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Cancel or keep? We rate July 2022's new shows and movies from Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu and more.

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Which streaming service has the best offering for July 2022?
Times are tough. The cost of living crisis is deepening and we’re all being choosier than ever about how we spend our money, and that particularly applies to streaming services. During the Covid-19 pandemic, when the options to spend money at the bar or to watch your favorite team play were gone, it probably didn’t matter that you’d committed an extra $20 a month to streaming services. After all, it’s not like you were sacrificing a fancy meal in a restaurant or the chance of a trip. But now, we’ve all got tough choices to make. Streaming services like Netflix and Hulu offer a degree of flexibility that most other services do not. Unless you’ve paid upfront for a year’s worth of streaming, you’re free to cancel and restart your membership whenever you like. Often, the streamers will try to win you back with special rejoining offers too, so being agile with your subscriptions can really pay off. Now, traditionally, summer tends to be quiet for prestige TV – everyone’s taking a break, the movie theaters are full of blockbusters, and the long summer days just aren’t conducive to binge-watching. So, July is an ideal time to cut down on your streaming spending. But you’ll still need something to keep you entertained. To help you out, and potentially save some cash, we’ve had a look at what shows and movies are coming to all the big streamers in July and rated whether they’re worth keeping or canceling. We’ll start with the big daddy… Netflix has a very, very busy July coming up and its executives clearly regard a summer break as optional. It kicks off the month with the epic finale of Stranger Things’ fourth season, with two feature-length episodes debuting on July 1. Animated adventure The Sea Beast is out on July 8, with the much-anticipated reboot of Resident Evil coming on July 14. There’s a big starry one-two punch on successive Fridays in mid-July. First, the Dakota Johnson and Henry Golding-led, Fleabag-aping, new take on Jane Austen’s classic Persuasion arrives on July 15. Then, one week later, on July 22, the streaming service’s hugely expensive action-thriller The Gray Man drops. The Gray Man follows Ryan Gosling’s CIA agent Court Gentry – aka Sierra Six, a highly-skilled, agency-sanctioned operative, who suddenly finds himself on the wrong side of the CIA and on the run. Gentry must try to stay one step ahead of Chris Evans’ former CIA cohort Lloyd Hansen, who hunts Sierra Six in a globe-trotting adventure that’s sure to test the allegiances of everyone involved.

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