What to Watch in August: 20 Notable TV Shows & Streaming Movies

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – July 30, 2021

The month ahead will bring new shows like Marvel's What If, Reservation Dogs, Nine Perfect Strangers, and The Chair, plus returning favorites like Brooklyn Nine-Nine and streaming movies including a surprisingly good take on The Suicide Squad. In the gallery on this page, our editors have selected the most interesting TV and movie titles debuting at home in the next month, listed in order by premiere date.

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83 Reservation Dogs: Season 1

Comedy series debuts August 9 on Hulu

Already starting to receive some very positive early reviews, the latest "FX on Hulu" original series may wink at a certain Tarantino film in its title (in case that picture above wasn't a giveaway) but shares a slacker sensibility with the work of Richard Linklater (in the mind of The Playlist's Andrew Bundy) or FX's own Atlanta (says Variety's Daniel D'Addario). One thing it most assuredly is: the second show this year (following Rutherford Falls) to be largely made by and starring Indigenous people. Co-created by Seminole Nation filmmaker Sterlin Harjo and director Taika Waititi (whose other FX series What We Do in the Shadows returns in September), Dogs is set on a reservation in Oklahoma where four teenaged friends attempt to save (and steal) enough money to move to California.

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