Netflix’s steamy July line-up: 5 best TV series and films to watch – Too Hot to Handle and medical K-drama Hospital Playlist are both back for season two

Jul 3 , 2021

Stills from Too Hot to Handle, Hospital Playlist and Fatherhood, three shows we’ll be watching this July. Photo: Netflix

If you’re missing Bridgerton (hello, Kim K), get your fill of saucy antics in Netflix original Sex/Life and OTT reality series Too Hot to Handle

K-star Jo Jung-suk leads season two of Hospital Playlist – which non-hallyu fans may compare to Grey’s Anatomy – while Kevin Hart stars in drama Fatherhood

This summer is getting hot, hot, hot. If you’re still in the process of recovering from winter’s Bridgerton (I’m looking at you, Kim K!), you probably aren’t ready for Netflix’s new, steamy July line-up.

Here’s our list of what to watch this month. (Spoiler: it’s full of thirst traps.)

Too Hot to Handle, season two

A still from Too Hot to Handle. Photo: Netflix

As we learned in season one, the premise of Too Hot to Handle is too entertaining not to watch: a group of attractive young single men and women have to stay celibate for the duration of their stay at an idyllic villa ... for the chance to win US$100,000.

What’s the big deal, says pretty much anyone, ever: keep it in your pants and make enough money to finally put down a deposit for a mortgage! However, not everyone in the world is as rational, it seems, as this hot and bothered pack of millennials can testify.

Sex/Life

More rippling abs (and a sexy Australian accent) await in the new Netflix original drama series Sex/Life, which follows bored-out-of-her-mind suburban housewife Billie Connelly (Sarah Shahi) as she gets nostalgic about her wild past. Based on B.B. Easton’s novel 44 Chapters About 4 Men, the story can’t help but make us wonder: can a woman ever really “have it all”?