What to Stream on TV This Weekend: 'The Gilded Age,' 'A Minecraft Movie,' 'The Waterfront' and More

Scream and Dawson’s Creek scribe Kevin Williamson’s latest project is the new dysfunctional family drama, The Waterfront, which arrived on Netflix June 19. The ensemble cast includes Holt McCallany as Harlan Buckley, the patriarch of a family whose fishing dynasty has earned them local fame (and infamy). Maria Bello, Jake Weary and Melissa Benoist all co-star as members of the often volatile Buckley family, and the show features appearances from Topher Grace and Dave Annable, too. 

Season 2 of Netflix’s America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders premiered on June 18, picking up at the start of the NFL 2024-25 season. The reality series about one of the country’s most popular cheer teams depicts everything from the pre-season tryouts to the physically grueling routines these women — athletes in their own right — learn so they can perform and cheer on their team. All seven episodes of the new season are now available to binge. 

We Were Liars is Prime Video’s new adaptation of E. Lockhart’s acclaimed novel; the eight episode series arrived on June 18, so you can binge the thriller all at once. The series stars Emily Alyn Lind as Cadence Sinclair Eastman, a wealthy young woman born into an old-money family who owns a private island in New England. Cadence has an enviable life, surrounded by a friend group known as the liars, but their idyllic life on the island is disrupted when a mysterious accident changes everything. 

A Minecraft Movie, the movie responsible for food-covered movie theaters and that “Steve’s Lava Chicken” song that was in your head for a month, is out on Max this Friday. (Prepare to get the song in your head again.) The film adaptation of the best-selling video game stars Jason Momoa, Sebastian Hansen, Emma Meyers and Danielle Brooks as four people sucked into a portal that leads them to the Overworld, a land made of cubes and dreams. With the help of Steve (Jack Black), a human who has already spent years in the Overworld himself, they’ve got to find a way to return to Earth.

This season on The Gilded Age, get ready for more new money-old money clashes, romance and drama under the stairs. Season 3 of the Julian Fellowes show that stars Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Christine Baranski and Cynthia Nixon is back, and don’t forget: This is the season Ada inherits all her dead husband’s fortune. Will all that money turn the tables in the van Rhijn household? The new season premieres Sunday, June 22, and new episodes air every Sunday this summer.

For even more 19th-century society drama, Season 2 of the Apple TV Plus series The Buccaneers is also out this week. Loosely based on an unfinished novel by Edith Wharton, the show about five young American women living in London during the Gilded Age returned to streaming on June 18, one episode will drop every Wednesday this summer.

Kristin Stewart and Steven Yeun star in the post-apocalyptic love story Love Me, which debuted exclusively on Paramount Plus this week. The film, which takes place in 2500 A.D. after humanity has gone extinct, features the relationship between a weather buoy and a passing satellite that communicate after watching uploaded videos of humans (Stewart and Yeun) interacting and, in turn, start to model their own behavior as if they were human. The groundbreaking film combines live-action performances with practical animatronics, animation and game engines, delivering something truly unique.

In 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to go to space, a remarkable feat and one that came with plenty of sexism and skepticism along the way. While Ride’s professional accomplishments have been well-documented, the new documentary Sally, out this week on Disney Plus, provides a glimpse at her personal life, too, including the relationship with longtime partner Tam O’Shaughnessey, which was kept private for decades for fear of homophobic scrutiny.