Shea Simmons
Buckle up, Netflix lovers. From another collaboration with Headspace to a popular returning series, there’s a lot hitting the streaming service this week. Throw in some documentaries and an Academy Award-winning film, and it’s definitely time to make your must-watch list.
Here’s what’s new on Netflix the week of June 14, 2021:
- June 14:
- Elite Short Stories: A woman isn’t sure whether she wants to see her long-distance boyfriend when she returns home for a wedding.
- June 15:
- FTA: This documentary shows the travels of the Free Theater Associates around the Pacific Islands.
- Let’s Eat: A recently divorced woman learns how to navigate life and food.
- Life of Crime: Two criminals capture the wife of a wealthy man, but he doesn’t care to pay the ransom to get her back.
- Power Rangers Dino Fury: The Power Rangers are back for more dino-themed adventures.
- Rhyme Time Town: Season 2: The children’s show about a place filled with nursery rhyme characters returns.
- Sir! No Sir!: This documentary explores the GI movement against the Vietnam War.
- Unwind Your Mind: The final Netflix/Headspace collab is interactive.
- Workin’ Moms: Season 5: The series about a group of moms who form a friendship returns for another season.
- June 16:
- Lowriders: A teenager paints murals on lowrider cars to help his brother.
- Penguin Town: Penguins look for their mates in this documentary.
- Silver Skates: A thief falls for an aristocrat’s daughter in St. Petersburg, Russia.
- June 17:
- Black Summer: Season 2: The series about a zombie apocalypse returns.
- The Gift: The third season of the series about a painter who uncovers her connections to the ancient world.
- Hospital Playlist: Five doctors who have known one another since undergrad work at the same hospital.
- Katla: A subterranean volcano erupts in this thriller.
- Silver Linings Playbook: Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence star in this Academy Award-winning film.
- June 18:
- A Family: A man taken in by the yakuza when he was young swears allegiance to them.
- Elite: Season 4: The story about privileged kids, murder, and an elite private school returns.
- Fatherhood: A man navigates fatherhood after losing his wife the day after she gives birth.
- Jagame Thandhiram: A gangster faces a moral crisis during a job.
- The Rational Life: A woman deals with her workplace, mother, and life as she navigates her 30s.
- The World’s Most Amazing Vacation Rentals: Explore, well, the world’s most amazing vacation rentals in this series.
- June 19
- Nevertheless: A non-romantic enters a friends-with-benefits relationship with a classmate.
