Catch These 7 Engaging New Women Led Shows On Netflix 2022

The OTT Platforms have a range of content to cater to every member of the audience and what better than shows that have strong, driven female protagonists of engaging stories. OTT platforms are now delivering quality content for audiences and gripping narratives that portray women in more grey shades are something we look forward to for women have been confined to black and white areas for a long while.

Streaming platform Netflix will be releasing a slew of women-driven shows and movies and we can't wait! Along with their highly anticipated returns of older mass favourite shows, the platform is gearing up to surprise the audience with engaging stories like they previously did with Lost Girls, Enola Holmes and others. We have curated a list of all the new series that will feature ladies in lead roles. Catch these new women-led shows on Netflix 2022 and their intriguing stories.

7 New Women Led Shows On Netflix 2022

42 Days Of Darkness

This upcoming crime thriller is all ready to debut on Netflix on May 11, 2022. The series stars Claudia Di Girolamo, Daniel Alcaino, Pablo Macaya, Amparo Noguera and Aline Kuppenheim in pivotal roles. Inspired by true events, the story follows Cecilia, a Chilean woman who fights against the police and administration to find the whereabouts of her missing sister Veronica. It tells the story of a frantic search that takes Cecilia through societal prejudices, media harassment and negligence.

Savage Beauty

Starring Rosemary Zimu, Nthati Moshesh, Dumisani Mbebe, Namitha Ben-Mazwi and Angela Sithole, the series is a South African show based on the revenge journey of Zinhle Manzini. The trailer revealed that Zinhle is the survivor of a toxic cosmetic trial that took place 15 years ago. 15 years later, Zinhle is back to seek revenge as she enters the family as well as the dark secrets of the global beauty empire that organised the trial and destroy them. The show will premiere on May 12, 2022, on Netflix.

Welcome To Eden

This is a Spanish thriller that will release on Netflix on May 6, 2022. The show stars Amaia Aberasturi, Begona Vargas, Berta Castane, Lola Rodriguez and Albert Baro in pivotal roles, The show is about Zoa and her four friends who get invited to an exclusive party taking place on a remote island. The trip that was supposed to be a paradise turns into an experience of a lifetime as the island holds dangerous and deadly secrets and traps.

Boo Bitch (TBA)

To All The Boys fame Lara Condor returns with a new teen romantic comedy coming on Netflix in 2022. The show is about a shy high school girl who struggles with her insecurities but decides to overcome them and live her life on her terms without any fear and not regret wasting her teenage. However, the very next day that she decides to live a little, she finds out that she is dead and is now a ghost.

Devil In Ohio (TBA)

Based on Daria Polatin's novel of the same name, the series stars Emily Deschanel, Sam Jaeger, Gerardo Celasco and Madeleine Arthur in pivotal roles. The show is a suspense thriller consisting of eight episodes that tells the story of Mae, a girl who escapes a mysterious cult and takes shelter in her psychiatrist's home. However, things turn upside down when Mae starts taking the place of the psychiatrist's daughter in school and at home and soon starts tearing the family apart. Meanwhile, the cult is searching for her and will do anything to get her back.

From Scratch (TBA)

Based on the best selling memoir by Tembi Locke, this upcoming Netflix series is directed by Nzingha Stewart and produced by Attica Locke and Reese Witherspoon. The show stars Zoe Saldana in the lead role of an American student studying in Sicily who finds truth in love with an Italian man, However, her dreams of a happily ever after are shattered when she discovers that he is diagnosed with cancer. It is a story of love and loss and follows the life of the woman after her husband raises their daughter on her own.

Wednesday (TBA)

Wednesday is a coming of age horror-comedy starring Jane The Virgin fame Jenna Ortega in the role of Wednesday Addams which is based on a character from the fictional animated family The Addams Family. The show will follow Wednesday's high school life which includes solving supernatural mysteries including a 25-year-old one that affected her family, exploring her psychic powers, saving the town and discovering new relations. The cast also includes Catherine Zeta-Jones, Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane and Thora Birch.

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