![]() ![]() Paramount+ The Righteous Gemstones, season 3 (HBO, June 18)Ī recent glance at HBO Max revealed that the streamer has categorized The Righteous Gemstones as a “turn on, tune in, zone out” series, which feels like a gross misunderstanding of the appeal of Danny McBride. It is deliberately, deliciously old-school Trek, fully embracing episodic storytelling and having a swashbuckling good time in the process. In its first season, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds went from tentatively fun to surprisingly solid and then tipped all the way over into “Wait, are you guys seeing how great this is?” territory. ![]() Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, season 2 (Paramount+, June 15) Now, the film’s screenwriter Simon Beaufoy and its original cast, including Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, and Tom Wilkinson, are going back to Sheffield for a sequel series, alongside a new cast of children and grandchildren, with Beaufoy pointedly saying that he’s interested in exploring how “25 years, seven prime ministers, and 100 broken political promises have affected their lives.” - J.M. FrankĪpple TV+ The Full Monty (FX and Hulu, June 14)īack in 1997, The Full Monty was a surprising breakout hit of a comedy about unemployed men in Sheffield who decide to do a strip show to make money. The series remains racy in the Pretty Little Liars vein: scandalous enough to titillate, but not so bad a teenager can’t watch it with her cool mom. But while the first season was set in the early ’90s, this one takes on the currently trendy Y2K era, complete with a goth hacker chick. Like its predecessor, the second season will follow three separate timelines, all within an approximately one-year span. Last year’s premiere season of Cruel Summer was a huge hit for Freeform (née ABC Family), and this year it returns with a new plot, a new cast, and newly intense color grading. Roxana Hadadi Cruel Summer, season 2 (Freeform, June 5) An early teaser unironically describes Tesfaye and Levinson as “sick and twisted minds” while looking like a Tarantino rip-off, but every generation deserves its own True Romance, I guess. But now that Seimetz (of The Girlfriend Experience and She Dies Tomorrow) has left the project because of creative differences and directing duties have been handed over to Levinson, The Idol seems just plain messy. Jen Chaneyģ0 for 30: The American Gladiators Documentary (May 30, ESPN)īack when filmmaker Amy Seimetz was set to direct all six episodes of The Idol, the HBO series co-created by singer Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye and Euphoria’s Sam Levinson, this drama about the complicated relationship between a cult leader and a pop star seemed messily ambitious. So the question is: Which of season three’s references will become the Dan Flashes, the “ I don’t even want to be around anymore,” the Coffin Flop of the summer of 2023? Only time, and perhaps another round of sloppy steaks, will tell. The second season of Tim Robinson’s absurdist sketch series launched many memes in the summer of 2021. I Think You Should Leave, season 3 (Netflix, May 30) But with a giant question mark looming over the rest of the year, the weeks between Memorial Day and Labor Day promise what may be TV’s last gasp of normalcy for quite some time. The notion of “summer TV” has skewed considerably, becoming a fairly meaningless designation in the “all the TV, all the time” streaming era. That’s all the more reason to appreciate what the summer season - comprising mainly series that were in the can pre-strike - has to offer. With the WGA strike likely extending into the summer and delaying more in-production series every day, close observers of the TV calendar (or anyone who remembers the 2007 writers’ strike) are already predicting a content slowdown in the latter half of 2023. ![]() Photo-Illustration: Vulture FX, HBO, Hulu, Netflix
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