Best new movies and TV series on BINGE: May 2024
Each month, new films and TV shows are added to BINGE’s library. Eliza Janssen presents her picks for titles worth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down.
Top Picks: TV
Pretty Little Liars: Summer School (May 9)
If you’re a teen girl within the world of PLL who has ever done something mildly wrong—or heck, even if your mum did something dodgy back in the 1980s—prepare to never, ever catch a goddamn break for it. Grudges go deep in this continuing sequel series from the creator of Riverdale, with a group of otherwise unrelated young girls being haunted by a mystery assailant for the sins of their parents. We hope it’s as juicy as the best bits of the original, shamelessly compelling show.
Colin from Accounts: Season 2 (May 30)
Season one of this sweet rom-com charmed our socks off, leaving us stoked for another chapter of enemies-to-lovers romance (there really aren’t enough original Aussie series that get that second chance, tragically). The key to Colin from Accounts is the chemistry between leads Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer, who are a legit couple IRL. Brought together by a car crash and an injured dog, they’ve finally fit one another into their wild families. Now comes the tricky bit: trying to keep the romance cute, beyond that memorable meet-cute…
Top Picks: Movies
Barbie (May 8)
Speaking of product placement: Greta Gerwig’s daffy doll comedy painted the entire cinematic world pink last year, and is finally available to stream this month. Will Margot Robbie’s quest for selfhood hold up to a rewatch, after we’ve all heard those dang Billie Eilish and “I’m Just Ken” songs a million times already? To me, the movie was a minor disappointment, but the eye-popping playbox production design makes it feel like a special cultural product. C’mon BINGE subscribers, let’s go party.
Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning (May 22)
The latest of Ethan Hunt’s adventures Cruises onto streaming services, bringing along an escalating array of brilliantly-designed action sequences. Tom Cruise and the franchise’s current helmer McQ start (relatively) small, with a footchase through an airport, before we get to witness tiny cars taking Rome and an epic railway finale to finish. And that’s all separate from the epic motorbike stunt showcased in the seventh film’s promo materials—of Cruise driving directly off a cliff, HALO-jumping off his hog. Vroom vroom.
May December (May 30)
Rudely robbed of an Oscar nom for tragic Best Supporting Actor Charles Melton, and, IMO, a win for Best Original Screenplay, Todd Haynes’ brilliant melodrama calls into question the stories we luridly exploit, and where the line between subject and interpreter becomes hopelessly blurred. Julianne Moore is a delicate, lisping Georgia housewife with a shocking, predatory past—Natalie Portman is the pretentious actress set to play Moore in an upcoming film. The women circle one another with niceties, while Melton, as Moore’s underaged victim, breaks our heart in the background. A luminously clever must-see.
All titles arriving on BINGE in May
May 1
Inside The Shein Machine
Monk: Seasons 1-4
Deadly Decisions
El Accidente: Season 1
Honor: Season 2
48 Hours To Victory: Season 1
Meg 2: The Trench
Room 212
A Quiet Passion
Drop Dead Fred
The Little Hours
Brewster’s Millions
Some Kind Of Wonderful
May 2
China Rising: Parts 1-2
New Nurses: Season 2
Turtles All The Way Down
Leatherheads
The Other Boleyn Girl
May 3
Gogglebox UK: Season 22 Premiere
Missile From The East
FBOY Island USA: Season 3
#textmewhenyougethome: Season 2
Bad Blood: Toppling Turnbull
Big Shots: Anti-Vaxxers Exposed
Catching The Claremont Killer: The Untold Story
Swamp People: Serpent Invasion: Season 3
Lust, Lies & Polygamy
Ann Rule’s A Murder To Remember
May 4
The Great South African Bake Off: Season 4 Premiere
My Husband’s Seven Wives
The Neighbours Are Watching
Murder At The Country Club
May 5
Secret Love Triangle
Secrets In The Desert
May 6
Swamp People: Serpent Invasion: Season 3
Australia’s Cocaine Crisis
Cooking With The Stars: Season 2
Take In Montana
The Venice Murders
May 7
Real Housewives of New Jersey: Season 14 Premiere
New Blood: Morrison’s Miracle
Auschwitz – One Day
Lawyer X: The Untold Story
May 8
Shelved: Season 1
Sell This House: Season 11
Saving Lives At Sea: Season 3
Ancient Secrets Of Althorp With Charles Spencer
Barbie
Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie
May 9
Pretty Little Liars: Summer School: Season 2 Premiere
Eden: Untamed Planet: Season 1
What Really Happened In Wuhan
Whitstable Pearl: Season 2
Deepwater Salvage: Season 2
May 10
Simply Raymond Blanc: Season 2
Nick Knowles Heritage Rescue: Seasons 1
Hospital: Season 6
Countdown To Surrender – The Last 100 Days: Season 1
Simply Raymond Blanc: Season 2
Nick Knowles Heritage Rescue: Season 1
The Exorcist: Believer
May 11
George Michael: Portrait Of An Artist
May 12
Nikki Glaser: Someday You’ll Die
Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
The Tasting
May 13
Eat Well For Less: New Zealand: Season 4
Expend4bles
May 14
Antiques Road Trip: Season 25
May 15
Billionaire Murders: Season 1
May 16
Confessions Of A Psycho Killer
May 20
Styled: Season 1
Vida The Vet: Season 1
The Campaign Uncovered
The Belt Report: Pell Exclusive
May 21
Stax: Soulsville USA: Season 1
Frozen Planet II: Season 2
Changing Our Nation
The Cult Of Dan Andrews
May 22
Haters Online: Erin Molan Fights Back
Liberals In Power
World’s Most Expensive Cruise: Season 3
Emergency Helicopter Medics: Season 1
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
May 23
Men In The Mirror: Rudd & Turnbull
Who Murdered Marea?
Paediatric Rescue, Season 1
Ronnie’s
Britain’s Most Scenic Counties: Norfolk & Suffolk: Season 1
May 24
Your ABC Exposed
MH370: The Final Search
Ancient Superstructures: Season 2
May 28
Christina On The Coast: Season 4
Cruising The Med: Season 1
Location, Location, Location: Season 27
Chopped Next Gen: Season 1
May 29
Movie Pass, Movie Crash
May 30
Colin From Accounts: Season 2 Premiere
Grand Designs: The Street: Season 3
May December
May 31
Interior Design Masters With Alan Carr: Season 5 Premiere
Thanksgiving
See also
* Best new movies and TV series on Netflix
* Best new movies and TV series on Stan
* All new streaming movies & series