Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
From co-creators Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, this miniseries tells a dramatized story of the 1989 murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez and the subsequent trial of their sons their sons Lyle and Erik for the crime.
Where to watch: Netflix
The Franchise
This satirical series directed by Sam Mendes and starring Himesh Patel is centered on the crew of an unsuccessful superhero movie franchise as it struggles for success in the crowded and cutthroat genre.
Where to watch: Max
Abbott Elementary, Season 4
School is back in session at Abbott Elementary. The Emmy Award-winning comedy series, led by Quinta Brunson, follows a school staff in Philadelphia who are trying to give their kids the best education they can.
Where to watch: Hulu
Teacup
Inspired by Robert McCammon’s “Stinger” and executive produced by “The Conjuring Universe’s” James Wan, this horror series follows a group of people in rural Georgia who must work together to survive in the face of a mysterious threat.
Where to watch: Peacock
Sweatpea
In this miniseries, wallflower-turned-murderer Rhiannon Lewis (Ella Purnell) is passed over for a promotion, has a guy who won’t commit and must care for a sick father. One day she snaps. Will she be able to keep her new hobby under wraps?
Where to watch: Starz
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Based on the best-selling book by Renée Knight and adapted and directed by Alfonso Cuarón, this series centers on a celebrated journalist (Cate Blanchett) facing an unknown stranger who threatens to expose her past. Kevin Kline and Sacha Baron Cohen also star.
Where to watch: Apple TV Plus
Lonely Planet
In this romance, a novelist (Laura Dern) attends a writer’s retreat in Morocco in hopes of curing her writer’s block. Instead, she meets a handsome young man (Liam Hemsworth) and embarks upon an affair.
Where to watch: Netflix
The Menendez Brothers
This feature-length documentary breaks down the true crime case of Erik and Lyle Menendez, who were found guilty of murdering their parents in 1996.
Where to watch: Netflix
Heartstopper, Season 3
As summer break comes to an end, Charlie (Joe Locke) and Nick (Kit Connor) have important things they would like to say to each other. Their group of friends must also reckon with the upcoming school year, and the issue of where they want to attend university.
Where to watch: Netflix
Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery
In this documentary film, Cullen Hoback investigates the origins of bitcoin and the identity of its creator. Hoback travels the world to rub shoulders with key players, uncover new clues and humorously chronicle the cryptocurrency’s meteoric rise.
Where to watch: Max
Hold Your Breath
Sarah Paulson stars in this horror film as a desperate mother who believes an unseen evil is threatening her family amid dust storms in 1930s Oklahoma.
Where to watch: Hulu
It’s What’s Inside
A pre-wedding party takes a sinister turn after an estranged friend arrives with a mysterious game. In this thriller, the secrets, desires and resentments of the assembled friends come to the surface with nightmarish results.
Where to watch: Netflix
Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval
Comedian Ellen DeGeneres returns to the stage for the first time in six years to address being “kicked out of show business” and what she’s been doing since in her latest stand-up special.
Where to watch: Netflix
Grotesquerie
In Ryan Murphy’s latest miniseries, a small-town detective Lois Tryon (Niecy Nash-Betts) comes to believe she is the target of a series of heinous local crimes. At home, she must navigate a strained relationship with her daughter and a husband in long-term hospital care.
Where to watch: Hulu
Nobody Wants This
In this rom-com, love blossoms between an agnostic sex-advice podcaster (Kristen Bell) and a newly single rabbi (Adam Brody), but the relationship must survive their different lifestyles and nosy families.
Where to watch: Netflix
Apartment 7A
In this “Rosemary’s Baby” prequel, a young dancer (Julia Garner) moves in with an older, wealthy couple after suffering a devastating injury. But she soon realizes something evil may be lurking in their luxury apartment building.
Where to watch: Paramount Plus
Will & Harper
In this road trip documentary, Will Ferrell and his close friend Harper Steele (a former “Saturday Night Live” writer) travel across the U.S. after Harper comes out as a trans woman, reintroducing her to the country and meeting up with old friends along the way.
Where to watch: Netflix
Wolfs
In this comedy-thriller, a pair of rival fixers (George Clooney and Brad Pitt) must join forces to cover up a high-profile crime when, of course, the night doesn’t go as planned.
Where to watch: Apple TV Plus
The Penguin
This limited series continues the story filmmaker Matt Reeves started in “The Batman,” but focuses on Oswald Cobb (Colin Farrell), a.k.a. the Penguin, as he struggles with Sofia Falcone (Cristin Milioti) to gain control of the crime world in Gotham.
Where to watch: Max
Agatha All Along
Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) returns after the events of “WandaVision” to recruit a crew of unlikely allies to help her regain her powers in this miniseries that also features Patti LuPone and Aubrey Plaza.
Where to watch: Disney Plus
Child Star
Demi Lovato’s directorial debut is a documentary examining the lives of former child stars, including Lovato herself, as well as Christina Ricci, Drew Barrymore, JoJo Siwa and others.
Where to watch: Hulu
High Potential
Based on the French series “Haut Potentiel Intellectuel,” this show starring Kaitlin Olson (“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”) centers on a single mom who teams up with a by-the-book detective (Daniel Sunjata) after inadvertently solving a crime while working as the police department’s cleaning lady.
Where to watch: Hulu
His Three Daughters
Three estranged sisters (Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen) reunite in New York City to care for their ailing father during his final days. Tensions rise as the trio are forced to confront past issues to heal their relationships with each other.
Where to watch: Netflix
Twilight of the Gods
This adult animated series — co-created by Zack Snyder and featuring music by Hans Zimmer — reimagines Norse mythology.
Where to watch: Netflix
Slow Horses, Season 4
This BAFTA Award-winning dark comedy about a team of dysfunctional MI5 agents and their obnoxious boss (Gary Oldman) was adapted from Mick Herron’s Slough House series.
Where to watch: Apple TV Plus
How to Die Alone
In this comedy, series creator Natasha Rothwell stars as Mel, a broke JFK airport employee who is in a rut until a brush with death changes the trajectory of her life.
Where to watch: Hulu
Three Women
Based on the 2019 nonfiction bestseller of the same name by journalist Lisa Taddeo, this series — shelved by Showtime in 2023 and picked up by Starz — profiles three women from different walks of life who take steps to explore their own desires.
Where to watch: Starz
In Vogue: The 90s
This miniseries dives into the ’90s fashion industry through the eyes of Vogue editors Hamish Bowles, Edward Enninful, Tonne Goodman and Anna Wintour. Each of the six episodes centers on a defining moment of the era.
Where to watch: Hulu
The Old Man, Season 2
Former CIA agent Dan Chase (Jeff Bridges) and former FBI assistant director Harold Harper (John Lithgow) embark on a mission to rescue Emily Chase (Alia Shawkat) after she’s kidnapped by a powerful Afghan tribal leader.
Where to watch: Hulu
English Teacher
In this sitcom, series creator Brian Jordan Alvarez (“Will & Grace,” “Jane the Virgin”) stars as Evan Marquez, a gay English teacher in Austin who finds himself at the crossroads of the personal, professional and political aspects of working at a high school.
Where to watch: Hulu
Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist
This series starring Kevin Hart, Samuel L. Jackson, Taraji P. Henson, Don Cheadle and Terrence Howard is based on the true-crime podcast about how an armed robbery on the night of Muhammad Ali’s historic 1970 comeback fight changed not only the life of one man but the city of Atlanta.
Where to watch: Peacock
The Perfect Couple
Amelia Sacks (Eve Hewson) is set to marry into a wealthy family when the wedding of the season takes a dark turn: A body turns up and everyone is a suspect. The limited series also stars Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber and Dakota Fanning.
Where to watch: Netflix
Rebel Ridge
A Marine vet (Aaron Pierre) must navigate small-town corruption after he attempts to post bail for his cousin, only to end up in a violent standoff with the local police chief, in this thriller directed by Jeremy Saulnier.
Where to watch: Netflix
Only Murders in the Building, Season 4
In the fourth season of this unlikely whodunit, our amateur sleuthing trio (Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez) investigates the murder of Sazz Pataki. The case takes them to Hollywood, where a studio is preparing to make a film based on their podcast. This season’s cast includes Meryl Streep, Eugene Levy and Eva Longoria.
Where to watch: Hulu
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Season 2
Set millennia before “The Lord of the Rings,” this ensemble epic chronicles how the people of Middle Earth face the reemergence of a long-feared evil.
Where to watch: Prime Video
Kaos
This comic twist on Greek mythology centers on three mortals who are cosmically united against the gods. With Zeus (Jeff Goldblum) spiraling into paranoia, Hades (David Thewlis) losing control of the underworld and Poseidon (Cliff Curtis) looking out for the next party, the humans must look out for themselves.
Where to watch: Netflix
Adam Sandler: Love You
Adam Sandler returns to the stage with his second Netflix stand-up special, this time directed by “Uncut Gems” co-director Josh Safdie in his comedy special directorial debut.
Where to watch: Netflix
The Deliverance
Inspired by a true story, this horror film follows a single mom Ebony Jackson (Andra Day) who moves to a new home in the hope of starting fresh — a hope that is quickly dashed when strange happenings attract the attention of Child Protective Services. Also starring Glenn Close, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and Mo’Nique.
Where to watch: Netflix
Industry, Season 3
This gritty drama set in the world of high finance follows a group of young bankers as they try to forge their own paths at Pierpoint & Co.’s London office. This season, Kit Harington (“Game of Thrones”) joins the cast.
Where to watch: Max
Pachinko, Season 2
Based on Min Jin Lee’s best-selling novel, this series takes viewers through four generations of Korean immigrants as they leave their homeland in search of a better life.
Where to watch: Apple TV Plus
The Killer
Action director John Woo reimagines his 1989 Hong Kong film of the same name, this time with Nathalie Emmanuel (“Game of Thrones”) as a mysterious assassin known in the Parisian underworld as the Queen of the Dead.
Where to watch: Peacock
Bad Monkey
In this comedy based on the Carl Hiaasen novel, former detective Andrew Yancy (Vince Vaughn) is now a health inspector in the Keys. When he stumbles upon a homicide, he realizes it could be a way back to his old job — if he can handle a slew of Floridian oddballs and one bad monkey.
Where to watch: Apple TV Plus
Emily in Paris, Season 4
Still in Paris, our titular heroine (Lily Collins) must deal with Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) expecting a baby with his ex and Alfie (Lucien Laviscount) having his worst fears about her and Gabriel confirmed. Expect drama and fun hats.
Where to watch: Netflix
Jackpot!
In this Paul Feig-directed futuristic comedy, those who win a multibillion-dollar lottery are in peril — if they are killed before sundown, the killer can legally claim the jackpot. After Katie Kim (Awkwafina) mistakenly ends up with the winning ticket, she must seek protection from a protection agent (John Cena) to make it to sundown alive.
Where to watch: Prime Video
Rick and Morty: The Anime
Created by Japanese animator and director Takashi Sano, this 10-episode anime interpretation of “Rick and Morty” follows mad scientist and samurai Rich Sanchez, who takes his grandchildren, Morty and Summer, on wacky adventures.
Where to watch: Max
Hollywood Black
Inspired by historian Donald Bogle’s book “Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers,” this four-part Justin Simien-directed (“Dear White People”) docuseries tells stories that reflect a century of the Black experience in Hollywood.
Where to watch: MGM Plus
Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War
Narrated by Ed Harris, this docudrama chronicles the gritty, gunslinging feud between Wyatt Earp and Ike Clanton through vivid reenactments.
Where to watch: Netflix
Incoming
The Chernin brothers (“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” “The Mick”) make their feature debut with this raunchy teenage comedy. Four freshmen must deal with their first big challenge: a high school party.
Where to watch: Netflix
The Union
In this thriller, a construction worker (Mark Wahlberg) is plunged into the world of secret agents when his high school sweetheart (Halle Berry) asks for his help with a high-stakes U.S. intelligence mission.
Where to watch: Netflix
The Umbrella Academy, Season 4
Based on the comic books created by Gerard Way, this series relays the misadventures of the Hargreeves siblings, whose superpowers were honed by their sinister adoptive father at the Umbrella Academy. The final season picks up after the group is separated by a cosmic timeline reset.
Where to watch: Netflix
One Fast Move
Part love story, part action film, this Amazon original follows a hard-up young man played by KJ Apa (“Riverdale”) who must reconnect with his estranged father to realize his dream of becoming a professional motorcycle racer.
Where to watch: Prime Video
The Instigators
In this action-comedy, unlikely criminal partners (Matt Damon and Casey Affleck) are paired for a heist but must evade the police, bureaucrats and a crime boss after the plan goes south.
Where to watch: Apple TV Plus
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
Half a decade after the murder of a teenage girl in an idyllic English town, another high-schooler, Pip Fitz-Amobi (Emma Myers), begins to question the story everyone has been told and embarks on a search for the real killer.
Where to watch: Netflix
Futurama, Season 12
The irreverent animated comedy series, about a delivery boy who gets frozen in 1999 and wakes up in the strange world of 2999, returns for its 12th season.
Where to watch: Hulu
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa
This documentary shares the incredible life of Lhakpa Sherpa, who in 2000 became the first Nepali woman to summit and survive Mount Everest. Today she holds the record for most Everest summits by a woman at 10 climbs.
Where to watch: Netflix
Batman: Caped Crusader
This new animated series from Matt Reeves, J.J. Abrams and Warner Bros. tells a fresh version of Batman’s origin story. Voice actors include Hamish Linklater, Haley Joel Osment and Christina Ricci.
Where to watch: Prime Video
The Decameron
In this period dramedy from Kathleen Jordan (“Teenage Bounty Hunters”), a group of nobles retreat to a villa as the bubonic plague spreads through Italy; the ensemble cast includes Amar Chadha-Patel, Leila Farzad and Lou Gala.
Where to watch: Netflix
Time Bandits
This television adaptation of Terry Gilliam’s 1981 film tells the tale of a preteen who discovers a time-traveling portal in his bedroom and embarks on a journey through history with a ragtag group of thieves.
Where to watch: Apple TV Plus
Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam
This docuseries tells the torrid financial tale of Lou Pearlman, who created some of the biggest boy bands of the ’90s — Backstreet Boys, NSYNC — as well as one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history.
Where to watch: Netflix
Lady in the Lake
After the disappearance of a young girl in Baltimore on Thanksgiving 1966, two women’s lives become dangerously intertwined. Directed by Alma Har’el, this noir thriller series stars Natalie Portman and Moses Ingram.
Where to watch: Apple TV Plus
Emperor of Ocean Park
Based on the novel by Stephen L. Carter, this thriller centers on an Ivy League law professor (Grantham Coleman) whose life is turned upside down when his sister (Tiffany Mack) begins to question whether their father — a federal judge played by Forest Whitaker — truly died of natural causes.
Where to watch: MGM Plus
My Spy: The Eternal City
In this sequel, veteran CIA operative J.J. (Dave Bautista) and his 14-year-old stepdaughter Sophie (Chloe Coleman) try to save the day — again — after a high school choir trip is interrupted by nuclear plotters targeting the Vatican.
Where to watch: Prime Video
Faye
Academy Award-winning actress Faye Dunaway recounts the triumphs and challenges of her decades-long career in this Laurent Bouzereau-directed documentary.
Where to watch: Max
Those About to Die
Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins stars in this epic drama series set in ancient Rome. Co-directed by Roland Emmerich and Marco Kreuzpaintner, the series is centered on the city’s politically motivated gladiatorial spectacles.
Where to watch: Peacock
Skywalkers: A Love Story
In this documentary from co-directors Jeff Zimbalist and Maria Bukhonina, romantically entangled daredevils Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus attempt to illegally scale one of the world’s tallest buildings to perform an acrobatic stunt.
Where to watch: Netflix
Sunny
In this series starring Rashida Jones, an expat living in Japan is devastated when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. To soothe her sorrows she is gifted a domestic robot built by her late husband’s electronics company.
Where to watch: Apple TV Plus
The Bear, Season 3
Things heat up in the kitchen in the third season of “The Bear,” as Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), Sydney Adamu (Ayo Edebiri) and Richard “Richie” Jerimovich (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) struggle to raise the standard of their restaurant.
Where to watch: Hulu
Coming soon
NCIS: Origins
In this “NCIS” prequel series narrated by Mark Harmon, a circa-1991 Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Austin Stowell) begins his career as a special agent at the NCIS Camp Pendleton office, where he joins a team led by NCIS legend Mike Franks (Kyle Schmid).
Where to watch: Oct. 14 on Paramount Plus
Brothers
This comedy stars Josh Brolin as a reformed criminal whose road to the straight and narrow is derailed when he reunites with his twin brother (Peter Dinklage) to go after the score of a lifetime.
Where to watch: Oct. 17 on Prime Video
Hysteria!
Set in the 1980s, this series follows the members of a high school metal band that has been dubbed “satanic” as they become the target of a witch hunt after supernatural happenings are reported around town.
Where to watch: Oct. 18 on Peacock
Woman of the Hour
Directed by and starring Anna Kendrick, this fact-based film is about an aspiring actress in 1970s Los Angeles who crosses paths with a serial killer when she appears on “The Dating Game.”
Where to watch: Oct. 18 on Netflix
Happy’s Place
Reba McEntire and Melissa Peterman of “Reba” fame return to share the screen in a new sitcom. After inheriting her late father’s tavern, Bobbie (McEntire) learns that she co-owns the establishment with Isabella (Peterman), a half sister she did not know existed.
Where to watch: Oct. 19 on Peacock
What We Do in the Shadows, Season 6
In the sixth and final season of the documentary-style supernatural comedy about a group of vampires in modern-day Staten Island, the group is reminded what brought them to New York City a century earlier.
Where to watch: Oct. 22 on Hulu
Hasan Minhaj: Off With His Head
Two-time Peabody Award winner Minhaj returns to the stand-up stage with talking points including midlife identity struggles, political divides and that 2023 fabrication scandal.
Where to watch: Oct. 22 on Netflix
Territory
Anna Torv (“Mindhunter,” “The Last of Us”) stars in this six-episode Australian drama about the fierce struggle that erupts after the world’s largest cattle station is left without an heir.
Where to watch: Oct. 24 on Netflix
Canary Black
In this thriller, Kate Beckinsale plays a top CIA operative who is blackmailed by terrorists into trading state secrets for the life of her kidnapped husband.
Where to watch: Oct. 24 on Prime Video
Before
In this 10-episode psychological thriller, Eli (Billy Crystal), a recently widowed child psychiatrist, meets a troubled boy who appears to have a chilling connection to the doctor’s past.
Where to watch: Oct. 25 on Apple TV Plus
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
This Norwegian documentary explores the secret digital life of World of Warcraft gamer Mats Steen, which was revealed when his online friends contacted his family after his death.
Where to watch: Oct. 25 on Netflix
Olivia Rodrigo: GutsWorld Tour
This concert film from singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo’s ongoing Guts World Tour was filmed during two sold-out shows at the Intuit Dome outside Rodrigo’s hometown of Los Angeles.
Where to watch: Oct. 29 on Netflix
Martha
Lifestyle icon Martha Stewart tells her own story in this documentary from R.J. Cutler (“The War Room,” “The September Issue”), which touches on her time as a model, her media career and her term in federal prison.
Where to watch: Oct. 30 on Netflix
The Diplomat, Season 2
Picking up where its Season 1 cliffhanger left off, this political drama follows career diplomat Kate Wyler (Keri Russell) as she contends with both an international threat and her increasingly turbulent marriage.
Where to watch: Oct. 31 on Netflix
Music By John Williams
This documentary about the life and career of film composer John Williams — “Jaws,” “Star Wars,” “Indiana Jones,” “Schindler’s List,” and many more — features interviews with cinematic and musical luminaries including Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Yo-Yo Ma.
Where to watch: Nov. 1 on Disney Plus
