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“The Idea of You,” “Scrublands,” “The Big Cigar” and “Hacks” are streaming.
By Noël Murray
Every month, streaming services upload videos and TV shows to their library. Here’s our pick of some of May’s most promising new titles. (Note: Streaming services replace their schedules without notice. For more recommendations on what to share, sign up for our View newsletter here. )
New on Amazon Prime Video
‘The Idea of You’ Begins May 2
Anne Hathaway plays a middle-aged woman on a wild adventure around the world with a new lover in this romantic comedy-drama, based on the best-selling novel by Robinne Lee. Hathaway plays Solene, who accompanies her teenage daughter to Coachella, where she meets and discovers an instant relationship with Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine), a 24-year-old singer in a popular boy band. The film’s director, Michael Showalter, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Jennifer Westfeldt, showed a knack for combining understated humor with realistic date angst in his films “The Big Sick” and “Spoiler Alert. “So while “The Idea of You” features other fabulous people and catchy songs, it’s more often about how the two leads are real. Mutual preference is helping them face uncomfortable public scrutiny.
Also arriving:
May 9 “The GOAT” Season 1 “Maxton Hall: The World Between Us”
May Season 2 of “Outer Range”
May 23 “The Blue Angels” “The 1% Club”
May 24 “Sunday”
May 31 Season 3 of “The Outlaws”
Season 1 of “Scrublands” begins airing on May 2.
In the first series of this Sundance Now mystery series, a priest (Jay Ryan) in a ruined town in the Australian outback pulls out a gun after Sunday and kills five of his parishioners. A year later, an exhausted investigative journalist (Luke Arnold) is tasked with writing a short article about how the network is recovering from trauma. But thanks to a helpful local (Bella Heathcote), the reporter soon realizes that the official story about what happened that Sunday may be wrong. Based on a novel written by Chris Hammer and directed by Greg McLean (best known for the Australian horror film “Wolf Creek”), the temperamental and curvaceous “Scrublands” tells the story of a town with dark secrets and a guy who puts his life and career on the line to divulge them.
Also arriving:
May “Skeletons in the Closet”
May 12 “Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire” Season 2
May 13
“Harry Wild” Season 3
May 15
“In the Kitchen with Harry Hamlin” Season 1
May 17 “The Night Watch: Demons Are Eternal”
May 27 “The Truth”
May 31 “Stopmotion”
“Dark Matter” Begins Streaming: May 8
Based on a novel by Blake Crouch (who also serves as showrunner of the series), this mind-bending sci-fi mystery stars Joel Edgerton as Jason, a physics instructor who lives a fulfilling life with his wife (Jennifer Connelly) and teenage son (Oakes). Fegley). When Jason is attacked one night by a masked stranger, he finds himself transported to a world of exchange where he has no wife or child, but enjoys the kind of prestigious reputation that his brilliant scientist brother (Jimmi Simpson) has enjoyed. After his initial disorientation, Jason is faced with a choice: settle for this new edition of himself being who he was meant to be, or use his wisdom of quantum theory and interdimensional travel to embark on a quest through infinity. worlds, to locate his way back to his family.
“The Big Cigar” Begins Airing: May 17
Gorgeous actor André Holland plays Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton in “The Big Cigar,” which tells the bizarre but more commonly true story of his friendship with politically progressive Hollywood maker Bert Schneider (Alessandro Nivola). When Newton was wanted for murder, Schneider allegedly helped him escape to Cuba, employing a fake film production as a cover. The miniseries recreates the euphoria of the early 1970s, when artistic, social, and cultural movements were in stark opposition to the establishment. This ancient drama is based on a magazine article by journalist Joshuah Bearman, whose paintings in the past encouraged the Oscar-winning film “Argo,” a similar story about the collision of the worlds of show business and politics.
Also arriving:
May 1 “Acapulco” Season 3
May 8
“Hollywood Con Queen”
May 22 “Testing” Season 4
“Jim Henson Idea Man” Premiere: May 31
Jim Henson will be remembered for creating the Muppets, which have been highly regarded since their television debut in 1955. But Henson was also a filmmaker, visual artist, and businessman savvy enough to use the publicity appeal of his creations to fund his project. ambitious projects, most of which were made to celebrate the warmer aspect of the human spirit. For the documentary “Jim Henson Idea Man,” director Ron Howard and his team had extensive access to Henson’s archives. The film combines archival clips from the Muppets with footage from rare home movies and journal entries, as well as behind-the-scenes photographs and sketches and new interviews with some of Henson’s collaborators, to tell the story of a visionary who built an empire out of thrills and thrills.
Also arriving:
May “Star Wars: Tales of the Empire”
May 5 “Monsters at Work” Season 2
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May 10 Season 14 of “Doctor Who”
May 22 Season 2 of “Chip ‘n’ Dale: Park Life”
May 24 “The Beach Boys”
Premiere of “The Contestant”: May 2
In 1998, an aspiring comedian named Tomoaki Hamatsu, nicknamed Nasubi, the Japanese word for eggplant, because of his long face, won the chance to participate in an excessive game show. Locked in a spartan apartment and naked, Nasubi was challenged to see what he could win in mail-order contests advertised in magazines. Unbeknownst to him, his ordeal was broadcast to an extremely joyful nation. Clair Titley’s documentary “The Contestant” looks at Nasubi’s year of deprivation and isolation, which was presented to television audiences as a hilarious and moving adventure. The truth, of course, was much more complicated, as Titley explains in a film that examines how reality TV enthusiasts can rarely forget that they are hunting down and judging genuine people.
Also arriving:
May 1 “Elvis” Season 1 “Shardlake”
May 2 Season 3 of “Welcome to Wrexham”
May “Dance Dates”
May 7 « Billy
May “In Limbo” Season 1
May 9 “Black Twitter: The Story of a People”
May 10 “Biosphere” “Eileen” “Lies Past” Season 1
May 12 “Where the Crawfish Sing”
May 14 Season 1 of “The Killing Kind”
May 15 Season 1 of “Uncle Samsik”
May 17 “Birth/Rebirth” “The Sweet East”
May 22: “Chief Detective 1958” Season 1
May 24 “Ferrari”
The third season of ‘Hacks’ begins airing on May 2
The first two seasons of the comedy-drama “Hacks” followed codependent dates between a self-indulgent comedian, Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), and cynical, self-sabotaging comedian Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder), hired to help. uploads a borde. al Deborah’s act in The Vegas. La season 2 ended with the girls breaking up after running together in a hit comedy special; however, they reunite in Season 3 when Deborah plans to right old wrongs by taking on a job as the host of a late-night TV show. “Hacks” is about the highly variable values of two other generations of actors. It’s also about two women who have done a lot of pain in their lives and now rely on each other to help with the cleanup.
Also arriving:
May 2 “Turtles to the End”
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May 9 “Pretty Little Liars: Summer School”
May 10
“The Iron Claw”
May “Nikki Glaser: One Day You Will Die”
May 20 “Stax: Soulsville U. S. A. “
May 23 “Thirst with Shay Mitchell”
May 29 “MoviePass, Moviecrash”
“Evil” Season Begins Airing May 23
One of the weirdest and most entertaining TV dramas comes to an end with its final season, in which its demon-hunting heroes face off against satanic cults and bathing demons. Katja Herbers returns as Dr. Kristen Bouchard, a forensic psychologist who works with Catholic priest David Acosta (Mike Colter) and tech genius Ben Shakir (Aasif Mandvi) to investigate paranormal phenomena. The painting pits them against the mysterious and mischievous sociopath Dr. Leland Townsfinish (Michael Emerson). Created by Michelle and Robert King (the team behind “The Good Fight” and “Elsbeth”), “Evil” is an ingenious and genuinely creepy horror procedure, questioning whether the evil of global fashion is supernatural in nature or simply a case of humans being human.
Also arriving:
May 1 Season 2 of “Behind the Music”
May 7 “Embrace the Future”
May 10 “The Chi” Season 6, Part 2
May 14 “Pillowcase Murders”
May 17 “Mourning in Lod” “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” Season Nine “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars: Untucked” Season Nine
May 21 “LOLLA: The Story of Lollapalooza”
May 30 “Pyramid Game”
“The Tattoo Artist of Auschwitz” begins airing May 2
In this ancient drama based on a true story, an older Jewish woman named Lali Sokolov (Harvey Keitel) reunites with aspiring writer Heather Morris (Melanie Lynskey) to tell her a story she had kept to herself for most of her life: all about how she survived Auschwitz by helping her captors. Based on the e-book Morris produced from interviews with Sokolov, a combination of unflinching Holocaust testimonies and page-turning fiction, “The Auschwitz Tattoo Artist” depicts the ethical commitments necessary to suffer an atrocity. But it’s also an unlikely love story, unfolding between Lali (played by Jonah Hauer-King in the flashbacks) and Gita (Anna Prochniak), a woman he befriends while getting her arm tattooed.
“We Are Lady Parts” Premiere: May 30
One of Peacock’s most sensible foreign TV acquisitions, this British comedy is the brainchild of writer-director Nida Manzoor, whose paintings are encouraged by her love of pop culture and growing up in a Pakistani Muslim family. Last year, he released his first feature film. ” Polite Society,” a martial arts comedy; and now Manzoor returns with a second season of the glorious “We Are Lady Parts,” starring Anjana Vasan as Amina, an idiotic, observant Muslim student who joins an all-female and Muslim radical punk band. In Season 1, this eclectic all-girl organization has become a cult hit. In Season 2, they get a chance to record an album and expand their audience, but they don’t know if that’s what they want.
Also arriving:
May “The American Society of Magical Negroes”
May 7 “Eurovision Song Contest 2024”
May 9 Season 1 of “Love Undercover”
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