From a Guy Ritchie action film and a multiplayer slasher game to the Bloc Party new album, the entertainment landscape offers plenty of streaming releases to kick off the fall season. Entertainment journalists have highlighted the top offerings hitting devices between September 7 and September 13.
Television and Film Highlights
Peacock is delivering a double dose of highly anticipated television this week. Fans of “The Office” universe can finally dive into “The Paper” season 2, which drops Wednesday, September 9. The series follows the staff of the Toledo Truth Teller, led by editor-in-chief Domhnall Gleeson, as they celebrate their dominance at the Ohio Journalism Awards.
Also on Peacock, “The Real Housewives of New York City” returns for Season 16 on September 9. Carole Radziwill reclaims her apple full-time after an eight-year absence. She joins returning cast members Sai De Silva, Erin Lichy, and Jessel Taank, alongside newcomers Hailey Glassman, Erika Hammond, and Daisy Toye. Viewers can expect Radziwill’s mentions of the Epstein files to surface during the season.
Over on Netflix, the clever French Call My Agent movie premieres Thursday, September 10. Camille Cottin’s character, Andréa Martel, is no longer an agent but a film director overseeing a disastrous production. In his review for Variety, Guy Lodge wrote: “Fleet and fast-talking and packed, as ever, with Gallic industry in-jokes and celebrity cameos, Émilie Noblet’s film can hardly fail to please longtime fans.”
Netflix also debuts the young adult drama “Crew Girl” on Thursday. The eight-episode series follows rower Teagan Tao, played by Miku Martineau, who joins an elite prep school’s all-boys crew team after a family scandal upends her life. A love triangle naturally develops. Jessica Paré of “Mad Men” also stars.
Reality TV fans will want to tune in for Season 5 of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” on Thursday, September 10. The season arrives months after production halted amid a domestic violence investigation involving Taylor Frankie Paul and her ex, Dakota Mortensen. The allegations also caused Disney and ABC to cancel her “Bachelorette” season. In a condensed run of five episodes, Paul deals with the fallout. The season also features Whitney Leavitt fresh off a Broadway run as Roxie Hart in “Chicago,” alongside returning cast members Jen Affleck, Jessi Draper, Layla Taylor, Mayci Neeley, Mikayla Matthews, and Miranda Hope.
For true crime enthusiasts, HBO Max premieres the three-part docuseries “A Killer Story” on Thursday. It digs into the two-decade Dana Chandler case. Chandler was convicted of murdering her ex-husband and his girlfriend in a 2002 shooting. A journalist spent six years covering the saga, which spanned three trials and included prosecutorial misconduct, ultimately becoming convinced of her innocence. New episodes drop weekly through September 24.
On the film front, the Guy Ritchie action pic “In the Grey” arrives on Starz and its streaming service on September 12. Henry Cavill, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Eiza González star in the story of a lawyer and mercenaries on an impossible mission to retrieve $1 billion. The film received mostly mixed reviews and opened around the same time as the box office phenomenon “Obsession,” but it has its defenders as an easy bit of action entertainment.
New Music to Stream
The internet is currently experiencing a revival of ’00s rock bands. The Strokes are back, and Wolf Parade’s “I’ll Believe in Anything” from their 2005 debut album “Apologies to the Queen Mary” recently got a huge streaming bump due to its placement in “Heated Rivalry.” New generations are also discovering TV on the Radio’s “Wolf Like Me” after its use in “Spider-Man: Brand New Day.”
Hopefully, this love for the era extends to the English band Bloc Party. The Bloc Party new album, “Anatomy of a Brief Romance,” arrives Friday, September 11. It features the kind of dance-y post-punk the band has long hung its hat on, simply made modern.
Music fans should also check out “Hard Life,” the latest release from The Tubs. The London-based Welsh band previously graced release lists in 2025 ahead of their sophomore album “Cotton Crown.” That record was a messy mosaic of jangly indiepop and ’80s college rock full of gorgeous songs about grief. “Hard Life” may be even greater, confirming The Tubs’ position as one of the principal indie rock bands of the moment. The album features impatient pop songs that span a range of emotions, somewhere between empathy and feeling pathetic.
Gaming: Michael Myers Returns
Looking to get an early jump on trick-or-treating? “Halloween: The Game” is ready to make you scream. The asymmetrical 1-vs.-4 thriller arrives Tuesday, September 8, on PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S, and PC.
One player takes the role of Michael Myers, the relentless slasher from the classic 1978 movie. The other four players are residents of Haddonfield, joining forces to try to stop Mike before he splashes too much blood around their Midwestern suburb. The Halloween video game comes from Colorado studio IllFonic, which has built its reputation with multiplayer games based on “Predator,” “Ghostbusters,” and “Killer Klowns from Outer Space.”
What Happens Next
As the fall television season ramps up, networks and streaming services will be watching closely to see which of these streaming releases capture audience attention. The return of legacy reality TV figures like Carole Radziwill and the continuation of scandal-adjacent series like “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” suggest a continued appetite for high-stakes, real-life drama. Meanwhile, the success of the Halloween video game will likely determine if IllFonic continues its run of nostalgic multiplayer horror adaptations. Viewers should keep an eye on how “The Paper” season 2 performs, as its success could pave the way for more spinoffs in the mockumentary universe.
— Lucas Berg, entertainment desk, AXO News