Each month, streaming providers add films and TV reveals to its library. Listed here are our picks for a few of Might’s most promising new titles. (Observe: Streaming providers often change schedules with out giving discover. For extra suggestions on what to stream, join our Watching e-newsletter right here.)
New to Amazon Prime Video
‘The Concept of You’
Begins streaming: Might 2
Anne Hathaway performs a middle-age lady on a wild, globe-hopping journey with a brand new lover on this romantic dramedy, based mostly on Robinne Lee’s best-selling novel. Hathaway stars as Solène, who accompanies her teenage daughter to Coachella, the place she meets and discovers an immediate rapport with Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine), a 24-year-old lead singer of a mega-popular boy band. The film’s director, Michael Showalter — who additionally co-wrote the screenplay with Jennifer Westfeldt — has proven a facility with mixing low-key humor and practical relationship angst in his movies “The Massive Sick” and “Spoiler Alert.” So whereas “The Concept of You” options fabulous-looking individuals and catchy songs, it’s largely about how the 2 leads’ real craving for one another helps them stand up to some uncomfortable public scrutiny.
Additionally arriving:
Might 9
“The GOAT” Season 1
“Maxton Corridor: The World Between Us”
Might 16
“Outer Vary” Season 2
Might 23
“The Blue Angels”
“The 1% Membership”
Might 24
“Dom”
Might 31
“The Outlaws” Season 3
New to AMC+
‘Scrublands’ Season 1
Begins streaming: Might 2
Within the opening sequence of this Sundance Now thriller sequence, a priest (Jay Ryan) in a run-down Australian Outback city pulls out a rifle after Sunday providers and kills 5 of his congregants. One 12 months later, a burned-out investigative journalist (Luke Arnold) is assigned to put in writing a brief article about how the group is recovering from the trauma. However because of a useful native (Bella Heathcote), the reporter rapidly realizes that the official story about what occurred that Sunday could also be mistaken. Based mostly on a Chris Hammer novel and directed by Greg McLean (best-known for the Aussie horror basic “Wolf Creek”), the moody and twisty “Scrublands” is a few city with darkish secrets and techniques and a person who dangers his life and profession to reveal them.
Additionally arriving:
Might 3
“Skeletons within the Closet”
Might 12
“Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire” Season 2
Might 13
“Harry Wild” Season 3
Might 15
“Within the Kitchen With Harry Hamlin” Season 1
Might 17
“Nightwatch: Demons Are Without end”
Might 27
“The Fact”
Might 31
“Stopmotion”
New to Apple TV+
‘Darkish Matter’
Begins streaming: Might 8
Based mostly on a novel by Blake Crouch (who additionally serves because the sequence’ showrunner), this trippy science fiction thriller stars Joel Edgerton as Jason, a physics professor who has a cheerful life along with his spouse (Jennifer Connelly) and their teenage son (Oakes Fegley). When Jason is attacked one evening by a masked stranger, he finds himself transported to an alternate actuality the place he has no spouse and no son — however the place he does have the sort of prestigious status that his good scientist brother (Jimmi Simpson) has at all times loved. As soon as he shakes off the preliminary disorientation, Jason faces a selection: to just accept that this new model of himself is who he was at all times meant to be, or to make use of his data of quantum concept and inter-dimensional journey to embark on a quest by means of infinite worlds, to seek out his method again to his household.
‘The Massive Cigar’
Begins streaming: Might 17
The magnificent actor André Holland performs the Black Panther Celebration founder Huey P. Newton in “The Massive Cigar,” which tells the unusual however largely true story of his friendship with the politically progressive Hollywood producer Bert Schneider (Alessandro Nivola). When Newton was needed for homicide, Schneider reportedly helped him escape to Cuba, utilizing a pretend film manufacturing as a canopy. The mini-series recreates the headiness of the early Nineteen Seventies, when numerous inventive, social and cultural actions had been pushing arduous towards the institution. This historic drama is predicated on {a magazine} article by the reporter Joshuah Bearman, whose work beforehand impressed the Oscar-winning film “Argo,” an identical story concerning the worlds of showbiz and politics colliding.
Additionally arriving:
Might 1
“Acapulco” Season 3
Might 8
“Hollywood Con Queen”
Might 22
“Attempting” Season 4
New to Disney+
‘Jim Henson Concept Man’
Begins streaming: Might 31
Jim Henson will at all times be remembered for creating the Muppets, which have been beloved since they debuted on tv in 1955. However Henson was additionally a filmmaker, a visible artist, and a businessman shrewd sufficient to make use of the industrial enchantment of his creations to bankroll his extra formidable tasks, most of which had been made to have fun to the hotter facet of the human spirit. For the documentary “Jim Henson Concept Man,” the director Ron Howard and his workforce had been allowed in depth entry to the Henson archives. The movie combines archival clips of the Muppets with uncommon home-movie footage and diary entries — together with behind-the-scenes pictures and sketches and new interviews with a few of Henson’s collaborators — to inform the story of a visionary who constructed an empire out of emotions and felt.
Additionally arriving:
Might 4
“Star Wars: Tales of the Empire”
Might 5
“Monsters at Work” Season 2
Might 8
“Let It Be”
Might 10
“Physician Who” Season 14
Might 22
“Chip ’n’ Dale: Park Life” Season 2
Might 24
“The Seashore Boys”
New to Hulu
‘The Contestant’
Begins streaming: Might 2
In 1998, an aspiring comic named Tomoaki Hamatsu — nicknamed Nasubi, the Japanese phrase for eggplant, due to his lengthy face — gained the chance to compete on an excessive sort of recreation present. Locked in a spartan house and stripped bare, Nasubi was challenged to outlive off no matter he may win from mail-in contests marketed in magazines. Unbeknown to him, his ordeal was broadcast to a rapt nation. Clair Titley’s documentary “The Contestant” appears to be like again at Nasubi’s 12 months of deprivation and isolation, which was framed for the TV viewers as a hilarious and heartwarming journey. The reality, in fact, was way more difficult, which Titley covers in a movie that examines how followers of actuality TV can generally neglect they’re watching — and judging — actual individuals.
Additionally arriving:
Might 1
“Elvis”
“Shardlake” Season 1
Might 2
“Welcome to Wrexham” Season 3
Might 3
“Promenade Dates”
Might 7
“Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story”
Might 8
“In Limbo” Season 1
Might 9
“Black Twitter: A Folks’s Historical past”
Might 10
“Biosphere”
“Eileen”
“Previous Lies” Season 1
Might 12
“The place the Crawdads Sing”
Might 14
“The Killing Sort” Season 1
Might 15
“Uncle Samsik” Season 1
Might 17
“Beginning/Rebirth”
“The Candy East”
Might 22
“Chief Detective 1958” Season 1
Might 24
“Ferrari”
New to Max
‘Hacks’ Season 3
Begins streaming: Might 2
The primary two seasons of the dramedy “Hacks” adopted the codependent relationship between a complacent stand-up comedian, Deborah Vance (Jean Sensible), and the cynical, self-sabotaging comedy author Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder), employed to assist add edge to Deborah’s Las Vegas act. Season 2 ended with the women parting methods after working collectively on successful comedy particular; however they reunite in Season 3 as Deborah makes plans to proper some outdated wrongs by touchdown a gig as a late-night speak present host. “Hacks” is concerning the generally wildly various values of two completely different generations of comedians. It’s additionally about two ladies who’ve made lots of messes of their lives — and have come to depend on one another to assist with the cleanup.
Additionally arriving:
Might 2
“Turtles All of the Manner Down”
Might 3
“Cease Making Sense”
Might 9
“Fairly Little Liars: Summer season Faculty”
Might 10
“The Iron Claw”
Might 11
“Nikki Glaser: Sometime You’ll Die”
Might 20
“Stax: Soulsville U.S.A.”
Might 23
“Thirst with Shay Mitchell”
Might 29
“MoviePass, Moviecrash”
New to Paramount+
‘Evil’ Season 4
Begins streaming: Might 23
One among TV’s most uncommon and entertaining dramas involves an finish with its newest season, which finds its demon-hunting heroes coping with satanic cults and satan infants. Katja Herbers returns as Dr. Kristen Bouchard, a forensic psychologist who works alongside the Catholic priest David Acosta (Mike Colter) and the tech whiz Ben Shakir (Aasif Mandvi) to research paranormal phenomena. The job steadily places them at odds with the mysterious sociopath and impish mischief-maker Dr. Leland Townsend (Michael Emerson). Created by Michelle and Robert King (the workforce behind “The Good Battle” and “Elsbeth”), “Evil” is a witty and infrequently genuinely creepy horror procedural, which considers whether or not the fashionable world’s wickedness is supernatural in nature or only a case of people being people.
Additionally arriving:
Might 1
“Behind the Music” Season 2
Might 7
“Kiss the Future”
Might 10
“The Chi” Season 6, Half 2
Might 14
“Pillowcase Murders”
Might 17
“Mourning in Lod”
“RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” Season 9
“RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars: Untucked” Season 9
Might 21
“LOLLA: The Story of Lollapalooza”
Might 30
“Pyramid Sport”
New to Peacock
‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’
Begins streaming: Might 2
On this historic drama based mostly on a real story, an older Jew named Lali Sokolov (Harvey Keitel) meets recurrently with the aspiring creator Heather Morris (Melanie Lynskey) to inform her a narrative he had beforehand saved to himself, for nearly his total life: all about how he survived Auschwitz by making himself helpful to his jailers. Based mostly on the guide that the real-life Morris produced from interviews with Sokolov — a mix of unflinching Holocaust testimony and page-turning fiction — “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” portrays the ethical compromises required to endure an atrocity. But it surely’s additionally about an unlikely love affair, which develops between Lali (performed by Jonah Hauer-King in flashbacks) and Gita (Anna Prochniak), a lady he befriends whereas he’s tattooing her arm.
‘We Are Girl Elements’
Begins streaming: Might 30
One among Peacock’s greatest international TV acquisitions, this British sitcom is the brainchild of the writer-director Nida Manzoor, whose work attracts on her love of popular culture and her experiences rising up in a Pakistani Muslim household. Final 12 months she launched her debut characteristic movie “Well mannered Society,” a martial arts comedy; and now Manzoor returns with a second season of the great “We Are Girl Elements,” which stars Anjana Vasan as Amina, a dorky faculty pupil and observant Muslim who joins a radical all-female, all-Muslim punk band. In Season 1, this eclectic group of women grew to become a cult success. In Season 2, they’ve a chance to document an album and develop their viewers however discover themselves not sure if that’s what they really need.
Additionally arriving:
Might 3
“The American Society of Magical Negroes”
Might 7
“Eurovision Track Contest 2024”
Might 9
“Love Undercover” Season 1
