3 Best all-new Netflix and Prime Video arrivals for a mid-week binge (June 30-July 3)
Some huge additions arrive this week
The world of streaming never, ever sits still – and there's plenty coming down the pike as we leave June and enter the month of July. This week we've finally had the UK heatwave abate, which means it might be more straightforward to stay inside of an evening and watch some fun new shows and movies without melting.
On that note, I've taken a look at all of the new additions coming to Netflix and Prime Video this week, since they're the two biggest streaming services out there, and picked out three highlights that I think will interest people. There's a really broad set of genres to enjoy this week, so check them out below with trailers and details on which day they'll arrive.
Elle
- Streaming on: Amazon Prime Video from 1 July
This charming prequel series takes a look at Elle, the star of Legally Blonde, but winds the clock back to her high school days for a different era. Reece Witherspoon has been replaced with Lexi Minetree, who frankly looks almost impossibly like a young Witherspoon, and the whole show is unsurprisingly going to open with explosions of pink colour.
Things will get more drab when Elle is forced to move to Seattle, though, where she finds it much harder to fit in and make friends. With a savvy mind and an eye for detail, though, it looks like helping to uncover a local legal scandal might just be the making of her reputation – and it could put her on a new course in life.
Enola Holmes 3
- Streaming on: 1 July on Netflix
Enola Holmes has quietly become one of Netflix's biggest franchises, after two movies that clearly did really quite massive numbers for the streaming service. It's now got another sequel coming out, starring Millie Bobby Brown again as Sherlock Holmes' younger sister Enola.
This time around she's trying to organise her wedding in Malta, of all places, but gets severely distracted when Sherlock is kidnapped. For someone to get one over the most intelligent detective in the world, something must have really gone wrong, and it'll be up to Enola to put things together and work out what's happened and how she can put things right.
Human Vapor
- Streaming on: Netflix from 2 July
My final pick is a niche one, but I think it looks really promising and might have the potential to break out and become a cult hit. This Japanese series will follow a bizarre, possibly supernatural series of killings that starts when an expert turns into gas live on TV, rightly terrifying people.
As detectives rush to work out how something so seemingly impossible could have happened in front of so many people, they start to uncover evidence of twisted schemes and abandoned projects. It looks really dark and fun, and the special effects as people die seem fascinatingly impressive, so don't be surprised if this one does better than you might expect.
