6 most-watched shows in June on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+ Hotstar

The mid-point of the year started off with a bang with the return of The Family Man. The second season of the series did the seemingly impossible and surpassed the first with its fast-paced storytelling and thrilling action sequences. After Wandavision and Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Marvel released its third spin-off series with Loki, starring Tom Hiddleston and Owen Wilson. Aside from these much-anticipated titles, June was packed with other exciting movies and TV shows. Here’s everything people watched and loved in the month gone by.

1. Sherni (2021)

Vidya Balan delivers yet another powerhouse performance with her latest movie Sherni. Director Amit Masurkar, who previously helmed the critically-acclaimed Newton, takes on the complex ‘man vs nature’ discussion with this one. In the movie, Balan plays a newly transferred forest officer who is tasked with locating an errant tigress who had been attacking locals. This seemingly straightforward task is met with many hurdles in the form of local politicians, incompetent officials, and chest-thumping hunters who want to add to their trophy collection. 

Streaming on Amazon Prime Video

2. Loki (2021)

This month also saw the premiere of the highly anticipated Marvel spin-off TV series featuring everyone’s favourite trickster, Loki. Set directly after the events of Avengers: Endgame, the series takes a look at what happened after Loki stole the Tesseract from the Avengers. We get introduced to the mysterious Time Variance Authority, an organisation responsible for ensuring that there are no glitches in the multiverse. Because Loki created an alternate version of his reality after stealing the Tesseract, he is presented before the TVA and given a choice: annihilation or assist in fixing the timeline to stop a bigger threat. Along with Tom Hiddleston, the series also stars Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Wunmi Mosaku, Sophia Di Martino, and Eugene Cordero.

Streaming on Disney+ Hotstar

3. The Family Man Season 2 (2021)

After the first season ended on a breathtaking cliffhanger, the makers of The Family Man were burdened with the expectations of millions of fans who were waiting for the second season since the past year. The latest instalment is the perfect follow-up to the slick thriller that was the first season. Here, we see Srikant (Manoj Bajpayee) leave behind the thrill and danger of his job as one of India’s top-secret agents in favour of a nine-to-five corporate job. However, a new threat forces him to reevaluate his life plans and return to the Threat Analysis and Surveillance Cell to use his unique brand of intelligence in order to stay one step ahead of the enemy. This season also starred actor Samantha Akkineni in a leading role, making this her web series debut.

Streaming on Amazon Prime Video

4. Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)

With this animated fantasy adventure film, Disney added another princess to its roster with Raya, a Southeast Asian warrior princess. The movie takes place in the land of Kumandra, which is home to five separate warring tribes. After an attempt at a peace agreement between the tribes goes horribly wrong, an ancient enemy returns to the land carrying with him a plague that turns people to stone. Now it’s up to Raya, the daughter of the Heart tribe, to travel across Kumandra to look for the last dragon who can help her return everything to order and unite the tribes.

Streaming on Disney+ Hotstar

5. Sweet Tooth (2021)

This fantasy drama series by Netflix, based on the comic book of the same name by Jeff Lemire, is set in a post-apocalyptic world where man-animal hybrids begin to be born around the world. Now decades after the deadly virus that brought about the apocalypse, young deer-boy hybrid Gus has to set off on a perilous journey across whatever remains of America to look for his mother. Along the way, he meets other hybrids, hunters, scientists, and a mysterious loner who becomes his reluctant protector.

Streaming on Netflix

6. Ray (2021)

Netflix continued on its unofficial journey to populate the web space with more anthologies than there are high school movies starring Noah Centineo. Ray, a collection of four stories inspired by the works of one of the most celebrated filmmakers of the industry Satyajit Ray, stars Manoj Bajpayee, Ali Fazal, Kay Kay Menon, and Harshvardhan Kapoor. Through the four stories directors Abhishek Chaubey, Arijit Mukherji, and Vasan Bala pay homage to the legendary filmmaker and his affinity towards exploring people’s vulnerabilities through his stories.

Streaming on Netflix

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