What's New on Netflix in May 2022

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?

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

May 3

May 4

May 5

May 6

May 8

May 9

• Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Sustainable War — Netflix Anime

May 10

May 12

May 13

May 14

May 15

May 16

May 17

May 18

May 19

May 20

May 22

May 23

• Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045: Season 2 — Netflix Anime
• Godspeed — Netflix Film
• Sea of Love — Netflix Family

May 25

May 26

May 27

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

May 19

• Rosario Tijeras (Mexico): Seasons 1-2

May 23

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

   

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