It's the perfect time of year to hunker down inside for a movie night or dedicate a weekend to binge-watching a new series. There's no need to head out to the theater here are a few Netflix originals you've probably missed so far. Proving that 2019 is the year Netflix goes totally international, Justice tells the story of Farah, a young woman from the United Arab Emirates who studied law in the United States, and returns to her home city of Abu Dhabi in order to practice. Her father is one of the top attorneys in the UAE, and he's pleased to see Farah follow in his footsteps, but there's a catch Farah wants to work for herself and open her own practice, but her father wants her to work at his firm. In order to prove herself, Farah begins taking on intriguing pro bono cases, which are based on real cases that have gone through Abu Dhabi's justice system.
With true-to-life characters who are caught between tradition and modernity, Justice gives viewers a peek into family life in the UAE, and the series is as educational as it is entertaining. Fatima Al Taei's portrayal of Farah is sympathetic and relatable, and she makes the character's ambitious nature shine through in every scene.
When a series kicks off with a theme song written by the legendary Leonard Cohen, expectations are going to be high, and from the intro sequence to the end credits, Black Earth Rising does not disappoint. Protagonist Kate Ashby is rescued from the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide as a child by her adoptive mother, Eve, who works as a successful international human rights lawyer. Kate eventually grows up to work side by side with Eve as a legal investigator. When Eve prosecutes a militia leader who stood up against genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo and but now finds himself accused of crimes against humanity, Kate and Eve have to grapple with difficult questions surrounding good, evil, the complexity of morality and where they stand in their relationship with each other.
Black Earth Rising comes with some familiar star power in the form of John Goodman as Kate's employer, but it's not the kind of series you can zone out on. Each episode pushes viewers to think critically and refuses to spoon-feed answers to the issues it presents. In the world of Black Earth Rising, nothing is really black or white, and everything exists in shades of gray.
The Icelandic film And Breathe Normally premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2018 to overwhelmingly positive critical reception. Now, it's available for Netflix audiences everywhere. Lara is a struggling single mother living near Reykjavik who forms an unlikely bond with Adja, a refugee seeking asylum who is about to be deported. Lara is nothing if not stubborn, and she seems like the last person to accept help from a stranger. Keep watching the video to see the best Netflix originals of 2019 most people ignored!
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Justice | 0:13
Black Earth Rising | 1:08
And Breathe Normally | 2:22
Wu Assassins | 3:31
Medici: The Magnificent | 4:35
Soni | 5:48
Ánimas | 6:39
Dead to Me | 7:32
When They See Us | 8:33
Typewriter | 9:37
Seventeen | 10:41
In the Shadow of the Moon | 11:29
Raising Dion | 12:42
Beats | 13:42
The Chosen One | 15:13
The Last Czars | 16:18
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