‘THE BEAR’ The latest of FX’s melancholy slice-of-life comedies stars
‘THE OLD MAN’
‘MS. MARVEL’ AND ‘SHE-HULK: ATTORNEY AT LAW’ The 19th and 20th of the
Jeff Bridges plays an ex- C.I.A. agent in hiding from his dark past who’s flushed
modern Marvel TV series are the most comedic so far. In “Ms.
Jeremy Allen White of “Shameless” (he played the brainy Lip) as a chef who tries to turn the family sandwich shop into a more serious restaurant after he is brought home to Chicago by a family tragedy. It’s also the latest FX show to run instead on the network’s corporate partner Hulu. (Hulu, June 23) ‘MONEY HEIST: KOREA — JOINT ECONOMIC AREA’ Netflix plays mix and shows, the convoluted Spanish caper “Money Heist” (“La Casa de Papel”), in South Korea, the country that originates many of its non-English-language hits. (Netflix, June 24) ‘THE CHI’ Lena Waithe’s nuanced neighborhood melodrama, following an interlaced group of families, friends and troublemakers on Chicago’s match, setting a new version of one of its most popular South Side, returns for a fifth season, its third under the showrunner Justin Hillian. (Showtime, June 26) ‘WESTWORLD’ HBO’s ferociously stylish robot drama brings its fine cast and fuzzy ideas back for a fourth season. Thandiwe Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Aaron Paul and Tessa Thompson return, as does Evan Rachel Wood, even though her character, the unapologetically vengeful Dolores Abernathy,
out and goes on the run; John Lithgow plays the agency honcho leading the chase. It’s Bridges’s first regular role in a series, and his most extensive TV work since he made guest appearances on “Sea Hunt” with his father, Lloyd Bridges.
Marvel,” a real-life fan-girl, the appealing newcomer Iman Vellani, plays Kamala Khan, a Captain Marvel fan and Marvel’s first Muslim superhero. In “She-Hulk,” Tatiana Maslany of “Orphan Black” plays a green-skinned, 6-foot-7 lawyer to the superpowered; Jessica Gao, whose credits include “Robot Chicken” and the “Pickle Rick” episode of “Rick and Morty,” is the head writer. (Disney+, “Ms. Marvel” Wednesday, “She-Hulk” Aug. 17)
(FX, June 16) ‘PLAYERS’
The “American Vandal” team of Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault
‘BECOMING ELIZABETH’ Starz welcomes yet another stabby, bodice- shedding
turn their satirical lens on the culture of livestream gaming and the clichés of the sports documentary in a mock-doc series about an e-sports team trying to win its first championship. (Paramount+, June 16) ‘THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY’ Boys I’ve Loved Before” inspired a film franchise for Netflix, created this series based on another of her novels. Lola Tung plays a teenager who finds that her relationship with the two brothers she always spends summer vacations with has entered a new phase. (Amazon Prime Video, June 17) ‘FLATBUSH MISDEMEANORS’ Jenny Han, whose novel “To All the the emotionally stunted, barely communicative roommates Kevin and Dan in the second season of this downbeat but elliptically funny comedy, the most small-bore series in the hot genre of gig-economy outer-borough sitcoms. (Showtime, June 19) Kevin Iso and Dan Perlman return as
costume drama, this time a British historical saga about the ascension of Elizabeth I that begins with the death of her father, Henry VIII. Alicia von Rittberg plays the young Elizabeth and the British TV stalwart Jessica Raine (“Call the Midwife”) plays Henry’s last wife, the oft- married Catherine Parr. (Starz, June 12) ‘DARK WINDS’
For a long time, Zahn McClarnon has been that guy you remember even though
his name was well down the cast list: the cynical tribal cop in “Longmire,” the Comanche chief who mentors the white hero in “The Son,” the sentient robot leading his people to digital heaven in “Westworld.” He’s finally the lead in this adaptation of Tony Hillerman’s mystery novels, playing Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo tribal police. (AMC, June 12)
appeared to have been erased in the Season 3 finale. (HBO, June 26)
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