HBO Max’s new Japanese samurai action drama Song of the Samurai is based on the popular manga series Chiruran: Shinsengumi Requiem. Set in Kyoto at the end of the Edo period, the show follows the lives of the Shinsengumi, the samurai warriors that defended Kyoto in the final years of Japan’s shogunate. Originally developed in Japan by the Tokyo Broadcasting System and streaming platform U-NEXT, the new series will debut on HBO Max on May 9.

Actor Jason Momoa has several passions (like rock-climbing), and his HBO Max travel series On The Roam allows him to seek out equally passionate people to meet and share their stories. On the show, Momoa travels all over the world, often on his motorcycle, meeting fellow creative minds, like artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel and Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett, who inspire him. The six-episode season will premiere on May 14 and new episodes drop weekly until June 18.

In 2025, HBO released the true crime doc-series The Yogurt Shop Murders, a four-part show about the 1991 murders of four Texas teens. The series aired in the summer of 2025 and posited several theories about who could have committed the unsolved crime, leaving viewers without any real answers… until now. 

After the original Yogurt Shop Murders episodes premiered, new DNA evidence was discovered, helping police solve the 34-year-old mystery, and all will be revealed in a brand-new episode of the show that’s coming to HBO Max on May 22.

Wuthering Heights is one of the most enduring romance stories of all time, and the 2026 film version starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi has breathed new life into the story of Cathy and Heathcliff. Though Emerald Fennell’s take on the Emily Bronté classic has its critics who don’t love how stylized the film is, there’s no denying that it captures the intense longing of young love (and lust). After hitting theaters earlier this year, the film is available on HBO Max starting May 1.

Greenland was a 2020 dystopian drama starring Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin as husband and wife John and Allison Garrity, whose family survives a comet striking Earth and wiping out much of civilization by holing up in a bunker in Greenland. The film was a hit, and now in the 2026 sequel, Greenland 2: Migration, the Garritys’ secure bunker has been destroyed, forcing them to escape to Europe seeking refuge. You probably can guess, since this a Gerard Butler movie, that the journey won’t be very easy or safe.

The French Open marks the second tennis Grand Slam of the season, and this year, the main draw competition begins on May 24. A match schedule is not available yet, but as of now, you can expect to see players such as Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka on the clay courts of Roland-Garros this year. Live matches will air on broadcast television in the US on TNT and TruTV, and they’ll stream live on HBO Max throughout the tournament, which ends June 7.

Comedian Josh Johnson might be best known as one of the hosts of The Daily Show (or perhaps you’re one of the nearly 2.5 million subscribers to his YouTube channel), and his first HBO comedy special, Josh Johnson: Symphony, is arriving this month. Johnson’s new batch of material was filmed earlier this year at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles and it premieres on May 22.