Now Streaming: Every Show to Add to Your Streaming Queue In May

In the modern world of entertainment, content can feel a little bit non-stop. There's always new things to watch, but a lot of it is better than ever. Each month, we're cutting through the streaming noise and helping you figure out what's worth bingeing on release day and what you can save for some downtime later in the year. Here are the new seasons and series we'll be watching in May.

Prefer something with a longer runtime? Check out our guide to the movies releasing in theatres and on streaming this month instead.

Euphoria: Season three — Drama, Thriller

HBO's award-winning series has returned after four long years, and its cast of characters has left high school far behind, moving on to bigger and stranger ways of life than they could have ever imagined. Rue (Zendaya) is finding faith and fending off Laurie (Martha Kelly) and other gangsters, Nate (Jacob Elordi) is married to Cassie (Sydney Sweeney), who is now an adult content creator, and Jules (Hunter Schafer) is in art school, living the high life of a sugar baby.

Streaming weekly on HBO Max now.

Margot's Got Money Troubles — Comedy, Family Drama

A24 and Apple have partnered to adapt Rufi Thorpe's bestselling novel, where college dropout and aspiring young writer Margot (Elle Fanning) finds her life and career to-be derailed by an unexpected pregnancy. Staring down an endless pile of bills and running out of patience for her parents' expectations (Nick Offerman and Michelle Pfeiffer), she turns to OnlyFans to earn the income she and her newborn baby so desperately need.

Streaming weekly on Apple TV now.

Hacks: Season five — Comedy, Feel-Good

For the last five years, we've watched the unlikely but hilarious partnership between aging comedy legend Deborah (Jean Smart) and her Gen Z head writer Ava (Hannah Einbinder). For every up, there's been a down, and for its final season — Deborah (still clearing up the confusion that she is not, in fact, dead) and Ava are all-in on making a legacy that no critic can deny. Contracts and non-competes be damned.

Streaming weekly on Stan now.

Beef: Season two — Thriller, Dark Comedy

You might have thought that Netflix's Steven Yeun and Ali Wong-starring dark comedy Beef was a one-and-done story of suburban life turned inside out by a dispute, aka beef. Turns out it's an anthology series now — with season two introducing a young couple (Cailee Spaeny and Charles Melton) who witness a fight between their boss (Oscar Isaac) and his wife (Carey Mulligan), triggering a four-dimensional chess match of favours, blackmail and beef in the world of an elitist billionaire-owned country club.

Streaming on Netflix now.

From: Season four — Mystery, Horror

Everyone loves a small town getaway, but when getting away from said small town is impossible — that holiday becomes a nightmare. That's what's happened in From, where a small town in America inexplicably won't let anyone leave, and every night the residents are hunted by supernatural horrors from the surrounding forest. In season four, the answers to their prison are closer than ever, but the residents will find their struggles to escape are becoming more dangerous by the day.

Streaming weekly on Stan now.

Half Man — Thriller, Drama

You might know Richard Gadd from his conversation-consuming Netflix series Baby Reindeer, but he's not done telling stories of uncomfortable relationships. In this new limited series, he is one half of a brotherly relationship, born of shared struggles, not blood. Niall (Jaime Bell) and Ruben (Gadd) were inseparable as kids, but when Ruben turns up at Niall's wedding, estranged and angry, a violent episode begins a retrospective journey through the fragments of their volatile 30-year history together.

Streaming weekly on Stan now.

Citadel: Season two — Action, Espionage

Watch Stanley Tucci don another kind of suave altogether after The Devil Wears Prada 2 when he steps back into the role of Bernard Orlick for the second season of Prime Video's spy series. On the back foot against a new threat, Orlick must reunite with his teammates, Mason (Richard Madden) and Nadia (Priyanka Chopra), to recruit new operatives and eliminate a global conspiracy before it reshapes the world.

Streaming weekly on Prime Video from Wednesday, May 6.

Devil May Cry: Season two — Animation, Action

Netflix's hit adaptation of the Capcom video game series is returning for a second season after the first's cliffhanger ending. Dante, half-human and half-demon now imprisoned by his enemies, just put a stop to Hell's plans of a demonic invasion of Earth, but you can't keep a demon down. With his once-dead twin brother now caught up in their schemes, Dante's going to have to take the fight to his enemies' infernal front door.

Streaming weekly on Netflix from Tuesday, May 12.

Good Omens: Season three — Buddy Comedy, Fantasy

The friendship of a million lifetimes is coming to an end. For angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and demon Crowley (David Tennant), there's been armageddon after armageddon to thwart, but their greatest challenge yet will also be their last. They had a chance to run away together, but Aziraphale now bears the duty of Supreme Archangel. They'll have to put aside their differences one more time, because there's yet another end times to cancel, and a certain second coming that surely won't go wrong in any way.

Streaming on Prime Video on Wednesday, May 13.

Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed — Thriller, Dark Comedy

Motherhood is a mystery. It's hard enough already for Paula (Tatiana Maslany). Divorce, custody battles, work, youth soccer, exercise, a kidnapping conspiracy that threatens to destroy her life, you know, the usual. Okay, the latter isn't typically what you'd call "usual", but she certainly watched something that looked a lot like a kidnapping. Is it a scam? Or can these people make good on the threats against her and her family? One way or another, she's going to find out.

Streaming weekly on Apple TV from Wednesday, May 20.

The Boroughs — Mystery, Sci-Fi

For grieving newcomer Sam (Alfred Molina), the idyllic retirement community of The Boroughs seems like it's not much more than a polished piece of desert where people come to die. But soon he finds community with a group of intrepid fellow retirees (Geena David, Alfre Woodard, Bill Pullman, Clarke Peters and Denis O'Hare), who discover this community hides an otherworldly secret that could steal the one thing they want more of: time. This new supernatural series comes from the Duffer Brothers, creators of Stranger Things, so expect enough mystery to fill the Hawkins-shaped hole in your heart.

Streaming on Netflix from Thursday, May 21.

Rick and Morty: Season nine — Animation, Comedy

What's one more quick adventure? Adult Swim's smash hit comedy has been gracing our screens with madcap science fiction and multiversal hijinks for the better part of 13 years now, and it's still going strong. For its ninth season, it promises to be AI-slop-free and 100 per cent A-grade human-made slop. Expect portals, explosions, killer furniture, kung fu, breakfast drugs and… well, this is Rick and Morty, so god knows what. Expect the unexpected.

Streaming weekly on HBO Max from Monday, May 25.

Spider-Noir — Superhero, Crime

If you've seen Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, you have some idea of what a detective noir version of Spider-Man can look like. While this is from the same creators and also stars Nicolas Cage, it's not the exact same spider seen in the 2018 film. Confusing right? Don't worry about it, just enjoy watching PI Ben Reilly (Nicolas Cage) solving crimes, swinging from rooftops, drinking egg creams and fighting nazis (and some old-timey spins on classic Spider-Man villains). You can choose to watch it either in black and white or colour, depending on how noir you want to go.

Streaming weekly on Prime Video from Wednesday, May 27.

Star City — Drama, Alternate History

A new spinoff series from Apple TV's For All Mankind, Star City turns back the clock to a pivotal moment in this alternate universe, when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. Peeling back the Iron Curtain, this new series reveals the cosmonauts, scientists, spies and politicians responsible for a momentous event that forever changed the course of history and launched the decades-long space race depicted in For All Mankind.

Streaming weekly on Apple TV from Friday, May 29.

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