Netflix has had a busy and fruitful May. Nemesis is getting comfy at the top of the Top 10, The Boroughs has grown-ups thanking the Duffer Brothers for helping to make a more age-appropriate Stranger Things, and Sally Field is quietly making everyone sob into their pillows with Remarkably Bright Creatures. BUT, there’s still a little more the streaming service has to squeeze out of May.
To sail off into the summer sunset, Netflix has a few new arrivals—a new season of vacation with Tina Fey, Will Forte et al, a quirky Korean superhero series, and a stand-up comic’s second round of disturbing vignettes.
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The Four Seasons
Tina Fey’s friend group is back, minus one
Getting older isn’t easy. It can be a time of existential crises, restlessness, and back pain. But if Tina Fey has anything to say about it, it’s damn funny. The former SNL legend and genius behind 30 Rock, returns with her sharp-witted ensemble dramedy, The Four Seasons, for a second season of more mid-life-crisis head-shaking.
The Critically-acclaimed series about a group of longtime besties who meet up for four seasonal trips a year, reunites Kate and Jack (Fey and Will Forte), Danny and Claude (Emmy-nominee Colman Domingo and Marco Calvani), Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver), and Ginny (Erika Henningsen), as they pick up the pieces following the gut-punch of an ending to season one.
Quiz
Which Netflix hit is this quote from?
Trivia challenge
These lines could belong to almost any show — but only one is right.
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Which show contains the line: “The darkness doesn’t scare me. It never did. It’s the light that lies.”
Correct! This brooding line belongs to Wednesday Addams in Wednesday, perfectly capturing her gothic worldview and distrust of cheerfulness. The show leans heavily into Wednesday’s sardonic philosophy, making lines like this feel entirely at home in her deadpan delivery.
Not quite — this line is from Wednesday. While Dark and Stranger Things both deal heavily with darkness and fear, this particular sentiment belongs to Wednesday Addams, whose entire worldview is built on embracing shadow and suspecting the sunny side of life.
Which show contains the line: “We didn’t travel through time to save the world. We traveled through time because someone had to remember it.”
Correct! This reflective line is from Dark, the German sci-fi thriller that made time travel feel less like adventure and more like a haunting responsibility. Dark is known for its philosophical weight, and its characters often speak about time with grief rather than wonder.
Not quite — this one belongs to Dark, Netflix’s mind-bending German series. Stranger Things uses time and alternate dimensions too, but Dark treats time travel as a tragic burden rather than an exciting power, and that distinction shows in lines like this one.
Which show contains the line: “I didn’t come this far to be someone else’s story. I came to write my own.”
Correct! This defiant declaration is pure Monkey D. Luffy energy from One Piece. Netflix’s live-action adaptation kept the spirit of Eiichiro Oda’s original manga alive, and Luffy’s dream of becoming King of the Pirates fuels lines exactly like this one throughout the series.
Not quite — this line is from One Piece. Squid Game is also about survival and self-determination, but its tone is far bleaker. One Piece thrives on bold, adventurous declarations of freedom, which makes this quote a natural fit for Luffy and his crew chasing the Grand Line.
Which show contains the line: “They don’t come from another world. They come from the part of this one we buried.”
Correct! This line is from K-Pop Demon Hunters, where the mythology ties demonic forces directly to suppressed cultural trauma rather than alien dimensions. The show cleverly roots its supernatural horror in the idea that what humanity represses eventually resurfaces in monstrous form.
Not quite — this is from K-Pop Demon Hunters. It’s easy to guess Stranger Things here since the Upside Down has similar vibes, but K-Pop Demon Hunters distinguishes itself by framing its monsters as manifestations of buried history and cultural wounds rather than extradimensional invaders.
Which show contains the line: “The rules were never meant to protect us. They were meant to protect the people who made them.”
Correct! This line cuts to the heart of Squid Game’s central critique of capitalism and systemic inequality. The show’s entire premise is built on the idea that the powerful design games — and societies — in ways that guarantee their own survival at everyone else’s expense.
Not quite — this one is from Squid Game. One Piece also challenges corrupt authority figures like the World Government, but Squid Game delivers this message with raw, contemporary urgency. The show uses its brutal game format as a direct metaphor for economic systems rigged against the vulnerable.
Which show contains the line: “I’ve seen things in that lab that would make you stop believing in coincidence forever.”
Correct! This line belongs to Stranger Things, where Hawkins National Laboratory serves as the epicenter of government experimentation and supernatural horror. The show repeatedly frames the lab as a place where the boundaries of science and ethics were catastrophically crossed, changing everything for the town of Hawkins.
Not quite — this is from Stranger Things. While Dark also features scientific experiments with devastating consequences, the specific reference to ‘that lab’ points directly to Hawkins Lab, the shadowy government facility that accidentally tore open a gate to the Upside Down in season one.
Which show contains the line: “Smiling is the costume everyone wears before they show you who they really are.”
Correct! Classic Wednesday Addams. This line is from Wednesday, and it captures her signature suspicion of warmth and social performance perfectly. The show is full of her sharp, cynical observations about human behavior, delivered with the same flat affect that made the original character iconic.
Not quite — this is from Wednesday. Squid Game might seem like a strong guess since it’s all about masks and hidden motives, but this particular brand of dry, gothic cynicism belongs squarely to Wednesday Addams. Her entire character arc in the show involves learning — reluctantly — that not every smile hides a monster.
Which show contains the line: “Every stage you survive just means they’ve found a better way to kill you next time.”
Correct! This line is from Squid Game, where the escalating lethality of each game is both the show’s dramatic engine and its darkest joke. Contestants quickly learn that surviving one round is never cause for relief — the next challenge is always designed to be more psychologically and physically devastating.
Not quite — this one is from Squid Game. The show’s genius is in how it turns children’s games into elimination rounds with mounting dread. Stranger Things has its own escalating monster threats, but Squid Game makes the manufactured, deliberate cruelty of each new stage a core part of its social commentary.
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Season two sees the group head to Italy and, um, the Jersey Shore, where the passive-aggressive jabs, inside jokes, and petty grievances that only old friends can endure flow like wine. Season one has a 78% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
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The Wonderfools
A Korean superhero squad that’s not very super
Not since Ben Stiller’s superhero satire Mystery Men have we really seen a squad of semi-supers with deeply inconvenient powers quite like the ragtag crew in the Korean limited series The Wonderfools. The whimsically dry series set in the paranoia-driven days leading up to Y2K, centers around the small city of Haeseong, where a sinister government experiment and a mysterious waste site full of gross, toxic goo, has turned a handful of folks into “defective superhumans.”
Chief among them are Eun Chae-ni (Park Eun-bin), a young woman who can teleport, but can’t control where she goes, and Kang Ro-bin (Im Seong-jae), Chae-ni’s childhood friend, whose super strength only activates when his feelings have been hurt. They’re led by Lee Woon-jeong (Cha Eun-woo), a city employee from Seoul with telekinetic abilities who is trying to get to the bottom of the devious plot. The Wonderfools is wild, fast-paced, and wonderfully funny, earning it a perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Bad Thoughts
Comedian Tom Segura’s bizarre vignette show returns
Comedian Tom Segura’s Bad Thoughts is a sketch comedy show like nothing you’ve ever seen before. Season one’s six episodes of wacky vignettes where the comedian plays dozens of characters himself, was nominated for an Emmy (Outstanding Performer in a Short Form Comedy for Segura himself). With loose themes like “Jobs,” “Success,” “Family,” and “Health,” each 20-minute episode stitches together a series of off-the-wall short mini scenes from Segura’s twisted mind that play like little movies—in one, he’s a Bourne-like assassin, in another he’s a country singer mining people’s trauma for song ideas.
In season two, Segura brings dozens more characters to six more episodes, but this time he’s bringing some of his friends to help out, including Luke Wilson, Busy Philipps, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Lily Sullivan and Martha Kelly. Critics were divisive about season one, but the writing’s creativity and Segura’s commitment to the characters is commendable—and the Academy obviously thought so, too.
There’s still life left in May
As we get down to the bottom of the barrel for May (sometimes the best bits are down there) and await all the things coming in June, hopefully these three picks will get you through not just the weekend, but the last days of the month. If not, we’ve got all kinds of other roundups of shows and movies you can stream.
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Stephan is the sports journalist for the Maple Grove Report.
