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Everything Coming To Netflix Australia In October 2020

<p class="">Everything coming to Netflix Australia in October 2020.</p>

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Netflix isn’t missing out on some Halloween action this October with the release of The Haunting of Bly Manor. A series many of us here are looking forward to after The Haunting of Hill House won our pick for The Best TV Show of 2018. Star Trek: Discovery also returns for its third season in October and the anticipated series The Queen’s Gambit from Godless creator, Scott Frank could be one to watch come next award season.

Here’s a highlight of some of the things coming to Netflix in October. You can find a full list of everything at the bottom of this post. 


The Haunting of Bly Manor (Netflix Original Series) — 9th October 

Mike Flanagan returns to deliver us another haunting in the new anthology The Haunting series. This time the show is set in 1980’s England, but again focuses on a death in a family and each of the family members secrets and, of course, a haunted house.

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From The Haunting of Hill House creator Mike Flanagan and producer Trevor Macy comes THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR, the next highly anticipated chapter of The Haunting anthology series, set in 1980s England. After an au pair’s tragic death, Henry Wingrave (Henry Thomas) hires a young American nanny (Victoria Pedretti) to care for his orphaned niece and nephew (Amelie Bea Smith, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) who reside at Bly Manor with the estate’s chef Owen (Rahul Kohli), groundskeeper Jamie (Amelia Eve) and housekeeper, Mrs. Grose (T’Nia Miller). But all is not as it seems at the manor, and centuries of dark secrets of love and loss are waiting to be unearthed in this chilling gothic romance. At Bly Manor, dead doesn’t mean gone.

The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix Original Movie) — 16 October

Aaron Sorkin’s latest is the true story of the seven protesters that were put on trial for conspiracy to incite a rite in 1968 and the following media storm and public reaction. 

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What was intended to be a peaceful protest at the 1968 Democratic National Convention turned into a violent clash with police and the National Guard. The organizers of the protest—including Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden and Bobby Seale—were charged with conspiracy to incite a riot and the trial that followed was one of the most notorious in history.

Rebecca (Netflix Original Movie) — 21 October 

The latest film Kill List and High-Rise director, Ben Wheatley is a romance/mystery titled Rebecca. It’s based on the novel by Daphne Du Maurier and was adapted by Jane Goldman, Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse. It’s certially not what I’d expect out of Wheatley, but I’m excited to see what he does with the the material and a star-studded cast of beautiful people including Lily James and Armie Hammer.

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After a whirlwind romance in Monte Carlo with handsome widower Maxim de Winter (Armie Hammer), a newly married young woman (Lily James) arrives at Manderley, her new husband’s imposing family estate on a windswept English coast. Naive and inexperienced, she begins to settle into the trappings of her new life, but finds herself battling the shadow of Maxim’s first wife, the elegant and urbane Rebecca, whose haunting legacy is kept alive by Manderley’s sinister housekeeper Mrs. Danvers (Kristin Scott Thomas).

The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix Original Series) — 23rd October

Starring Anya Taylor-Joy in what looks like a possible Emmy grabber, The Queen’s Gambit tells the coming-of-age story of a young Beth Harmon (Taylor-Joy) who discovers she has a knack for chess. The series is set in the late 1950s and focuses on telling a story about a young woman doing what she can to push back on the male-dominated space of competitive chess. 

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Based on the novel by Walter Tevis, the Netflix limited series drama THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT is a coming-of-age story that explores the true cost of genius. Abandoned and entrusted to a Kentucky orphanage in the late 1950s, a young Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) discovers an astonishing talent for chess while developing an addiction to tranquilizers provided by the state as a sedative for the children. Haunted by her personal demons and fueled by a cocktail of narcotics and obsession, Beth transforms into an impressively skilled and glamorous outcast while determined to conquer the traditional boundaries established in the male-dominated world of competitive chess. The series is directed and written by two-time Academy Award nominee Scott Frank and executive produced by Frank, William Horberg and Allan Scott, who also co-created the series. THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Marielle Heller, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Moses Ingram, Harry Melling and Bill Camp.


A full of everything coming to Netflix Australia is below.

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(descriptions provided by Netflix Australia)

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