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The Best TV Shows in Australia to Stream in July
Don't want to be left out of lunch break conversations of what's hot in the world of streaming right now? Here's what you need to watch ASAP.
We all love having a binge-worthy show on our rotation, and with streaming services constantly dropping fresh content, there’s never a shortage of entertainment. But figuring out what is worth your time is a whole other matter.
Well, we’ve done the trial and error for you, so whether you’re into crime, psychological thrillers, comedy, romance, cooking, or travel, there’s something new to devour for each of you. Eyes wide, snacks at the ready and read on for the best TV shows in Australia right now…
Best TV Shows Australia: HBO Max
Rooster
Steve Carell is back in tender-cringe mode in Rooster, a campus comedy from Bill Lawrence (of Scrubs, Ted Lasso, and Shrinking fame, FYI) and Matt Tarses. Carell plays Greg Russo, a successful author who arrives at a New England college and quickly becomes tangled in academic egos, family mess and the awkward business of reconnecting with his daughter. It has the warmth you want from Carell, the campus chaos of a faculty full of strange little power plays, and enough emotional sting to keep it from floating away as a simple comfort watch.
The Pitt
Medical dramas are rarely this taut. Set across one bruising shift at a Pittsburgh emergency department, The Pitt follows Dr Robby and his team as patients, pressure and hospital politics keep arriving faster than anyone can process. Each episode unfolds in near real time, covering roughly one hour of the shift, which makes the whole thing feel breathless in the best possible way. It is smart, humane, stressful, occasionally stomach-turning and very hard to watch one episode at a time.
Best TV Shows Australia: Netflix
I Will Find You
Yes, another Harlan Coben adaptation has arrived, but stay with us: this one has Sam Worthington, Milo Ventimiglia and Britt Lower, aka Helly from Severance, which is a pretty compelling argument for pressing play. I Will Find You follows a father serving life for murdering his son, until a photo suggests the boy may still be alive. From there, the twist is twisting: prison breaks, FBI chases, buried family secrets and enough rich-people rot to keep the whole thing charging along beautifully.
Rafa
Tennis fans, this one is essential viewing. Rafa follows Rafael Nadal as he reflects on the career, discipline and physical toll behind one of the most formidable legacies in sport. Across four episodes, the documentary moves through the victories, pressure, injuries and final-season emotion that shaped Nadal’s place in tennis history. Even if you only know him as the clay-court king, this is a stirring look at what greatness asks of a body, a mind and a life.
The Witness
A difficult but powerful watch, The Witness revisits the 1992 murder of Rachel Nickell through the lives of the people left behind. The three-part drama centres on her partner, André, and young son, Alex, who witnessed the attack as a child, tracing the long emotional aftermath of a case that gripped Britain and exposed deep failures in the investigation and media treatment of the family. It is true crime handled less as spectacle and more as a study of grief, trauma and survival.
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The Four Seasons: Season Two
The Four Seasons is a delightfully witty and heartwarming comedy-drama that feels like a sparkling reunion with old friends. Tina Fey and Will Forte lead the pack as a charming couple grappling with the hilarities and headaches of midlife. Steve Carell and Kerri Kenney-Silver bring sharp humour and genuine warmth, while Colman Domingo and Marco Calvani add a lovely depth to the mix. Erika Henningsen stirs the pot brilliantly as the younger girlfriend, injecting fresh tension and laughs.
Each seasonal getaway cleverly blends humour with touching truths, reminding us that friendship — messy, enduring, and utterly precious — is life’s best adventure.
The Boroughs
Stranger Things fan? Give this brand-new sci-fi series from the Duffer Brothers a whirl. Set in the New Mexico desert, a retirement community uncovers a dark mystery with twists and turns aplenty. Expect a whole new set of quirky characters enhanced by the Duffer Brothers’ signature nostalgic aesthetic. We’re looking forward to enjoying some autumnal evenings with this cosy mystery.
How to Get to Heaven From Belfast
From the genius creators of Derry Girls comes this ridiculous crime comedy that will have you giggling continuously over your evening beverage of choice. The series follows three quirky pals as they rollick across Northern Ireland investigating the mysterious death of an old-school friend.
Big Mistakes
Dan Levy fans, welcome. This new crime/comedy mashup follows the story of two siblings who have been blackmailed into assisting a criminal gang. Don’t go into this expecting a Sherlock Holmes mystery and indulge in the silliness of it all. Expect a light watch and a good laugh.
Best TV Shows Australia: Paramount
Two Years Later
Phoebe Tonkin and Brenton Thwaites lead Two Years Later, an Australian romantic drama that turns a Brisbane bus-stop flirtation into something far more complicated. Emily and Ryan first connect just before the pandemic interrupts everything; two years on, they unexpectedly find each other again and agree to test the old spark across eight dates. It is intimate, grounded and refreshingly local, with Brisbane doing more than background work as the city’s buses, streets and familiar corners shape the story.
The Madison
Taylor Sheridan is not done with big skies, complicated families and ranches that seem to attract grief like weather. The Madison follows a wealthy New York family as they relocate to a rundown ranch on Montana’s Madison River after a personal tragedy, with Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell leading the charge. It is neo-Western drama with polished boots, bruised egos and a landscape large enough to swallow everyone’s secrets whole. Yes, it leans hard into the melodrama. No, we will not be pretending that’s a problem.
Dutton Ranch
Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler were never going to disappear into domestic calm. Dutton Ranch follows Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser as they leave the Yellowstone home front behind for a remote South Texas spread, building a new life with their adopted son while the old rules of land, loyalty and violence refuse to stay buried. It is still pure Sheridan country: hard faces, harder choices, family as both shelter and weapon, and dialogue with enough bite to leave a mark.
Best TV Shows Australia: Apple TV
Shrinking: Season Three
Therapy is still wildly unprofessional, emotionally messy and far too funny in Shrinking. Jason Segel returns as Jimmy, the grieving therapist whose habit of saying the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time has somehow become a treatment style. Harrison Ford remains the show’s dry, gravel-voiced secret weapon, while Jessica Williams, Michael Urie, Christa Miller and Luke Tennie keep the chaos warm rather than exhausting. If you like your comedies with grief, heart and one-liners that sneak up on you, this is still one of Apple TV+’s best.
Widow’s Bay
Small-town politics, seaside dread and something rotten under the floorboards? Say less. Widow’s Bay stars Matthew Rhys as the mayor of a New England town with more secrets than residents, in a horror-comedy that leans into strange deaths, civic panic and the very specific terror of everyone knowing everyone. Created by Katie Dippold and directed by Hiro Murai, it has the right ingredients for a series that is funny until it suddenly is not.
Best TV Shows Australia: Disney+
Not Suitable for Work
Mindy Kaling takes on the post-grad office grind in Not Suitable for Work, a Gen Z workplace comedy about five ambitious twenty-somethings trying to turn inbox panic, bad bosses and corporate nonsense into actual careers. There are messy friendships, ladder-climbing disasters and the specific humiliation of trying to sound impressive before you know what you’re doing. Too close to home for some, possibly healing for others.
The Testaments
Gilead has not finished with us. Based on Margaret Atwood’s follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments shifts the story to a new generation of women raised inside the regime, from those protected by its privileges to those beginning to understand the violence underneath them. Power, fear, inheritance and rebellion run through a dystopian drama that still sits uncomfortably close to the world outside the screen.
Alice and Steve
Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement make a messy premise feel immediately worth watching in Alice and Steve. Alice’s long friendship with Steve is thrown off course when he starts dating her adult daughter, leaving everyone to navigate betrayal, bad timing and the particular horror of a family dinner with nowhere to hide. Awkward, funny and quietly bruising, it is comedy with a real wound underneath.
Rivals: Season Two
If you somehow missed Rivals the first time around, now is the moment to correct that. Based on Jilly Cooper’s 1988 novel, the Disney+ series drops us into the filthy-rich, morally bankrupt world of 1980s British television, where careers are made over lunch, marriages combust in drawing rooms and every charming man appears to be hiding at least three terrible decisions under his riding jacket. David Tennant is gloriously poisonous as Lord Tony Baddingham, Aidan Turner smoulders as Declan O’Hara, and Alex Hassell’s Rupert Campbell-Black remains the character you should know better than to enjoy this much.
Add Danny Dyer, Katherine Parkinson, Nafessa Williams, Emily Atack and Victoria Smurfit, and the whole thing becomes a very stylish argument for bad behaviour as entertainment. It is nostalgic, ridiculous, sharp in places, shameless in others, and far more fun than anything this messy has a right to be.
Best TV Shows Australia: Stan
Secret Service
Gemma Arterton in a spy thriller is already doing half the work, but Secret Service has an especially neat hook. Adapted from Tom Bradby’s novel, the five-part series casts her as Kate, an MI6 agent and Head of the Russian Desk, playing civil-servant normal while tracking intelligence that a future Prime Minister may be a Russian asset. Rafe Spall co-stars, paranoia thickens, and every conversation feels like it has been bugged twice.
The Westies
Crime drama fans, this is the big swing. Set in early-1980s Hell’s Kitchen, The Westies follows the infamously violent Irish-American gang as the construction of the Javits Center puts serious money within reach. The mafia is bigger, the FBI is circling and the gang itself is splintering between old-school leaders and a younger generation with blood in the teeth. J.K. Simmons, Titus Welliver, Jessica Frances Dukes and Stanley Morgan lead the charge.
The F Ward
From the makers of Bump comes The F Ward, a new six-part Stan Original with a very appealing local hook. Anna Friel, Ioane Sa’ula and Dan Wyllie star in this Sydney-set medical drama about a group of interns sent to the underfunded Pines Hospital for one last shot at finishing their training. It has the hospital chaos, life-or-death pressure and messy personal stakes of a show designed to become a weekend binge.
Drag Race Down Under vs The World
The runway is going international, and the group chat should prepare accordingly. Drag Race Down Under vs The World sends Down Under favourites into battle against queens from across the global Drag Race empire, with Michelle Visage hosting and Rhys Nicholson back on the judging panel. Art Simone, Coco Jumbo, Flor, Nikita Iman and Vybe are among the local names competing, with weekly episodes arriving every Friday.
Best TV Shows Australia: Binge
The Five Star Weekend
The Five Star Weekend has July couch plans written all over it. Jennifer Garner stars in this eight-part Elin Hilderbrand adaptation as a famous cook and author whose immaculate Nantucket life splinters after her husband’s death. Her solution? Invite women from different chapters of her life to one loaded coastal weekend, then let the secrets, rivalries and emotional wreckage do their worst. The cast is absurdly good, with D’Arcy Carden, Gemma Chan, Regina Hall, Chloë Sevigny, Timothy Olyphant and Judy Greer (hello, Suddenly 30 reunion) all checking in.
Grief, wealth, friendship, bad decisions and Garner in linen-coded crisis mode: delicious.
Streaming 9th July
Dear England
Joseph Fiennes steps into the waistcoat as Gareth Southgate in Dear England, a four-part drama about the England men’s football team and the emotional machinery behind national expectation. Less straight sports recap than character study, the series looks at pressure, leadership, penalty ghosts and the strange psychology of a country that can turn a match into a referendum on its own identity. Football fan or not, there is plenty here to chew over.
The Other Bennet Sister
For our period drama-loving Queens and Kings comes this alternate take on Pride and Prejudice. If you love Bridgerton (classic covers of pop hits and all) then you’ll adore following along on the bookish Mary’s journey through a time and place not designed for the modern woman. Let the gorgeous costumes and bucolic village scene transport you, with Ella Bruccoleri’s divine performance as the cherry on the cake.
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