New releases for your streaming pleasure: Apr 26 - May 2

New releases for your streaming pleasure: Apr 26 - May 2

17 new titles from Apple TV+, Netflix, HBO Go and Discovery

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
New releases for your streaming pleasure: Apr 26 - May 2

Looking for a title to binge-watch this weekend? Here's our pick!

APPLE TV+

The Afterparty (Season 2) 

Premieres on April 28

The hit murder mystery series returns with a new season. The first season takes place in a high school backdrop, reuniting former schoolmates, whereas the second season will take place at a wedding. More specifically, in the second season, a wedding is ruined when the groom is murdered, and every guest is labelled a suspect. Detective Danner (Tiffany Haddish) returns to assist Aniq (Sam Richardson) in solving the mystery by questioning family members and business partners, each with a different story to tell. 


NETFLIX

The Light We Carry: Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey

Premieres on April 25

Michelle Obama delves into the challenges and life lessons that shaped her second bestselling book in an illuminating conversation with Oprah Winfrey.

Love After Music

Premieres on April 26

No one can and no one should live without love. This bioseries traces the passionate life and career of iconic Argentinian rock star Fito Paez.

Catastrophe

Premieres on April 26

Rob, an advertising executive from Boston, starts dating an Irish professor, Sharon, after he gets her pregnant on a wild business trip to London.

Firefly Lane (Final Chapter)

Premieres on April 27

The journey of Tully and Kate will conclude, with the remaining seven episodes dropping simultaneously.

The Good Bad Mother 

Premieres on April 26 

A tragic accident leaves an ambitious prosecutor with the mind of a child — forcing him and his mother to embark on a journey to heal their relationship. 

Workin’ Moms (Season 7)

Premieres on April 26

Kate is pushed out of her comfort zone by developments at work; Sloane doubles down as the hardest working executive with a baby; Anne bounces back from her attack better than ever.

The Nurse

Premieres on April 27

Based on Kristian Corfixen’s award-winning nonfiction true-crime book "The Nurse: The True Story Behind One of Scandinavia’s Most Notorious Criminal Trials", "The Nurse" ("Sygeplejersken") tells the true story of the Danish nurse who was convicted of the attempted manslaughter of four patients. The four-episode limited series stars Josephine Park, Fanny Bernth, Amalie Lindegård, Peter Zandersen and Dick Kaysø.

Finding You  

Premieres on April 28 

After failing an audition, a violinist travels to Ireland to find inspiration and meets a famous movie star looking for a real connection.

4Eve: The 1st Concert Friends & Family 

Premieres on April 29

Girl group 4Eve takes the stage at a packed Queen Sirikit National Convention Center in Bangkok for their first concert in front of adoring fans.  

Love Village

Premieres on May 2

Wedding & Romance Reality TV. Singles 35 and over of various backgrounds relocate to a house in the countryside for another chance at love.

Jewish Matchmaking

Premieres on May 3

With Aleeza Ben Shalom. It follows singles in the US and Israel as they turn their dating life over to a top Jewish matchmaker.

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story

Premieres on May 4

Queen Charlotte is never shy about taking centrestage in Bridgerton. Supporting character or not, she recognises that’s exactly where she and her enviable outfits belong. But the beloved royal is about to enjoy the limelight like never before.


HBO/HBO GO

White House Plumbers

Premieres on May 2

From Emmy winners David Mandel, Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck, and starring Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux, the five-episode limited series “White House Plumbers” takes the audience behind-the-scenes of the Watergate scandal as Nixon's political saboteurs, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, accidentally topple the presidency they were zealously trying to protect… and their families along with it. Chronicling actions on the ground, this satirical drama begins in 1971 when the White House hires Hunt and Liddy, former CIA and FBI, respectively, to investigate the Pentagon Papers leak. After failing upward, the unlikely pair lands on the committee to re-elect the president, plotting several unbelievable covert ops — including bugging the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate complex. Proving that history can sometimes be stranger than fiction, White House Plumbers sheds light on the lesser-known series of events that led to one of America's greatest political crimes.

Love & Death

Premieres on April 27

This limited series tells the true story of Candy and Pat Montgomery and Betty and Allan Gore —two churchgoing couples enjoying their smalltown Texas life... until an extramarital affair leads somebody to pick up an axe. Elizabeth Olsen and Jesse Plemons star in this riveting drama written by David E. Kelley and directed by Lesli Linka Glatter.


DISCOVERY

India 2050

Premieres on April 27

This story of the grim, imaginary future of India uses fact-based forecasting based on current environmental and climate trends to inspire awareness and change today.

Tigerland

Premieres on April 28

A century ago, there were more than 100,000 tigers on the planet. Today, there are a significantly less. This project filmed in several locations, including India, take a look at the threats that tigers face from human encroachment on their natural habitat and features conservationists and the local populations of India and Bhutan where the last tigers roam.


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