There’s heaps to look forward to in May.
April was a great month for television with shows and movies of all genres gracing our screens. From documentaries to rom-coms, we were clearly spoilt for choice across the board. But it certainly looks like May is primed to be even better with a variety of brilliant and creative stories hitting our streaming services. We consolidated a list for all your television/cinema needs in one extensive package. Here’s the lowdown on everything dropping on Netflix, Disney +, Stan, Amazon Prime and Binge.
Everything coming to Netflix
Netflix highlights include cultural icon Round the Twist hitting our screens along with Amy Adams starrer Woman in the Window and the much-awaited Master of None Season 3. Whatever your show or movie of choice, you’ll likely find it on Netflix.
May 1
- Round the Twist – Seasons 1-4
- Utopia – Seasons 1-4
- Below Deck – Season 3
- Frontline – Seasons 1-3
- Spellbinder
- Lockie Leonard – Season 1
May 4
- Trash Truck: Season 2
- Selena: The Series – Part 2
May 5
- The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness
May 6
- And Tomorrow the Entire World
May 7
- Monster
- Jupiter’s Legacy
- Milestone
- Girl from Nowhere – Season 2
May 8
- Mine
May 9
- Super Me
May 11
- Money, Explained
May 12
- Dance of the Forty One
- The Upshaws
- Puberty Blues
May 13
- Castlevania – Season 4
May 14
- The Woman in the Window
- HALSTON
- Ferry
- Jungle Beat: The Movie
- Move to Heaven
- Oxygen
- Love, Death & Robots – Volume 2
- Haunted – Season 3
- The Strange House
- I Am All Girls
May 15
- The Real Housewives of New York City – Season 4
May 16
- Pitch Perfect 2
- Fifty Shades of Grey
May 18
- Sardar Ka Grandson
May 19
- Who Killed Sara? – Season 2
May 20
- Special – Season 2
May 21
- Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous – Season 3
- The 100 – Season 7
- The Neighbour – Season 2
- Army of the Dead
May 23
- Master of None – Season 3
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May 26
- Baggio: The Divine Ponytail
- High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
- Nail Bomber: Manhunt
May 27
- Soy Rada: Serendipity
- Ragnarok – Season 2
- Black Space
- Blue Miracle
- Eden
May 28
- Lucifer – Season 5
- The Kominsky Method – Season 3
- Dog Gone Trouble
May 31
- The Parisian Agency: Exclusive Properties
Everything coming to Disney +
Disney + is probably the one streaming service giving some serious competition to Netflix. With WandaVision and Falcon and The Winter Soldier already making waves and Loki around the corner, the streaming service has definitely raised the bar. This month’s offerings include the premiere of Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K, all seasons of The Amazing Race Australia and the highly anticipated Cruella starring Emma Stone.
May 4
- Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Premiere
May 7
- The Long Road Home – Season 1
- Disney Ducktales – Season 3
- Trafficked With Mariana Van Zeller – Premiere
- High Fidelity – Season 1
- Disney Junior Vampirina – new episodes
May 14
- Disney Junior Mira, Royal Detective – new episodes
- Gigantosaurus – Season 1
- An Affair to Remember
- The Alligator People
- High School Musical: The Musical: The Series – Season 2 premiere
- The Blue Bird (1976)
May 21
- Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K – Premiere
- Bruce Almighty
- Inside Pixar – new episodes
- Bin Laden’s Hard Drive
- Narco Wars – Season 1
- Drugs, Inc: Dealer POV
- Fury Files (Interstitials)
- Alaska’s Deadliest – Season 1
- Black Widow (1987)
- To Catch A Smuggler – Season 1-2
- When Sharks Attack – Seasons 1-6
- Brubaker
- An Innocent Man
- Tin Men
- Patrick
- Deadly Instincts – Season 1
- Big Sky – new episodes
- Deep State – Seasons 1-2
- One Mississippi – Seasons 1-2
- Pitch – Season 1
- Rel – Season 1
- The Amazing Race Australia – Seasons 1-4
- A Wilderness of Error – Season 1
May 28
- Cruella (Premier Access only)
- The Full Monty
- Mixed-ish – Season 2 premiere
- Rebel
Also in May
- Grown-ish – Season 3
- Solar Opposites – Season 3
- Family Guy – Season 19
- Grey’s Anatomy – Season 17
- Genius – Aretha
- Big Shot – Season 1
- The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers – Finale
- Station 19 – Season 4
- Bob’s Burgers – Season 11
Everything coming to Stan
Stan’s library boasts of a variety of titles and genres and they tend to add more on a regular basis. RuPaul’s Drag Race: Down Under is probably one of the most anticipated shows across the board but we’re looking forward to titles like Highflyers and Going in Style too.
May 1:
- Where the Wild Things Are
- RuPaul’s Drag Race: Down Under – Season 1 Premiere (new episodes weekly)
- Life As We Know It
- Intergalactic, Season 1 – Premiere
- Two Weeks Notice
- I Am Greta
May 2
- City on a Hill – Season 2, Episode 5 (new episodes weekly)
- Going in Style (2016)
May 3
- Balloon
- My War on Drugs – Premiere
May 4
- Tlamess
- The Science of Fictions
May 5
- Basketball: A Love Story – Season 1
- Golden Youth
May 6
- High Flyers – Season 1 – Premiere
- Bloods – Season 1 – Premiere
- The Flood
- Belushi
- Lassie Come Home (2020)
May 7
- Girls5Eva – Season 1 – Premiere
- Conor McGregor: Notorious
May 8
- Pacific Warriors
- The Galahs
May 10
- Midnight Runner
- Rust
May 11
- Pinocchio (2019)
May 12
- The Lost Kingdom of the Black Pharaohs – Premiere
- Whitney
May 13
- Sofia
- Those Who Work
May 14
- Senna
May 15
- Liar – Season 2
- Domina – Season 1 – Premiere
May 16
- King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
May 17
- With the Wind
- Kiss or Kill
May 18
- Holiday
- End of Summer
May 19
- Generation Gifted: Growing Up Gifted – Season 1-3
- Retablo
May 20
- Aroused by Gynmopedies
- Rocco Schiavone: Ice Cold Murders – Season 2
May 21
- Tapage Nocturne
- From The Ashes
May 22
- The Battle of the Sexes
May 23
- Fighters
May 24
- The Rebel in the Rye
May 25
- Eastern Plays
- Augustine
May 26
- Deep Water – Season 1
- White Lily
May 27
- Meteors
- Endangered Wildlife Sanctuary – Season 1 – Premiere
May 28
- Son of Sofia
- Momentum Generation
May 29
- You Cannot Kill David Arquette
- Venus & Serena
May 30
- The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskeva
May 31
- Boy Eating the Birds Food
- In A Savage Land
- Still River
Everything coming to Amazon Prime
This month Amazon Prime boasts of some cool new originals along with some much-loved shows like Will and Grace and cult favourite Resident Evil. Highlights include American Utopia and Prime original Panic.
May 1
- Lego Ninjago
- Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu
- Buffaloed
- Chick Flight
- Never Too Late
May 3
- Movie 43
May 4
- Bay of Silence
May 7
- The Boy From Medellin
May 10
- Fat Pizza
May 13
- American Utopia
- The High Note
- Dirt Music
May 14
- Lol “Si Te Ries Pierdes”
- The Underground Railroad
- Horizon Line
- Solos
May 15
- Will & Grace
- The Longest Yard
- Captain Phillips
- Rought Night
- Bad Boys
- Bad Boys II
- Resident Evil: Vendetta
- Resident Evil: Retribution
- Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
May 17
- Million Dollar Baby
May 21
- Arkansas
- The Lost Husband
- Welcome To Sudden Death
- 5x Comedia
- P!NK: All I Know So Far
May 28
- Panic
- Lol, Qui Rit, Sort! (France)
- Psych 2: Lassie Come Home
Everything coming to Binge
Binge is slowly become a local favourite with everything from indie gems to arthouse cinema and mainstream shows under their belt. Julie Taymor’s excellent biopic Frida on Frida Kahlo drops this month along with Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 and tried and tested favourites like Along Came a Spider and Pose.
May 1
- Too Close – Season 1
- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
- Unpregnant
- Along Came A Spider
May 2
- Frida
- The Lego Movie
May 3
- Pose – Season 3 – Premiere
- Teen Mom OG – Season 9
- DC’s Legends of Tomorrow – Season 6 – Premiere
- The Great North – Season 1 – Premiere
- Elementary – Season 7
May 4
- Pennyworth – Season 2
May 5
- The Real Housewives of Dallas – Season 5 – Finale
- The Real Housewives of New York City – Season 13
May 7
- Million Dollar Listings: New York – Season 9
May 8
- Double Jeopardy
May 10
- World’s Most Evil Killers – Season 5
May 13
- Waterhole: Africa’s Animal Oasis – Season 1
- The Hills: New Beginnings – Season 2 (new episodes weekly)
May 14
- David Byrne’s American Utopia
- Life – Season 1
- The Emoji Movie
May 15
- The Perfect Storm
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
May 16
- Charm City Kings
May 18
- Hypothetical – Season 3
- MTV Movie & TV Awards 2021
- Snowfall – Season 4
May 19
- Prodigal Son – Season 2
- Celebrity Fantasy Homes – Season 2
May 20
- The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills – Season 11
May 21
- Reunion Roadtrip – Season 1
- Blade Runner 2049
May 23
- Selena + Chef – Seasons 1-2
May 25
- Botched – Season 7
May 27
- Grand Designs New Zealand – Season 6
May 30
- Bulletproof: South Africa – Season 3
May 31
- Life Below Zero – Season 7
- Delilah – Season 1
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