What to watch, and more! Week of June 12 – June 18
A girls’ trip goes sideways, fighters gonna fight and spooky stories come to life
The Mexican stop-motion film ‘I Am Frankelda’ is a gorgeous ode to scary storytelling.
FRIDAY, June 12
I Am Frankelda
Animated tale of a gifted writer in Mexico whose dark tales full of monsters come to life (Netflix).
Find Your Friends
A girls’ fun trip to a boozy bacchanalia in the desert takes a nasty turn when they run into some very inhospitable locals, below. Starring Bella Thorn (Shudder).
SATURDAY, June 13
My Adventures with Superman
Season three begins of the animated series about Clark Kent (voiced by Jack Quaid) as he begins working as an intern at the Daily Planet with Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen (midnight, streaming on Adult Swim on Max).
The Jealous Bride
Amber Stevens stars in this twisted tale of love, jealousy, and obsession based on bestselling novel My Sister’s Daughter by Liv Constantine (8 p.m., Lifetime).
SUNDAY, June 14
Patience
Season two of the crime drama about an autistic woman who works in criminal records tackling puzzling crimes begins tonight. Starring Ella Maisy Purvis (8 p.m., PBS).
The Ultimate Fighter
UFC Hall of Famers compete as coaches as former champs Daniel Cormier and Michael Bisping mix it up in the ring (Paramount+)
MONDAY, June 15
The Last Twins
Liev Schrieber narrates this gripping story of an unsung hero of the Holocaust who defied the Nazis to protect dozens of young boys, many of them twins, targeted by Dr. Josef Mengele for brutal medical experimentation (10 p.m., PBS)
TUESDAY, June 16
Becoming Katherine Graham
Documentary about the woman who took over the Washington Post newspaper after her father and husband, leading to a new era of acclaimed investigative journalism (9 p.m., PBS).
WEDNESDAY, June 17
Alone
Season 13 begins of the extreme-survival series, this time bringing contestants from all over the globe to the Arctic Circle—and its freezing temps, intense isolation and dangerous wildlife (9 p.m., History Channel).
The Kimberley: Australia’s Wild West
New series about Australia’s remote northwest region, from a First Nations perspective, chronicling a year of extreme tropical seasons to reveal the stories hidden within the rugged landscape (10 p.m., PBS).
THURSDAY, June 18
The Capture
Holliday Grainger stars in this series about deepfakes, a government exposé and a geopolitical crisis (Peacock).
I Will Find You
A father wrongly imprisoned for his son’s murder receives evidence that his child may be alive. Series stars Sam Worthington (above), Milo Ventimiglia and Britt Lower (Netflix).
NOW HEAR THIS
Just in time for Father’s Day is Fun Intended from the Chicago-based band DadJoke. It’s the brainchild of award-winning composer Dave Remmick, who blends rock, punk, post-punk, funk, metal, jazz, folk, Broadway/Disney and R&B on silly, bone-tickling tunes like “I Hope Nobody Drops a Big Rubber Horse on My Head,” “You Have to Go Potty Too,” “What Did the Dinosaurs Say” and many more.
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The groundbreaking mid-20th century American photographer Helen Levitt, known for her street photography around her home of New York City, is the subject of this chronicle of her wide-ranging work. Take a trip back in time to the teeming street life of Gotham, as documented through her lens (Thames & Hudson).
She was a blonde goddess of the silver screen. And now, on what would have been her 100th birthday, The Marilyn Monroe Century (Abrams) celebrates her life, her transformation from Norma Jeane Mortensen into a 1950s blonde bombshell. Packed with photos by Bruno Bernard, the most sought-after shutterbug of Hollywood’s Golden Age (he was known as “Bruno of Hollywood”), it’s a tribute to the iconic, one-of-a-kind movie star, who died in 1962.
It’s a dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it. In Trash (Melville House), “trashman” Simon Pare-Poupart spills the, ahem, dirt—as well as a few good yuks—about his 20 years in waste management…and why he’s still on the job, because of his love for the physical rush, his rough-and-tumble colleagues, and an honesty and freedom that no other job has given him.
Today we can pick up a phone and make a call to just about anywhere in the world. But it wasn’t always that way. In Lightning Beneath the Sea (W.W. Norton), author James M. Tabor tells the almost unbelievable tale of how the first 2,000-mile cable was laid—in the mid-1800s—across the Atlantic Ocean, beset by storms, freak accidents and even sabotage—to usher in a new era of global communication.
How do animals, ahem, have sex? And what can we learn from it? You might be surprised, in Perrin Roosevelt Ireland’s illuminating Poking the Squid (W. W. Norton), to find out the many ways and means critters go about reproducing. It’s a wild illustrated ride through a spectrum of behaviors, including queerness, infidelity, consent, cannibalism and gender fluidity.
BRING IT HOME
Attention, horror fans! Scream 7 (Alliance Home Entertainment) slashes its way onto home video this week, with Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courtney Cox returning for more mayhem with the supernatural villain known as Ghostface.
NOW HEAR THIS
After surgery for lung cancer, Barry Manilow is back, baby! His new What a Time, his 33rd album, features a set of 13 eclectic and reflective songs, including “Once Before I Go,” “Touched by an Angel” and “Don’t Trouble the Water.”
