Kill Jackie is streaming on AMC+ in the United States. The series premiered on October 2, 2026, and AMC+ lists new episodes for Fridays. Availability was checked on October 11; access outside the U.S. should be verified in the viewer's local AMC+ catalog.
Catherine Zeta-Jones stars as Jackie Price, a former cocaine dealer who has lived quietly for twenty years before becoming the target of an elite group of assassins called the Seven Demons. Instead of disappearing, she turns the pursuit around and begins hunting them. The series frames her counterattack as a stylish revenge thriller driven by a buried criminal past and the danger it brings back into her present.
Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy is a Peacock limited series created by Patrick Macmanus that dramatizes the crimes of one of America's most notorious serial killers. A scripted companion to Peacock's 2021 documentary of nearly the same name, the eight-episode drama revisits Gacy's murders in 1970s Chicago while deliberately shifting the spotlight away from the killer and onto his victims and the investigation that finally stopped him.
Michael Chernus stars as Gacy, the outwardly genial contractor and neighborhood party clown who murdered at least 33 young men and boys and buried many beneath his own home. Gabriel Luna, James Badge Dale, Michael Angarano, Chris Sullivan and Marin Ireland lead a large ensemble that dramatizes the detectives, families and missed opportunities surrounding the case, foregrounding the systemic failures and prejudices that allowed Gacy to evade detection for years.
Premiering in October 2025 from NBC News Studios and Universal Content Productions, the series drew exceptional reviews, earning a rare 96 percent on Rotten Tomatoes for what critics called a compassionate, morally clear reexamination of a much-sensationalized story. It streams on Peacock.
Happy Face is a Paramount+ true-crime drama created by Jennifer Cacicio and developed with Robert and Michelle King, the team behind The Good Wife and Evil. It adapts the podcast and memoir of Melissa Moore, the daughter of Keith Hunter Jesperson, the so-called Happy Face Killer, who murdered at least eight people in the early 1990s and taunted authorities with smiley-face-signed letters.
Annaleigh Ashford stars as Melissa, who has spent her adult life hiding her connection to her incarcerated father, played with unnerving control by Dennis Quaid. When Jesperson resurfaces claiming responsibility for an unsolved murder, Melissa is drawn back into his orbit and into a true-crime investigation that forces her to weigh a possibly innocent man's fate against her father's manipulations. James Wolk, Tamera Tomakili and David Harewood co-star.
The eight-episode series aired in the spring of 2025 and drew praise for its central performances even as critics were divided on its tone, which balanced domestic drama against serial-killer procedural. Grounded in Moore's real efforts to reckon with her father's crimes, Happy Face offers a victim-and-family-centered angle on a genre often fixated on its killers. It streams on Paramount+.
Murder in a Small Town is a cozy-but-crafty crime mystery created by Ian Weir, based on the acclaimed Karl Alberg novels by Canadian author L.R. Wright. Airing on Fox in the United States, it transplants the classic whodunit into the misty, close-knit setting of a Pacific Northwest coastal town, where old secrets have a way of surfacing.
Rossif Sutherland stars as Karl Alberg, a big-city detective who takes the job of police chief in the seaside community of Gibsons in search of a quieter life, only to find no shortage of murders to solve. Kristin Kreuk plays Cassandra Lee, the local librarian who becomes his confidante and love interest, while Aaron Douglas rounds out the core cast; the second season adds Marcia Gay Harden as the town's mayor. Each season builds its central investigation around the fractures beneath a picturesque surface.
The first season premiered in 2024 and proved popular enough to earn a second in 2025 and a subsequent renewal, establishing the show as a dependable, character-driven mystery. Its scenic setting and unhurried, human-scaled storytelling set it apart from flashier procedurals. It streams on Hulu.
The Savant is an Apple TV+ thriller starring and executive produced by Jessica Chastain, inspired by a true story first reported in a ProPublica investigation. Chastain plays a woman known by the code name "the Savant," who works undercover inside online extremist communities, posing as a sympathizer in order to identify individuals plotting acts of violence and stop them before they can act. Operating largely in secret, she navigates a shadowy world where a single misstep could expose her.
Created by Melissa James Gibson, the eight-part series builds its tension around the psychological toll of the Savant's double life — the strain of immersing herself in hateful rhetoric while protecting her own family and identity. Chastain anchors the drama with a controlled, watchful performance, supported by an ensemble that grounds the high-stakes investigation in domestic reality. The show frames its subject as a study of vigilance, moral cost, and the quiet work of prevention.
Originally scheduled for a 2025 premiere, The Savant was postponed by Apple amid heightened public concern over political violence, before finally arriving in the summer of 2026. Its release drew renewed attention to the real-world reporting behind it and to Chastain's advocacy for the project. It streams on Apple TV+.
The Hunting Wives is a steamy, twist-laden crime drama created by Rebecca Cutter and adapted from May Cobb's 2021 novel. After debuting on Netflix in July 2025, it became one of the summer's biggest streaming surprises, blending Southern-fried melodrama, murder mystery, and soapy erotic thriller into a bingeable package.
Brittany Snow plays Sophie O'Neil, a Massachusetts transplant who follows her husband to a wealthy East Texas town and is quickly drawn into the orbit of Margo Banks (Malin Akerman), the magnetic, gun-toting queen bee of a clique of influential wives. When a teenage girl turns up dead, Sophie becomes the prime suspect, and the group's glossy world of guns, God, and gossip cracks open to reveal blackmail, affairs, and long-hidden crimes. Dermot Mulroney, Katie Lowes, and Chrissy Metz co-star.
Originally commissioned by Starz before Netflix acquired the U.S. rights, the series rocketed up the charts on release, drawing more than two billion minutes of viewing in a single week and earning an 81% Rotten Tomatoes score. Its addictive cliffhangers and camp confidence quickly made it a word-of-mouth phenomenon and secured a second season.
A Thousand Blows is a gritty period drama from Steven Knight, the creator of Peaky Blinders, that plunges into the brutal, teeming world of 1880s East End London. Blending real history with pulpy invention, it braids together the intertwined worlds of illegal bare-knuckle boxing and organized crime in a city on the cusp of the modern age.
Malachi Kirby stars as Hezekiah Moscow, a Jamaican immigrant who arrives in London with dreams of a different life and is drawn into the underground fighting scene ruled by the fearsome bare-knuckle kingpin Henry Sugar Goodson, played by Stephen Graham. Their rivalry unfolds alongside the exploits of Mary Carr (Erin Doherty), the cunning leader of the Forty Elephants, a genuine all-female crime syndicate that ran rings around the Victorian establishment.
Premiering on Hulu in 2025, the series earned strong reviews for its muscular storytelling, its vivid sense of place, and its powerhouse cast. Rooted in real figures and events, it captures a transitional moment in both sport and society, and its success carried it to a second season. It is streaming on Hulu.
Hostage is a tense five-part Netflix political thriller created by Matt Charman, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Bridge of Spies, that pits two of Europe's most commanding actresses against each other at the highest levels of power. The series imagines a nightmare of statecraft in which personal and national crises collide, forcing two leaders who instinctively distrust one another into an uneasy alliance under impossible pressure.
Suranne Jones stars as Abigail Dalton, the newly installed British prime minister, whose doctor husband is abducted while on a humanitarian mission abroad — just as she is hosting a fraught state visit. Julie Delpy plays Vivienne Toussaint, the steely French president, who arrives with an agenda of her own and soon finds herself the target of a blackmail plot. As the two women are drawn into a single, escalating conspiracy, each must weigh the life of someone they love against the duties of their office.
Debuting in August 2025, Hostage shot to the top of Netflix's global charts, powered by the marquee pairing of Jones and Delpy even as critics were divided on its familiar genre machinery. A propulsive, high-stakes political thriller built for bingeing, Hostage is streaming on Netflix.
