Streaming Wednesday, Oct. 21:
All the Queen’s Men — The absolutely final episodes promise an end to the drama at Club Eden, as we find out once and for all if Carla shot Madam or if she just confessed in order to cover for somebody else. I mean, it’s all seemed kind of suspicious since we found out the bullet casings read “Hey fascist, catch.” (Paramount +)
The Mothers of Penguins — In the second season of the Polish drama, Kama and some other parents with autistic children open their own school, which they call the Happiness Pole. Because Dancers Royale was already taken. (Netflix)
The New Stanford Prison Experiment — Today’s reality impresarios re-create the infamous 1971 study that put college students on both sides of the bars in a counterfeit jail. The result was a swift descent into bedlam, but we’re promised this iteration has far better safeguards, like … um … taking place in a real prison, with actual inmates as part of the cast. Hey, are they sure they aren’t trying to reboot Attica? (Netflix)
Six Kings Slam — Log on at noon EDT and get spirited away to Riyadh for three days’ worth of unsanctioned, big-money competition between tennis greats Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic, Alexander Zverev, Taylor Fritz and Alex de Minaur. Or as they’re about to become known, “the Pete Davidsons of the net.” (Netflix)
The Terminal List — The long-awaited Season 2 puts Chris Pratt on the trail of a fresh batch of conspiracies. How deeply are international terror networks embedded in our intelligence framework? What’s the connection between Moscow and Langley? And why won’t somebody sell Kelly Clarkson a goddamn mechanical bird? (Prime Video)
Where’s Wanda? — There’s new trouble for the Klatt family in Season 2 of the German-language dark comedy, as Wanda’s parents have to prove their daughter isn’t guilty of murder even though she was caught looming over a corpse. Hey, Catherine Zeta-Jones does it every night, and nobody’s trying to lock her up. (Apple TV)
Streaming Thursday, Oct. 22:
Did Someone Happen to Mention Me? — A Japanese actor who spent the pandemic playing King Lear in London returns home to find out that none of his countrymen remember him. “Listen, you adapt.” — Skeet Ulrich (Netflix)
The Flores Massacre — The sole survivor of a 1994 Buenos Aires arson attack that claimed the lives of five people comes forward to tell his story in three documentary episodes. Well, technically it’s only two, because the first one is just him asking for ice chips. (HBO Max)
Nobody Wants This — Atheist shiksa Joanne (Kristen Bell) and new-gen rabbi Noah (Adam Brody) are taking their relationship to the next level in Season 3. If history is any guide, the hardest part is going to be stopping him from “establishing a settlement” on her half of the mattress every night. (Netflix)
Streaming Friday, Oct. 23:
The Cycle — Fantastic Fest 2026 yielded this police procedural/creature-feature mashup, in which a woman’s inquiry into the death of her estranged father rains down violence on those around her. Point taken: If fate strikes down your deadbeat dad, just take the W and treat yourself to a froyo. (Shudder and AMC+)
Fading Grandeur — When hard times force him to sell his Madrid mansion, a down-on-his-luck marquis thinks he’s found salvation in the person of a lady millionaire. But she might be after something more than just a house. Gosh, don’t tell me she wants the Hummel figurines too. (Netflix)
Joe Bob’s Halloween House Party — Joe Bob and Darcy have reached the penultimate double feature on their soon-to-expire Shudder contract. As usual, the titles of the two films are being kept close to the vest, but I’m just going to put it out there: 2015’s Blood-Sucking Bastards is about killing your boss. (Shudder and AMC+)
Last One Laughing: Halloween — The first-ever Halloween edition of the U.K. competition show features “cursed props, ghostly interruptions and spine-tingling surprises.” In other words, it’s just like the wedding night of a septuagenarian who’s learned to love again. (Prime Video)
Lupin Part 4 — A three-year hiatus between seasons comes to an end, revealing just what happened to French master thief Assane Diop (Omar Sy) after he turned himself in to the police. How will he find prison life, now that he’s locked up with the man who drove his father to suicide? And is the cafeteria escargot really as bad as they say? (Netflix)
Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story — In terms of show business, mental illness is to the ’20s what cocaine was to the ’70s: If you want to get ahead, you better have some. Witness that lesson bear fruit in a documentary tribute to stand-up/actor Bamford, who has made professional hay out of a personal CV that includes both BPD and OCD. See? That’s already better than an EGOT by a whole letter. (Netflix)
Surviving Hurricane Otis — The real-life weather disaster of three years ago inspires a Mexican-made drama about half-brothers who have to put aside their differences to survive the first Pacific hurricane to hit landfall as a Category 5. Just think: If it had been a Category 6, they might have ended up as only quarter-brothers. (Netflix)
Streaming Sunday, Oct. 25:
A Course Called Ireland — Bill Murray and his friends discover the wonders of the Emerald Isle while touring its golf courses in a six-episode travelogue. Things really pick up in Episode 4, when Jim Jarmusch shows up to referee a staring contest between Bill and a windmill. (Paramount+)
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards — Devon Sawa hosts the 32nd annual tribute to the very best in horror, streaming live at 9 p.m. EDT. The movies Dust Bunny and 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple lead the pack with nine nominations apiece, but don’t sleep on Melania, which Kalshi calls the odds-on favorite to take Best Creature FX. (Shudder and AMC+)
The Wolves of Real Estate: The Alexander Brothers — A New York magazine exposé inspired this docuseries portrait of two sibling brokers and their older brother who raped and trafficked women for years before the authorities got wise. See, if they had only pledged Chi Phi, they could have gotten away with it indefinitely. (Peacock)
Streaming Monday, Oct. 26:
Minimum Wage — Teenagers try to run a pizzeria while staying in school in a short-form sitcom adapted from the American High web series seen on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. No wonder each episode is just over 12 minutes long: If these kids were spread any thinner, they’d be Ariana Grande. (Netflix)
Streaming Tuesday, Oct. 27:
The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula — Past competitors Felony and Satanna are back to try again in Season 7, proving you can’t keep a good ghoul down. Guest judges include Rose McGowan and Asia Consent, because we apparently eat irony for breakfast now. (Shudder and AMC+)
The One About Matthew Perry — Friends, family and creative colleagues fill three episodes with fond recollections of the late sitcom star, offering firsthand testimony to “the battles he fought to become the man behind the icon.” Could they BE any more maudlin? (Netflix)
Zainab Johnson: Toxically Optimistic — In the first stand-up special produced by the Obamas’ Higher Ground, comic Johnson sets out to lighten the load of the Trump 47 years via jokes that look on the positive side. For a slightly different approach, check out Angie Nixon’s upcoming half hour, When They Go Low, We Point at Their Little Weenies and Laugh. (Netflix)
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This article appears in Oct. 21-27, 2026.