Summer Shows for Streaming in This Week’s Three Trailers

Welcome to the longest, brightest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, campers!

Once the season of endless, boring reruns, summer is officially upon us in these parts. But television seasons are a thing of the past, and we have plenty of new shows to look forward to (or avoid) in the next couple of months.

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia returns for its 17th season in July. The Gang is all here with Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Kaitlin Olson, and Danny DeVito reprising their roles. Mary Elizabeth Ellis and David Hornsby are also returning. And we’ll be getting the second part of the Abbott Elementary crossover this season as well.

The two-episode premiere of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia will be on FXX July 9th. The show will also be available to stream on Hulu.

If there is a committee somewhere in charge of selecting Stephen King books for adaptation, I would like to be part of it. Because whoever is in charge right now has made some choices. Why The Institute and not, say, Bag of Bones? I don’t know. Someone saw how badly The New Mutants did and said “hold my beer.”

The Institute does have Mary-Louise Parker as the heavy and Ben Barnes (Shadow and Bone) as the hero. That might be interesting.

The Institute also stars Joe Freeman, Simone Miller, Jason Diaz, Julian Richings, Robert Joy (Land of the Dead), and Martin Roach. The eight-episode series begins streaming on MGM+ on July 13th.

Some might say that adapting a 30-year-old John Grisham novel that has already been a popular film is a recession indicator. I say yes, and also everything is a recession indicator because, well, you know. Anyway. Let’s try The Rainmaker again, and see what happens. Shall we? The star, Milo Callaghan (Dune: Prophecy), bears a passing resemblance to young Matt Damon. Is that also a recession indicator?

The Rainmaker poached Lana Parrilla from The Lincoln Lawyer, and it also stars John Slattery (Mad Men), Madison Iseman (Annabelle Comes Home), P.J. Byrne (A Complete Unknown), Robyn Cara, and Gemma-Leah Devereux (Judy).

It begins streaming on USA Network on August 15th. A new scripted drama on USA Network? A recession indicator!

This year is the 50th anniversary of two of American horror cinema’s greatest films. Jaws (NBC is airing a three-hour special tonight.) And The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Tobe Hooper’s first feature film is a brutal, high-tension masterpiece of blood and guts. For this week’s lagniappe, I give you the documentary Alexandre O. Philippe has created in honor of its anniversary. Chain Reactions will be in theaters sometime this year.