What's Coming to Netflix the Week of August 30, 2020

Would you leave your family for three years to go on a mission to Mars? Normally that would be an easy no, but I haven’t been alone since March 11, so the prospect sounds... slightly attractive. If nothing else, I may at least enjoy the experience vicariously with Away, a new Netflix series premiering Sept. 4.

Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank makes her prestige TV debut in the series about a woman who chooses to set off for the Red Planet, leaving her husband and teenage daughter behind on Earth. Drama, tragedy, and much tearful caressing of faces on computer screens ensues, both in space and on the ground. The show comes to us from creator Andrew Hinderaker and producers Matt Reeves (The Martian) and Jason Katims (Friday Night Lights), and the trailer promises exactly what you would expect from this scenario and these creators: Parenthood meets Gravity.

Here’s everything coming to and leaving the streaming service this week, including I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Sept. 4), a truly trippy-looking new movie from writer-director Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Synecdoche, New York).

Available August 31

• Casino Royale

• Quantum of Solace

Available September 1

• Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices — Netflix Family

• The Boss Baby: Get That Baby! — Netflix Family

• Felipe Esparza: Bad Decisions — Netflix Comedy Special

• La Partita / The Match —Netflix Film

• True: Friendship Day — Netflix Family

• Adrift

• Anaconda

• Back to the Future

• Back to the Future Part II

• Back to the Future Part III

• Barbershop

• Barbie Princess Adventure

• Borgen: Season 1-3

• Children of the Sea

• Coneheads

• Glory

• Grease

• Magic Mike

• The Muppets

• Muppets Most Wanted

• Not Another Teen Movie

• Pineapple Express

• Possession

• The Producers (2005)

• The Promised Neverland: Season 1

• Puss in Boots

• Red Dragon

• Residue

• Sex Drive

• Sister, Sister: Season 1-6

• The Smurfs

• Wildlife

• Zathura

Available September 2

• Bad Boy Billionaires: India — Netflix Documentary

• Chef’s Table: BBQ — Netflix Documentary

• Freaks – You’re One of Us — Netflix Film

Available September 3

• Afonso Padilha: Alma de Pobre — Netflix Comedy Special

• Love, Guaranteed — Netflix Film

• Young Wallander — Netflix Original

Available September 4

• Away — Netflix Original

• I’m Thinking of Ending Things — Netflix Film

• The Lost Okoroshi

• Spirit Riding Free: Riding Academy: Part 2 — Netflix Family
  

Leaving September 4

• Christopher Robin

Leaving September 5

• Once Upon a Time: Seasons 1-7