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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83 The Kids in the Hall (2022): Season 1

Sketch comedy series debuts May 13 on Prime Video

Thirty Helens agree: This is good news for comedy fans. All five members of the original cast—Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson—return for a revival of one of the most beloved sketch comedy shows of all time. The original Kids in the Hall series, which evolved out of the comedy troupe's live performances, ran on Canada's CBC (with later airings in the States on HBO and CBS) for 102 episodes from 1988 to 1995, and the troupe has reunited for live tours, a feature film, and a Canadian miniseries in the years since. Now, Prime Video will be the home of eight all-new episodes of headcrushing fun that will find the quintet joined by an array of guests including Catherine O'Hara, Fred Armisen, Pete Davidson, Kenan Thompson, Will Forte, Tracee Ellis Ross, Jay Baruchel, Samantha Bee, and Eddie Izzard, among others. In addition, a two part documentary about the troupe, The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks, will stream on Prime Video beginning May 20.

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