The Unmissable New TV Shows To Add To Your Watch List

Three decades after Martin Scorsese’s terrifying 1991 adaptation, Cape Fear returns in prestige TV form – and it is just as unsettling as the first (possibly even more so). Javier Bardem steps into the role of vengeful ex-con Max Cady opposite Amy Adams and Patrick Wilson as the married lawyers whose lives he begins methodically dismantling after his release from prison. This version reworks the psychological terror for the age of AI fakery, online harassment and digital paranoia, while retaining all the Southern Gothic dread and slow-burn menace of the original. Expect immaculate interiors, morally compromised marriages and a horrible, creepy tension that will have you checking the locks twice. On Apple TV+ now

Anya Taylor-Joy continues her reign as television’s patron saint of dangerously glamorous women in Lucky, Apple TV+’s new crime thriller based on Marissa Stapley’s bestselling novel. Taylor-Joy plays a former con artist trying to outrun her criminal past after one last job goes quite catastrophically wrong, forcing her into a deadly game involving the FBI, organized crime and several very bad men in excellent tailoring. With Timothy Olyphant, Drew Starkey and Annette Bening rounding out the cast, it has all the markings of a summer binge: desert-noir aesthetics, expensive motel rooms, emotional damage and a heroine who always looks phenomenal. On Apple TV+ from July 15

Legally Blonde gets the prequel treatment in Elle, Prime Video’s pink and shiny return to the world of Elle Woods. Set in the mid-1990s, the series follows a teenage Elle navigating high school long before Harvard Law and the bend-and-snap era, with newcomer Lexi Minetree stepping into Reese Witherspoon’s stilettos. Produced by Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine company, the show leans heavily on nostalgic Americana, hyper-feminine fashion and the cultural reappraisal of ‘girly’ ambition. Think lip gloss, fluffy pens and latent overachiever energy. On Prime Video from July 1

Netflix’s seemingly endless Harlan Coben conveyor belt shows no sign of slowing, but I Will Find You might be the most brutal instalment yet. Sam Worthington stars, alongside Britt Lower, as a father serving life in prison for the murder of his own son, until new evidence suggests the child may actually still be alive. Cue a desperate escape, a sprawling conspiracy and plenty of addictive cliffhangers that will make you hungry for more. Like the best Coben adaptations, it blends suburban normality with mounting dread and peels back the curtain on family life, revealing the dark underneath. On Netflix from June 18

Sex, scandal and snobbery…it’s all here in Rivals, the titillating TV show based on Jilly Cooper’s best-selling “bonkbuster” of the same name. Season two returns to Rutshire – where tensions are high following the fallout of season one. Will Taggie (Bella Maclean) and Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell) make it official? Will media magnate Tony Baddingham (David Tennant) get his revenge? Mark the date in your diaries for a second helping of Home Counties chaos. On Disney+ now

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