What’s New to Stream This Week? Don’t Miss These Releases on Hulu, Netflix, and More
If this week is any indication, this fall is going to be abuzz with new TV shows and movies. Streaming services like Apple TV Plus, Hulu and Netflix are dropping tons of new original series, from prestige dramas with impressive casts like Netflix’s The Perfect Couple to the return of the dark comedy crime thriller Slow Horses on Apple TV Plus.
The Perfect Couple, which stars almost too many actors to list (just a few of the cast: Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Eve Hewson, Dakota Fanning, Meghann Fahy, Isabelle Adjani), hits Netflix on September 5. The murder mystery set in a privileged enclave on Nantucket is sure to be binged in one sitting. Netflix will also premiere a new season of Selling Sunset this week and air a live hot dog eating contest called Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef on Labor Day.
On Apple TV Plus, Gary Oldman and Jack Lowden return for Season 4 of Slow Horses, the series about British intelligence agents who are deemed too bad at their jobs to be taken seriously… and yet somehow they get their jobs done.
Hulu is making waves this week with two series: Season 2 of the soap drama Tell Me Lies and the docuseries The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, about a group of religious TikTok influencers who get caught up in a sex scandal (that’s almost too many buzzwords in one sentence).
Peacock’s all-star series Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist, about the armed robbery that shook Atlanta in 1970, also debuts this week. Starz debuts the second half of Power: Book II: Ghost on Friday, September 6. The Boy and the Heron is also available on Max that day.
Read more about the week’s biggest titles below.
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Best New Shows and Movies to Stream (Sept. 2 – Sept. 8)
Netflix
The Perfect Couple (September 5)
Netflix’s The Perfect Couple stars Eve Hewson as Amelia Sacks, a bride-to-be who marries into a wealthy Nantucket family. Unfortunately, her wedding is interrupted when a body washes up on the beach and everyone is suspicious. Billy Howie plays the groom-to-be, while Nicole Kidman and Liev Schreiber play his parents. The series debuts on September 5.
Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef (September 2)
Nothing says “summer vacation weekend” like watching two grown adults wolf down soggy hot dogs, right? This Labor Day, two of the country’s most accomplished hot dog eaters, Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi, will go head-to-head in a live event to determine who is the best in the world of competitive eating. The event will be hosted by comedian Rob Riggle and WWE star Nikki Garcia and will air live from HyperX Arena in Las Vegas beginning at 3 p.m. ET.
Selling Sunset Season 8 (September 6)
Selling Sunset drops 11 new episodes on Netflix on September 8. While agents Chrishell Stause, Mary Fitzgerald, Emma Hernan, Amanza Smith, Chelsea Lazkani, Bre Tiesi, and Nicole Young are all back with the Oppenheim Group this season, they’ll have competition from a bunch of newbies who are hungry for success and ready to ring that bell. (A new video game, Netflix Stories: Selling Sunset, also drops this week, so you can pretend to be an agent with the O Group.)
Apple TV Plus
The new season of the crime thriller Slow Horses premieres on Apple TV Plus on September 4 with one episode, with new episodes rolling out weekly through October 9. This season is an adaptation of author Mick Herron’s fourth book in the Slough House series, Spook Street. Gary Oldman returns for this season as Jackson Lamb, plus Jack Lowden, Rosalind Eleazar, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jonathan Pryce.
Stars
Power Book II: Ghost (Sept. 6)
Power Book II: Ghost is about to come to its final lap, with part two of the fourth and final season premiering Friday, September 6 on Starz. If you’re looking to catch up, a marathon of every episode from part one will air on Starz that same day.
Hulu
Hulu’s Tell Me Lies, starring Grace Van Patten and Jackson White, is based on the novel by Carola Lovering about a dramatic and tumultuous romance between two college students, Lucy Albright and Stephen DeMarco. Season two picks up after the couple has broken up, but they still can’t seem to resist each other. Two episodes will be available when the new season premieres on September 4.
The Secret Lives of Mormon Women (September 6)
Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives follows a group of high-profile Mormon influencers known for their #MomTok content whose lives are thrown into chaos when it’s revealed that many of them are involved in a swinging sex scandal. You can’t make this stuff up. The new series premieres September 6.
Peacock
Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist (September 5)
Peacock’s new original series Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist is the unbelievable true story of the armed robbery that took place in Atlanta on the same night as Muhammad Ali’s comeback fight in 1970. The cast includes Taraji P. Henson, Kevin Hart, Terrence Howard, Chloe Bailey, Don Cheadle and Samuel L. Jackson, and all episodes will be available to stream beginning Thursday.
Disney Plus
LEGO Pixar: BrickToons (September 4)
LEGO Pixar: BrickToons is an all-new series of kid-friendly animated shorts featuring new adventures with classic Pixar characters. The series features LEGO Pixar characters such as Coco’s Miguel, Brave’s Merida, Finding Nemo’s Marlin, Nemo and Dory, the Incredibles, and Mater and Lightning McQueen from Cars. All five episodes will be available on September 4.
Maximum
The Boy and the Heron (September 6)
Max is the streaming destination for Studio Ghibli, and the studio’s latest animated film, The Boy and the Heron, will be available to stream on the platform from September 6. The film follows a young boy who encounters a talking heron shortly after his mother’s death. The film was directed by Hiyao Miyazaki. It is his first feature film in over a decade, which he completed after retiring.
