Don't Miss These 5 Must-Stream Premieres on Netflix, Prime Video and More This Week (April 20–24)
April’s final week unleashes a downpour of fresh streaming on Netflix, Hulu and HBO Max—buzzy premieres, splashy debuts and plenty to binge while the rain falls. Here’s your guide to what’s new and unmissable now.
April is still soggy, but at least the streamers came to play. Netflix, Hulu, and HBO Max are dropping a mix of sequels, spinoffs, and chaos this week. Here are the five I’d actually queue up.
- Stranger Things: Tales From '85 (Netflix) — Apr 23
- Half Man, Season 1 (HBO Max) — Apr 23
- Apex (Netflix) — Apr 24
- Marty Supreme (HBO Max) — Apr 24
- No Other Choice (Hulu) — Apr 24
Stranger Things: Tales From '85 — Netflix
Yes, Stranger Things ended in December with season 5. No, Netflix is not letting Hawkins go that easily. Tales From '85 is an animated spinoff slotted between seasons 2 and 3, following the core gang as they tangle with new monsters and a fresh mystery, this time with a more family- friendly tone.
Some key behind-the-scenes notes: the show was developed by Eric Robles and is executive produced by Matt and Ross Duffer alongside Shawn Levy. Most of the familiar characters are voiced by new actors — Brett Gipson is Jim Hopper, Luca Diaz is Mike Wheeler, and Brooklyn Davey Norstedt is Eleven — with recognizable names like Odessa A'zion, Janeane Garofalo, and Lou Diamond Phillips also in the mix. If swapping out the original cast for voice doubles gives you pause, that’s part of the experiment here: same era, new format, new energy.
Streams April 23.
Half Man, Season 1 — HBO Max
Two years after Baby Reindeer blew up on Netflix, creator and star Richard Gadd is back — now at HBO Max — with Half Man, a decades-spanning drama about two men whose makeshift brotherhood curdles into something volatile. Neill (Jamie Bell) is sensitive and withdrawn; Ruben (Gadd) is an ultra-masculine ticking time bomb. The show digs into toxic manhood and male friendship without flinching.
If you admired how Baby Reindeer handled obsession, stalking, and abuse with care, brace for something even more bruising here. The cast also includes Neve McIntosh, Charlie De Melo, and Bilal Hasna.
Streams April 23.
Apex (2026 ) — Netflix
Charlize Theron, Taron Egerton, and Eric Bana headline a survival- horror chase through the Australian outback. Theron’s character heads into the wilderness to outrun her grief and ends up running from a relentless serial killer instead. Netflix’s pitch is simple and sharp:
"A ruthless game of cat and mouse."
It ’s directed by Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur, who last delivered 2022’s Beast with Idris Elba, and written by Jeremy Robbins (The Purge TV series ). Beast was a tight, high-concept nail-biter; between that and Netflix’s own psychological thriller miniseries The Beast in Me, this has the right pedigree for another tense, stripped-down pursuit story.
Streams April 24.
Marty Supreme (2025 ) — HBO Max
Timothee Chalamet goes full chaos gremlin as Marty Mauser, a shoe salesman and wannabe ping pong champ who is somehow both unstoppable and his own worst enemy. After hustling his way into the British Open, Marty loses the title match to Koto Endo (Koto Kawaguchi), a deaf Japanese player — and then proceeds to juggle an affair with a married older actress (Gwyneth Paltrow), accidentally impregnating his childhood friend (Odessa A'zion), a $1,500 debt to the International Table Tennis Association, an arrest, and an avalanche of self-made disasters.
This is Josh Safdie’s first solo feature without his brother Benny, and the DNA of Uncut Gems and Good Time is all over it — same panic attack momentum, but spun as a breakneck comedy of errors. It went 0-for-9 at this year’s Oscars, which will read as a snub to plenty of folks, but Chalamet’s turn is the best of his career so far, and the below-the-line craft (costumes, production design, you name it) is locked in sync.
Streams April 24.
No Other Choice (2025) — Hulu
Park Chan-wook’s latest is a South Korean dark comedy-thriller with a premise that starts bleak and only gets darker. Man-su (Lee Byung-hun), a father and laid-off paper industry worker, has been out of a job for over a year. Desperate to secure the one opening he thinks he can get, he identifies the top rivals standing between him and employment — and decides to eliminate them, literally. His plan spirals fast, turning his bid to protect his family into a fight for his own survival.
Critics have been calling this the best film of Park’s long career, and it shows in every department: razor-edged humor and a smart script matched by meticulous directing, editing, cinematography, and set design. It is precise, propulsive, and genuinely entrancing.
Streams April 24.