May TV boasts premieres of Obi-Wan Kenobi, a new Star Trek, and Conversations With Friends
Plus, look forward to true-crime series The Staircase and Candy, the Emmy Rossum-led Angelyne, and the long-awaited return of Stranger Things
TV News Obi-Wan Kenobi
May TV is brimming with big sci-fi arrivals, hotly anticipated book adaptations, and—to no one’s surprise—more content for true-crime aficionados. Paramount+ debuts Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which follows Anson Mount’s Christopher Pike. Moon Knight ends on Disney+, but the streamer goes big with Obi-Wan Kenobi as Ewan McGregor reprises his role as the Jedi Master. And Netflix’s Stranger Things is finally back with its first half of season four.
In other big releases, HBO Max’s The Staircase follows the Michael Peterson true -crime saga. (But will it be better than the docuseries of the same name?) Hulu’s Candy, starring Jessica Biel and Melanie Lynskey, is also based on a pulled-from the-headlines story, this one about Candy Montgomery murdering her best friend. In Netflix’s Swedish original, Clark, you can check out Bill Skarsgård playing a real-life gangster. Plus, TV is spinning-off a bunch in May, with Freevee’s Bosch: Legacy and The CW’s Tom Swift.
Meanwhile, the book adaptations to look out for include Hulu’s Conversations With Friends, Netflix’s The Lincoln Lawyer, and Apple TV+’s The Essex Serpent. It’s also time to celebrate the second season returns of Ziwe, Girls5eva, Hacks, Tehran, and The Wilds.
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I am mildly curious about the Obi Wan Kenobi show… I mean, I always kinda assumed he hung around in the desert for a number of years until Luke grew up. And since that’d be a pretty boring show I assume they will do something with it. Either that or we end up with the Stardew Valley of a TV show… which also could be interesting.
I think I might be more inclined to watch Obi Wan if it were a Seinfeld style show about nothing with him just living his life on Tatooine. Space adventures and heroics have been done so many times now and the quality usually varies a lot. But a show about Obi Wan trying to live his life, maybe having a few friends, and trying to deal with the daily bullshit that goes with living on a desert planet ruled by a giant slug could be interesting.
KRAMER WOOKIE!
It’s terrifying how easily I can envision that setup.
i had this vision of him lounging in a starbucks mooching wifi
1983 in the Victorian era?
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I’d wondered why Bosch’s half brother Mickey Haller – aka the Lincoln Lawyer – never made an appearance in the early years of Bosch. We found out a couple years ago: Connelly was smart and sold the rights for those books to a competitor. Must have made for interesting times when he dealt with Amazon suits on what was their longest running series.It’ll be interesting to see how that second series adapts with writing out all the Bosch characters to keep a firewall between the IPs. Bosch did relatively well with Mimi Rogers as a Haller replacement, but it also had Connelly in the writers room making substantial contributions to the revisions, which this won’t. Bosch wasn’t prestige television, but it wasn’t bad either despite AV Club periodically sneering at it.For the May shows overall, I’m finding several of them more potentially interesting than what aired this last winter.
And let’s not forget the triumphant return of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Shame it doesn’t have the charm of the MN stuff. It’s so LA now. But at least they are supposed to be recording the riffs together, doing them all separately was such a boneheaded move that killed any group chemistry.
Yeah, no.
I’m gonna have to agree with Milligna here. I like just about everyone involved and I really appreciate that the live crew are getting in on it. But S11 and The Gauntlet were super uneven. Part of it for me was the writing, which involved too many cooks (who have too disparate sensibilities) and too little continuity between gags. But a big issue was the timing and chemistry. You can genuinely tell that they weren’t recording together. And the jokes are edited *weird*. And it’s a minor complaint because I DO like them but it bothered me that Kinga, Son of Frank, and Jonah were already well known comic actors. A *few* people might have recognized Joel from his standup when MST started but that gang was virtually unknown.
Agreed. I’m kinda hoping they whittled down the writers room, too. Not that it matters much as the subscription is too steep for me.
Mike Meyers, eh? ok.
Am I fool to hold out hope for Strange New Worlds, after the tedium of Discovery and Picard?
In the world of reboots, seeing “Stranger Things” and “Candy” made me really think we were getting a return of Jerri Blank.
Hi! That’s a Lincoln Continental in the trailer image, not a Town Car. Just so you know. 🙂
Now + Then looks good. But seeing Manolo Cardona has me wondering if we can expect to see any more “Who Killed Sara?!” God I hope they get another season.
Speaking of Star Trek, this week’s Picard pretty much obliterated the entire legendary TNG/Borg storyline. That type of destruction is almost a work of art in its carefree boldness.I can practically hear the Trekkie rage.REEEEEEEEE
TNG is done and isn’t coming back, people need to come to grips.The Borg were a great storyline, but its time to move forward, even if it means moving back (Strange New Worlds – the most TNG show yet). By the way, they didn’t say the evil Borg were over, Agnes was just another “branch” of the Borg. Plus, there’s still one last season of Picard filming.Oh, and other thing:“Shut up, Wesley!”
That was a really odd performance by Wil Wheaton—almost seems like he has actually acted in decades.
He did OK. Although it seems odd the Travelers would pick some rando to join them, even if she is “artificial” or whatever she was.Kinda hot too.
strange new world soothes that, after discovery and picard a real star trek show, no time travel, beautiful visuals, some old friends and some new, and a great captain
“ no time travel”Well, not YET, anyways. Remember, a lot of the same people involved in Picard are involved in SNW.
i know it was more of a beg than a conclusion 🙂
still the start was good, cast were fun to watch, the ship looks great and some things that tos never explained (t’pring for 1) get a mention, it has the swashbuckle air that trek has missed so long, somehow pike does not look like he will end a problem by looking concerned and a lets talk about your feelings almighty alien crap
Someone needs to be employed to walk behind Mike Myers and constantly remind him “one role is enough”.
No mention of Kids In The Hall?