The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Disney+, Amazon, Max, Apple TV+ and More in May

New York Times

01-05-2025

Every month, streaming services add movies and TV shows to their libraries. Here are our picks for some of May's most promising new titles. (Note: Streaming services occasionally change schedules without giving notice. For more recommendations on what to stream, sign up for our Watching newsletter here .)
'Overcompensating' Season 1
Starts streaming: May 15
The comedian and social media content creator Benito Skinner both created and stars in this raunchy campus comedy, about freshmen trying desperately to fit in with their peers — while hiding their actual personalities and desires. Skinner plays Benny, a former high school athlete who does not want his family or his classmates (or maybe even himself) to realize he's gay. On the first day of college, Benny meets Carmen (Wally Baram), who is recovering — poorly — from a bad breakup. The two bond immediately, but while Carmen thinks she just met her next boyfriend, Benny thinks he has found someone who can pretend to be his girlfriend. 'Overcompensating' is set in a broadly comic version of university life, where everyone is sex- and status-obsessed. But Skinner also sincerely explores what it's like for young people to use a new environment to reinvent themselves.
'The Better Sister'
Starts streaming: May 29
This twisty mini-series stars Jessica Biel as Chloe, a rich and successful New York City media mogul who calls the cops from her family's summer house after her husband, Adam (Corey Stoll), is found murdered. While the homicide detectives Nancy (Kim Dickens) and Matt (Bobby Naderi) investigate the crime, Chloe seems unusually interested in keeping them from learning about certain aspects of her life — like her strained relationship with her sister Nicky (Elizabeth Banks). Nicky, a reckless free spirit, is also Adam's ex and the biological mother of Adam and Chloe's teenage son, Ethan (Maxwell Acee Donovan). Cocreated by Olivia Milch and Regina Corrado, 'The Better Sister' (based on an Alafair Burke novel) is both a mystery with lots of red herrings and the study of a sad sibling rivalry.
Also arriving:
May 1
'Another Simple Favor'
May 6
'David Spade: Dandelion'
May 8
'Octopus!'
May 20
'Motorheads' Season 1
May 22
'Earnhardt'
May 27
'The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy' Season 2 From left, Tim Rarus, Bridgetta Bourne-Firl, Greg Hlibok and Jerry Covell in 'Deaf President Now!,' a documentary film directed by Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim. Credit... Apple TV+
'Deaf President Now!'
Starts streaming: May 16
Back in 1988, Gallaudet University's students drew international headlines when they shut the college down for a week, angrily rejecting the appointment of yet another hearing president — at a time when the institution had never had a deaf one. For the documentary 'Deaf President Now!,' the Oscar-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim ('An Inconvenient Truth') and co-director Nyle DiMarco (a Gallaudet alum) have collected rarely seen student-shot footage of those protests, and combined them with news clips, re-creations and fiery new interviews with the campus leaders. The film delivers a fascinating look back at a pivotal moment in civil rights history that doubles as a gripping political thriller, piecing together the details of the demonstration and how, day by day, these courageous young adults turned the tide of public opinion.
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