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May has ended along with the final episodes of Succession, Barry, Ted Lasso, and Yellowjackets among others, but that doesn’t mean this new month will leave us with nothing to watch.

In fact, June appears to be loaded with some really exciting new and returning shows to add to your watchlist. You’ll be chuffed to find that the critically acclaimed dramedy The Bear will be back for a second season, while the arrival of  The Weeknd’s contentious The Idol will take over Succession’s spot.

To help you sort through all of it, The A.V. Club has presented a guide for what to watch this month. The rainy weather can stay, I guess.

Starting off with a series that is already picking up some major heat. The Idol, created by Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye, Reza Fahim, and Euphoria’s Sam Levinson, is already controversial:

 A Rolling Stone report about the show that interviewed 13 cast and crew members highlighted some creepy male behavior and onset chaos. And while Tesfaye and the others have refuted the claims, The Idol, which premiered at Cannes in May, is now getting extra scrutiny.

The show follows Jocelyn ((Lily-Rose Depp) as she works to “claim her rightful status as the greatest and sexiest pop star in America” after facing a nervous breakdown during her last tour, and in doing so, becomes entangled with self-help cult leader Tedros (Tesfaye).

Should be a good distraction anyway. The Idol will stream on HBO come June 4.

Then, we’ll give Kaley Cuoco some post-The Big Bang Theory glory. She’s leading Peacock’s Based On A True Story with co-stars Chris Messina, Tom Bateman, Li Jun Li, and Natalia Dyer, which as the title says, is inspired by a bizarre actual event.

The show follows a realtor, a plumber, and a former tennis star whose lives unexpectedly collide to expose America’s obsession with true crime and murder.

Based On A True Story is out on Peacock, June 8.

If this psychological thriller’s stacked cast – including Tom Holland, Amanda Seyfried, Emmy Rossum, and Conversations With Friends’ Sasha Lane – doesn’t sell you then perhaps being adapted from the based-on-a-true-story novel The Minds Of Billy Milligan will do it for you.

The Crowded Room chronicles a young man (Holland) who’s arrested in Manhattan in the late ’70s for a disturbing crime and the investigator (Seyfried) who thinks there’s much more to this story.

The Crowded Room will be on Apple TV+ on June 9.

Secret Invasion is the new Marvel TV show to fuss over.

Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury—who brought the Avengers together in the first place—is finally (finally!) getting his own project. He leads SI along with MCU staples Cobie Smulders, Don Cheadle, Martin Freeman, and Ben Mendelsohn. The series is labeled a spy drama, with Fury uncovering a conspiracy theory involving the shape-shifting Skrulls infiltrating Earth.

This London-set season includes all the best British actors, like Olivia Colman, Kingsley Ben-Adir, and Emilia Clarke, who will all make their MCU debuts.

Secret Invasion will be on Disney+ by June 21.

Last but not least, the best show of 2022 is back, folks. We’re talking about the second season of The Bear:

We don’t know a ton about the upcoming season (other than that under-wraps character that’s played by none other than Chicago’s own Bob Odenkirk), but color us excited to see how this sure-to-be-anxiety-inducing restaurant makeover goes for Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) and Sydney (Ayo Edebiri).

Bring it:

The Bear season 2 will be on FX on Hulu on June 22.

That’s a wrap, but only in the sense that you need to tortilla-swaddle yourself in blankets all month long with popcorn and Milo to binge-watch all these shows and more.

[source:avclub]