July 8, 2026

The 2001 Tick is back on Netflix today, and it's the easy pick in a quiet, mostly-international drop

Six titles landed on Netflix US on July 8. The cult superhero comedy is the one to queue; the French donor-search drama is the one to skip. Plus, Sneaky Pete and Bob Marley: One Love leave this week.

The pick of the day: The Tick (the Patrick Warburton one)

The Tick: The Complete Series is back on Netflix, all nine episodes of the 2001 Fox live-action comedy that put Patrick Warburton in the big blue suit a full fifteen years before Amazon took a swing at the same character.

• It's the cult favorite, not the 2016 Peter Serafinowicz reboot: nine episodes, cancelled after one season, and the show that spoofed superhero earnestness before "superhero fatigue" was a phrase anyone used. (That Serafinowicz version arrives on Netflix next week, July 15, if you want the compare-and-contrast.)
• Warburton's deadpan is the whole engine. He plays the blissfully ignorant hero completely straight, and the jokes come from how seriously everyone else treats a man in a blue bug suit. Liz Vassey and Nestor Carbonell round out the cast.
• There's no Tomatometer to chase because it predates the modern review-aggregation era, but the affection is durable enough that fans have spent years asking Netflix to license it. Of today's six arrivals, this is the one to actually queue.

The headliner original you can probably skip: Nothing to Lose

Nothing to Lose is the day's marquee Netflix original, a French drama (released locally as Jusqu'au bout) in which a mother, played by co-director Nawell Madani, fights the bone-marrow donor registry to find a match for her sick son. The premise is harrowing, and the donor-representation angle is genuinely worth a conversation: registries skew heavily toward white European donors, so mixed and minority patients face longer odds and longer waits. But the execution is where the early reviews landing today are, and they're mostly rough. Ready Steady Cut calls it "a badly written message movie," and Leisurebyte says it "loses itself in an unbelievable twist." Admire the logline; queue something else.

The catalog add that's actually worth your 95 minutes: I.S.S.

I.S.S., the 2023 space thriller from Blackfish director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, quietly joins the library today. Ariana DeBose, Chris Messina, and Pilou Asbæk star as astronauts who receive orders to seize the International Space Station "by any means necessary" after war breaks out on Earth below. Rotten Tomatoes' critics consensus calls it a film that "wrings effective albeit familiar thrills out of character-driven drama in a claustrophobic setting," which is a polite way of saying it's a solid B-movie with a cast that's better than it needs. If you want a thriller tonight, pick this over the French one.

The rest of the new arrivals

• I'm Not Afraid: a Mexican limited series about a 10-year-old who stumbles onto a terrifying sight and confronts the brutal realities of a town on the edge. Tense drama, no critic consensus yet.
• Salcedo, Leather, and Boogaloo: a Colombian teen drama about a boy who's rarely swept off his feet until two new arrivals turn up the party, the booze, and the danger. No reviews yet.
• Thunder 3: a new Japanese anime that Netflix's own summer slate bills as a highlight, following three ordinary middle-schoolers pulled into an extraordinary search when one's little sister vanishes. No reviews yet.

Leaving this week

A few departures worth flagging before they're gone:

• Sneaky Pete (all three seasons): the Bryan Cranston-created con-man crime drama with Giovanni Ribisi, Marin Ireland, and Margo Martindale leaves July 10. The biggest loss of the week if you never caught it.
• Bob Marley: One Love (2024), the Kingsley Ben-Adir biopic, leaves July 12.
• The four High & Low Japanese action films and the Hannah Berner: We Ride at Dawn stand-up special leave July 9.
• Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead (Season 1) leaves today, July 8, so it may already be on its way out.

Full departure lists via Netflix Tudum and What's on Netflix.

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