What To Watch This Week: Stream Our Top 6 TV and Movie Picks (June 8–14)

This week’s “What To Watch” picks include the stop-motion prequel “I Am Frankelda” (Netflix), the thriller “Find Your Friends” (Shudder), an “anti-rom com” “Alice and Steve” (Hulu), and the sci-fi series “The Listeners” (STARZ).

We also recommend the summer romance series “Every Year After” (Prime Video) and the Mexican telenovela “Rosario Tijeras” (also Netflix). Let’s hit the couch!

“Alice and Steve” | Hulu | Comedy

Series premiere, Monday, June 8: What’s an “anti-rom com?” Does it start with a meet-puke instead of a meet-cute? Well, not exactly. In this British comedy created by Sophie Goodhart (“Sex Education”), Alice (Nicola Walker, “Last Tango in Halifax”) and Steve (Jemaine Clement, “What We Do in the Shadows”) are besties until—wait for it—Steve starts seeing Alice’s 26-year-old daughter, Izzy (Yali Topol Margalith). Oof. Ouch. That’s a tough situation to navigate, huh? It’s also ripe for awkward comedy. All six episodes are available to stream on Hulu starting today.

“Rosario Tijeras” | Netflix | Drama

Season 5 premiere, Wednesday, June 10: Are you tired of the glacially paced, neverending, TV-14, American soap operas—but still craving intense melodrama? Try a Mexican telenovela (aka novela). They’re action-packed, fast paced, and have TV-MA ratings because of all the ass-kicking and steamy lovin’. They also have long seasons with focused plots that actually pay off. Now starting its fifth season, “Rosario Tijeras” is a Mexican reimagining of the crime novel by Colombian author Jorge Franco, and the fourth season rivaled even “Squid Game” in popularity—in Mexico, anyway. Get hooked today!

“Every Year After” | Prime Video | Drama

Series premiere, Wednesday, June 10: So far this week, I’ve plugged an anti-rom com and a Mexican soap opera. Might as well continue the romance theme. This squishy love story adapts author Carley Fortune’s best-selling series “Every Summer After,” which chronicles “six years and one week” in the lake town of Barry’s Bay. For fans of “The Summer I Turned Pretty,” the show is “a romantic, nostalgic story of first loves and the people and choices that mark us forever.” You can stream the entire series starting today.

“Find Your Friends” | Shudder | Thriller

Movie, Friday, June 12: And now we enter the friend zone. Titled for the popular friend/family stalking apps, this thriller from writer-director Izabel Pakzad follows five L.A. friends who set out to camp in Joshua Tree, only to run afoul of some freaky locals who don’t cotton to strangers. From the press release: “What begins as fun and reckless escape spirals into a violent struggle for control and survival, as past wounds and present dangers collide in a night that turns their trip into a revenge-fueled nightmare.” Sounds a little like the psychological thriller series “Yellowjackets” meets the Aussie slasher film “Wolf Creek.” Here for it. Bella Thorne (“Divinity”), Chloe Cherry (“Euphoria”), Helena Howard (“Madeline’s Madeline”), Sophia Ali (“Uncharted”), and Zion Moreno (“Gossip Girl”) star.

“I Am Frankelda” | Netflix | Animation, musical, fantasy

Movie, Friday, June 12: In this award-winning prequel to the 2021 stop-motion animation series “Frankelda’s Book of Spooks” (HBO Max), the titular character, an aspiring horror author, finds her place in the nightmare realm, writing about fantastic creatures while confronting her own demons. Also known as “Soy Frankelda,” this is first-ever Mexican stop-motion feature, and it’s available in both English and Spanish.

“The Listeners” | STARZ | Drama

Limited series premiere (US), Friday, June 12: Can you hear it? You know, The Hum. Apparently, people around the world have reported hearing a “persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise” that is so far unexplained. I don’t hear it, myself. So I’m intrigued by this British series (based on Jordan Tannahill’s novel, and adapted by the author), which follows a Hum-hearing teacher (Rebecca Hall) as she tries to make sense of the noise and her ability to pick it up. Available on the STARZ app and on VOD.