Turn & Smile TV Guide: Sunday, June 22nd
Here is what's coming to TV for June 23rd to June 29th
It’s officially summer, Sofa Taters! And this week of premieres is looking hot! Here’s another Sunday TV Guide with more premieres to fill your week!
Be sure to let us know what you’re looking forward to the most and what you’ve enjoyed so far! Remember to vote in our footer poll this week!
If you enjoy the newsletter, don’t forget to subscribe!
What We’ve Been Watching
Mason: This show, which just finished its inaugural season, is a fun adult-oriented cartoon filled to the brim with Canadian icons and talent (including a personal friend of mine). It has some very unique and recognizable voices, like The Kids in the Hall alum Kevin McDonald, How I Met Your Mother alum Colbie Smulders, and Will Arnet. Unfortunately, this show is only available in the UK (through ITVx) and Canada (through Crave), but I guess everyone else can hope that they get to see it while I wait patiently for the now-confirmed Season 2. Super Team Canada!!
Larissa: Watching the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders successfully get a 400% raise in Season 2 of America’s Sweethearts!! Now, with their raise, they make a whole 1/1000th of quarterback Dak Prescott’s $60M annual salary! Small victories.
What We’re Excited To See
Larissa: Carmy Berzatto is back as everyone’s favourite Chicago chef! Is this the season that the pressure becomes too much for The Bear??
Mason: If you’ve been with us for a while, you knew I was going to be excited for this show.
What We’re Talking About
Mason: ADVENTURE! With the Phineas and Ferb revival currently on the Disney Channel and summer blockbusters releasing, I’m reminded of that carefree feeling of adventure-seeking I had when I was a kid, which makes me think of the very enigmatic character, Sea Hawk, from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. Sea Hawk is a swashbuckling, seafaring pirate and ally of the Princesses (and Best Friends Squad). He’s also passionately in love with Mermista, who’s rather unimpressed with his high energy thirst for the open sea. During the summer, I like to try to bring Sea Hawk energy to everything I do to create more memories.
As it turns out, we’re still pushing towards 100 subscribers, and when we do that, we— Larissa and I— have committed to doing a Thursday Prime Time newsletter review of Netflix’s She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. Up to now, Larissa has been kind of a stick in the mud (sorry) about my enjoyment and fandom of this show and has refused to engage with it at all. But she’s going to watch it when we reach 100 subscribers and give it an honest chance in a subsequent Thursday review. So if you want to find out what Larissa thinks about characters like Sea Hawk, the golden retriever man, or if she likes it as much as Mermista likes Sea Hawk, be sure to subscribe and share to help us get to 100 subscribers!
Larissa: Hey… me being a stick in the mud is what allowed us to create Turn and Smile in the first place…
New To Streaming
June 23rd to June 29th
Head Over Heels/ Gyeonwoo and Fairy/ 견우와 선녀 (🇰🇷) (Prime Video)
This fantasy romantic drama out of the best Korea is about a star-crossed pair. One learns the other is destined to die, and after they find each other at the same school, they try to save the other from their certain death. Interestingly, the term “star-crossed” (famously used by Shakespeare and borrowed by us because we read) isn’t a good thing. It means that something will succumb to bad luck and is not meant to be. See these star-crossed lovers on Prime Video this week.
Ironheart (Disney+)
The much-hyped miniseries, directed by Black Panther director Ryan Coogler, this MCU series follows Tony Stark’s spiritual successor, Riri Williams. (If you say she is his rightful heir, bigots will yell at you about Spider-Man). In the comics, Riri is an MIT student who is inspired by Stark to make her own Iron Man-style armour and is dubbed Ironheart by her AI assistant (modelled after Stark himself). Riri, played by Dominique Thorne, was first introduced in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and is set to face off against a magical foe, Brother Blood, preparing to make her question her perception of reality. This might seem like an odd or mismatched pairing; however, Tony Stark’s Iron Man has a long history of facing off against similar magic users in the comics as well. After seeing Riri Williams on Disney+ this week, you can look forward to seeing her again in the TV-MA-rated Marvel Zombies later this Autumn, and the show Champions, which will likely form The Young Avengers. Just try to avoid certain pockets of the internet for discussion of this miniseries because the discourse can be toxic.
Panchayat (🇮🇳) (Prime Video)
Right off the bat, if you aren’t physically from India, you need to know that a panchayat office is a government office in more rural parts of India responsible for administration and similar roles for small villages. Panchayat is an Indian dramady about a recently graduated engineering student who, for lack and want of a job, applies for a position at a panchayat office in a rural village. You can have the laughs and see the drama as Season 4 of this show explores a local election this week on Prime Video.
Countdown (Prime Video)
Former Supernatural icon Misha Collins isn’t in Countdown. Instead, the actor will be joining his former Supernatural co-star Jensen Ackles in the final season of The Boys, releasing next year. Ackles himself, fresh off a fifteen-year stint in Supernatural, which concluded in 2020, where he played opposite Collins for twelve years, finds himself starring in Countdown, where he plays a Los Angeles police officer who joins a secret task force only to discover a nefarious plot to defeat. This thriller series has been getting a lot of press, and you can see it this week on Prime Video, or you can read about it. Just be warned that reviewers and critics who talk about series star Jensen Ackles have to mention his most popular acting credit, Supernatural, four or five times whenever we write about him, and we need to mention at least one other star from that show. It’s the law. Supernatural.
The Bear (Hulu)
This popular series about a chef who returns from a career in fine dining to run his family’s sandwich shop returns for Season 4 this week. You can check it out on Hulu (and FX) if you can take the pressure and heat in the kitchen.
The Ultimatum: Queer Love (Netflix)
The new twist with this reality TV dating show is that the couples featured have been dating for at least eight weeks and have reached the point where one is ready for marriage and the other isn’t. How will the couples respond to a marriage ultimatum? Find out this week when Season 2 drops on Netflix.
Squid Game/ Ojing-eo geim (🇰🇷) (Netflix)
It’s finally (almost) here: the last season of Squid Game. The series that increased class consciousness and spawned a very inappropriate game show returns for its third and final season, where people who are in crushing debt are invited to participate in deadly games for the amusement of oligarchs. Find out how this South Korean drama ends and if the proletariat is liberated this week when Season 3 lands on Netflix.
Smoke (Apple TV+)
This new true crime series is based on the Coin Tosser arsonist, John Leonard Orr, who was an arson investigator, a fire captain, and an arsonist who was convicted at the end of July 1992 of multiple, sometimes deadly, arsons in California that happened between 1984 and 1991. Orr is credited as the most prolific serial arsonist in American history, with at least two thousand (or more) fires credited to him and four fatalities. Welsh icon Taron Egerton stars in this series as an arson investigator who teams up with a police detective to investigate a series of arsons. You can see how hot this show gets when it debuts this week on Apple TV+.
Nautilus (🇬🇧) (AMC+)
Do you like to read? Too bad. This British show is an adaptation of the Jules Vern novel “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” about a team of deep-sea explorers in a submarine that will explore the backstory of the novel’s iconic Captain Nemo. You can find it this week on AMC and AMC+.
Editorial Note
We missed a show last week
Sorry… mistakes happen sometimes.
Sometimes updates to release schedules occur late in the week, and we don’t find out about them, or they are announced during the week after we’ve published. Or we don’t see the announcements. When we catch them, we will update you about them.
Fairly OddParents: A New Wish (Apple TV+/ Netflix)
The original Fairly OddParents was created by an altogether problematic person with very problematic views that seem hypocritical when you see his work. But after creating memorable characters like Timmi Turner, Danielle “Dani” Fenton, and the genderless dogs from T.U.F.F Puppy, this reboot/ sequel/follow-up series seems to have nothing to do with Butch Hartman. This new series follows ten-year-old Hazel Wells, who moves to a new town and finds herself living next to Timmi Turner’s ex-fairies, Cosmo and Wanda, who have retired. She manages to pull them out of retirement to become her fairies, making her life better when her brother is unable to visit from college. This show is available in the USA via Apple TV+ and internationally through Netflix. However, it turns out that Netflix is considering the second half of Season 1 of this show “Season 2” and released it as such last week. We’re honestly surprised that we didn’t even hear about Season 1 last year. We’re going to have a word with our algorithms.
New To Cable
June 23rd to June 29th
Born to Be Viral: The Real Lives of Kidfluencers (Freeform)
The sub-subgenre of documentary exposing the dark, abusive reality of the lives of child online influencers, or “kidfluencers,” is having a moment. It’s almost magical what “waiting ten years for the children of abuse to turn eighteen” will do. This docuseries will also show you how the sausage is made when it debuts this week on Freeform. It’ll be a few weeks before it hits Hulu, though.
Rehab Addict (HGTV)
Host Nicole Curtis is back! After taking an extended eight-year hiatus to focus on her family and children, she is bringing her original home renovation reality TV show back from the dead to keep helping people whose homes are about to meet a literal wrecking ball and make their property livable again. Watch Curtis come in like a wrecking ball this week when HGTV debuts the first episode of Season 9.
The Bear (FX)
Season 4 of this popular show returns, following a highly trained fine cuisine chef returning to run his family’s small sandwich shop. See all the drama and maybe even how sausage is made this week on FX, and later Hulu.
Human Footprint (PBS)
This docuseries looks to tell very human stories about the footprints— the impact— we have on the planet and what that story says about who we are as a species. You can find it on PBS this week.
Nautilus (🇬🇧) (AMC)
Coming to us from the UK but filmed in Brisbane (the Australian one, not North Dakota), this deep-sea action adventure series will explore the backstory of Jules Vern’s iconic character Prince Dakkar. Find it this week on AMC (or AMC+).
Check this out 👇
Poll
Thank you again to our sofa taters for joining us in exploring what’s to come next week. Be sure to subscribe and do the other internet things below if you like this newsletter and want more. And don’t snooze on the poll, either! Your answers help us a lot!
In sooooo excited for Ironheart too. I still need to catch up on the dallas cheerleaders first but then it's Ironheart!
I'm looking forward to wonder man this year