As if the division between leftists and rightists wasn’t enough, now people have to choose between two more camps: OVO Sound and G.O.O.D. Music.
Sure, the Koreas seem to be making some headway with reunification, ABC finally cancelled Roseanne, and Ukraine staged the murder of journalist Arkady Babchenko… but seriously guys, where were you when Pusha T dropped "The Story of Adidon"?
While we all wait for Drake’s rebuttal, here are some Netflix Originals to tide you over.
Sense8: Finale (series)
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Last June, Sense8 fans around the world received the worst news possible: the show was getting cancelled. At $9 million per episode, even an exceptional premise and diverse cast weren’t enough to save it. Netflix felt really, really bad about the whole thing (they are huge fans, according to showrunner Lana Wachowski), and so agreed to one last hurrah.
The feature-length finale, airing June 8, was made possible by social media campaigns launched by Sense8’s loyal fanbase. Wachowski expressed her gratitude, writing: “Just as the characters in our show discover they are not alone, I too have learned that I am not just a me. I am also a we.”
Sense8: Finale airs June 8 on Netflix Australia
The Staircase (docuseries)
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Murdering someone by pushing them down a staircase sounds like an urban legend, or at least an overused movie/novel trope. But no, in 2003, Michael Peterson was convicted of killing his wife Kathleen after she was found dead at the bottom of a staircase in their house. The 16-year judicial battle was followed fervently by the press and public, and even spawned some dramatic series titles such as:
- A Novel Idea (Peterson is a novelist, btw)
- Written in Blood (Again, Peterson is a writer)
- Murder, He Wrote (THE MAN WRITES BOOKS!!!)
Other titles focused on the staircase:
- Stairway to Hell (We’ll give them this one)
- Staircase Killer (Kinda sounds like he went around killing staircases)
- The Staircase (Netflix’s docuseries title in 2018
The Staircase airs June 8 on Netflix Australia.
Set It Up (film)
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Set It Up is essentially the Devil Wears Prada x Horrible Bosses x Bridget Jones collab that no one asked for, but that we’ll all secretly “add to list”.
Harper and Charlie (Zoey Deutch, Glen Powell) are slaves/assistants, depending on whether you ask them or their bosses (Lucy Liu, Taye Diggs). After conceding that long hours and verbal abuse are not really their thing, the two devise plans to make their bosses hook up/fall in love.
Not a new plot device by any means – which the film acknowledges, to their credit. As Charlie puts it, they are “full-on Parent Trap-ping”.
Set It Up airs June 15.
Cooking on High (series)
Luke Cage: Season 2 (series)
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Let’s try and put aside recent news that Rosario Dawson could be leaving the MCU after Luke Cage: Season 2, and instead focus on the insane trailer that Netflix released last month.
Luke Cage is still kicking ass in Harlem, as only a bulletproof beast can. But holy shit, he just got fly kicked in the chin by a random guy, and that guy seems just as unfazed by bullets. Okay, they’re referring to him as Bushmaster, which doesn’t sound intimidating at all, but everyone seems pretty shaken up. Luke clearly needs backup, so thank god for Misty Knight, who, sporting a new bionic arm, is ready for battle.
Luke Cage season 2 airs June 22 on Netflix Australia.
W. Kamau Bell: Private School Negro (comedy special)
