The Best Shows To Watch On Netflix In June 2020

Netflix has a new cooking competition show in "Crazy Delicious."
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Carla Hall in "Crazy Delicious."
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Carla Hall in "Crazy Delicious."

The new show on Netflix:

“Crazy Delicious” (Netflix Original)

Premise: In this cooking competition, skilled cooks “forage” for ingredients amid an edible set that looks like a forest straight out of “Alice in Wonderland.” They end up making surprising yet beautiful dishes using the props.

In taste and presentation, the competitors work to create innovative meals. The goal is definitely to make something “crazy” as the name suggests. The show prioritizes quirky, colorful style similar to another recent Netflix competition series, “The Big Flower Fight.”

Beyond glory, the prize is a “golden apple” hanging from a tree on the set.

Setting: A “magical, edible world”

Netflix descriptors: “Offbeat”

Jayde Adams in the opening scene of "Crazy Delicious."
Netflix/"Crazy Delicious"
Jayde Adams in the opening scene of "Crazy Delicious."

How it starts: The host, Jayde Adams, stands on the magical garden set holding a watering can. She turns to the camera and does that well-worn joke of being “caught” by the audience.

“Oh, hey,” Adams says. “You caught me in the middle of some watering.” She brings the nozzle of the watering can to her mouth and takes a bite, revealing it is an edible creation. Then narration explains that much of the magical garden is edible.

Notable cast: Jayde Adams, Heston Blumenthal, Niklas Ekstedt and Carla Hall

Runtime: Six episodes of roughly 45 minutes

Bonus: Jayde Adams is a famous British comedian. Here’s a short standup bit she did about Sir Isaac Newton and Kim Kardashian.

Netflix highlights from earlier in the month:

“The Politician” (Season 2, Netflix Original)

Premise: In this comedy-drama co-created by Ryan Murphy, a rich young man fresh out of high school runs for the New York State Senate against a vulnerable incumbent. Payton Hobart enlists his intense campaign staff from his failed bid for high school president to help him win the race.

He and his team have meteoric ambition and near-unlimited resources. Their main challenge: getting anybody to like them.

Setting: Contemporary New York City

Netflix descriptors: “Quirky” and “irreverent”

The opening shot of the second season of "The Politician."
Netflix/"The Politician"
The opening shot of the second season of "The Politician."

How it starts: The second season begins with an overhead establishing shot of Manhattan and the Empire State Building.

The camera cuts to someone walking toward a door with a campaign poster that reads, “Hobart for State Senate.” Through the door, Hobart and his staff discuss strategy. The campaign hasn’t been going well. Hobart knocks a watercooler to the ground. Nobody stops the tank from leaking water all over the floor.

Notable cast: Zoey Deutch, Judith Light, Bette Midler, Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Platt

Runtime: Seven episodes of roughly 40 minutes

Bonus: Atlantic Records released a soundtrack from the first season featuring Ben Platt singing various songs. Below he sings “River.”

“Floor Is Lava” (Netflix Original)

“Lenox Hill” (Netflix Documentary)

Premise: In this medical docu-series, the cameras follow various professionals at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. The story mostly focuses on four individuals whose specialties are neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, and emergency medicine.

The series wrapped filming in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic hit New York City. Still, the show offers insight into the inner workings of a place that has become a focal point of more recent news.

Setting: Manhattan

Netflix descriptors: “Understated,” “intimate” and “emotional”

The opening scene of "Lenox Hill."
Netflix/"Lenox Hill"
The opening scene of "Lenox Hill."

How it starts: The first thing on the screen is a note from the producers:

The producers care deeply about the safety and privacy of all involved with this program. All patients appearing in the program have provided consent to participate and to disclose their health information.

The camera then pans slowly across Manhattan in a series of establishing shots. After a few seconds, it cuts to a close-up of a patient’s shampooed hair as doctors pour water over the hair and comb it out.

Runtime: Eight episodes of roughly 50 minutes

Bonus: Lenox Hill released a separate informational video about its staff without Netflix’s help.

“F Is for Family” (Season 4, Netflix Original)

Premise: In this animated comedy, a depressed father with anger issues oscillates between love for his suburban family and the feeling that they’re holding him back from happiness. The “comedy” in the dark subject matter comes from the lead character’s clown-like failures and general commentary on the 1970s American experience.

Comedian Bill Burr voices the protagonist and co-created the series, which is loosely based on his childhood. Burr also stars in the new Judd Apatow movie, “The King of Staten Island,” so you could have a Burr-filled weekend.

Setting: Mid-1970s American town

Netflix descriptors: “Cynical” and “raunchy”

The opening scene in the fourth season of "F Is for Family."
Netflix/"F Is for Family"
The opening scene in the fourth season of "F Is for Family."

How it starts: Autumn leaves fall across the screen and morph into the cover of a publication called “Prison TV Digest.” A prisoner reads the magazine with a slight smile on her face.

The camera pulls back to show two inmates attacking a guard just outside the reader’s cell.

Notable cast: Jonathan Banks, Bill Burr, Mo Collins, Laura Dern, Debi Derryberry, Justin Long, Haley Reinhart and Sam Rockwell

Runtime: 10 episodes of roughly 30 minutes

Bonus: Netflix released an additional teaser for the new season that features Banks’ character.

“Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj” (Volume 6, New Episodes Weekly, Netflix Original)

“Pose” (Season 2)

“Dating Around” (Season 2, Netflix Original)

“Queer Eye” (Season 5, Netflix Original)

Premise: In this reality makeover show, five gay men help people improve their lives through self-love and physical improvements in such areas as fashion and home design.

Earlier seasons of “Queer Eye” featured the crew making over lives in the American South, including an element of combating prejudice against the LGBTQ community. This season heads north to Philadelphia, which has a famously robust gay culture.

The rebooted series has won seven Emmys and earned 10 total nominations.

Setting: Philadelphia

Netflix descriptors: “Heartfelt” and “irreverent”

The opening shot of "Queer Eye," Season 5.
Netflix/"Queer Eye"
The opening shot of "Queer Eye," Season 5.

How it starts: Elton John’s “Philadelphia Freedom” plays over an establishing shot of Philadelphia. After showing a couple of city landmarks, the camera finds Karamo Brown dancing with a mop in a beautiful room with big windows and wood floors. In a montage, the cast members dance while cleaning and preparing different facets of this space ― their headquarters for the season.

Notable cast: Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Tan France, Antoni Porowski and Jonathan Van Ness

Runtime: The fifth season runs 10 episodes of roughly 50 minutes.

Bonus: MTV made a reaction video of Brown watching old footage from the season when he was a cast member on “The Real World: Philadelphia,” which aired in 2004 and 2005. The video features “The Real World” clips of cops harassing Brown and a white cast member telling him to calm down.

“Fuller House” (The Farewell Season, Netflix Original)

“Hannibal” (Seasons 1-3)

All the shows that have joined Netflix this month so far:

June 1

  • “Cocomelon” (Season 1)

June 2

  • “Alone” (Season 6)
  • “Fuller House” (The Farewell Season, Netflix Original)
  • “Garth Brooks: The Road I’m On” (Season 1)

June 4

  • “Can You Hear Me? / M’entends-tu?” (Netflix Original)

June 5

  • “13 Reasons Why” (Season 4, Netflix Original)
  • “Hannibal” (Seasons 1-3)
  • “Queer Eye” (Season 5, Netflix Original)

June 6

  • “Queen of the South” (Season 4)

June 7

  • “Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj” (Volume 6, New Episodes Weekly, Netflix Original)

June 10

  • “Curon” (Netflix Original)
  • “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow” (Season 5)
  • “Lenox Hill” (Netflix Documentary)
  • “My Mister” (Season 1)
  • “Reality Z” (Netflix Original)

June 11

  • “Pose” (Season 2)

June 12

  • “Dating Around” (Season 2, Netflix Original)
  • “F Is for Family” (Season 4, Netflix Original)
  • “Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts” (Season 2, Netflix Family)
  • “The Search” (Netflix Original)
  • “The Woods” (Netflix Original)

June 13

  • “Alexa & Katie” (Part 4, Netflix Family)
  • “How to Get Away With Murder” (Season 6)

June 14

  • “Marcella” (Season 3, Netflix Original)

June 17

  • “Mr. Iglesias” (Part 2, Netflix Original)

June 18

  • “The Order” (Season 2, Netflix Original)

June 19

  • “Babies” (Part 2, Netflix Documentary)
  • “Floor Is Lava” (Netflix Original)
  • “Girls From Ipanema” (Season 2, Netflix Original)
  • “The Politician” (Season 2, Netflix Original)

June 24

  • “Crazy Delicious” (Netflix Original)

June 26

  • “Amar y Vivir” (Netflix Original)
  • “Home Game” (Netflix Documentary)

June 27

  • "Dark" (Season 3, Netflix Original)

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