The Last Week of June: Play catch up with the best shows

Speaking of catching up, how good is your high school Spanish? There’s a brilliant political drama about the madness of power in Un Extrano Enemigo on Amazon. I watched it with absolute attention.

And if you are like me, you’d be going through pots of tea or white chocolate mousse when you binge watch. But if you like munching on healthy plates of cut fruit, this trailer should help you get over rotten apples:

Anime too foreign for you? Then dive into the world of Love, Death & Robots because the series of brilliantly animated stories for grown ups has just been renewed for a second season. The art here is phenomenal and the story-telling is riveting. These characters inhabit worlds that technology is fast predicting. Virtual reality monsters, laws that challenge humanity, cyborgs in love with humans… I am replugging these stories again, I believe, and am not embarrassed to say that I became a fan, even though I, like most of us, could never imagine stepping up and taking the blue pill that Neo chooses. I would quietly take the red pill and fade away into anonymity. But when Netflix is on, am happy to cheer women heroes decimate evil monsters (Khanivore Vs Turboraptor). Don’t want to take my word for it? Look which two incredible brains are telling us these fabulous stories: David Fincher and Tim Miller.

Can you ever get enough of zombies? That is one future I have anticipated, especially because I see what cell phones can do to people. I want to yell, ‘Zombies! Behind you!’ to people lost in their phones. And sometimes I am grateful that one can stalk loved ones by keeping a besotted eye on their social media posts. Black Summer is about fighting for the people you love.

Speaking of love, there’s a really wonderful show on Netflix that perhaps did not come at you like a supernova simply because it is so… Erm… Frank. But it just ended in May after three seasons, and each better than the other. Perhaps a weekend binge is in store for those of you who cannot take schmaltz but a happy dose of humour? Here’s the trailer of season one of the series called Easy:

If a whole lot of intimate scenes is not your scene, then get ready to watch Disenchantment season one, because the second season is already upon us. The animation style is familiar and no matter what you say, The Simpsons has changed the way we look at reality. My favorite character from the series is the demon Luci. The concept is so much fun, I am looking forward to the new season.

Get ready to be inspired in July because the month promises so much more of the new ‘stuff’. We have three days until Stranger Things Season Three. This time they take us to the world that is upside down. But if kids and their strange lives don’t make you happy, then you should watch Inuyashiki on Amazon. It’s settle down with your popcorn style superhero story. Speaking of Amazon, it would be a good thing if you went back and watched Shah Rukh spill his very early charm in Fauji.

There’s so much more to come, and the shows are uncannily predicting the states of our nations. As more and more countries begin to close borders on immigrants, their plight and human tragedies largely ignored, television ropes in some of the best talent and offers you fantasy that looks as beautiful as it does troubled. Here is something beautiful I am looking forward to watching as soon as it is released a couple of months later. It is called Carnival Row and it stars the beautiful Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevigne: