New TV Shows to Stream This Weekend

Happy weekend. Before looking at the new TV shows coming out this weekend, check out the Fall Preview for releases arriving in the final months of the year.

Slow Horses returns for a sixth season, making it one of the few contemporary television series committed to releasing a season every year. That schedule has proven to be a successful gamble, developing a devoted fanbase and critical acclaim. Then there is Neagley, the new series starring Alan Ritchson, which offers continued proof that he is becoming a definitive action figure of the decade.

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 introduces new enemies, and this time the team is on the run from someone who is targeting and killing them off one by one.

Head writer Gaby Chiappe spoke about the series in a Polygon interview:

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.

Neagley

• Available on Prime Video
• Genre: Action
• Episode count: 8
• Cast: Maria Sten, Alan Ritchson, Adeline Rudolph

Neagley is a spinoff of Reacher, one of the biggest streaming hits of recent years. The series centers on Frances Neagley, an army veteran, private investigator, and fan-favorite character who investigates the death of her childhood friend, immersing herself in a complex conspiracy.

A Polygon preview provides additional context:

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.

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. Set in the 1800s, the show follows the true story of Lizzie Borden, a woman who was acquitted after reportedly partnering with her maid to kill her parents with an axe.

City of Blood

• 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 while others survive on their own. The story follows two sisters who reunite and discover that vampires are planning to take power and subjugate humans.

Stranger Things Tales from ‘85

• Available on Netflix
• Genre: Animation
• Episode count: 10
• Cast: Brooklyn Davey Norstedt, Elisha Williams, Braxton Quinney

Set between seasons 2 and 3 of live-action Stranger Things, Tales from ‘85 follows Eleven and her friends during winter in Hawkins as they battle remnants of the Upside Down and team up with new allies.

Plastic Beauty

• Available on Netflix
• Genre: Drama
• Episode count: 8
• Cast: Mayu Matsuoka, Riisa Naka, Shotaro Mamiya

Netflix presents a Japanese series set in the world of plastic surgery. The narrative follows rival surgeons holding opposing views on physical transformations while questioning why patients seek these procedures.

Outlander: Blood of My Blood

• Available on Starz
• Genre: Romance
• Episode count: 10
• Cast: Jamie Roy, Harriet Slater, Hermione Corfield

This spinoff of the romantic historical hit Outlander follows the love story of the main characters’ parents. Spanning two different timelines in 18th-century Scotland and World War I, the series explores forbidden romances amid warring clans and wartime devastation.

Youth

• Available on HBO
• Genre: Comedy
• Episode count: 8
• Cast: Sharon Horgan, Rupert Friend, Sharlene Whyte

HBO presents a comedy drama following a 50-year-old literary agent and divorcee played by Sharon Horgan as she attempts to find love in London.

Source: Polygon