Staying Fit
April showers bring May flowers — and a downpour of Die Hard movies on Hulu, plus the compelling whodunit series Shardlake, a bundle of Wes Anderson films and more. Check out our must-watch list of Hulu’s new crop of shows and movies.
Coming May 1
Wes Anderson films
Fans of the auteur’s finely tuned, chromatically rich environments and quirky characters will be thrilled to find many of his finest works streaming on Hulu this month. Titles include 2007’s The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox (celebrating its 15th anniversary), The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (on its 20th anniversary), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and the marvelous Rushmore (1998), with two of the director’s great muses: Bill Murray, 73, and Jason Schwartzman, who vie hilariously and poignantly for the hand of elementary school teacher Olivia Williams, 55.
AARP Membership— $12 for your first year when you sign up for Automatic Renewal
Get instant access to members-only products and hundreds of discounts, a free second membership, and a subscription to AARP the Magazine.
Shardlake, Season 1
If you’re not already a fan of author C.J. Sansom’s popular Tudor-era murder mysteries, this four-part series based on his first novel may get you hooked. Our hero is 16th-century lawyer Matthew Shardlake (Arthur Hughes), who’s ordered by Thomas Cromwell (Game of Thrones’s Sean Bean, 65) to investigate a murder at a remote monastery. Directed by Justin Chadwick, 55 (The Other Boleyn Girl).
Coming May 2
The Contestant
Part The Truman Show, part Dark Mirror and a chilling preview of the rise of anything-goes reality TV, this Hulu Original documentary revisits a cynical Japanese reality show in the late 1990s that tricked aspiring comedian Tomoaki Hamatsu, known as Nasubi, into stripping naked and filling out contest coupons from a stack of magazines to win what he needed to survive until he reached a prize goal of 1 million yen. He had no idea he was being filmed — and broadcast — to the Japanese public.
More From AARP
Robin Weigert Feels the Power of Family in ‘We Were the Lucky Ones’
The ‘Deadwood’ star on Hulu’s Holocaust dramaLisa Ann Walter: ‘I Love What I Do, So That Makes It Easy’
‘Abbott Elementary’ actress talks teacher who inspired her and winning ‘Celebrity Jeopardy!’
15 Hidden Gems on Hulu Right Now
Watch 'McCartney 3, 2, 1,' Stephen King's JFK time-travel series, the British original 'The Office' and moreRecommended for You