What To Watch This Week: Stream Our Top 7 TV and Movie Picks (June 16–22)

Hell Motel | AMC+, Shudder | Horror

Series premiere, Tuesday, June 17: From Aaron Martin and Ian Carpenter (creators of the Slasher series) and starring Eric McCormack (Basil Garvey from Slasher: Ripper), Hell Motel gathers 10 true-crime fans in a creepy motel where unsolved Satanic mass murders happened three decades prior. It’s exactly what you’re thinkin’: The guests get picked off in increasingly gruesome ways. I’m here for it! Two episodes premiere tonight; the rest stream on a weekly basis at both AMC+ and Shudder.

The Buccaneers | Apple TV+ | Drama

Season 2 premiere, Wednesday, June 18: Based on Edith Wharton’s novel set in the Gilded Age/Victorian Era, The Buccaneers follows a group of American girls stirring things up in 1870s London. In the second season, the young women are established Londoners wielding more power than you’d expect—and navigating adult situations involving romance (and, uh, something like it). Joining the cast this season is Leighton Meester (Gossip Girl). The first of eight episodes streams today, followed by new eps weekly.

We Were Liars | Prime Video | Drama

Series premiere, Thursday, June 19: Based on the young adult mystery novel by co-executive producer E. Lockhart, We Were Liars concerns Cadence Sinclair Eastman (Emily Alyn Lind), a young woman from a rich, beautiful, esteemed, and tightknit New England family—and what she did last summer with her crew, which goes by the mysterious name The Liars. All eight episodes stream today on Prime Video.

The Waterfront | Netflix | Drama

New episode, Tuesday, June 17: From noted Scream scribe Kevin Williamson comes not a new horror movie, but a based-on-a-true-story family drama about the Buckleys, a family whose fishing empire/legacy is threatened by health concerns and vultures who want to move in on the Buckleys’ action. It’s not a total surprise from Williamson, whose resume also includes The Vampire Diaries and Dawson’s Creek—and it’ll probably still have plenty of intrigue and suspense. You can stream all eight episodes today.

Modern Master: Flying Lotus Watch Party—Ash and Kuso | Shudder | Horror

Live watch party (double feature), Friday, June 20, 9 p.m. ET: “Modern Master” isn’t just a clever kung fu movie pun. Musician/filmmaker Flying Lotus is emerging as a horror auteur with his far-out (understatement) flicks, which are compelling eye candy as much as something that can’t be unseen. Kuso is more the latter, but Ash has some shocking scenes (and a debt to John Carpenter’s The Thing), too—and both films are eminently watchable. Enjoy the double-feature!

The Gilded Age | Max | Drama

Season 3 premiere, Sunday, June 22: We again warp back to the 1870s (is this time machine on the fritz?)—only now we’re in America during the Gilded Age in this Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey) series. In the show’s third season, expect more historical soapiness as the Russells prepare to rule. All eight episodes are available to stream on Max (soon to be HBO Max again) as of today.