After running up that hill for the last few weeks, we’re finally there! Yes, Stranger Things 4 Vol. 2 is out today! Yaaaay! Oh and there’s some other stuff too, like Chris Pratt’s military thriller series The Terminal List, and the Taron Egerton-led psychological thriller Black Bird, and more.
SERIES
Stranger Things 4: Vol.2
Netflix – 1 July 2022
According to the tagline, every ending has a beginning… but first we have to the get to the ending… of this season… before the next season, which will be the ending… Confused? Maybe. Excited? FREAKING DEFINITELY! Prepare your butts though: While this final part of season 4 contains only two episodes, they are each super long with the season finale clocking in at 2.5 hours!
The Terminal List S1
Amazon Prime Video – 1 July 2022
For years, Chris Pratt was known as nothing other than a schlubby goofball. And then he got abs and became a guardian of the galaxy. What many don’t realize though, is that before his big jump to Marvel superhero stardom though, Pratt actually got buff and went all serious action hero for Zero Dark Thirty. And now he’s back again playing another highly-skilled soldier with a deadly mission in The Terminal List. Based on reviews, this one is not the best, but if you’re a fan of “dad” action series like Jack Reacher and Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, I’m sure you’ll get a kick out of this.
The Sex Lives of College Girls S1
Showmax – 1 July 2022
I have a feeling a bunch of pervs will be clicking play on this based purely on that title, but if they come for perceived salaciousness, they’ll hopefully stay for the GLAAD Awards-nominated new drama that follows “four first-year roommates at the fictional Essex College in Vermont, taking on the highs and lows of the best years of their lives.”
Time S1
Showmax – 1 July 2022
The names “Sean Bean” and “Stephen Graham” are actually all you needed to tell me about this British three-part miniseries to get me interested. But throw in the fact that this drama about the an inmate and prison guard, both driven to the edge, won Best Miniseries and Best Actor for Bean at the 2022 BAFTAs and it now becomes must-see drama.
The Rising
Showmax – 1 July 2022
Many of us wake up feeling like death every morning, but what if you woke up to find you’re actually dead. What’s worse, you discover you’ve been murdered! That’s the premise for this gripping new British drama, which sees Clara Rugaard play Neve Kelly, a murdered young woman who is at first confused by her new existence, only for that confusion to make way for anger and a righteous need for justice for her killer.
Black Bird S1
AppleTV+ – 6 July 2022
If you were an aspiring young man with a bright future, but you threw it all away through bad choices and actually found yourself in prison with a 10-year sentence, what would you do to regain your freedom? In Black Bird, a new six-episode psychological thriller based on true crime memoir, Taron Egerton’s James Keene get’s that opportunity… all he has to do is coax a confession out of a fellow inmate who happens to be a deranged serial killer.
MOVIES
Girl in the Picture
Netflix – 6 July 2022
True crime junkies, here’s your next fix from Skye Borgman, the documentary filmmaker behind previous Netflix hits Abducted in Plain Sight and Dead Asleep. This riveting new release digs into a mystery decades in the making that began in 1990 when a dying woman was found on the side of the road, leaving behind a man and boy who claim to be her husband and son.
Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between
Netflix – 6 July 2022
And on the complete opposite end of the genre spectrum, we have this new rom-com about a high-school couple who make a pact to break up before college with no repercussions. Oh you silly young people. There will always be repercussions! Especially when you decide to go on one last epic date!