What’s Coming in May To Prime Video and Freevee
Prime Video is kicking off the summer season early and bringing the heat with a fiery slate of fresh titles from all-new Originals to returning fan-favorites. This month, suspense rises in The Wilds with more drama, new test subjects, and next-level stakes in Season 2; enticing new docuseries The Unsolved Murder of Beverly Lynn Smith by Nathalie Bibeau (The Walrus and the Whistleblower) explores the mysterious 1974 murder of a young mother and the decades-long quest for justice that followed; Lovestruck High invites viewers to fall in love with an immersive reality dating show unlike any other, narrated by Lindsay Lohan; and sketch comedy’s most hilarious iconoclasts reunite for an unexpected new season of The Kids in the Hall.
Amazon Freevee (formerly IMDb TV) is bulking up with exciting new titles including Originals Bosch: Legacy, streaming May 6, which follows Bosch on the next chapter of his career as he works alongside his one-time enemy Honey Chandler; and Troppo, a new series about an ex-cop hiding out in the Australian tropics after being falsely accused of a crime. The series begins streaming May 20.
Finally, Mother’s Day is right around the corner and Prime Video has curated the perfect viewing selection of heartwarming titles for you and the mothers in your life including Amazon Original #IMomSoHard Live from beloved comedians Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley — the perfect stand-up show to help you share a laugh on a special day. Check out this month’s complete offering for all celebratory titles on Prime Video and Amazon Freevee.
WHAT’S COMING IN MAY
New Amazon Originals
- Do, Re & Mi (2022) Do, Re and Mi use music to help solve any problem in Beebopsburgh. Whether it’s singing a song to express big feelings or singing in unison to work together better in the Tweeting Games, this trio is ready for any challenge. Like how to make a bicycle built for two, somethings that three friends can enjoy, or what to do when extra friends show up to a sleepover. Season 1, part 3 streaming now
- The Unsolved Murder of Beverly Lynn Smith (2022) From Nathalie Bibeau, the director of The Walrus and the Whistleblower, The Unsolved Murder of Beverly Lynn Smith dives deep into the elaborate and controversial sting operation that was designed to investigate a suspect in the murder of 22-year-old Beverly Lynn Smith—but only ended up raising more questions. Streaming May 6
- The Wilds (2022) Survival hangs in the balance for a group of teenage girls stranded on a deserted island, after the explosive discovery that what’s happening to them is an elaborate social experiment. Season 2 ups the drama and keeps you guessing, with the introduction of more test subjects – a new island of teenage boys – who must also fight for survival under the watchful eye of the experiment’s puppet master. Season 2 streaming May 6
- The Kids in the Hall (2022) is back with a new season of their groundbreaking sketch series, featuring a fresh batch of fun offbeat characters and beloved favorites, with sketches that pack a satirical punch, laced with the hilarious, edgy and fearless comedy The Kids are famous for. Streaming May 13
- Lovestruck High (2022) is a brand-new, immersive reality dating show that transports 15 UK singles to a very special American High School setting for a second chance at finding love. In Lovestruck High, an eclectic and diverse class of students won’t be going back to just any ordinary High School; they’ll be fulfilling their teenage fantasies by entering the nostalgic picture-perfect world of an American High School. The students’ ultimate assignment is to secure a date for Prom. Just who will be crowned Prom Royalty and win the $100,000 prize? The series will be narrated by none other than ‘teenage drama queen,’ y2k icon, Lindsay Lohan. Streaming May 18
- Bang Bang Baby (2022) is a crime drama set in Milan in 1986. Alice Giammatteo is sixteen years old and lives with her mother Gabriella in a small, boring working-class town in Northern Italy. Her grey and monotone teenage existence could not be further removed from the glossy images depicted on TV. Everything suddenly changes when she is confronted with a shocking revelation: Alice discovers that her father, Santo Maria, whom Alice believed have been murdered years earlier, is actually still alive. Determined to see him, Alice sets out for Milan and gets engulfed by her father’s family: the Barones, a clan belonging to the Milanese branch of a criminal organization. At its helm, is her ruthless grandmother Nonna Lina. Out of love for her father, Alice will begin her descent into the world of crime. Season 1, new episodes streaming May 19
- LOL: Si te ríes, pierdes (2022) The new six-episode season produced by Banijay Iberia will once again bring together the best Spanish masters of monologues, impersonations, physical humor and improvisation – among others – and will offer the audience a hysterical competition where it is as important to keep a straight face as it is to provoke the laughter of your opponents. Anything goes in this show, except one thing: if you laugh, you lose. The last comedian to keep their composure during the 6-hour challenge will win the grand prize of to donate to the charity of their choice. Streaming May 20
- Night Sky (2022) Spanning space and time, Night Sky follows Irene (Sissy Spacek) and Franklin York (J.K. Simmons), a couple who, years ago, discovered a chamber buried in their backyard which inexplicably leads to a strange, deserted planet. They’ve carefully guarded their secret ever since, but when an enigmatic young man (Chai Hansen) enters their lives, the Yorks’ quiet existence is quickly upended…and the mystifying chamber they thought they knew so well turns out to be much more than they could ever have imagined. Streaming May 20
- Emergency (2022) Ready for a night of partying, a group of college students must weigh the pros and cons of calling the police when faced with an unusual emergency. Streaming May 27
- Kick Like Tayla (2022) shares a raw and unfiltered look into the life of AFLW player and boxing champion, Tayla Harris, as she confronts public and personal challenges, and channels her platform for good. Streaming May 27
Sample of What’s Coming to Prime Video in May:
- Fat Albert (2004) – The beloved animated characters from the ‘70s cartoon series make the leap to live action to help a troubled teenager as they experience the heartfelt emotions and hilarious absurdities of the real world. Streaming May 1
- A League Of Their Own (1992) – Tom Hanks and Geena Davis star in this big-league comedy based on the real-life exploits of the All-American Girls Baseball League. Streaming May 1
- Dude Where’s My Car (2000) – Two potheads cannot
remember where they parked their car. Streaming May 1- Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008) – Dr. RJ Stevens is a talk show host who visits his family in the deep south. While there, he reunites with his family and his childhood crush Lucinda Allen. Streaming May 1
Prime Video Channels Sampling
Prime members have access to the first season of select shows or movies on Prime Video Channels at no additional cost to their membership. This list will be refreshed with titles each month and will only be available for a limited time. Shows and movies streaming in May include:
- Blaze and the Monster Machines: Season 1, Streaming May 1
- I Love That For You: Season 1, Streaming May 1
- Ridley Road: Season 1, Streaming May 1
- Chaos to Calm: Season 1, Streaming May 3
- Heartland: Season 1, Streaming May 3
- See No Evil: Season 1, Streaming May 4
- Bruh: Season 1, Streaming May 5
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Season 1, Streaming May 5
- The Porter: Season 1, Streaming May 5
- Couples Therapy: Season 1, Streaming May 6
- Kate & Koji: Season 1, Streaming May 6
- Love in the Jungle: Season 1, Streaming May 8
- Death in Paradise: Season 1, Streaming May 10
- A La Carte: Season 1, Streaming May 12
- Commit or Quit: Season 1, Streaming May 16
- The Ipcress File: Season 1, Streaming May 19
- Sex Life: Season 1, Streaming May 20
- Slippin’ Jimmy: Season 1, Streaming May 23
- The Responder: Season 1, Streaming May 24
- American Gangster: Trap Queens: Season 1, Streaming May 26
- Sweet Carolina: Streaming May 5
- Clean: Streaming May 6
- The Twin: Streaming May 6
- Chasing Waterfalls: Streaming May 12
- UEFA Europa League Finals: Streaming May 15
- Ghostbuster: Afterlife: Streaming May 16
- Dual: Streaming May 20
- Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City: Streaming May 23
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Streaming May 24
- UEFA Champions League Championship: Streaming May 28
New to Freevee / New Originals
- Bosch: Legacy (2022) After leaving the LAPD, Harry Bosch becomes a private investigator and finds himself working with one time enemy and top-notch attorney Money Chandler. Their deep and colored history informs the show while they work together to do what they can agree on, finding justice. Meanwhile, Bosch’s daughter Maddie is venturing into the world of the LAPD as a new recruit dealing with the politics of being a legacy cop in a time when policing is under scrutiny now more than ever. Streaming Now
- Troppo (2022) – Troppo is the story of Ted Conkaffey, played by Thomas Jane (The Expanse, The Vanished), an ex-cop falsely accused of committing a disturbing crime, who has escaped to hide away in the tropics of Far North Queensland. As he tries to avoid discovery, he’s drawn into investigating a wild murder and a missing person, alongside a complicated woman named Amanda Pharrell (played by Nicole Chamoun), with dark secrets of her own. Adapted for television by Yolanda Ramke, Troppo is based on the book Crimson Lake, the first novel in a gripping contemporary crime series set in Queensland, Australia, written by #1 New York Times best-selling author Candice Fox. Streaming May 20
Sample of What’s Coming to Freevee in May
- Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls (2022) – Multiplatinum Music Icon Lizzo is in search of her next BIG GRRRL dancers as she heads into her 2022 tour. 13
hopefuls arrive in Hollywood, CA, to leave it all on the floor
for a chance to be chosen to take center stage at the
Bonnaroo music festival. The stakes are high for the
hopefuls and Icon herself as this will be her first time
performing in front of a stadium crowd in two years.
Streaming Now Gone Girl (2014) – With his wife’s disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it’s suspected that he may not be innocent. Streaming Now- Gone Girl (2014) – With his wife’s disappearance having
become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees
the spotlight turned on him when it’s suspected that he may not be innocent. Streaming Now- Now You See Me (2013) – An F.B.I. Agent and an Interpol Detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances, and reward their audiences with the money. Streaming May 1
- Bosch (2015) – An L.A.P.D. homicide detective works to solve the murder of a thirteen-year-old boy while standing trial in federal court for the murder of a serial killer. Streaming Now
See below for complete offering of May titles available on Prime Video and Freevee.
Prime Video – Available to Prime members at< no additional cost to their membership.
TV SERIES
AVAILABLE NOW
- *Do, Re & Mi S106 (2022)
AVAILABLE MAY 1
- Blue Clues S1 (1999)
AVAILABLE MAY 6
- *The Wilds S2 (2022)
- *The Unsolved Murder of Beverly Lynn Smith S1 (2022)
AVAILABLE MAY 13
- *The Kids in the Hall S1 (2022)
AVAILABLE MAY 18
- *Lovestruck High (2022)
AVAILABLE MAY 19
- *Bang Bang Baby S1, Part 2 (2022)
AVAILABLE MAY 20
- *Night Sky (2022)
- *LOL: Si te ríes, pierdes (2022)
MOVIES
AVAILABLE NOW
- A Quiet Place Part II (2020)
- Rumble (2021)
- Clifford the Big Red Dog (2021)
- Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (2021)
- Wrath Of Man (2021)
- Love And Monsters (2020)
- Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)
- Horizon Line (2021)
- The Marksman (2021)
- Day Zero (2022)
AVAILABLE MAY 1
- Independence Day (1996)
- Tombstone (1993)
- Open Range (2003)
- Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
- The Guardian (2006)
- Office Space (1999)
- Enemy Of The State (1998)
- Taken (2008)
- Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000)
- Hitman (2007)
- Red Tails (2012)
- Sideways (2021)
- Tooth Fairy 2 (2012)
- Courage Under Fire (1996)
- Pearl Harbor (2001)
- Fat Albert (2004)
- Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
- The Angriest Man In Brooklyn (2014)
- Tangerine (2015)
- Europa Report (2013)
- Blackfish (2013)
- Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)
- Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991)
- Fargo (1996)
- Valley Girl (1983)
- The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)
- Platoon (1986)
- The Woods (2006)
- Bad Influence (1990)
- The Namesake (2007)
- Crank (2006)
- Mamma Mia! (2008)
- Shrek (2001)
- Shrek 2 (2004)
- Battleship (2012)
- Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)
- Don’t Be A Menace To South Central While
- Drinking Your Juice In The Hood (1996)
- Field Of Dreams (1989)
- Road To Perdition (2002)
- Eye For An Eye (1996)
- Zero Dark Thirty (2013)
- A League Of Their Own (1992)
- The Ugly Truth (2009)
AVAILABLE MAY 27
- Emergency (2022)
- Kick Like Tayla (2022)
MOTHER’S DAY
Prime Video titles available now to rent or stream
- All We Had (2016)
- Because I Said So (2007)
- Blackbird (2020)
- Freaky Friday (2003)
- Herself (2021)
- *I’m Your Woman (2020)
- Juno (2007)
- Lady Bird (2017)
- Mamma Mia (2008)
- Mars Needs Moms (2011)
- Mother’s Day (2016)
- Mothers and Daughters (2016)
- Mr. Mom (1983)
- Our Friend (2021)
- Postcards From The Edge (1990)
- The Blind Side (2009)
- Tyler Perry’s Single Moms Club (2014)
- *#IMomSoHard Live (2019)
Freevee – Available for free, no Prime membership needed.
TV SERIES
AVAILABLE NOW
- *Bosch (2015)
- *Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls (2022)
AVAILABLE MAY 6
- *Bosch: Legacy S1 (2022)
AVAILABLE MAY 20
- *Troppo S1 (2022)
MOVIES
AVAILABLE MAY 1
- A Beautiful Mind (2001)
- A Few Good Men (1992)
- A Perfect Getaway (2009)
- Analyze This (1999)
- Baby Mama (2008)
- Black Swan (2010)
- Blue Valentine (2010)
- Boonie Bears: The Big Shrink (2018)
- Bride Wars (2009)
- Call Me by Your Name (2017)
- Chappie (2015)
- Crazy Heart (2009)
- Dazed and Confused (1993)
- Deja Vu (2006)
- Evan Almighty (2007)
- Eve’s Bayou (1997)
- Funny People (2009)
- Galaxy Quest (1999)
- Gone Girl (2014)
- Gulliver’s Travels (2010)
- Hanna (2011)
- Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)
- Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)
- Hulk (2003)
- In Bruges (2008)
- Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
- Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (2013)
- Linsanity (2013)
- London Fields (2018)
- Now You See Me (2013)
- Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
- Safe House (2012)
- The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
- The Book of Life (2014)
- The Good Shepherd (2006)
- The Hunt (2020)
- The Iron Giant (1999)
- The Librarian III: The Curse of the Judas
- Chalice (2008)
- The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004)
- The Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines (2006)
- The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
- The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
- The Waterboy (1998)
- The Whole Truth (2016)
- Tower Heist (2011)
- What’s Your Number? (2011)
- Year One (2009)
- Your Highness (2011)
AVAILABLE MAY 2
- Hellboy (2019)
AVAILABLE MAY 8
- Sleepless (2017)
AVAILABLE MAY 23
- Dredd (2012)
- Bombshell (2019)
MOTHER’S DAY
FREEVEE TITLES AVAILABLE NOW TO STREAM
- Baby Mama (2008)
- Bewitched (1965)
- Definitely, Maybe (2008)
- The Women of Brewster Place (1989)