Plenty to get stuck into.
Is it going to be warm, cold, snowing, sweltering? Who the hell knows!?!? What we do know is that plenty of you will be binging on Netflix throughout the month of May and here’s the best of what’s in store.
NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARIES
END GAME
04/05/2018
Facing an inevitable outcome, terminally ill patients meet extraordinary medical practitioners seeking to change our approach to life and death.
EVIL GENIUS: THE TRUE STORY OF AMERICA’S MOST DIABOLICAL BANK HEIST
11/05/2018
This baffling true crime story starts with the grisly death of a pizza man who robs a bank with a bomb around his neck — and gets weirder from there.
EXPLAINED
23/05/2018
New weekly series spotlighting topical issues such as the gender wage gap.
NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
THE RAIN
SEASON 1
04/05/2018
After a brutal virus wipes out most of the population, two young siblings embark on a perilous search for safety. A Scandinavian thriller series.
DEAR WHITE PEOPLE
VOLUME 2
04/05/2018
MY NEXT GUEST NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION WITH DAVID LETTERMAN: TINA FEY and HOWARD STERN
04/05/2018
The legendary chatshow honest talks to the famous shock jock and Tina Fey, the star of 30 Rock and screenwriter of Mean Girls.
FAUDA
SEASON 2
24/05/2018
“Fauda” (Arabic for ‘Chaos’) depicts the two-sided story of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Doron, a commander of undercover Israeli unit, the Israeli Special Forces, operating inside Palestinian territories, and his team, are hunting down Hamas terrorist Abu-Ahmed. On the other side of the fence, the life of Abu-Ahmed and his family, who has thus far murdered 143 Israelis, will never accept the State of Israel, and will continue Jihad for as long as it takes.
UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT
SEASON 4
30/05/2018
NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM
ANON
04/05/2018
In a world without anonymity or crime, a detective meets a woman who threatens their security.
THE KISSING BOOTH
11/05/2018
IBIZA
25/05/2018
A young American woman and her two best friends seek out a hot DJ in Spain
WEEKLY SERIES
RIVERDALE
SEASON 2 FINALE
17/05/2018
DESIGNATED SURVIVOR
SEASON 2 FINALE
25/05/2018
RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE
SEASON 10
NEW EPISODES FRIDAYS
FILMS
TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY
04/05/2018
Number one NASCAR driver Ricky Bobby stays atop the heap thanks to a pact with his best friend and teammate, Cal Naughton, Jr. But when a French Formula One driver, makes his way up the ladder, Ricky Bobby’s talent and devotion are put to the test. Endlessly quotable and derranged.
MAYA ANGELOU: AND STILL I RISE
01/05/2018
Poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou is celebrated using her own words set over rare photographs and video illustrating her remarkable life.
BAD NEIGHBOURS 2
10/05/2018
REIGN OVER ME
25/05/2018
THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE
03/05/2018
THE INTERN
13/05/2018
THE SOCIAL NETWORK
18/05/2018
As stated previously, it’s one of the best dramas of the decade.
PAN
27/05/2018
REALITY TV, DOCUMENTARY AND TV SHOWS
LOVE ISLAND
SEASON 1-2
01/05/2018
SAM FAIERS: THE MUMMY DIARIES
SEASON 1
01/05/2018
27: GONE TOO SOON
01/05/2018
Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison all died at the age of 27 between 1969 and 1971. At the time, the coincidence gave rise to some comment, but it was not until the death of Kurt Cobain, about two and a half decades later, that the idea of a “27 Club” began to catch on in public perception, reignited with the death of Amy Winehouse in 2011. Through interviews with people who knew them, such as music stars, critics, medical experts and unseen footage, the lives, music, and artistry of those who died at 27 are investigated with a bid to find answers.
PRIME SUSPECT
SEASONS 1-6
01/05/2018
A female police detective investigates a series of serial murders while dealing with sexist hostility from her male comrades.
COLD FEET
SEASONS 1-6
01/05/2018
POLDARK
SEASON 2
06/05/2018
LISTEN: You Must Be Jokin’ with Aideen McQueen – Faith healers, Coolock craic and Gigging as Gaeilge
