The 15 Best Things Coming to Netflix in July 2024

Spider-Man trilogy (2002-2007, PG-13)

The three Spidey installments directed by Sam Raimi and starring Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker (and his web-slinging, with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility alter ego) were clearly the best of the constantly regenerating franchise’s many incarnations. Although Raimi’s giddy playfulness and Maguire’s wounded vulnerability were the main reasons, let’s give some credit to the trilogy’s pair of top-notch villains: Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin and Alfred Molina’s Doc Ock.

Suits, Season 9

Since it first popped up on Netflix, this buzzy, bingeable legal drama has enjoyed a renaissance in popularity (the opportunity to watch a pre-royal Meghan Markle didn’t hurt). Now that the show’s last season is available on the streamer, latecomers can discover what happened between Harvey (Gabriel Macht) and Donna (Sarah Rafferty); what the deal is with the firm’s new, no-nonsense managing partner (Denise Crosby); and why Mike (Patrick J. Adams) has come back — and what he has up his sleeve.

Coming July 3

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F

Here it is: the most anticipated blast of ’80s nostalgia of the summer. Forty years after Eddie Murphy’s incident-prone Detroit cop first set foot in sunny SoCal, Axel Foley returns to save his daughter, whose life is threatened. That may sound a bit serious, but fear not, there are plenty of laughs. After all, Murphy isn’t the only one who’s back on the beat: Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Bronson Pinchot and Paul Reiser all return as well.

Coming July 10

Receiver

Netflix has cornered the market recently on behind-the-scenes sports docs (see: Formula 1: Drive to Survive, Full Swing, Break Point). The latest is this spin-off of its NFL series Quarterback. This time around, the cameras chronicle the on- and off-the-field lives of some of the league’s top pass catchers, including Davante Adams, Justin Jefferson, George Kittle, Deebo Samuel and Amon-Ra St. Brown.

Coming July 16

Homicide: Los Angeles

From Law & Order creator Dick Wolf comes this investigative series that explores the dark side of the city hiding beneath the superficial glitz and glamour. Phil Spector, Teresa Broudreaux, all of the infamous tabloid headline grabbers are here, as detectives and prosecutors walk viewers through their most challenging — and notorious — cases.

Coming July 18

Cobra Kai, Season 6, Part 1

The sixth and final season of the beloved Karate Kid spin-off series kicks off this month. Honestly, we’ll be sorry to see it go. The students and sensei of Ralph Macchio’s and William Zabka’s warring dojos will square off one last time in this supersize 15-episode season (which will be doled out in three batches). Will someone sweep the leg? It’s anyone’s guess, but with uber-baddie Martin Kove in the cast, the odds look promising.

Coming July 19

Simone Biles Rising

After her disappointing performance at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the greatest gymnast of her generation gives it one more shot to go out on top in Paris. In this two-part documentary, Biles allows cameras to capture her training process, the personal pressures that come with such high expectations, and married life — all of which will come to a head this summer when she tries to make another appearance on the gold medal podium.

Too Hot to Handle, Season 6

Netflix’s popular reality dating series feels like a perfect summer guilty pleasure. A bunch of sexy young singles in skimpy swimwear attempt the unthinkable: to not get freaky. Think of it as a Skinner box experiment about self-denial. With every violation, a chunk of the $250,000 grand prize gets taken away. Ostensibly, the goal is to create relationships that are based on more than physical attraction, but who are we kidding? That prize money is going to get whittled down to nothing, fast.

Coming July 24

Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam

Lou Pearlman was the controversial mastermind behind the biggest boy bands of the late ’90s and early 2000s, including NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys. This documentary charts the Svengali’s rise and fall, which culminated in a Ponzi scheme that scammed investors out of more than $300 million and led to a 25-year prison sentence.

Coming July 25

The Decameron, Season 1

This summer, it’s time to party like it’s 1349! Boccaccio’s classic story collection about morally loose Italian nobles during the Black Death is getting the TV treatment. Though the parallels to the 21st century are hard to ignore — a pandemic, rich people doing bad things — we’ll tune in for the raucous lute music and fashionable wimples. The ensemble cast includes Veep’s Tony Hale and Girls’ Zosia Mamet.