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Your summer viewing can go one of three ways: finally tackle The Wire, binge on some unscripted comfort food with The Great British Bake Off, or try something totally new. Thanks to the season's bounty of fresh debuts and familiar favorites, tubing offers some adventures, and V.F. critics RICHARD LAWSON, K. AUSTIN COLLINS, and SONIA SARAIYA can help you choose your ideal if-then viewing

If you loved recent best-picture winner Parasite, you may want to check out the new series Snowpiercer (TNT), which is based on an earlier film from Parasite director Bong Joon Ho. Jennifer Connelly and Daveed Diggs star. (For more on the movie's reconception as a series, turn to page 92.)

If you imagined the winning combination of Tom Wambsgans from Succession, Claire from Fleabag, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, you'd have Quiz on AMC this month, about real-life couple Charles and Diana Ingram, who were accused of cheating their way to the million-pound jackpot in the U.K. version of the game show.

If Tiger King and other true-crime twists and turns haven't left you sated, Netflix's dark comedy ead to Me has returned for a second season. It's a fictional thriller that's just as gripping as fact, and its star Christina Applegate has never been better.

If you liked consummate BFF Beanie Feldstein in Lady Bird and Booksmart, check out How to Build a Girl from IFC, the film adaptation of Caitlin Moran's semiautobiographical best seller. Feldstein takes center stage as a working-class teenager who reinvents herself as an adventurous, sexy music critic.

If you're celebrating the 35th anniversary of Les Mis on the West End (and were team La La Land at the 2017 Oscars), try The Eddy, a Netflix musical series set in Paris by La La Land director Damien Chazelle, starring Andre Holland and Amandla Stenberg.

If you welcomed quarantine (what?!), rewatch Stanley Kubrick's horror classic he Shining on its 40th anniversary. Follow it up with Mike Flanagan's Doctor Sleep, a Shining successor from last year, starring Ewan McGregor and Rebecca Ferguson.