Prime Video Reassesses May Slate

Prime Video is adding to its May slate of premieres a futuristic parenting thriller starring Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Olsen.

The Assessment, which streams from May 8, is set in the near future, when parenthood is strictly controlled. Reads the blurb:

A couple’s seven-day assessment for the right to have a child unravels into a psychological nightmare, forcing them to question the very foundations of their society and what it truly means to be human.

Himesh Patel, Minnie Driver, Indira Varma, Nicholas Pinnock, Charlotte Ritchie and Leah Harvey co-star in French director Fleur Fortuné’s first feature.

Here’s the trailer.

Prime Video’s also released the trailer for season three of The Summer I Turned Pretty, which premieres on July 16.

The teaser features Daylight from the album Lover and Red (Taylor’s Version) from the album Red (Taylor’s Version) by Taylor Swift.

The final 11 episodes of the multigenerational drama that hinges on a love triangle between one girl and two brothers open with Belly looking forward to another summer in Cousins with her soulmate, Jeremiah. Continues the blurb:

Her future seems set, until some core-shaking events bring her first love Conrad back into her life. Now on the brink of adulthood, Belly finds herself at a crossroads and must decide which brother has her heart. Summer will never be the same …

Based on the best-selling book trilogy from Jenny Han, the Prime Video drama has become a cultural sensation. S1 debuted in summer 2022 and become the #1 show on Prime Video premiere weekend. S2 followed a year later and more than doubled the original’s viewership within three days of launch.