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  • 3 underrated shows on Netflix you need to watch in June 2025

    One of Netflix’s biggest shows calls it quits at the end of the month. Squid Game wraps up its historic Netflix run with the third and final season. Can Gi-hun defeat the Front Man and shut down the games for good?

    Other popular shows this month include Ginny & Georgia season 3 and Tires. Beyond the popular shows, Netflix has an entire world of underrated shows. Keep reading, and you’ll find three good recommendations below.

    We also have guides to the best new shows to stream, the best movies on Netflix, the best movies on Hulu, the best movies on Amazon Prime Video, the best movies on Max, and the best movies on Disney+.

    Animal Kingdom (2016-2022)

     Animal Kingdom is a gritty crime thriller that ran for six seasons on TNT. With all due respect to TNT, the ratings were never anything impressive. Now that Animal Kingdom is on Netflix, it will gain more eyeballs, so expect the show to find itself in the top 10.

    Based on the Academy Award-nominated film of the same name, Animal Kingdom revolves around Joshua “J” Cody (Last Breath’s Finn Cole), a 17-year-old teenager forced to relocate to Southern California to live with his estranged relatives. Led by Janine “Smurf” Cody (Ellen Barkin), J’s relatives carry out heists and other illegal activities. To remain in the house, J must pull his weight, meaning he’ll have to partake in the family business. 

    Watch Animal Kingdom on Netflix.

    Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators (2023)

     For those who have seen American Gladiators, this eye-opening documentary will raise a few eyebrows about what went wrong. For those new to the topic, American Gladiators was a competition show from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s that pitted average contestants against “gladiators,” costumed athletes with elite speed, strength, and agility.

    The stylish show was extremely entertaining thanks to games like Tug of War, Powerball, and the Eliminator. The real drama existed behind the scenes, as the steroid-fueled gladiators went to war with the network. It’s a fun rise-and-fall documentary about an enjoyable show. 

    Watch Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators on Netflix.

    The Flash (2014-2023)

    Forget Ezra Miller’s movie. The best version of The Flash aired on CW. Grant Gustin starred as Barry Allen, a forensic investigator who gains superhuman speed after a lab explosion. As The Flash, Barry becomes the de facto superhero of Central City. 

    By utilizing the “villain of the week” format early on, The Flash established a lightheartedness and delightfulness that was nonexistent in the 2023 movie, making for an entertaining viewing experience. Unfortunately, the CW dropped all of their superhero shows, so no more new episodes will be coming.

    Watch The Flash on Netflix.

  • Arrow’s Katie Cassidy reflects on the decision to kill her off & bring her back

    Sometimes, the real behind-the-scenes drama doesn’t come out about a show until years after it’s done. As a prime example of this, actress Katie Cassidy is opening up about her abrupt exit from Arrow in 2016 when her character, Laurel Lance/Black Canary, was killed off near the end of season 4. According to Cassidy, she only learned about her fate on the series days before shooting Laurel’s death scene.

    Via Deadline, Cassidy appeared on Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum and revealed that she was informed about her exit from the show while she was traveling to a comic convention to promote Arrow. Then she had to pretend that she didn’t know that Laurel would be the character getting the ax while speaking to fans at the event.

    “I was angry at first,” recalled Cassidy. “And I was emotional because I was sad, and I was angry because I was so happy.” She also noted that she “had to eat some humble pie when they killed me off that show,” before adding that “it was really hard.”

    Cassidy was one of the original cast members on Arrow, and Black Canary was traditionally the love interest of the leading character, Oliver Queen/Green Arrow (as played by Suits LA‘s Stephen Amell). Regardless, that relationship was ditched on the show in favor of Oliver’s romance with Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards). Cassidy didn’t come right out and say she was killed off because Laurel had become expendable, but she’s definitely thought about the reasons why.

    “I think it was a couple of things,” said Cassidy. “I have theories. I think it was political. It’s a lot.” She also said that she told the show’s producers that “‘I feel like I’ve always been given the short end of the stick and I have to go,” before adding that she didn’t yell about it. “I just cried because I was sad.”

    However, the story has a happy ending for Cassidy. She was invited back to make a guest appearance on The Flash as Black Siren, an alternate universe version of Laurel who became a villain on her world. From there, she was reintroduced as a recurring cast member on Arrow before she was formally brought back as a series regular until the end of the show’s eight season run.

    Cassidy noted that Arrow executive producer Marc Guggenheim told her “I think we may have made a mistake,” while offering her a return engagement on the series. Cassidy was also slated to be one of the main cast members for the proposed Green Arrow and the Canaries spinoff, which ultimately did not go forward.