Each month, the streaming service adds movies and TV shows to the library. Below are some of the most promising new titles for May: (Note: Streaming services may change schedules without notification. For more information about streaming, please sign up for our viewing newsletter.)
New features in Amazon Prime Video
“Overcompensation” Season 1
Streaming starts: May 15th
Comedian and creator of social media content, Benito Skinner is both a star and a star created in this gross campus comedy, hiding their actual personality and desires about the newcomers trying to fit with their peers desperately. Skinner plays Benny, a former high school athlete who doesn't want his family or classmates (or himself) to realize he is gay. On the first day of college, Benny meets Carmen (Wally Balam). Their bond quickly deepens, but while Carmen thinks he's just met his next boyfriend, Benny thinks he's found someone who can pretend to be his girlfriend. “Overcompensation” is set in a wide comic version of university life where everyone is sexual and plagued by status. However, Skinner also sincerely explores what it is like for young people to use their new environment to reinvent themselves.
“Better Sister”
Streaming starts: May 29th
The twisted miniseries stars Jessica Biel as Chloe, a rich New York City media mogul who calls police officers from her family's summer home, after her husband Adam (Corry Stoll). While murder detectives Nancy (Kim Dickens) and Matt (Bobby Nadeli) are investigating the crime, Chloe appears to be unusually interested in keeping them learning about certain aspects of her life, like a tense relationship with her sister Nicky (Elizabeth Banks). A reckless, free spirit, Nicky is the source of Adam and the biological mother of Adam and Chloe's teenage son, Ethan (Maxwell Ace Donovan). According to Olivia Milch and Regina Corrado, “The Better Sister” (based on the novel by Alafair Burke) is both a mystery that involves studying the rivalry between many red herrings and sad brothers.
Arrived again:
May 1st
“Another simple favor”
May 6th
“David Spade: Dandelion”
May 8th
“Octopus!”
May 20th
“Motorhead” Season 1
May 22nd
“Earnhardt”
May 27th
“The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy” Season 2
New features on Apple TV+
“A Hearing President now!”
Streaming starts: May 16th
In 1988, students at Galadette University painted international headlines when the university closed for a week, angeringly refused to appoint yet another hearing president. For the documentary “President of the Deaf Now!”, Oscar-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim (“The Inconvenient Truth”) and co-director Nyle Dimarco (Gallaudet alumni) rarely saw footage of student shots of those protests, and thus combined news clips, re-creations and new interviews from the camp. The film captivates pivotal moments in civil rights history, doubles as a fascinating political thriller, combining the details of the demonstrations with the days and how these brave young adults piece together the tide of public opinion.
“MurderBot” Season 1
Streaming starts: May 16th
Based on Martha Wells' “Murder Ball” series, the science fiction comedy stars Alexander Scars Guard as a cyborg who knows how to override programming. Secretly named the Murderer, the unit initially plans to kill all nearby humans and escape freely. However, when assigned to work security for the hippie dippie scientific commune, the new boss looks helpless and harmless. The TV series creators, brothers Chris and Paul Weitz, hold the surprising plot and futuristic action that made Wells' book a favorite of genre fans. They also retain the unique personality of heroes that feel disrupted by human emotions.
Arrived again:
May 23rd
“The Young People's Fountain”
May 30th
“Bono: The Tale of Summit”
“Lulu is a sai.”
New Disney+ features
“Italian Tucci”
Streaming starts: May 19th
Actor Stanley Tucci added “Host of Popular Travel Shows” to his resume when CNN debuted “Stanley Tucci: Search for Italy” in 2021. Two seasons after that show, Tucci is now doing his acts to National Geographic for a similar “Italian Tucci” (available also on Disney+ and Hulu). Like his predecessor, the new series discovers that Tucci is eating his paths across the country, spending time on restaurants as well as farms, ranches, dairy and fishing, talking to people who continue their centuries-old culinary traditions. The hosts bring all these stunning images of pasta dishes and lush landscapes into context, helping to explain the history behind the food.
Arrived again:
May 1st
“Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse”
May 2nd
“Ginghis Khan: The Secret History of Mongolia”
May 4th
“Star Wars: The Edge of the Galaxy”
“Star Wars: The Rise of Resistance”
“Star Wars: The Underworld Story”
May 11th
“The Secret of the Zoo: Below” Season 5
May 20th
“Minnie's Bow-tons: Pet Hotel” Season 1
May 23rd
“It appears to be dead.”
New to Hulu
“Summer 69”
Streaming starts: May 9th
In this sweet, sexually outspoken high school comedy, Abby Flores plays a socially nasty senior who decides to connect with the long-time Crash (Matt Cornett) before graduation. Not entirely experienced in the art of love, she hires a savvy stripper named Santa Monica (Chloe Feynman) to teach her how to become more confident. Eventually, the two become friends and move beyond the stupid superficiality of business transactions, helping each other and realizing some deeper truths. Gillian Bell, director of “Summer 69,” pilots the cast of skilled comedians (including Paula Perle, Nicole Byer, Natalie Morales and Charlie Day) with a heartfelt respect for sexy '80s films.
“Adult” Season 1
Streaming starts: May 29th
The comedy follows a group of young people who live and work in New York, followed by a well-slow path of shows like “friends” and “girls.” The core cast (Malik Elassal, Lucy Freyer, Jack Innanen, Amita Rao, Owen Thiele) consists of the relative unknowns. This is not uncommon for projects of this type. “Adults” co-creators Ben Cronengold and Rebecca Shaw write partners who worked on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,” but offer lightly and absurd riffs on common 20's issues, including staying ahead in the office, becoming popular on social media and navigating everyday adult responsibilities.
Arrived again:
May 2nd
“Pitahole”
May 7th
“Aguero's kun”
May 15th
“The Secret Life of a Mormon Wife” Season 2
May 16th
“Matte O Lane: Al Dente Special”
“Welcome” Season 4
May 21st
“Nine Perfect Strangers” Season 2
“9 puzzles”
May 23rd
“The Last Showgirl”
May 27th
“Sacred Fig Seed”
Max is new
“Duster” Season 1
Streaming starts: May 15th
Set primarily in Arizona in 1972, this high-energy crime drama stars Josh Holloway as Jim Ellis, a skilled driver who runs legally in one of the most powerful crime groups in the US Southwest. Rachel Hilson plays Nina Hayes, a rookie FBI agent and the station's first black woman. When Nina leverages Jim, she puts pressure on him to become an informant. Soon they both get in danger – not only from the gang, but also from the FBI's prejudiced boys club where Latoya Morgan and JJ Abrams are COCREATED, “Duster” (named after Jim's Cherry Red Muscle Car) has the retro feel of a 70's detective show, but is an HBO-level lattice of adult content.
“Peeing wee as himself”
Streaming starts: May 23rd
Before Paul Rubens' death in 2023, the performance artist and comedian are best known to the world as the host of the Anti-Child Children's Show, Pee Wee Herman, sat down for more than 40 hours of interviews with documentary filmmaker Matt Wolf. Always a private person, Rubens spoke for the first time about his childhood, early in show business, his reaction to becoming an internationally known star, and the scandal that derailed his career. Through the nearly four-hour two-part “Pee-Wee,” Rubens often rebels against the whole idea of revealing himself very openly in documentaries, but always with a pack-like smile, he doesn't make it clear whether he's really upset or simply difficult. As a result, there are profiles of celebrities with rivets. There, the subject's competing agenda controls what people know about him and creates funny tensions when they are completely honest.
Arrived again:
May 1st
“100-Foot Waves” Season 3
May 2nd
“Adult Best Friend”
May 8th
“Conan O'Brien has to go” Season 2
May 16th
“Brutalist”
May 24th
“Jerrod Carmichael: Don't be gay.”
May 29th
“And just like that…” Season 3
May 31st
“Mountain Head”
I've never been a peacock
“Poker Face” Season 2
Streaming starts: May 8th
Season 1 of this clever comic mystery series was an obvious throwback to classic 60s and 70s television shows such as “The Fugitive” and “Columbo.” There hasn't been much change in Season 2. Season 2 continues in “This Week's Case” format, featuring a guest star that is gaining attention. (In episodes this season, Cynthia Eribo, John Cho, Aria Shokat, Giancarlo Esposito, David Alan Greer, John Mulany, awkwafina and more will work.
Arrived again:
May 2nd
“Black Bag”
May 9th
“Love hurts”
May 14th
“Joan Rivers: A Dead Funny All-Star Debate – Expansion and Uncensored”
