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It's the last weekend of May and the first weekend of June! It's a summer miracle! Especially on Netflix.
There are plenty of movies and series on Netflix with which to occupy you if you plan to stay in. There's the Swedish movie En del av dig or A Part of You. If you want to binge-watch a series, there's the Spanish drama Ni una más or Raising Voices.
If you prefer a more light-hearted fare, there's the South African comedy series spinoff How to Ruin Love: The Proposal.
And if you're hankering for postapocalyptic, dystopian movies, the Divergent Series: Divergent, Insurgent and Allegiant, is also streaming this weekend. The films star Theo James as Four and Shailene Woodley as Tris.
Pokémon Detective Pikachu, voiced by Ryan Reynolds, is also available to stream.
However, if you're more the type to like to scare yourself, there are three Conjuring movies available as well: The Conjuring, The Conjuring 2 and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It.
What's New to Netflix this Weekend (May 31-June 2, 2024)
May 31
A Part of You – The Swedish movie follows the story of the teenage Agnes, envious of her popular older sister Julia, who is then forced to reinvent herself after tragedy strikes. Just when her dreams are about to come true, she now has to live with the consequences of her choices.
The coming-of-age film stars Felicia Maxime, Ida Engvoll, Alva Bratt and Young Royals' Edvin Ryding. Zara Larsson also stars in her first acting role.
Raising Voices – The Spanish drama series, based on Miguel Sáez Carral's novel, follows the story of a 17-year-old student. When she reports a sexual assault at her high school, the subsequent investigation turns her life upside down and tests the boundaries of her relationships.
How to Ruin Love: The Proposal – The South African spinoff of the popular How to Ruin franchise, follows the story of self-professed cynic Zoleka. When she suspects her boyfriend of infidelity, she formulates a plan to catch her boyfriend in the act. However, she ends up ruining her own surprise proposal. Now she has to go back to the drawing board to plan something else: win him back.
1917 – Sam Mendes' World War I film, which won three Oscars in 2020, follows the story of two soldiers who are tasked to race against time to deliver a message that will prevent 1,600 men from walking straight into a fatal trap..
Divergent – Based on Veronica Roth's 2011 (the first book) novel, Shailene Woodley and pre-White Lotus and The Gentlemen Theo James play Tris and Four who live in a world divided by factions based on virtues. Tris finds out that she won't fit in as a Divergent. She discovers a plot to kill those of her kind which has her teaming up with Four to find out what exactly makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late.
Insurgent – The second movie in the franchise sees Tris confronting her inner demons and continuing to fight against a powerful alliance threatening to tear society apart.
Allegiant – The final movie in the franchise follows the earth-shattering revelations in the previous film. Tris now has to escape with Four and go beyond the wall to discover the truth of the world they live in.
Pokémon IRL
Pokémon Detective Pikachu – In this world, people collect Pokémon to do battle, a boy (Justice Smith) bumps into an intelligent talking Pikachu (Reynolds) whose ambition is to become a detective.
The Conjuring – The 2013 horror mystery thriller follows paranormal investigators Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine (Vera Farmiga) Warren try to help a family who claim that they're being terrorized by a dark mysterious presence in their farmhouse.
The Conjuring 2 – After the events in the movie three years prior, Ed and Lorraine are now traveling to North London. This time, they're there to help a single mother who's raising four children alone in a house they say is plagued by a supernatural entity.
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It – The 2021 movie is based on the real-life trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson. It's the first known court case in the US where the defense sought to prove innocence based on a demonic possession claim and denial of personal responsibility for the crime. The film has Ed and Lorraine investigating the case to try to prove Johnson's innocence, accused of stabbing and murdering his land lord. His case is known as “the devil made me do it” defense.
June 2 – Unfortunately, no new shows are coming out this Sunday on Netflix.
What's Coming to Netflix this Week? (June 3-6)
June 3
How I Met Your Mother: Seasons 1-9: The 10-time Primetime Emmy-winning sitcom is back on Netflix after being removed in January 2022. The show stars Alyson Hannigan, Neil Patrick Harris, Josh Radnor, Jason Segel and Colbie Smulders.
June 4
Jo Koy: Live from Brooklyn – Stand-up comedian Jo Koy's latest special and post-Golden Globes comeback discusses energy vampires, mumble rap, emoji flirting and being called a Zaddy.
The Price of Nonna’s Inheritance – The Italian comedy movie follows the story of a grandmother falls in love with a suitor, her family believes he has dubious intentions and secretly devises a plan to protect her life as well as their inheritance.
June 5
Hitlers and the Nazis: Evil on Trial – The docuseries explores Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party's rise, rule and their reckoning from before World War II to the Holocaust and the Nuremberg Trials.
How to Rob a Bank – The true crime drama follows the story of a rebel in '90s Seattle who pulls off an unprecedented a string of bank robberies straight out of the movies.
Under Paris – The French horror movie follows the story of a grieving scientist who is forced to face her past when a giant shark appears on the river Seine.
June 6
Crazy Rich Asians – Based on Kevin Kwan's 2013 novel of the same name, the Jon M. Chu-directed movie follows the story of native New Yorker Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) to Singapore to meet her boyfriend Nick Young's (Henry Golding) wealthy family. The film earned a worldwide box office gross of $239.3 million.
Sweet Tooth Season 3 – The show, based on Jeff Lemire's DC comic book series, will make its final bow. The series is set in a world where a virus killed most of the human population, which coincides with the birth of hybrid babies born with animal characteristics. Part-deer Gus (Christian Convery) sets out to look for his mother after his father's death.
