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 Dr. Death: Season 1

Miniseries debuts July 15 on Peacock

One of the first shows ordered by Peacock when the streaming service was announced in 2019 (but delayed, like everything else, by the pandemic), this eight-episode limited series is a fictionalized adaptation of the first season of the true-crime podcast of the same name, focusing on the investigation into a Texas neurosurgeon who was accused of gross malpractice after over 30 of his patients were left seriously injured or dead. The delay in production led to numerous changes behind and in front of the camera, starting with the lead role of Dr. Christopher Duntsch, now played by Joshua Jackson after Jamie Dornan was forced to drop out due to scheduling conflicts. Alec Baldwin, AnnaSophia Robb, Carrie Preston, and the Mr. Robot duo of Christian Slater and Grace Gummer also star. Maggie Kiley (a late replacement for Stephen Frears) directs the first two episodes as part of an all-female director slate that also includes Jennifer Morrison and So Yong Kim.

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