If the spring months will be remembered for anything, pop culture-wise, it’ll surely be Baby Reindeer, the Netflix mega-hit that dominated pub conversations and online debate from mid-April onwards. But we’re approaching June now and, look, it’s time to get stuck into something different.
Luckily, the streamer has a bunch of new stuff on their roster, from the long-long-long awaited Richard Linklater action rom-com Hit Man starring Glen Powell and Adria Arjona, to slick new true crime docu-series How to Rob a Bank, about Seattle's most notorious and prolific bank robber. To that end, here's everything good coming to Netflix in June 2024.
Hit Man
Release date: 7 June
Richard Linklater – the man who gave us such classics as Boyhood, the Before trilogy and Dazed and Confused – is back with Hit Man, a hugely entertaining rom-com thriller starring man of the hour Glen Powell and Puerto Rican actress Adria Arjona. Based on a Texas Monthly article of the same name, Hit Man is about an undercover New Orleans police officer who poses as a hitman while also trying to save a woman in need. From the trailer alone it looks slick, sexy and silly but in a good way.
How to Rob a Bank
Release date: 5 June
Ever thought about robbing a bank? Or at least, y'know, thought about what it might feel like? If so, then Netflix's new true crime documentary How to Rob a Bank might be for you. It's about a charismatic, good-looking guy called Scott Scurlock who, I kid you not, decided to get into bank robberies after watching the 1993 action thriller Point Break. He ended up being the mastermind behind at least 19 bank robberies in and around Seattle throughout the ‘90s until, well, I'm sure you can imagine what happened next. The good times couldn't last forever.
Supacell
Release date: Sometime in June
Peckham really seems to be having a moment in TV and film lately. From last year's beloved romcom Rye Lane to the upcoming Queenie, everyone's favourite SE neighbourhood is finally getting the on-screen attention it deserves. It's also the setting for Netflix’s Supacell, which looks like a regular romance drama at first until it spirals into a full-on sci-fi time-twister. Created by UK rapper and record producer Rapman, Supacell follows a group of people who suddenly develop superpowers, with no connection between them other than the fact they're all Black. Remember Misfits, that Channel 4 show from 2009? This looks a bit like that, but for the 2020s.
Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution
Release date: 18 June
Certain comedians love banging on about how you can't make comedy like you used to [old man shakes fist at cloud]! Netflix’s upcoming feature film Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution looks like a refreshing antidote to that, with a bunch of major LGBTQ+ comedians (from Rosie O'Donnell to Lily Tomlin, Mae Martin, Margaret Cho, Bob The Drag Queen and Wanda Sykes) taking viewers through the LGBTQ+ history of comedy and how it's historically acted as a force for social change. Or, as one comedian puts it plainly: “Queer people taught America to stop being scared of us by making jokes.”
Under Paris
Release date: 5 June
There are two types of people in this world: people who like films about evil sharks and people who don't. Under Paris is for the former. Joining in a long line of chompy bitey classics about the big villainous fish that everyone loves to dunk on, this French film is about what happens when a giant blood-thirsty shark appears in the river Siene, which flows through Paris and into the English Channel. Does it look completely ludicrous? Yes. But so did Cocaine Bear and that's a stone-cold classic.
Trigger Warning
Release date: 21 June
And now one for the action heads among us. Starring Jessica Alba as a skilled Special Forces commando who takes over her father's bar after his mysterious death, inadvertently pulling herself into a violent criminal underworld, Trigger Warning looks like an adrenaline shot from start to finish. Hand-to-hand combat? Indonesian knife fighting? Alba running about like Lara Croft in army gear? Trigger Warning has it all.
Worst Roommate Ever season 2
Release date: 26 June
When season one of Worst Roommate Ever came out in 2022, audiences watched in horror, mouths agog. The roommates in the four-part docu-series, which ranged from violent con artists to sociopathic killers, were so bad that they made our uni flatmate who hoarded all the dirty plates in their room look like a blessed angel. Now, Netflix have announced that a second season is on its way. Details are fairly thin on the ground, but we do know that it'll follow the same formula with another batch of tales.
