James R | On 04, Jun 2018

Netflix. Amazon Prime Video. BBC iPlayer. NOW. Walter Presents. There’s so much TV to watch these days that it can be hard to keep up. Every month, we boil down what’s on to the essentials you need in your streaming queue.

From the return of Luke Cage and Poldark to Love Island, this is your June TV watchlist – what’s worth watching, why and where you can find it online.

Luke Cage: Season 2

As his popularity soars, Luke Cage finds his world suddenly upended by a mysterious newcomer with astonishing powers – and sinister plans for Harlem.

Goliath: Season 2

As Billy, Patty and the team start to investigate what appears to be an open and shut murder case, they begin to untangle a deadly conspiracy in the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles, where drugs, real estate and politics intermingle. Once again, Billy finds himself facing a new Goliath, one that is as formidable as the city’s mayoral race and as tall as the skyline itself.

Flowers: Season 2

Will Sharpe’s darkly imaginative and heartfelt comedy about sadness is one of the most unique things on TV in the last decade. Starring Julian Barratt and Olivia Colman, it charts the trials of the Flowers family, as they work to confront the depression of Maurice, the illustrator of some deeply disturbing kids’ books. The full Season 1 box set is available for free on All 4. Read our review of Season 1 here.

Preacher: Season 3

In series two, the trio’s pursuit led them to New Orleans, where they dodged local gangsters, dangerous agents, and other unimaginable mayhem on their way to uncovering an even bigger secret. Now, with Tulip’s life and Cassidy’s friendship in the balance, Jesse must rely on a mysterious figure from his past in order to save his friends and continue on with his mission.

The Bold Type: Season 2

Inspired by the life of Joanna Coles, former Editor-in-Chief of fashion magazine, Cosmopolitan, and current Chief Content Officer of Hearst Magazines, The Bold Type reveals a glimpse into the outrageous lives and loves of those responsible for the global women’s magazine, Scarlet. The rising generation of Scarlet women lean on one another as they find their own voices in a sea of intimidating leaders. Together, they explore sexuality, identity, love and fashion.

Cloak and Dagger: Season 1

Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger is the story of Tandy Bowen (Olivia Holt, Ultimate Spider-Man) and Tyrone Johnson (Aubrey Joseph, The Night Of), two teenagers who are awakened to newly acquired superpowers which are mysteriously linked to one another. Tandy can emit light daggers and Tyrone has the ability to engulf others in darkness. They quickly learn they are better together than apart. Read our review.

Dietland: Season 1

Based on Sarai Walker’s 2015 best-selling, critically-acclaimed novel of the same name, the series follows Plum Kettle’s journey to self-awakening while exploring a multitude of issues faced by women today – including patriarchy, misogyny, rape culture and unrealistic beauty standards. The ten episodes look into the life of Plum, a ghost-writer for the editor of one of New York’s hottest fashion magazines, as she struggles with self-image and embarks on the complicated road to self-acceptance. Read our review.

Sense8: The Finale

In this sweeping series finale for Lana Wachowski’s stunning sci-fi epic, passions run high as the Sensates and their closest allies fight to save the cluster and stop their enemies for good.

Poldark: Season 4

Poldark returns for a fourth season and Ross must defend Cornwall from an empowered George Warleggan, embarking on a political journey which takes him all the way to Westminster.

Atlanta: Season 2

Donald Glover’s series stars the Community veteran as Earnest Marks, who drops out of Princeton and returns to his hometown of Atlanta. There, he discovers that his cousin, Alfred, has become the city’s hottest new rap act. The show follows the two cousins as they work through the Atlanta music scene in order to better their lives and the lives of their families. Co-starring with Glover are Brian Tyree Henry, Lakeith Stanfield, and Zazie Beetz.

Queer Eye: Season 2

Netflix’s Fab Five – Antoni Porowski (Food & Wine), Bobby Berk (Interior Design), Karamo Brown (Culture), Jonathan Van Ness (Grooming) and Tan France (Fashion) – return to the Georgia heartland, forging connections with communities from a wide array of backgrounds and beliefs often contrary to their own, touching on everything from self-love and faith, to immigration and how to make the perfect homemade poke bowls and more.

GLOW: Season 2

Armed with leotards, leg warmers and plenty of lipstick, the women of GLOW return with style for a second round in the ring.

The Affair: Season 4

Intimate, deeply observed and elusive. The provocative drama starring Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, Joshua Jackson and Maura Tierney returns for a fourth season. We now find Noah, Helen, Alison and Cole in their own orbits, alienated from each other and spinning further away from where it all began. With everyone involved in a new relationship, are they now prepared to leave the past behind? Or will they attempt to change the narrative?

Love Island

One of TV’s most talked about entertainment shows makes it return this summer. This time round the Love Islanders will be living in a brand new villa, a luxury paradise that will play host to the love and lust as the temperatures are raised and the pulses race faster than ever before. To remain in their spectacular sun kissed surroundings, the Islanders will have to couple up, winning the hearts of each other and the public, who will ultimately decide who stays on Love Island.

The Magicians: Season 3

Based on the critically acclaimed novel series by author Lev Grossman, The Magicians has grown to become one of the most underrated and impressive fantasy series on the TV. It follows recent college graduate Quentin Coldwater (Jason Ralph), who has a history of depression and has always longed to live in the Narnia-esque world of his favourite ‘Fillory & Further’ novels, where magic is real. Now he is about to learn that magic is not just a mesmerising world of miraculous spells and powers, but also of untold dangers. His life changes on the day of his Princeton University interview, when he finds the examiner dead and a hidden portal leading to the Brakebills College of Magical Pedagogy, where he is accepted as a student… With Season 3 returning this month, catch up with Season 1 and 2 for free on My5 (available until 27th June).

The Staircase

A gripping real-life courtroom thriller, The Staircase offers a rare and revealing inside-look at a high-profile murder trial as novelist Michael Peterson is accused of killing wife Kathleen, after she is found dead at the bottom of a staircase in their home.

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Jean-Xavier de Lestrade was granted unprecedented access to the 16-year judicial battle that followed, capturing every moment of this extraordinary story from arrest to verdict, following in intimate detail Peterson’s home, the family and his defence team. Originally released in 2004, the series was critically acclaimed around the world, with BBC Four broadcasting the episodes in the UK. Now, those 10 episodes are returning to our screens, courtesy of Netflix, with three new episodes exclusively commissioned by the streaming giant.

Line of Separation

This gripping German drama explores how the tensions of the Second World War and the subsequent Cold War impinged on seemingly united communities. It is a sensitive exploration of homegrown resistance to the Third Reich in Germany, and how real lives were afflicted by the impersonal approach of both the American and Russian Armed forces. Based on the true story of Mödlareuth, which was cruelly divided down the middle between the regimes of the East and West, we witness the town being stricken by the unrelenting force Nazi officers, liberated by the Americans and later seized by the Russians. But the lives of the inhabitants must go on, and they cannot be held hostage by the rules that govern them. Will one ideology prove to be the key to a successful society, or are they both as bad as each other? It stars Jonas Nay, who Walter Presents fans will recognise from Deutschland ’83.

The Swingers: Season 2

Pregnant with her first child, Eva and Peter are blissfully happy and about to move into a new house in a seemingly quiet neighbourhood on the outskirts of Amsterdam. However, tragedy strikes, Eva gives birth prematurely and the baby dies. Grief stricken they find support and friendship with their new neighbours, Rebecca and Steef. At first, the friendship is fun but as the lives of both couples become more intertwined, dark secrets are exposed and boundaries crossed with fatal consequences for all involved.

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