In celebration of Pride month, Netflix presents season two of acclaimed Series FEEL GOOD, starring Toronto’s own Mae Martin.

Synopsis:

The first season of FEEL GOOD premiered in March 2020 to widespread praise and a perfect 100% “Certified Fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Despite the dark and uncertain times at the beginning of the pandemic, FEEL GOOD was able to bring joy to viewers for its cinematic look and the earnest, sincere depiction of a queer love story. The first season also won the C21 Drama Award for “Comedy Drama Series,” the MIPCOM Diversity TV Excellence Award for “Representation of LGBTQ+ Scripted,” and the Edinburgh TV Award for “Best Comedy Series” with an additional nomination for Mae for “Breakthrough Talent.” With this being the final season, Mae brings all the stories, themes, and milestone moments full circle to properly end a pivotal chapter of Mae’s creative journey.

See the Trailer:

S2 of FEEL GOOD arrives on Netflix Friday, June 4, 2021.

In case you’re looking for programming with LGBTQ2+ storylines, here’s a list of Series and Films available now on Netflix for you to celebrate your Pride!

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Netflix proudly present their Summer Movie Preview. New Movies every week, all summer long! Check-out this Sizzle Reel!

Netflix‘s Summer Slate includes new movies every week!

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Netflix is you one-stop for Valentine’s Day programming options! They’ve even created some secret codes to make it easier for you to sort by genre, for every type of love.

It’s super easy, just type in netflix.com/browse/genre/[add code number] to your web browser and then let the love (or lack thereof) flow: 

• Feel-good Romantic Movies – 35714
• Gal Pal TV Shows – 1143288
• Love and Dating Reality TV – 81233168 
• Love Hurts – 2708690
• LGBTQ+ Romance – 3329
• Movies for Hopeless Romantics – 81495
• Quirky Romance – 36103
• Romantic Dramas based on Books – 7940
• Romantic Favorites – 502675
• Romantic Love Triangle Movies – 76385
• Romantic Tearjerkers – 9257
• Romantic Teen Comedies – 3186
• Steamy Romance – 29281
• Twisted Romance – 81236278

You also can update your Netflix profile icons to Bridgerton characters as well, right in time for Valentine’s Day!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

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It’s almost that time of year and nothing gets us excited like the Holidays! Netflix is ready and announces their Holiday slate of programming with plenty of eclectic options to choose from to keep this season festive and merry! Holiday editions of The Great British Baking Show, Sugar Rush, plus Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square, The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two and Holidate are among many of the exciting programs to lift our spirits!

Check-out their line-up below:

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We are thrilled to collaborate with our friends at Netflix to bring you some super fun activities to help put you in that Halloween spirit. If there’s anything we need right now, it’s a lift! Netflix releases #HUBIEHALLOWEEN, starring Adam Sandler, on Wednesday October 7th. You can check out the trailer below. 🎃

We crafted a FUN SIZE SNACK PUMPKIN which will make a gorgeous, edible Halloween centerpiece and also a PUMPKIN FUN SIZE CHOCOLATE LOAF which tastes exactly like Fall should! You can add a bit of your personality to these and make these YOU with your favourites! We had so much fun putting this together with our friend Angela who generously leant us her gorgeous kitchen for this!

Fall is definitely our favourite season. We love Pumpkin and we whipped-up a PUMPKIN FUN SIZE CHOCOLATE LOAF which you can customize with your own favourite chocolates. Halloween Candy and Pumpkin Spice, together at last! Just remember to be super-careful when carving the bottom of the Pumpkin!

Ingredients:

3 1/2 cups flour
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup organic raw sugar
2 tsps cinnamon
2 tsps nutmeg
1 tsps ginger
2 tsps baking powder
2 tsps baking soda
1 1/2 tsps sea salt
4 eggs, room temperature
1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup whole milk
2 cups of pumpkin pulp (seeds removed)
1 cup chopped, assorted Halloween chocolates

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven at 350°F.
2. Grease baking pans (2-3 depending how large they are) lightly and dust with flour.
3. In mixing bowl, cream butter and sugars till creamy with handmixer.
4. Add eggs and beat till smooth.
5. In separate mixing bowl, combine spices, flour, baking powder and soda, plus salt.
6. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients in large mixing bowl, mixing sparingly.
7. Using spatula, gently fold-in pumpkin pulp.
8. Using spatula, gently fold-in chopped chocolates.
9. Pour batter into baking pans and smoothen with spatula.
10. Bake 45-60 minutes, checking after 45 minutes with fork/toothpick for doneness. Once done, remove from oven and allow to cool for about 40 minutes before serving.

See our How-To Video:

A Carousel of fun:

Have fun and let us know what you think! Don’t forget, #HUBIEHALLOWEEN arrives on Netflix Wednesday, October 7, 2020!

More on HUBIE HALLOWEEN here.

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Netflix this month is celebrating its 10th year in Canada. To ring-in the occasion. several Canadian stars have come together in this reel to commemorate the occasion.

Starting September 22, Netflix members will be able to access a collection which houses films and series spanning across different categories that have a Canadian connection – from categories such as animation, Canadian talent, filmed in Canada and so much more.

We still remember being among the first Media outlets invited to preview the first couple episodes of HOUSE OF CARDS!

Check-out the Reel here:

Stars include:

Ryan Reynolds (6 Underground)

Antoni Porowski (Queer Eye)

Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things)

Maitreyi Ramakrishnan (Never Have I Ever)

Connor Jessup (Locke & Key)

Amanda Stephen (Orange is the New Black)

Momona Tamada (The Baby-Sitters Club)

Laysla De Oliveira (Locke & Key, In the Tall Grass)

Enuka Okuma (The Sleepover; Slasher)

Justin Chatwin (Shameless; Another Life; Summer Night)

Amir Bageria (Grand Army)

Malia Baker (The Baby-Sitters Club)

Anna Cathcart (To All the Boys I’ve Loved; To All The Boys: P.S. I Still Love you)

Kris Pearn (The Willoughbys; Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2; Arthur Christmas)

Guillaume Laurin (The Decline)

Ben Hollingsworth (Virgin River)

Cameron Britton (The Umbrella Academy, Mindhunter)

Florence Longpré (Can You Hear Me?)

Charlie Gillespie (Julie and the Phantoms)

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Netflix has announced a new six-part scripted Series about Colin Kaepernick’s formative high school years, which he will narrate. Ava DuVernay and Kaepernick also will serve as Executive Producers alongside Writer Michael Starrbury. DuVernay and Starrbury last collaborated on Award-winning WHEN THEY SEE US for Netflix.

Titled COLIN IN BLACK & WHITE, the Series provides an introspective look at the Football star’s early life as a Black child growing up with a white adopted family and his journey to become a great quarterback while defining his identity.

More to come.

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This Show was the bane of my existence growing-up. I would watch this home alone and be terrified to the point I couldn’t even look at the title graphic or hear its theme song without shivering! Guess what? A revival is coming to Netflix! Why are the suspects always believed to be in Canada?!*run*

Synopsis:
The iconic series UNSOLVED MYSTERIES is back! Fusing signature elements from the original series with contemporary immersive, character-driven storytelling, the 12 new episodes are rooted in the experiences of ordinary people who have lived the unthinkable — from the trauma of a loved one’s unexplained disappearance or horrific death, to the shock of a bizarre paranormal encounter. Alongside detectives and journalists, family members offer clues, present theories, and identify suspects, hoping one viewer holds the key to solving the mystery.

See the Trailer:

Unsolved Mysteries streams on Netflix Wednesday, July 1, 2020.

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We saw the sneak peak stills, here’s a first look at the new Trailer for HOLLYWOOD, from Ryan Murphy!

Synopsis:
What if you could rewrite the story?

HOLLYWOOD follows a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in post-World War II Hollywood as they try to make it in Tinseltown — no matter the cost. Each character offers a unique glimpse behind the gilded curtain of Hollywood’s Golden Age, spotlighting the unfair systems and biases across race, gender and sexuality that continue to this day.

Provocative and incisive, HOLLYWOOD exposes and examines decades-old power dynamics, and what the entertainment landscape might look like if they had been dismantled. HOLLYWOOD stars David Corenswet as Jack, Darren Criss as Raymond, Jeremy Pope as Archie, Laura Harrier as Camille, Samara Weaving as Claire, Dylan McDermott as Ernie, Holland Taylor as Ellen Kincaid, Patti LuPone as Avis, Jim Parsons as Henry Willson, Jake Picking as Rock Hudson, Joe Mantello as Dick, and Maude Apatow as Henrietta.

See the Trailer:

HOLLYWOOD streams Friday, May 1, 2020 on Netflix.

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More than ever, we are blessed to be living in the time of Netflix.  I can’t even imagine how else I’d be passing the time during this period of isolation. If you’re like me and pretty caught-up on your theatrical releases, that leaves us with plenty of Television to watch and here are some of our favourites, which are worth your time the streaming service.

THE TIGER KING. If you still haven’t streamed this gripping Docu-Series, you are in for a treat.  We’ve got murder, drugs, a gay love triangle, country crooning, felons and a heaping serving of spite in this deeply-enthralling look at the world of feuding Tiger Conservationists. At the center of it all is Oklahoma’s flamboyant Joe Exotic who recently was sentenced to a 22-year prison sentence for several counts of animal cruelty and two counts of murder-for-hire? Who did he try to have murdered?  His arch-nemesis, Tampa’s Carole Baskin of Big Cat Rescue who also is at the center of some revived controversy surrounding the disappearance of her ex-husband, Don Lewis. Several too crazy to be true plot twists and turns are revealed, with even more unbelievable characters surrounding the story. The buzz was warranted. We remember it popping-up on our screen and not being interested at first, but are we glad we gave it a chance. Obsessed.

COFFEE & KAREEM. Ed Helms stars in this Buddy-Cop Comedy as disgraced officer James Coffee, who finds himself wanted for murder and the abduction of his girlfriend Vanessa‘s (Taraji P. Henson) potty-mouthed son Kareem (Terrence Little Gardenhigh). Little do they know that he actually is protecting Kareem as they are on-the-run from Detroit’s most dangerous gangsters after Kareem plots to scare-off James by hiring a criminal in the first place and it goes horribly wrong, all because Kareem doesn’t approve of James. The jokes are crude, the humour is purely-raunchy but the shock-fueled giggles are plentiful. We love Harris, and Gardenhigh stamps himself a name to look-out for. We just wish there was more Henson!

OZARK SEASON 3. The Byrde Family are back, launching their riverboat casino The Missouri Belle, and matters get even more complicated with the arrival of Wendy‘s brother Ben (Tom Pelphrey) who battles addiction and mental illness. He falls in love with one of our favourite characters, unpredictable firecracker Ruth (Julia Garner). The Drug Cartel’s fierce lawyer Helen (Janet McTeer) returns and we wonder whether or not she can be trusted, as she vies with The Byrdes for favouritism with Cartel leader Omar Navarro (Felix Solis). We go deeper into these characters’ minds as we see The Byrdes coping with their crumbling marriage with their fight for survival continuing to weigh them down. We see a bit more of Ruth’s vulnerability as Ben peels a layer off of her and he keeps us at the edge of our seats with his erratic behaviour, unsure if he will ruin everything for his family. Yet another cliffhanger of a season finale and we can’t wait for Season 4!

NAILED IT! OMG. How have we not heard of this Show sooner? Life has been changed forever after witnessing the greatness that is NAILED IT!, a Series which refreshingly gives mediocre bakers a shot at glory and a $10k prize as they are pit against one another to replicate some unattainable-level difficult baking creations each episode. Each episode has a new guest judge from a wide array of disciplines: sports, entertainment and culinary. The banter between Comedienne Nicole Byer and head judge, Mr. Chocolate himself, Jacques Torres is amazing. We love the vibe, we love laughing with everyone about the mediocrity. This hot mess aesthetic is exactly the lift in spirits we need right now and through it all we usually learn something out of these contestants’ failures. I zipped through all four seasons rapidly.

THE CHEFS’ LINE. This Australian series is a hidden gem and a must-watch for lovers of diverse cuisine. Each week the Series explores a new ethnicity of fare with four home cooks competing with a line of chefs each episode from some of Australia’s hottest restaurants. The judges, Mark Olive, Dan Hong and Melissa Leong, aren’t told who made each dish and you’d be surprised how great some of these amateur cooks are and how close a match it is sometimes! Lots to learn about process and details in what elevates good food to great. We adore Melissa Leong, such an eloquent beauty!

BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNER. Travel with world-renowned Chef David Chang to Los Angeles, Phnom Penh, Vancouver and Marrakesh with Lena Waithe, Kate McKinnon, Seth Rogen and Chrissy Teigen. While this four-episode Docu-Series acts equal parts as celebrity one-on-one and an exposition of each city’s fantastic food finds, we found ourselves fascinated by the subjects and their paths to success. Above all the food looked amazing, and we’re taking notes what new places to try next time we visit L.A. It was trippy seeing Rogen and Chang enjoy Chinese Roast Pork at a hole-in-the-wall in suburban Vancouver! We are excited for Chang‘s UGLY DELICIOUS 2, which is coming soon on Netflix.

Some exciting new releases coming soon including a Documentary SURVIVING R. KELLY and LOVE WEDDING REPEAT starring Sam Claflin and Olivia Munn! Stay tuned.

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