What to Watch in July: 25 Notable TV Shows & Streaming Movies

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – June 28, 2021

The month ahead will bring the returns of Ted Lasso and I Think You Should Leave, a What We Do in the Shadows spinoff from New Zealand, new films from Steven Soderbergh and Questlove, the year's most bizarre dating series, and more. 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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72 Wellington Paranormal: Season 1

Comedy series debuts July 11 on The CW and July 12 on HBO Max

Making its American debut three years after it first aired in New Zealand, this mockumentary-style TV series spinoff from the original What We Do in the Shadows film should appeal to fans of the hit FX TV show also based on that movie. ("Should appeal" is understating things; you'll like this if you liked either version of Shadows.) Three of the movie's stars, Karen O'Leary, Michael Minogue, and Maaka Pohatu, reprise their film roles in Wellington as clueless cops who are members of their city's paranormal policing unit, and the series was created by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, who were also responsible for both the film and its American TV spinoff. Two new episodes air back-to-back on day one, and all episodes will be available to stream on HBO Max the day after they air on The CW.

FX recently announced that its What We Do in the Shadows series will return for its third season on September 2nd.

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