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11 Best New Shows on Netflix: July 2023’s Top Upcoming Series to Watch

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This July, Netflix is continuing to shine with tons of terrific titles on their list of new content streaming all month long. While it’s always hard to say goodbye to the titles leaving Netflix, you won’t be feeling down for long once you get a good look at the impressive array of Netflix Original series coming to the platform to take their place. With everything from brand new titles to long-awaited continuations of fan favorites, Netflix’s diverse and delightful July 2023 premieres are sure to have something for everyone.

The streamer is set to help you celebrate the new month with premieres from highly-anticipated continuations of established hit series across several different genres (so there’s truly something for everyone), like The Witcher: Season 3, Volume 2, Sweet Magnolias: Season 3, and The Lincoln Lawyer: Season 2, Part 1, which are all already looking to be some of the most promising releases out of July’s entire streaming lineup.

There are also plenty of exciting brand new shows that will begin streaming exclusively on Netflix starting this month. Keep an eye out in particular for Survival of the Thickest, Quarterback, and Captain Fall.

So what makes the cut for our top 11, and which of them have what it takes to be in the Netflix Top 10? Keep reading to treat yourself to the greatness that is the list of streaming standouts for July 2023.

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The Witcher: Season 3, Volume 2

Released July 27

Key art for The Witcher S3 showing Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri
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CAST: Henry Cavill, Freya Allan, Anya Chalotra, Joey Batey, Royce Pierreson, Anna Shaffer, Kim Bodnia, Robbie Amell, Meng-er Zhang, Hugh Skinner, Christelle Elwin

RATING: TV-MA

DESCRIPTION: Henry Cavill’s run as the White Wolf comes to a close in this final installment of The Witcher: Season 3. Crown Princess Ciri of Cintra (Allan) is now recognized as the most powerful—and subsequently most wanted—being on the Continent. She, Geralt (Cavill), and Yennefer of Vengerberg (Anya Chalotra) will be challenged to protect one another while simultaneously trying to prevent the breakout of a massive war that threatens to tear their found family apart.

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Sweet Magnolias: Season 3

Released July 20

SWEET MAGNOLIAS (L TO R) HEATHER HEADLEY as HELEN DECATUR, JOANNA GARCIA SWISHER as MADDIE TOWNSEND and BROOKE ELLIOTT as DANA SUE in episode 101 of SWEET MAGNOLIAS Cr. ELIZA MORSE/NETFLIX © 2020
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CAST: JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Brooke Elliott, Heather Headley, Logan Allen, Anneliese Judge, Carson Rowland, Justin Bruening, Chris Klein, Bianca Berry Tarantino, Jamie Lynn Spears, Dion Johnson, Brandon Quinn, Chris Medlin

RATING: TV-14

DESCRIPTION: The newest season of this Netflix Original romantic-drama series picks up in the aftermath of the fight at Sullivan’s and the other big events from Season 2’s finale. Magnolias Maddie (Garcia Swisher), Dana Sue (Elliott), and Helen (Headley) face a whole host of new challenges and changes involving family drama, romance, and more. Luckily, through it all, they’ve got their lifelong friendship and deep love for one another to fall back on even (especially!) when times get tough.

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The Lincoln Lawyer: Season 2, Part 1

Released July 6

The Lincoln Lawyer
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CAST: Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Neve Campbell, Becki Newton, Jazz Raycole, Angus Sampson, Krista Warner, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Elliott Gould, Lana Parrilla, Yaya DaCosta, Matt Angel, Angélica María, David Clayton Rogers

RATING: TV-MA

DESCRIPTION: The Lincoln Lawyer returns with the first half of its sophomore season in July, reuniting us with Mickey Haller (Garcia-Rulfo), a skeptic and idealist who runs a law practice out of his Lincoln’s backseat. After a first season that saw him taking on cases big and small from all over Los Angeles, Mickey returns for Season 2 with his firm in higher demand than ever. His busy life and practice swiftly become even more hectic after Mickey a woman he’s seeing becomes his client after getting charged for murder.

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Survival of the Thickest

Released July 13

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CAST: Michelle Buteau, Tone Bell, Tasha Smith, Garcelle Beauvais, Anissa Felix, Peppermint, Michelle Visage, Sarah Cooper, Taylor Selé, Marouane Zotti

RATING: TV-MA

DESCRIPTION: Based on comedian Michelle Buteau’s 2020 memoir of the same name, Survival of the Thickest is a Netflix Original comedy-drama series follows  Mavis Beaumont (Buteau), a newly single plus-sized woman who seizes the chance to get a fresh start on life and love. With the support of her chosen family and a body positive attitude, Mavis is determined to persevere and thrive no matter what is thrown her way… and to look incredible while doing it!

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How to Become a Cult Leader

Released July 28

How to Become a Cult Leader
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CAST: Peter Dinklage

RATING: TV-MA

DESCRIPTION: Utilizing the expert narration of Peter Dinklage, How to Become a Cult Leader is a Netflix Original docuseries that offers a humorous, tongue-in-cheek look at how to become a leader of your very own cult. With this failsafe digital playbook on how to secure the unconditional love, devotion, and power needed to gain follows and control minds, there’s no doubt that you, too, will have your own epic cult in no time!

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Quarterback

Released July 12

Quarterback
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CAST: Patrick Mahomes, Kirk Cousins, Marcus Mariota 

RATING: TV-MA

DESCRIPTION: Get up close and personal with some of your favorite NFL players with Quarterback, a Netflix Original docuseries that follows Patrick Mahomes, Kirk Cousins and Marcus Mariota throughout the entire 2022 NFL season. From being mic’d up every game to following the players’ lives on and off the field, this series offers unprecedented access to the lives of NFL quarterbacks and what it means to be a professional athlete.

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Captain Fall

Released July 28

Captain Fall
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CAST: Jason Ritter, Christopher Meloni, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Anthony Carrigan, Alejandro Edda, Adam Devine, Trond Fausa

RATING: TV-MA

DESCRIPTION: July will usher in the first 10 episodes of Captain Fall, a premiering Netflix Original adult animated comedy series that revolves around well-meaning though slightly inept sea captain Jonathan Fall (Ritter).”Fall” is in the title for more than just being Jonathan’s last name, as evidenced by the captain being designated as a fall guy after unwittingly being put at the helm of a horrible international cartel’s smuggling ship. With a situation that delightfully ridiculous, there is no shortage of wacky hijinks and wild scenarios to come.

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Hack My Home

Released July 7

Hack My Home
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CAST: Mikel Welch, Brooks Atwood, Ati Williams, Jessica Banks

RATING: TV-G

DESCRIPTION: Prepared to be amazed and inspired by this brand new home renovation series that sees four design experts improve the lives of deserving families by transforming their homes in innovative, aesthetically pleasing ways. Hack My Home shows creative ways to maximize space and make an old, cluttered living space feel fresh and neat again, while changing lives along the way.

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The Dragon Prince: Season 5

Released July 27

The Dragon Prince
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CAST: Jack De Sena, Sasha Rojen, Paula Burrows, Jason Simpson, Racquel Belmonte, Jesse Inocalla, Omari Newton, Rena Anakwe, Benjamin Callins, Erik Todd Dellums

RATING: TV-Y7

DESCRIPTION: The Dragon Prince is an animated fantasy adventure series set in the magical continent of Xadia, where human princes Callum (De Sena) and Ezran (Rojen) and the Moonshadow Elf Rayla (Burrows) join forces to end the thousand-year-old conflict between humans and elves, while simultaneously taking care of the infant Dragon Prince (De Sena). Season 5 looks to be the most exciting yet as our story’s heroes and villains race against one another to be the first to get to the ancient and powerful Startouch Elf Aaravos (Dellums) at his hidden prison.

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Too Hot to Handle: Season 5

Released July 14

Too Hot to Handle s4
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CAST: Desiree Burch, Alex Snell, Christine Obanor, Courtney Randolph, Dre Woodard, Elys Hutchinson, Hannah Brooke, Hunter LoNigro, Isaac Francis, Louis Russell, Megan Thomson

RATING: TV-MA

DESCRIPTION: The Netflix Original reality dating game show is back with its spiciest season yet as 10 attractive singles are led to believe that they are boarding a lavish yacht in the Caribbean to be contestants on a dating show called Love Overboard. In reality, they are all put in a house together and competing in a four week-long challenge to avoid all forms of physical intimacy in order to walk away with the $200,000 cash prize. With a new crew of fit and fabulous cast members from across the US and Europe, Too Hot to Handle: Season 5 is poised it be its most titillating and terrific yet.

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Wake Up, Carlo!

Released July 6

Wake Up, Carlo!
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CAST: Gustavo Pereira, Andrei Duarte, Julia Cartier Bresson

RATING: TV-Y7

DESCRIPTION: Wake Up, Carlo! is a premiering Netflix Original series out of Brazil that promises to be fun for the whole family. The animated family comedy follows 7-year-old Carlo, a wacky, free-spirited, and exuberant boy whose passion for adventure is only rivaled by his immense love for cookies.

But after falling into a magical deep sleep that keeps him under for 22 years, Carol awakens looking and acting the same, while all of his friends have grown up and are navigating the highs and lows of adult life. That still won’t stop Carlo from reminding them what it’s like to live with joy, playfulness, and reckless abandon.

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