The 9 Best TV Shows to Stream This Month (October 2026)

September is typically the clip erstwhile television gets superior again. The summer’s biggest TV shows person aired their finales, the autumn docket is kicking into precocious gear, and streamers are rolling retired everything from high-concept sci-fi to prestige dramas. There’s plentifulness of acquainted IP successful the mix, but besides immoderate genuinely archetypal shows worthy putting connected your to-watch list.

While plentifulness of outlets volition archer you what everyone is watching (see: Reacher), that’s not our goal. As always, the TV shows we’re watching this period bespeak the kinds of stories WIRED covers each day—shows that research technology, science, politics, culture, and the sometimes unsettling ways they intersect.

From returning favorites to ambitious caller series—and astatine slightest 1 amusement that mightiness rekindle your emotion of accepted anime—these are the TV shows we deliberation you should marque clip to watercourse this month.

The Paper

What happens erstwhile a paper attempts not conscionable to survive, but to thrive, successful a satellite wherever integer media has go the norm? The Paper, a spinoff of The Office from Greg Daniels and Michael Koman, follows the unit of a struggling Midwestern insubstantial arsenic they effort to revive it.

Ultimately, its idealistic caller editor-in-chief Ned Sampson (Star Wars and Harry Potter alum Domhnall Gleeson) and his bare young newsman Mare Pritti (Chelsea Frei) extremity up grappling with what journalism looks similar successful the integer age. Season 2, which arrived connected September 9, finds their Toledo Truth Teller recently revitalized and searching for its adjacent large scoop, making the amusement a amazingly crisp drama astir the aboriginal of journalism—and who gets to signifier it.

Lego Star Wars: The Mandalorian

Though this summer’s The Mandalorian and Grogu (which is streaming connected Disney+ now) earnestly underperformed astatine the container office, Lucasfilm is partnering with Lego to instrumentality different stab astatine the fan-favorite Star Wars series—which mightiness beryllium precisely what the franchise needs close now. Lucasfilm and Lego are going backmost to the beginning, reimagining each 3 seasons of the Pedro Pascal–starring live-action bid arsenic a 49-minute animated comedy.

For anyone who someway managed to miss Mando and Grogu until now, the communicative follows Din Djarin (Pascal successful the live-action series, Gavin Hammon successful this iteration), a bounty huntsman known arsenic the Mandalorian, who takes a occupation transporting a mysterious Force-sensitive child. That child, of course, is Grogu, aka Baby Yoda. What starts arsenic a elemental duty turns into a galaxy-spanning escapade arsenic the brace go improbable partners. Consider this mentation an entertaining mode to play catch-up.

South Park

It’s hard to retrieve a clip erstwhile the satellite didn’t person South Park. For astir 30 years, audiences person watched arsenic 4 potty-mouthed fourth-graders—Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny—navigate beingness successful the bizarre upland municipality of South Park, Colorado, successful this precise overmuch adults-only animated comedy. Along the way, they’ve encountered alien beingness forms, celebrities, and Elon Musk (yes, the existent one). They’ve besides watched Kenny dice connected at slightest 100 occasions.

Last year, the seemingly never-ending drama reinvented itself arsenic a peculiarly pointed governmental satire by taking purpose astatine figures including JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, Kristi Noem, Donald Trump, and Donald Trump’s manhood. The White House, unsurprisingly, had thoughts. And truthful did the Emmys; the amusement conscionable took location the 2026 grant for ​​Outstanding Animated Program. Clearly, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone person nary plans to instrumentality their ft disconnected the gas; they conscionable announced they’re taking a leafage retired of Trump’s renaming publication and rechristening the amusement South America for its 29th season, which premieres connected September 16.

Slow Horses

What if television’s champion spy amusement was besides 1 of its funniest? If John le Carré and (the original) The Office had a baby, it would look and dependable a batch similar Slow Horses, which returns for a sixth play connected September 16.

Based connected Mick Herron’s Slough House publication series, the bid follows a dysfunctional squad of MI5 misfits who are banished to the infamous Slough House unit, wherever they enactment nether the notorious Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), a foul-mouthed, flatulent, chain-smoking wreck of a antheral who besides happens to beryllium the astir superb operative successful the room. It’s a prestige spy thriller that doesn’t instrumentality itself excessively seriously, bouncing effortlessly betwixt shoot-outs and the benignant of droll bureau banter you’d expect from the best workplace comedies. In a vocation afloat of memorable performances, and an Oscar to amusement for it, Slow Horses conscionable mightiness beryllium the relation Oldman is champion remembered for. It’s besides the task that has made Jack Lowden oddsmakers’ apical pick for the adjacent James Bond.

City of Blood

In City of Blood, an eight-episode miniseries from Germany, clime alteration has turned Berlin into a sweltering metropolis teetering connected the borderline of collapse—and vampires are acceptable to instrumentality vantage of the chaos. While the privileged fewer unrecorded beneath a climate-controlled dome, the remainder of the city’s denizens are near to conflict the heat, crime, and corruption that person go portion of mundane life. But erstwhile estranged sisters Bea (Lea Drinda) and Phoebe (Soma Pysall) reunite, they uncover a nefarious governmental crippled and larn that, acknowledgment to that aforementioned undead population, humor has go the city’s astir coveted commodity. It’s a perfectly unusual premix of clime dystopia, household drama, and vampire thriller. And it arrives connected September 16.

MobLand

Season 2 of MobLand is astir here—whether Tom Hardy likes it oregon not. (Despite each the caller headlines surrounding the Oscar winner’s behind-the-scenes drama, helium has already signed connected for play 3.) The highly underrated, oregon possibly conscionable underseen, transgression play returns with the Harrigan family’s transgression empire nether menace from rival forces, forcing their street-smart fixer Harry Da Souza (yep, Hardy) to navigate progressively bloody interior tensions.

As Harry works to support the fractured household from tearing itself apart, he’s aided by his trusty sidekick Zosia (Jasmine Jobson), a tech specializer who brings a distinctly 21st-century accomplishment acceptable to their old-school transgression endeavor headed up by Conrad (Pierce Brosnan) and Maeve Harrington (Helen Mirren). Meanwhile, rival forces adjacent in, loyalties shift, and unit spreads done each country of the family’s world. Expect much bloodshed, shifting allegiances, mediocre decisions, and 1 of television’s astir kickass taxable songs (Fontaines D.C.’s “Starburster”) erstwhile play 2 premieres connected September 18.

Outlander: Blood of My Blood

Before determination was Jamie and Claire, determination were their parents. Like its predecessor, this Outlander prequel follows 2 abstracted timelines arsenic it details the courtship of Jamie Fraser’s parents, Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy) and Ellen MacKenzie (Harriet Slater), successful 18th-century Scotland, alongside the communicative of Claire Beauchamp’s parents, Henry Beauchamp (Jeremy Irvine) and Julia Moriston (Hermione Corfield), successful World War I–era England. Their 2 emotion stories unfold crossed antithetic clip periods, weaving unneurotic romance, household drama, and the time-traveling forces that kept Outlander fans enthralled for 8 seasons. The series’ 2nd play arrives connected September 18.

American Horror Story

Season 13 of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s fearfulness anthology is shaping up to beryllium what has astatine assorted points been called an Avengers-esque “endgame-level event” of “greatest hits.” While the details, arsenic always, person been kept alternatively quiet, what we bash cognize is that the caller play of American Horror Story volition propulsion bits and pieces from each play of the series, with a dense accent connected its witchcraft-laden “Coven” and “Apocalypse” storylines.

We besides cognize it is reassembling an all-star formed of past stars, immoderate of whom volition play double—or adjacent triple—character duty. Among them: Murphy mainstays Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd, and Angela Bassett. The caller play arrives connected September 26, which gives you plentifulness of clip to brushwood up connected your AHS lore.

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Before Netflix gave it a caller English dub—and, depending connected who you ask, stirred up a batch of feelings—there was the archetypal Japanese-language mentation of Neon Genesis Evangelion. The landmark anime, released successful 1995, follows a radical of teenagers recruited to aviator elephantine biomechanical weapons called Evangelions, oregon Evas, arsenic they support a postapocalyptic Tokyo (now known arsenic Tokyo-3) from mysterious creatures, aka Angels. But what starts arsenic a reasonably straightforward battle-for-humanity communicative soon becomes thing acold stranger, delving into trauma, loneliness, identity, and quality connection.

The Criterion Channel is bringing each 26 episodes of the classical (pre-Netflix) English dub to streaming for the archetypal time, alongside the archetypal Japanese-language mentation for each you purists. It’s a fitting instrumentality for 1 of anime’s astir boundary-pushing series.