Insightful documentary explorations into the most pressing issues of our day are all well and good, but given that I usually watch TV when I want to completely wall off my brain from the horrors of reality, I’ll take a YouTube-style deep dive into a piece of pop culture ephemera (almost) every time. The Day the Music Died: American Pie, a feature-length exploration of one of the most unconventional pop hits ever recorded, sounds like it will fit the bill when it premieres on Paramount+ on July 19.
Other highlights during this slow summer month: The long-delayed premiere of season two of Blood & Treasure (July 17), as the action-thriller series moves to streaming from its former berth on CBS; The Only (July 12), a documentary about Briana Scurry, the only Black player on the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team; and Honor Society (July 29), an original streaming dark comedy about the lengths high-achieving high schoolers will go to in order to get into their dream colleges, presumably because they can’t wait to be six figures in debt at age 22.
Here’s everything else coming to Paramount+ in July.
Paramount Plus Originals coming in July 2022
Arriving July 10
SkyMed
Arriving July 12
The Only
Arriving July 13
South Park: The Streaming Wars, Part 2
Arriving July 17
Blood & Treasure
Arriving July 19
The Day the Music Died: American Pie
Arriving July 26
Never Seen Again, Season 2
Arriving July 29
Honor Society
TV shows coming to Paramount+ in July 2022
Arriving July 6
Big Brother (Season 24)
The Challenge: USA (Season 1)
Arriving July 13
Freakish (Season 1)
Arriving July 14
Beavis and Butt-Head (Seasons 5 and 7)
Arriving July 20
100 Days to Fall In Love (Season 1)
Behind the Music (Season 1)
Guidance (Seasons 1 - 3)
It’s Pony (Season 1)
Love Daily (Season 1)
Peppa Pig (Season 8)
Arriving July 22
Secret Celebrity Renovation (Season 2)
Arriving July 27
Betch (Seasons 1 - 4)
My Dead Ex (Season 1)
The Loud House (Season 5)
Movies coming to Paramount Plus in July 2022
Arriving July 1
16-Love
52 Pick-Up
A Feral World
A Night At The Roxbury
A Very Brady Sequel
Adventure Boyz
Aeon Flux
All Roads to Pearla
Alpha and Omega 2: A Howl-iday Adventure
Alpha and Omega 3: The Great Wolf Games
Alpha and Omega 4: The Legend of the Saw Toothed Cave
Alpha and Omega 5: Family Vacation
Alpha and Omega: Dino Digs
Alpha and Omega: Journey to Bear Kingdom
Alpha and Omega: The Big Fureeze
An Unfinished Life
As Long As We Both Shall Live
Attack of the Unknown
Awaken the Shadowman
Bebe’s Kids
Betrayed
Beverly Hills Cop
Beverly Hills Cop II
Beverly Hills Cop III
Bluejay
Body of Evidence
Broadway Danny Rose
Cadillac Man
Call of the Wolf
Carrie
Changeland
Charlotte’s Web
Charlotte’s Web 2
Chasing Molly
Clue
Clueless
Coffy
Come on In
Cotton Comes to Harlem
Coyotaje
Criminal Law
Cruel Hearts
Cruiser
Dark Blue
Dave Made a Maze
DC Noir
Dead Ringer
Deep
Drillbit Taylor
Easy Does It
Eve’s Bayou
Event Horizon
Eye for An Eye
Eye of the Needle
Flesh and Bone
Forev
French Postcards
Frisky
Futureworld
Gandhi
Ghost
Gino’s Wife
Gladiator
Hot Dog
In Action
Infinitum: Subject Unknown
Internal Affairs
Into the Wild
Iris Warriors
Jamie Marks is Dead
Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain
King Kong
Knight and Day
Leaving Las Vegas
Lincoln
Little Man Tate
Loves Spell
Lust for Love
Major League
Mandela
Midnight In Paris
Mississippi Burning
Moments in Spacetime
Mystic Pizza
No Way to Live
Orphan
Party With Me
Pet Sematary
Play the Game
Pretty Ugly People
Racing with the Moon
Runner
Say Your Prayers
Seabiscuit
Serpico
Shanghai Noon
Shaolin Soccer
Sherlock Gnomes
Slash
So I Married An Axe Murderer
Soapdish
Star Trek
Stay
Stuff
Swiped
The Arbors
The Back-up Plan
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Cookout
The Duchess
The Four Feathers
The Honor Farm
The Hunted
The Italian Job
The Last Samurai
The Machinist
The Mask of Zorro
The Mongolian Connection
The Outsider
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
The Posthuman Project
The Republic of Two
The Rest of Us
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Throw Momma From The Train
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Tucked
We Love You Sally Carmichael
We Take the Low Road
When Icarus Fell
Arriving July 5
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
Arriving July 31
The Town that Dreaded Sundown