All The Movies & TV Shows Arriving In May 2024

Summary

• Apple TV+ differentiates itself by focusing on original content, rarely adding licensed material like its streaming competitors.
• March saw a unique addition of 55 licensed movies to the platform, including the Oscar-nominated Argo for a limited time.
• In April 2024, Apple TV+ continues its original content trend with new series like Franklin and Sugar, adding more episodes weekly.

Apple TV+ is known for its award-winning original movies and shows, and some great new movies and TV shows will arrive on the platform in May 2024. Apple TV+ positioned itself as an alternative to services like Netflix by offering exclusive original content not found elsewhere. Unlike other streaming services, the Apple TV+ catalog remains mostly constant, typically only adding original content to the service and rarely adding licensed material, keeping it unique among streaming options. May sees the service adding more originals with titles like the first season of Dark Matterthe documentary Hollywood Con Queenand Trying season 4.

In April, Apple TV+ removed the rest of the popular licensed movies that it had previously added as a limited engagement. These additions were unusual because AppleTV+ has very few licensed movies and TV shows, and in May, Apple TV+ is going back to its roots of producing original content. The biggest April 2024 releases are still available, including. the Apple TV+ original seriesPalm Royale, which is also adding more new episodes weekly through May 8.

For more on the movies and TV shows coming to other streaming platforms, check out what’s
new on Hulu
and
new on Max
.

Everything Arriving On Apple TV+ In May 2024

Acapulco Season 3 & Hollywood Con Queen Are Coming This Month

The Best Movies And TV Shows Arriving On Apple TV+ In May 2024

Two Returning Shows, Two New Shows, & A Documentary

Acapulco Season 3

Acapulco returns to Apple TV+ on May 1 with its third season. The series, which premiered in 2021 as an Apple TV+ original, stars Eugenio Derbez as Maximo Gallardo Ramos, a successful mogul living in Malibu with a rags-to-riches story. In 1984, Max got the job of a lifetime working for one of Acapulco’s hottest resorts, Las Colinas. The series features his present-day struggles and flashbacks to his younger days at the resort. In this third season, the older Max has to reconcile his past mistakes, while in the flashback scenes, the younger Maximo keeps rising the ranks.

The first season of
Acapulco
received great reviews, with a perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.

The first two seasons of Acapulco had 10 episodes each, and the third season matches that, with the first two episodes dropping on the service on May 1. There will be a new episode every week after that until the season 3 finale on June 26. The first season of Acapulco received great reviews, with a perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score, and critics pointed out the smart humor and great ensemble cast. The series was inspired by the 2017 film How to Be a Latin Lover.

Dark Matter

Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly lead the cast for the brand-new sci-fi series Dark Matter. The show is based on the best-selling sci-fi novel of the same name by Blake Crouch, who also created the series. In this mind-bending story, a physicist in Chicago named Jason ends up transported into an alternate version of his life where he realizes an evil version of himself has switched places with him. He has to find a way back to his home, using a machine his alternate self built, even though there are infinite possibilities and some terrifying versions of Earth.

If the series is anything like the book, there will be a lot of twists and turns, as nothing is ever as it seems. There will be eight episodes in the season, with Blake Crouch writing the first four, as well as co-writing the seventh. Jakob Verbruggen (who previously directed episodes of House of Cards and Black Mirror) helms at least the first three episodes. The first two episodes will drop on Apple TV+ on May 8 and then one episode a week will drop until the season finale on June 19.

Hollywood Con Queen

For many years, a “Con Queen” was scamming Hollywood professionals by pretending to be high-level producers and taking them for all they were worth. While allegedly pretending to be producers like Sony’s Amy Pascal, LucasFilm’s Kathleen Kennedy, and Zack Snyder’s producer wife Deborah Snyder, this individual sent workers to Indonesia for a “big project” and then scammed out of money there before sending them back home with no movie work. It turned out the con artist was a man named Hargobind Punjabi Tahilramani and it took years to catch him.

Producer Chris Smith (
Tiger King
) brings this story to Apple TV+ in a new documentary.

Producer Chris Smith (Tiger King) brings this story to Apple TV+ in a new documentary. The film follows an investigative journalist named Scott Johnson and a private investigator named Nicole Kotsianas as they track him down and finally bring his crimes to light. The Hollywood Reporter first broke the story, and now this documentary will bring the true-crime series to Apple TV+ subscribers. The three-part docuseries will premiere on May 8.

A movie called
Kiss of the Con Queen
starring Ravi Patel is also in the works.

The Big Cigar

On May 17, Apple TV+ releases a brand-new original series called The Big Cigar. This is a six-episode series that tells the true story of Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton, and his escape to Cuba. In the story, a manhunt is underway for Newton, who goes to film producer Bert Schneider to help him escape. André Holland, who previously played activist Andrew Young in Selmastars as Newton while Alessandro Nivola plays Schneider in the movie. There are also some major names behind the camera in this miniseries.

Janine Sherman Barrois, who won an NAACP Image Award as a writer for the series ISexecutive produces the series along with Don Cheadle (War Machine in the MCU). Cheadle also directs the first two episodes and plays an unknown role in the series as well. This story is based on the real-life events where Newton and his girlfriend Gwen Fontaine (played by Tiffany Boone in the movie) fled to Cuba after he was charged with the murder of Kathleen Smith. He eventually returned in 1977 and was never convicted of the murder.

Trying Season 4

Season 4 of the Apple TV+ original British comedy Trying arrives late in May 2024, jumping ahead six years to find Nikki (Esther Smith) and Jason (Rafe Spall) are now experienced adopters having built a little nuclear family. They also have a great support system, but things get complicated when their teenage daughter Princess (Scarlett Rayner) wants to find her birth mother. This means that Nikki and Jason now have a tough road ahead as they navigate their love as her adoptive parents but also respect her wishes.

In addition to BAFTA Award nominee Smith and SAG Award nominee Spall, the ensemble cast is led by Sian Brooke, BAFTA Award winner Darren Boyd, and welcomes new cast members Scarlett Rayner and Cooper Turner. The first two episodes drop on Apple TV+ on May 22with the rest of the episodes dropping every Wednesday until the season 4 finale arrives on July 3.