Every month, streaming services add movies and TV shows to their libraries. Here are our picks for some of October’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
‘Carrie’ Season 1 Starts streaming: Oct. 7
The writer-director Mike Flanagan has delivered some creative and artful adaptations of Stephen King stories, with movies like “Gerald’s Game” and “The Life of Chuck.” Flanagan’s new TV series takes a unique approach to King’s 1974 debut novel “Carrie,” expanding the book’s basic plot and themes into a larger narrative with a modern setting. Summer H. Howell plays Carrie White, a teenager who has been home-schooled by her strict religious mother (Samantha Sloyan). When Carrie’s father dies in an accident and her mother has to get a job, the sheltered Carrie goes to high school for the first time, where she deals with bullies, the wonders and dangers of the internet, and the relative strangeness of a secular education, Carrie also experiences an awakening of her latent telekinetic abilities, discovering that social misfits can have their own kind of power.
‘Love of Your Life’ Starts streaming: Oct. 14
Margaret Qualley plays Maya, a young woman enduring an up-and-down decade in this romantic drama, which is about what happens when a “happily ever after” unexpectedly slips away. Maya, a Boston nurse, falls deeply in love with Charlie (Gabriel Basso), but circumstances tear the couple apart. Maya embarks on a journey of self-discovery, trying to find out if she can open herself up again to another relationship. Directed by the Oscar-nominated cinematographer Rachel Morrison, “Love of Your Life” features striking imagery shot around the world. It also has an excellent supporting cast. Aaron Pierre plays a charming Londoner who turns Maya’s head; Patrick Schwarzenegger plays the platonic male friend who knows Maya better than anybody; and Catherine Keener plays Charlie’s acerbic mother, who can shatter anyone’s confidence with one withering glance.
Also arriving:
Oct. 2 “I Would Rather Die” Season 1
Oct. 4 “The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom” Season 1
Oct. 14 “Helluva Boss” Season 3
Oct. 16 “Masterplan”
Oct. 19 “Love in Disguise”
Oct. 21 “The Terminal List” Season 2
Oct. 30 “Apocalypse Z: New World”
New to AMC+
‘Kill Jackie’ Starts streaming: Oct. 2
Catherine Zeta-Jones gets one of her juiciest roles in years — and gets to speak in her native Welsh accent for a change — in this action-comedy series, based on an Aidan Truhen novel. Zeta-Jones plays Jackie Price, a prominent international art dealer who secretly made her fortune as a drug smuggler. Jackie finds her past catching up with her when she learns that the Seven Demons assassin squad has been hired to kill her. Unwilling to wait around to die, Jackie partners up with her nervous lawyer (Daniel Ings) and sets out to kill the Demons, one by one. In the process, she rediscovers the thrills of her misspent youth — and reckons with her past mistakes.
‘Yaga’ Starts streaming: Oct. 23
Adapted by the showrunner Kat Sandler from her own stage play, this twisted, supernaturally tinged mystery series is set in Whitlock, a picturesque coastal Canadian town rocked by the recent disappearance of one of its wealthiest young residents, Henry Park (Hudson Williams). The Park family hires a brash private detective named Rapp (Noah Reid), who quickly irritates Carson (Clark Backo), a sharp local cop who resents the rich and does not think this case deserves a lot of attention. Neither Rapp nor Carson may be up to challenge of dealing with Katherine (Carrie-Anne Moss), a sly professor who was one of the last people to see Henry alive, and whose fascination with the legends of the child-eating witch Baba Yaga may hold the key to understanding the strange goings-on in Whitlock.
Also arriving:
Oct. 1 “Archive X: Unexplained Phenomena”
Oct. 2 “Infirmary”
Oct. 9 “V/H/S/Mixtape”
Oct. 16 “Hallowarrior”
Oct. 23 “The Cycle”
Oct. 30 “Big Baby”
Oct. 31 “Hunting Matthew Nichols”
New to Apple TV
‘Tenzing’ Starts streaming: Oct. 16
Genden Phuntsok plays Tenzing Norgay in this biopic, which tells the story of how the Himalayan mountain climbing expert summited Mount Everest with the New Zealand adventurer Edmund Hillary (Tom Hiddleston). Directed by the accomplished documentary filmmaker Jennifer Peedom (“Sherpa,” “Mountain”), “Tenzing” uses a jumbled timeline to compare and contrast Norgay’s experiences on the expedition with his hardscrabble upbringing in Nepal. He was a passionate mountaineer who, because of his race and his social class, kept having to prove himself to other climbers. Caitriona Balfe and Willem Dafoe play two climbing enthusiasts who come to respect Norgay as a peer, and not just as a servant.
Also arriving:
Oct. 2 “The Last First: Winter K2” “The Sisters Grimm” Season 2
Oct. 7 “Small Prophets” Season 1
Oct. 9 “Matchbox: The Movie”
Oct. 21 “Where’s Wanda?” Season 2
Oct. 30 “Nocturne” Season 1
New to Disney+
‘VisionQuest’ Starts streaming: Oct. 14
This superhero mini-series completes the Marvel Television trilogy that began with “WandaVision” (2021) and continued with “Agatha All Along” (2024). In “VisionQuest,” Paul Bettany reprises his role as Vision, an android who was killed in the Marvel movies and then later rebuilt. He has since become disconnected emotionally from his past and uncertain about what his future should be. When Vision is chased out of hiding by bounty hunters, he goes on the run with a teenager (Ruaridh Mollica) who may be his reincarnated son. Meanwhile, he takes advice from the many Stark Industries artificial intelligence agents living inside his head, played by James Spader, Orla Brady, Emily Hampshire and James D’Arcy.
Also arriving:
Oct. 1 “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse+” Season 2
Oct. 2 “Adventure Time: Side Quests” Season 2 “Africa: Earth’s Wild Home” Season 1 “Coven Academy” Season 1 “Pupstruction” Season 3
Oct. 3 “Africa: Earth’s Wild Home” Season 1
Oct. 9 “Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger”
Oct. 14 “Megastorm” Season 1
Oct. 17 “Locker Diaries: Coven Academy” “Super Scam Me”
New to HBO Max
‘War’ Starts streaming: Oct. 1
This anthology series explores the dynamic within and between law firms as they prepare to compete in high profile cases. In Season 1, two prestigious London firms battle each other in an ugly divorce case, filed by the movie star Carla Duval (Sienna Miller) and the tech billionaire Morgan Henderson (Dominic West). As Carla and Morgan each maneuver to get the upper hand — and potentially the larger payday — their expensive, outwardly classy lawyers deploy every underhanded tactic they can imagine. “War” satirizes the state of family law and personal injury law in an age where winning in the court of public opinion is as important as winning over a jury.
Also arriving:
Oct. 2 “Evil Dead Burn” “The Torment” Season 1
Oct. 4 “Get Jiro” Season 1
Oct. 9 “The Housemaid” “Rage” Season 2
Oct. 11 “The Pet Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story”
Oct. 15 “Corregidora: The Darkest Night in Mexican Soccer”
Oct. 16 “The Death of Robin Hood” “Kate Berlant: Parmesan”
Oct. 22 “The Flores Massacre”
Oct. 23 “The Invite”
Oct. 27 “Kordell Stewart: Slash & Burn”
Oct. 29 “Cannibal Poet”
New to Hulu
‘The Lowdown’ Season 2 Starts streaming: Oct. 14
One of the most acclaimed new TV series from last year returns for a second season, continuing the gonzo adventures of the crusading Tulsa, Okla., journalist Lee Raybon (Ethan Hawke). In Season 1, Lee exposed the connection between rapacious real estate magnates and a white supremacist cult. As Season 2 begins, Lee is struggling with the fame and praise his articles have brought to him. Then he meets Ginger (Betty Gilpin), a public defender who tips him off to some possible malfeasance in the local prison system. While Lee investigates, he also faces two crises in his personal life: the surprise return of his estranged father (Tommy Lee Jones) and his persistent fear that he is disappointing his teenage daughter (Ryan Kiera Armstrong).
Also arriving:
Oct. 1 “American Horror Story: 13” “Scrubs” Season 2
Oct. 5 “Between Steps” Season 1
Oct. 6 “Reasonable Doubt” Season 4
Oct. 7 “Jamie Foxx: Take Care of Yourself” “Merry Berry Love”
Oct. 8 “The Kardashians” Season 8
Oct. 9 “Benefits With Friends” Season 2
Oct. 12 “Campfire Cooking in Another World With My Absurd Skill” Season 1 “Clown Panic” “Haikyu!!” Season 1
Oct. 20 “Phony” Season 1
Oct. 26 “The Mob”
Oct. 27 “Classroom of Elite” Season 1 “The God of High School” Season 1
New to Paramount+
‘Avatar: Seven Havens’ Season 1 Starts streaming: Oct. 9
Animation fans and fantasy fans have been eagerly awaiting “Avatar: Seven Havens,” as the producers Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko return to the franchise they built, beginning with “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and continuing with “The Legend of Korra.” Their latest show is set hundreds of years after “Korra” and follows a new hero, Pavi (Saheli Khan) as she tries to hide her special powers: the ability to bend all four elements to her will. This gift means that Pavi is the Avatar, her civilization’s potential savior. But in the time of “Seven Havens,” society has grown wary of Avatars, meaning that Pavi has to ward off a looming apocalypse mostly in secret, with the help of a handful of allies and her twin sister, Nisha (Aishu Devan).
Also arriving:
Oct. 16 “Tulsa King” Season 4
Oct. 25 “A Course Called Ireland”
Oct. 28 “Hanging by a Wire” “Dexter: Resurrection” Season 2
New to Peacock
‘Crystal Lake’ Season 1 Starts streaming: Oct. 15
After many years of development, redevelopment and creative shuffling, the horror franchise “Friday the 13th” finally gets a non-anthology TV series, set in the same universe as the movies. The production company A24 (frequent purveyor of hip horror cinema) and the writer Brad Caleb Kane are behind “Crystal Lake,” which takes place in the years immediately before the original “Friday the 13th” film. Linda Cardellini plays Pamela Voorhees, who at the start of the story is raising her bright and enthusiastic young son Jason (Callum Vinson), encouraging him to ignore the boys and girls at his summer camp who make fun of him. Then tragedy strikes and Pamela becomes grimly determined to hold the responsible parties accountable — sometimes with a machete in her hand. But she and Jason have a secret past of their own, which could be exposed by Pamela’s rampage.
Also arriving:
Oct. 9 “Disclosure Day”
Oct. 28 “Minions & Monsters”
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