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.

15 of 20 photo by Disney/Carlos Lopez-Calleja

73 American Born Chinese: Season 1

Dramedy series debuts May 24 on Disney+

Reuniting the stars of Everything Everywhere All at Once—including recent Oscar winners Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan plus Oscar nominee Stephanie Hsu—the Disney+ action-comedy series American Born Chinese is an adaptation of the graphic novel of the same name and follows high school student Jim Wang whose encounter with a new exchange student unexpectedly finds him caught in a war between Chinese mythological gods. The series adaptation comes from writer/actor Kelvin Yu and also stars Ben Wang, Yeo Yann Yann, and Poppy Liu (plus guest appearances from Ronny Chieng and Jimmy O. Yang), while Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang-Chi) directs.

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