyson and Anthony Joshua. It’s returning to that well with Skyscraper Live, a live event that will follow rock climber Alex Honnold as he tries to scale the 101-story Taipei 101 tower in Taiwan. It will be a free solo climb, meaning Honnold will not be using harnesses or safety nets.
That means that if Joshua falls, he may well die while untold numbers of people watch it live on Netflix. The danger, I’m sure, is the point. I wouldn’t be surprised if a huge number of people tune in to see how Honnold does when Skyscraper Live airs on Netflix on Friday, January 26 at 8:00 p.m. EST, 7 CST.
FYI, Honnold reportedly has an unresponsive amygdala, meaning he doesn’t process fear like most people, if you’re looking for an explanation for why someone would do this. “I feel like it’s going to be fine,” Honnold told Deadline. Here’s hoping.
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Even more Netflix
If none of that appeals to you, there are other things coming to Netflix ahead of this weekend, as there always are.
Cosmic Princess Kaguya! is an upcoming Japanese animated musical fantasy film (if you or your child hasn’t quite gotten enough of K-Pop Demon Hunters!). That’s coming out on January 21. On January 22, stand-up comic Bert Kreischer will debut his scripted series Free Bert, where he has to button up his free-spirited shirtless self to help his daughter fit in at a fancy new school. And on January 23, you can watch The Big Fake, a new Italian movie inspired by a true story about a master art forger working in Rome in the 1970s.
