Flashbacks and debuts dot June
Highlights from major streaming and cable on-demand services:
THURSDAY
Flaked (Netflix): Will Arnett returns for his second season as Chip, a self-help instructor doing his best to stay sober and stay one step ahead of his lies.
SATURDAY
Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine (Hulu). Come for this look at the skateboard culture magazine that gave us MTV’s stunt-happy, “don’t-try-this-athome” series Jackass.
TUESDAY
Beauty and the Beast (OnDemand): Disney’s live-ac- tion remake of the 1991 classic features Harry Potter star Emma Watson as Belle and Dan Stevens ( Downton Abbey, Legion) as the voice of the Beast.
JUNE 9
Le Mans: Racing Is Everything (Amazon). Experience the epic, 24-hour French endurance auto race without having to wear a helmet and head-and-neck restraint. Orange Is the New Black (Netflix): Season 5 of the jailhouse drama picks up right where Season 4 left off — in the midst of a prison riot over cramped living conditions and inexperienced guards. Now the other ladies of Litchfield must decide whether to throw in with the rioters or lay low in hopes of lenient treatment when the warden and his team regain control.
JUNE 19
Loch Ness (Acorn): Laura Fraser, best known to U.S. viewers as Lydia Rodarte- Quayle on Breaking Bad, gets to use her own Scottish accent in this six-part serial-killer drama and this time, you get to root for her character: a detective trying to solve her first murder. The same goes for her co-star Siobhan Finneran, who once played scheming lady’s maid O’Brien on Downton Abbey.
Walks With My Dog (Acorn): If ABC’s Downward Dog doesn’t fully satisfy your craving for ca- nine TV content, supplement it with this series in which viewers tag along with British celebs and their furry friends on their favorite walking routes.
JUNE 21
Inside No. 9 (BritBox): Like Black Mirror, this dark-comedy anthology series features a different cast and story in every episode. And like that show, it draws an interesting mix of stars, including Game of Thrones’ Conleth Hill and Episodes’ Tamsin Greig.
JUNE 23
GLOW ( Netflix): Alison Brie ( Community) plays a struggling actress who joins the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, a female pro-wrestling league in the 1980s.
JUNE 28
Okja (Netflix): Normally, regular folks have to wait months to see the movies screened at Cannes. But since Netflix is the studio behind this film about a girl (SeoHyun Ahn) trying to protect the genetically-modified “super pig ” she raised, you get to see it weeks after its festival debut.
JUNE 29
Psychoville (BritBox): If you liked Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out, check out his earlier work in this BBC horror-comedy series about a group of people who receive “I know what you did” letters.
JUNE 30
All or Nothing (Amazon) Football fans in need of a fix before the new season can get one from Season 2 of Amazon’s NFL documentary series, which followed the Los Angeles Rams as they returned to Southern California.