Happy weekend! Before we list the new TV shows coming out this weekend, check out our Fall Preview for what’s coming out in the final months of the year.
Slow Horses is back for a sixth season, making it one of the only contemporary TV shows that are committed to releasing a season per year. It’s proven to be a successful gamble, developing a devoted fanbase and a critical darling. Then there’s Neagley, the new series starring Alan Ritchson, and continued proof that he’s becoming one of the definitive action figures of the decade.
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Slow Horses
Available on Apple TV
Genre: Spy thriller
Episode count: 6
Cast: Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, Kristin Scott Thomas
Based on the Mick Herron spy novels, Slow Horses follows the agents of Slough House, the MI5 unit where disgraced and faulty agents are sent. Each season has them meeting new enemies; this time around, the team is on the run from someone who’s targeting and killing them off one by one.
From our Polygon interview with head writer Gaby Chiappe:
Since premiering on Apple TV in 2022, Slow Horses has been one of the most consistently excellent shows on streaming. The adaptation of Mick Herron’s Slough House spy novels never wastes a moment of its six-episode seasons, delivering tightly paced mysteries interspersed with biting humor at the expense of the show’s failed MI5 agents. Even more remarkably, Apple has released six seasons in just four years at a time when the gap between new seasons of hit shows can exceed presidential terms. So when Slow Horses creator Will Smith announced he’d be leaving after season 5, fans were understandably worried about what it would mean for the show. Perhaps no one was as nervous as Gaby Chiappe, who took on the role of head writer for season 6.
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Neagley
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Available on Prime Video
Genre: Action
Episode count: 8
Cast: Maria Sten, Alan Ritchson, Adeline Rudolph
Neagley is a spin-off of Reacher, one of the biggest streaming hits of the past couple of years. The series centers on Frances Neagley, an army vet, private investigator, and fan-favorite of Reacher, who finds herself looking into the death of her childhood friend, immersing herself in a complex conspiracy.
Per our Polygon preview:
While Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson) spends season 4 battling a high-stakes conspiracy across Philadelphia, fan-favorite Frances Neagley (Maria Sten) has so far been conspicuously absent — busy, it’s assumed, laying the groundwork for her own solo operation. A fierce former Master Sergeant from the 110th MP Special Investigations Unit turned corporate PI, Neagley has always been the smartest person in Jack’s orbit. Now, she steps out of his massive shadow as a suspicious death from her past pulls her into a lethal game of her own.
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Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story
Available on Netflix
Genre: Horror
Episode count: 8
Cast: Ella Beatty, Vicky Krieps, Charlie Hunnam
The fourth season of Ryan Murphy’s anthology series draws inspiration from another notorious murder case. The show takes us back to the 1800s, following the true story of Lizzie Borden, a woman who was acquitted after reportedly partnering up with her maid to kill her parents with an axe.
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City of Blood
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Available on Disney+
Genre: Horror
Episode count: 8
Cast: Lea Drinda, Bea Hoffman, Soma Pysall
City of Blood is a German series set in a post-apocalyptic Berlin, where the privileged live under a climate-controlled dome and the rest are left to survive on their own. The story follows two sisters reuniting and discovering that vampires are planning to take power and submit humans.
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Stranger Things Tales from ‘85
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Available on Netflix
Genre: Animation
Episode count: 10
Cast: Brooklyn Davey Norstedt, Elisha Williams, Braxton Quinney
Set between seasons 2 and 3 of the live-action Stranger Things, Tales from ‘85 follows Eleven and her friends in the winter in Hawkins, as they battle remnants from the Upside Down and team up with new allies.
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Plastic Beauty
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Available on Netflix
Genre: Drama
Episode count: 8
Cast: Mayu Matsuoka, Riisa Naka, Shotaro Mamiya
Netflix’s latest Japanese series is set in the world of plastic surgery, following rival surgeons with opposing views on physical transformations, with many of the episodes questioning why patients seek these procedures.
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Outlander: Blood of My Blood
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Available on Starz
Genre: Romance
Episode count: 10
Cast: Jamie Roy, Harriet Slater, Hermione Corfield
The spinoff to the romantic-historical hit Outlander follows the love story of its protagonists’ parents. Set in two different timelines, one in 18th-century Scotland and another in World War I, the series follows forbidden romances amid warring clans and the devastation wreaked by the war.
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Youth
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Available on HBO
Genre: Comedy
Episode count: 8
Cast: Sharon Horgan, Rupert Friend, Sharlene Whyte
HBO’s latest comedy drama premieres this weekend, following a 50-year old literary agent and divorcee (Horgan) as she tries to find love in London.