What to Watch in May: 18 Notable TV Shows & Streaming Movies

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – April 28, 2023

The month ahead will bring a reunion of recent Oscar winners in a new Disney+ series, a new Pete Davidson comedy, a promising sci-fi series from Apple, the latest animated series from Genndy Tartakovsky, a new Bridgerton spinoff, 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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67 High Desert: Season 1

Comedy series debuts May 17 on Apple TV+

Patricia Arquette plays a recovering addict turned unlikely private investigator in the small California desert town of Yucca Valley in a dark comedy created by a pair of Nurse Jackie writers, Nancy Fichman and Jennifer Hoppe, along with Miss Congeniality co-writer Katie Ford. Rupert Friend, Bernadette Peters, Matt Dillon, and Brad Garrett also star. Jay Roach (Austin Powers, Meet the Parents)—a late replacement for Ben Stiller, who remains as a producer—directs all eight episodes, the first three of which stream on day one.

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