What To Watch On July 23, 2025: ‘Washington Black’ + Netflix’s New UK Trauma Doc

You’ve made it half-way through the week, and the biggest streaming platforms are releasing new summer series to help you hold out until the weekend. From an imaginative period drama to a brilliantly executed deep dive into UK trauma medicine, there’s plenty of entertainment to go around, so check out everything you need to know today in streaming below!

Washington Black arrives on Hulu

This adaptation of Canadian novelist Esi Edugyan’s eponymous novel follows 11-year-old boy named George Washington Black (played by Ernest Kingsley Jr.) who escapes a life of slavery in Barbados in a hot air balloon with the brother of a cruel plantation owner (played by Lucifer‘s Tom Ellis). He encounters bounty hunters and abolitionists while traveling across North America and discovering love and purpose along the way. It’s an imaginative fictional tale that draws on Egugyan’s research of the era.

Netflix debut Critical: Between Life and Death

Netflix is bringing a six-part documentary to their repertoire, diving into the real-life emergencies handled by London National Health Service (NHS) physicians across four different hospitals that make up the city’s Major Trauma System: Royal London, King’s College, St. Mary’s, and St. George’s. Shot during 21 days by means of 40 embedded cameras, episodes cover involvement from paramedics, doctors, nurses, and surgeons to respond to and treat real life traumas.

Notable Anniversaries: Coneheads

This SNL-sketch turned feature film turns 32 today, and Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, and Michelle Burke’s zany extraterrestrial characters have come to be symbolize a pre-9/11 allegory for illegal immigration. Aykroyd’s daughter, Danielle, loved the costumes so much she asked for one of her own, and was cast as a younger version of Connie in order to get one.

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