Every month, streaming services add movies and TV shows to their libraries. Here are our picks for some of September’s most promising new titles. (Note: Streaming services occasionally change schedules without giving notice. For more recommendations on what to stream, sign up for our Watching newsletter here.)
New to Amazon Prime Video
‘Neagley’ Season 1 Starts streaming: Sept. 16
The popular action series “Reacher” gets a spinoff with “Neagley,” a hard-boiled detective show about a steely Chicago private investigator who is one of Jack Reacher’s few friends. Maria Sten reprises her role as Frances Neagley, a former military police officer who is an expert at assessing threats and neutralizing them. When one of Neagley’s oldest friends walks in front of a speeding elevated train, she sets her usual rich corporate clients aside so she can figure out why he did it, and whether the self-help cult he belonged to was responsible. With help from an outcast Chicago police detective (Greyston Holt) and a wily street hustler (Jasper Jones), Neagley tries to get to the bottom of an organization that targets the desperate.
Also arriving:
Sept. 2 “The Runner”
Sept. 9 “Drawn Together”
Sept. 23 “The Love Hypothesis”
Sept. 24 “Go Deep: The DeSean Jackson Story”
New to Apple TV
‘Mayday’ Starts streaming: Sept. 4
The writer-director team of Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley have found their niche with the action-comedy genre, with their last two movies in particular — “Game Night” (2018) and “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” (2023) — skillfully weaving between exciting set pieces and deadpan absurdity. The duo’s latest is a throwback Cold War thriller — with jokes, of course. Ryan Reynolds plays Troy Kelly, a.k.a. Assassin, a U.S. Air Force pilot who has to bail out of his jet in Soviet airspace, circa 1987, when the Iron Curtain is starting to show some signs of rust. Kelly gets help from Nikolai Ustinov (Kenneth Branagh), a disillusioned ex-K.G.B. agent who finds America fascinating.
‘Brothers’ Season 1 Starts streaming: Sept. 23
The friends and occasional collaborators Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson play fictionalized versions of themselves in this comedy series, which the two also created (along with David West Read and Lee Eisenberg). In “Brothers,” the two actors find themselves at crossroads in their lives: Harrelson because his daughter is recovering from a breakup that shook up his whole family, and McConaughey because he has been reflecting on his parents’ legacy. When the two find out that they may actually be related, the free-spirited and chaotic Harrelson moves onto the high-minded and philosophical McConaughey’s Austin ranch, so they can make up for all the years when they didn’t know each other.
Also arriving:
Sept. 9 “Last Seen” Season 1
Sept. 16 “Slow Horses” Season 6
New to Disney+
‘LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian’ Starts streaming: Sept. 2
Part tribute and part parody, the TV special “LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian” retells the story of Disney’s “The Mandalorian” TV series in about 45 minutes — but it’s animated, and packed with self-referential jokes. Fans of the various Lego animated projects should be familiar with the visual style, which offers simplified and cute-looking characters and sets, all made to appear as though they were constructed out of Lego bricks. These characters — many of them voiced by the original “Mandalorian” cast, including Amy Sedaris, Bill Burr and Temuera Morrison — gather for a party in honor of the goof-hearted bounty hunter Din Djarin and his tiny-but-powerful alien pal, Grogu. There they recount the duo’s exploits and gently mock some of the saga’s nuttier moments.
Also arriving:
Sept. 2 “The Mandalorian and Grogu”
Sept. 10 “MonsterQuest” Seasons 3-4
Sept. 18 “Magicampers: Shorts” Season 2
Sept. 26 “Chilean Mine Rescue: Race Against Time”
Sept. 27 “The Simpsons” Season 37
Sept. 29 “SuperKitties: Howl-o-Ween Charm” Season 3
New to HBO Max
‘A Killer Story’ Starts streaming: Sept. 10
In 2002, a woman named Dana Chandler was investigated for the murder of her ex-husband and his girlfriend in Topeka, Kan. But the evidence at the time was lacking and she wasn’t arrested or charged until many years later, after the case had been featured on a prime-time TV newsmagazine and a public outcry ensued. Consumers of true crime television were following along and some of them believed Chandler was innocent — including Eileen Umbehr, a Kansas woman who along with her husband, Keen, makes a hobby of playing citizen journalist. The couple helped her with a successful appeal but the case remained active. Matthew Galkin’s three-episode documentary “A Killer Story” follows Chandler’s winding journey through the court system and multiple prison stays, as the Umbehrs’ crusade plays a role in the changing media and public perception of the case.
Also arriving:
Sept. 4 “Fuze”
Sept. 7 “Collision” Season 1
Sept. 17 “The Howard Stern Show”
Sept. 18 “Jay-Z in 8”
Sept. 20 “Youth” Season 1
Sept. 22 “Siren: The Voices of Shelley Beattie”
Sept. 25 “4 Blocks Zero” Season 1 “Backrooms” “Paolo” Season 1
Sept. 29 “Miller Night Football”
New to Hulu
‘The Drop: A Snowfall Saga’ Season 1 Starts streaming: Sept. 8
Through six seasons, the FX series “Snowfall” told the story of how crack cocaine spread throughout Los Angeles in the 1980s, pumping new wealth into the city’s criminal gangs while also dangerously intensifying old rivalries and territorial wars. The spinoff series “The Drop” picks up the story in the 1990s, but from a different angle. While drug-dealing and shootouts in the streets are still very much part of the picture, they now provide a backdrop to a fictionalized depiction of the rise of West Coast hip-hop. Gail Bean reprises her role as Wanda, who was a hustler and an addict in “Snowfall” but in “The Drop” has cleaned up and is looking to bring the musical talent from her neighborhood to a wider audience, using lessons she learned from the dope business.
Also arriving:
Sept. 3 “Chad Powers” Season 2 “Homicide Squad New Orleans” Season 3
Sept. 10 “Crime in Progress” Season 1
Sept. 12 “Honey Lemon Soda” Season 1 “A Sign of Affection” Season 1
Sept. 16 “Minimum Security” “R.J. Decker” Season 2 “Unexpected Loves” Season 1
Sept. 17 “Booked: First Day In” Season 4
New to MGM+
‘American Hostage’ Starts streaming: Sept. 20
In 1977, an Indianapolis man named Tony Kiritsis made national news when he took his mortgage broker hostage at gunpoint, demanding a live broadcast to air his personal grievances against predatory real estate practices. This story has been retold recently in a documentary (“Dead Man’s Line”), a feature film (“Dead Man’s Wire”) and a podcast (“American Hostage”); and now that podcast has become a TV mini-series, with Giovanni Ribisi playing Kiritsis and Jon Hamm playing Fred Heckman, the respected radio newsman who gave the hostage-taker his forum. Cocreated by Shawn Ryan (“The Shield,” “The Night Agent”) and Eileen Myers, “American Hostage” uses this strange case as a window onto Middle America in the late 1970s, when economic decline and changing moral values made the heartland feel less hospitable.
Also arriving:
Sept. 6 “A Tale of Two Cities”
New to Paramount+
‘MobLand’ Season 2 Starts streaming: Sept. 18
Set in the modern London underworld, this blood-spattered action series is about the rivalries inside and outside a power-hungry crime family, led by the husband-and-wife team of Conrad (Pierce Brosnan) and Maeve Harrigan (Helen Mirren). In Season 1, the Harrigans tried to expand their drug-trafficking empire with the help of their levelheaded fixer, Harry (Tom Hardy), who has connections throughout the world of organized crime. As Season 2 begins, some recently revealed family secrets are threatening to send the Harrigans’ son Kevin (Paddy Considine) off on his own path, away from the corrupting influence of his parents. As with Season 1, the Season 2 premiere is directed by Guy Ritchie (also a “MobLand” producer), who is known for filling his projects with colorful characters and extreme violence.
Also arriving:
Sept. 1 “The Varnell Hill Show” Season 1
Sept. 3 “Clash of the Thundermans”
Sept. 4 “The Program: Texas Tech”
Sept. 10 “Colin from Accounts” Season 3
Sept. 16 “Golden Axe” Season 1 “Route 187”
Sept. 17 “South Park” Season 29
Sept. 30 “Sacrifice” Season 2
New to Peacock
‘The Traitors: New Blood’ Season 1 Starts streaming: Sept. 18
The U.S. version of the reality competition series “The Traitors” is an Emmy-winning hit; but some fans of the franchise prefer the show’s international versions, where the contestants are just ordinary people and not established reality TV personalities. To satisfy those purists, NBC/Peacock is debuting “New Blood,” a “Traitors” where the only familiar face to most viewers will be the stylish, smirking host, Alan Cumming. (Baseball fans may also recognize the ex-Major League Baseball player Xavier Scruggs, the only contestant who is on television a lot.) This game of alliances and lies tends to be more challenging when the players know nothing about each other, so it will be fascinating to see if “New Blood” is as popular with American viewers as the celebrity-filled “Traitors.”
‘Line of Fire’ Season 1 Starts streaming: Sept. 22
Part domestic melodrama and part procedural, “Line of Fire” is about a dysfunctional Washington family whose members all work in federal law enforcement. Peter Krause plays Mike Hollingsworth, a veteran Secret Service agent near retirement. He is separated from his wife, Jane (Hope Davis), who is a high-ranking officer in the U.S. Marshals. Their children include: Russ (Taylor Bloom), a newly hired Department of Justice analyst; Clare (Kat Cunning), an intensely diligent F.B.I. agent; and Mike (Tommy O’Brien), a Secret Service agent who doesn’t take his job as seriously as his father would like. As they go about their daily business, the Hollingsworths find themselves drawn into a larger mystery, after someone they are close to is murdered.
Also arriving:
Sept. 9 “The Paper” Season 2
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