Netflix has a busy week ahead, with three very different arrivals landing between Monday and Sunday. The Leftovers, Mediacorp’s latest blockbuster series — and its first dystopian crime thriller — arrives on Netflix today, Monday, November 9, while The Body lands on Wednesday, November 11, and Cunk on Cinema arrives on Sunday, November 15. It is a week that shows how wide Netflix’s slate has become, from Singaporean dystopia to British mockumentary.
The Leftovers is not to be confused with the HBO series of the same name. The Mediacorp series is set in 2037 on the fictional volcanic island of Equaland, where an underground boxer, played by Zhang Zetong, tries to raise money for his mother’s surgery but gets entangled with an organ-trafficking syndicate and a mad scientist, played by Li Nanxing, who is obsessed with artificial organs. The cast also includes Jesseca Liu, Desmond Tan, Zoe Tay, Cheryl Chou, Jeremy Chan and James Seah. It is the first of three eight-part series, with the others dropping in 2027.
The Body and Cunk on Cinema
The Body arrives on Netflix on Wednesday, November 11 — the same day The Rings of Power season 3 lands on Prime Video. The eight-episode series, created by writer-director Quinn Shephard and executive produced by Riley Keough, follows a group of badly behaved Catholic schoolgirls who begin having prophetic visions after a dance-team initiation goes wrong, setting off mass hysteria in their town, according to Netflix’s Tudum. It is one of the week’s most anticipated arrivals, according to ScreenRant’s roundup of Netflix’s best new shows this week, which also lists a gangster masterpiece, a spy thriller, a psychological drama, a royal drama and a hostage crisis among the week’s highlights.
Cunk on Cinema, the latest outing for Diane Morgan’s gloriously uninformed interviewer Philomena Cunk, arrives on Sunday, November 15. The mockumentary format — Cunk asking experts solemn questions about subjects she has plainly never understood — has become one of Netflix’s most reliable British comedy exports, and the cinema edition takes on the movies themselves.
A chart led by true crime
The week’s arrivals land on a chart still led by Taken: Natalee Holloway, which has held number one in the United States since November 6. The official weekly Top 10 for November 2–8 is published on Tuesday, November 10, and will show whether the documentary’s weekend hold translated into the week’s biggest views figure. For now, Netflix’s week ahead is a reminder of the platform’s range: a Singaporean dystopia on Monday, a supernatural teen drama on Wednesday, and a mockumentary on Sunday — with a true-crime documentary still ruling the chart.
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