What to Watch on TV: The Old Guard, Mucho Mucho Amor, Little Voice
Welcome to a new week and another round of What to Watch on TV for the week of July 5th! We’ll be sharing our picks for what to watch this week, from marathons to big guest spots, and significant episodes of TV to look forward to while stuck inside.
This week’s picks include The Old Guard‘s debut, Mucho Mucho Amor, Little Voice Season 1, and more.
Here are our recommendations for what to watch on TV this week:
Desus & Mero: Season 2 — Sunday, July 5
After a hiatus, Desus Nice and The Kid Mero are back with a new season of conversations, illustrious guests, and hilarious warmups at a new day and time. Desus & Mero returns Sunday, July 5 at 11/10c on Showtime.
American Experience: The Vote Part 1 — Monday, July 6
PBS offers viewers insight into the history of the women’s suffrage movement and all of the facets behind the movement. Part 1 of American Experience: The Vote airs Monday, July 6 at 9/8c on PBS.
Episode Description: Explore how the challenges facing the women’s suffrage movement, including internal debates over radical tactics and the place of African American women in the movement, shaped the battle in the crucial period from 1906-1915.
American Experience: The Vote Part 2 — Tuesday, July 7
The 2-part documentary concludes with the history of the suffrage movement as it continues from 1916 to 1920. American Experience: The Vote concludes Tuesday, July 7 at 9/8c on PBS.
Episode Description: Explore the final four years, 1916-1920, of the campaign for the passage of the 19th amendment and meet some of the unsung women whose tireless work would finally ban discrimination at American polls on the basis of sex.
Mucho Mucho Amor — Wednesday, July 8
Get a look into the life and times of an icon in the Latinx community, famed astrologer, Walter Mercado. Mercado spent decades enthralling millions of Latinx households with his predictions for the future of every astrology sign every evening. Mucho Mucho Amor debuts Wednesday, July 8 on Netflix.
Movie Description: Every day for decades, Walter Mercado — the iconic, gender non-conforming astrologer — mesmerized 120 million Latino viewers with his extravagance and positivity. Then he vanished from the public eye. Award-winning documentarians Cristina Costantini (Science Fair) and Kareem Tabsch (The Last Resort) direct MUCHO MUCHO AMOR, produced by Alex Fumero (I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson).
Stateless Season 1 — Wednesday, July 8
Following the lives of 4 people at an immigration detention center in Australia, each person is running from something, working to get back to their loved ones, and striving to contain a potential scandal. Stateless Season 1 drops Wednesday, July 8 on Netflix.
Series Description: STATELESS is a powerful and timely series about four strangers whose lives collide at an immigration detention center in the middle of the Australian desert: an airline hostess on the run from a dangerous cult, an Afghan refugee and his family fleeing persecution, a young father escaping a dead-end job and a bureaucrat running out of time to contain a national scandal.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — Wednesday, July 8
TIPPER NEWTON, HENRY SIMMONS, JOHN YUAN, MATT YUAN, JOLENE ANDERSON, JEFF WARD
After being left behind when the Zephyr makes a sudden time jump, Deke and Mack are stranded in the early 1980s. While Mack continues to grieve the heartbreaking death of his parents, Deke works to put together a team of agents. How/When/Where will the team find them? Will the Chronicoms get to them first? Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. airs Wednesday, July 8 at 10/9c on ABC.
Episode Description: After being unexpectedly stranded in 1982, Mack retreats to his childhood home to process the death of his parents, while Deke gets to work scouting a chart-topping group of new agents. With no idea if or when the team is coming back for them, time seems to finally be on their side … at least until the killer robots show up.
Burden of Truth — Thursday, July 9
It’s almost time for trial, which means Joanna and Billy are preparing witnesses for testifying. With the pair pressed for time and the new tie to Millwood City Hall, will they be able to nail down the smoking gun and save Kodie’s children? Burden of Truth airs Thursday, July 9 at 8/7c on The CW.
Episode Description: With the trial against ClearDawn labs fast approaching, Joanna (Kristin Kreuk) and Billy (Peter Mooney) are busy preparing their witnesses and finalizing the evidence. With time running out, Joanna works desperately to save Kodie’s (Sera-Lys McArthur) children from a lasting childhood trauma, when the memory of her own trauma leads her to a big breakthrough at trial.
The Old Guard — Friday, July 10
A young woman’s world is turned upside down when she is recruited by a covert team of mercenaries set out on an emergency mission with the fate of the team and the world in the balance. The Old Guard debuts Friday, July 10 on Netflix.
Movie Description: Led by a warrior named Andy (Charlize Theron), a covert group of tight-knit mercenaries with a mysterious inability to die have fought to protect the mortal world for centuries. But when the team is recruited to take on an emergency mission and their extraordinary abilities are suddenly exposed, it’s up to Andy and Nile (KiKi Layne), the newest soldier to join their ranks, to help the group eliminate the threat of those who seek to replicate and monetize their power by any means necessary. Based on the acclaimed graphic novel by Greg Rucka and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood (LOVE & BASKETBALL, BEYOND THE LIGHTS), THE OLD GUARD is a gritty, grounded, action-packed story that shows living forever is harder than it looks.
Palm Springs — Friday, July 10
Experience a different kind of time loop story as a wedding guest and a maid of honor find themselves unable to escape each other. Palm Springs debuts Friday, July 10 on Hulu.
Movie Description: When carefree Nyles (Andy Samberg) and reluctant maid of honor Sarah (Cristin Milioti) have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, or each other.
Little Voice Season 1 — Friday, July 10
Telling the stories of the music and the life it takes on in New York, Little Voice follows a woman who sets out on a journey to figure out her voice, her dreams, and her future. Little Voice debuts Friday, July 10 on Apple TV+.
Series Description: A love letter to the diverse musicality of New York, “Little Voice” explores the universal journey of finding your authentic voice in your early 20s. Sara Bareilles (“Waitress”) will provide original music for this fresh, intensely romantic tale of the search to find your true voice … and then the courage to use it.
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Brianna Martinez
Brianna spends her time away from briefs, legal research, and pleadings, watching TV and writing about it. She generally has a lot of feelings about TV, which you can read about here and on Twitter.