Here’s Everything New On Netflix This Week, Including ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ And More David Letterman

Netflix is still pouring out the movies and TV shows to binge this week, and we’re here to help you feel out what deserves a spot in your queue.

Godless director Scott Frank’s new meditation on what it means to be a champion is one of those picks. Starring Anya Taylor-Joy and a stellar supporting cast, the series is impressively intense and a slam-dunk bingewatch. There’s also new spooky mysteries from a Netflix revival series, a Rebecca movie remake, and more from the one and only David Letterman. You can’t go wrong by picking at least a few of these for the weekend.

Here’s everything coming to and leaving Netflix this week of Oct. 23.

Yes, this is essentially a chess drama, but it’s a surprisingly interesting and tightly paced season worth binging. It’s also a meditation upon addiction and danger and what it means to be a champion, all wrapped up in a coming-of-age tale about a boozy chess grandmaster in the making. As fictional prodigy Beth Harmon, Anya Taylor-Joy’s piercing gaze is here to demonstrate how a board game can look like a battlefield in Scott Frank’s adaptation of the Walter Tevis novel. The supporting cast, including Marielle Heller as a tragic 1950s housewife, Moses Ingram as a kickass childhood friend, and Harry Melling and Thomas Brodie-Sangster as gameplay rivals, is also incredible.

Following a successful summer revival, the second batch of cold-case deep dives are here to spook the hell out of you. We ranked the six episodes — which include a mysterious death in a luxury hotel, the disappearance and murder of a Washington insider, and a mass haunting following a tsunami — that invite citizen detectives to do their thing. This reinvigorated take on the classic series comes from the original creators (Cosgrove/Meurer Productions), who teamed up with the Stranger Things production company (21 Laps Entertainment), and hopefully, some justice and closure can be found for victims’ families.

The venerable former late-night TV host returns for Season 3 episodes. This brand new crop of deep-dive conversations will feature Dave Chappelle talking about weed, along with Robert Downey Jr., Kim Kardashian West, Lizzo, and more.

Rebecca (Netflix film) — Armie Hammer and Lily James star in this fresh adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s beloved 1938 gothic novel. Underneath it all, the film’s a psychological thriller about a bride who finds herself living in the shadow of a wealthy man’s first wife, the Rebecca of the title, after a high-speed courtship in Monte Carlo.

Avail. 10/18

ParaNorman

Avail. 10/19

Unsolved Mysteries: Volume 2

Avail. 10/20

Carol

Avail. 10/21

My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman: Season 3

Rebecca

Avail. 10/22

Bending the Arc

Cadaver

The Hummingbird Project

Yes, God, Yes

Avail. 10/23

Barbarians

Move

Over the Moon

Perdida

The Queen’s Gambit

Leaving 10/26

Battle: Los Angeles

Leaving 10/30

Kristy

Leaving 10/31

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Burlesque

Charlotte’s Web

Clash of the Titans

District 9

The Firm

Fun with Dick & Jane

The Girl with All the Gifts

Grandmaster

Highway to Heaven: Seasons 1-5

The Interview

Just Friends

Magic Mike

Nacho Libre

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

The NeverEnding Story

The NeverEnding Story 2: The Next Chapter

Nights in Rodanthe

The Patriot

Set Up

The Silence of the Lambs

Sleepless in Seattle

Sleepy Hollow

Spaceballs

The Taking of Pelham 123

The Ugly Truth

Underworld

Underworld: Evolution

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

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