It’s raining (and that’s true with this weather) of series and new releases to watch in June on our favorite streaming platforms. We have selected for you the content that we want to devour this month.
Disney+
A blanket, hot chocolate, biscuits and a Christmas TV movie… oh no, despite appearances, it’s not December at least!
With this gloomy weather, we almost forget that the summer season is about to begin. If you don’t sip a mojito on the terrace, you can at least enjoy some nice series and documentaries to get your teeth into.
“Becoming Karl Lagerfeld”
The most French of German fashion designers will have the right to his biopic in series form. Mysterious, enigmatic, undoubtedly talented, Karl Lagerfeld left us in 2019, leaving behind the memory of an extraordinary journey.
Through the six episodes to be seen on Disney+ from June 7, we will be able to discover the rise of the former artistic director of the house of Chanel in the field of fashion from the 1970s and more precisely in 1972 during the death of Coco Chanel. From the pen of Isaure Pisani-Ferry and Jennifer Have (“Infidèle”, “Les Bracelets rouge”), it is in reality the biography written by journalist Raphaëlle Bacqué which served as the common thread for the project.
To lend his features to the designer, we will find the German actor Daniel Brühl (“Inglorious Basterds”). We can’t wait to dive into it… and you?
“Presumed innocent”
It’s not just because it has Jake Gyllenhaal in it that we want to watch this series… (but a little bit nonetheless). This is not the first time that the eponymous novel written by Scott Turow and ranked among the New York Times bestsellers has been adapted. Remember, in 1990 it was Harrison Ford who played the role of this deputy attorney general named Rusty Sabich in the film of the same name.
What should we expect in terms of plot? A young and ambitious prosecutor is found murdered in her home with hatchets. As it turns out that Rusty had an affair with the beauty, he finds himself accused of the murder and dragged into a grueling trial. Politics, sex, power struggle and love will be on the program for the eight episodes created by David E. Kelley. Rounding out the cast are Ruth Negga, Bill Camp, Elizabeth Marvel, Peter Sarsgaard, OT Fagbenle and Renate Reinsve.
Released June 12 on Apple TV+
“Hitler and the Nazis: The Trial of Evil”
The dates of the Second World War remain infamous. This is not the first time that Netflix has launched a documentary on this dark period, but at the dawn of what we are still experiencing today, it seems necessary to remember the tragedies that the world has already gone through. Through six episodes available from June 5, this documentary series recounts the rise, reign and fall of Hitler and the Nazis, including the Holocaust and the Nuremberg trials.
At the helm of this project, we find director Joe Berlinger who mentions on his Instagram account having used rare and recently broadcast images of the trial and being inspired by the work of William L. Shirer, the American journalist who provided part of the most important reports of the time. “A significant part of the music in the series was adapted from the compositions of Holocaust victims,” he also confided.
