10 Best Movies and TV Shows to Stream in June
School’s out, birds are singing and the sun hangs high in a cloudless sky — time for the streaming junkie to retreat to the safe confines of the great indoors, safe from harmful non cathode rays of light. Those who think of summer as a season of sand and surf may feel a slight twinge of guilt while hunkering down for that eighth consecutive episode or triple feature. But as a wise man once said, you’re not hardcore unless you live hardcore — so get going on Episode Nine, people. And with a mix of cinematic classics and buzzy new TV premieres hitting the inter-tubes in June, indoor kids have never had it easier. Pour yourself another Arnold Palmer and pore over our picks of the 10 best movies and TV shows to stream over the coming month.
Carrie (Hulu, Amazon Prime, 6/1)
It’ll take more than a lackluster remake to kill the most lethal teen to emerge from Seventies horror cinema. Brian De Palma’s iconic nightmare of humiliation, social anxiety and violent pubescence has not lost one iota of its fearsome power, thanks to a performance from Sissy Spacek that resonates with audiences whether they know the embarrassment of an unanticipated period or not. Plenty of other scary movies organized themselves around the time-honored lament of “kids can be so cruel,” and while this adaptation of Stephen King’s novel didn’t do it first, it certainly did do it best.
Casual Season 2 (Hulu, 6/7)
Among America’s most precious renewable resources, big-dysfunctional-family stories have kept TV morbidly entertaining for decades. A somewhat lighter-hearted descendant of Six Feet Under, Zander Lehmann’s seriocomic entry in this subgenre shifts focus from sexual hang-ups to platonic relationships for its second season, as the Meyers/Cole clan (proud mama Michaela Watkins, eternal bachelor Tommy Dewey, and ne’er-do-well teen Tara Lynne Barr) struggles with forming healthy friendships while they enter new phases of their hectic lives.
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