‘Dead to Me: Season 2’

Starts streaming: May 8

In the first season of “Dead to Me,” Christina Applegate starred as a recently widowed housewife whose friendship with a woman (Linda Cardellini) at her grief support group developed far more quickly than normal. By the time dark secrets were revealed about her new buddy, their lives were already so deeply intertwined that she couldn’t untangle them easily, especially after a late-season incident in the backyard pool that made them partners in crime. The second season picks up with the two women dodging a local detective (Diana-Maria Riva) and welcoming more chaos into their lives, but plot aside, the appeal of the show is watching these two seasoned comic actresses bounce off each other.

‘The Eddy’

Starts streaming: May 8

Jazz music was a central component of Damien Chazelle’s first two movies, “Guy and Madeline one a Park Bench” and “Whiplash,” and even his third movie, the throwback musical “La La Land,” has a scene where Ryan Gosling jazz-splains the form to Emma Stone. So there’s reason to be excited for Chazelle’s involvement in “The Eddy,” a French musical drama series from the British creator Jack Thorne, who recently wrote the stage play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.” Chazelle directed the first two episodes of the show, which follows a club owner (André Holland) who struggles to manage the ups and downs of operating a jazz venue in Paris.

‘Trial By Media’

Starts streaming: May 11

Some hugely talented documentary filmmakers, including Garrett Bradley (“Time”) and Yance Ford (“Strong Island”), have contributed their time to this ambitious six-part doc series about how certain high-profile trials have been transformed by public attention — and rarely to just ends. The court of public opinion can render judgments powerful enough to penetrate actual courtrooms, stoked by intense media presence. Among the cases re-examined here are Jenny Jones’s various Court TV murder trials, Rod Blagojevich’s political fall from grace and the police shooting of the African immigrant Amadou Diallo.

‘The Big Flower Fight’

Starts streaming: May 18

With Covid-19 delaying the shooting of the next season of “The Great British Baking Show,” fans desperate for the polite craftsmanship of domestic artisans have reason to panic. Well, panic no more! It seems crazy that Netflix produced a Canadian glassblowing competition (“Blown Away”) before a reality competition show as obviously appealing as floral arrangements, but “The Big Flower Fight” comes along at just the right time. Over eight episodes, 10 teams compete to produce the prettiest, most elaborate garden installations, with an emphasis on conservation and environmental sustainability.

‘Patton Oswalt: I Love Everything’

Starts streaming: May 19

In his third special for Netflix, following 2016’s “Talking for Clapping” and 2017’s “Annihilation,” the brilliant stand-up Patton Oswalt returns with an hour that focuses on his domestic life, with bits about crossing the 50-year threshold, raising a mischievous daughter and the follies of buying a new house. No doubt “Patton Oswalt: I Love Everything” will also be speckled with political japes and pop-culture references, too, shot through with the vivid wordplay that sets him apart from other humorists. As a bonus, Oswalt has included an hourlong tribute to the veteran comic Robert Rubin.

‘Hannah Gadsby: Douglas’

Starts streaming: May 26

When Hannah Gadsby’s one-woman show “Nanette” arrived on Netflix in 2018, she set the culture pages ablaze with a brazen act of anti-comedy in which she announced her retirement from stand-up mid-show and spent the majority of the special unpacking the uglier aspects of the form. Though “Nanette” mostly enjoyed an excellent reception, including a Peabody Award, the show had some vocal detractors, mostly from the straight white men who were the target of her ire. In her new special “Douglas,” Gadsby fires back with another work of serio-comic destruction, taking aim at the patriarchy and comedians like Louis C.K. while putting her own vulnerabilities on the line.

‘Space Force’

Starts streaming: May 29

With “The Office” finally leaving Netflix at the end of the year for the NBC streaming site Peacock, subscribers have lost a comedy that’s been reliable living-room background noise for years. But the service has responded by reuniting creator Greg Daniels and star (and co-creator here) Steve Carell for “Space Force,” which brings the workplace dynamic of “The Office” to the latest branch of the U.S. military. Carell, John Malkovich, Ben Schwartz, Diana Silvers and Tawny Newsome star as the professionals tasked with building Space Force from the ground up, even though it’s never clear exactly what they’re supposed to do.

Also of interest: “Back to the Future” (May 1), “Das Boot: Director’s Cut” (May 1), “Warrior” (May 1), “Iron Man 3” (May 7), “Valeria” (May 8), “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy Vs. the Reverend” (May 12), “The Wrong Missy” (May 13), “White Lines” (May 15), “I’m No Longer Here” (May 27) and “Somebody Feed Phil: Season 3” (May 29).