25 TV Shows to Catch in May!

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By: Mariam Elhamy

TV Addicts, rejoice! To keep you plugged into what is premiering every month, we put together a monthly list of new TV series set to air! We’ve added a description and a trailer for each show, so all you have to do is choose what sounds good and start streaming!

*Shows are listed in alphabetical order.

america’s got talent: season 14

Gabrielle Union and Julianne Hough join the judging panel in place of Mel B and Heidi Klum, while Terry Crews replaces Tyra Banks as host.

ANIMAL KINGDOM: SEASON 4

Smurf is back in charge but J plans a new way to take over the business as his mother’s ex-best friend (Emily Deschanel) turns up.

Archer: 1999: season 10

The 10th season reinvents the series yet again: this time as a sci-fi adventure following the crew of a salvage vessel in space.

Best room wins

Genevieve Gorder hosts a new interior design competition where each designer is given a tough project with a small budget to pull off a great design.

catch 22

Set during World War II, Air Force bombardier Yossarian (Christopher Abbott) and his fellow soldiers are faced with absurd bureaucratic rules and decisions by Colonel Cathcart (Kyle Chandler), Scheisskopf (George Clooney) and Major de Coverley (Hugh Laurie) in this miniseries based on Joseph Heller’s novel of the same name.

DEAD TO ME

Former 2 Broke Girls writer Liz Feldman is the creator of this Will Ferrell- and Adam McKay-produced dark comedy series centering on two grieving widows played by Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini. Dead to Me is about “a powerful friendship that blossoms between Jen, a tightly wound widow, and Judy, a free spirit with a shocking secret.

Start watching now on Netflix

easy: Season 3

Intertwined groups of friends in Chicago fumble through the modern maze of love, sex, technology and culture. This television series follows different couples in their respective forms of relationship exploration in modern day Chicago.

Start watching now on Netflix

elementary: season 7

Joan and Sherlock look to return to the United States after learning one of their friends has been badly injured, but Sherlock’s legal issues and a new adversary named Odin Reichenbach (James Frain) awaits them in the seventh and final season.

good omens

The adaptation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s fantasy novel of the same name where the End of the World is fast approaching and after many years of living with mortals, Aziraphale the angel (Michael Sheen) and Crowley the demon (David Tennant) decide they must stop the Apocalypse but first they must find the 11-year-old Antichrist (Sam Taylor Buck).

izombie: season 5

While Liv and Ravi continue to solve murders with her unique abilites, Peyton (Aly Michalka) taking over as acting mayor causes conflicts with Major and Fillmore Graves in the fifth and final season of the zombie drama.

klepper

Former The Opposition host/Daily Show correspondent Jordan Klepper travels around the United States to look into a variety of issues including veterans, undocumented immigrant students, environmental activism, the legal cannabis industry, discrimination in the marijuana industry and space exploration.

L.A.’s Finest

L.A.’s Finest follows Burnett, who last was seen in Miami taking down a drug cartel. She now has left her complicated past behind to become an LAPD detective. Paired with a new partner, Nancy McKenna, a working mom with an equally complex past, Burnett is pushed to examine whether her unapologetic lifestyle might be masking a greater personal secret. These two women don’t agree on much, but they find common ground when it comes to taking on the most dangerous criminals in Los Angeles. Cast: Gabrielle Union, Jessica Alba, and Zach Gilford star.

lucifer: season 4

Lucifer Morningstar has decided he’s had enough of being the dutiful servant in Hell and decides to spend some time on Earth to better understand humanity. He settles in Los Angeles – the City of Angels. Lucifer, bored from his sulking life in hell, comes to live in Los Angeles.

Start watching now on Netflix

MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D: SEASON 6

The team returns home after saving the planet, but they meet a familiar face who doesn’t know who they are.

she’s gotta have it: season 2

Nola (DeWanda Wise) must decide if she is willing to compromise on her principles for continued success as Mars Blackmon (Anthony Ramos) follows his passion for music.

Start watching now on Netflix

sneaky pete: season 3

A con man on the run from a vicious gangster takes cover by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, reuniting with his estranged family, that threatens to drag him into a world just as dangerous as the one he’s escaping.

the bachelorette: season 15

The Bachelorette is an American reality television dating game show. The series revolves around a single bachelorette (deemed eligible), who is usually a former contestant from the previous Bachelor season, and a pool of romantic interests (typically 25; 30 in season 5), which could include a potential husband for the bachelorette.

the hot zone

The When a highly infectious virus with no known cure appears at the Reston Monkey Facility in 1989, U.S. Army veterinarian Dr. Nancy Jaax (Julianna Margulies) works to stop it from spreading in this six-part miniseries based on Richard Preston’s 1995 nonfiction book about Ebola.

The inbetween

Cassie Bedford (Harriet Dyer) can communicate with the dead and her friend Detective Tom Hackett (Paul Blackthorne) and his new partner former FBI Agent Damien Asante (Justin Cornwell) ask for her help on a case in this Moira Kirland drama series.

the society

The Society follows a group of teenagers who are mysteriously transported to a facsimile of their wealthy New England town, left without any trace of their parents. The series is a modern take on Lord of the Flies.

Start watching now on Netflix

tuca & bertie

30-year-old toucan bird women Tuca (voiced by Tiffany Haddish) and her songbird friend Bertie (voiced by Ali Wong) live in the same apartment building in this animated comedy created by BoJack Horseman’s Lisa Hanawalt.

Start watching now on Netflix

undercover

Undercover follows the lives and family of Maya Cobbina, a British lawyer conducting a long-term legal fight to prove the innocence of US death row inmate Rudy Jones, and her husband Nick Johnson.

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vida: season 3

Lyn (Melissa Barrera) and Emma (Mishel Prada) struggle against money issues, anti-gentrification forces and other developers as they seek to continue to run their mother’s business.

When they see us

Ava DuVernay’s four-part limited series based on the Central Park Five case where five Harlem teenagers–Antron McCray (Caleel Harris/Jovan Adepo), Kevin Richardson (Asante Blackk/Justin Cunningham), Yusef Salaam (Ethan Herisse/Chris Chalk), Raymond Santana (Marquis Rodriguez/Freddy Miyares) and Korey Wise (Jharrel Jerome) were accused of raping a white woman in 1989 and were only finally exonerated in 2014.

Start watching now on Netflix

your pretty face is going to hell: season 4

Gary hopes to advance in Hell, but he may be too stupid, lazy and kind-hearted to realize his dreams of promotion.

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