What’s Coming to Netflix This Week: May 8-14, 2023

Pictured: UglyDolls, The Mother and Documentary Now!

Another week of new releases awaits you on Netflix. Below, we’ll take a look at all the movies and series scheduled to premiere throughout the week, with highlights including the new Netflix original movie Jennifer Lopez and Jada Pinkett-Smith’s controversial docudrama series.

If you missed any of the new releases from last week, you can catch up on all the new movies, series, and even games that were added last week. Of course, there’s a lot coming up on Netflix for the rest of May 2023, with new titles just announced, including Missing and The son.

There are a number of big withdrawals planned for this week, including three Netflix Originals. horn Of The Mind, Liveand border town they will all leave throughout the week.

The most anticipated Netflix releases this week

Documentary Now! (Season 4)

coming to netflix: Tuesday

The long-running newsmagazine parody documentary series is back with its fourth season, once again hosted by Helen Mirren. Each episode takes aim at various documentaries over the years and quite frankly gets the most out of the format.

Created by Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Seth Meyers, and Rhys Thomas, the series briefly left Netflix, but after its fourth-season renewal bound for AMC+, Netflix managed to reacquire the rights and now sees the final six episodes drop. .

Guest stars this season include Alexander Skarsgård, Nicholas Braun, Cate Blanchett and Jonathan Pryce.

Mother (2023)

coming to netflix: Friday

Netflix’s big new movie for the week (and to be honest, Netflix’s biggest movie for the entire month of May) is Jennifer Lopez’s new action thriller, Mother.

Here’s what to expect from the new action movie that also featured Joseph Fiennes and Omari Hardwick:

“After years of hiding in the Alaskan wilderness, a deadly killer returns to rescue the daughter he loved from afar.”

uglydolls (2019)

coming to netflix: Saturday

For children this week is uglydolls coming to Netflix for the first time next weekend.

STXfilms (the same studio working on Leo for Netflix) is behind this musical adventure about free-spirited UglyDolls confronting what it means to be different, and ultimately discovering who they really are.

Kelly Clarkson, Nick Jonas, Janelle Monáe, Blake Shelton and Pitbull appear.