Can you feel it? Maybe the early daylight tipped you off, or you’ve been able to downgrade your outerwear to a light layer, or perhaps your allergies have announced their return, but however it happened — you can feel it, right? The arrival of spring? 

This Thursday brought the vernal equinox, which officially marked the end of winter and the beginning of spring. It’s a time for blossoming, for optimism, for clear heads and fresh starts. So go ahead and welcome the sweetest season with some movies and shows: Choose between a lush period drama about new beginnings, a few series to help you with your own spring cleaning, or an iconic show swept up in the romance of springtime. It may be a bit too early still to stop and smell the roses, but there’s no time like the present to stop and stream them.

But first, what’s new on Netflix?

A rather stately murder mystery. The new series The Residence — created by Paul William Davies, inspired by Kate Andersen Brower’s nonfiction book (which is about the lives of White House staff, not about murder) and produced by Shondaland — stars Uzo Aduba as a detective tasked with investigating a death at a state dinner. A little too indoors for you? Catch the terror of nature instead, with Alexandra Lacey’s new documentary The Twister: Caught in the Storm, which goes inside a vicious tornado that tore through Missouri in 2011. 

If you have just a night … 

Raise a glass to the new season. In Thomas Napper’s 2023 period drama Widow Clicquot, the true story of a woman who had to make a new start — and used it to build a champagne empire — comes to sparkling life. Haley Bennett stars as Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin, who, upon losing her husband unexpectedly, takes over his winery and expands it into one of the most enduring wine labels in the world. Set against the gorgeous backdrop of the French countryside in the early 19th century, this story of a courageous woman starting over makes for a fizzy weekend stream.  

If you have a whole day … 

Clean up your act. It’s the best time of year for Tidying Up, so call on Marie Kondo to assist your spring cleaning with her signature tips, tricks, and positivity. And if that first series with the world-renowned organizing expert isn’t enough to get you all the way through your overflowing closet or incoherent filing system or safety hazard of a junk drawer, bring her back in with a stream of her second series, Sparking Joy. If anyone can help you, Kondo can. She loves mess! 

If you have the entire weekend … 

Get carried away. Created by Darren Star and inspired by Candace Bushnell’s column and book of the same name, the groundbreaking 1998 series Sex and the City follows sex columnist Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and her three best friends (Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon) as they chase different visions of love and success in New York City around the turn of the millennium. While the six-season series’ 2008 film continuation takes the girls through an entire year, the show itself takes place in what executive producer Michael Patrick King has often called “eternal spring” — which description might apply to Carrie’s romantic outlook, too, not to mention her celebrated, floral-forward wardrobe.

Don’t forget, you have one last chance … 

For a showdown of monstrous proportions. Adam Wingard’s 2021 sci-fi action flick Godzilla vs. Kong, the fourth film in the Monsterverse, sees the two iconic movie monsters face off in an epic clash of creatures. In another week, it will stomp right off. 

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