What To Watch This Week: Stream Our Top 7 TV and Movie Picks (June 29–July 5)

This week’s “What To Watch” picks include the third seasons of “Silo” (Apple TV) and “Survival of the Thickest” (Netflix), plus the premieres of “Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story” (HBO, HBO Max) and “Elle” (Prime Video).

What else have I got for your eyeballs this week? How about “Adventure Time: Side Quests” (Hulu, Disney+) and muthahumpin’ “Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks” (NBC, Peacock) for your patriotic pyromaniacal pleasure.

Finally, if you feel like renting a movie this week, may I suggest the buzzy horror movie “Obsession,” which is available on video-on-demand (VOD) Tuesday. Let’s hit the couch!

“Adventure Time: Side Quests” | Hulu, Disney+ | Comedy

Series premiere, Monday, June 29: We have a “Regular Show” reboot, so why not throw in some “Adventure Time” while we’re at it? The shows did, after all, air back-to-back on Cartoon Network back in the day. In the streaming era, both shows are on Hulu (plus HBO Max and Disney+, respectively), so you can relive the old days with new episodes. As for what to expect from “Adventure Time: Side Quests,” it’ll be short, standalone stories like the early seasons of the original series. Yay!

“Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story” | HBO, HBO Max | Documentary

Movie, Tuesday, June 30, 9 p.m. ET: Nope, this isn’t about cardboard percussion instruments — it’s about S-E-X (but also inclusivity and free speech). From 1977 to 1998, knit bikini–clad Robyn Byrd hosted a popular, late-night, sex-positive, public access call-in show with interviews and performances by adult entertainers and experimental artists. Now 70, Byrd reflects on her life and career, which also included free-speech activism and a censorship battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court.

“Elle” | Prime Video | Comedy, drama

Series premiere, Wednesday, July 1: In Laura Kittrell’s (“High School,” “Insecure”) prequel to the 2001 Reese Witherspoon comedy “Legally Blonde,” we time-warp back to 1995, when Elle Woods (Lexi Minetree) was a high school student with high school problems. The rest of the cast includes Chandler Kinney, June Diane Raphael, Tom Everett Scott, and James Van Der Beek (RIP). Perhaps as testament to the popularity of “Legally Blonde,” the show was renewed for a second season before the first one premiered.

“Survival of the Thickest” | Netflix | Comedy, drama

Season 3 premiere, Thursday, July 2: This is the third and final season of the Netflix dramedy co-created by star Michelle Buteau and Danielle Sanchez Witzel. After a season that saw Mavis Beaumont (Buteau) make more mistakes and learn more about herself after an earth-shattering breakup, our heroine starts over. Netflix sez, “[Mavis is] determined not only to survive but thrive with the support of her chosen family, a body-positive attitude, and a cute V-neck with some lip gloss.”

“Silo” | Apple TV | Science fiction, drama

Season 3 premiere, Friday, July 3: The dystopian sci-fi series based on Hugh Howey’s “Silo” trilogy of post-apocalyptic novels (“Wool,” “Shift,” and “Dust”) continues with its third season. In the present (the post-apocalypse, where 10,000 live underground), Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) has survived a forced memory wipe and the silo’s inhabitants are recovering after a rebellion while facing a dangerous new threat. In the “Before Times,” a conspiracy is discovered, pulling Helen Drew (Jessica Henwick) and Congressman Daniel Keene (Ashley Zukerman) into “a chain of events with catastrophic, irreversible consequences.” One episode premieres tonight; the rest follow weekly.

“Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks” | NBC, Peacock

Live event, Saturday, July 4: In 2026, it’s never been more appropriate to set things on fire for the 4th of July.

Let me be clear: This is not an invitation to arson. Don’t be so suggestible. Also, the voices in your head are advertisers.

Obviously, I’m talking about enjoying fireworks. While it’s the most fun to light off your own bottle rockets, it’s always safer to watch licensed, experienced pyrotechnicians scorch the sky with showers of sparks. It’s even safer to watch fireworks on TV, like with Macy’s 50th anniversary production, which will feature 85,000 shells in 30 colors, plus a laser light show on the Brooklyn Bridge, plus musical guests Noah Kahan, Post Malone, Salt-N-Pepa, Bebe Rexha, Shaboozey, and Blake Shelton. Happy 250th, ‘Murrica!