Everything Coming To Showmax in July 2022
With June ending, Showmax has unveiled its slate of new programming for July 2022.
Next month’s list is led by the premieres of New Barry, Resident Alien & Westworld; 1st seasons of The Sex Lives of College Girls, Time & The Investigation, Subscribers can also catch favorites such as Life With Kelly Khumalo on the streaming service this June.
Take a look at the full list of titles below.
THE RISING
When Neve Kelly (Danish actress Clara Rugaard) discovers she’s dead, she’s scared and confused … and furious. Determined to track down her killer, she must learn to navigate this new existence in order to find justice from beyond the grave.
The Rising is based on the award-winning 2017 Belgian series Hotel Beau Séjour. Den of Geek calls the show, “a supernatural crime mystery exploding the ‘perfect victim’ myth,” adding,
“By giving its victim a voice and not falling into the trap of pious moralising, The Rising rights several wrongs.”
WESTWORLD S4
One of Rotten Tomatoes’ most anticipated series of 2022, Westworld is a dark odyssey about the fate of sentient life on Earth. As Rotten Tomatoes says, “We have no idea what’s in store for Westworld’s fourth season, which is exactly how the producers of the sci-fi killer-robot series like it. Will it finally come to war between humans and AI? No idea…” But, they add, “The previous three Certified Fresh seasons have us hooked for life.”
The eight-episode fourth season brings back Thandiwe Newton in her Emmy-winning role as Maeve, as well as Evan Rachel Wood, Jeffrey Wright, and Ed Harris in their Emmy-nominated performances as Dolores, Bernard and The Man In Black respectively. Three-time Emmy winner Aaron Paul, Emmy nominee Tessa Thompson and Screen Actors Guild nominees Luke Hemsworth and Angela Sarafyan are also returning, with Oscar winner Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) joining the cast this season as a recurring guest star.
Inspired by the film written by Michael Crichton, Westworld has won seven Emmys to date, with a further 45 nominations, and has twice been named Best Science Fiction Series by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. It has an 81% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes and an 8.6/10 rating on IMDb.
BARRY S3
Rotten Tomatoes’ Best Series of 2022 (So Far), Barry S3 finds our favourite hitman desperate to leave his violent past behind in favour of his newfound passion for acting. But getting out of contract killing is messy. While Barry has eliminated many of the external factors that pushed him towards violence, he soon discovers they weren’t the only forces at play …
S3 of the hitman comedy has a 100% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with The Daily Beast calling it, “the best show on TV”; Variety hailing it as “a masterpiece … funnier and sharper than ever… TV’s most fascinating protagonist”; and Entertainment Weekly writing, “I’ve never seen violence like the violence on Barry. HBO’s hitman comedy is a legitimate thrillfest, and the new season has three of the best action scenes I’ve ever seen.”
The first two seasons won six Emmys, including Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for co-creator Bill Hader and Outstanding Supporting Actor for Henry Winkler (Arrested Development’s Barry Zuckerkorn). S3 sees Stephen Root, Sarah Goldberg and Anthony Carrigan (as fan favourite NoHo Hank) all return in their Emmy-nominated roles.
HBO recently renewed Barry for a fourth season, with Hader set to direct the full season.
RESIDENT ALIEN S2
Nominated for Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Series at the 2022 Critics Choice Super Awards, S1 of Resident Alien starred Alan Tudyk (Hoban “Wash” Washburne in Firefly and Serenity) as an alien trying to pass himself off as a small-town human doctor, solve a murder, and decide whether to go through with his secret mission to wipe out humanity. Tudyk was nominated for Best Actor at the 2022 Critics Choice Super Awards for the role.
Created by five-time Emmy nominee Chris Sheridan (Family Guy), the Syfy comedy has a 94% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, who call it “one of the treats of last year.” Resident Alien also has an 8.1 rating on IMDb, who call it “one of the funniest shows – about destroying the entire human race.”
Look out for guest appearances from three-time Emmy winner Alex Borstein (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) and People’s Choice winner Nathan Fillion (Firefly, Castle) in Season 2.
EVERYTHING ON SHOWMAX IN JUly 2022
To see everything on Showmax in July 2022, including S3 of the SAFTA-winning Showmax Original reality series Life With Kelly Khumalo; the two-part reunion for the Twitter-topping, record-breaking The Real Housewives of Lagos; and blockbuster movies like No Time To Die, A Quiet Place Part II, The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It, Gunpowder Milkshake, and In The Heights,, click here.
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