It’s officially the dog days of summer, so it’s appropriate that one of the highlight titles coming to Netflix in August is about a pottymouthed animated canine. Fixed is one of two new adult cartoons on the slate, the second being the new series from BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg. There are also two new true crime docs – although one might qualify as a ‘true’ crime doc – along with a comedy about true-crime obsession, plus political thrillers, crime thrillers, young-adult romcoms and 10-part documentary on the Dallas Cowboys. The biggest premiere, though? The release of the second season of the smash hit Addams Family spinoff, Wednesday. Man, Halloween comes earlier every year, doesn’t it?
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My Oxford Year
Netflix has really cornered the market on shows about young American women travelling to Europe to find love. In this one, a student at Oxford (Sofia Carson) falls for a handsome red flag (Corey Mylchreest). But what happens when it’s time for her to return to New York? Tears, we assume.
Premieres Aug 1
Wednesday season 2
Jenna Ortega returns as the sullen Goth teen turned amateur sleuth in the second season of the megahit Addams Family spinoff. The first batch drops in August, with the second half coming in September. The big question: will she dance again?
Premieres Aug 6
Fixed
An all-star comic voice cast, including Adam DeVine, Fred Armisen, Kathryn Hahn, Bobby Moynihan and Idris Elba, come together for Sony’s first dalliance with ‘adult animation’, a raunchy comedy about a dog’s last night out before getting neutered. The hand-drawn animation is very Ren and Stimpy-coded, so expect to spend a lot of time staring at the parts of the canine anatomy you usually try to avoid.
Premieres Aug 13
Night Always Comes
Fantastic Four’s Vanessa Kirby stars in this adaptation of author-musician Willy Vlautin’s 2021 thriller novel. A young woman in Portland, Oregon, has only one night to raise $25,000 to save her mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) from eviction, forcing her deep into the city’s seedy underbelly.
Premieres Aug 15
America's Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys
Never mind that they haven’t been to a Super Bowl in almost 30 years, the Dallas Cowboys are still America’s team, we swear! This 10-episode docuseries shows how they earned that title.
Premieres Aug 19
Hostage
A totally different kind of movie about heads of state than the one Prime recently gave us, in this European political thriller, the French President and the British Prime Minister are forced to put aside their political differences after the latter’s husband is kidnapped – and the ransom is her resignation.
Premieres Aug 21
Long Story Short
A decade after BoJack Horseman, Raphael Bob-Waksberg returns to Netflix with another series using the language of cartoons to explore adult themes – in this case, bouncing across timelines to explore the relationship between three siblings and their parents. Abbi Jacobson, Dave Franco, Max Greenfield and Nicole Byer lend their voices.
Premieres Aug 22
The Truth About Jussie Smollett?
Remember Jussie Smollett? If you’re a Fox News cultist, you’re probably still obsessed with the actor’s hate crime that wasn’t, even though it seemingly took place two decades ago. (It was 2019.) The team behind The Tinder Swindler and Don’t F**k with Cats put together this doc on the whole strange ordeal – which includes an interview with Smollett himself.
Premieres Aug 22
My Life with the Walter Boys season 2
Call it Dawson’s Ranch – or maybe Yellowstone Babies. After losing her parents in a car accident, a teenager from New York is taken in by a family in rural Colorado consisting of seven hunky sons (and one daughter). Season 2 looks to introduce even more hunks.
Premieres Aug 28
The Thursday Murder Club
Senior-citizen sleuths are so hot right now. Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley are septuagenarians spending retirement solving cold cases. Meta-commentaries on culture's true-crime obsession are getting a bit, well, old, but you can’t argue with that cast.
Premieres Aug 28
Unknown Number: The High School Catfish
Skye Borgman, director of standout Netflix true-crime docs Girl in the Picture and Abducted in Plain Sight, looks into another bizarre case, this time involving a teen couple besieged by harassing text messages from an unknown caller.
Premieres Aug 29
Everything New Coming to Netflix in August 2025
Available Aug 1:
My Oxford Year
American Pie
American Pie 2
Anaconda
Clueless
Dazed and Confused
The Departed
Despicable Me
Despicable Me 2
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fire Country: Season 2
Groundhog Day
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jurassic Park
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park III
Megamind
Minions
Pawn Stars: Season 16
Rush Hour
Rush Hour 2
Rush Hour 3
Thirteen
Weird Science
Wet Hot American Summer
Wyatt Earp
Available August 2:
Beyond the Bar
Available August 5:
Love Life: Seasons 1-2
SEC Football: Any Given Saturday
Available August 6:
Wednesday: Season 2 Part 1
Available August 8:
Stolen: Heist of the Century
Available August 10:
Marry Me
Available August 11:
Outlander: Season 7 Part 1
Sullivan’s Crossing: Season 3
Available August 12:
Final Draft
Jim Jefferies: Two Limb Policy
Love Is Blind: UK: Season 2
Fixed
Saare Jahan Se Accha: The Silent Guardians
Songs From the Hole
Young Millionaires
Available August 14:
In the Mud
Miss Governor: Season 1 Part 2
Mononoke The Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage
Quantum Leap: Seasons 1-2
Available August 15:
The Echoes of Survivors: Inside Korea’s Tragedies
Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser
Night Always Comes
Available August 16:
The Fast and the Furious
2 Fast 2 Furious
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Fast Five
Fast & Furious 6
Furious 7
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Available August 18:
CoComelon Lane: Season 5
Extant: Seasons 1-2
Available August 19:
America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys
Available August 20:
Fisk: Season 3
Rivers of Fate
Available August 21:
Death Inc.: Season 3
Fall for Me
Gold Rush Gang
Hostage
One Hit Wonder
Available August 22:
Abandoned Man
Long Story Short
The Truth About Jussie Smollett?
Available August 27:
Fantasy Football Ruined Our Lives
Available August 28:
Barbie Mysteries: Beach Detectives
My Life With the Walter Boys: Season 2
The Thursday Murder Club
Available August 29:
Two Graves
Unknown Number: The High School Catfish