What/If

Announced recently, this slick neo-noir thriller sees Renée Zellweger play a wealthy benefactor who makes an attractive offer to a pair of San Francisco newlyweds (Blake Jenner and Jane Levy), although they must first play a series of mind games that will challenge their morals to the core. The 10-part series drops on May 24.

All In My Family

In this heart-wrenching documentary, gay filmmaker Hao Wu follows his own process of introducing his personal life to his deeply conservative Chinese family, as well as his wish to raise children with his partner in America. A poignant vignette of cross-cultural values and the shifting mores of modern day family dynamics, All In My Family makes for a rare insight into the untold story of LGBT immigrant groups. Premieres May 3.

The Society

Like a cross between The 100 and Lord of the Flies, this teen mystery drama sees the adolescents of the town of New Ham mysteriously transported to an exact replica of the ‘burb, only that all of the adults have suddenly gone missing. From there, the teenagers must create a new society along their rules. Airs May 10.

The Wandering Earth

Based on the immensely popular Chinese sci-fi trilogy The Three-Body Problem by novelist Liu Cixin, The Wandering Earth was widely hailed as the moment Chinese science fiction came into its own. Believable visual effects and a robust plot earned the film the title of China’s second highest-grossing film of all time upon its release in February. In the distant future, a dimming Sun forces the formation of a world government to organise the gargantuan task of moving the Earth to another solar system by using massive fusion thrusters built into the planet’s crust. However, when a looming collision with Jupiter threatens the Earth, Chinese astronauts must risk their lives to avert a global crisis. Now airing on Netflix.

Knock Down The House

The 2018 mid-term elections in the US were some of the most consequential in recent American history, where 529 women ran for Congress in a wave of enfranchisement in reaction to Donald Trump’s presidency. This Rachel Lears-directed documentary charts the journeys of four of those women, including 29-year-old maverick Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as they take on traditionalists across the country and bring in a new, more diverse agenda. Now airing on Netflix.