Spring is in the air, and with the new season comes an updated selection of Netflix shows that are trying to turn reboots of the same old stories into fresher, more diverse stories. From Riverdale (the adaptation of the 1950s Archie Comics that’s now in its third season) to The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (which just aired its second part of season 1 last month), modern TV series are trying to explore new angles on familiar situations. For instance, Netflix’s Charmed reboot, which arrives in May (exact date TBA) explores what happens when Piper, Phoebe, and Prue are reinvented as Mel, Maggie, and Macy, three Latina sisters who are embracing new magical powers.

At the same time, some excellent films are finally arriving on Netflix, including Snowpiercer on May 1st and Moonlight on May 21st. Fans of science fiction dystopias should enjoy watching Snowpiercer for the first or 10th time. It’s led by impressive performances from Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, and Kang-ho Song. (Given the cast, it might make a good chaser to Avengers: Endgame.) Moonlight is the Best Picture-winning tale of a young gay black man coming of age in Miami, starring Janelle Monáe and Mahershala Ali. For those of you who didn’t catch the film in theaters originally, it’s now easily accessible, and it definitely stands up to several rewatches even for those who did.

Netflix has also tapped into a formula that really works in its original Asian content: exploring unusual topics. Abyss, which lands on Netflix on May 6th and will air two episodes a week for most versions of Netflix, follows a prosecutor who has been reincarnated after an accident. She’s not the only one. This new Korean fantasy explores reincarnation, an idea commonly found in Buddhism and Hinduism, and what happens when people actually remember their past lives. It’s not the most typical drama theme. Amnesia, car accidents, or recurring illnesses are more common plot devices for Korean shows.

Then there is revisions, which sounds like an artsy Tumblr blog but is actually a science fiction anime series set in a Shibuya that has been time-warped to the year 2388, where hostile cyborgs threaten humanity.

On current events, many of Netflix’s new offerings have prescient commentary to offer on the present moment. ReMastered: The Lion’s Share, Knock Down the House, and See You Yesterday all offer redemption in some way. ReMastered, a Netflix documentary series, spends its latest episode tracking a white South African journalist’s attempts to get the American music industry to pay royalties to a black South African living in poverty, who is the original writer of the famous song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.” Knock Down the House documents the lives of four congresswomen, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as they campaign for change.

Finally, the Spike Lee-produced See You Yesterday offers a science fiction solution to one of the most tragic occurrences in our broken justice system: when cops kill unarmed black men, often without serious consequence. The new Netflix film, arriving on May 17th, imagines two Brooklyn teen prodigies, CJ Walker and Sebastian Thomas, who build time machines to save CJ’s brother, who was killed by a police officer. It’s the ultimate convergence of speculative fiction and social justice, which just might be transforming the genre.

Coming to Netflix

May TBA

Charmed, season 1

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, season 4

The Mechanism, season 2

Supergirl, season 4

May 1st

Knock Down the House

Munafik 2

Angels & Demons

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Casper

Chasing Liberty

Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion, part 1 & 2

Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat

Dumb and Dumber

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Gosford Park

Gremlins

Hairspray

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay

Her Only Choice

Hoosiers

Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer, season 2

John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky

Just Friends

Revolutionary Road

Roswell, New Mexico, season 1

Scarface

Scream

Snowpiercer

Taking Lives

The Da Vinci Code

The Dark Crystal

The Matrix

The Matrix Reloaded

The Matrix Revolutions

To Rome With Love

Wedding Crashers

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Zombieland

May 2nd

Colony, season 3

Olympus Has Fallen

May 3rd

A Pesar De Todo

All in My Family

Alles ist gut

Cupcake & Dino - General Services, season 2

Dead to Me

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

Flinch

Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage

The Last Summer

Mr. Mom

Supernatural, season 14

True and the Rainbow Kingdom: Mushroom Town

Tuca & Bertie

Undercover

May 4th

Like Arrows

May 6th

Abyss

May 7th

The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution

Queen of the South, season 3

May 8th

Lucifer, season 4

May 9th

Bathtubs Over Broadway

Insidious

May 10th

Dry Martina

Easy, season 3

Gente que viene y bah

Harvey Girls Forever!, season 2

Jailbirds

ReMastered: The Lion’s Share

Shéhérazade

The Society

Wine Country

May 12th

Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, volume 3

May 13th

Malibu Rescue

May 14th

revisions

Still LAUGH-IN: The Stars Celebrate

Weed the People

May 15th

Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed!

May 16th

Good Sam

Take Me Home Tonight

May 17th

1994: Limited Series

Chip & Potato

It’s Bruno

Maria

Morir para contar

Nailed It!, season 3

See You Yesterday

The Rain, season 2

Well Intended Love

White Gold, season 2

May 18th

The Blackcoat’s Daughter

May 20th

Prince of Peoria, part 2

Rosario Tijeras, season 2

May 21st

Arrow, season 7

Moonlight

Wanda Sykes: Not Normal

May 22nd

A Tale of Two Kitchens

One Night in Spring

The Flash, season 5

May 23rd

Riverdale, season 3

Slasher: Solstice

May 24th

After Maria

Alta Mar

Joy

Rim of the World

She’s Gotta Have It, season 2

The Perfection

WHAT/ IF

May 27th

Historical Roasts

Outlander, seasons 1-2

May 28th

Disney’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

May 30th

Chopsticks

My Week with Marilyn

Svaha: The Sixth Finger

The One I Love

May 31st

Always Be My Maybe

Bad Blood, season 2

Black Spot, season 2

How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)

Killer Ratings

When They See Us

Leaving Netflix

May 1st

8 Mile

Chocolat

Cold Justice: Collection 3

Dances with Wolves

Disney High School Musical 3: Senior Year

Dr. No

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

For Your Eyes Only

From Dusk Till Dawn

From Russia with Love

Godzilla

GoldenEye

Hostel

Jaws

Jaws 2

Jaws 3

Jaws: The Revenge

Licence to Kill

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

Sixteen Candles

Sliding Doors

Somm

Somm: Into the Bottle

The Birdcage

The Dirty Dozen

The English Patient

The Lovely Bones

The Notebook

The Other Boleyn Girl

Tomorrow Never Dies

Watchmen

May 11th

Switched at Birth, seasons 1-5

May 15th

Bill Nye, the Science Guy: Collection 1

May 19th

Disney’s Bridge to Terabithia

May 22nd

The Boss Baby

May 24th

Southpaw

May 31st