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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85 Ted Lasso: Season 2

Season 2 debuts July 23 on Apple TV+

Few among us didn't need a bit of cheering up in 2020, and few TV shows were as relentlessly positive (and warm and funny) as Ted Lasso, which debuted last summer and quickly became Apple's buzziest show to date. Fresh off of its Peabody win (and likely just a few days after a slew of Emmy nominations), the series returns with a second season that will find Jason Sudeikis' title character—an upbeat American college football coach given the unlikely job of managing an English Premier League soccer club by an owner intentionally trying to lose—trying to guide his club through their first season of relegation. The good news is that this season will be longer—at 12 episodes rather than 10—but just one episode will stream each week. A third season has already been ordered.

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