If you have a Netflix account and don’t fancy venturing out into the cold for the rest of this month, here are some tasty picks you can watch right now.
Alex Strangelove
Alex Strangelove tells the story of Alex Truelove (Daniel Doheny), a well-rounded high school senior with a wonderful girlfriend, Claire (Madeline Weinstein), and a bright future ahead of him – and with plans to achieve his last teenage milestone by losing his virginity.
But things get complicated when he meets Elliot (Antonio Marziale), a handsome and charming gay kid from the other side of town. He unwittingly sends Alex on a roller-coaster journey of sexual identity, kicking off a hilarious and moving exploration of love, sex, and friendship in our liberated and confusing modern times.
Ali’s Wedding
After a white lie spirals out of control, a neurotic, naive, and musically gifted Muslim cleric’s eldest son must follow through with an arranged marriage, except he is madly in love with an Australian-born Lebanese girl.
Based on a true story, Ali’s Wedding is by turns a funny, touching and heart-warming affair.
Sense8 Series Finale
Picking up where season one left off, Capheus (Toby Onwumere), Kala (Tina Desai), Lito (Miguel Angel Silvestre), Nomi (Jamie Clayton), Riley (Tuppence Middleton), Sun (Donna Bae), Will (Brian J Smith) and Wolfgang (Max Riemelt) come together both physically and mentally, plunged into the middle of each other’s tragedies and triumphs.
On the run from Whispers (Terrence Mann), and forced to question their very identity, it’s a matter of survival as the Sensates must find a way to live with, understand and protect one another against all odds.
The Staircase
The Staircase tells compelling story of Michael Peterson, a crime novelist accused of killing his wife Kathleen when she was found dead at the bottom of a staircase in their home, and the 16 year court battle that followed.
The brand new episodes of this true crime phenomenon will air alongside the original series.