What to watch, and more, June 13 – June 19
Henry Winkler’s ‘Hazardous History,’ the Swedish mafia & ride, Sally, ride!
The former Fonzie finds looks for dangerous playthings and precarious products.
FRIDAY, June 13
Twin Peaks
The genre-bending murder-mystery freak show from David Lynch and Mark Frost that redefined television in the early ‘90s—about a special agent (Kyle McLachlin) investigating the death of Laura Palmer, a teenage girl—gets a new streaming home for repeats of its two seasons, plus its follow-up, Twin Peaks: The Return (MUBI).
Not a Box
New kid-centric animated series encourages preschoolers to embrace the power of imagination through the character of a bunny who uses a cardboard box to conjure up magical worlds, new friends and fantastic adventures (Apple TV+).
Cleaner
Daisy Ridley and Clive Owen star in this new movie about a window cleaner trying to save 300 hostages held prisoner by radical activists (Max).6.15
SATURDAY, June 14
Hazardous History with Henry Winkler
The Happy Days star hosts this new series looking into things we used to do that have been deemed unadvisible by the passage of time, from perilous playthings to precarious products. Can you believe asbestos was once widely used just about everywhere? Or that there was radioactivity in toys? Fast-paced, fun and a bit scary! (10 p.m., History).
The Chosen: Last Supper
The global-hit life-of-Christ drama (above) enters season five as Jesus is welcomed as a “king” into Jerusalem, shares a final meal with his closest followers and prepares to make the ultimate sacrifice (Prime).
SUNDAY, June 15
Sally
National Space Day was May 2, but it’s never too late to learn about pioneering astronaut Sally Ride, the first American woman to travel into space, in this new award-winning documentary. Ride, Sally, ride! (9 p.m., National Geographic).
Underdogs
Actor Ryan Reynolds narrates this celebration of nature’s unsung animal heroes, demonstrating a spectrum of bizarre mating strategies, surprising superpowers, deception, dubious parenting skills and gross-out behaviors (9 p.m., National Geographic).
MONDAY, June 16
Walking with Dinosaurs
Six-part BBC production uses science and cutting-edge visual effects to bring prehistoric creatures—and their stories of domination and survival—to life (8 p.m., PBS).
TUESDAY, June 17
American Cats: The Good, The Bad and the Cuddly
Celebrate Animal Rights Awareness Week with this documentary about the controversial world of cat declawing and the multimillion-dollar industry behind the procedure (available on digital).
Hell Motel
Will and Grace’s Eric McCormack stars in this new horror anthology series about dark history repeating itself at the site of an unsolved mass murder at a motel (Shudder).
WEDNESDAY, June 18
Outrageous
New period drama series is based on the true story of headstrong, aristocratic sisters in the 1930s who lived by their own rules…with sometimes disastrous consequences. Starring Bessie Carter, Joanna Vanderham and Shannon Watson (Britbox).
We Were Liars
In this twisted YA drama based on a novel, a teenage girl returns to her summer home in Martha’s Vineyard searching for answers after a mysterious accident has left her with a traumatic brain injury—and no memory of how it happened. Starring Emily AlynLind and Shubham Maheshwari (Prime).
THURSDAY, June 19
The Waterfront
Drama about a North Carolina fishing family trying to keep their sinking business afloat. Starring Holt McCallany, Maria Bello and Melissa Benoist (Netflix).
Mafia
Nordic crime drama about the violent rise of a crime boss and a lone cop facing his menace—inspired by real events in Sweden in the 1990s (Viaplay).
READ ALL ABOUT IT
Take a tour inside a citadel of rock history with Buzz Me In: Inside the Record Plant, a fascinating look at the sprawling recording studio operation—in New York, California, plus multiple mobile recording trucks—that became a recording icon of the ‘70s. Authors Martin Porter and David Goggin—two veteran journalists who now run the Record Plant Facebook page—interviewed countless music professionals and artists to recount, session by session, what it was like to catch lightning in a bottle by Jimi Hendrix, Fleetwood Mac, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, Sly Stone, Bob Marley, John Lennon, the Eagles and more rock legends. It’s a previously untold story of classic rock’s most famous hit factory. (Thames & Hudson)
The late great multi-instrumentalist for The Band gets his due in Richard Manuel (Shiffer Publishing), author Stephen T. Lewis’ masterful examination at his talents and influence in one of the founding groups for rootsy rock. A quiet but essential presence in The Band, Manuel, who died in 1986, never gave many interviews, but others sing his praises here, including Eric Clapton and Van Morrison. Other recount his musical life and his role in The Band’s progression, including helping Bob Dylan “go electric,” performing at Woodstock and making one of the greatest in-concert documentaries of all time, The Last Waltz.
NOW HEAR THIS
Get retro groovy with Gratest Hits (Dead.net), the newly released 60th anniversary collection of the Grateful Dead’s “greatest” (get it?) studio tracks, including “Truckin’,” “Touch of Grey,” “Friend of the Devil” and more on CD, vinyl and digital. A testament to one of the world’s most iconic bands across more than half a century, it’s jam-tastic!
BRING IT HOME
One of the most widely celebrated war heroes of WWII, Audie Murphy went on to become a Hollywood superstar, appearing in more than 40 films, mostly war movies and Westerns. The Audie Murphy Collection rounds up three of his “cowboy” films from the late ‘50s and early ‘60s—Walk the Proud Land, Seven Ways From Sundown and Bullet for a Badman—in a package jam-packed with other stars, including Anne Bancroft, Jay Silverheels (Tonto from The Lone Ranger), Darren McGavin and Beverly Owen, who played Marilyn on TV’s The Munsters (kinolarber.com).
