JUNE
“Sweet Tooth” (Season 3)
Netflix’s celebrated adaption of Jeff Lemire’s comic book series returns as our hero Gus (Christian Convery) and his crew of fellow hybrids continue the perilous journey to the relative safety of Alaska. The final season finds bigger roles for Rosalind Chao and Amy Smietz and welcomes Kelly Marie Tran to the cast.
Premiere Date: June 6 on Netflix.
“Star Wars: The Acolyte”
After keeping itself under wraps, seemingly for years, “Russian Doll” creator Leslye Headland’s mysterious “Star Wars” series finally revealed itself earlier this spring. Set nearly 100 years before the events of “The Phantom Menace” era of “Star Wars,” in the High Republic, the mystery thriller centers on a former Padawan (Amandla Stenberg) who reunites with her Jedi Master (Lee Jung-Jae from “Squid Game”) to investigate a series of crimes. However, the forces they confront are more sinister than they ever anticipated. The series co-stars Dafne Keen, Jodie Turner-Smith, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Margarita Levieva, among others, and looks a little bit like “The Matrix” meets the “Star Wars” prequels. Headland is already discussing a season two, so it’s not apparently the limited series we all thought it was initially.
Premiere Date: June 4 on Disney+.
“Clipped”
In what will be a PTSD for many fans of the Los Angeles Clippers, FX is adapting Ramona Shelbourne’s
investigative podcast centered on one of the NBA’s most pivotal moments: the fall of former Clippers owner Donald Sterling (Ed O’Neil). In the middle of the 2014 NBA playoffs, with the Clippers in a tight first-round series against the Golden State Warriors, audio of Sterling making racist remarks was leaked to TMZ. The limited series promises to provide a historical perspective on one of the most dramatic months in NBA history. The cast includes Laurence Fishburne as Doc Rivers, Cleopatra Coleman as V Stiviano, Jacki Weaver as Shelly Sterling, J. Alphonse Nicholson as Chris Paul, Sheldon Bailey as DeAndre Jordan, and Austin Scott as Blake Griffin.
Premiere Date: June 4 on Hulu.
“Becoming Karl Lagerfeld”
Following the success of “Halston,” “The New Look,” “The Collection,” and Ridley Scott’s movie “House Of Gucci,” tales of fashion drama are all the rage. So it makes sense that the late eccentric German fashion designer and icon Karl Lagerfeld gets his own kick at the can. Created by Isaure Pisani-Ferry, Jennifer Have, and Raphaëlle Bacqué, the series stars Daniel Brühl (the meme-generating Baron Von Zemo from “The Falcon And the Winter Solider”) as a young Lagerfeld still making his way into the fashion industry in the 1970s. Théodore Pellerin stars as Jacques de Bascher, Arnaud Valois as Yves Saint Laurent, and the limited series also includes Alex Lutz, Agnès Jaoui, and Sunnyi Melles.
Premiere Date: Friday, June 7, via Hulu.
“The Boys” (Season 4)
Following the chaotic events of season three, the world is now on the brink of destruction. Congresswoman Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit), a secret mole for Vought International, is closer than ever to the Oval Office and under the muscly thumb of Homelander (Antony Starr). Butcher (Karl Urban), with only months to live, has lost Becca’s son, Ryan (Cameron Crovetti), and his job as The Boys’ leader. The rest of the team is fed up with his lies. New faces in season two include Susan Heyward, Valorie Curry, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, joining the lineup suspects: Jack Quaid, Erin Moriarty, Laz Alonso, Tomer Capone, Karen Fukuhara, Jessie T. Usher, Chace Crawford, Colby Minifie, and Cameron Crovetti.
Premiere Date: June 13 via Prime Video.
“Presumed Innocent”
The same source material behind Alan J. Pakula‘s Harrison Ford 1987 legal thriller “Presumed Innocent,” the novel of the same name by Scott Turow, becomes a series from TV super producer David E. Kelley and executive producer J.J. Abrams. The series explores obsession, sex, politics, and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together. Jake Gyllenhaal stars alongside Ruth Negga, Bill Camp, Elizabeth Marvel, Peter Sarsgaard, O-T Fagbenle, and Renate Reinsve.
Premiere Date: June 14 via Apple TV+.
“Orphan Black: Echoes”
A spin-off from the “Orphan Black” cloning sci-fi series that brought Tatiana Maslany to fame, “Orphan Black: Echoes” takes place in the same universe and resumes thirty-seven years after the end of the original series. Starring Krysten Ritter (“Jessica Jones,” “Breaking Bad”), the series takes place in 2052 and follows the life of the now-adult Kira Manning (Maslany’s character’s daughter from the original) and her wife as they try to help an amnesiac girl. The original series explored issues about the moral and ethical implications of human cloning and its effect on identity, and “Orphan Black: Echoes” likely plays with many of the same ideas. The series also stars Keeley Hawes, Amanda Fix, Avan Jogia, James Hiroyuki Liao, and Rya Kihlstedt.
Premiere Date: June 23 on AMC.