Picture this: you just got home from a long day at work. Since the moment you walked into the office, your boss has been piling work on you. You’re on edge. You want to cry, scream and everything in between. So you take a relaxing shower, grab some snacks, get comfortable and settle down in your bed or couch. You turn on your TV (or whatever device you use) but then you think to yourself: “What the *beep* is there to even watch?”
Well, Hype has got you covered! We’ve got you endless options of TV shows, movies, documentaries, even cartoons and animes for you to watch this WHOLE WEEK. Everyday, you’ll have a wide-range of selections from every genre to satisfy your emotional needs. From good laughs to spine-chilling thrillers, we have them all in this weeks Hype Streams:
EDITORS PICK
“Stranger Things” Season 4, Volume 2
Release date: 1st July
Where to watch: Netflix
The fourth season of the American science fiction horror drama television series Stranger Things, was released worldwide in two volumes. Stranger Things season 4 volume 2 is finally airing in a bit and, according to the Duffers, we should prepare ourselves for an emotional ride.
Fun fact: At the Season 4 premiere, Joe Keery (Steve Harrington) said that co-star Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin Henderson) is “like the 60-year-old uncle that I never had.” He added that “bickering with Gaten” onscreen “feels very natural” to their real-life dynamic. How can you not love Dustin.
SERIES
1.”Westworld” Season 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l4tuNYvPa4
Release date: 27th June
Where to watch: HBO
Westworld is an American dystopian science fiction, neo-Western television series. In a futuristic Western-themed amusement park, Westworld, the visitors interact with automatons. However, all hell breaks loose when the robots begin malfunctioning.
2. “Café Minamdang”
Release date: 27th June
Where to watch: Netflix
Café Minamdang (미남당) is an upcoming comedy and mystery South Korean television series starring Seo In-guk, Oh Yeon-seo, Kwak Si-yang, Kang Mi-na and Kwon Soo-hyun. It is based on a web novel titled Minamdang: Case Note by writer Jung Jae-ha
3. “Only Murders in the Building” Season 2
Release date: 28th June
Where to watch: Hulu
Three strangers share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one. When a grisly death occurs inside their exclusive Upper West Side apartment building, the trio suspects murder and employs their precise knowledge of true crime to investigate the truth. Perhaps even more explosive are the lies they tell one another. Soon, the endangered trio comes to realise a killer might be living among them as they race to decipher the mounting clues before it’s too late.
4. “Baymax!”
Release date: 29th June
Where to watch: Disney+ Originals
Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Baymax!” returns to the fantastical city of San Fransokyo where the affable, inflatable, inimitable healthcare companion, Baymax (voice of Scott Adsit), sets out to do what he was programmed to do: help others.
5. “Extraordinary Attorney Woo”
Release date: 29th June
Where to watch: Netflix
Extraordinary Attorney Woo (이상한 변호사 우영우) is an upcoming South Korean legal drama series starring Park Eun-bin in the title role, along with Kang Tae-oh and Kang Ki-young. Woo Young-Woo (Park Eun-Bin) is extremely smart and she also has autism spectrum disorder. She never forgets what she sees, but she lacks in social skills and empathy. Woo Young-Woo begins to work as a trainee lawyer at a large law firm. While working there, she faces prejudice and irrationality against her, but she solves cases with her own unique perspective and grows as a lawyer.
6. “The Upshaws” Season 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYW_amEowbY
Release date: 29th June
Where to watch: Netflix
In Indiana, a working-class African American family struggles to make it work and make it right without the blueprints to do it. The family strives for a better life and a happy home while juggling everyday struggles in this comedy series.
7. “Madagascar: A Little Wild” Season 8
Release date: 30th June
Where to watch: Hulu & Peacock
Like all who land in New York, the young residents of the Central Park Zoo have big dreams and big plans; in a celebration of being yourself and never giving up, Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman pursue their dreams with abandon, no matter the size.
8. “Bastard!! – Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy”
Release date: 30th June
Where to watch: Netflix
Bastard!! is set in a world that has been ravaged by Anthrasax, the God of Destruction. Hundreds of years after Anthrasax has been sealed, the anti-hero Dark Schneider, a powerful wizard who once had aspired to take over the world, is awakened from within the body of a 14-year old named Luche. When evil forces threaten to resurrect Anthrasax, the God of Destruction, the Kingdom of Meta-llicana calls on a volatile dark wizard for help.
9. “Sharkdog” Season 2
Release date: 30th June
Where to watch: Netflix
Ten-year-old Max and his best friend, Sharkdog, embark on adventures. Half shark, half dog with a big heart and a belly full of fish sticks! Together, Sharkdog and his human pal Max can take on any silly or messy adventure.
10. “The Terminal List”
Release date: 1st July
Where to watch: Amazon Prime
The upcoming action-thriller drama starring Chris Pratt as a distraught Navy SEAL solder (James Reece) who returns home after his entire platoon of Navy SEALS is ambushed, only to discover new dark forces working against him and endangering the ones he loves. He seeks to find the truth about his team’s failed mission, while also dealing with the trauma that it left him.
11. “We Hunt Together” Season 2
Release date: 1st July
Where to watch: SHOWTIME
A gripping twist on a classic cat-and-mouse story, this British drama series explores the intoxication of sexual attraction and the dangerous power of emotional manipulation as two conflicted detectives track down a pair of deadly killers.
MOVIES:
1. “Blasted”
Release date: 28th June
Where to watch: Netflix
When a former childhood friend crashes Sebastian’s bachelor party and makes it all about himself, only an alien invasion can make them put aside their bad blood and reunite as the kick-ass laser-tag duo they once were.
2. “BEAUTY”
Release date: 29th June
Where to watch: Netflix
A gifted young Black woman struggles to maintain her voice and identity after she’s offered a lucrative recording contract. It’s the story of a young singer on the brink of a promising career finds herself torn between a domineering family, industry pressures and her love for her girlfriend.
3. “Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Underground Rock Experience!” (short film)
Release date: 30th June
Where to watch: HBO MAX
Calling all rock stars, fashion icons and naked mole rat lovers! Mo Willems’ fan-favourite Naked Mole Rat, Wilbur J. Mole Rat, Jr., will emerge from his underground tunnel for a stunning CGI-animated hour of “underground” music and comedy. Based on Willems’ New York Times best-selling picture book, “Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed” this animated rock opera strikes a power chord about accepting others.
4. “The Princess”
Release date: 1st July
Where to watch: Hulu
When a strong-willed princess refuses to wed a cruel sociopath, she is kidnapped and locked in a remote tower. With her scorned, vindictive suitor intent on taking her father’s throne, the princess must protect her family and save the kingdom.
5. “Jailbreak Lovers”
Release date: 2nd July
Where to watch: Lifetime
When Toby loses her job and starts a nonprofit to rehabilitate abused, rescued dogs at the local prison, she hatches a plan to break her lover out of prison by smuggling him out in one of the dog crates, sparking a federal manhunt.
DOCUMENTARY & REALITY
1. “Cristela Alonzo: Middle Classy”
Release date: 28th June
Where to watch: Netflix
Comedian Cristela Alonzo spills on learning English from “The Price Is Right,” getting Covid on her birthday and how money really can buy happiness. The comic shares the joys of ageing in her 40s, her first ever experience with a gynaecologist and the importance of family.
2. “More Power”
Release date: 29th June
Where to watch: History Channel
Tim Allen and Richard Karn are back in the shop to continue their quest for More Power. With the help of DIY Expert April Wilkerson, they’re putting all kinds of tools to the test. The trio will tackle one tool-centric theme per episode and celebrate the coolest, most powerful and iconic examples of each tool, testing their limits in a way that only Tim can.
Along the way, they’ll open the doors to Tim’s workshop and invite some of the most skilled makers from around the country to show off their creations before then heading out on field trips to play with the biggest machines that keep our world working.
3. “Pirate Gold of Adak Island”
Release date: 29th June
Where to watch: Netflix
If you’ve ever dreamed about finding lost treasure, then this is the show for you. An elite team of experienced treasure hunters journey to a remote island in the Alaskan wilderness in search of buried pirate gold that could be worth millions, if it exists.
4. “The Art Of Incarceration”
Release date: 3rd July
Where to watch: Netflix
This narrative documentary both analyses and humanises the over representation of Indigenous Australians within the prison system, whilst seeking answers and striving toward solutions. The film is an uncompromising insight into the inmate’s quest for cultural identity and spiritual healing as they prepare for the annual Confined exhibition (facilitated by Not For Profit organisation The Torch) and life on the outside.
