October is here and fully in swing. And so comes the start of a new fall TV season. Not surprisingly, this week is packed with new series debuts, along with plenty of familiar favorites returning for another season. But if you’re looking for a new film to watch this week, well, you’ll have quite a range to pick from. Coming to theaters is a whole variety of films looking to grab your attention, some appropriately timed for the Halloween season. But that doesn’t mean you need to drive to your local movie theater, as a few streaming originals are competing for your eyeballs, not to mention a few summer blockbusters coming to VOD for the first time.
We gotta say, this week is turning out to be pretty crowded, so there’s really no reason not to find something to watch, whether you’re heading out or staying firmly planted on the couch.
🎥 In Theaters This Week
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🎥 Love of Your Life
(Wed, Oct 7th — in select theaters)
Margaret Qualley and Aaron Pierre head to Portugal for a romance about finding love after loss. Qualley plays Maya, a young woman trying to rebuild her life after the death of her first love (Gabriel Basso). While traveling through Portugal, she meets Felix (Pierre), who slowly gives her a reason to open her heart again. Directed by Oscar-nominated Black Panther cinematographer Rachel Morrison and co-starring Patrick Schwarzenegger and Catherine Keener, this Amazon romance suggests that even heartbreak can leave room for hope.
🎥 Other Mommy
(Fri, Oct 9th — wide release)
A mother’s love can be comforting, protective, and sometimes downright terrifying. Jessica Chastain returns to horror playing both Ursula and the sinister “Other Mommy,” a mysterious evil presence who looks exactly like her and befriends Ursula’s eight-year-old daughter, Bela (Arabella Olivia Clark). At first she seems friendly, but her obsession with being let into Bela’s “heart” reveals something far more possessive and dangerous. Suddenly, Mom’s familiar face (or her eerier grin) is the last thing you want to see in the dark.
🎥 The Social Reckoning
(Fri, Oct 9th — wide release)
Everyone loves The Social Network, but it couldn’t have predicted what Facebook (or Mark Zuckerberg) would eventually become. Aaron Sorkin’s new companion piece shifts the focus to the consequences, with Mikey Madison playing Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen and Jeremy Allen White as Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz. Together, they expose how Facebook executives understood the harm their platforms could cause while publicly downplaying the risks. Jeremy Strong steps in as an older, far more image-conscious Zuckerberg.
🎥 Angel and the Badman
(Fri, Oct 9th — wide release)
There comes a time in a man’s life when he has to decide what kind of man he wants to be. For Zachary Levi’s wounded gunslinger, Quirt Evans, that moment comes after he’s taken in by a rancher’s family and nursed back to health by the kind-hearted Penny (Meg Fraser). Suddenly, a different life seems possible. But when trouble comes looking for him, Quirt discovers that leaving his past behind won’t be as simple as putting down his gun. Tommy Lee Jones and Neal McDonough co-star in this old-school Western where redemption may be possible, but one’s past makes it so damn hard to stay on the straight and narrow.
🎥 Portrait of an Artist: Stephen Curry
(Fri, Oct 9th — IMAX release)
Ever wonder how Stephen Curry made the three-pointer look almost effortless? Practice certainly helped, but so did immense talent and an obsession with getting better. As Curry closes in on his record-breaking 4,000th career three-pointer, this documentary gets inside his preparation, mindset, and countless repetitions behind the shot that changed basketball. Director Gotham Chopra even surrounds the court with 21 IMAX cameras, bringing us closer than ever to seeing what Curry sees when he lets one fly.
🎥 The Beast
(Fri, Oct 9th — limited release)
Apparently, putting the President in danger never gets old. This time, Samuel L. Jackson is commander-in-chief, trapped inside his heavily armored presidential limo alongside an injured Secret Service agent (Joel Kinnaman) while a militia attempts to overthrow the government. Luckily, “The Beast” is less limousine and more four-wheeled tank, complete with some serious firepower. With Renny Harlin behind the camera, expect subtlety to take the day off. Samuel L. Jackson. Machine guns. Presidential limo. What more do you need? All hail the chief... motherf-cker!
🎥 Misty Green
(Fri, Oct 9th — limited release)
Chris Rock returns to the director’s chair for this sobering look at Hollywood, where chasing stardom can quickly turn into a struggle to survive. Rosalind Eleazar stars as Misty Green, a working actress whose stalled career sends her deeper into financial and personal trouble. With her troubled brother (Daniel Kaluuya) adding to the pressure, Misty faces a difficult choice: keep chasing her big break or finally walk away. Adam Driver, Anna Kendrick, Topher Grace, and Rock himself co-star in this bittersweet reminder that Hollywood doesn’t always come with a happy ending.
🎥 California Schemin’
(Fri, Oct 9th — limited release)
How far would you go to chase your dream? For two Scottish rappers, apparently far enough to fake American accents and convince the music industry they were the next big thing from California. James McAvoy makes his directorial debut with this stranger-than-fiction story of Silibil N’ Brains (portrayed by Samuel Bottomley and Séamus McLean Ross), whose ridiculous scheme somehow lands them a record deal and a chance to open for Eminem, only for their carefully constructed facade to finally come crashing down.
🎥 Fjord
(Fri, Oct 9th — limited release)
Sebastian Stan may quietly be building one of the most interesting post-MCU careers around. His latest challenge comes in Cristian Mungiu’s thought-provoking Palme d’Or-winner, playing Mihai, a Romanian father living in Norway with his wife, Lisbet (Renate Reinsve). When their child arrives at school with bruises, accusations of abuse lead authorities to remove the children from their home. Mihai suddenly finds himself fighting a system questioning his parenting, religious beliefs, and way of life. Talk of another Oscar nomination for Stan is already beginning to build.
🎥 Tenzing
(Fri, Oct 9th — in select theaters)
Very few people have stood atop Mount Everest, but only two can say they were the first. Tom Hiddleston stars as New Zealand mountaineer Edmund Hillary alongside Genden Phuntsok as Himalayan climber Tenzing Norgay in this true-story adventure about their historic 1953 climb. Willem Dafoe co-stars as expedition leader Colonel John Hunt, as the team battles brutal conditions on its way toward the summit. Documentarian Jennifer Peedom, whose acclaimed Sherpa explored the lives and dangers faced by Everest’s Sherpa climbers, directs this epic account of one of mountaineering’s greatest achievements.
🎥 Musk
(Fri, Oct 9th — limited release)
Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney has taken on some of the most controversial figures of our time. Now add Elon Musk to the list. This nearly four-hour deep dive examines Musk’s life, career, and enormous influence over technology, business, and politics. Depending on who you ask, he’s a visionary or a symbol of unchecked wealth and power. Gibney digs beneath both the mythology and criticism to examine how the man once hailed as a real-life Tony Stark became one of the world’s most polarizing figures.
🎥 A Prayer for the Dying
(Fri, Oct 9th — limited release)
When crisis hits, a community is supposed to pull together. This is what happens when one falls apart. Johnny Flynn stars as Jacob Hansen, a haunted Civil War veteran seeking peace in a remote Wisconsin settlement. When disease begins spreading and the local doctor (John C. Reilly) calls for a quarantine, fear quickly turns neighbors against one another. Jacob is left struggling to maintain order while battling his own growing desperation. Based on Stewart O’Nan’s novel, Norwegian-American filmmaker Dara Van Dusen directs this grim frontier tale about how quickly community can crumble when survival is on the line.
🎥 Big Girls Don’t Cry
(Fri, Oct 9th — limited release)
Fourteen is old enough to want everything adulthood promises, but young enough to have no idea what any of it costs. Newcomer Ani Palmer stars as Sid, a teenager growing up in rural New Zealand during the summer of 2006. Desperate to impress a group of older girls, she begins pushing the boundaries of friendship, sex, identity, and rebellion to prove she belongs. Executive produced by Jane Campion and co-starring Rain Spencer and Noah Taylor, Paloma Schneideman’s feature debut captures that messy age when fitting in can feel like everything.
🎥 Double Trouble
(Fri, Oct 9th — limited release)
Real-life sisters Madeleine McGraw (The Black Phone) and Violet McGraw (M3GAN) finally share the screen as... what else? Sisters! During a family vacation to Las Vegas, Charlotte (Madeleine) and Willow (Violet) stumble into a high-stakes jewelry heist involving a priceless diamond gauntlet. With bumbling henchmen and an international thief on their trail, they turn to a jaded former MI6 operative (Andrew Koji) for help. This family action comedy turns sibling teamwork into the ultimate Vegas survival plan.
🎥 Winter of the Crow
(Fri, Oct 9th — limited release)
A routine trip to Warsaw becomes anything but routine for Lesley Manville in this Cold War thriller set against Poland’s turbulent winter of 1981. She plays a British psychiatry professor visiting the country just as martial law takes hold. But after accidentally photographing the secret police killing a student, she goes from academic visitor to potential enemy of the state, with getting out alive suddenly her only priority.
🎥 Andre Leon Talley: Style Is Forever
(Fri, Oct 9th — limited release)
Fashion trailblazer and longtime Vogue editor André Leon Talley helped open doors in an industry that didn’t always make room for people who looked like him or came from backgrounds like his. Directors Zach Stafford and Clay Haskell trace Talley’s nearly five-decade influence through unseen footage and interviews with Anna Wintour, Tom Ford, Diane von Furstenberg, and others.
🎥 Pan’s Labyrinth: 20th Anniversary
(Fri, Oct 9th — re-release; in 3D)
Twenty years later, Guillermo del Toro’s dark fairy tale remains just as beautiful, strange, and terrifying. Set in 1944 Spain, the Oscar-winning fantasy follows young Ofelia (Ivana Baquero), who discovers a hidden labyrinth while living under the rule of her brutal fascist stepfather (Sergi López). What follows is a haunting collision of childhood fantasy and real-world horror, filled with some of del Toro’s most unforgettable creatures. Now the modern classic returns to theaters in a newly restored 4K presentation... and in 3D.
🎥 Gone with the Wind
(Sat, Oct 10th - Wed, Oct 14th — re-release, via Fathom Ent.)
Few films are as celebrated... or as complicated as producer David O. Selznick’s sweeping classic Gone with the Wind. The 1939 Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh-starring film gave us some of cinema’s most iconic moments while also presenting a deeply romanticized vision of the Civil War-era South. Its legacy includes Hattie McDaniel’s historic Oscar win, making her the first African American to receive an Academy Award. More than 85 years later, audiences are still debating the film and its place in Hollywood history. Fathom Entertainment brings the classic back to theaters, controversies and all.
🎦 Streaming This Week
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🎦 Olmo
(Tues, Oct 6th — streaming on Hulu / Disney+)
Growing up gets complicated when freedom starts running up against family responsibility. Newcomer Aivan Uttapa stars as Olmo, a 14-year-old Mexican American in 1979 New Mexico who sneaks away from caring for his bedridden father (Gustavo Sánchez Parra) to attend a party with his next-door crush (Melanie Frometa). Directed by Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke (Duck Season), this bittersweet coming-of-age comedy-drama follows one reckless night of mischief and consequences as Olmo begins to realize the home he wants to escape may also be the place where he finally starts to understand himself.
🎦 American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
(Tues, Oct 6th — premiering on PBS / PBS App)
From the farm fields of Delano to Broadway and Hollywood, artist/activist/filmmaker Luis Valdez helped bring the Chicano experience to American audiences. Narrated by Edward James Olmos, David Alvarado’s documentary traces Valdez’s remarkable career through El Teatro Campesino, Zoot Suit, and La Bamba. It’s a celebration of a Mexican-American trailblazer who used theater and film to tell stories Hollywood and the American stage too often ignored.
🎦 Who Is Martin Mull?
(Wed, Oct 7th — premiering on Netflix)
Martin Mull was the definition of a guy who did a little bit of everything. Actor, comedian, musician, painter... he was a genuine Hollywood Renaissance man with a career that stretched from Clue and Roseanne to Arrested Development. This retrospective, originally started by his friend, the late Bob Saget and later completed by filmmaker Neil Berkeley, looks back at Mull’s life through his own words and those who knew him best. It’s a fitting tribute to a genuine jack-of-all-trades who refused to fit neatly into any one box.
🎦 Matchbox: The Movie
(Fri, Oct 9th — premiering on Apple TV)
We’ve officially reached the point where anything can become a movie. Case in point: this new John Cena action flick inspired by those little Matchbox cars. Cena plays a CIA agent whose reunion with his childhood friends turns into a hostage situation and, naturally, a whole lot of vehicular mayhem. Jessica Biel, Teyonah Parris, Sam Richardson, and Arturo Castro co-star. Ridiculous premise? Absolutely. But with Extraction director Sam Hargrave behind the camera, at least those tiny cars should deliver some very big explosions.
🎦 Animals
(Fri, Oct 9th — premiering on Netflix)
Politics, crime, and one hell of a moral dilemma. Sounds about right for Ben Affleck. The actor-director stars as Mark Kimball, an ambitious Los Angeles mayoral candidate whose son is kidnapped in the middle of a heated campaign. Alongside his wife (Kerry Washington), Mark scrambles to pay the ransom without exposing secrets that could destroy both his marriage and political career. Steven Yeun and Gillian Anderson co-star in Affleck’s return to the morally murky crime-thriller territory where one man’s ambition becomes his greatest liability.
🎦 V/H/S/MIXTAPE
(Fri, Oct 9th — premiering on Shudder)
Halloween is around the corner, so you know what that means: time to dust off the decorations, stock up on candy, and pop in another V/H/S tape. Shudder’s annual found-footage nightmare returns with a musical twist, building this year’s anthology around mixtapes. Even better, the filmmakers include RZA, Flying Lotus, and Ghost frontman Tobias Forge, bringing some serious musical credentials to the franchise. Expect blood, static, screaming, and maybe a catchy tune or two.
🎦 R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead 2
(Fri, Oct 9th — premiering on TUBI)
Who better to call when your town has a serious witch problem than Elvira herself? Horror icon Cassandra Peterson stars as a mysterious witch who may hold the secret to stopping a new Pumpkinhead curse from spreading across Redhaven. Unfortunately, youngsters Sam and Becka (Bean Reid and Adeline Lo) have already found themselves smack in the middle of the supernatural mess. Inspired by the works of Goosebumps creator R.L. Stine, this spooky sequel has curses, creepy pumpkins... and Elvira! What more could you ask for in a Halloween flick?
🎦 Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger
(Fri, Oct 9th — streaming on Disney+)
For years, an Oasis reunion seemed about as likely as Noel and Liam Gallagher agreeing on... well, anything. But somehow the famously feuding brothers finally buried the hatchet long enough to get the band back together for their massive Live ’25 tour. This new documentary follows the reunion from rehearsals and backstage to Oasis finally stepping back onto the stage together. Have age and time apart made the Gallaghers any less combustible? We’ll see. But if you’re going to have an Oasis reunion, you might as well do it with the cameras rolling.
🎦 Disclosure Day
(Fri, Oct 9th — streaming on Peacock)
The truth is out there, but deciding what to do with it may be the real problem. Emily Blunt stars as a Kansas City weather broadcaster who, along with a whistleblower played by Josh O’Connor, becomes the reluctant guardian of evidence that non-human intelligence may already exist on Earth. Directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg, who returns to his UFO roots, this sci-fi mystery co-stars Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, and Eve Hewson, turning first contact into a dangerous question of power, secrecy, and whether the world is ready to know.
🎦 Hokum
(Sat, Oct 10th — streaming on Hulu / Disney+)
Adam Scott has a gift for making ordinary guys feel anything but dull. In this eerie Irish horror tale, he plays a reclusive novelist who travels to the countryside to scatter his parents’ ashes, only to find himself staying at an inn steeped in witchy folklore and creeping unease. Writer-director Damian McCarthy aims to keep the dread slow, stylish, and deeply unsettling, proving some local legends are better left as hokum.
✅ On VOD This Week
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✅ Spider-Man: Brand New Day
(Tues, Oct 6th — on VOD/Digital)
Peter Parker saved the world, but no one remembers he exists. Tom Holland returns as a more isolated, street-level Spider-Man, living anonymously in New York without MJ (Zendaya), Ned (Jacob Batalon), the Avengers, or high-tech backup. Destin Daniel Cretton directs as Michael Mando’s Scorpion reenters the picture, Jon Bernthal’s Punisher makes his big-screen debut, and Mark Ruffalo returns as Bruce Banner. The neighborhood may be smaller this time, but a possible mutation—and an apparent clash with the Hulk and a new mysterious foe (Sadie Sink)—suggest Peter’s problems are not.
✅ Onslaught
(Tues, Oct 6th — on VOD/Digital)
Filmmaker Adam Wingard returns to his genre-mashup roots with this gonzo action throwback starring Adria Arjona as a former military sniper battling PTSD while raising her young daughter in a desert trailer park. But when genetically engineered super soldiers escape a nearby secret military base and invade her home, she’s forced back into combat for one more deadly battle. Locked and loaded, she’s about to remind everyone that some mothers are better suited for the battlefield than the sidelines.
✅ Insidious: Out of the Further
(Tues, Oct 6th — on VOD/Digital)
Amelia Eve stars as Gemma, a young mother who discovers she can enter the purgatorial realm that has haunted the Insidious universe. The problem? She can also bring its inhabitants back with her. Once the demons understand what she can do, Gemma and her daughter become the center of a new demonic invasion. With Lin Shaye returning as paranormal investigator Elise Rainier, escaping The Further just became the easy part. It’s now about keeping what’s inside it from escaping into our world.
✅ Fall 2: Deadpoint
(Tues, Oct 6th — on VOD/Digital)
Five thousand feet up, there’s nowhere left but down. In this sequel to 2022’s vertigo-inducing thriller, Harriet Slater stars as Jax, a grieving climber who heads to Mount Kwan with her late sister’s friend Luce (Arsema Thomas), hoping the dangerous trek will bring some kind of closure. Instead, a rockslide strands them high above the ground as the route collapses around them. Sometimes the best way to honor a recently departed loved one is simply to stay alive.
✅ Late Fame
(Tues, Oct 6th — on VOD/Digital)
Fame has a strange way of arriving late, as Willem Dafoe stars as a forgotten New York poet whose quiet life changes when a group of young artists rediscovers his work and treats him like a newly discovered literary genius. Greta Lee and Edmund Donovan also star in filmmaker Kent Jones’s bittersweet drama about just how fleeting fame and notoriety can be, and whether recognition offers lasting fulfillment or simply reopens emotional wounds you weren’t quite ready to confront.
✅ Colony
(Tues, Oct 6th — on VOD/Digital)
From Train to Busan filmmaker Yeon Sang-ho comes another relentless outbreak thriller, this time set inside a sealed conference facility where a mutating virus is turning people into something faster, smarter, and harder to escape. Gianna Jun stars as a biotechnology professor trapped inside as quarantine collapses and survival becomes increasingly desperate. This new zombie horror asks one terrifying question: what happens when the infected start learning faster than the living can survive?
✅ Black Zombie
(Tues, Oct 6th — on VOD/Digital)
When it comes to zombies, most of us know the genre, but not necessarily the history behind it. In this new documentary, filmmaker Maya Annik Bedward traces the zombie’s roots to colonial Haiti, where it began as a symbol of enslavement and a person stripped of freedom and will. Hollywood eventually transformed that idea into the flesh-eating monster we know today. Now it’s time to look back at where it all started.
✅ The Salt Path
(Tues, Oct 6th — on VOD/Digital)
Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs star as a husband and wife who lose their home and make the impulsive decision to walk 630 miles along England’s rugged South West Coast. Directed by acclaimed theater director Marianne Elliott (War Horse), this husband-and-wife road drama follows the couple through exhaustion, storms, and uncertainty as their journey becomes a search for dignity, endurance, and a new understanding of what home means after nearly everything has been taken away.
✅ Dolph: Unbreakable
(Tues, Oct 6th — on VOD/Digital)
To some, he’ll always be Ivan Drago in Rocky IV. To others, he’s He-Man, Frank Castle, or simply one of the great action stars of the ’80s and ’90s. But Dolph Lundgren’s story goes well beyond the movies. He’s a karate champion, fourth-degree black belt, and chemical engineer who somehow stumbled into Hollywood stardom. This new documentary looks beyond the muscles and machine guns to chronicle Lundgren’s rise to fame, personal struggles, career comeback, and battle with cancer. Turns out, there’s a lot more to Dolph than “I must break you.”
✅ The Florist
(Fri, Oct 9th — on VOD/Digital)
His job is arranging flowers. But that doesn’t mean he can’t rearrange your face. Dennis Quaid stars as Carl Rikker, a mild-mannered florist who moonlights as a professional assassin. When a young woman (Sky Katz) witnesses police corruption and crosses his path, Carl suddenly has something more complicated than another assignment: someone he needs to protect. Jean Reno co-stars, with London Has Fallen director Babak Najafi behind the camera. So, how would you like your roses... nicely trimmed and blood red?
✅ Last Chance Motel
(Tues, Oct 6th — on VOD/Digital)
Some motels are built for comfort. Others are built to make sure you never leave. Horror favorites Danielle Harris and Scout Taylor-Compton team up to both star in and co-direct this blood-soaked throwback about newlyweds who make the unfortunate decision to spend the night at a remote desert motel. Turns out, the place is run by psychopaths, including one played by A Nightmare on Elm Street icon Heather Langenkamp. Shane West, Sierra McCormick, and Monica Keena also co-star in this very bad night at a motel where the service is literally to die for.
✅ The Librarians
(Tues, Oct 6th — on VOD/Digital)
Everybody seems to be triggered these days. But books? Apparently, they’re enough to start a culture war. This new documentary explores the battle over censorship, education, and who gets to decide what we’re allowed to read, focusing on the librarians caught in the middle. Filmmaker Kim A. Snyder heads to Texas, where efforts to remove books dealing with race and LGBTQIA+ stories helped ignite a much larger fight over libraries, First Amendment rights, and one surprisingly complicated question: who gets to decide what stays on the shelf?
✅ Andre Leon Talley: Style Is Forever
(Fri, Oct 9th — on VOD/Digital)
Fashion trailblazer and longtime Vogue editor André Leon Talley helped open doors in an industry that didn’t always make room for people who looked like him or came from backgrounds like his. Directors Zach Stafford and Clay Haskell trace Talley’s nearly five-decade influence through unseen footage and interviews with Anna Wintour, Tom Ford, Diane von Furstenberg, and others.
📺 On TV This Week
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📺 CIA: Season 2
(Mon, Oct 5th — on CBS / Streams Next Day on Paramount+)
There’s more than one way to solve a case, and these two rarely agree on which one works best. Tom Ellis and Nick Gehlfuss return as CIA agent Colin Glass and FBI Special Agent Bill Goodman, unlikely partners with very different ideas about keeping America safe. Season 2 pulls Bill deeper into Colin’s shadowy world of terrorist cells, international conspiracies, and geopolitical secrets, where the rules don’t always apply and knowing who to trust is half the battle. Necar Zadegan and Natalee Linez co-star in the latest addition to Dick Wolf’s ever-expanding FBI universe.
📺 Private Eyes West Coast
(Mon, Oct 5th — on CW)
Being a private investigator was more fun before marriage, kids, and sleepless nights. Jason Priestley and Cindy Sampson star as former P.I.s Matt Shade and Angie Everett, who trade detective work for a quieter family life on Canada’s West Coast. But when a night out lands them in a murder investigation, old instincts kick in. Soon they’re back solving crimes while discovering that juggling dangerous cases with a new baby is the real challenge.
📺 Signora Volpe: Season 3
(Mon, Oct 5th — on Acorn TV)
Death. Murder. Important people. And one ex-spy stuck right in the middle of it all. Emilia Fox returns as Sylvia Fox, the former British spy who can’t seem to enjoy retirement without stumbling into another murder. Back in Italy, Sylvia is once again trading the quiet life for amateur detective work as fresh bodies start piling up. If you like your mysteries with Italian scenery, old-world charm, and just enough murder to spoil the view, this one has you covered.
📺 NCIS: Season 24
(Tues, Oct 6th — on CBS / Streams Next Day on Paramount+)
After 24 seasons, what could possibly get NCIS fans excited? How about bringing back an old favorite? Michael Weatherly returns as former NCIS agent Tony DiNozzo for another season of murders, investigations, and criminals to chase down. Sean Murray, Wilmer Valderrama, Katrina Law, and Gary Cole also return. It may be getting long in the tooth, but sometimes you just want a little murder-mystery comfort food before bedtime.
📺 NCIS: New York
(Tues, Oct 6th — on CBS / Streams Next Day on Paramount+)
After fourteen seasons of NCIS: Los Angeles, LL Cool J’s Sam Hanna is heading home. The longtime NCIS agent returns to New York to help lead a new unit alongside Scott Caan’s more unconventional Nick Schaeffer. Jennifer Beals co-stars as their no-nonsense boss, Robyn Wells. Expect the usual cases, plenty of personality clashes, and an oil-and-water partnership. Don’t call it a comeback... LL Cool J has been here for years.
📺 NCIS: Origins: Season 3
(Tues, Oct 6th — on CBS / Streams Next Day on Paramount+)
Mark Harmon may have stepped away from NCIS, but Gibbs’s story is far from over. Harmon returns as narrator for Season 3 of this ’90s-set prequel, with Austin Stowell playing the younger Gibbs as he learns the job under Mike Franks (Kyle Schmid) at Camp Pendleton. Forget high-tech gadgets, this is old-fashioned, analog detective work. This season, Gibbs takes on a case that will haunt him for decades, while his older self finally confronts what happened all those years ago.
📺 Carrie
(Wed, Oct 7th — on Prime Video)
You know what they say: it’s always the quiet ones you have to look out for. Summer H. Howell stars as Carrie White, a sheltered teenager thrown into public school, where vicious bullying and a viral scandal begin awakening her telekinetic powers. Samantha Sloyan, Amber Midthunder, Matthew Lillard, and more join Mike Flanagan’s modern reimagining of Stephen King’s horror classic. Bullying Carrie has never been a particularly smart idea... and something tells us these kids are about to learn that the hard way.
📺 Small Prophets
(Wed, Oct 7th — on Apple TV)
Alchemy, tiny magical creatures, and a garden shed. What could possibly go wrong? Pearce Quigley stars as Michael Sleep, a lonely British man whose life stalled after his beloved Clea disappeared seven years ago. When his father gives him an ancient recipe for creating fortune-telling homunculi, Michael decides to try it out. Mackenzie Crook writes, directs, and co-stars alongside Lauren Patel and Michael Palin in this wonderfully strange comedy about grief, hope, unexpected friendships, and tiny pixie-like creatures.
📺 Abbott Elementary: Season 6
(Wed, Oct. 7 — on ABC / Streams Next Day on Hulu / Disney+)
Most sitcoms are lucky to survive one season these days, let alone reach six. But Quinta Brunson’s Emmy-winning workplace comedy keeps beating the odds. Brunson, Tyler James Williams, Janelle James, and Sheryl Lee Ralph return for more classroom mayhem. This season brings union fights, promotions, school-district headaches, and personal drama as the Abbott crew discovers surviving the “jungle” of public education never gets any easier.
📺 Real Men: Season 2
(Wed, Oct 7th — on Netflix)
What does it take to be a modern man? Apparently, a lot of unlearning. This Italian comedy returns with Maurizio Lastrico, Matteo Martari, Francesco Montanari, and Pietro Sermonti as four longtime friends still trying to figure it all out. Between relationships, families, new jobs, and some stubborn old habits, they’re discovering that the rules of masculinity have changed. Unfortunately, nobody bothered to give these guys the new instruction manual.
📺 Below
(Thurs, Oct 8th — on Netflix)
There’s something below the water, and since this is a sea-creature thriller, you can bet it’s not coming over to say hello. Josh Hartnett stars as a Newfoundland fisherman protecting his family when something begins terrorizing the coast. Mackenzie Davis plays a marine researcher helping him investigate, while Charlie Heaton plays Hartnett’s son, who may have actually seen the creature. Soon, those old fishermen’s stories don’t sound so crazy anymore.
📺 Eternally Yours
(Thurs, Oct 8th — on CBS / Streams Next Day on Paramount+)**
Parenting is hard. Marriage is hard. Keeping a five-century vampire marriage together? That’s a whole different family problem. Allegra Edwards and Ed Weeks star as Liz and Charles, married vampires whose undead life gets complicated when their daughter falls for a human. Don’t you hate it when your kid starts dating outside the species? From the creators of Ghosts, this CBS comedy sinks its teeth into the horrors of watching your kids grow up.
📺 Elsbeth: Season 4
(Thurs, Oct 8th — on CBS / Streams Next Day on Paramount+)
She’s not a detective, a private eye, or even a cop. But like Columbo, she always gets her man... and the truth. Carrie Preston returns as Elsbeth Tascioni, the brilliant, quirky former lawyer turned NYPD consultant who notices the details everyone else misses. Wendell Pierce is also back as Captain C.W. Wagner, while Season 4 brings a fresh lineup of suspects and guest stars, including Nicole Scherzinger, Nicholas Braun, Jemima Kirke, and Knicks star OG Anunoby.
📺 Cupertino
(Thurs, Oct 8th — on CBS / Streams Next Day on Paramount+)
If you’re going to fight for the little guy, you better be ready to take on some very big guys. Mike Colter and Rachel Keller star as attorneys taking on Silicon Valley’s wealthy tech elite and fighting for the people crushed underneath them. From The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King, this David-and-Goliath legal drama follows a small legal firm tackling cases no one else will touch unless they’re willing to make some very powerful enemies.
📺 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Season 28 / Law & Order: Season 26
(Thurs, Oct 8th — on NBC / Streams Next Day on Peacock)
Thursday nights have officially become Law & Order night. Mariska Hargitay returns as Captain Olivia Benson, leading the Special Victims Unit through another season of difficult cases and even harder questions about justice. After more than 25 years, you’d think the writers might have run out of crimes by now. But as long as New York keeps providing cases to investigate, Benson and her squad will have plenty of work to do.
📺 Avatar: Seven Havens
(Fri, Oct 9th — on Paramount+)
The world of Avatar is getting a new hero. From Avatar: The Last Airbender creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko comes a new adventure following Pavi, a young Earthbender who discovers she’s the next Avatar after Korra. Unfortunately, being the Avatar now makes her a target. Hunted by humans and spirits alike, Pavi reunites with her long-lost twin, Nisha, as they uncover their mysterious past and try to keep the Seven Havens from falling.
📺 Haunted Hotel: Season 2
(Fri, Oct 9th — on Netflix)
The hardest part of running a haunted hotel isn’t keeping the guests happy. It’s making sure they leave in one piece, not in pieces. Eliza Coupe returns to voice Katherine Freeling, a single mom juggling her dysfunctional family with a hotel overrun by ghosts, demons, and supernatural monsters. Throw in Abaddon (Jimmi Simpson), a snarky demonic boy who loves causing trouble, and keeping the Undervale open for business might be the least of Katherine’s problems.
📺 Sheriff Country: Season 2
(Fri, Oct 9th — on CBS / Streams Next Day on Paramount+)
When you’re the sheriff, keeping law and order is hard enough without your own family causing trouble. Morena Baccarin returns as Mickey Fox, whose latest headaches include an ex-con father (W. Earl Brown) and an estranged mother (Rachel Ticotin). Making things even more interesting, Baccarin’s real-life husband, Ben McKenzie, drops in as a fellow sheriff. Between family drama and small-town crime, Mickey is learning that enforcing the law gets complicated when the suspects share your last name.
📺 Fire Country: Season 5
(Fri, Oct 9th — on CBS / Streams Next Day on Paramount+)
Max Thieriot is jumping back into the fire. Once a convict hoping to shorten his sentence through a Northern California firefighting program, Bode Leone is now a free man continuing his path toward redemption with Cal Fire. Season 5 brings massive wildfires, dangerous rescues, and plenty of reasons for the Station 42 crew to risk everything. Because for Bode, fighting fires isn’t about chasing the thrill... it’s about finding a little redemption in every life he saves.
📺 Boston Blue: Season 2
(Fri, Oct 9th — on CBS / Streams Next Day on Paramount+)
Sometimes you just want an old-school cop show, and CBS certainly knows how to make one. Donnie Wahlberg returns as Danny Reagan, the former New York detective who traded the Big Apple for Beantown. Alongside Sonequa Martin-Green’s Detective Lena Silver, Danny spends another season chasing criminals, questioning witnesses, and occasionally kicking down a few doors. Gloria Reuben and Ernie Hudson also return in this Blue Bloods spinoff about keeping Boston safe and family even closer.
📺 Rage: Season 2
(Fri, Oct 9th — on HBO Max)
In a world where every humiliation can be exploited for ratings, fury might be the last thing they can’t monetize. Maribel Verdú returns alongside Carmen Maura, María León, Cecilia Suárez, and Ana Mena as women pushed to their breaking points by a business turning their pain into entertainment. This biting Spanish satire returns for Season 2, where nearly anything... and anyone can be packaged and sold for profit.
📺 The Pet Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story
(Sun, Oct 11th — on HBO Max)
Sometimes pulling at the thread of an unsolved murder doesn’t lead to answers. Sometimes it opens a whole new can of worms. This three-part true-crime docuseries revisits the 1985 Louisiana murder of pet cemetery owner Dorothy Lou Thompson, a cold case that only gets stranger the deeper investigators dig. Possible suspects soon give way to something far more unusual: the paranormal. After all, this is Louisiana... and sometimes the dead have a way of making themselves heard.
