What to Watch in May: 23 Notable TV Shows & Streaming Movies

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – April 28, 2022

The month ahead will bring the returns of Stranger Things and Hacks, the latest Star Wars and Star Trek series, Danny Boyle's dramatization of the rise and fall of the Sex Pistols, an adaptation of another Sally Rooney novel from the team behind Normal People, a fictionalized remake of one of TV's best true-crime docuseries, 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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61 Candy: Season 1

Miniseries debuts May 9 on Hulu

Featuring an old-school miniseries rollout schedule with one new episode airing nightly across five consecutive nights, Hulu's true-crime series stars Jessica Biel (a replacement for the originally cast Elisabeth Moss) as Candy Montgomery, the 1980s suburban Texas housewife and mother who was living a seemingly comfortable life when she suddenly entered the headlines by murdering her friend Betty Gore (Melanie Lynskey) with an ax. Pablo Schreiber and Timothy Simons also star in the series, which comes from Robin Veith and Nick Antosca (The Act).

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