Here’s Everything New On Netflix This Week, Including ‘What/If’ And ‘She’s Gotta Have It’

Netflix begins closing out the month of May with a strong showing of original content.

For fans of soapy melodramas starring Oscar-winning actresses, Renee Zellweger brings us What/If, a wine-drenched saga about a billionaire businesswoman and the dark goings-on that happen behind the closed doors of her luxury penthouse. Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It returns for another round with the show’s heroine facing a summer of struggle and success. And Academy-award winning film Moonlight makes its way to the streaming platform.

Here’s everything coming to (and leaving) Netflix the week of May 24th.

Renee Zellweger turns on the melodrama for this 10-episode anthology series about a San Francisco billionaire and the young scientist whose company she funds. Zellweger plays Ann Montgomery, a high-profile member of San Francisco’s elite upper class. She has plenty of money and the attitude to back it up. Jane Levy plays a wunderkind named Lisa, whose promising medical company is broke and needs a helping hand from Ann, who agrees, but her money comes with a price. If daytime soaps are your thing, you’ll probably love this one.

DeWanda Wise returns as the fiercely confident Nola Darling in the second season of Spike Lee’s brainchild. The first season introduced us to a woman with sexual agency who used her art to protest patriarchal conventions and lived a purposefully carefree existence, but season two throws most of that on its head. Nola is in a monogamous relationship with her girlfriend Opal, she’s becoming a mother-figure to Opal’s child, and she’s having to contend with the gentrification of her neighborhood and what that means for her artistic expression.

Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight will always be remembered for winning the Academy Award for Best Picture after a mix-up that initially named La La Land as the winner. But that’s just an asterisk attached to a momentous coming-of-age story set over three eras in a young man’s life as he grows up in Miami, grappling with the sexuality he feels will make him even more of an outcast while searching for guidance that his drug-addicted mother (Naomie Harris) can’t provide. The film is both lyrical and moving and won justifiable acclaim for its talented cast, including a Best Supporting Actor award for Mahershala Ali as a sympathetic drug dealer.

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The Blackcoat’s Daughter

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Rosario Tijeras (Mexico Version): Season 2

Prince of Peoria: Part 2

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Arrow: Season 7

Moonlight

Wanda Sykes: Not Normal

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A Tale of Two Kitchens

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The Flash: Season 5

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Riverdale: Season 3

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After Maria

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Joy

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She’s Gotta Have It: Season 2

The Perfection

What/If

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I Know What You Did Last Summer

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