Apple TV he holds the distinction of being one of the only ones broadcasting services to offer only original content in its place: You won’t find a rotating library of blockbusters and classic sitcoms there. Instead, you’ll find a carefully curated collection of interesting content for kids and adults alike. That includes shows like Ted LassoThe Morning Show and Shrinking, and movies like F1: The Movie — all produced and produced by Apple.
Because Apple’s content collection is well organized, it doesn’t release as many titles every month as some of the company’s competitors, but what it releases always piques our interest. This May, we can’t wait to watch Tatiana Maslany’s Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed series. Billed as a dark comedy, we hope it will remind us of his amazing work on Orphan Black.
There’s also Star City, a new series from the creators of For All Mankind, and Propeller One-Way Night Coach, a family adventure film written and directed by John Travolta. In addition, you can hold live F1 races this season too all MLS games on Apple TV now that the MLS Season Pass is part of Apple’s subscription package. Football season is in full swing, with games being broadcast every week.
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Here’s a look at what’s new on Apple TV this month.
New shows on Apple TV in May
Unconditional is a new Israeli thriller about a mother-daughter vacation that goes wrong when 23-year-old Gali (Talia Lynne Ronn) is arrested for drug smuggling in Russia. Her mother, Orna (Liraz Chamami), refuses to accept the charges — but as she tries to clear her daughter’s name, she becomes embroiled in crime and corruption. The eight-episode series premieres with the first two episodes on Friday, May 8, followed by a new episode every Friday until June 19.
Lots of Fun Guaranteed (May 20)
If you’ve watched Orphan Black, you’ll know that there’s almost nothing Tatiana Maslany can’t do as an actress. Maslany played 17 different roles in the show, all clones of themselves, all with completely different personalities. All of which is to say that we’ve been waiting for Maslany to star in a new drama that will give him something equally fun and fun to do, and the new comedy Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed looks like it could be just the thing.
In the new series, Maslany stars as a newly divorced mother who believes she witnessed a crime and becomes embroiled in a dangerous investigation. As he navigates his personal life, he finds himself uncovering a conspiracy much deeper than he imagined. The series co-stars Jase Johnson, Jessy Hodges and Murray Bartlett, and arrives on Apple TV on May 20.
If you’re a fan of For All Mankind, you’ll be totally into the new Star City series from the same creators, Ben Nedivi, Matt Wolpert and Ronald D. Moore. The new series offers another look at that pivotal moment in For All Mankind’s alternate history of the space race when the Soviet Union became the first country to put a man on the moon. This time, however, the story is told from the Soviet point of view, showing the lives of astronauts, engineers and intelligence officers in the Soviet space program. The show stars Rhys Ifans, Anna Maxwell Martin, Agnes O’Casey and Alice Englert, and premieres in two episodes on May 29.
New movies on Apple TV in May
Propeller Coach One-Way Night (May 29)
Back in 1997, aviation enthusiast John Travolta wrote a children’s book, Propeller One-Way Night Coach, about a little boy’s cross-country plane journey at the beginning of commercial aviation. And now after 30 years, he has adapted the story for the screen and made his first documentary on film. The Apple Original Movie stars Clark Shotwell, Kelly Eviston-Quinnett, Ella Bleu Travolta and Olga Hoffmann. It premieres on the platform on May 29.