'The Bear' Sophomore Season Highlights June's Streaming Recommendations

by Julian Spivey

Photos: FX, Peacock, Paramount & Apple

Deadloch – Amazon Prime Video – Friday, June 2
I saw “Deadloch,” which will be premiering on Amazon Prime Video tomorrow (Friday, June 2), referred to as an Australian comedy “Broadchurch.” That was enough for me. The series is created and written by Australian comedy duo Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan, whom I’m unfamiliar with, features an outsider detective coming to the town of Deadloch, Tasmania to investigate the death of a local man as preparations are being made for the town’s Winter Feastival. 

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Based on a True Story – Peacock – Thursday, June 8
Peacock has been on a bit of a run this year with originals like “Poker Face” and “Mrs. Davis,” and the latest comedy-thriller from the streamer has a big lead in Kaley Cuoco anchoring it. The series, created and written by Craig Rosenberg, sees a real estate agent, a plumber and a former tennis star seize an opportunity to profit off America’s obsession with true crime. The series will co-star Chris Messina and Natalia Dyer. All eight episodes will drop on Thursday, June 8.  

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The Crowded Room – AppleTV+ - Friday, June 9
AppleTV+’s latest miniseries “The Crowded Room,” comes from Akiva Goldsman and is inspired by the 1981 non-fiction novel The Minds of Billy Milligan by Daniel Keyes. The psychological thriller has a big-name cast including Tom Holland, Amanda Seyfried and Emmy Rossum and follows a man, played by Holland, after his arrest for an involvement in a New York City shooting in 1979, as he tells his life story through a series of interviews with an interrogator, played by Seyfried. The first three episodes of the series will drop on Friday, June 9 with the final seven airing weekly after that. 

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The Bear Season 2 – Hulu – Thursday, June 22
Hulu’s “The Bear” (an FX production) was my favorite television series of 2022, so it automatically becomes my most anticipated show for 2023. The second season, which premieres Thursday, June 22, will pick up the series as something of a rebirth from the first season, which ended with Chef Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) closing down the family restaurant in hopes of building something bigger and better after coming into a windfall. The first season was damn near perfect, so with the anticipation of the second season also comes the anxiousness of whether or not showrunner Christopher Storer can continue without messing things up.  

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Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band: The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concert – Paramount+ - Wednesday, June 28
There’s no group in rock music like Bruce Springsteen and his “heart-stopping, pants-dropping, hard-rocking, booty-shaking, love-making, earth-quaking, Viagra-taking, justifying, death-defying, legendary” E Street Band. And for the first time, a wide audience will get to see one of the band’s most legendary live shows – the 1979 No Nukes Concert, which comes to Paramount+ for its streaming debut (it was originally released in 2021) on Wednesday, June 28. The band’s “Live in New York City” from 2001 will also come to the streamer, but it’s been widely available over the years and likely seen by all E Street fans multiple times.