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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Fear Street trilogy

Movie series debuts July 2 on Netflix

A trio of horror films based on a series of R.L. Stine books—Fear Street Part One: 1994, Fear Street Part Two: 1978, and Fear Street Part Three: 1666—will come to Netflix on consecutive Fridays this month after plans for a theatrical release last year were scrapped for obvious reasons. All three films take place in the same town (Shadyside) but in different time periods, and director Leigh Janiak (Honeymoon) has cited different influences for each: Scream for 1994, which centers on a group of teenage friends who accidentally trigger the ancient evil plaguing their town, Friday the 13th (and other slasher classics) for the summer camp-set 1978, and Terence Malick's The New World for the 1666-set origin story that concludes the series.

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