The Best Shows on TV This Week: June 14–20 • What's Most Popular

The newest entry in AMC’s Anne Rice universe follows Lestat as he goes on tour as a rock star while figures from his past keep surfacing. As the band gets bigger, so does his pull over both vampires and humans, and others are left to deal with what that means during the Great Conversion. This week’s episode, Toledo, sends Lestat back to his origins in Auvergne, then out exploring Toledo with a recent reconnection while the fallout from Detroit follows him, between band tensions and a fed-up hotel owner. The show premiered the week prior and is early in its first season, so it is an easy one to start from the beginning.

A father is serving a life sentence for the murder of his own young son, a crime he says he did not commit. Years in, he receives evidence suggesting the boy may still be alive, and he breaks out of prison to find the truth himself. The series is adapted from a Harlan Coben novel, and this is the series premiere, so it lays out the wrongful-conviction setup and the escape that drives the rest of the story. Netflix has had steady success with Coben adaptations, and this is the newest of them.

The ninth season of Adult Swim’s animated comedy keeps rolling with a new episode, A Ricker Runs Through It. Rick is the genius, alcoholic, deeply unwell scientist; Morty is the anxious teenage grandson he drags through the multiverse. Nine seasons in, the show is still one of the highest-rated things on this list and one of the few animated series with this kind of following. If you fell off somewhere in the last couple of seasons, new episodes work fine as standalone entry points more often than not.

A town traps everyone who enters, and the people stuck there fight to keep some sense of normal life while surviving the creatures that come out after dark. That is the engine of FROM, the horror-mystery that has run for four seasons now. This week’s episode, Heavy Is the Head, has a dangerous plan starting to take shape, and the question is how much Boyd is willing to risk to get everyone home. Fatima and Henry end up at two very different and unsettling crossroads, and Victor helps Tabitha and Ethan prepare for the worst. It is a show with a famously invested fanbase that picks apart every episode.

Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler hold onto a 7,000-acre ranch they fought to keep, the spine of this Yellowstone-universe series. With money tight and a ruthless rival ranch pushing in, the two do what they have to in order to survive, while trying to raise Carter into the man they think he should be. This week’s episode is Den of Sin, the seventh of the first season. For anyone who followed Yellowstone, this is the continuation that carries those characters forward, and it has pulled in that audience accordingly.

John Sugar is an American private investigator, and the first season followed his search for Olivia Siegel, the missing granddaughter of a legendary Hollywood producer. Working the case, he turned up Siegel family secrets, some recent and some long buried. This is the season two premiere, the show’s first new run since it debuted in 2024, so if you watched the first season and drifted off, it is back this week. The series keeps a tight, observational style built around a single investigator and the wealthy family at the center of the mystery.

Welcome to Wrexham follows Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds and the Welsh football club they bought in 2020, with no real experience running a team, in the hope of building an underdog story worth rooting for. The fifth season is well underway, and this week’s episode, Touching Grass, has Wrexham fighting for a playoff spot and possible promotion to the Premier League while manager Phil Parkinson tries to keep the squad, and himself, level-headed. It works whether you care about the football or just the people, which is most of why it has the broad audience it does.

A group of misfit mercenaries keeps stumbling into saving the realm of Exandria between drinks and fights, which is the whole appeal of The Legend of Vox Machina. The fourth season is running now, with this week’s episode titled The Ghosts of Whitestone. The show came out of the Critical Role tabletop campaign and carries that fanbase with it, which is a big part of why it lands on a list like this. It is violent, funny, and not aimed at kids despite the animation.

Alone drops survivalists into the wilderness by themselves, no crew and no contact, filming everything on gear they carry in, with the last person standing taking home the prize. The thirteenth season runs as the show’s first World Championship, pulling ten international survivalists together for the format. This week’s episode, Before the Drop, meets the competitors at their final stop before the start, in the last hours when they refine strategies, lock in gear, and brace for the conditions ahead. It is a good jumping-on point for a season built as an event.

Set in an alternate version of the space race where the Soviet Union puts the first man on the moon, Star City tells that story from behind the Iron Curtain. It follows the cosmonauts, engineers, and intelligence officers inside the Soviet program and the risks they took. This week’s episode, Bite Your Elbow, turns up the pressure as fear sets in across the board. It is one of the newer Apple dramas, still building its audience, and this is the fifth episode of the first season.

Married attorneys Anna and Tom Bowden have their lives upended when Max Cady, the killer they helped put behind bars, is released from prison and comes after them. This week’s episode, Pierced, has Anna leaning on Max for help with a new client while Natalie and Amber get closer and Zack offers an apology. It is mid-run on its first season, a slow-burn thriller built on the tension of a threat that keeps inching closer.

A cursed New England island and its superstitious residents, led by a mayor who refuses to take their warnings seriously, make up the comedy Widow’s Bay. This week’s episode wraps the first season as the finale, with the show signing off on the season’s hard choices. If you have been watching, this is the one to catch up to; if you have not, it is a tidy ten-episode first season to start from the top once the full run is available.