CRAVETV TAKES THE CASUAL APPROACH
WHAT YOU CAN WATCH IN JULY
Comedy-drama series Casual could best be described as a better version of Two and a Half Men. The series, created by Zander Lehmann and produced by Jason Reitman, stars the criminally underrated Michaela Watkins as Valerie and Tommy Dewey as Alex, adult siblings who happen to live together — along with Valerie’s teenage daughter. The brother and sister duo navigate every bit of drama that comes with an early mid-life crisis, with plenty of laughs along the way.
While it may be described as a comedy, it leans heavily on drama, zeroing in on the special bond between siblings, people bound to each other by blood and the same dysfunctional childhood. It debuts its fourth and final season July 31 on CraveTV.
Before that, It’s more drama for July, but of the deliciously trashy kind. Netflix has teen comedy Jawbreaker (starring 1990s trifecta Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart and Julie Benz), Season 6 of Orange is the New Black and, to round off the sassy heroine theme, Season 1 of Good Girls. The new sitcom follows yet another flawless trifecta in Rhetta, Christina Hendricks and Mae Whitman as three moms who decide to attempt a heist in order to provide for their progeny and win some power.
If it’s retro drama you’re into, Amazon Prime Video has The Borgias (which includes royalty, politics and incest) this month, along with Season 1 of Camelot (following a young King Arthur).
As far as series and films leaving streaming networks near you, be sure to catch It’s Complicated before time runs out.
It’s one of the last half-decent rom-coms to grace our screens in the last decade, and it is leaving Netflix on July 6. Make the necessary arrangements.
NETFLIX
❚ July 1
A River Runs Through It Barbie Dolphin Magic Counterfeiting in Suburbia District 9 Dogtown and Z-Boys Hitch
Hot Fuzz Jawbreaker Kung Fu Panda 3
Now You See Me 2
Paul Blart: Mall Cop Return to the Blue Lagoon Swiss Army Man
The Boss
The Exorcism of Emily Rose Within
❚ July 2
Dance Academy:
The Comeback
❚ July 3
The Comedy Lineup Good Girls
❚ July 4
A Beautiful Mind American Graffiti Brewster’s Millions Charlie St. Cloud Curious George Mercury Rising
The Dream Team
The Family Man
❚ July 5
Hyori’s Bed & Breakfast (Season 2)
❚ July 6 Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee: New 2018: Freshly Brewed
First Team: Juventus: Part B The Fosters: Season 5 Free Rein: Season 2 Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons: Season 2
I, Tonya
Sacred Games Samantha! Somebody Feed Phil: The Second Course
The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter
The Skin of The Wolf White Fang
❚ July 8
War Dogs
❚ July 9
Lockup: Extended Stay (Season 1)
Ratchet and Clank
❚ July 10
All the Queen’s Horses Baby Ballroom (Season 2) Drug Lords (Season 2)
❚ July 11
Mossad 101 (Season 2)
❚ July 12
Suits (Season 7)
❚ July 13 How It Ends — Netflix Film Jim Jefferies: This Is Me Now Last Rampage
Sugar Rush
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants
❚ July 15 Bonusfamiljen (Season 2) Hollywood Weapons (Season 2)
The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale: Part 2 Suicide Squad
❚ July 18
Queen of the South (Season 2)
❚ July 19
The Stranger
❚ July 20
Amazing Interiors
Dark Tourist
Deep Undercover (Season 3) Duck Duck Goose
Father of the Year
Final Space
Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh
Jimmy: The True Story of a True Idiot
Last Chance U: EMCC & Life After
Last Chance U: INDY: Part 1 Luna Petunia: Return to Amazia (Season 2)
Mom and Dad
❚ July 23
44 Pages
Better Call Saul (Season 3) Sausage Party
The Devil and Father Amorth
❚ July 24
Iliza Shlesinger: Elder Millennial — Netflix Original
The Warning — Netflix Film
❚ July 27
The Bleeding Edge Daddy’s Home 2 Extinction
Orange Is the New Black (Season 6)
Roman Empire: Reign of Blood: Master of Rome Welcome to the Family
The Worst Witch (Season 2)
❚ July 30
A Very Secret Service (Season 2)
❚ July 31
Hinterland (Season 3) Terrace House: Opening New Doors: Part 3
WHAT’S LEAVING NETFLIX ...
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (July 1)
Dazed and Confused (July 1) Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (July 1)
The Other Woman (July 1) Rio 2 (July 1)
It’s Complicated (July 6) Disney’s Alice Through the Looking Glass (July 11)
Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax (July 14) Lie to Me: Seasons 1-3 (July 25) Braveheart (July 27)
CRAVETV
❚ July 1
South Park (Season 21)
❚ July 4
The Words That Built America
❚ July 6
Corner Gas Animated (Season 1)
David Bowie: The Last Five Years
❚ July 13
Ballers (Seasons 1, 2) Jersey Shore Family Vacation (Season 1)
Tour de Pharmacy
❚ July 20
African Shark Safari Carter (Season 1)
Great Hammerhead InvasionLair of the Sawfish The Lost Cage
Phelps vs. Shark: Great Gold vs. Great White
Return to the Isle of Jaws Shark Exile
Shark School with Michael Phelps
Shark Storm Sharkmania
Sharks and the City: L.A.
❚ July 27
Jeff Lynne’s Elo: Wembley or Bust
Picnic at Hanging Rock
❚ July 31
Casual (Season 4)
WHAT’S LEAVING CRAVETV ...
Degrassi, Season 13 (July 10) Flashpoint, Season 3 (July 14) The 2017 iHeartRadio Much Music Video Awards (July 17) All Access: Mayweather vs. McGregor, Season 1 (July 27) Deadly Women, Season 5 (July 28)
AMAZON PRIME VIDEO
❚ July 1
Metalhead
Vigilante Diaries
Der Samurai
Yelling to the Sky Juggernaut
Black Hollow Cage
Fake Blood
Badsville
The Devout
❚ July 5
Edge of Winter
The Reagans
Merlin’s Apprentice Neverland Blackbeard Frederick Forsyth’s Icon King Solomon’s Mines
The Poseidon Adventure Snow Queen
Talking To Heaven
Tin Man
❚ July 9
The BorgiasCamelot (Season 1)
❚ July 13 Comicstaan (Season 1)
❚ July 15
Demon House
❚ July 20
Zoe
❚ July 24
Tumble Leaf (Season 4, Part 1)
❚ July 27
Eat. Race. Win.
RECOMMENDATION OF THE WEEK
It might be ambitious to call Picnic at Hanging Rock, a six-episode miniseries based on Joan Lindsay’s iconic 1967 novel (which itself was adapted into a cult-favourite 1975 film), a must-see before it’s even premièred, but the hype has been strong — and the story has always been prime for the telling.
Critics have already dubbed it “lovely, disturbing,” “stunning,” “gorgeous,” while Vulture’s Matt Zoller Seitz described it as “the Sapphic, David Lynch-influenced mystery-thriller that you didn’t know you needed.”
If that isn’t enough to sell you, here’s the premise, set in 1900: four women (three students and their teacher, played by Natalie Dormer) suddenly disappear while on a school picnic.