Best new movies and TV series on Amazon Prime Video UK: June 2022

Each month, new films and TV shows are added to Amazon Prime Video’s UK library. Eliza Janssen presents her picks for titles worth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down.

Top picks

The Boys: Season 3 (June 3)

With this raucous, graphic series, Amazon is sort of taking the piss out of Disney (and by consequence, their streaming competitor Disney+). The heroic Billy Butcher and his ragtag gang have been fighting for two seasons to bring down the Vought conglomerate, which populates news and pop culture worldwide with sanitised but internally corrupt superhero stories.

That’s kind of the pot calling the kettle black, Bezos, but we’re super-stoked for the return of Butcher (Karl Urban), Homelander (MVP Anthony Starr), and game-changing heroine Starlight (Erin Moriarty) anyways. The new episodes are set to feature one of the comic’s most transgressive gross-out moments: an annual superhero orgy known as “Herogasm”. The showrunner says that we are not ready for it in episode six.

Hacks: Season 2 (June 10)

If you’ve ever grumbled about those ignorant boomers/millennials, depending on whichever era you happened to be born into, Hacks could hack right into the comedy pleasure centres of your brain. Proving itself with a viciously-written and well-acted first season, the new episodes see Vegas comedian Deborah Vance and her annoying protege Ava take their material on tour.

You’ll see Ava accidentally chucking her dad’s ashes into a roadside bin and Deborah cutting loose on a lesbian cruise. But the first season’s most urgent plot-strands also get tied up, with Deb now suing Ava after she leaked some of her most bitchy moments to the writers of an upcoming sitcom. Karma hurts, but thankfully it can also be hilarious.

The Summer I Turned Pretty: Season 1 (June 17)

Capturing the fleeting, powerful moment of realising one’s own adolescent power, The Summer I Turned Pretty is sure to be an acute watch for any viewers who felt themselves growing up a bit too fast. It’s based on the novel by Jenny Tan, who also penned another rom-com streaming success To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before.

Lola Tung stars as 16-year-old Belly, whose unfortunate nickname certainly doesn’t suit her after she blooms and attracts the strange attention of two childhood friends. Can their platonic love survive the trials of puberty and jealousy? We hope the answer is yes, by the end of these breezy, wistful seven episodes.