All New Releases on Apple TV+ in May 2024

The streaming service might not offer as many monthly releases as the likes of Netflix or Prime Video, but there’s usually at least one big-hitter. This month it’s Dark Matter, a sci-fi show involving multiple realities, kidnapping, and Joel Edgerton.

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All Apple TV+ releases in May 2024

May 1 : Acapulco (Season 3)

Acapulco is a comedy series that premiered in 2021. It chronicles the life of Maximo (Eugenio Derbez), a successful mogul living in Malibu who tells his rags to riches story via flashbacks. Season 3 sees him return to a Las Colinas he no longer recognizes. Meanwhile, in 1985, younger Maximo (Enrique Arrizon) inches closer to the man he's destined to become.

May 8 : Dark Matter

Based on the celebrated 2016 sci-fi novel by Blake Crouch, Dark Matter follows Joel Edgerton’s Jason Dessen, a man abducted from his own reality and thrown into a new one. The series follows Dessen as he fights to get back to his family. According to Edgerton in an interview with Men’s Journal it tackles the question of “how to make science sexy.”

May 8: Hollywood Con Queen

A new docuseries blowing apart a massive Hollywood scam. It involves a malicious individual posing as an influential Hollywood exec luring people to Indonesia under the promise of huge career opportunities. This might be the sleeper hit of the month.

May 17 : The Big Cigar

A biographical drama of Huey P. Newton, the founder of the Black Panther Party. It revolves around his cat-and-mouse chase with the FBI that culminated in his dramatic fleeing from the United States to Cuba. To get away with it, Newton teamed with Hollywood producer Bert Schneider to stage a movie and cover his tracks.

May 22 : Trying (Season 4)

“Six years post-adoption and nothing has gotten easier,” writes Apple TV+ in its official synopsis. “All they can do is try.” This charming comedy series written by Andy Wolton sees Rafe Spall and Esther Smith’s thirtysomething couple navigating life with their adopted kids Tyler (Mickey McAnulty) and Princess (Eden Togwell). Season 4 hinges on an older Princess’s desire to reconnect with her biological mother.