What to Watch in April: 24 Notable TV Shows & Streaming Movies
The month ahead will bring the long-awaited returns of critic favorites Better Call Saul, Russian Doll, and Barry, a series adaptation of The Man Who Fell to Earth, new films from Judd Apatow and Richard Linklater, a new Michael Mann-directed crime drama, David Simon's latest HBO miniseries, and more. In the gallery on this page, our editors have selected the most interesting TV and movie titles debuting at home throughout April, listed in order by premiere date.
Season 6 (part one) debuts April 18 on AMC and AMC+
The good news: After a two-year wait—the result of both the pandemic and star Bob Odenkirk's on-set heart attack, from which he is now fully recovered—the final season of one of TV's most-acclaimed dramas finally arrives in a few weeks, and the season has been expanded from 10 to 13 episodes. The bad news: You'll only get to see half of the season this spring, as the concluding episodes won't begin airing until July 11. (Really, it's just a trick to get Emmy nominations in two different years for the same season.) Few plot details are known so far, but we do know that Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan was more involved in the writing process for season 6 than he has been since early in Saul's third season. And when Jonathan Banks, as Mike Ehrmantraut, says at the end of the season 6 trailer, "Whatever happens next, it's not gonna go down the way you think it is," it seems like a warning to fans who are already trying to jump to conclusions about events in the upcoming episodes and how they tie into Breaking Bad.
Still need to catch up on past episodes on Netflix? Season 5 of Better Call Saul will finally (!) make its way to that streaming service on April 4.
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