American Horror Story: 13 marks the thirteenth season of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk's landmark FX horror anthology, and the creators have leaned hard into the ominous significance of the number itself. Built around superstition, bad luck, and the show's own mythology, the season is conceived as a celebratory, crossover-style event that gathers threads from across the franchise's long history.
The season reunites an extraordinary roster of returning American Horror Story veterans, with Sarah Paulson, Jessica Lange, Evan Peters, Emma Roberts, Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates, Billie Lourd, and Gabourey Sidibe among those revisiting the franchise, several of them playing multiple roles. New additions to the ensemble include Cara Delevingne, Charlie Carver, and Tig Notaro, as the season revisits and interweaves elements fans have followed for more than a decade.
Premiering on FX on September 24, 2026, and streaming the next day on Hulu, the thirteenth season runs a full slate of episodes released in weekly pairs and trios through late October. A milestone entry for one of television's most durable horror brands, it is designed as both a reward for longtime viewers and a showcase for the anthology's deep bench of stars. American Horror Story: 13 is streaming on Hulu.
The Survivors is an Australian Netflix limited series adapted by Tony Ayres from Jane Harper's 2020 novel, a moody mystery from the author of The Dry. Set in the fictional Tasmanian coastal town of Evelyn Bay, the six-part drama moves between past and present to unpack how a single catastrophic day continues to shape a small community fifteen years later.
Charlie Vickers stars as Kieran Elliott, who returns home with his young family carrying guilt over a long-ago storm that killed three people, including his brother. When the body of a young woman is discovered on the beach soon after his arrival, old suspicions and buried secrets come roaring back, and the town's fragile peace begins to fracture. Yerin Ha plays Kieran's partner Mia, with Robyn Malcolm and Damien Garvey among the ensemble.
Premiering in June 2025, The Survivors became a major hit for Netflix, reaching the number-two spot on the platform's global chart in its first week and earning a perfect critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes. Atmospheric and grief-soaked, it confirmed Jane Harper's crime fiction as fertile ground for prestige television. It streams on Netflix.
The Last Frontier is an Apple TV+ action thriller created by Jon Bokenkamp, the creator of The Blacklist, together with Richard D'Ovidio. Set amid the vast, unforgiving wilderness of Alaska, it pairs survival-thriller spectacle with a conspiracy that steadily widens beyond a single catastrophe, with some episodes directed by Extraction filmmaker Sam Hargrave.
Jason Clarke, who also executive produces, stars as Frank Remnick, a lone U.S. marshal responsible for keeping order across 600,000 square miles of remote backcountry. His already difficult job turns deadly when a prison-transport plane crashes nearby and releases a group of dangerous inmates into the wild, and it soon becomes clear the crash was no accident, but part of a far larger scheme. Dominic Cooper, Haley Bennett, Simone Kessell, Dallas Goldtooth and Alfre Woodard co-star.
The ten-episode first season premiered on October 10, 2025 and rolled out weekly, offering a muscular, cat-and-mouse thriller staged against Alaska's punishing landscape. Reviewers welcomed its throwback, pulpy energy and Clarke's grounded lead performance. It streams on Apple TV+.
Get Millie Black is a gritty crime drama created by the Booker Prize-winning novelist Marlon James, marking his first work written for television. A co-production for HBO and the UK's Channel 4, the five-part series is among the first major HBO dramas set and filmed largely in Jamaica, steeping its mystery in the streets, patois and social fault lines of Kingston.
Tamara Lawrance stars as Millie-Jean Black, a Jamaican-born detective who trained at Scotland Yard before returning home to work missing-persons cases for the Jamaica Constabulary Force. When a routine disappearance collides with a Scotland Yard investigation led by a visiting detective, played by Joe Dempsie, Millie is pulled toward a dangerous web of trafficking and long-buried family wounds. Gershwyn Eustache Jnr plays her partner Curtis, and Chyna McQueen appears as Millie's sister Hibiscus.
The limited series earned rapturous reviews on both sides of the Atlantic, holding a perfect critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes and drawing praise for its performances and its vivid, unsentimental sense of place. It aired on HBO and Max in the United States in late 2024 and on Channel 4 in the UK in early 2025. It streams on HBO Max.
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.
We Were Liars is a Prime Video adaptation of E. Lockhart's 2014 young-adult bestseller, developed for television by Julie Plec and Carina Adly Mackenzie of The Vampire Diaries. Faithful to the novel's dreamy, unreliable narration, the eight-episode series unfolds as both a lush summer romance and a slow-tightening psychological mystery about a family with everything to hide.
Emily Alyn Lind stars as Cadence Sinclair, the eldest grandchild of a wealthy New England dynasty that decamps each summer to its own private island. Cadence, her cousins Johnny and Mirren, and the outsider Gat call themselves the Liars, and after a mysterious accident leaves Cadence with amnesia, she spends the following year desperate to remember what really happened during Summer 16. David Morse, Mamie Gummer, Caitlin FitzGerald and Candice King anchor the adult cast as the scheming Sinclair elders.
Premiering in June 2025, the series climbed to number one on Prime Video's charts and earned generally favorable reviews for its juicy family dynamics and its handling of the book's famous gut-punch of a twist. Prime Video renewed it for a second season, drawing on Lockhart's prequel novel Family of Liars. It streams on Prime Video.
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+.
I Love LA is an HBO comedy created by, written by, and starring Rachel Sennott, marking the breakout comedian's arrival as a television auteur. Sharp, self-referential, and steeped in the anxieties of a generation, the series skewers the striving, status-obsessed culture of young creatives trying to make it in Los Angeles.
Sennott plays Maia, a floundering talent agent whose fortunes shift when she reconnects with her estranged former best friend Tallulah (Odessa A'zion), a New York influencer who moves west. Around them orbits a codependent friend group that includes Josh Hutcherson as Maia's boyfriend Dylan, Jordan Firstman as a celebrity stylist, and True Whitaker, as the show mines comedy and cringe from ambition, friendship, and the performative hustle of LA life.
Premiering on HBO and HBO Max in November 2025, I Love LA earned strong reviews for its wit and generational specificity and was quickly renewed for a second season. With Sennott's distinctive voice at its center, it captures the comedy and quiet desperation of twenty-somethings chasing relevance. It streams on HBO Max.
The Runarounds is a coming-of-age music drama created by Jonas Pate, co-creator of the hit teen adventure series Outer Banks, for Prime Video. Set in the coastal city of Wilmington, North Carolina, it follows a group of recent high-school graduates who form a rock band and chase a record deal over the course of one pivotal summer before adulthood pulls them in different directions.
The ensemble is played by the members of an actual band, led by William Lipton alongside Axel Ellis, Jesse Golliher, Zendé Murdock, and Jeremy Yun, with Brooklyn Decker and Hayes MacArthur among the supporting adult cast. As the friends write songs, book gigs, and clash over ambitions and romance, the series leans into the authenticity of performances by real musicians, blending scripted drama with genuine live-music energy.
All eight episodes were released together in September 2025, backed by an original soundtrack performed by the cast. With its sun-soaked setting and earnest focus on friendship and creative dreams, The Runarounds extends Jonas Pate's knack for youthful, propulsive storytelling into the world of a scrappy band trying to make it. It streams on Prime Video.
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.
Grosse Pointe Garden Society is a soapy dark-comedy mystery created by Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs for NBC. Set in an affluent Michigan suburb, it follows four members of a local gardening club who become bound together by a shared, deadly secret, unfolding its story across two timelines that gradually reveal how ordinary neighbors ended up burying a body among the flower beds.
Melissa Fumero, Aja Naomi King, Ben Rappaport, and AnnaSophia Robb lead the ensemble as the mismatched club members whose tangled personal lives — infidelity, custody battles, ambition, and reinvention — collide with a murder they must conspire to conceal. The series toggles between the crime's aftermath and the months leading up to it, doling out clues and misdirection while mining sharp comedy from the manicured hypocrisies of suburban life.
Premiering on NBC in February 2025, the series drew a solid response for its game cast and twisty structure, offering a glossy, bingeable blend of whodunit and domestic satire in the tradition of Desperate Housewives. Its single season delivered a self-contained mystery that rewarded attentive viewers. It streams on Peacock.
