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I wrapped up the very good second season of Mythic Quest on Apple+ before my free trial gets cut off, though think I’ll let it slide for a month to catch Ted Lasso before I cut ties. We’ll see what I’ll do when the third seasons of those come out, I have refrained from getting into anything else. I also enjoyed Bridgerton and wrapped the series of The Bold Type which was ridiculous in anything having to do with the business side of things but fun and light in a Sex in the City/Younger kind of way.
I’m excited for the return of brutal Animal Kingdom on TNT and the entertaining This Way Up and Never Have I Ever. My main recommendation would be the return/new Leverage, though I’m also cautiously optimistic about Wellington Paranormal based on the ridiculous What We Do In the Shadows.
- The Beast Must Die (AMC) Series Premiere, Monday 7/12, 10pm (7/5 on AMC+) – This six-part ‘revenge thriller’ where a mother, Cush Jumbo, looks to take revenge on the man she thinks killed her son, Jared Harris, a good enough cast to have potential.
- Gossip Girl (HBOM) Series Premiere, Thursday 7/8 – I dropped the old GG after a few seasons but the start sure was fun, here’s hoping this updated version brings it.
- Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness (Net) Series Premiere, Thursday 7/8 – I remember these movies as being sort of fun though not as interested in an animated series.
- Leverage: Redemption (IMDB) Series Premiere, Friday 7/9 – This original series was a fun light caper each episode, and glad to see the majority of the cast back, though Noah Wyle taking over for controversial Timothy Hutton and Aldis Hodge in limited eps.
- Wimbledon (ABC) – Men’s and women’s finals Saturday and Sunday at noon, previous rounds on ESPN.
- Wellington Paranormal (CW) Series Premiere, Sunday 7/11 – This New Zealand horror-comedy about the investigation into paranormal cases is a spinoff of What We Do In the Shadows so sure I’m in.
- The White Lotus (HBO) Series Premiere, Sunday 7/11 – This six-episode series takes various guests to an exclusive Hawaiian resort, but is there a darker side to this drama, initial reviews are good.
- Professor T (PBS) Series Premiere, Sunday 7/11 – Teaching at Cambridge about the science of crime but his self-imposed sterile state from his OCD is disrupted when he helps a former student with an actual crime.
- Eden (Spec) Series Premiere Monday 7/12 – All is not as it seems in this Australian thriller series where we look at characters and events before, during, and after a woman goes missing.
- American Horror Stories (Fx/Hulu) Series Premiere, Thursday 7/15 – If you didn’t get enough of American Horror Story, this is a weekly anthology series.
- Dr. Death (Pea) Series Premiere, Thursday 7/15 – Based on the podcast, a drama exploring the twisted mind of a doctor and the failures of the medical system with Joshua Jackson, Alec Baldwin, Christian Slater, and AnnaSophia Robb.
- The North Water (AMC+) Series Premiere, Thursday 7/15 – Based on the novel, set in the late 1850s a disgraced ex-army surgeon finds a job on an ARctic whaling ship.
- Schmigadoon! (App+) Series Premiere, Friday 7/16 – A parody of musicals with Cecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key and many other great talents, where they get trapped in a magical town to find “true love.”
- SurrealEstate (Syfy) Series Premiere, Friday 7/16 – Haunted and possessed houses calls for a special team of realtors in this drama.
- The End (Show) Series Premiere, Sunday 7/18, 8pm – This dark comedy is set in an Australian retirement community.
- Power Book III: Raising Kanan (Starz) Series Premiere, Sunday 7/18, 8pm – A prequel about the early years of “Power.”
More Streaming:
- You Are My Spring (Net) Series Premiere, Monday 7/5 – A hotel concierge and a psychiatrist form a bond over a local murder case in this Korean romantic drama.
- The War Next-Door (Net) Series Premiere, Wednesday 7/7 – The matriarchs of two families in a posh neighborhood good to war in this Mexican comedy.
- The Cook of Castamar (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 7/9 – Based on a novel, in 1720s Madrid a cook catches the eye of a duke.
Returning streaming: I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson (Net, 7/6), Dogs (Net, 7/7), Mire (Net, 7/7), The Dog House (HBOM, 7/8), Motherland (SundN, 7/8), This Way Up (Hulu, 7/9), Atypical (Net, 7/9), Biohackers (Net, 7/9), Virgin River (Net, 7/9), Jack Irish (Acorn, 7/12), El Cid (Am, 7/15), Archibald’s Next Big Thing is Here (Pea, 7/15), Beastars (Net, 7/15), First Wives Club (BET+7/15), Never Have I Ever (Net, 7/15), Making the Cut (Am, 7/16), Explained (Net, 7/16), Serengeti (Disc+, 7/18).
The procrastinator lists mostly scripted items that may not be on your regular season pass, though notation does not imply recommendation. Times noted are typically PST.
