I’ll be doing a big preview of HBO MAX when/if they reveal a full list of what will be available at launch. This post will cover the Big Three (Netflix, Hulu, Prime).
FILMS
Top Picks
Inferno – Prime 5/1
Monster House – Hulu 5/1
Uncut Gems – Netflix 5/25
Some intense selections this month. Inferno is Dario Argento’s sequel to Suspiria. Obviously it can’t compete (especially in the music department), but its production design and pure batshit plot are up there.
Monster House is the rightful Best Animated Feature winner from 2006, which riffs on It and presages Stranger Things, with its kids-on-bikes and haunted house story.
And finally, after it premiered internationally on the service, A24’s highest-grossing movie comes to U.S. Netflix. It’s got an incredible performance by Sandler, a high-wire plot and extremely high meme potential.
Recent Selections
Arctic Dogs – Netflix 5/4
The Hustle – Prime 5/7
The Goldfinch – Prime 5/8
Spaceship Earth – Hulu 5/8
Seberg – Prime 5/15
Trial by Fire – Hulu and Prime 5/19
Rocketman – Hulu and Prime 5/22
Premature – Hulu 5/22
Top End Wedding – Hulu 5/22
Painter and the Thief – Hulu 5/22
Come to Daddy – Prime 5/23
Ne Zha – Netflix 5/25
Norm of the North: Family Vacation – Netflix 5/25
The Tracker – Hulu and Prime 5/25
I Still Believe – Hulu 5/26
Disappearance at Clifton Hill – Hulu 5/29
High Strung Free Dance – Netflix 5/31
Originals
All Day and a Night – Netflix 5/1
Get In – Netflix 5/1
The Half of It – Netflix 5/1
Mrs. Serial Killer – Netflix 5/1
18 regali – Netflix 5/8
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics – Netflix 5/11
The Wrong Missy – Netflix 5/13
I Love You, Stupid – Netflix 5/15
Ben Platt: Live from Radio City Music Hall – Netflix 5/20
Rebelión de los Godinez – Netflix 5/20
The Lovebirds – Netflix 5/20
I’m No Longer Here – Netflix 5/27
La Corozonada – Netflix 5/28
The Vast of Night – Prime 5/29
NEW SHOWS & SPECIALS
Top Picks
The Eddy (Season 1) – Netflix 5/8
Homecoming (Season 2) – Prime 5/22
The former is Damien Chazelle’s Paris-set miniseries starring Andre Holland and Joanna Kulig. Two of the most beautiful people in the world in one of the major cities of the world? That’s all I need to know, even if I wasn’t a Chazelle superfan (which I am).
The latter is the second season of Amazon’s excellent podcast adaptation. Only Hong Chau and Stephan James remain from the first season, with Janelle Monae as the newest woman with a fuzzy memory.
Originals
Casi Feliz (Season 1) – Netflix 5/1
Go! Go! Cory Carson: The Chrissy – Netflix 5/1
Hollywood – Netflix 5/1
Medici: The Magnificent (Part 2) – Netflix 5/1
Reckoning (Season 1) – Netflix 5/1
Upload – Prime 5/1
Workin’ Moms (Season 4) – Netflix 5/6
Scissor Seven (Season 2) – Netflix 5/7
Chico Bon Bon: Monkey with a Tool Belt – Netflix 5/8
Dead to Me (Season 2) – Netflix 5/8
The Hollow (Season 2) – Netflix 5/8
Into the Dark: Delivered – Hulu 5/8
Restaurants on the Edge (Season 2) – Netflix 5/8
Rust Valley Restorers (Season 2) – Netflix 5/8
Solar Opposites (Season 1) – Hulu 5/8
Valeria – Netflix 5/8
Bordertown (Season 3) – Netflix 5/11
Trial by Media – Netflix 5/11
True: Terrific Tales – Netflix 5/12
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend – Netflix 5/12
Chichipatos (Season 1) – Netflix 5/15
The Great – Hulu 5/15
Inhuman Resources – Netflix 5/15
The Last Narc (Season 1) – Prime 5/15
Magic for Humans (Season 3) – Netflix 5/15
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (Season 5) – Netflix 5/15
White Lines – Netflix 5/15
The Big Flower – Netflix 5/18
Sweet Magnolias – Netflix 5/19
Control Z – Netflix 5/22
History 101 – Netflix 5/22
Selling Sunset (Season 2) – Netflix 5/22
Trailer Park Boys: The Animated Series (Season 2) – Netflix 5/22
Dorohedoro – Netflix 5/28
Ramy (Season 2) – Hulu 5/29
Somebody Feed Phil (Season 1) – Netflix 5/29
Space Force (Season 1) – Netflix 5/29
Clifford the Big Red Dog (Season 2, Part 1) – Prime TBD
OLD SHOWS
Bloom (Season 2) – Hulu 5/1
The Durrels in Corfu (Season 4) – Prime 5/3
Vikings (Season 6, Part 1) – Hulu 5/5
Charmed (Season 2) – Netflix 5/9
Grey’s Anatomy (Season 16) – Netflix 5/9
Alias (Complete Series) – Prime 5/11
Riverdale (Season 4) – Netflix 5/14
Poldark (Season 5) – Prime 5/17
The Flash (Season 6) – Netflix 5/20
Dynasty (Season 3) – Netflix 5/23
COMEDY SPECIALS
Top Pick
Hannah Gadsby: Douglas – Netflix 5/26
This is a major month for stand-up specials. But I already know what to expect from Jerry Seinfeld and Patton Oswalt. I have no idea what Hannah Gadsby – who deconstructed the form itself and announced her retirement in 2018’s Nanette – has in store for us.
Other Specials
Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill – Netflix 5/5
Jimmy O. Yang: Good Deal – Prime 5/8
Patton Oswalt: I Love Everything – Netflix 5/19