What's New on Netflix Australia in June 2018

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.

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

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:

Other titles focused on the staircase:

The Staircase airs June 8 on Netflix Australia.

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.

Remember those Masterchef cooking challenges where contestants had to work with a mystery ingredient? Where that season’s self-proclaimed “queen of desserts” would have an aneurysm upon seeing a kangaroo fillet?

Cooking on High uses the same “key ingredient” format, except all the contestants across every episode know what that ingredient is.

And that ingredient is weed.

But they can’t just Salt Bae-sprinkle some bud at the end as garnish. As well as taste and presentation (presumably), each dish will need to send the judges soaring.

Cooking On High airs June 22 on Netflix Australia.

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.

There isn’t much info about W. Kamau Bell’s upcoming comedy special at the moment – not even a trailer.

So it makes sense that the activist/comedian would be his own hypeman. In a satirical video posted to Facebook, Bell states that he’s at Lake Merritt in Oakland, CA, looking for BBQ Becky (referring to the white woman who called the cops on black men barbecuing at the lake last week).

“[I’m] hoping that Becky would show up, so she could call the cops on me, and it’d become like a viral thing, so that everyone would know that I have a new Netflix special coming out.”

Becky didn’t show, but heads up, Bell’s new Netflix special airs June 26 on Netflix Australia.