This year’s Fall Preview consists of all the entertainment — from movies to video games to classical music — that Vulture writers and editors are excited to consume this season. Below, our TV list:
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The Girlfriend
Release: All six episodes available on premiere day
Where to Watch: Prime Video
Stars: Robin Wright, Olivia Cooke, Laurie Davidson
When her beloved son (Davidson) brings home a new girlfriend (Cooke), Laura (Wright), a successful and overprotective mother, is suspicious of the younger woman. Sabotage and mind games ensue.
The Morning Show, season four
Release: One weekly episode on Wednesdays, ten episodes total
Where to Watch: Apple TV+
Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass
Two years after last season’s bombshell finale, The Morning Show team is still dealing with the repercussions of the UBA and NBN merger. What sort of drama will our favorite unethical journalists drum up in pursuit of the next big story (or ill-advised romance)?
Gen V, season two
Release: Three episodes on September 17, with one weekly episode the following Wednesdays, eight episodes total
Where to Watch: Prime Video
Stars: Jaz Sinclair, Lizze Broadway, Maddie Phillips, London Thor
This The Boys spinoff returns with big-bad “hero” Homelander controlling America and the students of Godolkin University School of Crimefighting choosing how best to use their powers. Whether for good or evil, there will certainly be absurd amounts of blood.
Black Rabbit
Release: All eight episodes available on premiere day
Where to Watch: Netflix
Stars: Jude Law, Jason Bateman, Cleopatra Coleman
Jake (Law) owns a thriving Brooklyn hotspot and is thinking about opening a new high-dining establishment when his troubled older brother and former bandmate (Bateman) blows into town with a tempest of trouble.
The Lowdown
Release: First two episodes on premiere date then weekly episodes on Tuesdays, eight episodes total
Where to Watch: FX
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Kaniehtiio Horn, Tim Blake Nelson
Reservation Dogs co-creator Sterlin Harjo returns with a drama inspired by Lee Roy Chapman, a citizen journalist who uncovered dark secrets within Tulsa’s history.
Slow Horses, season five
Release: One weekly episode on Wednesdays; six episodes total
Where to Watch: Apple TV+
Stars: Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, Kristin Scott Thomas
Once again, it falls on Slough House’s team of scrappy disgraced MI5 agents — led by the boorish Jackson Lamb (Oldman) — to connect the dots between a series of alarming events, this time related to tech wiz Roddy Ho’s suspiciously sexy new love interest.
The Savant
Release: Two episodes on premiere date then weekly episodes on Fridays; eight episodes total
Where to Watch: Apple TV+
Stars: Jessica Chastain, Nnamdi Asomugha
Apple continues to lure movie stars to its streaming service, with Oscar winner Chastain playing “the savant,” a woman who infiltrates the worst communities on the internet in an attempt to stop extremists before they attack.
Chad Powers
Release: Two episodes on premiere date then weekly episodes on Tuesdays; six episodes total
Where to Watch: Hulu
Stars: Glen Powell, Steve Zahn, Toby Huss
Hit Man star Powell isn’t done with fun disguises just yet. Here, he plays a disgraced quarterback who finds his way onto a college-football team by donning a fake nose and changing his name.
Loot, season three
Release: Two episodes on premiere date then weekly episodes on Wednesdays; ten episodes total
Where to Watch: Apple TV+
Stars: Maya Rudolph, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Joel Kim Booster
Tech billionaire ex-wife Molly Wells (Rudolph) returns for a third season of attempting to give away her fortune and facing down her crush, Wells Foundation accountant Arthur (Nat Faxon).
The Diplomat, season three
Release: Full season available on premiere date, eight episodes total
Where to Watch: Netflix
Stars: Keri Russell, Rufus Sewell, Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford
Just when U.S. ambassador to the U.K. Kate Wyler (Russell) and her ambitious husband, Hal (Sewell), uncovered a conspiracy involving the vice-president (Janney), the president went and died from the shock of it all. Now, Kate must go to new heights of political maneuvering to continue serving her country faithfully.
Nobody Wants This, season two
Release: Full season available on premiere date, ten episodes total
Where to Watch: Netflix
Stars: Kristen Bell, Adam Brody, Justine Lupe, Timothy Simons
In a stroke of casting genius, this rom-com brought together two of the most charming cuties from turn-of-the-millennium teen shows, the erstwhile Veronica Mars and Seth Cohen. Brody plays a hot rabbi who falls for Bell’s raunchy gentile podcaster, but their relationship could be doomed by their cultural differences in season two. (We doubt it.)
Talamasca: The Secret Order
Release: One weekly episode on Sundays; six episodes total
Where to Watch: AMC+
Stars: Nicholas Denton, William Fichtner, Elizabeth McGovern
AMC’s Immortal Universe, sprung from the success of the network’s sexy adaptation of Interview With the Vampire, continues to grow with another series inspired by the work of Anne Rice, this time about an ancient order of supernatural “psychic detectives.”
IT: Welcome to Derry
Release: Weekly episodes on Sundays, eight episodes total
Where to Watch: HBO
Stars: Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, Taylour Paige, James Remar, and Stephen Rider, with Bill Skarsgård
Years before the events of It, children are going missing in Derry, Maine, leaving nothing but a haunting red balloon in their wake. It and It: Chapter Two director Andy Muschietti co-developed this series inspired by Stephen King’s tome, while movie villain Skarsgård is back in Pennywise’s pantaloons.
Down Cemetery Road
Release: Two episodes on premiere date, then weekly episodes on Wednesdays; eight episodes total
Where to Watch: Apple TV+
Stars: Ruth Wilson, Emma Thompson
Apple turns again to the work of mystery writer Mick Herron (the Slough House series) for this thriller about a suburban neighborhood rocked by a house explosion and a missing girl. A local woman (Wilson) hires an investigator (Thompson) to look into the matter, but this conspiracy runs deep.
I Love L.A.
Release: Weekly episodes on Sundays, eight episodes total
Where to Watch: HBO
Stars: Rachel Sennott, Odessa A’zion, Jordan Firstman, Josh Hutcherson, Leighton Meester
After her breakout success in anxiety-producing comedy Shiva Baby and the brilliantly dumb Bottoms (which she also co-wrote), Sennott is giving L.A. the Girls treatment with an ensemble-comedy series about a group of codependent friends trying to make it big.
Squid Game: The Challenge, season two
Release: TBA
Where to Watch: Netflix
Squid Game might be over, but the game show inspired by its dystopian premise has already been renewed for a third season. Once again, 456 players compete, with only one leaving with $4.56 million — but at least these losers live to see themselves on TV.
Death by Lightning
Release: All four episodes available on premiere day
Where to Watch: Netflix
Stars: Michael Shannon, Matthew Macfadyen, Nick Offerman, Betty Gilpin
Shannon stars as President James Garfield and Macfadyen as his (history spoiler!) assassin, Charles Guiteau, in this adaptation of Candice Millard’s Destiny of the Republic. Gilpin plays Garfield’s wife and Offerman is Vice-President (and, another spoiler, future president) Chester Arthur.
Pluribus
Release: Two episodes on premiere then weekly episodes on Fridays, nine episodes total
Where to Watch: Apple TV+
Stars: Rhea Seehorn, Karolina Wydra, Carlos Manuel Vesga
Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan is back in Albuquerque for a mysterious new sci-fi drama that promises to “bend reality” in a version of New Mexico unlike any Walter White terrorized. Seehorn, who played Kim Wexler in Better Call Saul, stars.
Palm Royale, season two
Release: Weekly episodes on Wednesdays, ten episodes total
Where to Watch: Apple TV+
Stars: Kristen Wiig, Ricky Martin, Josh Lucas, Leslie Bibb, Laura Dern, Carol Burnett
When we last saw Wiig’s striving Palm Beach socialite, Maxine Dellacorte-Simmons, she was going scorched-earth at the Beach Ball, the event of the 1969 social season, while her only real friend, Robert (Martin), was shot with Linda (Dern) left holding the gun. And this is a comedy!
The Beast in Me
Release: All eight episodes available on premiere day
Where to Watch: Netflix
Stars: Claire Danes, Matthew Rhys, Brittany Snow, Natalie Morales
An author (Danes) in mourning finds inspiration for her next project in her neighbor, a wealthy real-estate mogul (Rhys) suspected in the disappearance of his wife. It’s giving Robert Durst.
Stranger Things, season five
Release: Part one on November 26, part two on December 25, and finale on December 31
Where to Watch: Netflix
Stars: Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, David Harbour, Winona Ryder
We’ve arrived at the final Stranger Things showdown — can Hawkins’s large population of resourceful misfit teens (who are definitely not adults now) find their way right side up, or will the Upside Down and Vecna win in the end?
More From Fall Preview
Featuring sad-sack spies, unethical journalists, and one Glen Powell wearing a fake nose.
