A closer look at 6 new Netflix releases to check out next week, including a steamy new season of “Too Hot to Handle”
I hope you’ve cleared out your streaming watchlist, because Netflix is teeing up a slew of new releases over the next several days that will dominate viewership on the platform over the coming week.
As we do each weekend, we’ll walk through a curated selection of some of the biggest and best Netflix releases set to drop on the service soon, a list that should cater to almost every streaming taste — from reality show lovers to fans of documentaries, prestige dramas, anime, and much more.
If you need more ideas for what to watch on the service, you can also peruse our comprehensive Netflix guide for the entire month of December, as well as our snapshots of the latest global Top 10 lists covering both Netflix series and movies. All that said, let’s get into our latest look at some of the biggest Netflix releases coming soon.
First up: Reality show fans, this one is for you.
As things stand now, it’s increasingly rare for any of the countless Netflix releases jockeying for our attention to make it past a third season. Heck, we can point to plenty of examples these days of fan favorites that end up biting the dust after just one season.
Netflix’s cheap-to-produce reality series like Too Hot to Handle, however, are a different story.
This show is a good example of Netflix identifying a format that works and squeezing every possible permutation out of it that the company can. Dating and romance-themed reality series are not new ideas, but in the case of Too Hot to Handle (Season 4 of which hits Netflix on December 7), the concept has been sexed-up to keep our device-addled short attention spans satisfied.
The gist: Sexy singles are thrown together on an island where, obviously, lust and passion will ensue. They’re forbidden, however, from acting on that passion, lest a communal pot of money shrink with each infraction.
