The 11 Best Things Coming to Hulu in April

New thrillers, dramas and documentaries light up the streamer this month — plus, ‘The Big Lebowski’!

Chris Nashawaty,

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Published February 02, 2024

/ Updated March 26, 2024

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April showers are on the way, and thankfully, it’s also raining fresh offerings on Hulu this month. So ditch those galoshes, stay inside where it’s dry, and check out the streaming debuts of a New York Times expose about the dark side of horse racing or the latest peek behind the reality curtain at everyone’s favorite Beverly Hills housewife or a rockin’ docuseries about Jersey’s own Bon Jovi (hair spray not included). Mark your worth-the-watch list with these 11 shows and films.

Coming April 1

The Big Lebowski (1998, R)

Believe it or not, this quotable Coen brothers caper wasn’t regarded as a classic out of the gate. But time has been very kind to the Dude. Jeff Bridges, 74, stars as a pot-addled slacker who gets wrangled into a twisty kidnap-and-ransom plot and makes a hilarious mess out of it, thanks to his dim bowling buddies Walter (John Goodman, 71) and Donny (Steve Buscemi, 66). You can never watch this one too many times; The Big Lebowski contains multitudes.

Captain Phillips (2013, PG-13)

Tom Hanks, 67, gives a bravura performance in this true-life thriller about a U.S. container ship hijacked by Somali pirates in 2009. Directed with white-knuckle tension by Paul Greengrass, 68, Captain Phillips is a first-rate tick-tock procedural that slowly tightens like a vise on the audience’s nerves. As the Somali crew’s leader, Barkhad Abdi adds complexity to what could have easily been a one-note villain. It was Abdi’s first acting job, and he rightly nabbed an Oscar nomination for his efforts.

Vanderpump Villa

If you ever wondered what Below Deck would be like if it was set at a French chateau and the host was Lisa Vanderpump of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, you’re in luck. In this reality series, the posh restaurateur curates luxury experiences for wealthy guests while trying to whip her staff of young servers, chefs and bartenders (sorry, mixologists) into shape. Will they be able to live up to her high expectations? Well, since the show’s tagline is “Come for the decadence, stay for the drama,” we’re going to guess the answer is no.

Coming April 4

American Horror Story: Delicate Part 2

The back half of the latest installment of FX’s campy horror anthology kicks off with returning stars Kim Kardashian, Emma Roberts and Cara Delevingne. Roberts plays a young actress on the rise who sells her soul for fame, which we all know almost never ends well. Judging from the trailer, it certainly looks like her publicist (Kardashian) is the one who will collect the debt.

Coming April 17

Under the Bridge

If you walked out of Killers of the Flower Moon wanting to see more of Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone, you’re in luck — and you didn’t even have to wait very long! Based on Rebecca Godfrey’s true-crime book about the disappearance of 14-year-old Reena Virk (Vritika Gupta) in 1997, this procedural series traces the case through the eyes of a police officer (Gladstone) and the author investigating the girl’s vanishing (Riley Keough).

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Coming April 19

Welcome to Wrexham, Season 3

For the past two seasons, FX’s Welcome to Wrexham has chronicled the ups and downs of a pair of inexperienced Hollywood outsiders (Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney) who purchase a struggling Welsh soccer team and try to turn it into a contender. Now that they’ve more or less accomplished that, what happens when they give the team’s fans hope? Tune in to this charming warts-and-all docuseries to find out.

Coming April 20

High Hopes, Season 1

Fresh off his Oscar-hosting gig, Jimmy Kimmel, 56, puts on his executive producer hat for this workplace series about a pair of brothers who run an L.A. cannabis dispensary and the dazed-and-confused employees who help them (legally) peddle weed to their colorful Angeleno customers. We assume it’s best watched with a giant bag of Cheetos. Naturally, it launches on the official 4/20 high holiday.

Coming April 22

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Hip-Hop and the White House

This Hulu original documentary examines the intersection of hip-hop and politics, highlighting the artists who have influenced U.S. presidents. Narrated by Jeezy, the Atlanta rapper whose song “My President” was released two months before the election of Barack Obama, the movie chronicles how American inner-city policies created the environment for the birth of hip-hop and how the genre’s mainstream success turned it into an art form that politicians could not afford to ignore.

Coming April 26

Thank you, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story

Gather round, Jovi fans. This four-part doc series takes us behind the spandex for an intimate history of the Jersey hair rock legends behind “You Give Love a Bad Name” and “Livin’ on a Prayer,” including candid interviews with the band members. Fellow Jerseyite Bruce Springsteen, 74, weighs in: “Jon’s choruses demand to be sung by 20,000 people in an arena.” As testimonials go, that isn’t too shabby.

Coming April 27

The New York Times Presents: Broken Horses

In this documentary expose, the newspaper of record investigates the shady world of big-time horse racing and discovers that it is rife with doping and various sordid shenanigans that beg for stricter regulations. It culminates with the 2023 Triple Crown racing season in which more than a dozen horses mysteriously died.

Coming April 30

The Veil

Elisabeth Moss stars in this globe-trotting cat-and-mouse espionage thriller from FX. Operating in the shadowy gray area between truth and lies while playing one top-secret government agency against another, Moss’ lethal chameleon is tasked with tracking down an equally lethal mystery woman (Yumna Marwan) who possesses a secret that everyone seems to want. Their delicate and deadly dance takes them from Istanbul to Paris to London.

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Chris Nashawaty, former film critic for Entertainment Weekly, is the author of Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story and a contributor to Esquire, Vanity Fair, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

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