What are you going to be watching this week? We round up everything coming to streaming services this week, including Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Apple TV+, Neon and TVNZ+.
The biggies
Full Circle (on Neon from July 14)
A Steven Soderbergh limited series starring Claire Danes and Zazie Beetz? Sign me up, hook me up to a drip, put it in my veins, etc etc. This thriller will look at one specific crime – a New York lawyer’s son being threatened – from many angles, including the investigator, her supervisor, the lawyer’s family, and as the series unravels, so do the long-buried secrets of these characters and their cultures./ Sam Brooks
The Afterparty (season two on AppleTV+ from July 12)
The Afterparty’s first season never quiiite managed to live up to its post-Knives Out, murder-mystery-comedy-with-an-all-star-cast promise. In retrospect, having each episode replay the events of the same night from a different character’s perspective was probably high-concept enough; making them all different genres too was a hat on a hat, as they say. Season two offers another shot at sticking the landing – the setting shifts from a school reunion to a wedding, with the cast featuring a new set of funnypeople, including Zach Woods (The Office), Anna Konkle (Pen15), Poppy Liu (Hacks) and Jack Whitehall (Bad Education). / Calum Henderson
Creamerie (season two on TVNZ+ from July 14)
In season one, local black comedy Creamerie welcomed us into a dystopia unlike anything this country (or the world) has ever seen. Set in the aftermath of a viral plague that has killed every man on Earth, the series explores what happens when a new, matriarchal order gets complicated. The final episode ended with one of the most shocking, confronting and bizarre scenes I’ve ever seen in any television show, so you have to wonder what the hell they are going to do to raise the bar in season two. / Alex Casey
The notables
Survival of the Thickest (on Netflix from July 13)
After some successful stand-up specials, Michelle Buteau returns to Netflix in this comedy-drama series as Mavis Beaumont, a recently single woman attempting to rebuild her life after “putting all her eggs in one man’s basket”. While trying to make it as a stylist, she faces various hurdles to get her life back on track. Look, Buteau is hilarious and has been the cameo highlight of many a disposable Netflix film, so I’m stoked to see her get a vehicle of her own./ SB
What We Do in the Shadows (season five on Neon from July 16)
Who’d have thought that a quirky little comedy from New Zealand would blow up into an acclaimed, multi-season American sitcom? Back for a remarkable fifth season, What We Do in the Shadows has lost some of its bite, simply by virtue of losing its original writers a couple of years back, but remains one of the freshest, funniest and most inventive comedies on TV. Plus: you’re guaranteed at least one outlandish line reading from Matt Berry every single week. What more could you ask for?/ Stewart Sowman-Lund
The Summer I Turned Pretty (season two on Prime Video from July 14)
The Summer I Turned Pretty is the second season of a show following Belly, a young woman who, well, becomes conventionally pretty and has this change the way that her longtime crush and also his brother see her. Obviously, there’s a messy love triangle – can you tell that this has been adapted from a YA novel published in 2009? Jenny Han, the original author and an executive producer of the series was also responsible for To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (also featuring conventionally beautiful people, love geometry and teenage yearning), adapted into the 2018 Netflix movie, and now featuring a spinoff show called XO, Kitty about the original protagonists younger sister. Shows like The Summer I Turned Pretty are a reminder that the YA heyday of the 2000s has cast a long shadow. Apparently this features the love triangle triangling and also a house renovation. The trailer has a new (Taylor’s Version) song from the Speak Now album; if that sentence means anything to you, it’s probably redundant. / Shanti Mathias
The films
Love to Love You, Donna Summer (on Neon from July 10)
It is what it says on the tin: A documentary about the pop and disco legend that was Donna Summer, directed by her daughter Brooklyn Sudano and Black American doco legend Roger Ross Williams. The film received warm reviews after bowing at both the Berlin International Film Festival and SXSW, and promises not to be a puff piece, but to instead explore the difficult aspects of Summer’s life and career. / SB
Warrior (on Netflix from July 14)
Something fun to know about me is that I really, really like Warrior, the 2011 film about two estranged brothers (Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton) who enter the same MMA tournament and shock, they have to come to terms with their lives and each other. It’s a lean, macho film that is deeper and more complex than it seems at first glance. It is definitely a “dads have feelings too” kind of movie, which may sway you towards or away./ SB
Best in Show (on Neon from July 13)
Christopher Guest’s Best in Show, a mockumentary set in and around a dog competition, is one of the best and funniest films ever made. Now you can watch it on demand! Go forth. / SB
Netflix
July 10
Unknown: Killer Robots
StoryBots: Answer Time: Season 2
July 11
Nineteen to Twenty
July 12
Quarterback
Sugar Rush: The Baking Point
Mr. Car and the Knights Templar
Record of Ragnarok: Season 2: Episodes 11-15
July 13
Survival of the Thickest
Devil’s Advocate
Burn the House Down
Sonic Prime: Season 2
July 14
Too Hot to Handle: Season 5
Five Star Chef
The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem: Season 2
Bird Box Barcelona
Love Tactics 2
Warrior
July 15
Country Queen
Neon
July 10
Spongebob Squarepants: Season 12B
Love to Love You, Donna Summer
July 11
Spin Me Round
July 12
A Cinderella Story
Beethoven
Beethoven’s 12
July 13
Gotham: Season 1-5
Best in Show
July 14
Full Circle
3 Days to Kill
July 15
Sisters
July 16
What We Do In The Shadows: Season 5
On the Line
TVNZ+
July 10
Significant Other
July 11
Haka Life: Season 2
Tangata Whenua
Secrets of Playboy: Season 2
July 14
Creamerie: Season 2
Mānawatia a Matariki
Island of Mystery – Te Wā o Matariki
Goodbye Pork Pie
July 15
Siwa’s Dance Pop Revolution
Disney+
July 10
Synduality Noir
July 12
Alice’s Wonderland Bakery: Season 2
Pupstruction
The Superfantastic Story of Balao
When Sharks Attack 360
Most Extreme Sharks
July 14
Sharks vs Dolphins: Bahamas Battleground
Prime Video
July 14
The Summer I Turned Pretty: Season 2
Apple TV+
July 12
The Afterparty: Season 2
July 14
Foundation: Season 2
Acorn
N/A
Shudder
July 10
Baby Blood
July 13
The Price We Pay
July 14
Quicksand
AMC+
N/A