Here Are The TV Shows You Should Watch This Summer

You've mainlined the adrenaline rush of emotions that was the second season of Fleabag; you've finished bingewatching the twist-heavy Dead To Me; and you've just about come to terms with the end of Game Of Thrones. Summer is right around the corner and you need some good excuses to stay in your apartment and avoid the humidity. Below, you can check out a list of our most anticipated TV shows coming over the next three months.

Deadwood: The Movie (HBO, May 31st): As Al Swearengen once said, announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh. So it went for us loyal Deadwood fans who have waited for over a decade for the long-promised Deadwood movie[s] to wrap up the series. After countless depressing updates and signs that it was never going to happen...it's really finally happening! Most of the original cast is back as well, and the movie is set in 1889 as the town prepares to celebrate South Dakota joining the Union as the 40th state. The whole project is tinged with some extra melancholy since creator David Milch has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's—learn more about it with this New Yorker profile.

When They See Us (Netflix, May 31st): This is Ava DuVernay's upcoming four-part miniseries about the Central Park Five case, which she co-wrote and directed. The series will follow the story of the five men—Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, and Korey Wise—from 1989, the year they were falsely convicted by the media and the courts for the rape of Trisha Meili in Central Park, through their exoneration in 2002, and up until 2014, the year their convictions were officially overturned and their names cleared.

Good Omens (Amazon, May 31st): This miniseries based on Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett's fantasy novel is all about an angel (Michael Sheen) and a demon (David Tennant) who team up in order to try and sabotage the end of the world. Jon Hamm will play archangel Gabriel, Frances McDormand will play God, and Gaiman wrote all the episodes and is showrunner as well.

Black Mirror (Netflix, June 5th): The first installment of the fifth season of the anthology show was already released ("Bandersnatch"), but three more episodes are coming soon, and they up the star power considerably. There's an episode featuring Hannah Montana (Miley Cyrus) about AI dolls, one featuring Falcon (Anthony Mackie) about video games, and another starring Moriarty (Andrew Scott) about a new social media platform. Also, Topher Grace plays a tech bro guru-type, so what's not to like here.

The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu, June 5th): Elisabeth Moss gave a typically incredible performance in the frustrating second season of The Handmaid's Tale—the show has always maintained a delicate balance between verisimilitude and extreme grimness, but it toppled over during an extremely depressing season. However, the balance is better in season three as June (Moss) spends a lot more time with Commander Joseph Lawrence (Bradley Whitford), and we explore more of the world of Gilead.

Tales Of The City (Netflix, June 7th): Inspired by the books by urban chronicler Armistead Maupin, this limited series is the fourth TV installment of the show, focusing on Mary Ann (Laura Linney) returning to present-day San Francisco after twenty years to be reunited with her adopted daughter Shawna (Ellen Page) and ex-husband Brian (Paul Gross): "Fleeing the midlife crisis that her picture-perfect Connecticut life created, Mary Ann is quickly drawn back into the orbit of Anna Madrigal (Olympia Dukakis), her chosen family and a new generation of queer young residents living at 28 Barbary Lane."

Big Little Lies (HBO, June 9th): Tell me lies, tell me big little lies: the Monterey Five (Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern and Zoë Kravitz) are back in HBO's hit series about well-to-do Californians who live in beautiful homes and listen to really good music. Meryl Streep joins the cast as the mother of Kidman's character's dead husband (who was played by Alexander Skarsgård). Drama ensues!

Pose (FX, June 11th): The wonderful first season followed the lives of transgender, gay and queer performers in NYC’s 1980s ballroom scene. Season two will jump to the '90s, opening on the day Madonna’s single "Vogue" was released in 1990—it'll explore the ballroom scene's brush with the mainstream, as well as the continuing AIDS epidemic.

Los Espookys (HBO, June 14th): The newest HBO comedy series was created by SNL's standout writer Julio Torres alongside comedian Ana Fabrega and fellow SNL alum Fred Armisen. It's primarily in Spanish (with English subtitles), and follows "a group of friends who turn their love for horror into a peculiar business, providing horror to those who need it, in a dreamy Latin American country where the strange and eerie are just part of daily life."

Legion (FX, June 24th):Legion burst out of the gates with its first season, successfully avoiding the cliches and pitfalls of other superhero adaptations to become a genre-bending cyclone that smoothly switched between sci-fi thriller, psychological horror and endearing rom-com. The second season was, somehow, even weirder (with more musical numbers too)—now it's coming back for a third and final season, that will involve time travel and Professor X.

The Loudest Voice (Showtime, June 30th): Based on the book The Loudest Voice in the Room by Gabriel Sherman, this limited series chronicles the rise and fall of former Fox News chief Roger Ailes, as played by Russell Crowe in a prodigious amount of prosthetics. The rest of the star-studded cast includes Sienna Miller as Ailes' wife, Elizabeth; Naomi Watts as former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson; and Seth MacFarlane as former Fox News PR chief Brian Lewis.

Stranger Things (Netflix, July 4th):Stranger Things is a very enjoyable sci-fi throwback that goes down really easy. Sure it can be derivative at times, but it leans into its Spielbergian qualities in a lot of good ways. After a longer break between seasons than previously, the show has forgone its usual Halloween release date to instead celebrate Independence Day. Expect a lot of time spent at the newly-opened Hawkins mall.

Four Weddings & A Funeral (Hulu, July 31st): The world could use some more quality romcoms in it, and this remake of the adorable 1994 Hugh Grant/Andie MacDowell film seems like it could check that box. It was created by Mindy Kaling and her Mindy Project collaborator Matt Warburton, and stars Nathalie Emmanuel (Missandei!) as one of four Americans who go to England for a wedding, only for things to go slightly haywire. (MacDowell also guest stars!)

Lodge 49 (AMC, August 12th): As I wrote last year, this is the show that I have been telling everyone I know they have to watch (mostly because no one has heard of it), even though I know not everyone is going to be able to get on its very particular wavelength. It's one part California stoner noir, one part meditation on the recession, and one part Pynchon-esque comedy. Mostly, it's a hangout show about Dud (a ridiculously charming Wyatt Russell)—a ne'er-do-well surfer who greets the world with eager curiosity and a generosity of spirit that belies a deeper depression—as well as his more practical sister Liz (standout Sonya Cassidy), Dud's unlikely mentor Ernie (Brent Jennings, playing a heartbreaking toilet salesman), and the local club that brings them all together. It is an elusive but grounded show with very little in terms of typical "plot"—it's more interested in how people connect with each other after grinding out their days amidst an economic downturn, with just a tiny sprinkle of magical realism thrown in.

The Terror: Infamy (AMC, August 12th): The first season of AMC's anthology series was an instant TV cult classic that deserved more eyeballs. While the first season focused on Captain Sir John Franklin's lost expedition to the Arctic in the 19th century, the second season will take place in a Japanese internment camp during World War II, and "centers on a series of bizarre deaths that haunt a Japanese-American community, and a young man’s journey to understand and combat the malevolent entity responsible."

Succession (HBO, August):Succession confused people when it first premiered on HBO last year—the story of Logan Roy and his family of Extremely Large Adult Children seemed to be the exact midway point between the real life Murdochs and Arrested Development's Bluth family (just with more cursing). But were we supposed to be laughing at these ridiculously privileged people, or horrified at their callous behavior? Where was the line between entertaining schadenfreude and complicit ickiness? The show walked that tightrope until it nailed its (vicious) voice midway through the first season—and all those beautiful, preening, pathetic characters we have come to love and loathe in equal measure will be back for season two in a few months.

GLOW (Netflix, August): Season two took a closer look into the lives of the spectacular supporting cast of Glow while deepening the complex female friendship between Alison Brie (Ruth) and Betty Gilpin (Debbie), which serves as the heart of the show. It was a tougher look at the compromises and exploitation the women faced in Hollywood, as well as funnier than season one. Season three will see the ladies headed to Vegas to put on a live wrestling show following the cancellation of their short-lived TV series.

Honorable Mentions: If you're a fan of revivals, Veronica Mars (Hulu, July 26th) is getting another reboot. Kevin Bacon takes the lead in City On A Hill (Showtime, June 16th) in a crime drama set in 1990s Boston based on "Operation Ceasefire" (aka the Boston Miracle). Emma Thompson stars as an extremist politician in the miniseries Years and Years (HBO, June 24th), which spans 15 years into the future to follow one British family. The Boys (Amazon, July 26th) is a profane superhero satire based on the profane graphic novel. Preacher (AMC, August 4th) returns for a fourth and final season, and HBO gets into the teen drama biz with Euphoria (HBO, June 16th).

Coming Later This Year: Alex Garland, the brilliant sci-fi director behind Ex-Machina and Annihilation, is coming to TV with the mysterious Devs (FX). Jennifer Aniston, Steve Carrell and Reese Witherspoon are all involved in The Morning Show (Apple) about a semi-functional morning news program. Barry Jenkins will direct an 11-episode adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad (Amazon). Paolo Sorrentino is behind The New Pope (HBO), which is some sort of sequel to The Young Pope. Ryan Murphy will be busy launching a few new shows including One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest spinoff Ratched (Netflix) and The Politician (Netflix). And Damon Lindelof will followup The Leftovers with a hotly anticipated reimagining of Watchmen (HBO).

Mindhunter (Netflix) and Homecoming (Amazon) are both getting second seasons later this year. Mr. Robot's (FX) fourth and final season may come by the end of the year (it's said to be like a long Christmas special).

There are rumors that the delayed sixth season of Silicon Valley (HBO) could be the final season, and it's unclear whether it's going to come this year or next year. But Rick & Morty (Adult Swim) will hit season four this fall, The Deuce (HBO) will bow out with season three in September, and Homeland (Showtime) will end with season eight. Big Mouth (Netflix) will air its third season, BoJack Horseman (Netflix) is up to season six (!) now, The Good Place (NBC) will return for season four, and Larry David will bless us with the tenth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO) at some point.