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.
Platonic is an Apple TV+ comedy created by Francesca Delbanco and Nicholas Stoller that reunites the comedic pairing of Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne. The series mines big laughs and real feeling from a premise Hollywood rarely explores with such honesty: the intense, messy, entirely non-romantic friendship between a man and a woman in the throes of midlife.
Rogen plays Will, a newly divorced brewmaster, and Byrne plays Sylvia, a former lawyer turned stay-at-home mom; after years apart, the old friends reconnect and promptly become a chaotic, enabling influence on each other's lives. Their rekindled bond is warm, hilarious, and frequently disruptive to the more settled parts of their worlds, and the show treats the friendship with the stakes and scrutiny usually reserved for romance. The chemistry between the two leads, honed across films like Neighbors, anchors every episode.
The first season debuted in 2023 to strong reviews, and the acclaimed second season arrived in 2025, deepening the characters while keeping the manic comic energy intact and earning the series a renewal for a third season. Smart, generous, and genuinely funny about adult friendship, Platonic has become one of Apple TV+'s most reliable comedies. It streams on Apple TV+.
House of Guinness is a lavish historical drama created and written by Steven Knight, the mind behind Peaky Blinders, for Netflix. Set in 1868, it opens in the aftermath of the death of Sir Benjamin Guinness, the patriarch who transformed the Dublin brewery into a global empire, and traces the fortunes of the four adult children left to inherit his complicated legacy.
Anthony Boyle and Louis Partridge lead as brothers Arthur and Edward Guinness, thrust into running the business together, while Emily Fairn and Fionn O'Shea play their siblings Anne and Benjamin. James Norton co-stars as the formidable fixer Sean Rafferty, and Jack Gleeson appears as Byron Hedges, as the family navigates rivalries, secrets, romance, and the political turbulence of Ireland on the brink of change. Knight frames the brewing dynasty as a saga of power and inheritance, drawing frequent comparisons to Succession and Downton Abbey.
Premiering in September 2025, the eight-episode series became one of Netflix's most talked-about period dramas, earning warm reviews for its sweep, style, and performances and a swift renewal for a second season. Rooted in the real history of one of Ireland's most famous families, it turns the story behind the black stout into rich, character-driven drama. It streams on Netflix.
Étoile is a comedy-drama from Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino, the married creative team behind Gilmore Girls and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Set in the rarefied world of professional ballet, the series follows two storied but struggling dance companies — one in New York, one in Paris — that hatch an audacious plan to survive: they will swap some of their most gifted stars for a season, hoping the exchange generates the publicity and artistic spark each institution desperately needs.
Luke Kirby and Charlotte Gainsbourg lead as the harried directors on either side of the Atlantic, with Gideon Glick, Lou de Laâge, Simon Callow, and newcomer Taïs Vinolo among the dancers and staff swept up in the scheme. True to the Palladinos' signature style, the show pairs rapid-fire, literate dialogue with a genuine reverence for its milieu, casting real professional dancers and staging extended performance sequences alongside its backstage comedy.
Released on Prime Video in the spring of 2025, Étoile was mounted as an ambitious, bilingual production shot across two countries. Despite an initial two-season order, Prime Video ultimately declined to continue the series beyond its first season, leaving its single run as a distinctive, globe-spanning ode to the art form. It streams on Prime Video.
Common Side Effects is an adult animated thriller-comedy created by Joseph Bennett and Steve Hely for Adult Swim, executive produced by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels through their Bandera Entertainment. The story follows Marshall Cuso, an eccentric, burned-out mycologist who discovers a rare mushroom capable of healing almost any ailment — even reversing death. When he reconnects with a former high-school classmate now working at a pharmaceutical giant, his miraculous find sets off a dangerous chase as powerful interests scramble to control, suppress, or exploit it.
Rendered in a lush, hand-drawn style far removed from typical adult cartoons, the series pairs paranoid conspiracy-thriller plotting with dry humor and surprising sincerity about health care, grief, and corporate greed. Dave King and Emily Pendergast lead the voice cast as Marshall and the conflicted pharma executive Frances, with Mike Judge, Danny Huston, and Joseph Lee Anderson among the supporting players, giving the show both comedic bite and genuine tension.
Debuting on Adult Swim in early 2025 and streaming on HBO Max, Common Side Effects became one of the most acclaimed animated series of the year, earning a rare wave of critical enthusiasm and a second-season renewal before its first season had even finished airing. It streams on HBO Max.
Suits LA is a legal drama created by Aaron Korsh, a spin-off of his long-running hit Suits that relocates the franchise from Manhattan to the entertainment capital of Los Angeles. Stephen Amell stars as Ted Black, a former federal prosecutor from New York who has reinvented himself as a powerful attorney to the rich and famous, running a firm that handles both criminal defense and the high-stakes world of Hollywood dealmaking. When his practice is thrown into turmoil, Ted must fight to hold his empire together.
The series leans on the glossy, fast-talking appeal that made Suits a streaming juggernaut, pairing courtroom maneuvering with celebrity clients, office rivalries, and personal betrayals. Amell — familiar to genre audiences from Arrow — headlines a cast that includes Josh McDermitt, Lex Scott Davis, Bryan Greenberg, and Victoria Justice, building its own ensemble while nodding to the world fans already know.
Premiering on NBC in February 2025 and streaming on Peacock, Suits LA arrived on a wave of renewed interest in the original series, which had become a record-breaking streaming sensation years after its finale. Though NBC ultimately did not continue the show beyond its first season, it delivered the star cameos and slick drama that franchise fans came for. It streams on Peacock.
Toxic Town is a four-part British drama miniseries created by writer Jack Thorne and directed by Minkie Spiro, based on one of the United Kingdom's most significant environmental scandals. Set in the former steel town of Corby, it follows a group of mothers who come to realize that a shocking cluster of children born with limb differences may be linked to the way toxic waste was handled during the reclamation of the town's old steelworks. What begins as private grief becomes a collective fight for accountability.
Jodie Whittaker leads the cast as Susan McIntyre, one of the mothers who refuses to stay silent, alongside Aimee Lou Wood, Claudia Jessie, Robert Carlyle, Rory Kinnear, and Brendan Coyle. The series charts the families' long, exhausting battle to be believed — by officials, by the courts, and by a system inclined to look away — building to a landmark legal reckoning that would set a precedent in British environmental law.
Released globally on Netflix in early 2025, Toxic Town was praised for its righteous anger and its grounded, deeply human performances, drawing comparisons to other true-story dramas about ordinary people confronting powerful institutions. It streams on Netflix.
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+.
Doc is an American medical drama that premiered on Fox in January 2025 and quickly became one of the most-watched new network series in years. Molly Parker stars as Dr. Amy Larsen, a brilliant and demanding chief of internal medicine whose life is upended when a car accident erases roughly the last eight years of her memory. She wakes believing she is a different person — happily married, with a living son — and must relearn who she has become, both professionally and personally, while continuing to practice medicine.
Created by Barbie Kligman and developed with Hank Steinberg, the series uses its high-concept premise to explore identity, regret, and second chances: the version of Amy who lost those years was warmer and less guarded than the woman her colleagues came to fear. The strong ensemble — including Omar Metwally, Amirah Vann, Jon Ecker, and Scott Wolf — surrounds Parker as Amy navigates fractured relationships and the disorienting gap between who she was and who she is now.
Doc delivered Fox its best drama debut in five years and grew into a global streaming phenomenon, earning praise for Parker's layered central performance and a swift renewal. Its blend of procedural medical cases and serialized emotional stakes struck a chord with audiences hungry for character-driven network drama. It streams on Hulu.
Marvel Zombies is an adult animated horror series from Marvel Studios Animation, created by Bryan Andrews and Zeb Wells for Disney+. Expanding the fan-favorite "What If…? Zombies?!" episode into its own story, it drops a roster of familiar heroes into an alternate timeline overrun by a superpowered undead plague.
A band of survivors — including Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel (Iman Vellani), Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld), and Riri Williams / Ironheart (Dominique Thorne) — fights across a ruined landscape in search of a way to end the outbreak, all while battling zombified versions of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's most powerful figures. The voice cast also features Elizabeth Olsen, Simu Liu, Florence Pugh, Paul Rudd, and Tessa Thompson.
Premiering in September 2025, the four-episode series became Marvel Studios Animation's first project to carry a TV-MA rating, leaning into gore and body horror that its live-action counterparts avoid. Critics gave it a 66% Rotten Tomatoes score, calling it a gleefully cruel treat for both MCU fans and horror lovers.
Leanne is a multi-camera Netflix sitcom built around stand-up comedian Leanne Morgan, who created the series with television legend Chuck Lorre and writer Susan McMartin. A deliberate throwback to classic broadcast sitcoms, complete with a studio-audience feel, it channels Morgan's warm, Southern comic voice into a story of starting over in midlife.
Morgan stars as a Tennessee woman whose husband of more than three decades abruptly leaves her for another woman, forcing her to rebuild her life with the help of her tart-tongued, twice-divorced sister (Kristen Johnston) and her close-knit family. Celia Weston, Blake Clark, and Ryan Stiles round out an ensemble that leans into big, relatable laughs about marriage, family, and second acts.
Netflix released all sixteen first-season episodes at once in July 2025, and the show's easygoing charm and Morgan's likability earned it a 71% Rotten Tomatoes score. The streamer's confidence was immediate: it renewed the series for a second season barely a month after the premiere.
