Hulu's schedule this month is packed to the gills with new shows and movies. Below are the best of the lot, including a new season of sports/reality show Welcome to Wrexham, Hulu original documentary The Contestant, and a new season of The Kardashians. Plus, you can watch all of the Die Hard movies.
Welcome to Wrexham, Season 3
Season 3 of Welcome to Wrexham was originally announced for April, but better late than never. The new season begins with the ragtag Welsh football team owned by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney having ascended to League Two, the fourth-highest tier of English soccer. But the squad’s new position brings bigger obstacles. Wrexham's season is currently in play in real life, so whether the club continues its Cinderella story or crashes and burns in the face of a higher level of play remains to be seen.
Starts streaming May 3
The Contestant
Back in the late 1990s, Japan took reality TV to its limit with A Life in Prizes, a show in which unknown comedian Nasubi was imprisoned and naked in a bare room and tasked with staying there until he’d won a million yen through mail-order contests. Unbeknownst to Nasubi, his journey into near madness was being broadcast weekly and he’d become the most famous man in Japan. The Contestant tells the full story of this strange experiment through footage from A Life in Prizes and interviews with its director, producers, star, and others who were there.
Starts streaming May 2
The Kardashians, season 5
The members of the Kardashian-Jenner family continue documenting their glamorous, beige-tinted, opulent lives in the fifth season of The Kardashians. According to Hulu, the Kardashians will “punch it into overdrive” for season five, adding, “From the big screen to baby bliss, the family continues to defy expectations in all their endeavors.” That’s not a lot to go on, but a highlight of the season is likely to be the story of Kourtney Kardashian-Barker's first child with Travis Barker. It is reality TV, so you don’t know what will happen—maybe they’ll all be abducted by aliens or something.
Starts streaming May 23.
Prom Dates
In this Hulu original coming-of-age comedy, Julia Lester and Antonia Gentry play best friends Jess and Hannah. They've always wanted to have a perfect prom night, but just a day before the big night, everything goes haywire, and they break up with their dates. With only 24 hours until prom, Jess and Hannah will have to get creative to make their perfect night happen. With its classic teen movie set-up and no-holds-barred portrayal of the awkwardness of adolescence, Prom Dates is one to watch for teens, and anyone who has been a teen in the past.
Starts streaming May 2
Black Twitter: A People’s History
Based on a Wired article by Jason Parham, Black Twitter: A People’s History is a three-part documentary series that details the people and memes that made Black Twitter such an influential and powerful force. Through interviews with W. Kamau Bell, Kid Fury, Jemele Hill, Roxane Gay, Raquel Willis, and many more, Black Twitter: A People’s History examines how Black people on social media shaped our politics and culture throughout Barack Obama’s election, the pandemic, Black Lives Matter, and beyond.
Starts streaming May 9.
Shardlake
Set in the 16th century, Shardlake is a moody mystery series that kicks off with Oliver Cromwell assigning young lawyer Matthew Shardlake (played by Arthur Hughes) to investigate a murder at a monastery in the remote town of Scarnsea. With Cromwell hoping to shut down the monasteries, the monks greet Shardlake with suspicion and hostility. To make matters worse, Shardlake isn't sure of the loyalties of his new assistant. Based on mystery novels by C. J. Sansom, Shardlake aims to present a historically accurate version of the Tudor world as a backdrop for its proto-Sherlock Holmes protagonist.
Starts streaming May 1
All of the Die Hard movies
In May, action fans will be able to follow a quarter century of NYPD detective John McClane’s edge-of-your seat adventures when Hulu drops all five Die Hard movies, from the 1988 original to 2013’s A Good Day to Die Hard. Don’t act like you have something better to do than plan a marathon. It’s what Bruce Willis would want.
Starts streaming May 3
The Killing Kind
The Killing Kind began its life at Paramount+ where audience responded favorably, but the series was pulled from the service. Paramount's loss is Hulu's gain. This rollercoaster ride of a series tells the story of defense attorney Ingrid Lewis (Emma Appleton) who successfully defends John Webster (Colin Morgan) from stalking charges. When Webster shows up in her life a year later, he's either trying to keep her safe or hiding a murderous secret.
Starts streaming May 14
Royal Rules of Ohio
Hulu’s Freeform platform is home to this reality show that documents the adventures of a family of African royals in Ohio. Sisters Brenda, Thelma, and Nana Agyekum are the daughters of royal descendants of two of the most wealthy and powerful Ghanaian kingdoms, so life in Columbus, Ohio is going to take some getting used to, especially if they’re going to stay true to the rules of royalty.
Starts streaming May 15
Last month's picks
The Veil
Elisabeth Moss, star of incendiary and awesome The Handmaid’s Tale, returns with a new series that explores the shadowy world of international espionage. The Veil follows a pair of secret agents locked in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse that takes them from Istanbul to Paris to London and everywhere in between. Thousands of lives hang in the balance as agents of the CIA and the French DGSE work together to learn a deadly secret from a mutual enemy. If you’re in the mood for a stylish, fast-paced, whip-smart spy thriller, The Veil is your jam.
Starts streaming April 30
Welcome to Wrexham, Season 3
The third season of Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney's reality sports series about two American actors who buy a broken down Welsh soccer team sees the Wrexham football club having been promoted to the coveted English Football League. But entering soccer’s big league means the competition will be serious; are Wrexham's players, coaches, and owners ready to rise to a new slate of challenges?
Starts streaming April 19
American Horror Story: Delicate: Part 2
Ryan Murphy’s long-running horror series returns to finish its Delicate storyline with four new episodes. Starring Emma Roberts and Kim Kardashian, Delicate is a horror tale about pregnancy, a la Rosemary’s Baby, in which ambitious actress Anna Victoria (played by Roberts) goes to extreme lengths in pursuit of motherhood. Kardashian plays her cutthroat publicist, Siobhan Corbyn, and the series never miss a chance to skewer Hollywood excess along with the pre-natal horror.
Starts streaming April 3
Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story
This four-part documentary series takes viewers deep inside the world of New Jersey’s favorite sons, pop metal hair rockers Bon Jovi. Through never-before-seen personal videos and photos, concert footage, and interviews with the Bon Jovis themselves, Thank You, Goodnight details the band’s 40-year career of rocking and/or rolling. If you’re in the mood for old duffers telling “we came from nothing” stories and wistfully discussing their days of rock star excess, this is the series for you. Includes unreleased demos from Bon Jovi and interviews with Bruce Springsteen, John Shanks, Obie O’Brien, and more.
Starts streaming April 26
Vanderpump Villa
Famous reality TV magnate Lisa Vanderpump bought a palatial villa in the French countryside, and in this reality show, her staff of charismatic event coordinators, chefs, mixologists, and servers are tasked with arranging extravagant, Vanderpump-curated experiences for elite guests, all while Lisa evaluates whether this is the right crew to staff the newest venture in the extended Vanderpump financial universe. Vanderpump Villa promises heartfelt and heated moments from both the staff and the guests, insanely opulent experiences in exotic French locales, and is absolutely free of guillotines. In season one.
Under the Bridge
Based on author Rebecca Godfrey’s account of a real-life crime, Under the Bridge tells the story of 14-year-old Reena Virk (played by Vritika Gupta) who went out to hang with her friends one night in 1997 and never returned home. Riley Keough plays Godfrey, whose research for her book takes her inside the hidden, menacing world of the teenagers of British Columbia and finds her teaming up with a local police officer who is also investigating Virk’s murder.
Starts streaming April 17
The Greatest Hits
The Greatest Hits is a different kind of time travel movie. It doesn’t concern itself with the paradoxes of temporal dislocation or the science behind time machines. Instead, it’s a magical realist take on the genre, in which time travel is used to explore memory, grief, and redemption. Lucy Boynton plays Harriet, who is able to travel backwards in time when she hears music that played when her boyfriend was alive, but she can only stay in the past for the length of the song. Romantic time travel movies are always amazing and Greatest Hits is a worthy addition to the tiny cinematic sub-genre.
Starts streaming April 12
Dinosaur, Season 1
This British comedy/drama series follows Nina, a woman with autism who’s very happy with her day-to-day existence. She lives with her beloved neurotypical sister Evie and works at her dream job as a paleontologist. But when Evie suddenly decides to get engaged, Nina is forced to come to terms with a huge change in the all-important routine she relies upon. Nina is played by series’ co-creator Ashley Storrie, who has autism, promising non-cliche insights into the show’s subject matter.
Starts streaming April 5
The Interrogation Tapes
Mainstream TV has finally noticed the popularity of interrogation videos on YouTube. Made by the producers of ABC’s 20/20, this true crime series is based on the verbal cat-and-mouse game that ensues after a suspect is read their Miranda rights. Through examinations of notorious murder cases, The Interrogation Tapes explores both heinous crimes and the tricks and techniques interrogators use when they’re trying to finagle confessions from accused criminals.
Starts streaming April 2
Dark Marvels, Season 1
When we talk about groundbreaking inventions and technological leaps forward, we tend to focus on the positive progress brought by things like the cotton gin or the space shuttle. Dark Marvels walks the lefthand path instead and digs into the evil engineering behind deadly weapons, sinister spy tools, torture devices, and other diabolical human innovations. Dark Marvels attacks its subject with glee through expert interviews, evocative recreations, archival footage, and state-of-the-art 3D graphics.
Secrets of Miss America, Season 1
The Miss America Pageant is a deeply weird and creepy American institution, and it's long overdo for a deep dive into its troubling and sleazy history and culture. Made by the people who brought us Secrets of Playboy, this docuseries features interviews with former Miss Americas (and just-missed Americas) who dish out the secrets the nation's best woman hides inside her huge hairdo and shiny, white teeth.
Starts streaming April 18
Hip-Hop and The White House
When president Obama strode into the White House Correspondent's Dinner in 2013 to DJ Khaled's "All I Do Is Win,” it marked a seismic cultural shift, for both hip-hop and American politics. Narrated by Jeezy, This documentary series goes beyond Obama’s power move to explore the history of hip-hop’s relationship to the nation’s power structures, charting hip hop’s evolution from a disreputable musical form politicians derided for cheap political points, to a cultural force that helps move elections.
Starts streaming April 22
Secrets of the Octopus
Whether it’s submarines or sunken ocean liners, director James Cameron loves crap that’s underwater. With the help of National Geographic, Cameron adds octopuses to his list of soggy documentary subjects, exploring the unique lives and minds of these mysterious under-the-ocean aliens who can change colors, squeeze into spaces the size of their eyeballs, and might be more intelligent than we can even understand.
Starts streaming April 22
The New York Times Presents: Broken Horses
If you think race horses spend their downtime lounging around on grassy meadows, chewing cud and preparing for the next big race, get ready for a rude awakening. This New York Times-produced documentary series digs into the dark side of horse racing and uncovers a shady underworld full of sleazy trainers, reprobate veterinarians, rampant horse doping, and other questionable practices.
Starts streaming April 27