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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64 Conversations with Friends: Season 1

Drama series debuts May 15 on Hulu

The creative team behind Hulu's Emmy-nominated 2020 miniseries Normal People returns to tackle another book by Sally Rooney. Once again directed (in part) by Lenny Abrahamson and written (in part) by Alice Birch, the new 12-episode series adapts Rooney's first novel, which focuses on a pair of college students at Dublin's Trinity College—Frances (Alison Oliver) and her ex-girlfriend Bobbi (Sasha Lane)—and their complicated romantic relationships with an older married couple (Joe Alwyn, Jemima Kirke). Expect new music from Phoebe Bridgers in the series.

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