What to Watch in May: 23 Notable TV Shows & Streaming Movies
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.
Comedic docuseries debuts May 19 on Netflix
Comedian Adam Conover, the host of the long-running (but now sadly defunct) truTV series Adam Ruins Everything, is back for a not dissimilar limited series for Netflix (produced by the Obamas' Higher Ground) in which he brings a comedic touch to an otherwise well-researched deep dive into a particular topic, debunking widely held beliefs along the way. Here, the topic for the entire series—that titular G word—is the American federal government, and how it impacts our everyday lives in often surprising ways. The series builds upon the recent book The Fifth Risk by The Big Short author Michael Lewis.
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