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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tbd Wild Babies: Season 1

Documentary series debuts May 5 on Netflix

Are you a fan of recent nature documentary series like, say, the BBC's Planet Earth II and Blue Planet II, or Netflix's own Our Planet and Life in Color (the latter of which shares a production team with Wild Babies), and their lush high-definition photography and exotic locations? If so, you have probably noted a consistent flaw in all of them: not enough baby animals. Well, consider this a correction. Wild Babies consists exclusively of close-up footage of animal youngsters (think tiny elephants, turtles, penguins, bears, monkeys, lions, and more) in their native habitats around the globe, narrated by Helena Bonham Carter.

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