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.
Sci-fi series debuts May 5 on Paramount+
The newest live-action Star Trek series is a spinoff from Discovery that takes place aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise in the decade prior to Kirk's captaincy, when the crew is led by Anson Mount's Captain Pike. Also back from Discovery are Rebecca Romijn as Number One and Ethan Peck as Spock. New faces include Jess Bush (as Nurse Chapel), Celia Rose Gooding (as Uhura), Christina Chong (as the new character La'an Noonien-Singh, whose last name links her to the fan-favorite and occasionally wrathful Ricardo Montalbán character Khan Noonien Singh), Babs Olusanmokun (as Dr. M’Benga, a deep cut character from TOS), Melissa Navia, and Bruce Horak. Co-creator Akiva Goldsman has suggested that Strange New Worlds will be closer to Gene Roddenberry's original series in both tone and its episodic nature than other recent Star Trek titles. New episodes stream weekly, and a second season (which will feature Paul Wesley joining the cast as some guy named James T. Kirk) is already filming.
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