What's Worth Streaming: Here’s everything new coming to HBO Max in May 2022 — and what’s leaving

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HBO Max will roll out the second season of “Hacks” in May, along with a George Carlin documentary, an adaptation of “The Time Traveler’s Wife” and a slew of movies.

After a debut season that won multiple Emmys, the comedy “Hacks” (May 12) returns for its second season, with the give-and-take mentorship between legendary comedian Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and writer Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder) facing new challenges as the duo take a cross-country tour to workshop their new standup material.

May 15 brings Stephen Moffatt’s adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger’s popular 2003 novel “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” starring Rose Leslie and Theo James as star-crossed lovers plagued by a time-travel disorder that keeps somehow reuniting them at various points in their lives. There’s also “The Staircase” (May 5), a true-crime limited series starring Colin Firth and Toni Collette.

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Now under the umbrella of Warner Bros. Discovery WBD, -6.78%, HBO Max also has the two-part documentary “George Carlin’s American Dream” (date TBA), and new seasons of the sketch show “That Damn Michael Che” (May 26) and comedy variety show “PAUSE with Sam Jay” (date TBA).

On the movie front, Max is adding titles such as “The Matrix: Resurrections” (May 10), M. Night Shyamalan’s “Old” (May 13), and the Russian-dissident documentary “Navalny” (May 26), while favorites such as “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” “The Grifters” and “Clueless” are leaving by the end of the month.

Here’s the complete list of what’s coming and leaving in May, as of April 21 (release dates are subject to change):

What’s coming in May 2022

Date TBA
George Carlin’s American Dream, Documentary Premiere (HBO)
PAUSE with Sam Jay, Season 2 Premiere (HBO)

May 1
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
47 Ronin
Assassins
At Close Range
An Autumn Afternoon
The Big Sleep
Back to School
Bottle Rocket
Calladita
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Child 44
Chungking Express
The Color Purple
Conan the Barbarian
Devil in a Blue Dress
Dodes ‘Ka-Den
Domino
Downhill
Dragnet Girl
Early Spring
Early Summer
The End of Summer
Equinox Flower
Eraser
Fallen Angels
Floating Weeds
Frida
The Fugitive
Furry Vengeance
Gang Related
Good Morning
Hard Rain
Hart’s War
High and Low
Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius
Julie
Killers
Language Lessons
Love and Baseball
The Machine That Kills Bad People
Masters of the Universe
The Missing
The New Guy
North Dallas Forty
Not Easily Broken
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Poseidon
Red Beard
Ringo and His Golden Pistol
Rugrats Go Wild
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
The Rugrats Movie
The Sapphires
Sense and Sensibility
Sliding Doors
St. Elmo’s Fire
The Stepford Wives
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Tokyo Twilight
Top Secret!
Transporter 3
Unbroken
Underworld
Underworld: Awakening
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Welcome to the Dollhouse
W.E., 2011
What to Expect When You’re Expecting
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
You, Me and Dupree
Young Adult
Zathura: A Space Adventure

May 3
Spring Awakening: Those You’ve Know, Documentary Premiere

May 5
Las Bravas F.C., Max Original Season 1 Premiere
Queen Stars Brazil, Max Original Season 1 Premiere
The Staircase, Max Original Limited Series Premiere

May 6
Dear Evan Hansen
Entre Nos: Carmen and Alfred
La Afinadora De Árboles

May 7
We Baby Bears, Season 1 Part C

May 9
Get Hard

May 10
Catwoman: Hunted
The Matrix: Resurrections

Sesame Street Mecha Builders Season 1 Part A
Robot Chicken Season 11 Part B

May 12
Hacks, Max Original Season 2 Premiere
Who’s By Your Side, Max Original Season 1 Premiere

May 13
Hank Zipzer
Old

Smalls, Season 4

May 15
The Time Traveler’s Wife, Series Premiere

May 17
Sesame Street Mecha Builders, Season 1 Part B
The Mule

May 20
Identidad Tomada

May 22
Fast Foodies, Season 2

May 23
Teen Titans Go! Season 7 Part B

May 26
Navalny

That Damn Michael Che, Max Original Season 2 Premiere
Tig n’ Seek, Max Original Season 4 Premiere

May 27
Blippi Special
Blippi Visits
Blippi Wonders
Blippi: Learn With Blippi
Ghost, Season 1
Ghost, Season 2
Stath Lets Flats

May 29
The Misery Index Season 3 Part B

May 31
Miami Vice

What’s leaving in May

May 14
Cry Wolf

May 24
Cinderella Man
The 40-Year-Old Virgin

May 25
Curious George
Two for the Money

May 27
Doom
Pride & Prejudice

May 31
27 Dresses
The Animal
A Perfect Murder
A Very Brady Sequel
Adult Beginners
Army of Darkness
Billy Elliot
Bully
Changing Lanes
Clueless
Control Room
Cymbeline
Dead Heat
Dirty Pretty Things
Doctor Dolittle
Doubt
Dr. Dolittle 2
Enough Said
Extract
Fatal Attraction
Frontera
Gloria
Godsend
How to Be Single
Insomnia
Iris
It Takes Two
Killerman
Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man
Love and a .45
Mama
Mindhunters
Phone Booth
Princess Kaiulani
Pulse
Rubber
Speed
Stoker
Super Capers
The Answer Man
The Benchwarmers
The Conspirator
The Forgotten
The Good Doctor
The Grifters
The Italian Job
The Lawnmower Man
The Rules of Attraction
The Witches of Eastwick
The Wolfpack
The Wrecking Crew!
This Is 40
Troll Hunter
Two Lovers
The Two Jakes
Viva
War Horse
War on Everyone
World’s Greatest Dad
Wristcutters: A Love Story