What to watch, and more, June 27 – July 3
Mormon wives, a new Capt. Nemo & Jayne Mansfield’s daughter tells all!
It’s a ‘Mormon Wives’ reunion!
FRIDAY, June 27
Smoke
Taron Edgerton stars in this based-on-real-event drama about an arson investigator who teams with a police detective in a twisted game of secrets and suspicions. With Jurnee Smollett, Rafe Spall, Greg Kinnear, John Leguizamo and Anna Chlumsky (Apple TV+).
My Mom Jayne
Come along for actress and director Mariska Harigaty’s journey to understand and embrace the public and private legacy of her mother, Hollywood icon Jayne Mansfield, in this probing documentary (8 p.m., HBO).
SATURDAY, June 28
Pretty Hurts
Hillary Duff stars in this new network movie as a mom who discovers the ugly truths behind the glamor of the teen pageant world, highlighting a disease for which young people are especially at risk (8 p.m., Lifetime).
What Would You Do?
Onlookers and bystanders react to a workers’ comp scam, customers being rude to an employee with Down Syndrome and a mother pressuring her gay son into conversion therapy (8 p.m., ABC).
SUNDAY, June 29
Nautilus
Epic adventure drama (above), inspired by Jules Verne’s classic Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, tells the story of an Indian Prince seeking a fabled Viking treasure—but you know him better as Capt. Nemo. Starring Black Mirror’s Shazad Latif (9 p.m., AMC).
Homeward Bound
Two dogs and a cat set off on a heartwarming adventure to reunite with their owners (9 p.m., ABC).
MONDAY, June 30
The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys
New season begins of the doc series about a Missouri mega-rancher and his family, now facing personal and business challenges including an FBI investigation and possible foreclosure (Bravo).
TUESDAY, July 1
Trainwreck: The Cult of American Apparel
Featuring interviews with insiders and former staff, this exposé traces American Apparel’s journey from fashion phenomenon to financial flop (Netflix).
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives
The cast of the show—all the #MomTok and #DadTok—congregates again in this reunion special to watch unseen footage, uncover new secrets and scandals and make a surprise announcement (Hulu).
WEDNESDAY, July 2
The Old Guard
Charlize Theron, Henry Golding and Uma Thurman are among the ensemble cast in this flick about a team of immortal warriors on a mission to protect the world (Netflix).
THURSDAY, July 3
The Sandman, Vol. I
Season two begins of the adaption based on the DC comic book series by Neil Gaiman about Morpheus, the King of Dreams, as he seeks to regain his power after a century of imprisonment (Netflix).
BRING IT HOME
The cheerleading comedy classic gets a rah-rah resurrection in the 25th anniversary re-release of Bring It On (Shout! Studios), starring Kirsten Dunst and Gabrielle Union. Bonus content includes a making-of doc, audio commentary, wardrobe and makeup tests and deleted scenes. And didja know both Dunst and Union were real-life high school cheerleaders?
A wind-up toy simian causes all kinds of hellzapoppin’ in master horror director Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey (Neon Home Entertainment), based on a Stephen King story and starring Theo James, Tatiana Maslany and Collin O’Brien.
Hell of a Summer (Neon) is a coming-of-age horror/slasher comedy (yes, really) about a young summer-camp counsellor (Fred Hechinger) who discovers something deadly lurking in the woods. Both familiar (to horror fans) and fresh at the same time, it also marks the co-directorial debut of Stranger Things’ Finn Wolfhard, who provides commentary in one of the bonus features.
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NOW HEAR THIS
Bruce Springsteen breaks out the pedal steel, fiddle and other Nash-centric instruments with Somewhere North of Nashville (Sony), a previously unreleased collection of rockabilly, honky-tonk tunes and foot-tapping country. The Boss says the songs were recorded back in 1995, when he was working on what would become The Ghost of Tom Joad album. “I ended up making a country record on the side,” he says, but those side songs never made it onto an album…until now!
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