HBO Max is still kicking, with plenty of movies and series coming to the service each month. In May, the streamer will continue to drop new episodes of some ongoing HBO Originals, most notably Rooster and Euphoria. On the movie side, we’ll be getting a mix of classics and new streaming releases, including James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown and a double whammy of Emerald Fennell. Courtesy of channels like Discovery and HGTV, there are also plenty of reality series.
Everything Coming to HBO Max in May
Note: Click on any of the titles with a link to see IGN’s review of that movie or check out some of our curated highlights as you scroll through this month’s releases.
May 1
Highlight: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Character Posters
Sony’s Spider-Verse sequel has been all over the place recently. It had a brief stint at Netflix before heading to Disney+, and now the animated hit is finding a new home on HBO Max. Taking place right after Into the Spider-Verse, the sequel introduces us and Miles to a whole host of Spidey variants. With a compelling story and one of the coolest animation styles, it’s no surprise that the Spider-erse movies quickly became some of our favorite Spider-Man movies of all time.
- Story of Louis Pasteur
- The Babe Ruth Story
- Catfish
- Crazy Rich Asians
- The End of Summer
- The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
- The Florida Project
- The George Raft Story
- The Life of Emile Zola
- The Munekata Sisters
- The Only Son
- The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
- The Sea of Grass
- The Wagons Roll at Night
- The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1963)
- There Was a Father
- They Won’t Believe Me
- Walk the Line
- Walk the Line: Extended Cut
- Without Love
- “Wuthering Heights” (2026)
Highlight: “Wuthering Heights”
‘Highlight’ might be a stretch for a movie we gave a 3/10, but doesn’t that make you at least a little bit curious? In the words of Tina Fey, “you’ll have to act surprised” when it takes the turn you’d expect, but compared to previous works, this one’s more of a music video than anything. Especially thanks to the Charli XCX soundtrack. It also happens to be landing on HBO Max at the same time as Fennell’s previous film, Saltburn, which we had significantly better things to say about.
May 2
- Gold Rush: Mine Rescue with Freddy & Juan, Season 6 (Discovery)
- Zillow Gone Wild, Season 3 (HGTV)
May 3
- Rooster, Season 1 Episode 9
- Euphoria, Season 3 Episode 4
May 4
- 90 Day Fiancé Pillow Talk: Before the 90 Days, Season 8 (TLC)
- Insidious: The Red Door (2023)
- Margarita: Make Your Story Count, Season 2 (Max Original)
- Perilous Passage: Birth in America
May 5
- “50 Years of Apple” with Bill Weir, The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper (CNN Original)
May 6
- House Hunters: Amazing Water Homes, Season 3 (HGTV)
May 7
- Bad Foot Clinic, Season 1 (TLC)
May 8
- Greenland 2: Migration (Lionsgate)
- House Hunters International: Volume 9, Season 210 (HGTV)
- The Palu Family: Under a Dark Spell (HBO Original)
- We Are Jeni, Season 1 (ID)
May 9
- Song of the Samurai
- Deadliest Catch, Season 22 (Discovery)
- K-Everything with Daniel Dae Kim (CNN Original)
Highlight: Song of the Samurai
Credit: TBS/HBO Max
Based on an ongoing deal with U-NEXT, HBO Max will have the exclusive international streaming rights to this samurai drama based on the Chiruran: Shinsengumi Requiem manga. The series will follow the titular Shinsengumi, a band of samurai that defended Kyoto during the final Japanese shogunate, in a story of competing ideals and loyalties. I have a lot of faith in this one, particularly as its from the same studio as the gnarly (in a good way) Alice in Borderland.
May 10
- Rooster, Season 1 Episode 10 (Finale)
- Euphoria, Season 3 Episode 5
May 11
- 90 Day Diaries, Season 8 (TLC)
- 90 Day Fiancé, Season 12 (TLC)
- Filthy Fortunes, Season 2 (Discovery)
- Home Town: Inn This Together, Season 1 (HGTV)
May 12
- U.S. Against the World: Four Years With the Men’s National Soccer Team
- BBQ Brawl, Season 7 (Food Network)
- Behind the Bars: Shot in the Spotlight (HBO Original)
May 13
- The A List: 15 Stories From Asia and Pacific Diasporas
- Chopped Castaways, Season 1 (Food Network)
May 14
- On the Roam S2 (Max Original)
May 15
May 16
- The Last Woodsmen, Season 3 (Discovery)
May 17
- Euphoria, Season 3 Episode 6
May 18
- In the Eye of the Storm: Chasers, Season 1 (Discovery)
May 19
- Contraband: Seized at the Airport, Season 2 (Discovery)
- Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: Weed 8: Weed and Women (CNN Original)
May 20
- Baylen Out Loud, Season 3 (TLC)
May 21
- Conspiracies & Coverups, Season 1 (Discovery)
- Slaves of Faith: Heralds of the Gospel (HBO Original)
May 22
- Josh Johnson: Symphony
- The Yogurt Shop Murders, Episode 5
- Batwheels, Season 3C (Cartoon Network)
- House Hunters International: Volume 9, Season 211 (HGTV)
- House Hunters: Volume 11, Season 255 (HGTV)
May 24
- The Many Lives of Benjaman Kyle, Season 1 (ID)
- Tomb Raider (2018)
- Euphoria, Season 3 Episode 7
May 26
- 90 Day The Single Life: Between The Sheets, Season 5 (TLC)
- Fareed Zakaria Documentaries, Season 3 (CNN)
- Food Network’s Top 10, Season 1 (Food Network)
- Rampage (2018)
May 27
- A Complete Unknown
- Castle Impossible, Season 2 (HGTV)
- Guy’s Grocery Games, Season 40 (Food Network)
Highlight: A Complete Unknown
Before Timothee Chalamet went ham promoting Marty Supreme, plenty of folks thought his role in Bob Dylan’s biopic could be his Oscars moment. Directed by James Mangold (Logan, Ford v Ferrari), the master of dad films, A Complete Unknown is obviously a must-watch for any Bob Dylan fan. As critic Siddhant Adlakha notes in his review, however, the movie is compelling for just about anyone as a look into “the evolution of the New York folk scene in the early 1960s.”
May 29
- Miss You, Love You
- The Moment
- House of the Dragon (with ASL)
May 30
- Belle Collective: Birmingham, Season 1 (OWN)
- House Hunters: Volume 11, Season 256 (HGTV)
May 31
- We Baby Bears, Season 2E (Cartoon Network)
- Euphoria S3 Episode 8 (Finale)
Highlight: Euphoria Season 3 Finale
Euphoria Season 3 Photos
Sam Levinson’s Euphoria will continue to drop new episodes every Sunday, leading up to the season’s final episode at the very end of the month. We got the chance to check out the first three episodes ahead of release, and writer Alyssa Mora was sorely disappointed by them. Literally, by the way, describing them as a “stark disappointment.” Nevertheless, pretty much the whole cast is back and we can only imagine what they’ll go through by the time we get to this episode.
What’s Up With HBO Max?
The vote’s gone through, and Paramount is officially acquiring Warner Bros. What does that mean for HBO Max? Well, we’re not entirely sure quite yet. Paramount has claimed the plan is to let Warner Bros operate with independence, but the company has also already floated combining HBO Max and Paramount+ into a single mega-service. Now that’s an interesting thought.
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Blythe (she/her) is an Audience Development Coordinator at IGN who, when she isn’t following streaming news, spends way too much time in character customization screens and tracking down collectibles.
