Month after month, Netflix holds on to the crown as the streaming service with the widest variety of original content for every audience. For kids there’s CoCoMelon, for grown-ups there’s raunchy dating shows like Sneaky Links, and for everybody else there’s… everything else. May is a packed month, with tons of good-looking stuff debuting. Here’s our guide to the hottest new shows and movies on the streaming service in May.

The Devil’s Plan: Season 2 (May 6)

Most reality TV shows don’t do a lot to tax your brainstem, but Korean hit The Devil’s Plan is the outlier. A carefully selected group of people, all with different mental skills, are locked up together in an elimination game where they’ll have to think outside of the box and outwit each other to earn “pieces,” currency that both ensures their survival and can also be used for various purposes. It’s a thrilling watch that’s worth a binge.

• Cast: Kang Ji-yeong, Kyuhyun, Kim Ha-rin

• Genre: Korean, Competition Reality TV, Reality TV

• Rating: TV-14

• IMDb Rating: 8.3/10

Untold: The Liver King (May 13)

Influencers aren’t just bad for your mental health, they’re bad for your body. A new documentary, Untold: The Liver King, traces the rise and fall of the grotesquely vascular supplement seller who made his fortune by chowing down on slabs of raw organ meat on Instagram, YouTube, and other platforms. His “Ancestral Lifestyle” promised men that they could have the body of their dreams with 11 simple rules, but when it was revealed that the Liver King spent $11,000 a month on anabolic steroids, it all came crashing down.

American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden (May 14)

The attack on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, will go down in history as a pivotal moment in American history, and the architect of that terrorism as one of history’s greatest villains. American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden is a new three-part docuseries that has never-before-seen footage of the efforts to track down the Al-Qaeda leader and bring him to a watery grave.

Fear Street: Prom Queen (May 23)

Goosebumps legend R.L. Stine’s horror series for more grown-up readers is becoming almost as big a success, with the fourth Fear Street movie set to hit Netflix in May. Set in 1988, the hot topic at Shadyside High is which one of the popular “It Girls” is going to win the crown at that year’s Senior Prom. But when a dark horse candidate emerges, bodies start to stack up and things get messy very fast.

• Director: Matt Palmer

• Cast: Ariana Greenblatt, Katherine Waterston, Ella Rubin

• Genre: Horror

• Rating: R for strong bloody violence and gore, teen drug use, language, sexual references.

Everything Coming to Netflix in May 2025

May 1
Angi: Fake Life, True Crime (2025)
Airport
Airport ’77
Airport 1975
Ali
American Gangster
American Graffiti
The Biggest Fan (2025)
Burn After Reading
Constantine
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Dawn of the Dead
Eat Pray Love
The Equalizer 2
The Four Seasons – Season 1
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

May 2
Peninsula (2020)
Train To Busan (2016)
Unseen – Season 2

May 4
Conan O’Brien: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (2025)

May 5
Britain and the Blitz (2025)
Mighty Monsterwheelies – Season 2

May 6
The Devil’s Plan – Season 2
Untold: Shooting Guards (2025)

May 7
Full Speed – Season 2
Last Bullet (2025)

May 8
Blood of Zeus – Season 3
Forever – Season 1
Heart Eyes (2025)
Karol G: Tomorrow Was Beautiful (2025)

May 9
A Deadly American Marriage (2025)
Bad Influence (2025)
Nonnas (2025)
The Royals – Season 1

May 11
ABBA: Against the Odds (2024)

May 12
Tastefully Yours – Season 1

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May 13
All American – Season 7
Bad Thoughts – Season 1
Untold: The Liver King (2025)

May 14
American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden – Season 1
Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story (Limited Series)
Married At First Sight – Season 17
Smile (2022)
Snakes and Ladders – Season 1

May 15
Bet – Season 1
Franklin – Season 1
Love, Death & Robots – Volume 4
Pernille – Season 5
Secrets We Keep
Thank You, Next – Season 2
Vini Jr.

May 16
Dear Hongrang – Season 1
Football Parents – Season 1
The Quilters (2025)
Rotten Legacy – Season 1

May 20
Sarah Silverman: Postmortem (2025)
Untold: The Fall of Favre (2025)

May 21
Newly Rich, Newly Poor – Season 1
Real Men – Season 1
Sneaky Links: Dating After Dark – Season 1
The UnXplained with William Shatner – Season 6

May 22
Sirens – Season 1
Tyler Perry’s She The People – Season 1

May 23
Air Force Elite: Thunderbirds (2025)
Big Mouth – Season 8
Fear Street: Prom Queen (2025)
Forget You Not – Season 1
Off Track 2 (2025)

May 24
Our Unwritten Seoul – Season 1
The Wild Robot

May 26
CoCoMelon – Season 16
Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders (Limited Series)
Mike Birbiglia: The Good Life (2025)

May 27
Better Late Than Single – Season 1

May 28
F1: The Academy – Season 1

May 29
Dept. Q – Season 1

May 30
A Widow’s Game (2025)
The Heart Knows (2025)

May 31
Netflix TUDUM 2025 (LIVE)

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