We round up everything coming to streaming services this week, including Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+, ThreeNow, Neon and TVNZ+.
Squid Game (Netflix, June 27)
The third and final season of the Korean pop culture global phenomenon Squid Game – Netflix’s most-watched TV show to date – picks up moments after the devastating, bloody finale of season two. Despite Player 456 (Lee Jung-jae) vowing to put an end to the Front Man’s (Lee Byung-hun) perverse capitalist competition, the surviving players are thrust into a new set of deadly games. Details are scarce about what else Squid Games’s creator and director Hwang Dong-hyuk has cooked up, but as the “hellish horrorshow” nears its epic conclusion, nobody will be safe.
The Bear (Disney+, June 26)
Opinions were divided on season three of the critically acclaimed The Bear, with The Spinoff’s own Madeleine Chapman and Claire Mabey on either side of the debate, but the new season of the culinary dramedy is bound to tie up the loose ends from its contentious “to be continued” cliffhanger. Has Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) decided to jump ship? Will Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) calm down and get that Michelin star, or is The Chicago Tribune’s review the final nail in the coffin for his restaurant? Once you’re done savouring every moreish morsel of the anxiety-inducing The Bear, be like Cousin Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) and chuck on some Taylor Swift to chill out.
Trainwreck: Poop Cruise (Netflix, June 24)
What was supposed to be a a four-day round trip luxury cruise from Galveston, Texas to Cozumel, Mexico, soon turned into a nightmare for the 4,000 passengers and crew on board the lavish Carnival Triumph in 2013. After an engine room fire destroyed the electrical cables supplying the entire ship, the floating petri dish became stranded at sea without power or plumbing. Shit soon went sideways, as raw sewage leaked into cabins, food supplies dwindled and passengers staged a revolt. You’ll gape and gag while watching this documentary about how one trip of a lifetime so quickly descended down the drain.
Smoke (Apple TV+, June 27)
From acclaimed American novelist Dennis Lehane, the fiery crime drama Smoke follows Dave Gudsen (Taron Egerton), a wary arson investigator who begrudgingly joins forces with the headstrong Detective Michelle Calderon (Jurnee Smollett). Inspired by true events, the cagey duo are hot on the tail of a pair of firebugs, igniting a serpentine sequence of secrets and suspicions. Labelled as “nine great hours of television,” Smoke is sure to heat up your watchlist.
The Gilded Age (Neon, June 23)
Following the operatic crescendo of season two, Julian Fellowes’ HBO historical drama The Gilded Age is back with the best season to date. As Indiewire wrote, not only are “the eight new episodes better at building drama from the era’s inequities, but there’s more to go around, and the pacing picks up to squeeze it all in.” For Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon) and George Russell (Morgan Spector), the stakes ramp up further for their nouveau riche New York family with dukes, divorces and deaths causing chaos in the city’s high-society social circles.
Pick of the Flicks: Heretic (Neon, Prime Video, June 26)
From Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the screenwriting duo behind A Quiet Place, comes a film which critics have described as “a thought provoking theological debate wrapped up inside the clothing of a horror movie.” Two young missionaries from the Mormon Church arrive at the remote cottage of Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant) in the middle of a storm. Inviting the two sisters inside to ride out the weather and discuss Mormon doctrine, Reed’s hospitality soon takes a sinister turn when he traps Paxton and Barnes, putting the tenets of their faith to the ultimate test in a Saw-esque game of terror and manipulation.
The rest
Netflix
Trainwreck: Poop Cruise (June 24)
The Ultimatum: Queer Love: S2 (June 25)
Wicked (June 26)
Squid Game S3 (June 27)
Pokémon Horizons: S2—The Search for Laqua P3 (June 27)
WWE Night of Champions: 2025 (June 28)
Upgrade (June 28)
TVNZ+
You Need This (June 23)
What it Feels Like For a Girl (June 24)
Stranded on Honeymoon Island (June 29)
The Ex-Wife S2 (June 29)
ThreeNow
Six Schizophrenic Brothers (June 27)
Neon
Salvage Hunters: The Restorers S5 (June 23)
The Gilded Age S3 (June 23)
Ben 10: Alien Force (June 23)
Moonshiners S14 (June 24)
Wolf Hall S2: The Mirror and the Light (June 24)
Silent Witness S26 (June 25)
Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch S2 (June 26)
Heretic (June 26)
Sing Street (June 29)
Prime Video
Beyond After (June 4)
Countdown (June 25)
Heretic (June 26)
Marry My Husband (June 27)
Disney+
To Catch a Smuggler: Tropical Takedown (June 25)
Ironheart (June 25)
The Bear: S4 (June 26)
Apple TV+
Smoke (June 27)
Shudder/AMC+/Acorn/HIDIVE
Inside (Acorn TV, AMC+, June 23)
The Fifth Cord (Shudder, June 23)
I’m Living with an Otaku NEET Kunoichi!? (HIDIVE, June 25)
DocPlay
The Gene: An Intimate History (June 23)
Lewis and Clark (June 23)
AFTRS Shorts (June 26)
K’Road Chronicles S4 (June 26)