June 2022 Returns and Premieres We’re Most Excited For

With summer comes the end of our regular season shows and the start of summer TV. June alone has a ton of new shows starting and returning that we can’t wait to watch:

The Floor is Lava (June 2, Netflix)

Get ready for season two of this reality competition series where three teams tackle obstacle courses surrounded by “lava.” Contestants climb up rope nets, leap from an globe to a table, scale narrow ledges, and unlock secret pathways to make it to the end of the course. The team with the fastest time wins. There’s something unexpectedly satisfying about watching this competition show.

The Orville: New Horizons (June 2, Hulu)

“We are, without doubt, the weirdest ship in the fleet,” one character realizes at one point during The Orville‘s second season. This is a fair sum up of the entire show, which comes off as a cross between a parody of Star Trek and a true sci-fi series in its own right. Which is exactly what you would expect from Seth MacFarlane. Season three has been long-delayed (the last season aired in 2018). Originally premiering on Fox, the series is now a Hulu-exclusive, and MacFarlane has said that “the show has evolved and become more ambitious production-wise” which required more time to produce. The pandemic delayed the series even further.

The Boys (June 3, Prime)

The most violent superhero show around is back for season three. A superhero show if the superheroes worked for a morally questionable company and had questionable morals of their own, that would be The Boys.

Ms. Marvel (June 8, Disney+)

Another step in what feels like Marvel’s slow-build of a Young Avengers team, Disney+’s newest series, Ms. Marvel, follows Pakisani American teenage Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) as she begins her journey to becoming a superhero. Her powers have been changed from her comic book counterpart – where in the comics she could stretch her body into different shapes and sizes like Mr. Fantastic and shrink like Ant-Man, in the show it appears that a bracelet gives her the ability to create matter. These changes are because the stretching ability (or embiggening as she likes to call it) comes across looking goofy on screen.

First Kill (June 10, Netflix)

When a vampire and a vampire hunter fall in love, the enmity between their families makes the fighting Capulets and Montagues look like a playground scuffle. Based on the short story of the same name by author extraordinaire V.E. Schwab, this new series follows Calliope (Imani Lewis), the new girl in town, crosses paths with teenage vampire Juliette (Sarah Catherine Hook). Calliope, a vampire hunter from a family of celebrated slayers, and Juliette, from a prestigious family of vampires, are immediately at odds. Which is only a problem because they fall in love.

Love, Victor (June 15, Hulu and DIsney+)

For its third and final season, Victor (Michael Cimino) and his friends are starting to think about at what their lives post-high school are going to be like – where should they go to college, who do they want to be, what do they want to do? Among the many things Victor will be facing is his relationship status: should he stay with Benji despite their relationship troubles, try something new with Rahim, or perhaps there is a third love interest out there?

God’s Favorite Idiot (June 15, Netflix)

Working in a mid-level tech support job, Clark Thompson (Ben Falcone) is perfectly average in this new Netflix series. He loves his cats, he has a crush on a woman at work, (Amily, played by Melissa McCarthy, who is married to Falcone), loves his cats, goes with his dad to saunas. Which is why no one would ever expect god to choose him to fight against Satan (Leslie Bibb).

Umbrella Academy (June 22, Netflix)

Season three of Umbrella Academy picks up where season two left off: in an alternate reality with Sparrow Academy. Like those from Umbrella Academy, Sparrow Academy is made up of seven different children born on the same day in 1989. The two academies are immediately at odds, but their fighting may be less important than the greater danger threatening the universe. A danger that the Umbrella Academy may have caused.

Only Murders in the Building (June 28, Hulu)

 Selena Gomez, Martin Short and Steve Martin star as three true crime lovers living in the Arconia on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. In season two, the trio must use their amateur sleuthing skills to solve the murder of Arconia board president Bunny Folger, and exonerate themselves in the process.

Photo: The Umbrella Academy cast. Courtesy of Netflix.

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