Hot times with Cards, ‘Word,’ ‘BoJack’
Highlights from the July calendars of major streaming and ondemand services:
JULY 1
All or Nothing: A Season With
the Arizona Cardinals (Amazon). Can’t wait for the return of
Hard Knocks, HBO’s NFL training-camp documentary show, on Aug. 9? Tide yourself over with this eight-episode, Jon Hamm-narrated series that follows the Cardinals from the draft through the NFC championship game.
Marcella (Netflix). Pushing Daisies actress Anna Friel returns to TV as a London detective resuming her career after a divorce who distracts herself by delving back into one of her unsolved cases.
Marco Polo: Season 2 (Netflix). The famed explorer (Lorenzo Richelmy) continues his adventures
in 13th-century China.
Between: Season 2 (Netflix): Former Nickelodeon star Jennette McCurdy stars as a pregnant teen in this drama about a town where everyone over the age of 21 has been wiped out by disease.
JULY 8
Word Party (Netflix). Jim Hen- son’s Creature Shop uses digital puppetry to help build toddlers’ vocabularies with the help of four baby animals.
JULY 11
Jericho (Acorn). Fans of Call the Midwife will want to check out Jessica Raine in this British western set in 1870s Yorkshire. The show takes its name from the rough-and-tumble town where her widowed character, Annie Quaintain, opens a lodging house after selling everything to pay off her late husband’s debts.
JULY 12
Difficult People: Season 2 (Hulu). It’s a good thing Billy (Billy Eichner) and Julie (Julie Klausner) have each other, because they’re too bitter for everyone else to take.
JULY 15
Stranger Things (Netflix). Winona Ryder comes to TV as the mother of a missing 2-year-old boy in this supernatural thriller
from the writers of Wayward Pines. Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your
Guru (Netflix). This documentary on the self-help specialist arrives within a week of news that 30 people were injured walking over hot coals at one of his events.
East Los High: Season 4 (Hulu). It’s back to school for this Latino teen drama. Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on
Normal Street: Season 2 (Amazon). With the word “normal” in the title, you know life on this family show will be anything but.
JULY 22
BoJack Horseman: Season 3 (Netflix). The washed-up Hollywood horse voiced by Will Arnett continues his comeback attempt. Degrassi: Next Class: Season 2 (Netflix). The Canadian high school drama gets an update, complete with hashtagged episode titles.