Best TV Shows of May 2026
The standout scripted premieres and returning seasons for May 2026, ranked for people who want the shortlist rather than the full release calendar.
A tale of the bungling of Armageddon features an angel, a demon, an eleven-year-old Antichrist, and a doom-saying witch.
Follows Rupert Campbell-Black and Tony Baddingham as they have a longstanding rivalry that comes to a head.
Wealthy Mrs. Li moves her family from Luoyang to Bianjing to find husbands for her five daughters. Despite initial struggles, the family works together to establish a business and search for suitable matches.
A figurine made of chestnuts is found at the scene of a grisly murder; from this creepy clue, two detectives hunt for a killer linked to a politician's missing child.
After a vicious internal fight, two brothers are expelled of their beloved team's gang. Alone, without money or political protection, they will start a war that will put their brotherhood to the test.
On Chicago's south side, an average day finds kids prepping for school as their parents head off to work, young adults trying to make a living, and the elders keeping an eye on things from their front porches. But in this tough neighborhood, real dangers threaten daily to squelch dreams, and the simplest decisions can have life or death consequences. From Emmy® winner Lena Waithe, The Chi is a timely coming-of-age drama series centered on a group of residents who become linked by coincidence but bonded by the need for connection and redemption.
When a mysterious villain threatens to open the gates of Hell, a devilishly handsome demon hunter could be the world's best hope for salvation.
A lawyer attends a mindfulness retreat to restore work-life balance but unexpectedly becomes a murderer and mastermind for the mob.
After taking office as the magistrate of Chun'an County, the young champion Lu Jianglai repeatedly solved strange cases, but he was involved in an old case of murdering his wife, which caused him to fall from a rising star in the ...
When their convenience-store-magnate father dies, a pair of pampered Pakistani-American brothers lose everything and are forced to reckon with their Baba's secret life of crime as they attempt to take up his mantle in the underworld.