This weekend, Netflix will be packed with new content, with a coming of age series, a documentary, a thriller, a comedy drama movie, and a drama miniseries. With theaters closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, streaming platforms continue seeing a bigger flow of activity and users. In order to keep up, Netflix has made a couple of changes, like lowering streaming quality, but when it comes to its content, the streaming giant continues with its pattern of adding new content every week.
Last weekend welcomed the documentary Circus of Books, the adult animated series The Midnight Gospel, the animated movie The Willoughbys, the action movie Extraction, and the fourth season of The Last Kingdom. As it does on the first day of every month, Netflix will add a long list of movies, among those Back to the Future and its sequel, the comedy Fun with Dick & Jane, the first three Jarhead movies, David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the horror movie Sinister, and a double dose of sweets with Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and the 2005 version Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
As for original content, this weekend on Netflix offers a coming of age series created by Mindy Kaling, a documentary, a thriller movie starring Camila Mendes, a comedy drama movie, and Ryan Murphy’s new series. Here are the best movies and TV shows coming to Netflix this weekend - May 1.
Never Have I Ever
Netflix's Never Have I Ever is a coming of age comedy drama series created by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher. It follows the life of modern-day first generation Indian American teenage girl Devi Vishwakumar (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) as she navigates through high school, friendships and more, while also dealing with cultural traditions. Never Have I Ever is inspired by Kaling’s childhood.
Murder To Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story
Netflix keeps adding crime documentaries to its catalogue, and its latest arrival is Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story. It offers a look at the case of Cyntoia Brown, who was sentenced to life in prison when she was 16-years old. Murder to Mercy takes a look at her past, physiology, and the law as her case comes into question.
Dangerous Lies
Dangerous Lies is a Netflix thriller movie starring Camila Mendes as Katie Franklin, a caregiver who starts working for Leonard (Elliott Gould). When he passes away, Katie learns that he left his estate to her – but with that will come a web of lies and dangerous people, prompting Katie to question everyone’s motives, including those of the people she loves.
The Half Of It
Netflix's The Half Of It is a coming of age drama comedy movie, written and directed by Alice Wu. Ellie Chu (Leah Lewis) is a shy high school student living in a small town and who has a small “business” in which she writes others’ homeworks for a price. When high school jock Paul Munsky (Daniel Diemer) asks for her help to write a letter to his crush, Aster Flores (Alexxis Lemire), they embark on an unexpected journey of discovery as they are both in love with the same girl.
Hollywood
Ryan Murphy’s new miniseries, Hollywood, is now available to stream on Netflix this weekend. It follows a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in post-World War II Hollywood as they do their best to make it in Tinseltown, no matter the cost. Hollywood exposes and examines the unfair systems and biases across race, gender, and sexuality in the industry, while offering a look at how the industry would have been had they been dismantled. Of course, Hollywood’s cast has a lot of familiar faces and frequent collaborators of Murphy, such as Darren Criss, Dylan McDermott, Holland Taylor, and Jim Parsons.