Streamers like Netflix, Prime Video and Peacock don’t really let up in supplying new content on their platforms.
That’s good news for you since there’s always something new to watch – or an underrated gem you may have missed the first time around.
Watch With Us has curated a list of some of the top new movies and TV shows you should stream this June 8-11 week.
At the top of our binge-watch list is Netflix’s Sweet Magnolias, which returns for another season of pastries and drama, and the British comedy series Alice and Steve, which is now streaming on Hulu.
‘Alice and Steve’ Season 1 – Hulu (Now Streaming)
Fiftysomething Brits Alice (Nicola Walker) and Steve (Jemaine Clement) have been friends for a long time and care deeply about each other. When Steve complains that he still feels lonely after his wife left him four years ago, Alice advises him to date a younger woman who can give him the domesticated life he so sorely desires. Steve does just that, but the younger woman he hooks up with is Alice’s 26-year-old daughter, Izzy (Yali Topol Margalith). D’oh!
That’s the intriguing setup to Alice and Steve, a six-episode black comedy that explores an age-gap romance that drives an uncomfortable wedge between two ride-or-die friends. Alice wants Steve to be happy, but not by having sex with her daughter, and her attempts to destroy their relationship are the main source of the film’s dry humor.
‘Among Us’ Season 1 – Paramount+ (Now Streaming)
Paramount+ unleashed a surprise on its subscribers last weekend when it unexpectedly released all 10 episodes of its animated series, Among Us. An adaptation of the very addictive 2018 multiplayer video game, Among Us follows a crew of astronauts who are stalked by an alien shapeshifter aboard their spaceship. As their numbers dwindle, they have to figure out who among them – get it? – is really the alien in disguise.
If a comedic take on John Carpenter’s 1982 sci-fi classic The Thing sounds like something right up your alley, then you’ll like Among Us. The animation is deliberately crude, as are most of the jokes, but it works. Best of all is the eclectic and talented voice cast, which includes Elijah Wood, Yvette Nicole Brown and Downton Abbey‘s Dan Stevens.
‘Eva Longoria: Searching For France’ Season 1 (June 9)
Gabrielle Solis is a long way from Wisteria Lane in Eva Longoria: Searching for France, a CNN docuseries that sees the Desperate Housewives actress Eva Longoria travel around the Emmanuel Macron-led country looking for adventure and a good bottle of wine.
In most of the show’s eight episodes, Longoria travels to a different French city, like Paris, Burgundy and Provence, to visit famous landmarks and find out all the different customs and traditions the country possesses. There’s also an episode devoted to Parisian deserts, and if that doesn’t entice you enough to watch this show, nothing will.
‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.’ –Prime Video (June 11)
It’s not a new film, but chances are Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. is new to you since no one saw it when it first came out three years ago. That’s why Watch With Us lives by the motto, “Better late than never” – we’d be out of a job if we didn’t.
In this tender coming-of-age drama, young Margaret (Abby Ryder Fortson) is slowly learning about all the “adult” things that she didn’t know about, like dating boys, training bras and getting her period. Fortunately for Margaret, she has an understanding mother (Rachel McAdams), a dorky yet kind dad (Benny Safdie) and a boisterous grandma (Kathy Bates) to help her navigate the highs and lows of growing up in 1970s New Jersey.
‘Sweet Magnolias’ Season 5 – Netflix (June 11)
One of Netflix’s biggest original hit series is Sweet Magnolias, a sugary-sweet drama about three friends who support each other through thick and thin in their small South Carolina town. In season 5, the Magnolias ditch the South and take Manhattan – at least for a little bit. Helen (Heather Headley) is about to get married, and she needs a wedding dress to make her soon-to-be-hubby drool. But back home in Serenity, things are not so serene in Dana Sue’s (Brooke Elliott) marriage.
Marital drama? Crises of multiple consciences? Beautifully shot scenes of small towns and big cities free of real-world problems like homelessness and drugs? It wouldn’t be Sweet Magnolias without those things. Season 5 promises more of the same, but if the show’s recipe for streaming success has worked so far, why change it?
