What’s New on Netflix in May 2022
Reading Time: 4 minutesFitting that a new comedy about high school will drop right alongside a thriller about Stockholm syndrome.
If you attended high school in the 2010s, your experience didn’t exactly resemble on-screen depictions like The Breakfast Club, Mean Girls, or even High School Musical. There wasn’t that classic ‘status quo’ pitting the jocks against the goths against the theater kids. For the past ten years, the rules and hierarchies of high school have looked a lot more like this ‘first day of school’ scene from 2012’s 21 Jump Street. To be cool, you have to be…a good person?
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The shift in the rules of high school is in the foreground in Netflix comedy Senior Year (dropping May 13). Set between 1997 and 2017, the film stars Rebel Wilson as Ruby, an über-popular cheer captain who wakes up after a 20-year coma ready to win back her title as the most popular girl in school. But while she was comatose, high school changed. There’s no clear, climbable social ladder that separates ‘cheer captain’ and ‘loser.’ To be popular, Wilson’s character realizes, you need everyone to like you. All the time. (CUT TO: Instagram Live.) Wilson says that Senior Year is ‘like the wildly funny love child of Bring It On and Never Been Kissed.’
I’m looking forward to seeing how Senior Year holds up to other recent depictions of what high school is like for Gen Z. If one movie nailed the whole ‘the nice kids are the cool kids’ thing, it was Booksmart. And if one TV show nailed it, it was American Vandal. (But that’s another essay for another time.)
Some other new titles this month stand out for their potential to thrill: Hold Your Breath: The Ice Dive, a documentary following free diver Johanna Nordblad as she attempts to break the world record for distance traveled under ice with one breath; Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror, a documentary about the hunt to take down a South Korean network of online chat rooms that ran rampant with sex crimes; and Clark, a thriller based on controversial criminal who inspired the term ‘Stockholm syndrome.’
What’s coming to Netflix in May 2022
Coming soon (no date announced)
- Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres
- Welcome to Wedding Hell — Netflix Series
May 1
- 42
- 3 Ninjas: Kick Back
- 40-Love
- A River Runs Through It
- Are You the One?: Season 6
- Blippi Wonders: Season 1
- Corpse Bride
- Crazy, Stupid, Love.
- Den of Thieves
- Dirty Harry
- Empire State
- Forrest Gump
- Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
- Hello, My Name Is Doris
- Jackass: The Movie
- Jackass 2.5
- Jackass 3.5
- John Q
- Menace II Society
- Once Upon a Time in America
- Rambo
- Rambo: Last Blood
- Road to Perdition
- Seven Years in Tibet
- Soul Surfer
- Summerland
- The Gentlemen
- The Lake House
- U.S. Marshals (1998)
- War of the Worlds
- When Harry Met Sally
- You’ve Got Mail
May 2
- Octonauts: Above & Beyond: Season 2 — Netflix Family
May 3
- Hold Your Breath: The Ice Dive — Netflix Documentary
May 4
- 40 Years Young — Netflix Film
- The Circle: Season 4 — Netflix Series (new episodes weekly)
- El marginal: Season 5 — Netflix Series
- Meltdown: Three Mile Island — Netflix Documentary
- Summertime: Season 3 — Netflix Series
May 5
- Blood Sisters — Netflix Series
- Clark — Netflix Series
- The Pentaverate — Netflix Series
- Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go: Season 1
- Wild Babies — Netflix Documentary
May 6
- Along for the Ride — Netflix Film
- Marmaduke — Netflix Film
- The Sound of Magic — Netflix Series
- Thar — Netflix Film
- The Takedown — Netflix Film
- Welcome to Eden — Netflix Series
May 8
- Christina P: Mom Genes — Netflix Comedy
May 9
- Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Sustainable War — Netflix Anime
May 10
- Outlander: Season 5
- Workin’ Moms: Season 6 — Netflix Series
- 42 Days of Darkness — Netflix Series
- Brotherhood: Season 2 — Netflix Series
- The Circle: Season 4 — Netflix Series (new episodes weekly)
- Operation Mincemeat — Netflix Film
- Our Father — Netflix Documentary
- The Getaway King — Netflix Film
May 12
- Maverix — Netflix Comedy
- Savage Beauty — Netflix Series
May 13
- Bling Empire: Season 2 — Netflix Series
- The Life and Movies of Erşan Kuneri — Netflix Series
- The Lincoln Lawyer — Netflix Series
- New Heights — Netflix Series
- Senior Year — Netflix Film
May 14
- Borrego
May 15
- PJ Masks: Season 4
May 16
- Blippi’s Adventures
- Servant of the People: Season 2-3
- Vampire in the Garden — Netflix Anime
May 17
- The Future Diary: Season 2 — Netflix Series
May 18
- The Circle: Season 4 — Netflix Series (new episodes weekly)
- Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror — Netflix Documentary
- Love on the Spectrum U.S. — Netflix Series
- The Perfect Family — Netflix Film
- Toscana — Netflix Film
- Who Killed Sara?: Season 3 — Netflix Series
May 19
- A Perfect Pairing — Netflix Film
- The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib — Netflix Family
- The G Word with Adam Conover — Netflix Documentary
- Insiders: Season 2 — Netflix Series (new episodes weekly)
- The Photographer: Murder in Pinamar — Netflix Documentary
- Rodrigo Sant’Anna: I’ve Arrived — Netflix Comedy
May 20
- Ben Is Back
- F*ck Love Too — Netflix Film
- Jackass 4.5
- Love, Death & Robots: Volume 3 — Netflix Series
- Wrong Side of the Tracks — Netflix Series
May 22
- ONE PIECE: New Episodes
May 23
- Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045: Season 2 — Netflix Anime
- Godspeed — Netflix Film
- Sea of Love — Netflix Family
May 25
- The Circle: Season 4 — Netflix Series (new episodes weekly)
- Larva Pendant — Netflix Film
- Somebody Feed Phil: Season 5 — Netflix Series
May 26
- Insiders: Season 2 — Netflix Series (new episodes weekly)
- My Little Pony: Make Your Mark — Netflix Family
- Pokémon Master Journeys: The Series: Part 3 — Netflix Family
May 27
- Stranger Things 4: Volume 1 — Netflix Series
May 30
- Mighty Little Bheem: I Love Taj Mahal — Netflix Family
May 31
- Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 1
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 1
What’s leaving Netflix in May 2022
May 1
- Colony: Seasons 1-3
- Hoarders: Season 11
- WWII in HD: Season 1
May 3
- StartUp: Seasons 1-3
- The Clovehitch Killer
May 12
- Eye in the Sky
May 19
- Rosario Tijeras (Mexico): Seasons 1-2
May 23
- Shot Caller
May 31
- Battleship
- Bill Burr: You People Are All the Same
- Chloe
- Closer
- Coach Carter
- Dennis the Menace
- Downton Abbey: Series 1-6
- Final Destination 3
- Final Destination 5
- Free Willy
- Hairspray
- Happy Endings: Seasons 1-3
- Happy Feet
- I Know What You Did Last Summer
- I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
- New Year’s Eve
- Sniper: Legacy
- Stardust
- Sucker Punch
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie
- The Blind Side
- The Devil’s Advocate
- The Disaster Artist
- The Final Destination
- Top Gun
- Wild Things
- Zoolander