11 Best New Shows on Netflix: June 2022’s Top Upcoming Series to Watch (2024)

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By Maddy Casale@madhoops

Published June 2, 2022, 11:00 a.m. ET

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Netflix is coming in hot with their list of new content available for streaming this June, and it’s sure to offer the perfect viewing experience to start your summer off strong. While it’s always hard to say goodbye to the titles leaving in the next month, you won’t be feeling down for long once you get a good look at the impressive array of Netflix Original series coming to the platform to take their place. With everything from brand new titles to long-awaited continuations of fan favorites, Netflix’s diverse and delightful June 2022 premieres is sure to have something for everyone.

The streamer is set to help you celebrate the new month with premieres from highly-anticipated new seasons of hit shows across several different genres (so there’s truly something for everyone) like The Umbrella Academy, Peaky Blinders, and The Upshaws.

While the list of June’s top shows features these exciting continuations of more established titles, the majority of our list consists of fresh new shows streaming exclusively on Netflix for the first time starting this month. Keep an eye out in particular for Man Vs Bee, First Kill, God’s Favorite Idiot, and Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, all very different shows that are united by their high likelihood of being major stand-outs for the summer streaming season.

So what makes the cut for our top 11, and which of them have what it takes to be in the Netflix Top 10? Keep reading to bask in the greatness that is the list of streaming standouts for June 2022.

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'The Umbrella Academy': Season 3

Released June 22

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CAST:Elliot Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, Justin H. Min, Colm Feore, Ritu Arya, Britne Oldford, Justin Cornwell, Cazzie David, Jake Epstein, Genesis Rodriguez, Javon Walton

RATING:TV-MA

DESCRIPTION:The highly-anticipated third season of this beloved Netflix Original superhero adventure-comedy series is finally here! The Umbrella Academy: Season 3 introduces Viktor Hargreeves (Page), formerly known as Vanya, who went from being the sole Hargreeves sibling without super powers to becoming strong enough to accidentally invoke an apocalypse all within the span of two seasons. So it’s safe to say we expect plenty of excitement from Viktor this season, as well as from the rest of the cast, as they all find themselves in a new, altered timeline that has arisen after preventing a mass apocalyptic event in 1963, leaving them to come to grips with the new world in which they exist, where an alternate version of their family called The Sparrow Academy seems determined to get in their way. The Umbrella Academy welcomes back fan-favorite characters while also ushering in a host of fascinating new ones, so get pumped, because there’s a lot to love about the latest season of this super series.

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'Peaky Blinders': Season 6

Released June 10

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CAST:Cillian Murphy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sam Claflin, Paul Anderson, Tom Hardy, Natasha O’Keeffe, Sophie Rundle, Finn Cole, Kate Phillips, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Stephen Graham, Charlene McKenna

RATING:TV-MA

DESCRIPTION:It’s the final season of Peaky Blinders and everything is coming to a head. The epic Netflix Original crime-drama series about a gangster family in 1900s England picks up with the Shelbys four years after they suffer a crushing loss. The Prohibition Era has ended, leading Tommy (Murphy) to turn towards toward the opium trade, forcing him to ally with his worst enemies in the process. Murphy, Anderson, Claflin, Hardy, and Graham are among the cast, both returning and new, who will bring it all home with one last gothic, heavy story to give this incredible series the send-off it deserves.

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'Man Vs Bee'

Released June 24

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CAST:Rowan Atkinson, Jing Lusi, Claudie Blakley, Tom Basden, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Greg McHugh, India Fowler

RATING:TV-PG

DESCRIPTION: A man (Atkinson) finds himself at war with a bee while housesitting at a luxurious mansion in this nearly dialougless Netflix Original comedy series (this is pure slapstick, people—this is the man behind Mr. Bean, after all). Who will win, and what irreparable damage will be done in the process? Find out in the delicious and destructiveMan Vs Bee.

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'The Upshaws': Season 2, Part 1

Released June 29

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CAST:Mike Epps, Kim Fields, Wanda Sykes, Page Kennedy, Diamond Lyons, Khali Daniya-Renee Spraggins, Jermelle Simon, Gabrielle Dennis, Regina Y. Hicks, Journey Christine

RATING:TV-14

DESCRIPTION:The family comedy series returns to reacquaint us with the Upshaw family. In case you forgot: head of a Black working class Indianapolis-based family Bennie Upshaw (Epps) is a charming, well-intentioned mechanic and lifelong mess just trying his best to take care of his family — wife and matriarch Regina (Kim Fields), their two young daughters (Spraggins, Christine) and firstborn son (Simon), the teenage son (Lyons) he fathered with another woman (Dennis) — and tolerate his sardonic sister-in-law (Sykes), all without a roadmap or guide on how to succeed. But the Upshaws are determined to make it work, and to grow and achieve new heights as a family unit. In the first part of the Netflix Original’s sophomore season, the Upshaws continue to ride life’s highs and lows, encountering everything from new loves and old flames to big dreams and major life changes to the classic drama and special moments that come with family.

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'First Kill'

Released June 10

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CAST:Sarah Catherine Hook, Imani Lewis, Elizabeth Mitchell, Aubin Wise, Jason Robert Moore, Gracie Dzienny, Will Swenson

RATING:TV-MA

DESCRIPTION:Based on author V.E. Schwab’s short story of the same name, this horror mystery-drama is a new LGBTQ+ twist on the popularTwilight-esque vampire love stories of the 2000s. First Killis an unconventional love story between teenage girls Calliope (Lewis) and Juliette (Hook): Calliope comes from generations of monster slayers and has to hunt a vampire in order to officially earn her stripes in her family trade, while Juliette comes from a long heritage of vampires and needs to find her first human victim in order to come of age as a full-fledged vampire. Both are looking for their first kill when they encounter one another, but instead sparks fly, sparking a thrilling forbidden supernatural romance.

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'SPRIGGAN'

Released June 18

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CAST:Chiaki Kobayashi,Mariya Ise, Kenji Hamada, Yôhei Azakami

RATING: TV-MA

DESCRIPTION:SPRIGGANis a Japanese-language Netflix Original anime series adapted from Hiroshi Takashige and Ryōji Minagawa’s manga series of the same name (and has also been known as Striker) in which an ancient alien civilization’s relics on Earth hold dangerous powers. The ARCAM corporation’s Spriggan agents must keep them out of the wrong hands. It may be animated, but this is definitely a heart-pounding action-adventure series that viewers of all ages can enjoy (in fact, it’s probably more suitable for adults than young children due to the action and violence), so keep an eye out forSPRIGGANif you want an adrenaline-spiking viewing experience this June.

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'God's Favorite Idiot'

Released June 15

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CAST:Ben Falcone, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Bibb, Kevin Dunn, Yanic Truesdale, Usman Ally, Ana Scotney, Chris Sandiford, Steve Mallory

RATING:TV-MA

DESCRIPTION:God’s Favorite Idiotis a fresh apocalyptic workplace comedy series in which mid-level tech support employee Clark Thompson (Falcone) finds love with co-worker Amily Luck (McCarthy) at the same time he becomes the unwitting messenger of God (as one does). Now, Clark must act as a messenger for the Lord in order to prevent an apocalypse from occurring. No pressure or anything.

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'Alchemy of Souls'

Released June 18

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CAST:Lee Jae-wook, Jung So-min, Hwang Min-hyun, Shin Seung-ho, Yoo Jun-sang, Oh Na-ra, Jo Jae-yoon

RATING:TV-14

DESCRIPTION:K-drama fans, buckle up, because Netflix is about to deliver the perfect original Korean romantic-drama series to kick off your summer streaming!Alchemy of Souls tells the tale of a powerful sorceress in a blind woman’s body as she encounters a man from a prestigious family, who wants her help in changing his destiny. Can love blossom between two magicians as they attempt to change their twisted fates?

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'Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey'

Released June 8

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CAST:Warren Jeffs

RATING:TV-MA

DESCRIPTION:In 2008, a raid at the Yearning for Zion Ranch in West Texas generated attention from around the world, as law enforcement uncovered shocking evidence of sexual, physical, and psychological abuse in addition to taking over 400 children into custody. This chilling four-part Netflix Original docuseries gives viewers an in-depth look at the secretive polygamous sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) and the rise of self-professed prophet Warren Jeffs. Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey features never-before-seen archival footage and shocking personal stories from some of the brave women and men who escaped Jeffs’ influence. This is a story of incredible bravery and resilience in the face of a tyrannical cult leader whose crimes included polygamy, sexual abuse, statutory rape, and mass brainwashing.

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'You Don't Know Me'

Released June 17

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CAST:Samuel Adewunmi, Sophie Wilde, Bukky Bakray, Roger Nsengiyumva, Tuwaine Barrett, Yetunde Oduwole, Nicholas Khan

RATING:TV-MA

DESCRIPTION: Based on Imran Mahmood’s 2017 crime novel of the same name,You Don’t Know Meis a crime-drama series about a young man from South London who is on trial for murder. But even with the evidence stacked against him and pointing towards his guilt, he uses his closing argument to share his story in his own words, proclaiming his innocence while simultaneously telling an incredible love saga about a mysterious woman he adores who he’d do anything to save and protect.

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'Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend'

Released June 15

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CAST:Alton Brown, Kristen Kish, Mark Dacascos, Curtis Stone, Dominique Crenn, Marcus Samuelsson, Ming Tsai, Gabriela Cámara

RATING:TV-G

DESCRIPTION:Rising food stars face off with Iron Chef icons Stone, Crenn, Samuelsson, Tsai, and Cámara in the latest installment of this cooking competition series. Additionally, look forward to Alton Brown and Kristen Kish working as co-hosts, with Mark Dacascos as The Chairman. With this awesome assembly of chefs, hosts, and Chairman, only the best of the best will get to move on to the battle royale finale for a chance to win the gold knife and Iron Chef Legend title. Don’t miss out on this mouth-watering Netflix Original title that’ll make this your most delectable summer yet.

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