What to Watch in April: 21 Notable TV Shows & Streaming Movies

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – March 30, 2023

The month ahead will bring the concluding seasons of Barry and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, a new Netflix dark comedy that critics love, a globetrotting sci-fi series from the Russo brothers, series adaptations of Grease and Dead Ringers, and more. In the gallery on this page, our editors have selected the most interesting TV and movie titles debuting at home in the next month, listed in order by premiere date.

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74 The Afterparty: Season 2

Season 2 debuts April 28 on Apple TV+

Christopher Miller's genre-hopping murder mystery anthology series returns for a second season and a new case involving a wedding that is disrupted when the groom is murdered. (That did not happen at the rehearsal.) Three characters return from the first season: Tiffany Haddish's Det. Danner, Sam Richardson's Aniq, and Zoë Chao's Zoë. They're joined by Zach Woods, Elizabeth Perkins, John Cho, Poppy Liu, Ken Jeong, Anna Konkle, Jack Whitehall, Paul Walter Hauser, and Vivian Wu. Expect a similar format where each episode reveals a different character's viewpoint using a genre matched to that character. (Expect takes on a Wes Anderson indie film, a heist caper, a period costume drama, an erotic thriller, and more.) Two of those episodes stream on day one.

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