“Gen V”
One hit show, “The Boys,” often yields another in the age of I.P. everything, right? Thus “Gen V” is a spin-off of Amazon’s anti-superheroes satire developed by more or less the same people, Craig Rosenberg, Evan Goldberg, and Eric Kripke. The cast is mostly unknowns, though some names— Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sean Patrick Thomas, Jason Ritter, Clancy Brown—appear. Series centers on young adult superheroes who are tested in battle royal challenges at a Crimefighting university run by Vought International.
Premieres: September 29 on Prime Video.
More September Releases
“Power Book IV: Force” Season 2 on September 1 via Starz, “One Shot: Overtime Elite” on September 5 via Amazon, “The Other Black Girl” on September 13 via Hulu, “Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein” on September 17 via Amazon, “American Horror Story: Delicate” on September 20 via FX.
“Our Flag Mean Death” (Season 2)
Created by David Jenkins, MAX’s LGTBQ-friendly period pirates-at-sea comedy returns for a second season with much of the same principal cast, including Rhys Darby, Ewen Bremner, Joel Fry, Samson Kayo, Con O’Neill, Matthew Maher, Rory Kinnear, Nat Faxon, Taika Waititi as Blackbeard and more. Much to the surprise of all on board, two male captains found love in season one. Now, they have to survive it.
Premieres: October 5 on Max.
“Loki” (Season 2)
“Loki” returns to our screens while working with Mobius M. Mobius in new adventures. Season 2 of the most watched series on Disney+ has Tom Hiddleston returning as the audience’s beloved God of Mischief, starring alongside Sophia Di Martino, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Wunmi Mosaku, Eugene Cordero, Rafael Casal, Tara Strong, Kate Dickie, Liz Carr, Neil Ellice, with Jonathan Majors, Ke Huy Quan and Owen Wilson. The head writer is Eric Martin.
Premieres: October 6 via Disney+.
“The Fall of the House of Usher”
Much to the happiness of his wallet, Mike Flanagan went from indie horror guy to in-house horror TV guy at Netflix, where he basically gets more or less carte blanche to make mature long-form horror movies as series. And naturally, this one is based on a work by Edgar Allen Poe. Bruce Greenwood, Carla Gugino, Mary McDonnell, Carl Lumbly, Mark Hamill, Michael Trucco, T’Nia Miller, Paola Nuñez, and many more feature within.
Premieres: October 12 on Netflix.
“The Changeling”
Written and adapted by showrunner and executive producer Kelly Marcel, “The Changeling” is a fairytale for grown-ups. A horror story, a parenthood fable, and a perilous odyssey through a New York City you didn’t know existed, starring LaKeith Stanfield, Clark Backo, Adina Porter, Samuel T. Herring, Alexis Louder, Jared Abrahamson, Malcolm Barrett, with a pilot directed by Melina Matsoukas (“Queen & Slim”).
Premieres: October 13 on Apple TV+.
“Lessons in Chemistry”
Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, “Lessons in Chemistry” is finally hitting Apple TV+. Set in the 1950s, Elizabeth Zott dreamt of becoming a scientist. When she gets fired from her lab, she accepts a job as a television cooking show host, but she sets out to teach viewers more than just recipes. Zott is played by Brie Larson who stars alongside Aja Naomi King, Stephanie Koenig, and Patrick Walker.
Premieres: October 13 on Apple TV+.
“Fellow Travelers”
In the U.S. during the 1930s through the 1950s, the term fellow traveler was a code for a person who was philosophically sympathetic to Communism. This new eight-part limited series starring Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey centers on the decades-long romance between two men who first meet during the height of paranoid McCarthyism era in the 1950s. Allison Williams, and Linus Roache, and note, this one expands all the way through the 1980s.
Premieres: October 29 on Showtime via Paramount+.
More October Releases
“Lupin” Part 3 on October 5 via Netflix, “Billy the Kid” Season 2 on October 15 via MGM+, “Son of a Critch” on October 16 via CW, “Wolf Like Me” Season 2 on October 19 via Peacock, “Elite” Season 7 via Netflix and “Empty Nest Refresh” via Roku both on October 20, “American Horror Stories” on October 26 via Hulu and “The Gilded Age” Season 2 on October 29 via HBO.
