With crisp air and autumn colors swirling in, you may find yourself at loose ends trying to decide what to watch this weekend. If so, fire up any of the new movies and shows on Netflix, Prime Video and other streaming services, as well as broadcast and cable channels.
"High Potential" season 2 returns with more LAPD intrigue for Kaitlin Olsen's genius consultant, while "The Morning Show" season 4 introduces even more newsroom drama. Thriller fans won’t want to miss "Black Rabbit," starring Jason Bateman and Jude Law as brothers in deep trouble.
On the movie side, summer blockbuster "Superman" flies onto HBO Max, while the tech biopic "Swiped" explores the cutthroat world of dating apps. Here are our top picks for new TV shows and movies to watch this weekend. And be sure to check out the top 3 Prime Video shows we're binge-watching as well as the best new movies on streaming this weekend.
New TV shows
‘Black Rabbit’ (Netflix)
Jason Bateman swaps the Ozark backwoods for Manhattan’s glittering, dangerous nightlife in this tense new crime drama miniseries. He’s Vince, a charming but reckless gambler whose mounting debts and bad choices threaten to pull his brother Jake (Jude Law), the city’s hottest restaurateur, into a spiral of chaos.
When Vince shows up in peril one night, the city lights turn into a backdrop for a high-stakes ride where loyalty and family collide — and sometimes the people closest to you are the ones who can ruin everything.
All 8 episodes streaming now on Netflix
‘High Potential’ season 2 (ABC)
Kaitlin Olson’s Morgan Gillory is back, and the stakes have never been higher. The Game Maker’s twisted games hit closer to home than ever, forcing Morgan to juggle protecting her kids with staying one step ahead of Los Angeles’s most cunning criminals.
As if that weren’t enough, the mystery of her missing ex, Roman, refuses to stay buried. Packed with sharp humor, tense week-to-week cases, and Morgan’s signature chaotic flair, this second season proves the show is just getting started.
Episode 1 streaming now on Hulu
‘The Morning Show’ season 4 (Apple TV Plus)
Season 4 picks up nearly two years after last season’s explosive finale, and the newsroom is as volatile as ever. With the UBA-NBN merger sealed, Alex Levy (Jennifer Aniston) and Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon) are back under the studio lights, navigating corporate cover-ups, deepfakes and the slippery line between truth and spin.
New players shake up the chaos — Marion Cotillard’s calculating Celine Dumont and Boyd Holbrook’s magnetic podcaster — while familiar faces like Jon Hamm, Billy Crudup and Mark Duplass continue their scheming.
Episode 1 streaming now on Apple TV Plus
‘Gen V’ season 2 (Prime Video)
Godolkin University is back in session, but the campus feels more like a battlefield than a classroom. Cate and Sam are being hailed as heroes, while Marie, Jordan, and Emma return carrying deep emotional scars.
The new dean (Hamish Linklater) isn’t interested in pep rallies; he’s molding students into soldiers just as Homelander tightens his stranglehold on the nation. With a hidden program lurking in the school’s past and war brewing on every front, season 2 cranks the supes action up to full throttle.
Episodes 1-3 streaming now on Prime Video
‘Tulsa King’ season 3 (Paramount Plus)
Samuel L. Jackson descends on Tulsa just as Dwight “The General” Manfredi (Sylvester Stallone) tries to keep his growing empire under control. Season 3 of Taylor Sheridan’s mob saga finds Dwight thriving, but so are his rivals.
The most dangerous threat comes from the Dunmires, a ruthless old-money clan with zero regard for rules. Dwight and his right-hand man, Tyson (Jay Will), brace for bloodshed, while Jackson’s Russell Lee Washington Jr. storms into town, ready to turn Tulsa’s underworld upside down.
Episode 1 premieres Sunday, Sept. 21 at 3 a.m. ET on Paramount Plus
‘Reasonable Doubt’ season 3 (Hulu)
When the legal drama’s third season begins, Jax Stewart (Emayatzy Corinealdi) can finally breathe a little, but that calm quickly vanishes. Enter Ozzie (Kyle Bary), a former child star in deep trouble, whose case promises excitement but drags Jax into more of a mess than she bargained for.
Joseph Sikora, Morris Chestnut and new cast member Lori Harvey (as Chelsea, a wild card with a messy past) add fresh sparks to the mix. Jax’s latest case may be about saving Ozzie, but it doesn’t take long before the fallout starts hitting closer to home, putting both her career and her fragile peace at risk.
Episodes 1-2 streaming now on Hulu
‘Futurama’ season 13 (Hulu)
In their 13th season, the Planet Express crew is once again way in over their heads. After last season’s ghost ship battles and alternate-universe mayhem, Fry, Leela, Bender and the gang face even bigger disasters.
A volcano threatens to blow, Bender spirals completely out of control, Fry finds a rival for Leela’s heart and Dr. Zoidberg somehow drifts toward heaven. With its signature mix of sci-fi, zany humor and heartfelt moments, "Futurama" proves it’s still firing on all cylinders.
All 10 episodes streaming now on Hulu
New movies
‘Superman’ (HBO Max)
James Gunn takes his first swing at the DCU with this earnest, energetic reboot that wastes no time with an origin story but puts David Corenswet’s Man of Steel in a tough spot: branded as a villain. The slick, smirking technocrat Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) has a hand in turning public opinion against him.
With Lois Lane (Rachael Brosnahan) on his side, backup from other charismatic metahumans and even an assist from Krypto the Superdog, Clark Kent aka Superman sets out to prove why the world still needs him. And in the process, the movie just might restore your faith in capes, too.
Streaming now on HBO Max
‘Swiped’ (Hulu)
If you enjoy a Silicon Valley rise-fall-rise story, this biopic is for you. “Swiped” follows Whitney Wolfe Herd (Lily James), a fresh college grad who joins a buzzy tech incubator and helps build Tinder into a breakout success. After a relationship with a co-worker (Jackson White) sours, Whitney faces harassment and finds herself pushed out of the company.
Refusing to back down, she partners with entrepreneur Andrey Andreev (Dan Stevens) to launch Bumble, the dating app where women make the first move, transforming personal upheaval into a billion-dollar idea.
Streaming now on Hulu
‘28 Years Later’ (Netflix)
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland return to the rage-virus universe they built two decades ago with a third installment that’s more unsettling folk horror than standard zombie fare. The action shifts to an isolated island off the coast of England, where a community clings to survival.
A 12-year-old boy named Spike (Alfie Williams) sets out with his dad for the mainland. What starts as a rite of passage turns into a grim odyssey through what’s left of Britain — and what’s evolved there.
Streaming now on Netflix
‘Elio’ (Disney Plus)
Is "Elio" my favorite Disney Pixar movie in recent memory? Eh, probably not (that'd be a close tie between "Turning Red" and "Soul"). But I thought it had boatloads more heart and charm than Disney's latest soulless live-action reboot, "Lilo and Stitch."
"Elio" centers on its 11-year-old namesake (voiced by Yonas Kibreab), an alien-obsessed kid growing up with his aunt on a military base after losing his parents. One night, his dream of being abducted comes true when a galactic coalition mistakes him for Earth’s ambassador and beams him into space. Now caught in the middle of a cosmic misunderstanding, Elio must bluff his way through alien diplomacy while navigating an escalating interstellar crisis. It’s a warm, imaginative story that anyone who's ever struggled to find their "people" can relate to. - AS
Watch "Elio" now on Disney Plus
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