Netflix: Best New TV Shows & Movies This Weekend (May 1) – Screen Rant

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 doeson 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 Finchers 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.

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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 Murphys new series. Here are the best movies and TV shows coming to Netflix this weekend - May 1.

Netflix'sNever 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 Kalings childhood.

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 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 everyones motives, including those of the people she loves.

Netflix'sThe 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.

Ryan Murphys 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, Hollywoods cast has a lot of familiar faces and frequent collaborators of Murphy, such as Darren Criss, Dylan McDermott, Holland Taylor, and Jim Parsons.

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Adrienne Tyler is a features writer for Screen Rant. She is an Audiovisual Communication graduate that wanted to be a filmmaker, but life had other plans (and it turned out great). Prior to Screen Rant, she wrote for Pop Wrapped, 4 Your Excitement (4YE), and D20Crit, where she was also a regular guest at Netfreaks podcast. She was also a contributor for FanSided's BamSmackPow and 1428 Elm. Adrienne is very into films and she enjoys a bit of everything: from superhero films, to heartbreaking dramas, to low-budget horror films. Every time she manages to commit to a TV show without getting bored, an angel gets its wings.

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