Here’s every TV show, movie and comedy special coming to and leaving Netflix Canada in April 2022 and our picks for what to watch.
Russian Doll: Season 2
This Natasha Lyonne and Charlie Barnett-led show about two depressed New Yorkers caught in a darker, deadlier version of Groundhog Day seemed like the perfect high-concept one-season wonder. But after the pandemic gave us all our own flashbacks, the universe is fucking with the two characters again. Expect another existential nightmare you can’t help but binge. The first season was one of Netflix’s best-ever original series, so there’s a high bar to clear. (Richard Trapunski) April 20
The Bubble
What was it like to make a movie during the first year of the pandemic? Find out in The Bubble. Judd Apatow’s new comedy follows the cast and crew of the latest sequel in a cheesy action franchise. While bubbling in a posh hotel in England, something happens, and some of the cast try to escape. Laughs (and flying dinosaurs) ensue. Benedict Cumberbatch, Pedro Pascal, Karen Gillan, Kate McKinnon, David Duchovny, Keegan-Michael Key, Fred Armisen and Apatow’s wife and daughter Leslie Mann and Iris Apatow star. (Glenn Sumi) April 1
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
Waking Life director Richard Linklater hasn’t played around animation since 2006’s A Scanner Darkly. His latest about a young boy who was just the right size to test pilot an Apollo mission feels considerably more child-friendly than his previous animated fare and still up Linklater’s wheelhouse. It’s a nostalgic look at 60s Americana inspired by the director’s own childhood, exploring the suburbs, the social change and the alienation of it all. (Radheyan Simonpillai) April 1
Ronnie Chieng: Speakeasy
If you couldn’t make it to stand-up star Chieng’s recent performance at Toronto’s Massey Hall, you won’t want to miss his latest special, taped at Manhattan’s intimate Chinese Tuxedo bar and restaurant. The Daily Show correspondent and Crazy Rich Asians star sounds off on the pandemic, online critics and race – all in his slick, beautifully timed performance style. (GS) April 5
The Ultimatum: Marry Or Move On
The latest sensational Netflix reality TV series tempting sexy participants to not peel each other’s clothes off is making some big demands. This one, hosted by Love Is Blind’s Nick and Vanessa Lachey, turns marriage proposals into a pressure sales tactic. Established couples enter the show. One of them is ready to get married while the other must decide whether they’re going to commit. And while they take weeks to ponder that proposal, everyone hooks up with another partner, giving a whole new meaning to couples retreat. (RS) April 6 (new episodes weekly)
Return To Space
Filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin are used to making films that take audiences to dizzying altitudes. Their docs Meru and Free Solo are about the people who stubbornly put themselves and others at risk to look down on the world from mountain peaks. That makes them a good fit to hang out with Elon Musk as he oversees SpaceX, his commercial starship carrier that will allow the obscenely rich to travel into orbit while we all hate watch from below. (RS) April 7
Elite: Season 5
We’ve been so busy getting traumatized by Euphoria that we somehow slept on this sensational Spanish series about rich high school teens getting up to sex, drugs and at least one murder mystery per season. Elite follows kids from working class backgrounds finding themselves caught up in the drama of wealthy people after they gain scholarships to a private prep school. The series that has been compared to Gossip Girl and Big Little Lies is now in its fifth season. (RS) April 8
Our Great National Parks
Barack Obama narrating the adventures of a baby lemur sounds like a balm. In this nature doc series, the former U.S. president guides audiences through parks and other spaces around the world, from Monterey Bay to Indonesia, surveying the wildlife, the curious geology and what climate change is doing to them. (RS) April 13
Bullsh*t The Game Show
Sometimes you don’t have to be right; you just have to sound like you’re right. That’s the idea behind this new game show hosted by Canada’s own Howie Mandel. Contestants will work their way up a money ladder answering questions correctly… or providing wrong answers so convincingly that they fool their opponents. Anyone who remembers the board game Balderdash will know how this entertaining BS works. (GS) April 27
Ozark: Season 4, Part 2
After that explosive finale to the first part of Ozark’s concluding season, we finally get to see how it all ends for the money-laundering Byrdes, the now-truly-orphaned Ruth and peripheral characters like drug cartel leader Javi, FBI agent Maya Miller and Chicago PI Mel, who’s on the verge of putting all the pieces together. How will that car crash from the fourth season opener play out? And will Laura Linney finally win an Emmy for her ruthless yet flawed Wendy? Can’t wait to find out. (GS) April 29
Grace and Frankie: Season 7 – The Final Episodes
Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin’s buddy comedy has long outlasted its original premise of two women forced to reconsider their lives after their two husbands leave them for each other. Now there’s been seven seasons of zany schemes, family dramas and old-fashioned sitcom punchlines. If you’ve stuck with it for 94 episodes, you’ll of course have to see how it all ends. (RT) April 29
The full list of new titles available on Netflix Canada in April 2022 by date:
TV shows
Coming Soon
Hold Tight
April 1
Get Organized With The Home Edit (season 2)
Tomorrow
Trivia Quest
Abby Hatcher (season 2)
Casual (seasons 1-4)
CoComelon (season 5)
PAW Patrol (season 8)
April 4
Better Call Saul (season 5)
April 6
Green Mothers’ Club
The Ultimatum: Marry Or Move On
April 7
Queen Of The South (season 5)
April 8
Dirty Lines
Elite (season 5)
Green Eggs And Ham (season 2)
April 9
My Liberation Notes
Our Blues
April 12
The Creature Cases
Hard Cell
April 13
Almost Happy (season 2)
Our Great National Parks
Smother-In-Law
April 14
Ultraman (season 2)
April 15
Anatomy Of A Scandal
Heirs To The Land
Mai
April 16
LEGO Friends: Girls On A Mission (seasons 1-4)
April 19
Pacific Rim: The Black (season 2)
April 20
The Marked Heart
Russian Doll (season 2)
Yakamoz S-245
April 21
He’s Expecting
April 22
Heartstopper
Selling Sunset (season 5)
The Seven Lives Of Lea
April 27
Bullsh*t The Game Show
April 28
Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles
April 29
Grace And Frankie (season 7 – final episodes)
Ozark (season 5 – part two)
Movies
Coming Soon
The Taming Of The Shrew
April 1
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
Battle: Freestyle
The Bubble
Captain Nova
Celeb Five: Behind The Curtain
Forever Out Of My League
The Last Bus
3 Days To Kill
8 Mile
Cats
The Chronicles Of Riddick
The Kingdom
The Lincoln Lawyer
Lucky Number SLevin
The Mummy
Munich
Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Rambo: Last Blood
Ride Along
Scary Movie 2
Warcraft
April 4
April 6
Furioza
Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story
Michela Giraud: The Truth, I Swear!
April 7
Mile 22
Return To Space
Senzo: Murder Of A Soccer Star
April 8
Dancing On Glass
The In Between
Metal Lords
Tiger & Bunny 2
Yaksha: Ruthless Operations
April 10
House Of 1,000 Corpses
April 11
Aileen Wuornos: American Boogeywoman
April 12
April 13
Today We Fix The World
April 15
Choose Or Die
One Piece Film Z
April 16
Man Of God
April 17
Richie Rich
Selena
April 19
White Hot: The Rise & Fall Of Abercrombie & Fitch
April 20
The Turning Point
April 21
All About Gila
April 22
Along For The Ride
The Secret Life Of Pets
April 26
American Gangster
David Spade: Nothing Personal
April 27
The Mystery Of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes
Silverton Siege
April 28
Bubble
April 29
Honeymoon With My Mother
Rumspringa
Youth V Gov
Last call
TV series and movies leaving Netflix Canada in April 2022
April 1
Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
April 5
Despicable Me
Despicable Me 2
Minions
April 30
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Legacy
The Bourne Supremacy
The Bourne Ultimatum