Streaming highlights - May 2020
The best TV shows and movies to stream this May.
Not sure what to watch this month? Try these highlights from all of Australia’s streaming services.
Netflix:
Dead to Me (Season 2)
Now that secrets have been revealed, follow Jen and Judy as their lives are made more complicated by the addition of a new detective in town.
- Cast: Christina Applegate, Linda Cardellini, James Marsden
- Release: 8 May
Space Force
Four-star general Mark R. Naird is tasked with leading the newly formed sixth branch of the U.S. Armed Forces: Space Force.
- Cast: Steve Carell, John Malkovich, Ben Schwartz
- Release: 29 May
For Netflix’s full May release schedule, click here.
Stan
Billions (Season 5)
Set in the world of corporate greed and espionage on Wall Street, follow a battle of wits, one-upmanship and brash testosterone-fuelled revenge and hijinks.
- Cast: Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis, Maggie Siff
- Release: 3 May (weekly)
Hightown
A federal Fishery Service agent finds herself at the centre of a heroin epidemic after discovering a body in Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts.
- Cast: Atkins Estimond, Monica Raymund, Shane Harper
- Release: 17 May (weekly)
For Stan’s full May release schedule, click here.
Disney+
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora question their complex family ties as they are pulled in different directions by dark new forces at play.
- Cast: Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Harris Dickinson
- Release: 15 May
The Big Fib
Kid contestants must figure out which of two adults claiming to be an expert on a topic is lying and telling “the big fib.”
- Cast: Yvette Nicole Brown
- Release: 22 May
For Disney+ full May release schedule, click here.
Amazon Prime Video
Upload
From the director of The Office, Parks and Rec and The Simpsons, comes Upload, a sci-fi sitcom set in future where humans can choose to be uploaded into a virtual afterlife when faced with near-death situations.
- Cast: Robbie Amell, Andy Allo, Kevin Bigley
- Release: 1 May
Homecoming (Season 2)
The critically acclaimed series returns with a new mystery and follows a woman who wakes in rowboat adrift with no memory of how she got there or who she is.
- Cast: Janelle Monáe, Chris Cooper, Joan Cusack
- Release: 22 May
Foxtel Now
Bad Education
An American school superintended and his deputy attempt to defraud the school system in the true story of one of America’s biggest embezzlement cases.
- Cast: Hugh Jackman, Ray Romano, Geraldine Viswanathan
- Release: 17 May
Belgravia
From the creator of Downtown Abbey, this historical drama series takes place among the posh old money families of London and the families of new money.
- Cast: Tamsin Greig, Harriet Walter and Tom Wilkinson.
- Release: 24 May
Apple TV+
Trying
A British comedy following a couple who after failing to conceive, decide to adopt and find the process, a lot more difficult than they intended.
- Cast: Rafe Spall, Esther Smith, Imelda Staunton,
- Release: 1 May
Central Park
From the creator of Bob’s Burgers, comes this animated musical comedy about a family of caretakers, who live and work in Central Park, and end up saving the world.
- Cast: Kristen Bell, Tituss Burgess, Josh Gad
- Release: 29 May
