What to watch on streaming in July 2025: Highlights on Netflix, Disney, ABC, Apple, Stan, Prime and more

As we approach July, it’s time again to go through what to watch on streaming services this month.

A Charlize Theron and Uma Thurman face-off, Lena Dunham returns, historical scandal and Adam Sandler is back. There’s so much to watch.

TOO MUCH (Netflix, 10th)

Lena Dunham is a controversial figure in some quarters but it would be bad faith to deny is supremely talented. As a writer, she has a prodigious gift for rendering characters that are equal parts lovable and frustrating, ie, as close to real as you’ll get.

Her work always taps into something you didn’t even realise you were feeling. Too Much stars Hacks’ Megan Stalter as Jessica, a semi-semi-fictionalised version of Dunham, as an American woman who moves to London after the break down of a relationship. It also stars Will Sharpe, Richard E. Grant and Adele Excarchopoulos and was produced by British rom-com stalwarts, Working Title.

THE OLD GUARD 2 (Netflix, 2nd)

The Old Guard burst out of the gates in the middle of an action glut and distinguished itself as a film that not only arse-kicking combat, but grounded emotional beats. It’s taken five years for the sequel, this time with director Victoria Mahoney, but Charlize Theron is back along with most of the original cast.

She is the leader of a group of immortal warriors, except she lost her indestructibility in the original film, and now they must face off with the first of their kind, played by Uma Thurman. Anyone who’s ever dreamt of a battle between Theron and Thurman is about to get their wish.

HEADS OF STATE (Prime, 2nd)

The first thing to know that Heads of State is supremely stupid. You will learn nothing of the world, nor anything of the human condition. And yet. It is some of the most fun you’ll have while watching two stunningly charismatic performers bicker and bounce off each other, laughing yourself silly as the antics and suspend-your-disbelief ramp up.

John Cena and Idris Elba play the American president and the British prime minister, who team up after a terror attack puts them in the crosshairs. Truly dumb, truly entertaining.

HAPPY GILMORE 2 (Netflix, 25th)

It looked it was never going to happen, and if it didn’t, the world would’ve kept turning. But there is, surely, at least a modicum of curiosity of what a 29-years-later Happy Gilmore will look like.

Adam Sandler had teased this for a long time, and this month, the sequel will land (or what do golf balls do, do they land?) on Netflix. The character comes out of retirement to pay for his daughter’s ballet school, and will, at some point, stare down Shooter McGavin, who’s out for revenge.

SUCH BRAVE GIRLS S2 (Stan, 4th)

In Such Brave Girls, bad life choices are just called life choices. Dysfunction has never been more dysfunctional, but if it wasn’t, this cackling British comedy wouldn’t be so funny.

Created by and starring Kat Sadler along with her real-life sister Lizzie Davidson, the series is about three women who are forever spinning in a cycle of trauma and chaos. Season two promises more shenanigans and truth bombs as they try to find some semblance of stability, and yet always choosing discord.

BOOKISH (Max, 16th)

Onscreen, you might know Mark Gatiss as Mycroft Holmes to Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock among his many credits across TV and film, including as a writer and director.

But he also penned a trilogy of mystery novels featuring fabulous spy Lucifer Box, which makes Gatiss rather qualified for Bookish, a 1946-set series he created and stars in as an antique books proprietor who solves intriguing cases.

DEXTER: RESURRECTION (Paramount+, 11th)

How much Dexter is too much Dexter? Apparently the answer is none, because there will always be more Dexter. The serial killer who was left for dead at the end of the first revival series, New Blood (not to be confused with the prequel show, Origins), survived the attempted patricide and has chased his son Harrison to New York City.

There, he’s both hunter and prey, with Detective Bautista on his trail, but also falls in with a secret society of other sociopaths, played by a very impressive cast including Peter Dinklage, Uma Thurman, Krysten Ritter, Neil Patrick Harris and David Dastmalchian.

WASHINGTON BLACK (Disney, 23rd)

Based on Esi Edugyan’s Booker shortlisted novel, Washington Black starts in early 19th century Barbados, and tells the story of a young boy who was born on a sugar plantation. He’s forced to flee and ends up at the far reaches of the world in Nova Scotia, where he meets another refugee.

The adventure series stars Ernest Kingsley Jr as Wash, with a supporting cast that includes Sterling K. Brown, Tom Ellis, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Rupert Graves and Charles Dance.

OUTRAGEOUS (BritBox, 24th)

The aristocratic Mitford sisters were famous and infamous. The toast of society in the 1930s, they were renowned for their wit, beauty and style, and then, just as much for the political divisions that split them – Jessica became a member of the Communist Party, and Unity and Diana, of course, were notorious fascists and fans of Adolf Hitler.

This series charts all six sisters’ lives in the tumultuous years before the war, and how a family can fall apart.

SMILLA’S SENSE OF SNOW (SBS, 30th)

Based on Peter Hoeg’s 1992 novel, which had previously been adapted in 1997 as a feature with Juliette Binoche, this six-part series is set between Denmark and Iceland, featuring an international cast led by Filippa Coster-Waldau.

It’s a dystopian 2040 where government surveillance is inescapable and there’s an energy crisis, and we meet an isolated young woman who is stirred by the death of an Inuit boy in her building complex, leading her to investigate his death and his history, which may just hold answers about her own past.

THE SANDMAN S2 (Netflix, 3rd)

The high-concept fantasy series will dole out its second and final season across three different drops this month, on the 3rd, the 24th and the 31st. The show is centred on Morpheus/Dream, who rules the “dreaming”, and our subconsciousness when we sleep.

He had been kidnapped and spent the previous season restoring the dream realm, but now will face new challenges.

The Sandman sits in an awkward spot as an adaptation of a Neil Gaiman comic book. Gaiman, of course, has been accused of multiple instances of sexual assault, which he denied, which affected every project he had in the pipeline, including this one.

UNTAMED (Netflix, 17th)

Eric Bana obviously didn’t get enough of the woods in The Dry 2, so he’s going back for more, but this time in Yosemite (although technically Untamed was filmed in Canada).

He plays an investigator working for an elite branch of the US National Parks Service, called on to look into a murder in the park. Man versus nature. Cop versus killer. Plus, what will inevitably be some kind of internal battle. It also stars Sam Neill, Rosemary DeWitt and Lily Santiago.

SUPERMAN THROUGH THE YEARS (Max, 8th)

Call it a nice little piece of cross-promotion. Max, which is owned by Warner Bros, will release a documentary about Superman, two days before WB releases James Gunn’s big screen take on the man of steel.

Yes, it’s a giant ad for a new movie, but it’s also a celebration of a seminal pop culture character of the past five decades, starting with Christopher Reeve’s portrayal of America’s most iconic superhero (even if he is, canonically, an alien).

AUSTIN S2 (ABC, 27th)

It’s hard to not love Michael Theo and everything he does. Theo came to the public’s attention in Love on the Spectrum and Austin was his acting debut, playing the secret son of a British author (Ben Miller) who had just been cancelled for some ill-judged retweets.

The first instalment introduced the characters to each other, and now, we find Austin on the verge of fame when his book, An Autistic Guide to Britain, is picked up, while his dad and stepmother’s work is being adapted into a TV series.

FOUNDATION S3 (Apple TV+, 11th)

Isaac Asimov’s Foundation stories were always considered unadaptable, given how involving and high-concept they were, so any new seasons of Foundation is a minor miracle for its fans. This glossy production can be opaque and esoteric for anyone but the most diehard and patient of sci-fi fans, but those that love it really love it.

There’s a time-jump 152 years into the future of this galaxy where power games rule every frame, with a warlord threatening the universe. The cast includes Lee Pace, Jared Harris, Lou Llobell with Cherry Jones and Pilou Askbeak joining the ensemble.

THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY S3 (Prime, 16th)

There are loads of young adult dramas floating about the place (most of them on Prime or Netflix) that are barely distinguishable from each other – angst, hormones, blah blah blah.

But The Summer I Turned Pretty is one of the rare exceptions of a series that not so much transcends its genre but encapsulates the best of it, compared to the lazy retreads of the rest. This is the final season in the tender story about teen Belly and the brothers, Conrad and Jeremiah, who make up the other two points of their love triangle.

IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA S17 (Disney+, 17th)

You have to be at peace with yourself if you’re going to embark on another season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. This has never been a suitable vibe partner for anxious souls.

The anarchic comedy returns for its 17th season (this has been going for as long as Grey’s Anatomy, since 2005), with the narcissistic gang back in trouble almost entirely of their own making. This includes the It’s Always Sunny half of the unexpected crossover with Abbott Elementary.

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS S3 (Paramount+, 17th)

Trekkies will never be left to languish without new episodes of a space adventure. Since the universe made the jump to streaming, there has been almost 20 seasons of TV, starting with Discovery.

A prequel to The Original Series, Strange New Worlds is also a spin-off of Discovery, where Anson Mount’s version of Christopher Pike, Ethan Peck’s Spock and Rebecca Romjin’s Number One made their debuts. Much like TOS, it follows the crew as they explore new worlds.