10 Best Movies and TV Shows to Stream in May
Summer’s hottest days are still a month or two away, but streaming services are stockpiling material to keep us entertained indoors when it’s scorching and sticky outside. May sees an influx of excellent Nineties movies, from the face-melting thrillers (literally) to political satires that seem more pertinent than ever. There’ll be plenty of TV series to plow through, too, including the return of Netflix’s addictive drama Bloodline and the long-awaited HBO Go debut of the channel’s cult favorite Mr. Show. Here are our picks for the 10 best things to stream this month.
Angie Tribeca Season 1 (Hulu, 5/7)
TBS did its best impression of Hulu back in January, spending 25 straight hours running and re-running all 10 first-season episodes of this cop-show spoof (created by husband-and-wife comedians Steve Carell and Nancy Walls). Fans of Airplane! and The Naked Gun will dig the rapid-fire sight-gags and puns; those who miss The Office and Parks and Recreation will be happy to see Rashida Jones as a hilariously clichéd tough-as-nails police detective, who goes undercover as everything from a prostitute to a chimney sweep. It’s parody at its most binge-able.
Bloodline Season 2 (Netflix, 5/27)
The creators of this slow-burn melodrama sometimes described their first 13 episodes as one long pilot for the series they planned to make. So Season Two should be a doozy then, as it deals with all the repercussions from the family secrets and bloody crimes that were exposed by the end of last year. Regardless, it’ll be a treat to watch Kyle Chandler play the morally conflicted Florida cop John Rayburn once again, and to see how the show plans to bring back the magnificent Ben Mendelssohn as his crooked brother Danny (a character who as of the most recent episode is … well, let’s just say “not around so much”).