Each month, new films and TV shows are added to BINGE’s library. Travis Johnson presents his picks for titles worth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down.
Top Picks: TV
The Ren & Stimpy Show: Seasons 1 – 5 (August 3)
Every stinkin’ episode of John Kricfalusi’s cult 90s animated series comes rampaging onto your screens this August! Follow the surreal exploits of highly-strung dog Ren Höek and terminally stupid feline Stimpson J. Cat as they try to survive in the most hostile environment in history: 20th century America.
One of the leading lights of the TV animation renaissance, Ren & Stimpy is hugely influential—no Ren & Stimpy, no Spongebob, for one thing. Gen Xers will be feeling a heady mix of nostalgia and mortality, while younger ones will final understand some of their parents’ weirder jokes.
Reservation Dogs: Season 2 (August 4)
This wry comedy from Sterling Harjo and Taika Waititi was one of the best shows to hit our screens last year, so rejoice that Elora Danan (Devery Jacobs) Bear Smallhill (D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai) Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis) and Cheese (Lane Factor) are back to once more deal with life on their Oklahoma First Nations Reservation. Reservation Dogs is gut-bustingly funny, but it never shies away from the grim realities of rez life, addressing themes like poverty, alcoholism, and teen suicide with admirable frankness.
House of the Dragon (August 22)
Set 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones, this brand spankin’ new prequel series follows dynastic struggles within the noble house Targaryen—presumably before the inbreeding sent them all mental. Paddy Considine is good King Viserys I, whose throne (that’ll be the Iron Throne) will soon be contested by his daughter Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) and younger brother Daemon (Matt Smith) in a war that will rock the entire Seven Kingdoms. Olivia Cooke, Milly Alcock, Ryan Corr, Rhys Ifans, and Graham McTavish co-star.
Top Picks: Movies
The Many Saints of Newark (August 5)
This prequel to the acclaimed mob series The Sopranos maps out the formative years of future mob boss Tony Soprano (Michael Gandolfini, son of OG Tony the late James Gandolfini) in the late 60s, focusing on his uncle Dickie (Alessandro Nivola) as he fights a vicious gang war with black crime boss Harold McBrayer (Leslie Odom Jr.).
Vera Farmiga, Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, and Ray Liotta co-star while series veteran Alan Taylor directs from a script by Sopranos creator David Chase. More a coda than a follow up, Many Saints adds texture and nuance to one of the most revered television series of all time.
Easy A (August 7)
Emma Stone’s breakout performance sees her as a high school student wrongly accused of promiscuity in this riff on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. What could have been a cringey (and dated) teen sex comedy is instead refreshingly charming and sex-positive, as Stone’s Olive uses her newfound “skank” status to shield her gay BFF from bullying by pretending to have slept with him, but she soon faces censure from Amanda Bynes’ devout good girl. Way more sharp and nuanced than you might expect, with winning support from Stanley Tucci, Patricia Clarkson, Thomas Haden Church and Lisa Kudrow.
The Dressmaker (August 26)
The great Jocelyn Moorhouse (Proof) directs Kate Winslet in this 50s-set dramedy. Winslet is the titular dressmaker, who returns to her small Australian country town to care for her ailing mother (Judy Davis), but her return opens up a wealth of old wounds in the tight-knit community, who believe she killed a popular local boy back in the day and fled in the aftermath of the murder.
A modern classic of the “quirky outback town” subgenre, The Dressmaker pivots from comedy to drama with impressive dexterity, helped by fantastic supporting turns from Sarah Snook, Hugo Weaving, Kerry Fox, Liam Hemsworth, and more.
All titles arriving on BINGE in August
August 1
The Curse Of Oak Island: Season 9
The State We’re In: Australia’s Border Story
August 2
Industry: Season 2 Premiere
Junior Bake Off: Season 7
Her Majesty’s Prime Ministers: Season 1
August 3
24 Hours in Emergency: Season 16
Ren & Stimpy: Seasons 1-5
7 Little Johnstons: Seasons 1-3
Hoarders: Season 13
August 4
Reservation Dogs: Season 2 Double Premiere
Elephant Hospital: Season 2
August 5
Shameless: Seasons 1-11
Joe Millionaire: For Richer Or Poorer: Season 1
The Many Saints of Newark
Father Figures
August 6
Lego DC Girls: Super-Villain High
Anger Management
How Do You Know
August 7
Death on the Nile (1978)
Daddy Day Care
Easy A
Good Luck Chuck
August 8
Diana
Bruce Willis: The Unbreakable
Are You The One?: Season 8
August 9
The Great Canadian Bake Off: Season 2 Premiere
Buying And Selling: Season 5
August 10
Awkward: Seasons 1-5
Smiley Face Killers: The Hunt For Justice: Season 1
August 11
The Wild Thornberrys: Season 1-3
August 12
Alone: Frozen: Season 1 Premiere
Two And A Half Men: Seasons 1-12
Caddyshack
August 13
Jack And Jill
Annabelle
August 15
Untold: The Disappearance Of Shannon Matthews: Season 1
August 16
Clifford The Big Red Dog
August 17
Faking It: Seasons 1-3
Mathis Family Matters: Season 1
August 18
Jodie Foster, Hollywood Under The Skin
August 19
Invictus
The Boy
August 20
New York Minute
The Rainmaker
Project X
August 22
House of the Dragon: Season 1 Premiere
August 23
Great British History Hunters: Season 1
August 26
Back On The Record With Bob Costas: Season 1
The Curse Of Oak Island Specials: Season 9
The Dressmaker
IT: Chapter Two
August 27
Talking Tom And Friends: Season 4
Uncharted
August 28
Alone: The Skills Challenge: Season 1 Premiere
Diana: The Ultimate Truth
August 30
MTV Video Music Awards 2022
Legendary Castles: Season 1
Charles I: To Kill A King: Season 1
August 31
Besieged Fortresses, Legendary Battles: Season 1
Location, Location, Location Australia: Season 2
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