Disney+ continues to make themselves relevant by combining some of the biggest franchises, most awesome animations, and most emotionally resonant real events. Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld with its battles to control the galaxy is presented and the return of Miles Morales in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, will also be a major release this month as it is directly connected to the company’s strategy.
Every year, most of the fuss is about May the Fourth, and Disney saw it as a chance to spread the attention around, announcing a giant calendar where content is poured out weekly, not just on a single day. It is interesting to note that through the flow of the seasons of May such a schedule will cater to every need of subscribers covering different genres, age groups, as well as the taste of various audiences from around the world: the people who have been with Marvel for a great number of years, the Star Wars readers, and those others who are just excited about yay Stanley Tucci’s Italy food escapade. It seems to us that Disney+ in May 2025 is the most well-planned and the most personal to the audience launch of that company.
“Tales of the Underworld” is Star Wars’ Dark Side
Tales of the Underworld, an animated short that is part of the Star Wars franchise and whose first episode was released on May 4, marks the beginning of a new narrative with characters predominantly in gray areas. The main characters of the series, Asajj Ventress and Cad Bane, are placed in the period between Dark Disciple and The Clone Wars thus opening a new path for fans who were really drawn to the dark side to take a deeper look at these characters and many others.
With that done, the first two episodes would be unusually taken to the Fortnite market, luxury part of Disney’s plan targeting a much younger audience before the rest of the world can say they’ve seen it. The show’s visual style and on-screen persona development ensure that it will become a hot topic for the following month.
Spider-Man takes a quick stroll into Across the Spider-Verse
Available May 1 a new movie from the Spiderman series, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” is uploaded on a streaming platform for the first time ever, due to fans’ high praise. Miles Morales comes back to face a threat from a different universe, and the participation of many alternate Spider-heroes, the action is assured, and above all, fans from both the comic and the animation world will be hit by a wave of nostalgia.
The timing of the movie release is clever – Marvel’s line-up of live-action films is not as crowded as before, and the debut of this animated sensation on the platform certainly contributes to maintaining the superhero engagement high in the audience.
“Andor” Season 2 Comes to an End,
Andor takes its final leave on May 6 and 13, 2023 with the end of the season two story. The show which has been praised by the critics for one more season remains the most politically sensitive and plausible plot in the whole Star Wars universe. Cassian gets closer to his moment of truth beyond which his full alliance with the rebellion is inevitable thus he has to pay for it, hence the episodes will promise a lot of suspense and will also be an effective way to reward the loyal viewers at that time.
Do not forget the final episode of an anticipated series – Disney+ will have one of the most popular adult-oriented series to end its season while the new animated content is also going on.
The Real-World Content Became the Core of the Month
In the meantime, Disney’s new shows continue to amuse and entertain people around the world with wars in various galaxies and chaotic cross-dimensional tempests; however, they also take care to produce content that would strike a chord with the viewers of the real world. The Tucci in Italy program, which is released on May 19, depicts Stanley Tucci tasting the food, uncovering the traditions and stories of different regions in Italy.
The audience that the series is targeting are the middle-aged and senior viewers and people who are into culinary and traveling, and this type of content will certainly capture new audience groups for Disney+ aside from the established franchise followers only.
Full May 2025 Highlights on Disney+
- May 1: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Rise Up, Sing Out (Season 2)
- May 2: Genghis Khan: The Secret History of the Mongols
- May 4: Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld, Galaxy’s Edge, Rise of the Resistance
- May 6 & 13: Andor Season 2, Episodes 7–10 (Finale)
- Throughout May: New episodes of Doctor Who, Big City Greens, Firebuds, Hamster & Gretel, WWE Rivals, The UnXplained, Me & Winnie the Pooh, and more
- May 19: Tucci in Italy
- May 20–31: Family programming continues with Minnie’s Bow-Toons and How Not to Draw
Disney+ is not simply sequestering the power of its largest brands anymore. The release calendar for May illustrates clearly how the platform is aiming at everyone who loves watching TV — done in such a way that the releases are distributed every week and the content is diversified.
If you are planning to stop your subscription, you may reconsider it now. It is possible that Disney+ will show us the actual meaning of a balanced streaming strategy in May 2025.
