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New to Netflix in July 2015: Summer Camp Drought

By on June 24, 2015

I’m going to dispel any misguided enthusiasm here. Yes, there are a couple of things to get excited about for Netflix in July 2015, but really it’s a crap month the victim of a far superior previous month. Angelina Jolie in a funny hat and an admittedly crowd-pleasing prequel series aren’t enough to overcome my enthusiasm for last month’s Sense8.

Here’s every TV show and movie new to Netflix in July 2015, starting with a couple highlights (the full list is below that):

Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp

An 8-episode, Netflix Original prequel series to the cult-favorite Wet Hot American Summer is set to mirror (and hopefully take full advantage of) the one thing that makes that movie so weirdly watchable: the cast, an absolutely dizzying collection of future and (then) current comedy stars. The stars listed in the Youtube description for the above video, which account for about half of that description, are as follows:

Elizabeth Banks, Michael Ian Black, Bradley Cooper, Judah Friedlander, Janeane Garofalo, Joe Lo Truglio, Ken Marino, Christopher Meloni, Marguerite Moreau, Zak Orth, Amy Poehler, David Hyde Pierce, Paul Rudd, Molly Shannon, and Michael Showalter.

Banks, Cooper, Poehler and Rudd are each stars in their own right today. When the film first came out, though, they were just best summer camp buds.

Grandma’s Boy

Here’s the seminal Adam Sandler 90’s film without Adam Sandler. A collection of infantile men stumble and bumble their way through a hamfisted plot consisting almost entirely of script-writing tropes drawn directly out of Disney fairy tales. Also there’s a bunch of cursing, absurd jokes and pointless but oddly fulfilling characters. And the whole thing is glued together by video games.

Grandma's Boy Netflix in July 2015

Does that makes you want to watch it? The answer is either an extreme no or an extreme yes. There is no in between.

Changeling

Clint Eastwood directs Angelina Jolie in a tale about kidnapping in 1920’s Los Angeles. It’s a ponderous, grand-scaled tale that certainly dips into melodrama in a way only Eastwood can regularly justify. Still, it’s compelling to finally have a reason for Jolie’s starpower – a precursor in that way to the massively successful Maleficent.

Changeling Netflix in July 2015

Here are the rest of the offerings for Netflix in July 2015, including dates for the above featured. You’ll need to scroll down quite a bit to find Wet Hot American Summer. It’s basically an August release.

July 1

Alive (1993)
An Honest Liar (2014)
Bad Hair Day (2015)
Bionicle: The Legend Reborn (2009)
Bulworth (1998)
Dave Attell: Road Work
Death in Paradise: Season 3
Grandma’s Boy (2006)
Hostage (2005)
Invizimals: The Alliance Files
La Reina del Sur
Octonauts: Season 3
Piglet’s Big Movie (2003)
El Señor de los Cielos: Seasons 1-2
Saw V (2008)
Set Fire to the Stars (2014)
Shooting Fish (1997)
The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
Underworld: Evolution (2006)
Velvet: Season 2

July 3

Knights of Sidonia: Season 2

July 4

Faults (2014)
Hell on Wheels: Season 4
White Collar: Season 6

July 7

Monster High: Scaris, City of Frights (2013)
Witches of East End: Season 2

July 9

Monsters: The Dark Continent (2014)
Serena (2014)

July 10

Chris Tucker Live (2015)
Violetta: Seasons 1­2

July 14

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)
Bad Ink: Season 1
Bible Secrets Revealed: Season 1
Creep (2014)
Goodbye to All That (2014)
Preachers’ Daughters: Season 2
Storage Wars: Texas: Season 1
The Killer Speaks: Season 2

July 15

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014)
H20 Mermaid Adventures (5 new episodes)
Penguins of Madagascar (2014)
The Physician (2014)

July 16

Changeling (2008)

July 17

BoJack Horseman: Season 2
The Human Experiment (2013)
Tig (2015)

July 18

Glee: Season 6
Java Heat (2013)

July 23

Teacher of the Year (2014)

July 25

The Guest (2014)

July 28

Comet (2014)
Marvel’s Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.: Season 2

July 30

Almost Mercy (2015)
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Season 5
The Wrecking Crew (2008)

July 31

Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp (2015)
Turbo Fast: Season 2

About Trevor Ruben

Though I contribute to many online publications on a regular basis, including The Checkout, the crux of my writing lies in video games. When not writing, I'm often streaming a variety of games on Twitch.

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