We’re coming back to you this month with a new TV list. You might remember that we posted a Spring TV List back in April. Summer is one of those times where you’re either so far away from the TV that you cannot remember the last time you even sat down to watch something, or you’re escaping the intense heat and humidity of summer days by sitting in your air conditioned lounge, flipping through channels, trying to find something engaging. And like all seasons, there is a specific mood that you want to go for during the summer, something intriguing, occasionally airy and funny, but with touches of significance.
So to make your TV show searches somewhat easier this summer, I have compiled the following list:
Good Girls
This Netflix original show mixing comedy with thriller as three, suburban (good) women, find themselves in hard times, and scorned by those around them for different reasons. In order to try make ends meets, the three women decide to rob a supermarket but find themselves accidentally drawn into a world of crime they had no intention of stumbling upon. Featuring Christina Hendricks, Retta and Mae Whitman as the main trio, this show promises laughs and emotions
Lost in Space
While the comedy is less frequent in this one, it is incredibly fascinating. A science fiction show is a reimagining of a 1965 series of the same name, also a reimagining of an 1812 novel, The Swiss Family Robinson. After crash landing on an alien planet, the Robinson family is forced to survive through the new environment and their own demons in order to find their way back to their ship that might take them back into space.
Action-filled and deeply engaging, this is a great choice for a summer binge, featuring only 10 episodes, jam-packed as they are.
On My Block
I’ll be honest here, I haven’t watched this one, but the concept sounds exciting. Based in a rough inner-city Los Angeles neighborhood, four young teens enter high school together and find their lifelong friendships being tested. This coming of age comedy has been described as “earnest, sometimes ungainly, but always funny and appealing” but more importantly “a kind of ongoing symposium on race, ethnicity, social class, and opportunity in the United States”. Issues of race, crime and justice are folded into the show making it a significant representation of working class people of colour in television.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpjBGekX14E
The End of the F***ing World
A dark British comedy, this show follows a 17 year old boy James who is convinced he is a psychopath due to an urge to kill someone as he has grown bored of killing animals. He ends up choosing one of his classmates Alyssa after she suggests they run away together, seeing it as the perfect opportunity of killing her. However, as they road trip across England commences, they encounter a series of mishaps which brings them closer, and James suddenly finds himself developing an emotional relationship with Alyssa and questioning his decision to kill her. Based off the mini-comics of the same name by Charles Forsman, the show is hilariously intense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbiiik_T3Bo
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