8 new TV shows to watch during Pride Month, according to our experts

Guides to Pride can be a complicated endeavor these days, as the annual celebration of LGBTQ+ identity now regularly involves the very forces — corporations, cops — it once stood against. —Tracy Brown ‘Dead End: Paranormal Park’ Barney, from left, Courtney, Pugsley and Norma in “Dead End: Paranormal Park.” Netflix | 2022 | TV Series | Premieres June 16 Fans of queer cartoons should make sure to clear their schedules for the arrival of “Dead End: Paranormal Park.” The animated horror-comedy, based on creator Hamish Steele’s graphic novel series “DeadEndia,” follows trans teen Barney who gets a job at the local haunted theme park, where an encounter with a demon gives his dog, Pugsley, the ability to talk. —Tracy Brown ‘First Kill’ Calliope, left, and Juliette are mortal enemies in love in “First Kill.” Netflix | 2022 | TV Series | Premieres June 10 If you’re dying for a dose of delicious supernatural queer teen angst, look no further than “First Kill.” Based on a short story by V.E. —Matt Brennan ‘Motherland: Fort Salem’ Raelle, left, and Scylla in “Motherland: Fort Salem.” Hulu | 2020 | TV Series | Two seasons | Third season premieres June 21 on Freeform TV-14 The ambitious “Motherland: Fort Salem” is set in an alternate U.S. where witches ended the persecution of the Salem witch trials by agreeing to be conscripted into the military. —Matt Brennan ‘The Umbrella Academy’ Viktor Hargreeves and Allison Hargreeves in “The Umbrella Academy.” Netflix | 2019 | TV Series | Two seasons | Third season premieres June 22 TV-MA “Brothers & Sisters” with an adoptive set of mutant siblings, or perhaps a crime-of-the-century adventure from the perspective of time-traveling superheroes, “The Umbrella Academy,” at its best, is an indescribable alchemy of family, history and damaged adult children: in other words, a perfect metaphor for growing up queer in America.