6 shows I'm watching in June

We're 6 for 6 on the "is it gay?" tvscholar score this month! Happy Pride.

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Nearly three weeks ago, I went under general anesthesia for the first time in my life for surgery. I remember telling my coworkers how excited I was to have open time to binge television in my recovery. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize how restless and braindead one feels following a surgery, how my usually robust attention span got flattened down as I barely left my bed for over a week and waited impatiently to heal. I instead watched an old one-season wonder, a show iconic in the sci-fi canon. I caught up on Couples Therapy. I got sucked into the fifth season of The Real Housewives of Potomac, which felt perfectly timed with the announcement that Candiace Dillard Bassett would be joining the new season of Traitors.

I emerged from it all with this horrible feeling that I had dropped the ball on keeping up with new releases — “Am I watching as widely as I should be watching,” I asked myself in horror. “Why haven’t I watched this yet, what haven’t I watched that yet.” What kind of self-flogging ritual have I created for myself here at the screenshots factory? I continue to learn how to watch what I want to watch, how I want to watch it. There’s a lot going on in the world right now, I think we’re all just trying to do what we can to stay afloat, resist in the ways we have capacity for, and ultimately, sit in gratitude for what we have. On TV watching, at least in the TV Scholar Parallel Universe, there are no rules.

Come July 15, I may loop back around and binge through Emmy-nominated shows I’ve skipped (I’m assuming shows like Good American Family and Long Bright River will nab a nomination or two since that limited series category is more or less an open field this year). Until then, we lean into summer, soak in the sunshine, and allow everything to fall into place as it will.

Meanwhile, if you’re struggling to find new shows to watch during TV’s off-season, I rounded up a few queer options for The Cut.

6. Overcompensating (Prime Video)