After a dismal first quarter, Netflix hopes to lure back subscribers in May with the return of some of its most popular series.
After a three-year layoff, the ’80s-set sci-fi thriller “Stranger Things” (May 27) is back for the first half of its fourth season. The gang is in high school now and split up, after Joyce (Winona Ryder) moved her family — including Will (Noah Schnapp) and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) — to California. But the Upside Down isn’t done with them yet, and a spring-break reunion promises more adventures. Five episodes will drop on the 27th, with the final four episodes of the season coming July 1.
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Netflix NFLX, -35.12% also has new seasons of some fan-favorite unscripted series, such as Season 4 of the social-media/catfishing competition “The Circle” (May 4, with new episodes every week); a new, U.S. version of the Australian hit dating show “Love on the Spectrum” (May 18); and Season 5 of the comforting food/travel show “Somebody Feed Phil” (May 25).
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There’s also “Senior Year” (May 13), a comedy movie starring Rebel Wilson as a popular girl who wakes up after two decades in a coma and wants to finish high school; “The Lincoln Lawyer” (May 13), a new legal-drama series from producer David E. Kelley and based on the character from Michael Connelly’s popular novels; Season 5 of the Starz romantic drama “Outlander” (May 10), which originally aired in 2020; and Season 3 of the Spanish-language melodrama “Who Killed Sara?” (May 18).
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Netflix is also adding movies such as “When Harry Met Sally,” “You’ve Got Mail” and “Crazy, Stupid Love” (all May 1), while “Top Gun,” all six seasons of “Downton Abbey” and all three seasons of “Happy Endings” will leave the service at the end of the month.
Here’s the complete list of what’s coming and going, as of April 20 (release dates are subject to change):
What’s coming in May 2022
Date TBA
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
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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
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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 in May
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
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