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It’s summertime, and Amazon’s Prime Video is serving up plenty of light fare to watch on those balmy nights at home. There’s a new season of the twisted, hyperviolent superhero saga The Boys and a Bridgerton-style look at the short-lived 16th-century queen of England better known as Lady Jane Grey. If you’re looking for something heftier, or perhaps more bittersweet, the streamer is offering two docs about stars in the midst of transition: Roger Federer as he retired from professional tennis and singing superstar Celine Dion as she battles a rare neurological disorder.
Here are our picks for the prime new offerings on Prime this month.
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Coming June 3
The 1% Club
Who says networks can’t get along? Prime Video is sharing this new Patton Oswald–hosted game show with Fox, which will broadcast new episodes two weeks after they stream on Prime. Instead of obscure trivia, 100 contestants are whittled down with questions testing their logic, reasoning skills and common sense. In the finale, they must correctly answer a question only 1 percent of the U.S. can get right to win $100,000.
Coming June 4
Marlon Wayans: Good Grief
Marlon is the youngest of the 10 Wayans siblings, best known for his collaborations with older brother Shawn on the ’90s sitcom The Wayans Brothers and big-screen parodies like Scary Movie and Fifty Shades of Black. In his new stand-up special, recorded at Harlem’s Apollo Theater, the 51-year-old New York City native explores his life after losing his beloved parents and the challenges of caring for them in their later years.
Coming June 4
Mean Girls (2024)
It’s been 20 years since homeschooled Cady first tried to infiltrate the popular clique at suburban North Shore High School. Now she’s back, in a quasi remake that lifts radio-ready songs from the Tony-nominated 2018 musical and updates the material with fresh twists and production numbers shot like TikTok flash mobs. Tina Fey, 54 (who wrote the script), and Tim Meadows, 63, reprise their roles as frazzled teachers, but the real standouts are Reneé Rapp as alpha mean girl Regina George and Auli’I Cravalho as Cady’s artsy outsider confidante. This teen comedy is utterly fetching.
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