Netflix Removes 37 Titles; Six Feet Under Leaving

Streaming subscribers face a wave of removals at the end of October and on Nov. 1 as Netflix and HBO Max pull dozens of films and TV series from their catalogs. Netflix's Nov. 1 slate reportedly includes the Shrek quartet, the Despicable Me franchise, seven Fast & Furious films, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mean Girls (2004), Now You See Me, and multiple SpongeBob movies, while Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen is set to leave by the end of October and other titles such as Hampstead are also departing. Separately, Netflix will lose all five seasons (63 episodes) of HBO's drama Six Feet Under on Nov. 1 after licensing deals expire. Netflix plans to add other catalog titles and is preparing for Stranger Things season 5, even as viewers have expressed strong backlash over the removals. HBO Max is also scheduled to drop several Warner Bros. films in early November, with outlets urging viewers to watch favorites before they leave.