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
Outlander (season 7 on Neon from June 17)
Our favourite time-travelling series returns for its seventh dramatic season, picking up in 1776 with Claire Fraser en route to be hanged and her husband Jamie trying to save her with nothing but his chiselled jaw and an attitude that just won’t quit. No spoilers, but it’s safe to assume that our heroine will not die in the first episode of a new season, mostly because we need to see Claire’s short hair grow out to a fashionable length. Also, the American Revolution has begun, and it’s about to ruin Claire and Jamie’s plans to stay home and play nurse all day. Who knows what will happen? You will, if you’ve read the books, but otherwise we are all just lumpy bannocks in Outlander’s hot oven of unpredictable drama. Welcome back, friends. / Tara Ward
Black Mirror (season six on Netflix from June 16)
After four years, Black Mirror returns to our screens with five more terrifying visits into our near future. The last set of episodes was pretty weak for a series that literally predicted a prime ministerial pig-sex scandal and the arrival of terrifying robotic dogs. But the trailer for season six, which includes a killer cast (Salma Hayek, Aaron Paul…) looks like a welcome return to form. In a post-Covid, post-everything world, Black Mirror 6 might just be the scariest of them all. / Stewart Sowman-Lund
Homebound 3.0 (on ThreeNow from June 15)
This eight-part sitcom follows two millennial Asian-Kiwis Henry Li (Sam Wang, also the series’ writer) and Melissa Wu (Michelle Ang). He’s a lawyer and aspiring sci-fi writer, she’s a dermatologist, but both are tied to their parents and family. Stuff gave this one a rave review, so definitely check it out when it drops (or when airs on the actual telly at 9pm on Friday!). / Sam Brooks
The notables
The Full Monty (on Disney+ from June 14)
Not the 1997 hit film, but a follow-up series, 25 years after the fact, starring many of the original cast. Gaz (Robert Carlyle) is now a grandad, but is full of wild schemes. The rest of the gang is plodding along with the trials and tribulations of being over the hill of middle age, except Horse (Paul Barber), who feels truly left behind by the world. When Horse’s attempt to fight back goes awry, the Monty gang reassembles. More stripping? Don’t count it out! / SB
Year Of (on TVNZ+ from June 12)
When a group of Year 11 inner city teens crash a Year 12 party, the night takes a turn for the worse, ending in a shocking event that will upturn their lives forever. Danielle Cormack, Joshua Hewson and Bishanyia Vincent star in this Australian high school drama that’s a bit heavier, a bit smarter, and with a bit more heart than your average show of this nature./ SB
Double Parked (on ThreeNow from June 15)
Three’s new comedy hour also brings with it Double Parked, which has a plethora of the finest comedians and performers in Aotearoa attached. Written by Chris Parker and Alice Snedden and starring Madeleine Sami, Antonia Prebble, Kura Forrester and Julia Morris, who you simply must know from this viral showstopping montage, the series follows a lesbian couple attempting to get pregnant in a variety of ways. As the title suggests, the couple are thrown for a loop when multiple methods succeed at once, leaving both women pregnant at the same time./ Alex Casey
The films
Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant (on Prime Video from June 15)
Unfortunately, this isn’t a remake of the teen-man-witch film from 2006 that featured a worrying amount of scenes in locker rooms. No, this is an action thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a US special ops sergeant and Dar Salim as his interpreter, and their fight against the Taliban. It got pretty good reviews, so if that sounds like your thing check it out!/ SB
Extraction 2 (on Netflix from June 16)
Apparently, the first Extraction film was the most watched Netflix original film, with over 99 million viewers. Quick question: Can you tell me what Extraction was about off the top of your head? Probably not. Anyway, the second film sees Australian mercenary Tyler Rake (the equally Australian Chris Hemsworth) rescuing the family of a ruthless Georgian gangster from the prison where they’re being held. / SB
She Said (on Neon and Prime Video from June 15)
This film from last year was one of the unfortunate casualties of awards season, being released to lukewarm reviews and a much chillier box office reception. The film, based on the book of the same title by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey (played by Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan here), follows their investigation to unmask Harvey Weinstein in 2017. It’s a better film than it has any right to be, with some especially good supporting performances from Jennifer Ehle and Samantha Morton./ SB
Netflix
June 13
Amy Schumer’s Emergency Contact
June 14
The Surrogacy
Our Planet
June 16
Extraction 2
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
June 17
King the Land
See You In My 19th Life
Neon
June 13
Law and Order: LA
June 15
Seven Types of Ambiguity
She Said
Blueblack
June 16
Hellboy
June 17
Outlander: Season 7a
TVNZ+
June 12
Year Of
Murdered by Morning
Deadly Cults
June 15
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Temptation Island: Season 5
Da Fuq?
Miami Dolls
Hot Haus: Season 2
Hot Haus Uncut
Behind the Drag Queen Pageant of the Year
Disney+
June 14
The Full Monty
Full Count
The Zone: Survival Mission: Season 2
The Owl House: Season 3
BUNK’D: Learning the Ropes: Season 6
Dr Oakley, Yukon Vet: Season 11
June 16
Stan Lee
Prime Video
June 15
Neighbours: Season 20: Part 2
She Said
June 16
Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant
The Grand Tour: Season 5
The Honeymoon
Apple TV+
June 16
Lovely Little Farm: Season 2
Acorn
June 12
Endeavour: Season 9
Shudder
June 12
Terrifier 2
AMC+
June 15
True Crime: Look into My Eyes