The week ahead, June 1-7: Finals week

Greetings on the first day of June. It’s a big sports week — and will be an unusally big sports month, with the World Cup starting next week — and also a fairly busy one for premieres as the summer season begins. Two of the summer’s bigger shows, Love Island and America’s Got Talent, both start new seasons this week, and there are a couple of fairly high-profile dramas as well, plus the Tony Awards.

So let’s see what’s on this week, shall we?

Monday
• 9 p.m.: Bring Me the Beauties: A Model Cult (HBO/HBO Max): This one pretty much will bring you what the title says. It’s a true crime saga about a cult leader obsessed with beauty and told primarily through the story of model Hoyt Richards, who was sucked into the cult.
• 10 p.m.: History’s Greatest Machines With Dolph Lundgren (History Channel): Fun fact: Before he was Ivan Drago, Lundgren earned a master’s degree in chemical engineering.

Tuesday
• Love Island USA (Peacock): This kind of show isn’t really my thing, but it is a lot of other people’s: It was among the top 10 original streaming series last season. One of this season’s contestants has already been sent packing after videos surfaced of her using racial slurs. Yikes.
• Not Suitable for Work (Hulu): The latest series from Mindy Kaling is about five young adults living in Manhattan’s Murray Hill neighborhood and looking for professional success and maybe some personal fulfillment too.
• 8 p.m.: America’s Got Talent (NBC): It’s season 21.
• 10 p.m.: Password (NBC)

Wednesday
• The Legend of Vox Machina (Prime Video)
• Michael Jackson: The Verdict (Netflix): A three-part docuseries all about the stuff you didn’t see in Michael.

Thursday
• The Witness (Netflix): A British series that dramatizes an infamous 1992 murder in the London suburb of Wimbledon.

Friday
• Cape Fear (Apple TV): A series remake of the 1991 thriller directed by Martin Scorsese, which was itself a remake of a 1962 movie. Scorsese and Steven Spielberg are among the executive producers, and Nick Antosca (The Act) is the showrunner. Javier Bardem, Patrick Wilson and Amy Adams take on the roles played by Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte and Jessica Lange in the 1991 movie.

Sunday
• 9 p.m.: The Vampire Lestat (AMC/AMC+): AMC renamed Interview With the Vampire for its third season, which focuses more on Lestat (Sam Reid) as he becomes a rock star, following the lead of Anne Rice’s novel series.

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Tuesday
• 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT: Stanley Cup Finals game 1 (ABC): The Carolina Hurricanes have home ice for the first two games of the series against the Vegas Golden Knights. Both teams breezed through their conference finals, with the Golden Knights upsetting regular season leaders the Colorado Avalanche in a sweep. Carolina needed just five games to dispatch the Montreal Canadiens.

Wednesday
• 8:30 p.m. ET/5:30 p.m. PT: NBA Finals game 1 (ABC): It’s a rematch of the 1999 Finals between the San Antonio Spurs and New York Knicks — when the oldest player in this series, Spurs backup center Mason Plumlee, was 9 years old. The Knicks have been on a historic heater in the playoffs, winning 11 straight games, but the Spurs knocked off the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder and have spacetime-warping star Victor Wembanyama. It should be a fun watch.

Thursday
• The Murder of Rachel Nickell (Netflix): A documentary companion to The Witness (see the premieres section above).

Friday
• Office Romance (Netflix): Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein (who also co-wrote the film with fellow Ted Lasso scribe Joe Kelly) star in a rom-com about an airline CEO (Lopez) and a newly hired lawyer for the company (Goldstein) who have the hots for each other. The cast also includes Betty Gilpin, Edward James Olmos, Tony Hale, Amy Sedaris and Bradley Whitford.
• Mexico 86 (Netflix): Diego Luna stars in a fictionalized account of the man who helped bring the 1986 World Cup, considered one of the greatest editions of the tournament ever, to Mexico.

Sunday
• 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT: Tony Awards (CBS/Paramount+): P!nk is your host for the annual Broadway honors.
• 9 p.m.: Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs. That’s the Weight of the World) (HBO/HBO Max): Questlove directs a documentary about the great funk band behind “September,” “Shining Star” and a host of other hits.

Monday
• 8 p.m.: Below Deck Down Under (Bravo)

Friday
• Your Friends & Neighbors (Apple TV)

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