What's new on Netflix Canada in June 2022
Every month, kawarthaNOW is the only local media source to bring you a list of what’s coming to Netflix Canada. Here are a few highlights of what’s coming to Netflix in June.
Season three of The Umbrella Academy, the hit Netflix series about a dysfunctional adopted superhero family based on the comic book series of the same name, premieres on Wednesday, June 22. In the 10-episode season, when the Umbrella Academy returns to the present after apparently preventing the 1963 apocalypse, they arrive in a new timeline where their father adopted a slightly different set of children and named them the Sparrow Academy.
After violently clashing with their father’s new family, the Umbrella Academy must convince them to help stop an unidentified destructive entity wreaking havoc in the Universe their time-travelling activities may have created.
In the new Netflix comedy series God’s Favorite Idiot, mid-level tech support employee Clark Thompson (Ben Falcone) finds love with co-worker Amily Luck (Melissa McCarthy) at exactly the same time he becomes the unwitting messenger of God. There’s also roller skating, a lake of fire, and an impending apocalypse. The series debuts on Netflix on Wednesday, June 15.
Another new Netflix series is Man Vs Bee, starring British comedian Rowan Atkinson (better known as Mr. Bean) in an almost silent comedy about a house sitter’s war with a bee. It premieres on Netflix on Friday, June 24.
The Netflix film Hustle stars Adam Sandler as a down-on-his-luck basketball scout who, after discovering a once-in-a-lifetime player abroad, brings him to the U.S. without his team’s approval and must prove the player with a rocky past has what it takes to make it in the NBA. Hustle debuts on Netflix on Wednesday, June 8.
The Netflix film Spiderhead, based on The New Yorker short story “Escape From Spiderhead” by George Saunders, tells the story of two prison inmates (Miles Teller and Jurnee Smollett) who are subjected to mind-altering drugs by a brilliant visionary (Chris Hemsworth). It premieres on Netflix on Friday, June 17.
The Netflix action thriller film Interceptor stars Elsa Pataky as an Army captain who must use her years of tactical training and military expertise when a simultaneous coordinated attack threatens the remote missile interceptor station that she commands. It debuts on Netflix on Friday, June 3.
In the Netflix action comedy film The Man from Toronto, a case of mistaken identity arises after a screw-up sales consultant (Kevin Hart) and the world’s deadliest assassin — known only as The Man from Toronto (Woody Harrelson) — run into each other at a holiday rental. The film also stars Kaley Cuoco and Ellen Barkin (while known of the actors are from Toronto, it was filmed in the Toronto area). The Man from Toronto debuts on Netflix on Friday, June 24.
David Letterman returns to Netflix on Tuesday, June 7 with the six-episode series That’s My Time with David Letterman, where he invites some of the hottest up-and-coming stand-up stars — Rosebud Baker, Phil Wang, Sam Morril, Brian Simpson, Robin Tran, and Naomi Ekperigin — to perform a five-minute stand-up set and then to sit down for a chat. Read More…