Start planning your March viewing schedule now: there’s plenty of new shows and films landing on Netflix this month, from Michelle Obama’s heartwarming new cooking show to a documentary that promises to delve deep into one of the biggest celebrity scandals of recent years.
These are our highlights from the streaming service’s March line-up of original TV series, documentaries and movies...
Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell - March 1
This new documentary paints a portrait of the legendary rapper as a supremely gifted artist, but also as a man torn between his promise as a musician and a lucrative life of crime in Brooklyn. Much of the footage is taken from the ‘visual diary’ of his childhood friend Damien ‘D-Roc’ Butler, treating us to a captivating look at a younger, more playful and candid Biggie.
Moxie - March 3
Comedy queen Amy Poehler directs and plays a cool mom (as in a former Riot Grrl, not a reprise of her iconic Mean Girls character) in this teen movie, which follows a 16-year-old who’s fed up with the sexist status quo at her high school. Taking her cues from her mother’s past, she decides to start writing and distributing an anonymous feminist zine to shake things up.
The One - March 12
Imagine a world where a quick test can identify your soulmate. No, we aren’t talking about the next series of Married at First Sight Australia, but the premise for new drama The One, set ‘five minutes into the future,’ when a researcher discovers that a simple DNA swab can help discover the one person you’re genetically predisposed to fall for - whether you’re already in a relationship or not.
Waffles + Mochi - March 16
Doesn’t this sound delightful? Michelle Obama makes her Netflix presenting debut (she and husband Barack’s production company Higher Ground made a deal with the streaming platform back in 2018) in a charming cookery show for kids, teaming up with two lovable puppet pals who just really want to learn more about cooking. The Waffles, Mochi and the former First Lady will be joined in their quest by famous chefs and a gang of celebrity guests including Queer Eye’s Tan France, Jack Black and Common.
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal - March 17
The college admissions scandal was one of the most gripping cause célèbres of the past few years - making it perfect fodder for a true crime documentary. Netflix’s film recreates real conversations recorded on FBI wiretaps during the investigation (code named Operation Varsity Blues) into wealthy parents trading cash for college places for their children and delves deep into the scheme, which encompassed everything from bribes to SAT scams.
Sky Rojo - March 19
A new series from Alex Pina, the creator of the wildly successful Spanish thriller Money Heist and last year’s Ibiza-set drama White Lines, Sky Rojo follows three sex workers on the run from a violent pimp. A second season has already been commissioned, so it seems the streamer is expecting a hit.
The Irregulars - March 26
Here comes another addition to the Sherlock Holmes Extended Universe. Inspired by the gang of street urchins that crop up in Conan Doyle’s original Holmes stories, The Irregulars follows a group of young delinquents, led by Thaddea Graham’s Bea, who are manipulated into helping Doctor Watson (Royce Pierreson) and a laudanum-addled Holmes (Henry Lloyd-Hughes) solve crimes. When the mysteries take a supernatural bent, it’s up to these unlikely heroes to save Victorian London.
Nailed It! Double Trouble - March 26
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Netflix’s chaotic cooking series Nailed It! is basically the antithesis of the Great British Bake Off, with contestants setting out to make Pinterest-worthy cake creations and inevitably finding that their efforts don’t quite measure up, to put it nicely (some of the end results may haunt your dreams). This new spin-off show will see pairs of bakers team up to, presumably, create double the mayhem in the kitchen.