May TV Preview: 10 New Shows to Watch
It’s hard to believe that it’s already May 2024, especially on the TV front. We have standing weekly appointments with “The Sympathizer” and “Under the Bridge,” are still reeling from “Baby Reindeer,” and still can’t get enough of Kristen Wiig in “Palm Royale” — but there’s a whole new crop of May shows about to debut that deserve the audience’s dutiful attention.
May brings some big names back to TV, including Sean Bean with Hulu’s “Shardlake,” Jeff Daniels with Netflix’s “Man in Full,” and Benedict Cumberbatch with “Eric.” Joel Edgerton headlines Apple’s twisted thriller about a man unmoored from reality in “Dark Matter,” while André Holland plays Black Panther party founder Huey P. Newton in “The Big Cigar.” Many new shows are based on novels or articles, and on the reality front there’s “Love Undercover” — about soccer stars searching for romance; on the documentary side “Pillowcase Murders,” about a serial killer targeting elderly women undetected; and Hulu’s adaptation of “Black Twitter: A People’s History.”
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For more on 2024’s TV offerings, check out our TV preview for the year, or our specific Netflix and HBO/Max lists. For spring titles, check out our Spring TV preview, and keep checking back for monthly roundups (here’s January, February, March, and April of this year) — new TV only, but as always we’ve got plenty of love for the rest (stay tuned for a “Bridgerton” theme week this month).
Here are 10 new TV shows to watch in May 2024.
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