With Passover starting today and Easter Sunday coming up this weekend, you might find yourself chasing little ones around as they hunt for eggs, sweating in a poorly ventilated bunny suit or trying to squeeze in a post-seder nap. Whatever you’re up to, you deserve a little break from the holiday chaos. Start with this week’s new releases. Hard Cell is a new British comedy that chronicles a prison governor’s attempt at staging a musical production behind bars. If you need something more scenic, take an adventure to the planet’s most remote destinations with the docuseries Our Great National Parks, narrated by former President Barack Obama. Who knows, you might impress the kids while in your bunny costume by learning a thing or two about leaping like a lemur. For something more salacious, Anatomy of a Scandal dives into Britain’s elite class and judicial system. Starring Sienna Miller and Rupert Friend, the legal drama follows a high-profile case about consent and accountability. Feeling brave? Choose or Die brings a retro ’80s video game to life, but, in order to win, the players must choose between life and death. To see more titles from this week, including ones for the whole family, keep scrolling for the full list.

4/12 Hard Cell  What it is: The Office meets Orange Is the New Black in this new British comedy series about former event planner Laura Willis (Catherine Tate) who pivots her career by becoming the governor of a women’s prison. Rather than utilizing a hard-hitting approach to improving the lives of the inmates, she brings the arts behind bars by staging an inmate-led production of West Side Story.

Why you should watch it: If you were a fan of MTV’s Legally Blonde: The Musical — The Search for Elle Woods, then this mockumentary’s for you. Tate plays several characters on the show, including the overambitious prison governor, a clueless guard and different inmates. Watching two vastly different worlds — a prison and musical theater — collide is quite the treat. “We’ll put on a banging show that your friends and family can come and see,” Cheryl, the stage director, says, hoping to excite the crowd of inmates. “This one’s killed all hers,” chimes the guard, with the camera panning over to an inmate blanklessly staring at you. Will they break all the wrong legs or put on a Spielberg-worthy production?

For fans of: American Vandal, Schitt’s Creek, Community

4/13 Our Great National Parks  What it is: Narrated by former President Barack Obama, this docuseries spotlights some of the planet’s most spectacular national parks. From Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to Kenya’s Tsavo National Park, cameras take you up close and personal to the creatures and species that reside there.

Why you should watch it: April showers got you down? With Miss Sunshine away on PTO, the weeks can get long and dreary. Our Great National Parks is the tranquil getaway and comfort watch you need. With former President Obama as your travel companion, you’ll hear his personal stories about growing up in Hawaii and running along the beaches as a child. The five-part series offers more than just an escape, it’s a showcase of how we’re all interconnected with the planet’s ecosystems. It’s easy to gloss over headlines about the climate crisis and read statistics pointing to our approaching doom. Getting a front-row seat to these ecosystems in action just might give you a different outlook on how our behaviors affect the world around us. 

For fans of: Our Planet, My Octopus Teacher, Tiny Creatures

4/15 Anatomy of a Scandal What it is: Based on the novel of the same name by Sarah Vaughan, privilege and consent collide when a woman’s politician husband stands trial for rape in this new legal drama. Sophie (Sienna Miller) must grapple not only with an affair that her husband James (Rupert Friend) carried on with his young staffer, Olivia (Naomi Scott), but also the shocking details of her husband’s actions as she comes to terms with a dark past she’s long suspected.

Why you should watch it: From Boston Legal to Big Little Lies, writer and producer David E. Kelley has captivated audiences with gripping dramas for decades. In his latest, Kelley teams up with House of Cards showrunner Melissa James Gibson to explore the dynamics and nuances of accountability. When James is accused in the first episode, he claims the affair was “just sex,” and nothing more. Sophie stands by her husband going into trial, but like many of Kelley’s dramas, there are more layers to the story. As more truths come to light, Sophie must decide if she's willing to support James or face the person she really married — all while trying to protect her children from the public scrutiny. 

For fans of: House of Cards, Bordertown, The Chestnut Man

Choose or Die  What it is: Kayla (Iola Evans), a broke college dropout, and her friend Isaac (Asa Butterfield) reboot a retro ’80s video game in order to win a $125,000 cash prize. Simple? Not quite. With each level, the teens must sacrifice loved ones and put their own safety in danger as the sinister game affects their reality in deadly ways.

Why you should watch it: I can’t be the only one who had nightmares from Jumanji as a kid, right? When our family rented the VHS tape from the video store, we thought it’d be a fun family comedy since it starred Robin Williams. Wrong. If terrifying dreams about a game coming to life kept you up at night, then you’re in for a wild ride with Choose of Die. With the success of shows like Squid Game and Alice in Borderland, sudden-death games are having a moment. Although Choose or Die isn’t a full-fledged horror movie, it taps into the fears of losing control of a situation and having to make gut-wrenching life-and-death decisions. 

For fans of: Squid Game, Alice in Borderland, Gerald’s Game

What’s New on Netflix April 9–April 15

4/9 My Liberation Notes  Three siblings, exhausted by the monotony of day-to-day adulthood, seek to find fulfillment and freedom from their unremarkable lives.

Our Blues  Romance is sweet and bitter — and life riddled with ups and downs — in multiple stories about people who live and work on bustling Jeju Island.

4/10 The Call An abducted teen and a sympathetic 911 operator work together over the phone to stop a dangerous serial killer from striking again.

Nightcrawler A young opportunist finds success prowling the nighttime streets of LA to film disasters and death. But the darkness he captures begins to take hold.

4/12 Hard Cell  Events planner-turned-women’s prison governor Laura Willis documents the thrills and spills of life behind bars in this delightfully dry comedy series.

The Creature Cases  Special agents Sam and Kit hop the globe with their sleuthing skills, science facts and cool gadgets to solve the animal kingdom’s many mysteries.

4/13 Almost Happy, Season 2  Sebastián gets another chance to romance Pilar, who’s now pregnant with Rocha’s twins. But many life lessons await him.

Our Great National Parks  An epic five-part series narrated by former President Barack Obama that invites viewers to celebrate and discover the power of our planet’s greatest national parks and wild spaces. 

Smother-in-Law  Living with her family since the pandemic struck, the meddling Isadir does her best to disrupt the lives of her bumbling son and rival daughter-in-law.

Today We Fix the World  After workaholic Diego learns that he might not be the father of young Benito, the duo sets out on an emotional quest to find the boy's biological dad.

The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On (new episodes weekly) Six different couples on the verge of marriage. One partner is ready to get married, the other isn’t quite as sure. An ultimatum is issued, and, in just over eight weeks, they must commit to marriage or move on. In the meantime, each will choose a new potential partner from one of the other couples, in a life-changing opportunity to get a glimpse of two different possible futures.

4/14 Ultraman, Season 2  Ultraman is joined by Seven, Ace, Zoffy, Jack and Taro, and together, the united Ultraman brotherhood takes on a new alien threat.

4/15 Anatomy of a Scandal  An insightful and suspenseful series about sexual consent and privilege set in London. Based on the international best-selling novel by Sarah Vaughan.

Choose or Die  Tempted by a chance to win unclaimed prize money, two friends reboot a mysterious 1980s video game and step into a surreal world of next-level terror.

Heirs to the Land  Resourceful young Hugo Llor works to make a name for himself in 14th-century Barcelona while keeping a vow he made to the Estanyol family.

Mai  A grieving mother discovers the criminals behind her daughter’s tragic death and transforms from meek to merciless to get the real story.

One Piece Film Z Luffy and his gang save a disillusioned navy admiral named Z who has one goal — to slaughter every pirate in the world, including the Straw Hats.

Strawberry Shortcake Berry in the Big City, Season 1 Strawberry and her cat Custard travel to Big Apple City, where all the best bakers get their start. She teams up with her berry besties and their pets to run food trucks and “bake the world a better place.”