Who’s ready to laugh? Netflix, apparently, as its May 2025 slate is loaded with comedies, some involving heavy-hitters. The month kicks off with a Tina Fey limited series also starring Steve Carrell, Colman Domingo and Will Forte, then continues with a darkly comic thriller led by Julianne Moore, an apparently deranged anthology series from stand-up Tom Segura, Vince Vaughn playing opposite Lorraine Bracco and Susan Sarandon, and the final season of Nick Kroll’s long-running animated series, Big Mouth. If you’re more in the mood for drama, don’t worry, there’s plenty of that, too. Here are the nine new movies and shows that we’re most excited about hitting Netflix this month.
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The Four Seasons
Tina Fey remakes the 1981 Alan Alda comedy about three middle-aged couples whose friendship dynamic is rattled when one of them divorces. Fey, who also stars, frames the eight-episode miniseries around a series of group vacations, which sounds like her way of getting Netflix to fund some expensive getaways for her and her friends – but when the friends are Steve Carrell, Colman Domingo, Will Forte and Kerri Kenney-Silver, it’s probably still worth watching.
Premieres May 1
Britain and the Blitz
Just when you thought you’d consumed everything about the bombing of Britain during World War II comes this six-episode docuseries, featuring first-person testimony from survivors and rather incredible-looking upscaled archival footage that looks like it’s out of a Powell-Pressburger film. Should be a handy companion piece to Steve McQueen’s Blitz on Apple TV+.
Premieres May 5
Untold
Netflix’s tabloid-y sports docuseries returns to investigate such topics as NFL quarterback Brett Favre’s off-field scandals, the ‘raw meat’ influencer known as the Liver King, and that time two Washington Wizards teammates pulled guns on each other in the locker room. Maybe they should’ve called it Dirty for 30. Anyone?
Premieres May 6
Nonnas
After losing his mother, a listless Brooklyn man (Vince Vaughn) recruits a crew of bickering Italian grandmothers to open a restaurant. Want to feel old? The nonnas are played by Lorraine Bracco, Talia Shire and, in the Rue MccLanahan role, Susan Sarandon. Directed by Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Dear Evan Hansen), it’s guaranteed to be achingly sentimental, but with that cast, it’s hard to imagine it’s not at least a little bit charming.
Premieres May 9
Bad Thoughts
I Think You Should Leave It To Tom Segura? Segura, the popular comic and podcast host, created this anthology series, which is being described as a sort of comedic Twilight Zone, with Segura starring and narrating à la Rod Serling. Words like ‘dark’ and ‘twisted’ are also being tossed about, which, if you’re familiar with Segura’s comedy, isn’t surprising.
Premieres May 13
Sirens
Seems like every year now brings a new darkly comic satire of weird rich people who live near water. Here, a young woman (Meghann Fahy) returns to her island hometown to reunite with her sister (Milly Alcock) and finds her in thrall to an enigmatic socialite, played by Julianne Moore. Coming from Molly Smith Metzler, creator of 2021’s much-acclaimed Maid, it should at least be a step up from last year’s beachfront mystery, The Perfect Couple. And c’mon: It’s Julianne Moore.
Premieres May 22
Big Mouth season 8
Nick Kroll’s relatably juvenile coming-of-age animated comedy comes to an end as the longest-running adult-oriented scripted series in Netflix history. How many more masturbation jokes can the show cram in before it wraps up? Plenty, we’re guessing.
Premieres May 23
Fear Street: Prom Queen
Mean Girls meets Carrie in this spinoff from Netflix’s three-part adaptation of Goosebumps author RL Stine’s slightly scarier book series. Set in 1988, in the same cursed town where the previous films took place, a campaign for prom queen at a local high school is disrupted by an unexpected contender – just as the frontrunners start mysteriously disappearing.
Premieres May 23
Dept. Q
Craving another series involving a cranky, tortured detective investigating a grim cold case? Here’s your fix. Based on books by Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen, the show, from The Queen’s Gambit co-creator Scott Frank, stars Matthew Goode as the aforementioned crank, who gets kicked down the totem pole of the Edinburgh police department following a tragic incident, only to discover he’s got a knack for solving once-unsolvable mysteries.
Premieres May 29
Everything New Coming to Netflix in May 2025
Available May 1:
Angi: Fake Life, True Crime
The Biggest Fan
The Four Seasons
Airport
Airport ’77
Airport 1975
Ali
American Gangster
American Graffiti
Burn After Reading
Constantine
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Dawn of the Dead
Eat Pray Love
The Equalizer 2
Hanna
Home
The Jerk
The Lego Movie
Mid90s
The Mule
Ocean’s Eleven
Ocean’s Thirteen
Ocean’s Twelve
The Paper Tigers
Past Lives
Sisters
Starship Troopers
The Sugarland Express
Trainwreck
Trolls
Twilight
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 2
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Available May 2:
Peninsula
Train to Busan
Unseen: Season 2
Available May 4:
Conan O’Brien: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
Available May 5:
Britain and The Blitz
Mighty Monsterwheelies: Season 2
Available May 6:
The Devil’s Plan: Season 2
Untold: Shooting Guards
Available May 7:
Full Speed: Season 2
Last Bullet
Available May 8:
Blood of Zeus: Season 3
FOREVER
Heart Eyes
Karol G: Tomorrow was Beautiful
Available May 9:
A Deadly American Marriage
Bad Influence
Nonnas
The Royals
Available May 11:
ABBA: Against the Odds
Available May 12:
Tastefully Yours
Available May 13:
All American: Season 7
Bad Thoughts
Untold: The Liver King
Available May 14:
American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden
Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story
Married at First Sight: Season 17
Smile
Snakes and Ladders
Available May 15:
Bet
Love, Death & Robots: Volume 4
Franklin
Pernille: Season 5
Secrets We Keep
Thank You, Next: Season 2
Vini Jr.
Available May 16:
Dear Hongrang
Football Parents
The Quilters
Rotten Legacy
Available May 20:
Sarah Silverman: Postmortem
Untold: The Fall of Favre
Available May 21:
Newly Rich, Newly Poor
Real Men
Sneaky Links: Dating After Dark
The UnXplained with William Shatner: Season 6
Available May 22:
Sirens
Tyler Perry’s She The People
Available May 23:
Air Force Elite: Thunderbirds
Big Mouth: Season 8
Fear Street: Prom Queen
Forget You Not
Off Track 2
Available May 24:
Our Unwritten Seoul
The Wild Robot
Available May 26:
CoComelon: Season 13
Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders
Mike Birbiglia: The Good Life
Available May 28:
F1: The Academy
Available May 29:
Dept. Q
Available May 30:
A Widow’s Game
The Heart Knows
Available May 31:
Netflix Tudum 2025: The Live Event