Of course, there will also be plenty more to watch on your chosen streaming platform in December. On Netflix, the most streamed show of all time (Squid Game) is getting a second season. Over on Binge, a beloved Paul Kelly song is being adapted for the screen. Then on Apple TV+ we’ll get a new-age rom com about the media circus that was the space race.

As usual, choosing what to spend your precious time watching is the hardest part. The big hitters like Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime are so packed with must-watch films and shows that it can be difficult to discern what’s worth your time and what’s best left on the backburner – especially when you’re prone to indecision and are paying for the luxury of choice with subscriptions to multiple platforms.

Not to worry, though, Men’s Health has you covered. To help you avoid being paralysed with indecision during a dreaded doomscroll, we’ve rounded up all the very best films and shows coming to streaming platforms in December 2024.

What’s new on Netflix Australia, December 2024

December Netflix Highlight – Squid Game, season 2

The most watched Netflix original of all time is returning for a second season that is set to drop on Boxing Day. Squid Game season two will see Lee Jung-jae reprise his role as Gi-Hun. After winning the life or death game in season one, Gi-Hun is returning for another round. What happened to the millions he won in the first season remains unclear, but we’re sure he has a good reason for once again staking his life against the game show.

Also on Netflix in December is new thriller series Black Doves, which has already been renewed for a second season before the first has even premiered. It stars Keira Knightley as a spy forced into hiding after her secret lover is killed. Another spy/assassin who just so happens to be an old flame (played by the voice of Paddington bear, Ben Whishaw) is sent to protect her.

What new series are coming to December in November 2024?

December 1

• Paper Dolls

December 4

• Tomorrow and I
• The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On, season 3

December 5

• Black Doves

December 6

• Echoes of the Past

December 10

• Rugged Rugby: Conquer or Die
• Polo 

December 11

• One Hundred Years of Solitude, part 1
• Queer Eye, season 9

December 12

• La Palma
• No Good Deed

December 13

• 1992

December 17

• Aaron Rodgers: Enigma

December 18

• The Manny, season 2

December 19

• Virgin River, season 6

December 26

• Squid Game, season 2

December 28

• Maestro in Blue, season 3

What new movies are coming to Netflix Australia in December 2024

December 1

• Sleeping Dogs

December 4

• The Children’s Train
• The Only Girl in the Orchestra
• Churchill at War

December 6

• Mary
• Camp Crasher
• Biggest Heist Ever

December 7

• Birdeater

December 8

• Spy

December 11

• The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga
• Makayla’s Voice: A Letter to the World

December 12

• Dune: Part Two

December 13

• Carry-On
• Disaster Holiday

December 18

• Julia’s Stepping Stones

December 20

• Ferry 2
• The Six Triple Eight
• Umjolo: Day Ones
• UniverXO Dabiz

December 22

• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

December 23

• The Mountain Between Us

December 26

• Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

December 31

• Avicii – My Last Show
• Avicii – I’m Tim

What’s new on Disney+ Australia, December 2024

December Disney+ Highlight – Skeleton Crew

The next entry in the Star Wars universe, Skeleton Crew, will arrive on Disney+ in December. You can expect a family friendly story from the new series, which is set around the time of The Mandalorian. It follows four kids who get lost in space and must find their way back to their home planet. Along the way they’ll encounter strange places, strange aliens, and Jude Law, who plays a character who says he’s a Jedi, although we’re not convinced. Skeleton Crew has been described as Goonies meets Stranger Things in space, and that sounds like a worthwhile watch to us.

What new series are coming to Disney+ in December 2024?

December 3

• Skeleton Crew

December 4

• Los Montaner, season 2
• Light Shop
• Mickey and Minnie’s Christmas Carols

December 11

• Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
• Dream Productions

December 13

• Invisible

December 17

• The Simpsons: O C’mon All Ye Faithful

December 20

• Ilana Glazer: Human Magic

December 22

• What If…?, season 3

What new movies are coming to Disney+ in December 2024?

December 3

• Jung Kook: I Am Still

December 10

• Sugarcane

December 13

• Elton John: Never Too Late

December 17

• Blink

December 27

• John Williams in Tokyo

What’s new on Stan, December 2024

December Stan Highlight – Earth Abides

Based on George R. Stewart’s bestselling sci-fi novel of the same name, Earth Abides stars Alexander Ludwig (Vikings, The Hunger Games) as one of humanity’s last holdouts in a post-apocalyptic world. In this dystopian setting, the world is in ruins due to a plague that spread across the globe and wiped out most of the human race. With civilisation almost completely broken down, the final survivors struggle against their inevitable decline into extinction.

What new series are coming to Stan in December 2024?

December 1

• Hey Duggee season 4 part 2
• The Octonauts and the Great Christmas Rescue

December 2

• Earth Abides

December 4

• CMA Country Christmas 2024

December 5

• Hitler: A Life in Pictures

December 11

• Born To Spy

December 19

• Significant Others

December 22

• The Reserve

December 23

• Barons

December 26

• Bump, season 5

What new movies are coming to Stan in December 2024?

December 1

• My Best Friend’s Wedding
• The Legend Of The Christmas Witch 2: Origins

December 2

• When Mum is Away…with the Family
• Click

December 3

• Gang Related
• The Great Silence

December 4

• A Kid Like Jake

December 6

• Mr. Deeds
• The Drover’s Wife

December 7

• Ben Hur
• Escape Room
• Burning

December 8

• Shadows of the Web
• Lantana
• Agent Cody Banks
• Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London

December 9

• Who You Think I Am

December 10

• Mandy

December 12

• Death Wish

December 13

• The Craft
• The Innocence

December 14

• Shazam: Fury Of The Gods
• Thomas And Friends: Tale Of The Brave
• Creed
• Creed II
• Creed III
• Rocky
• Rocky II
• Rocky III
• Rocky IV
• Rocky V
• Rocky Balboa

December 15

• Man On Wire
• A Tale Of Love and Desire

December 16

• Original Sin

December 17

• A Fistful Of Dollars
• For A Few Dollars More
• The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

December 18

• Evil Dead Rise
• Rosalie Blum

December 19

• Donnie Darko
• An Unexpected Love

December 20

• Legally Blonde
• Legally Blonde 2: Red, White And Blonde

December 21

• Interstellar

December 22

• My Little Pony: The Movie
• Uptown Girls

December 23

• Next Goal Wins
• 70 Big Ones

December 24

• The Vow
• Petra

December 25

• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug
• The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies
• Lassie Come Home

December 28

• 300
• Thomas And Friends: The Great Discovery

December 29

• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
• Aurora

What’s new on Amazon Prime Video Australia, December 2024

December Amazon Prime Video Highlight – Longlegs

Amazon Prime is going all in on the Christmas spirit this December, with big hitters like Love Actually, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Christmas in the Spotlight all coming to the platform. Love Actually and The Grinch are the classic choices, but if you’re after something fresh, Christmas in the Spotlight could be the move. The film revolves around a pop star falling in love with an American football player. What an inconceivable plotline! Or at least it would be inconceivable if it wasn’t a complete rip-off of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s relationship. It’s sure to be some overtly cheesy fun.

Make sure to add Longlegs to your watchlist too. It’s one of the most critically acclaimed horror movies of the year and centres on an FBI investigation into a series of murders where fathers are killing their entire families,` seemingly without any motive. The presence of a mysterious figure known only as ‘Longlegs’ at each of the murders leads the chief investigator (who has her own connection to Longlegs) to suspect an occult factor.

What new series are coming to Amazon Prime in December?

December 6

• The Sticky

December 10

• Secret Level

December 13

• Bandish Bandits, season 2

What new movies are coming to Amazon Prime in December?

December 1

• Love Actually
• Dr Seuss’ The Grinch

December 3

• Absolution
• Jack in Time For Christmas

December 4

• Dr Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas

December 5

• La Virgen Roja

December 10

• Longlegs

December 13

• Kanguva

December 14

• Christmas in the Spotlight

December 17

• Chaos Walking
• Chiefsaholic: A Wolf in Chiefs Clothing

December 27

• Culpa Tuya
• Singham Again

December 28

• The Garfield Movie

What’s new on Binge, December 2024

December Binge Highlight – How to Make Gravy

Big news for Binge, the platform has delivered its first ever original film – and it’s all based on Paul Kelly’s iconic song ‘How to Make Gravy’. The film will follow the same narrative of the song, focusing on a prisoner who writes a letter to his brother lamenting the fact that he won’t be home for Christmas this year and won’t be able to make gravy for the Christmas roast. A mostly Australian lineup brings the song to the screen, including Daniel Henshall, Brenton Thwaites, Kate Mulvany and Hugo Weaving. Sounds like the ideal Christmas movie to us.

What new series are coming to Binge in December 2024?

December 1

• The IT Crowd, season 4

December 2

• Belly Of The Beast, Bigger And Bloodier
• Ruthless: Monopoly’s Secret History
• Libertad
• Ben

December 3

• The Great British Bake Off, season 15

December 4

• Expert Witness, season 2

December 5

• Creature Commandos

December 6

• Southern Charm, season 10
• Jamie’s One Pan Christmas Special

December 10

• Don’t Hate Your House With The Property Brothers

December 11

• Call Me Ted

December 12

• I Kissed A Girl

December 19

• Laid

December 20

• Jamie’s Christmas Shortcuts

December 27

• Sister Wives, season 12

What new series are coming to Binge in December 2024?

December 1

• How to Make Gravy

December 3

• Escape Room
• Georgia Rule
• Punisher: War Zone
• Something New
• Here And Now

December 12

• Dune: Part Two
• Passengers

December 15

• Ezra

December 20

• Sweet Dreams

December 26

• Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire

December 27

• Reunion

December 28

• The Garfield Movie

December 31

• Rocketman
• A Series Of Unfortunate Events
• Bad News Bears
• She’s Having A Baby

What’s new on Apple TV+, December 2024

December Apple TV+ Highlight – Fly Me to the Moon

Starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, Fly Me to the Moon is a romantic-comedy set against the backdrop of the Apollo 11 moon landing. While it may blur the line between fact and fiction, the film is based on the real battle to improve the public’s perception of the first moon mission at a time when Americans were hesitant to support funding due to social unrest and the Vietnam War. Eventually, they were won over by some effective marketing organised by NASA journalist-turned-public relations pro Julian Scheer, who coordinated news coverage of Apollo 11 and serves as the inspiration for the Johansson’s character Kelly Jones. Tatum on the other hand plays the launch’s director, who is weary of the operation turning into a media circus but can’t help but be attracted to this marketing genius.

December 6

• Fly Me to the Moon

December 13

• Wonder Pets: In the City
• Eva the Owlet (‘Eva’s Moon Wish’)

December 18

• The Secret Lives of Animals

I’m short on time, what should I watch in December to keep up with the zeitgeist?

We get it. Time is thin and the streaming commitments are coming thick and fast. To ensure you’re keeping up with what everyone’s talking about, this is our list of recommended must-watch films and series.

• How to Make Gravy, Binge, December 1st
• Earth Abides, Stan, December 2nd
• Skeleton Crew, Disney+, December 3rd
• Black Doves, Netflix, December 5th
• Fly Me to the Moon, Apple TV+, December 6th
• Longlegs, Amazon Prime, December 10th
• Christmas in the Spotlight, Amazon Prime, December 14th
• Squid Game season 2, Netflix, December 26th

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We’re in for a big month of streaming content. On Apple TV+, the highly anticipated World War II drama Blitz, which is tipped to win Oscars, will premiere on November 22nd. On Binge, Dune: Prophecy will continue Denis Villeneuve’s blockbuster Dune franchise – while Dune: Part Two will make its streaming debut on Netflix. Of course, we also can’t look past the fact that Jake Paul will finally face off against Mike Tyson in a boxing match, and it’ll all be streamed on Netflix.

As usual, choosing what to watch is the hardest part. The big hitters like Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime are so packed with must-watch films and shows that it can be difficult to discern what’s worth your time and what’s best left on the backburner – especially when you’re prone to indecision and are paying for the luxury of choice with subscriptions to multiple platforms.

Not to worry though, Men’s Health has you covered. To help you avoid being paralysed with indecision during a dreaded doomscroll, we’ve rounded up all the very best films and shows coming to streaming platforms in November 2024.

What’s new on Netflix Australia, November 2024

November Netflix Highlight – Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson (Live Event)

Netflix always goes big at this time of year, and the streamer’s release schedule for November is holding to form. At the top of the billing is the long-awaited bout between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson, which will be streaming live. Barring any further injuries, back-outs or last-minute excuses, that fight will take place on November 16th.

Also on Netflix in November, the second half of Outer Banks‘ fourth season will premiere on November 7th. Cobra Kai‘s sixth season will also get a part two on November 15th, for some family-friendly viewing. The Piano Lesson, which is set in 1936 Pittsburgh during the aftermath of the Great Depression and follows the Charles family, who come to blows over differing opinions on what should be done about a family heirloom, an ornate piano with designs carved by an enslaved ancestor, will also premiere. Although the film may struggle to beat the nepo baby allegations, with Denzel Washington set to produce, his son Malcolm to make his directorial debut, and other son John David to star. Finally, Dune: Part Two will make its streaming debut on November 29th – and if you don’t know why that film is worth watching, we suggest you crawl out from underneath that rock you’ve been living under.

What new series are coming to Netflix in November 2024?

November 1

• It’s All Over: The Kiss That Changed Spanish Football

November 5

• Love Village, season 2
• Dirty Jobs, seasons 1-2

November 6

• Love Is Blind: Argentina

November 7

• Outer Banks, season 4 part 2
• Countdown: Paul vs. Tyson
• Born for the Spotlight

November 8

• Bank Under Siege
• The Cage
• Mr. Plankton
• Investigation Alien
• The Resident, season 6
• Alita: Battle Angel 

November 9

• Arcane, season 2

November 12

• Rhythm + Flow: Brazil
• Adrienne Iapalucci: Dark Queen

November 13

• Sisters’ Feud
• The Mothers of Penguins
• SPRINT Part 2
• Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley

November 14

• Beyond Goodbye
• The Lost Children

November 15

• Cobra Kai, season 6 part 2

November 16

• Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson (Live Event)

November 19

• Zombieverse: New Blood
• Adam Ray Presents: Dr. Phil UNPLUGGED

November 20

• Adoration
• Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy
• Our Oceans

November 22

• Tex Mex Motors, season 2
• Rhythm + Flow, season 2
• When the Phone Rings
• The Helicopter Heist
• The Empress, season 2
• 900 Days Without Anabel

November 25

• 900 Days Without Anabel

November 26

• Anthony Jeselnik: Bones and All

November 27

• Chef’s Table: Volume 7

November 28

• The Madness
• Asaf
• Is it Cake? Holiday

November 29

• Love Never Lies: South Africa
• Senna

What new movies are coming to Netflix Australia in November 2024?

November 1

• Let Go
• Hidden Figures
• Big Fat Liar
• Warm Bodies

November 6

• Meet Me Next Christmas
• Pedro Páramo

November 7

• 10 Days of a Curious Man

November 8

• Vijay 69
• Umjolo: The Gone Girl
• Alita: Battle Angel

November 10

• Abigail

November 12

• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

November 13

• Hot Frosty

November 15

• Ready or Not

November 20

• The Merry Gentlemen
• GTMAX

November 21

• Maybe Baby 2

November 22

• JOY
• The Piano Lesson
• John Wick: Chapter 4

November 27

• Our Little Secret

November 29

• Dune: Part Two
• The Snow Sister

What’s new on Disney+ Australia, November 2024

November Disney+ Highlight – Say Nothing

November looks like it will be a quieter month over on Disney+, but only in terms of the quantity of new content – as usual, the quality is sublime. Say Nothing is the headliner. It’s a drama series based on a non-fiction chronicle of the same name and details Northern Ireland’s IRA movement amid the troubles. Beginning with the disappearance of a single mother, Say Nothing expands into a broader examination of the secrets of an extraordinarily violent period. We recently sped through the book, and it certainly appears ripe for dramatisation.

Elsewhere on Disney+, Music by John Williams is a new documentary about its eponymous legendary composer. If the name John Williams doesn’t mean anything to you, there’s a strong chance you’ve still heard his work. Williams composed the scores of the Star Wars, Harry Potter and Indiana Jones movies, as well as Jaws, Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, Home Alone, E.T. and the original Superman.

Another standout is Interior Chinatown, where Jimmy Yang stars as an extra in a crime procedural before witnessing a crime that places him at the centre of the action. There’s also a new documentary on the Beatles first visit to the United States, titled Beatles ’64.

What new series are coming to Disney+ in November 2024?

November 6

• Gangnam B-Side

November 14

• Say Nothing

November 15

• An Almost Christmas Story

November 19

• Interior Chinatown

November 20

• SuperKitties: Su-Purr Adventures

November 22

• Jim Gaffigan: The Skinny
• Amor Da Minha Vida

What new movies are coming to Disney+ in November 2024?

November 1

• Music by John Williams

November 2

• Endurance

November 9

• The Fiery Priest 2

November 22

• Out of My Mind

November 25

• Tsunami: Race Against Time

November 29

• Beatles ’64

What’s new on Stan, November 2024

November Stan Highlight – La Chimera

La Chimera is that artsy European movie your film buff friend won’t stop talking about. Starring Josh O’Connor as former British archaeologist Arthur, who is struggling to overcome the death of the woman he loves, La Chimera follows a group of grave robbers who use Arthur’s divination abilities to discover and desecrate ancient Etruscan tombs and acquire the priceless artefacts held within. Arthur searches for life after it has been lost, attempting to discover a gateway to the afterlife in the myths of the past while wrestling with the crushing weight of his sins.

Elsewhere on Stan, you’ll find your Halloween fix. X, the first instalment in the series that now includes Pearl and MaXXXine, is coming to the platform on November 15th.

What new series are coming to Stan in November 2024?

November 1

• Drag Race Down Under, season 4
• Transformers Earthspark, season 1 part 2
• Ghosts, season 5

November 2

• Staged, season 3

November 6

• The Makers of Modern Australia

November 8

• The Resident, season 6
• Sanditon, seasons 2-3

November 13

• FBI, season 5

November 20

• 2024 ARIA Awards
• Great Australian Stuff

November 22

• Chivalry

November 28

• Hunters, seasons 1-2

What new movies are coming to Stan in November 2024?

November 1

• Fatman
• Kung Fu Panda
• Kung Fu Panda 3
• Last Christmas
• How The Grinch Stole Christmas

November 3

• Revealed: Bribe Inc.
• The Notebook
• The Illusionist
• La Chimera

November 4

• Colors

November 5

• Big Game
• The Principal

November 6

• China Moon

November 7

• Standing Up for Sunny
• The Truth (Binoche/Deneuve)

November 9

• The Mountain
• Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
• Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
• Ready, Steady Wiggle, season 5
• Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now!

November 10

• Magic Mike’s Last Dance
• Swing Ride

November 11

• Wedding Daze

November 12

• The Wedding Party
• Cold War

November 14

• Raging Bull
• Just To Be Sure

November 15

• X
• Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam

November 16

• Parasite
• Rain Man

November 17

• Sleepless In Seattle
• Far From Men

November 18

• Platoon

November 19

• Just Go With It
• The Dancer

November 21

• Lost Highway
• Soldiers Of Fortune
• Nugget is Dead: A Christmas Story

November 23

• Inception
• Thomas And Friends: The Mystery Of Lookout Mountain
• The Predators

November 24

• The Hunting Ground
• A Fish Called Wanda
• You Came Back

November 25

• Army Of Darkness
• A Piece of My Heart

November 26

• Enemy
• Capote

November 27

• The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
• The Ties

November 28

• Hell Or High Water

November 29

• At First Sight
• The Belier Family

November 30

• The Departed
• The Wiggles: Sound of Christmas
• Love Like Poison

What’s new on Amazon Prime Video Australia, November 2024

November Amazon Prime Video Highlight – Cross

Aldis Hodge takes the leading role in Cross, a crime thriller series that follows a decorated homicide detective and forensic psychologist in Washington DC. The eponymous Alex Cross butts heads with a sadistic serial killer, who has left a string of bodies around the city, but that’s not the only danger. As Cross tracks the killer, a link to his past re-emerges, threatening to derail everything he’s worked so hard to build.

What new series are coming to Amazon Prime in November?

November 7

• Citadel: Honey Bunny

November 12

• In Cold Water: The Shelter Bay Mystery

November 14

• Cross

November 21

• Cruel Intentions

November 22

• The Tribe

What new movies are coming to Amazon Prime in November?

November 1

• Borderlands
• Ford V Ferrari
• Me Before You
• Libre
• Kung Fu Panda 3

November 5

• Grimsby
• Shrek

November 7

• My Old Ass
• Madagascar
• Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

November 12

• Shrek 2
• 47 Meters Down: Uncaged

November 15

• Prey

November 22

• Pimpinero: Blood and Oil

November 26

• 12 Strong
• Penguins of Madagascar

November 29

• Civil War

What’s new on Binge, November 2024

November Binge Highlight – Dune: Prophecy

Binge hasn’t released its November scheduling information just yet, but in the meantime you can catch up the biggest series of the moment, The Penguin. Come back here soon for updates.

We do know when some of Binge’s headliners will be premiering in November though, with Dune: Prophecy leading the pack. A prequel to Denis Villenueve’s wildly successful Dune duology, Dune: Prophecy focuses on the origins of the Bene Gesserit religious sisterhood. Aussie Travis Fimmel is set to feature as the presumptive antagonist Desmond Hart, who is described as “a charismatic soldier with an enigmatic past, who seeks to gain the Emperor’s trust at the expense of the sisterhood.”

Also on Binge, The Day of the Jackal will premiere on November 7th. It’s a reimagination of the classic novel of the same name in a contemporary political setting and stars Eddie Redmayne as the titular Jackal, a highly skilled and merciless assassin who is being hunted down by a British intelligence officer played by Lashana Lynch.

What new series are coming to Binge in November 2024?

November 7

• The Day of the Jackal

November 18

• Dune: Prophecy

November 21

• Based on a True Story, season 2

November 22

• The Sex Lives of College Girls, season 3

November 23

• Outlander, season 7 part 2

What’s new on Apple TV+, November 2024

November Apple TV+ Highlight – Blitz

It’s been 11 years since 12 Years a Slave won the Oscar for Best Picture, and in that time, director Steve McQueen has only helmed one other feature film. That streak is about to end with Blitz. Set in London during the ‘blitz’ bombing campaign of World War II, Blitz centres on a nine-year-old boy who is evacuated to the countryside, only to find himself in peril after returning to London in an attempt to find his way home. Keep an eye on this one, as its tipped to pick up plenty of accolades. It could also net Saoirse Ronan, who plays the boy’s distraught mother who searches for him as the bombs fall, her first Oscar.

November 13

• Bad Sisters, season 2

November 15

• Silo, season 2

November 22

• Blitz
• Bread & Roses

I’m short on time, what should I watch in November to keep up with the zeitgeist?

We get it. Time is thin and the streaming commitments are coming thick and fast. To ensure you’re keeping up with next month’s Stranger Things or Squid Game (read: the shows everyone’s talking about), this is our list of recommended must-watch films and series.

• La Chimera, Stan, November 3rd
• Outer Banks season 4 part 2, Netflix, November 7th
• The Day of the Jackal, Binge, November 7th
• Say Nothing, Disney+, November 14th
• Cross, Amazon Prime, November 14th
• Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson, Netflix, November 16th
• Dune: Prophecy, Binge, November 18th
• Interior Chinatown, Disney+, November 19th
• The Piano Lesson, Netflix, November 22nd
• Blitz, Apple TV+, November 22nd

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For those of you who were welcomed to Orange County, California in the aughts, you will remember Adam Brody as Seth Cohen, the nerdy but adorable high school student who befriends his father’s ward, bad boy Ryan Atwood (Ben McKenzie) on teen soap The O.C. But now he’s back in a new series where he plays – wait for it – a hot young(ish) rabbi. The setup of the series is easy enough: a young podcastress, Joanne (Kristen Bell) and her sister Morgan (Justine Lupe, or Willa from Succession) tell their listeners about all their dating woes in LA, rife with the emotionally unavailable, hot mess men at every corner on a Call Her Daddy-esque podcast titled, you guessed it, Nobody Wants This. At a dinner party Bell meets Brody’s Rabbi Noah Roklov in a case of mistaken identity that gets quickly sorted, and throughout the series, he continues to surprise her at every turn by subverting her often-mistaken ideas of what a rabbi is (He smokes weed! He has sex!), and who a single man dating in LA can be.

From the beginning, Nobody Wants This sets its viewers at ease, assuring us that Brody’s Rabbi Roklov isn’t your typical love interest. He is not the brooding, silent type whose icy exterior has to be warmed, and chipped away at by the right (read perfect, pure) woman. He is not the cheating womanizer who finds the right (read perfect, pure) woman that makes him stop his cheating ways, and finally see women not as objects for him to use and conquer, but as sentient, human people who also deserve respect.

When we meet Brody’s Noah, he is funny, besweatered, and charming. (Would I trust him to open a vintage bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape? No, but you can’t win them all.) Not only that, but somewhat refreshingly for male love interests, he is soft, observant, and tender, and emotionally available – all of which scare Bell’s Joanne. And all of which other men can learn from! Sure there’s a mishap with a sportcoat, but he comes back from it, and that’s the power of being emotionally available!

Suffice to say, a religious man being hot is not a new thing – there was Mandy Patinkin’s yeshiva student in Yentl, and Ben Stiller’s hip rabbi in Keeping The Faith. Sadly, even the young Mandy Patinkin bathing naked in the lake, with droplets of water burrowing beneath his forest of chest hair, down his abs, and finding their way to his – ahem, even young Mandy can’t compare to Adam Brody’s hot rabbi in Nobody Wants This. I can’t lie.

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This is a glorified thirst-piece, but it’s not just about how utterly stricken I am by his soft tousled curls, or his puppy dog eyes, and it goes beyond how much I want to see Brody’s character out of that sweater. It’s more so about how tender he is, how he speaks to Bell’s character Joanne (terrible name, but I digress) and holds her face when they talk. How at every point when she wants to run, he reels her back in by being open and honest, by being accountable for his actions (and sometimes even hers), by providing assurance and certainty when she needs it the most. By being a good partner.

All too often when it comes to romantic comedies, or romantic dramas, we’re faced with romantic heroes who are allowed to be flawed, denigratory, and imperfect. If we’re being honest, they’re kind of allowed to be a dick, while the women they encounter are given no such leeway, mirroring the gendered double standards that we often see in real-life dating. Nobody Wants This subverts that notion. First with Joanne, a flawed woman who is afraid of love, runs at the sight of a healthy relationship, and gives up when things get even a little bit too hard. And just as importantly with Rabbi Roklov, a man who sees her misgivings, soothes her distrust, assuages her ick, and loves her through it all.

Beneath this extremely well-written, well-acted television series replete with some of the most insane chemistry I’ve seen in years, is a lesson for men. That providing emotional security and stability, instead of leading with money and a plot of land, will always win out in the end. Even as bad as things get (wearing a sportcoat with basketball shorts), you can still come back from “the ick” and that is no small feat. Trust, everybody wants this.

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As the weather is getting hotter, so too is the content coming to streaming services this October. The much-derided Australian reboot of The Office is about to premiere on Amazon Prime, so expect some discourse. Territory will soon announce itself as Australia’s answer to Yellowstone over on Netflix. Budding auteur Dylan River’s latest series Thou Shalt Not Steal is heading to stan. And of course, every streaming platform is bolstering its arsenal of horror movies and Halloween classics to prepare for the 31st.

The vast swaths of new content don’t make it easy for you though. The big hitters like Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime are so packed with must-watch films and shows that it can be difficult to discern what’s worth your time and what’s best left on the backburner – especially when you’re prone to indecision and are paying for the luxury of choice with subscriptions to multiple platforms.

Not to worry though, Men’s Health has you covered. To help you avoid being paralysed with indecision during a dreaded doomscroll, we’ve rounded up all the very best films and shows coming to streaming platforms in October 2024.

What’s new on Netflix Australia, October 2024

October Netflix Highlight – Territory

Brace yourself, because Netflix is in for a massive month this October. Headlining the waves of new content heading to Netflix is Territory, which as far as we can tell is essentially an Australian version of Yellowstone. Set deep in the Australian outback, the world’s largest cattle farm is left without an obvious successor. A Succession-style dispute ensues, while powerful factions including miners, landowners, cowboys and gangsters prepare for a hostile takeover.

Also on Netflix in September, your hunger for Halloween vibes will be sated by both Lisa Frankenstein and Late night With The Devil, two of the buzziest horror films of the year. Basketball fans will find a bingeworthy new series in Starting 5, which follows five NBA superstars throughout the course of the 2023-24 season. The featured athletes include LeBron James, Anthony Edwards and Jayson Tatum. Finally, the first part of the fourth season of polarising drama series Outer Banks will premiere on October 10th.

What new series are coming to Netflix in October 2024?

October 1

• Making It in Marbella

October 2

• Love Is Blind, season 7

October 3

• Heartstopper, season 3
• Blue Box

October 5

• Ranma 1/2

October 9

• Starting 5
• Deceitful Love
• The Secret of the River

October 10

• Outer Banks, season 4, part 1
• Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft
• The Life and Movies of Erşan Kuneri, season 2
• Love Is Blind, Habibi

October 13

• A Virtuous Business

October 15

• Comedy Revenge

October 17

• The Lincoln Lawyer, season 3
• Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance

October 18

• Happiness Is

October 23

• The Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox
• Car Masters: Rust to Riches, season 6

October 24

• Tyler Perry’s Beauty in Black
• Territory

October 25

• Simone Biles Rising, part 2
• Hellbound, season 2
• The Last Night at Tremore Beach

October 30

• Go Ahead, Brother
• The Law According to Lidia Poët, season 2

October 31

• The Diplomat, season 2
• Murder Mindfully

What new movies are coming to Netflix Australia in October 2024

October 3

• Trouble

October 4

• CTRL
• IT’S WHAT’S INSIDE
• The Platform 2

October 5

• The Fabelmans

October 8

• The Predator

October 9

• The Invitation
• Bullet Train

October 11

• In Her Place
• Lonely Planet
• Uprising

October 12

• Halloween II

October 15

• Spies in Disguise

October 16

• Justice

October 17

• Outside
• The Shadow Strays

October 18

• The Man Who Loved UFOs
• Woman of the Hour
• Late Night with the Devil
• Scream

October 23

• Family Pack

October 24

• The Color Purple

October 25

• Don’t Move
• Hijack ’93 

October 26

• Scream VI
• Lisa Frankenstein

October 30

• Time Cut

What new documentaries are coming to Netflix Australia in October 2024?

October 2

• Chef’s Table: Noodles
• Unsolved Mysteries: Volume 5

October 7

• The Menendez Brothers

October 16

• Ancient Apocalypse: The Americas
• I AM A KILLER, season 5
• Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare

October 18

• The Turnaround

October 23

• This is the Zodiac Speaking

October 25

• The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

October 30

• Martha
• The Manhattan Alien Abduction

What’s new on Disney+ Australia, October 2024

October Disney+ Highlight – Last Days of the Space Age

Set in 1979 Western Australia, Last Days of the Space Age follows the residents of a small Aussie town that is brought to global attention when it hosts the Miss Universe Pageant while a power strike threatens to plunge the region into darkness and a US space station crashes on its outskirts. Sounds fairly dramatic, doesn’t it? Well that’s nothing compared to the turmoil within the families of the town, who must endure amid the chaos of the waning years of the Cold War.

What new series are coming to Disney+ in October 2024?

October 2

• Last Days of the Space Age, premiere
• Me & Mickey, season 3

October 4

• Mickey’s Spooky Stories
• Incredible Dr Pol: The Grand Finale

October 5

• Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War, season 3

October 9

• La Máquina
• 9-1-1, season 7
• American Horror Story: Delicate

October 11

• Return to Las Sabinas

October 12

• Jeongnyeon: The Star is Born

October 16

• Nemisis
• World Eats Bread

October 18

• Rivals

October 23

• Children are Kings
• Selenkay, season 2

October 25

• This is Not Hollywood – Avetrana

October 30

• Scamanda
• Witches: Truth Behind the Trials
• Wizards Beyond Waverly Place

What new movies are coming to Disney+ in October 2024?

October 3

• Hold Your Breath

October 11

• Mr. Crocket

October 21

• Carved

What new documentaries are coming to Disney+ in October 2024?

October 11

• Expedition Amazon

October 18

• Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara
• The Devil’s Climb

October 25

• Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band

What’s new on Stan, October 2024

October Stan Highlight – Thou Shalt Not Steal

Helmed by Australia’s own directorial rising star Dylan River, Thou Shalt Not Steal is a black comedy set in 1980s Central Australia. The Stan original series centres on a pair of young people – one a formerly incarcerated Aboriginal woman and the other an awkward teen – on the run from the law, a dodgy preacher and a sex worker whose taxi they stole as they search for the truth behind a mysterious family secret.

Elsewhere, you’ll find your Halloween fix on Stan. A number of horror classics are making their way to the streamer towards the end of October, from The Conjuring on the 22nd and Carrie on the 23rd to Child’s Play on the 25th.

What new series are coming to Stan in October 2024?

October 1

• Joan
• Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?, season 2

October 2

• This is Going to Hurt
• Ben Gen 10

October 3

• Lucky Country

October 4

• Underground, seasons 1-2

October 13

• Hidden Assets, season 2

October 16

• The Diplomat

October 17

• Thou Shalt Not Steal

October 19

• New Leash On Life

October 23

• Surreal Estate

October 24

• Dead & Buried

October 27

• Jussie Smollett: Anatomy of a Hoax

What new movies are coming to Stan in October 2024?

October 1

• Hitch

October 4

• Jumanji: The Next Level

October 5

• Burnt
• Scooby-Doo! And Krypto, Too!

October 6

• The Third War

October 7

• The Wedding Singer
• Heroic

October 9

• The Inner Cage

October 10

• Seven
• Dark Satellites

October 11

• It’s The Law

October 12

• The Matrix Resurrections
• Out In The Open

October 13

• Gayby Baby
• Scooby-Doo! Return To Zombie Island

October 14

• Radical
• I’m Not A Killer

October 15

• Charlie’s Angels
• Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
• Charlie’s Angels

October 18

• Bad Boys
• Bad Boys II
• Bad Boys For Life

October 19

• Scooby-Doo! The Sword And The Scoob

October 20

• The Uncovering
• Everything Must Go

October 21

• The Vice Of Hope

October 22

• The Conjuring
• The Conjuring 2
• Disco

October 23

• Carrie

October 24

• Of An Age
• The Amityville Horror

October 25

• Persona Non Grata
• Child’s Play

October 26

• Black Adam
• The Wiggles: The Sound of Halloween
• Quo Vadis, Aida?
• Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!

October 27

• Stranger By the Lake

October 28

• Games People Play
• Ju-On 2 (The Grudge 2)

October 29

• A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood

October 30

• The Equalizer 2
• The Inbetweeners
• Plane

October 31

• Poltergeist
• The Wild Thornberrys Movie
• Three Floors

What new documentaries are coming to Stan in October 2024?

October 6

• Going Clear: Scientology and The Prison of Belief

October 17

• Wagspiracy: Vardy vs Rooney

What’s new on Amazon Prime Video Australia, October 2024

October Amazon Prime Video Highlight – The Office Australia

The Australian reboot of The Office has already received scathing reviews online, but can we at least agree to give it a chance? At the end of the day, this is an Australian cast and crew getting their big chance and they deserve a shot, even if this is the 13th iteration of a series that has already had its time in the sun and the trailer’s jokes came off as far more cringeworthy than comedic. In this rehash of the typical The Office mould, a classically out of touch office manager – the first female character to fill the standard Michael Scott role in any iteration – is devastated to learn that her branch is being shut down in the wake of the COVID pandemic. Determined to keep her work family together as staff are ordered to work from home, Felicity Ward’s Hannah Howard goes to great lengths to promote staff bonding.

What new series are coming to Amazon Prime in October?

October 3

• Legend of Vox Machina, season 3

October 4

• The Tribe

October 9

• Death Note

October 10

• Citadel: Diana

October 16

• Are You Smarter Than A Celebrity

October 18

• The Office Australia

October 19

• The Devil’s Hour, season 2

October 25

• Like A Dragon: Yakuza

What new movies are coming to Amazon Prime in October?

October 1

• The Addams Family
• The Amityville Horror
• Challengers
• The Fighter
• Jumanji: The Next Level
• Legally Blonde
• The Mummy
• Sherlock Gnomes

October 3

• House of Spoils

October 4

• El Diario

October 6

• A Simple Favour

October 8

• Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life

October 15

• Bad Boys For Life
• Wild Card

October 19

• Darkness of Man

October 20

• Immaculate

October 22

• Hot Summer Nights
• The Silent Hour

What’s new on Binge, October 2024

October Binge Highlight – What We Do In The Shadows, season 6

The biggest release coming to Binge in October is undoubtedly the sixth and final season of What We Do In The Shadows. The comedy series – which is the brainchild of Taika Waititi – has built a cult following over the years, and in its final season, vampires Nandor, Nadja, Laszlo, Colin and Guillermo have a busy itinerary that includes joining the workforce, visiting New Hampshire, going to a human dinner party and conjuring a demon. The quintessential Halloween watch.

What new series are coming to Binge in October 2024?

October 1

• Lethal Weapon, seasons 1-3
• Imma Tataranni, season 2
• Southland, seasons 1-5
• Frontmen
• Mum, season 3

October 2

• The Real Housewives of NYC, season 15 premiere
• Emergency Helicopter Medics, season 3
• Cathedrals Of Culture

October 3

• Velma: This Halloween Needs To be More Special
• Ancient Apocalypse, season 2

October 4

• Forsaken Places, season 1
• The World Cook

October 7

• The Franchise, premiere

October 8

• Superman & Lois, season 4 premiere
• Inside Japan’s War

October 9

• When Missing Turns To Murder, season 2

October 10

• Teacup
• Sweetpea

October 11

• Police Code Zero: Officer Under Attack, season 2
• Almost Unsolved

October 14

• The Great Celebrity Bake Off, season 7 premiere
• The Railway Murders

October 15

• Legendary Heroes

October 16

• American Horror Stories, season 3B premiere
• The Speedboat Killer, The Killing Of Charlotte Brown
• Loading Docs, seasons 1-9
• I Am Not A Monster: The Lois Reiss Murders

October 17

• The Charles Bukowski Tapes

October 18

• Hysteria!
• Botched, season 6
• #Dead2me

October 22

• What We Do In The Shadows, season 6 premiere

October 25

• Sister Wives, season 12

October 28

• Somebody Somewhere, season 3 premiere

What new movies are coming to Binge in October 2024?

October 1

• U.S. Marshals
• Everybody’s Fine
• Carrie
• Frantic

October 3

• Salem’s Lot

October 5

• The Great Escaper
• Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back
• Ordinary Angels

October 7

• Next Goal Wins

October 10

• Caddo Lake

October 12

• I.S.S.

October 20

• Immaculate

October 24

• The Color Purple

October 25

• You’ll Never Find Me 

October 26

• Lisa Frankenstein

October 28

• Monkey Man

What new documentaries are coming to Binge in October 2024?

October 1

• Navalny
• Searching for Sugar Man
• Subject
• Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
• Legacy: Surfing Now and Then
• The Final Year
• Carmine Street Guitars
• The Boxer
• Weddings Parties Anything
• The Fire Within: A Requiem For Katia And Maurice Krafft
• The Painter And The Thief
• Rockfield: The Studio On The Farm
• Do I Sound Gay?
• Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel
• The Murder Of Logan Mwangi

October 2

• Disappeared: The Bradley Sisters
• The Reason | Jump
• Mamil – Middle Aged Men In Lycra
• Zero Days
• Mau
• The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story Of Aaron Swartz
• Love The Beast

October 3

• The Mole Agent
• Matilda & Me
• Shut Up Little Man
• Brazen Hussies
• Mountain
• Bra Boys
• Kobi
• Some Kind Of Heaven
• The Brink

October 4

• Tall Poppy: A Skater’s Story
• Symphony On Skis
• Ride The Wave
• Nothing Lasts Forever
• Three Minutes – A Lengthening
• Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travel Of A Tribe Called Quest
• Watermark

October 7

• Lo And Behold: Reveries Of The Connected World
• Champs
• Picasso And Braque Go To The Movies

October 9

• Dinosaur 13

October 16

• Love, Marilyn
• The Green Prince
• The Battle Of The Sexes
• Pompeii: The Last Mysteries Revealed

October 29

• Stop Making Sense

What’s new on Apple TV+, October 2024

October Apple TV+ Highlight – Shrinking, season 2

In Shrinking, Jason Segel plays a therapist grappling with grief. He decides to change his approach by telling his clients exactly what he thinks. His bluntness, while effective, leads to some unforeseen consequences. Harrison Ford co-stars as another therapist struggling with Parkinson’s disease. All in all, Shrinking combines comedy with some serious topics, exploring the complexities of mental health with humour.

October 2

• Where’s Wanda

October 4

• Curses!

October 11

• Disclaimer*
• The Last of the Sea Women

October 16

• Shrinking, season 2

October 25

• Before

October 30

• You Would Do It Too

I’m short on time, what should I watch in October to keep up with the zeitgeist?

We get it. Time is thin and the streaming commitments are coming thick and fast. To ensure you’re keeping up with next month’s Stranger Things or Squid Game (read: the shows everyone’s talking about), this is our list of recommended must-watch films and series.

• Last Days of the Space Age, Disney+, October 2nd
• Starting 5, Netflix, October 9th
• Outer Banks season 4, Netflix, October 10th
• Shrinking, Apple TV+, October 16th
• Thou Shalt Not Steal, Stan, October 17th
• The Office Australia, Amazon Prime, October 18th
• What We Do In The Shadows season 6, Binge, October 22nd
• Territory, Netflix, October 24th
• Lisa Frankenstein, Netflix, October 26th

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What to stream in September: Netflix, Amazon Prime, Stan and more

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If you’re looking for a reason to hold off on hitting the beach as we head into the warmer months, you’ll find in a streaming platform, because there’s a big month ahead. If you’re struggling with an Olympic-sized hole in your heart, the Paralympics have already kicked off and can be streamed on Stan. If a blockbuster film is what you’re after, Wolfs – starring not just one, but two Hollywood heavyweights in George Clooney and Brad Pitt – over on Apple TV+ should keep you satiated. While on Binge, The Penguin (a companion piece to The Batman) will make its long-awaited premiere.

The vast swaths of new content don’t make it easy for you though. The big hitters like Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime are so packed with must-watch films and shows that it can be difficult to discern what’s worth your time and what’s best left on the backburner – especially when you’re prone to indecision and are paying for the luxury of choice with subscriptions to multiple platforms.

Not to worry though, Men’s Health has you covered. To help you avoid being paralysed with indecision during a dreaded doomscroll, we’ve rounded up all the very best films and shows coming to streaming platforms in September 2024.

What’s new on Netflix in September?

September Netflix Highlight – The Perfect Couple

Another routine month where a vast array of new content will hit Netflix is headlined by new series The Perfect Couple, starring Nicole Kidman. The Aussie actress plays the matriarch of a well-to-do Nantucket family who is none too welcoming to her soon-to-be daughter in law. The proceedings take a morbid turn when a body is discovered on the beach, turning a tense weekend of wedding prep into a whodunnit.

Also on Netflix in September, Uglies marks the triumphant return on the young adult dystopian genre that was so popular in the early 2010s. Based on a popular book series, the world of Uglies is an oppressive, looks-obsessed dictatorship where young people are given a surgical makeover once they become teenagers, resulting in a class system of ‘uglies’ and ‘pretties’.

September 1

• The Fast and the Furious
• Follow the Rain
• The Reader
• The Rooster
• Videoland

September 2

• Crazy, Stupid, Love.

September 3

• Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef
• Phil Wang: Wang in There, Baby!
• Last One Standing, season 3
• Untold: Hope Solo vs. US Soccer

September 4

• Outlast, season 2

September 5

• Apollo 13: Survival
• Caught in the Web: The Murders Behind Zona Divas
• The Perfect Couple
• Selling Sunset, season 8

September 6

• Disco; Ibiza, Locomia
• Lantana
• Rebel Ridge

September 9

• Hot Wheels Let’s Race, season 2
• The Way Back

September 10

• Ahir Shah: Ends
• Jack Whitehall: Fatherhood with My Father
• Monster-in-Law

September 11

• Boxer
• The Circle, season 7
• Technoboys

September 12

• Angel Di Maria: Breaking Down the Wall
• Billionaire Island
• Emily in Paris, season 4 part 2
• Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter
• Midnight at Pera Palace, season 2

September 13

• My Brilliant Career
• Officer Black Belt
• Sector 36
• Uglies

September 15

• The Blind Side

September 16

• CoComelon, season 11

September 17

• Culinary Class Wars

September 18

• Envious, season 1
• Live from the Other Side with Tyler Henry
• What’s Next? The Future with Bill Gates

September 19

• Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
• The Queen of Villains
• St. Vincent
• Twilight of the Gods

September 20

• His Three Daughters
• KLASS 95: The Power of Beauty
• South Solitary

September 26

• Everything Calls for Salvation, season 2
• Nobody Wants This
• The Town
• A True Gentleman

September 27

• Lisabi: The Uprising
• Rez Ball
• We Were Kings
• Will & Harper

What’s new on Disney+ in September?

September Disney+ Highlight – Agatha All Along

The long awaited follow up to WandaVision is finally here. In what will be a relatively soft month for Disney+, Agatha All Along will be a boon as the latest MCU series. In case you need a refresher, Agatha Harkness has been trapped in a lackadaisical New Jersey town since the end of WandaVision, but has managed to escape with the assistance of a few witches keen on utilising her power. Aubrey Plaza, Patti LuPone and Joe Locke are all slated to appear alongside Kathryn Hahn.

September 4

• LEGO Pixar: Bricktoons
  Murai In Love
  Tell Me Lies, season 2

September 6

• Believeland
• The Birth of Big Air
• Catholics vs. Convicts
• Fernando Nation
• Into the Wind
• Mike and the Mad Dog
• The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives

September 8

• Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation (Sing-Along Version)

September 11

• Los Chavez
• Seoul Busters

September 12

• Muslim Matchmaker

September 13

• How to Die Alone
• In Vogue: The ’90s
• LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy

September 17

• Child Star

September 18

• After Baywatch: Moment in the Sun
• Wayne Brady: The Family Remix

September 19

• Agatha All Along

September 20

• The Contestant

September 22

• The Judge from Hell

September 24

• Out There: Crimes of the Paranormal

September 25

• At Witt’s End: The Hunter for a Killer
• Fly
• Kindergarten: The Musical
• Macross 7
• Mama Cake
• Volta Priscila

September 27

• Ayla & The Mirrors
• An Oprah Special: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Us
• She Taught Love

September 28

• Little Miss Innocent
• Social Studies

What’s new on Stan in September?

September Stan Highlight – From season 3

The highly anticipated third season of From will premiere on Stan on September 23rd. It’s a lowkey and downright creepy sci-fi drama. Set in a small town where nobody can leave and terrifying monsters emerge once the sun goes down, escape may finally be possible for the show’s protagonists. Although, they won’t be getting out without a fight with those aforementioned critters.

The Walking Dead’s Daryl Dixon will also be getting a continuation of his spin-off series in The Book of Carol on Stan next month. After scouring France during the first season of the show, Dixon has made some friends and is heading to Spain on a zombie-killing quest. It’s not your typical Euro summer, but who are we to judge?

September 1

• Copa ’71
• Stop Making Sense
• The Legend of Ben Hall
• Jersey Girl
• Garden State

September 2

• The Hours
• Fallen Leaves

September 3

• Rev, seasons 1-3

September 4

• Triangle
• On Our Watch

September 5

• Quiz
• Baghdad Messi

September 6

• Monster

September 7

• Dune: Part 1
• Fireman Sam Special: The Great Fire of Pontypandy
• Burning Hearts

September 8

• Revealed: KillJoy
• Guide to Second Date Sex

September 9

• Game Night
• Delete History
• Next Door

September 10

• Spectacular Earth

September 11

• The Angry Birds Movie 2
• Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

September 12

• The Athena
• Don’t Stop Me Now

September 14

• Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore
• Walking Out
• Bob The Builder On Site: Homes and Playgrounds

September 15

• In The Valley Of Sin
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
• That’s Not Cheating

September 16

• Sherwood

September 17

• Force of Nature
• No Filter

September 18

• I Can Quit Whenever I Want 2: Masterclass
• I Can Quit Whenever I Want 3

September 19

• The Big C, seasons 1-4

September 20

• The Teachers’ Lounge
• Resident Evil
• Resident Evil: Afterlife
• Resident Evil: Apocalypse
• Resident Evil: Extinction
• Resident Evil: Retribution
• Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

September 21

• Elvis
• Folau

September 22

• DC League of Super-Pets
• Thomas and Friends: Hero of the Rails
• Welcome To Norway

September 23

• From, season 3 premiere
• Fisherman’s Friends 2: One & All

September 24

• Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre
• Where Am I Going?

September 25

• Panorama: The Abercrombie Guys: The Dark Side of Cool
• 1%

September 26

• The North Water

September 27

• Peter and the Wolf

September 28

• Find Me in Paris, seasons 1-3
• Tigers
• Rosa’s Wedding

September 29

• Elysium
• Blueback
• The Octonauts and the Great Penguin Race

September 30

• The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, season 2 premiere
• We Hunt Together, season 2

What’s new on Amazon Prime Video in September?

September Amazon Prime Video Highlight – Gladiator

It’s going to be a big month on Amazon Prime. Just in time for the sequel (which will be released in November), the original Gladiator is making its way to Amazon Prime. Tune in for a refresher, and to see what kind of competition Paul Mescal is up against. Elsewhere, a range of new movies will make their streaming debuts on Amazon Prime, including The Iron Claw, The Dry 2 and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.

If that’s not enough, there’s also a new special from The Grand Tour, which is being slated as the final collaboration between Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, as well as a dramatisation of the Prince Andrew scandal with A Very Royal Scandal, and a contemporary mystery in classic neo-noir style set in Crete with Killer Heat. Lastly, the first season of Tulsa King is also coming to Prime, giving you enough time to reacquaint yourself with the series before its second season next month. Yep, it’s a good time to have an Amazon Prime subscription.

September 1

• The Amityville Horror
• Arsenal
• Chicago Fire, seasons 9-10
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• Gladiator
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• Poltergeist
• Poltergeist II: The Other Side
• Poltergeist III
• Troll 2

September 2

• Tulsa King

September 3

• The Dry

September 4

• Where The Wild Things Are

September 5

• Force of Nature: The Dry 2

September 6

• Call Me Bae
• Como Cazar A Un Monstruo
• Elisabeth Rioux: Unfiltered
• Lego Dreamzzzz, season 2

September 10

• Yes Man

September 11

• Manes, season 2
• Self/Less

September 13

• The Grand Tour: One for the Road
• No Activity, season 2

September 15

• Joker

September 17

• American Assassin

September 19

• A Very Royal Scandal
• Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

September 20

• Fabrizio Copano Stand-Up Special
• Ingebrigtsen Born to Run
• The Iron Claw
• Porno Y Helado, season 2
• The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal
• A Very Royal Scandal

September 22

• Can You Keep a Secret?
• Drunk Parents

September 24

• 17 Again

September 25

• Hotel Artemis

September 26

• Killer Heat

September 27

• Previously Saved Version

What’s new on Binge in September?

September Binge Highlight – The Penguin

The biggest release coming to Binge in September is undoubtedly The Penguin, which will be premiering on the platform on September 20th. Starring Colin Farrell, the Penguin is a spin-off of 2022’s The Batman. It follows Oswald Cobblepot (yes, that’s the Penguin’s real name) on his rise from a disfigured nobody to a feared gangster.

What’s new on Apple TV+ in September?

September Apple TV+ Highlight – Wolfs

In what is perhaps the biggest straight-to-streaming film release ever, Wolfs will make its long awaited premiere on Apple TV+ next month. The film is an action comedy starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney as a pair of professional fixers hired to cover up the same crime – unbeknownst to each other. Stuck on the same job, the pair of lone wolves are forced to work together as their night progressively spirals out of control.

September 4

• Slow Horses, season 4

September 20

• La Maison

September 25

• Midnight Family

September 27

• Wolfs

I’m short on time, what should I watch in September to keep up with the zeitgeist?

We get it. Time is thin and the streaming commitments are coming thick and fast. To ensure you’re keeping up with next month’s Stranger Things or Squid Game (read: the shows everyone’s talking about), this is our list of recommended must-watch films and series.

• The Perfect Couple, Netflix, September 5th
• Uglies, Netflix, September 13th
• The Grand Tour: One for the Road, Amazon Prime September 13th
• Agatha All Along, Disney+, September 19th
• A Very Royal Scandal, Amazon Prime, September 19th
• The Penguin, Binge, September 20th
• From season 3, Stan, September 23rd
• Killer Heat, Amazon Prime, September 26th
• Wolfs, Apple TV+, September 27th

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In the years since playing Jon Snow, Harington has stayed relatively quiet. His post-Westeros work has been limited to smaller profile films and a small role in Eternals (which promised an MCU future that has yet to be realised). But with Industry, he’s stepping up front and centre, taking his place once again as the key game-shaker in a piece of HBO’s crown jewel programming.

Harington plays Sir Henry Muck in Industry, the founder and CEO of Lumi, a green energy company getting ready to launch its first IPO (Initial Public Offering). Henry is manager by Robert (Harry Lawtey), but given how massive a moment this is for Pierpoint and Co., the London-based investment bank that the show revolves around, almost everyone at the firm is getting involved, from the top-level executives to newly-hired graduates. The business is revolving around Henry and Lumi, because it seems like the money coming in could be absolutely massive.

When a property like that is set up, you need a strong character to lead it – and Industry proved it’s game to do just that. Just in the first episode alone, Muck is shown to be exactly the kind of character that the show proved to be so good at building with Jay Duplass’s Jesse Bloom in season 2; someone charming enough so audiences understand why people are drawn to them, but cunning and eccentric enough to know that we’re going to be on a roller coaster ride for as long as we’re watching.

As Henry is preparing for Lumi’s IPO, typical problems – we’re watching a show, after all – begin to arise; investors back out, prices shift, the works. But Harington’s performance does something unique in that he doesn’t really explode (he keeps most of that for behind his eyes): he keeps a level head, smiles, and nods. As Henry, Harington gets to use all the charm that had to be taken off the table when playing the stoic Jon Snow.

But like so many others in Industry, he also likes to play head games. After a phone call that Yasmin (Marisa Abela) was on ended disastrously, Henry somehow got her personal phone number and gave her a call later. Now, this should be a bit inappropriate and strange (why is he calling her?), but Yasmin is having such a tough time – she’s being harassed by the paparazzi and tabloid media after her father, a famous rich guy who has recently been exposed as a sex pest, went into hiding – that anyone who’s nice to her feels like kind of a change of pace.

And when it’s someone who’s Yasmin’s type (rich, handsome), we can predict sparks may start to fly. He invites her to come see him for a conversation later that night, and while she expresses some annoyance – complaining to Robert (Harry Lawtey) about giving away her number, which Henry says is how he got it, despite Rob’s later denial – she nonetheless attends, and we instantly see what’s happening.

Yasmin arrives where Henry sends her, and finds not people having drinks, or dinner, or any kind of business meeting, but rather a bunch of men playing handball; Henry is shirtless and wearing athletic shorts. Harington clearly has worked hard for his physique, and based on the way he’s shot, we be certain that his impressive results are a secret to exactly no one in that room.

We don’t know the angle yet, but clearly he’s set Yasmin up to be in this situation; and after he introduces her and the other men with him (who are also big business players, and who know Yasmin’s disgraced father) scoff a bit, he offers some sympathy. “I know what it’s like having a family member ruin your life, so I know what you’re going through,” he tells her. “The kids are always collateral.”

Again, telling her this with his shirt off. He’s appealing to her on an emotional level, but it’s hard to ignore the attractive, charming, and (seemingly) kind man right in front of her.

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It’s not hard to figure out why Harington has laid low since Thrones; he made his name as a noble hero, fighting White Walkers and attempting to preserve the good of the realm in a fantasy epic (and, outside of work, he’s also expressed issues with the mental health anguishes that come along with the industry and roles like the one he played in Thrones). That can be awesome, but it doesn’t give an actor a full chance to show the range of who they can be, and what they can do.

In the tremendously funny 2015 HBO film 7 Days in Hell, Harington gets to show off his comedy chops as a tennis star who rarely has a single thought in his head. Even his role in Eternals put him in different shoes; rather than be the hero who comes in to save the day, he’s just a professor and a guy (though, eventually, his character will have to deal with some troubling family history on his way to becoming an anti-hero).

Industry, in the early goings, is giving him the opportunity to prove all of this. Can he be a realistic figure in an intense, hyper-active world? Sure seems like it. Can he use put both his charm and physical prowess on display in service of his character? Yeah, we’re going to give him that one too.

We don’t know where Henry’s role – and Harington’s performance – will go from here, but any questions as to how he’s going to fit into this new world, and what he stands to provide, have been completely answered. And we’re thrilled to keep watching.

This article appeared in Men’s Health US.

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To make the prospect of extra time on the couch even more tantalising, let us be the first to tell you that streaming platforms are due for a big month this August. If you want a laugh out loud comedy with a side of mystery, you’ll find it on Disney+ when a new season of Only Murders in the Building premieres. If the world of Lord of the Rings is more your style, the second season of Rings of Power is on its way to Amazon Prime. And if you’re an Attenborough nut, a new documentary narrated by the man himself is heading to Netflix.

The vast swaths of new content don’t make it easy for you though. The big hitters like Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime are so packed with content that they make it difficult to discern what’s worth your time and what’s best left on the backburner – especially when you’re prone to indecision and are paying for the luxury of choice with subscriptions to multiple platforms.

Not to worry though, Esquire has you covered. To help you avoid being paralysed with indecision during a dreaded doomscroll, we’ve rounded up all the very best films and shows coming to streaming platforms in August 2024.

What’s new on Netflix in August?

August Netflix Highlight – The Secret World of Sound with David Attenborough

Another routine month where bucket loads of new content will hit Netflix is headlined by a documentary narrated by David Attenborough. At 98 years of age, there can’t be too many Attenborough docos left, so make the most of them while you can. In this one, Attenborough takes a break from showing us the world’s most incredible sights to focus on some spectacular sounds. Using advanced audio technology, The Secret World of Sound will reveal some of the rarest noises emitted from the animal kingdom. Volume all the way up for this.

Also on Netflix in August, Umbrella Academy is back for a fourth season, and it looks like this could be the beginning of the end for the beloved show about a group of eccentric superheroes – and that’s not just speculation; the last episode of the new season is literally titled ‘The Beginning of the End’. Lastly, in case you need a popcorn movie to pass the time, Mark Wahlberg’s The Union is a prime contender. In addition to Wahlberg, the film stars Halle Berry and JK Simmons as spies in a secret intelligence organisation. It should be a good time with plenty of action sequences, but don’t expect any Oscar buzz.

August 1

• Borderless Fog
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• From Me to You: Kimi no Todoke, season 3
• Love Is Blind: Mexico
• Mad Men, seasons 1-7
• Mon Laferte, te amo
• Unstable, season 2

August 2

• Modern Masters: SS Rajamouli
• Rebel Moon: Part One: Director’s Cut
• Rebel Moon: Part Two: Director’s Cut
• Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie

August 3

• The Holdovers
• Joe Rogan: Burn the Boats

August 5

• Gabby’s Dollhouse, season 10

August 6

• The Influencer
• Rising Impact, season 2

August 7

• Lolo and the Kid
• Love Is Blind: UK
• Secret World of Sound with David Attenborough

August 8

• Kingsman: The Secret Service
• Kingsman: The Golden Circle
• Shahmaran, season 2
• The Umbrella Academy, season 4

August 9

• Blue Ribbon Baking Championship
• Inside the Mind of a Dog
• Mission: Cross
• Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba

August 10

• Night Swim

August 11

• Romance in the House

August 13

• Matt Rife: Lucid – A Crowd Work Special

August 14

• Breathe
• Daughters
• Worst Ex Ever

August 15

• Backyard Wilderness
• Emily in Paris, season 4, part 1
• Lost, seasons 1-6
• The Other Woman

August 16

• Bank of Dave
• The Union

August 17

• Love Next Door

August 19

• CoComelon Lane, season 3

August 20

• Langston Kerman: Bad Poetry
• Terror Tuesday: Extreme
• Untold: The Murder of Air McNair

August 21

• The Accident
• Back to 15: Back to 18
• Nice Girls
• Pop Star Academy: KATSEYE
• Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War

August 22

• Baby Fever, season 2
• GG Precinct
• Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos: The Movie
• Secret Lives of Orangutans

August 23

• Incoming
• Tòkunbò

August 27

• Untold: Sign Stealer

August 28

• Untamed Royals

August 29

• Chastity High
• KAOS
• Represent, season 2
• TERMINATOR ZERO

August 30

• A-List to Playlist
• Breathless
• The Deliverance
• (Un)lucky Sisters

What’s new on Disney+ in August?

August Disney+ Highlight – Only Murders in the Building, season 4

A relatively soft month lies ahead for Disney+ in terms of new releases, but there’ll be a big one towards the end of it. The overtly saccharine and eminently popular Only Murders in the Building has a new season landing on August 27th. This time, our unlikely trio of podcasters have found themselves at the centre of attention, having their story adapted into a “major murder picture” – or a film, in other words. The main cast of Selena Gomez, Martin Short and Steve Martin all return, along with Meryl Streep and a number of new characters played by Eva Longoria, Zach Galifinakis and Eugene Levy.

August 2

• Elway to Marino
• Four Days in October
• Guru of Go
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
• The Legend of Jimmy The Greek
• Muhammad and Larry
• Rodman: For Better or Worse
• Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures, season 2 shorts
• Tommy

August 7

• FX’s A Teacher
• Grown-ish, season 6
• Science of Stupid, seasons 1-8
• ZOMBIES: The Re-Animated Series
• The Zone: Survival Mission, season 3

August 8

• Are You Sure?!

August 9

• Clotilda: The Return Home
• Protecting Paradise: The Story of Niue

August 12

• Solar Opposites, season 6

August 14

• American Crime Story: Impeachment, season 3
• Grand Cayman: Secrets in Paradise
• Macross Dynamite 7
• The Tyrant
• Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures, season 2

August 16

• Macross Fb7 Listen to My Song!
• Macross 7: The Galaxy is Calling Me!

August 19

• OceanXplorers

August 20

• Muslim Matchmaker

August 21

• Betrayal: The Perfect Husband: A Father’s Secret, season 2

August 23

• The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat

August 27

• Only Murders in the Building, season 4

August 28

• The Incredible Pol Farm

What’s new on Stan in August?

August Stan Highlight – Critical Incident

Brand new Australian series Critical Incident will premiere on Stan on August 12th. It’s a gritty crime drama inspired by real-life experiences in the juvenile justice system that centres on a well-meaning cop and a troubled teenager. Their paths cross when they cause an accident during a chase through the Sydney suburb of Blacktown – oh yeah, you’ll be able to spot some familiar locations in this one as it was filmed all over Western Sydney. If you’re looking to test your faith in the justice system, this is worth a watch.

Queerstralia will also debut on Stan next month. It’s all about the untold history of Australia’s queer community. Featuring stories about “gay diggers, lesbian convict gangs and cross-dressing bushrangers”, it’ll doubtlessly be a colourful affair. Finally, we can’t forget the premiere of the third season of Bel Air on August 16th.

August 1

• The Trust
• Ingeborg Bachmann: Journey Into The Desert

August 2

• Shut Eye, seasons 1-2

August 3

• Stand By Me
• Blackbird

August 4

• Almost Famous
• I’m Your Man

August 5

• The Promise
• The Goddess of Fortune

August 6

• The TikTok Effect
• Seberg

August 7

• Anne Boleyn

August 8

• Nowhere Special
• Casanova’s Return

August 9

• The House Bunny
• Super Grover 2.0, season 1
• The Durrells, seasons 1-4

August 10

• Panic Room
• Fireman Sam, season 14

August 11

• White Riot
• Antoinette In The Cevennes

August 12

• Critical Incident

August 13

• Bandslam
• Heroic Losers

August 14

• Sorry We Missed You
• Fortunata (Lucky)

August 15

• Nature’s Great Divide, season 1

August 16

• Bel Air, season 3
• RuPaul’s Drag Race Global All Stars
• The Devil’s Own

August 17

• Galveston
• Bob The Builder (Ready, Steady, Build!)
• Queerstralia

August 18

• The Fall of the House of Murdaugh
• For Your Consideration

August 19

• Traces, season 2

August 20

• Dragged Across Concrete
• If Only

August 21

• The Present
• Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
• Never Gonna Snow Again

August 22

• What Men Want
• A Dog’s World

August 23

• Boarders
• Hook
• Hope Springs

August 24

• The Body Next Door
• Donnie Brasco
• Thomas and Friends: Race for Sodor Cup

August 25

• Farming
• Are You Lonesome Tonight?

August 26

• Wishlist
• A Hundred Flowers

August 28

• $9.99
• Octonauts: Marina Trench Adventure

August 29

• Sex, Knives and Liposuction
• A Friendly Tale

August 30

• Moonfall
• Carrie (2013)

August 31

• Hotel Transylvania
• Fabian: Going To The Dogs

What’s new on Amazon Prime Video in August?

August Amazon Prime Video Highlight – The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, season 2 

Amazon is betting big on Rings of Power, gifting the show a colossal budget and free rein to bring back Lord of the Rings fans by any means necessary. The series, which depicts the rise of the dark lord Sauron, is returning for its sophomore season in August, with Sauron now firmly positioned as a powerful figure and threatening to bring catastrophe to Middle Earth. Season one got better with each episode as every instalment picked up the pace. Expect season two to maintain that form with a blistering start.

August 1

• The Angry Birds Movie
• The Angry Birds Movie 2
• Batman: Caped Crusader, season 1
• Call Me By Your Name
• Influenced, season 1
• Love and Death
• The Lost City

August 2

• A Sacrifice
• Beacon 23, season 2

August 4

• The Circle

August 8

• One Fast Move
• The Mallorca Files, season 3
• The Shakedown

August 13

• The Hitman’s Bodyguard
• Rumour Has It

August 15

• Catch the Ghost, season 1
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
• Jackpot!
• Underworld: Awakening
• White House Down

August 16

• Lego Jurassic World: Legend of Isla Nublar
• WNBA: Phoenix Mercury at Chicago Sky

August 18

• Sicario

August 20

• Ferrari
• Overdrive

August 21

• Anyone But You

August 22

• My Mister
• WNBA: Dallas Wings at New York Liberty

August 23

• The Beekeeper

August 27

• No Gain, No Love
• While We’re Young

August 29

• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, season 2

August 31

• Almost Famous
• The Da Vinci Code

What’s new on Binge in August?

August Binge Highlight – Mr. Bigstuff

In Mr. Bigstuff, two estranged brothers find themselves back under the same roof, forced to readjust to life together. The situation quickly unravels from there. One of the brothers is an alpha male battling a drug addiction, the other, a do-gooder who’s set to be married in a few short months. At its basest level, Mr. Bigstuff is an irreverent comedy, but it also explores some deeper themes like brotherhood and what it means to be a man.

August 1

• Mr. Bigstuff
• ER, seasons 1-15
• Please Like Me, seasons 1-4
• Munch, season 2
• Swamp People, season 15
• Paradise, season 2
• Surgeons: A Matter Of Life Or Death
• A Tale Of Two Thieves
• Emmerdale
• Coronation Street
• EastEnders
• Strange Way Of Life
• Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein
• Raid On Rommel
• The Rawhide Years

August 2

• Pawn Stars Do America, season 2
• Police Strike Force, season 1
• Swamp People: Serpent Invasion, season 4
• Hurst: The First And Only,
• Instant Family
• The River

August 3

• The Holdovers
• Migration

August 4

• WWE Summerslam 2024
• Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
• Daddy’s Home
• Daddy’s Home 2

August 5

• FBOY Island Australia, season 2
• Secrets Of The Queen’s Coronation
• The Great War
• See No Evil, season 7
• Grantchester, season 8
• Origin

August 6

• Taskmaster New Zealand, season 5
• Charles & The Women Who Could Have Been Queen
• The Postman Always Rings Twice

August 7

• Edward Viii: Britain’s Traitor King
• Fergie and Meghan: Inconvenient Royals
• Murder On The Blackpool Express

August 8

• Mr. Throwback
• Catherine: Our Queen In Waiting
• Russia’s Wars
• Swamp Mysteries With Troy Landry, season 2
• Taken Together: Who Killed Lyric and Elizabeth
• Madame Webb

August 9

• Married To A Psychopath

August 10

• Night Swim

August 12

• Industry, season 3
• Abandoned Americana, season 2

August 13

• The Ark, season 2
• Emergency Helicopter Medics, season 2

August 14

• Gogglebox Australia, season 20
• Prince Albert: A Victorian Hero Revealed
• Death on the Tyne

August 15

• Grace Kelly: The Missing Millions

August 16

• How Disney Built The World

August 19

• Chimp Crazy
• The Great Canadian Bake Off, season 7
• Extraordinary Extensions, season 2
• Ancient Engineering, season 2
• Antiques Road Trip, season 26
• All New Traffic Cops, season 11

August 21

• Sell This House, season 11
• Myths: Greatest Mysteries Of Humanity season 3
• Pawn Stars: Best Of, season 4
• Dial M For Middlesbrough
• The Passenger

August 22

• The Great Pottery Throwdown, season 7
• Dance Moms Epic Showdowns

August 23

• Ultimate Wedding Planner

August 24

• The Killer

August 26

• Masterchef, season 20
• Grand Designs UK, season 21

August 27

• The Chelsea Detective
• Heathrow, season 8

August 29

• Adult Material
• Secret Weapons of World War II

August 30

• Police Code Zero: Office Under Attack

What’s new on Apple TV+ in August?

August Apple TV+ Highlight – Bad Monkey

It’s a huge month over on Apple TV+, where the Vince Vaughn-led Bad Monkey will make its long-awaited premiere. Vaughn plays a restaurant inspector who must return to his old ways as a detective after a tourist discovers a severed arm in Southern Florida. Assuredly, a monkey is involved somehow. We’re just not sure how it services the plot yet though.

Elsewhere on Apple TV+, Cowboy Cartel is a soon to be released documentary series about a rookie FBI agent who uncovered a Mexican cartel’s money laundering operation embedded in American horse racing. Last of all, The Instigators brings together Matt Damon and Casey Affleck as reluctant partners in crime who must evade police and bureaucracy after a heist gone wrong.

August 2

• Cowboy Cartel

August 9

• The Instigators

August 14

• Bad Monkey

August 22

• Pachinko, season 2

August 30

• K-Pop Idols

I’m short on time, what should I watch in August to keep up with the zeitgeist?

We get it. Time is thin and the streaming commitments are coming thick and fast. To ensure you’re keeping up with next month’s Stranger Things or Squid Game (read: the shows everyone’s talking about), this is our list of recommended must-watch films and series.

• Cowboy Cartel, Apple TV+, August 2nd
• Secret World of Sound with David Attenborough, Netflix, August 7th
• Umbrella Academy season 4, Netflix, August 8th
• The Instigators, Apple TV+, August 9th
• Critical Incident, Stan, August 12th
• Bad Monkey, Apple TV+, August 14th
• Queerstralia, Stan, August 17th
• Only Murders in the Building season 4, Disney+, August 27th
• Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power season 2, Amazon Prime, August 29th

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Now, almost a decade (and another feature film, 2022’s Three Thousand Years of Longing) later, and Miller has finally returned to the Wasteland of post-apocalyptic Australia with Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. The film, which he mapped out and conceived before Fury Road was made, slows things down from its signature breakneck pace. It tells the backstory of Furiosa, originally played by Charlize Theron and now played primarily by Anya Taylor-Joy, over the course of nearly 20 years as she chases revenge against the dipshit warlord who wronged her (a transformative, evil, and hilarious Chris Hemsworth) and becomes the robot-armed badass we met in the previous film.

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Miller, at 79 years old, is putting out the 11th feature film of a directorial career that’s also included dark comedy (The Witches of Eastwick), pure drama (Lorenzo’s Oil), cutting edge family fare (the Babe and Happy Feet films), and even an aborted superhero epic (Justice League: Mortal, which is its own whole thing). But nothing defines his career like the Mad Max franchise, which kicked his journey off with the low-budget but nonetheless thrilling original in 1979, and marks a world he’s revisited now four different times in the 45 years since. And as with all of those films, Furiosa is intricately-planned, full of scenes with countless moving pieces and changing components that needed to fit together perfectly to work; these movies are like a 1,000 piece Lego set that, somehow, only Miller has the step-by-step directions to.

But, himself the creator of a world where penguins joyously dance via motion-capture animation, Miller uses a different metaphor to explain how he sees things.

“To be honest, film is like visual music,” he says, choosing his words carefully just a few days before Furiosa was set to be released. “It’s not just one shot, it’s a progression of shots. It’s not just one note, or one chord, it’s a progression of those notes and chords that give you the experience in the music. And so it is with film – it’s visual music.“

Miller has continued to make his own brand of beautiful, chaotic, fire-filled stunt bonanzas, and proves he’s still operating at the very top of his powers with the visually-stunning epic of Furiosa. We spoke with the legendary director about dialogue and stunts in his movies, the incredible work of his lead actors, and far more.

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MEN’S HEALTH: You said in your New Yorker interview that “action sequences are the equivalent of dialogue scenes in other movies.”

GEORGE MILLER: That’s right.

MH: I’m curious how you view the function of stunts within that equation.

GM: Well, first of all, story has primacy over everything else. Then, it’s all about the characters. It’s all about the interaction of characters. All action sequences should drive the interaction of the characters, and therefore progress the story. That’s the underlying strategy of all action scenes.

Then, you’re basically using conflict—which is the essence of drama. Someone has an intention, and you put up obstacles, and so on, and there are rising conflicts. There have to be rising conflicts, they can’t dance around the same spot, because then it gets boring. And then they have to progress, and you learn something about the characters. So, a sequence like the “Stowaway to Nowhere” really tells you a lot about those two key characters—Furiosa and Praetorian Jack—and, under extreme conditions, how they handle it, and what’s revealed about them. What is their essence?

That’s the basis of it.

MH: What do you want someone’s takeaway to be at the end of a sequence like that?

GM: You want to know the characters and where they’re going. I mean, this is the story of Furiosa, who is taken away as a child from her family and her community, and spends virtually the next 20 years trying to get home. She’s forged in the crucible of this wasteland. This is a very harsh world, and an extreme world, and her character is forged. What is intrinsic to her as a child, her skills, she’s called on to really survive by the use of whatever internal resources she has. And she becomes what she does at the end.

For me, that’s key. She has to learn on the run. She has no time to think about it, or whatever. She’s got to improvise her way through it, and we see what she’s made of. And not only do we see it, but we also see that Praetorian Jack, who drives this big new War Rig, the best thing ever created in the wasteland, sees it.

So, basically, we’ve forged a relationship between these two characters.

MH: It took you 27 takes to get the most important shot in the “Stowaway” sequence just right. Do you still feel a relief when everything finally clicks perfectly, even having done what you do for so long?

GM: Oh yeah. Of course. You know, whether it’s just the wind blowing the right way so that someone’s hair doesn’t blow across their face, but it blows in an interesting way. Whether the sun’s in the right position, and when you know it, and you see it, it’s captured in the camera, and you say ‘OK, we got that one.’ You feel a sense of small, incremental accomplishments. And that sustains you through the shoot. And then you get it in the cutting room, and you put all the pieces together, and it starts to emerge. That’s always really interesting to me.

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MH: How has the evolution of the technology behind stunts and action changed your ability as a storyteller and what you want to put on the screen?

GM: Big time. One of the reasons why I’m still making films, and indeed Mad Max films, is I’m really still curious about story. Not only how to to tell story, but why we tell story. And that goes hand-in-hand with the ever-evolving technology. For instance, when we made the Babe movies, the first one was done at Universal, because it was the beginning of digital CGI. Universal had just done Jurassic Park, which was the first big CGI movie—there were 63 shots of dinosaurs in that. And the studio, at the time, said ‘We know how it works, and we know it can work with the animals.’ And so that’s what we did with Babe.

By the time we got to do Happy Feet almost a decade later, the cameraman on the Babe movies, Andrew Lesnie, he went and shot Lord of the Rings. When he came back from the first Lord of the Rings, he showed me the first motion capture of Gollum, and we had the story of the penguins. And I thought ‘That’s how we can make these penguins dance!’ And that drove Happy Feet.

For instance, the “Stowaway” sequence shot for 78 days. Now, some of the skies in those shots were brilliant—and others weren’t. But you have to keep a consistency of the sky. So, you’re able to take your favorite skies, and make sure they’re consistent right through the story.

Little things like that. But most of all, I would say that cameras now are not only relatively small, they’re much higher resolution, and you don’t have to be stopping all the time to reload the celluloid, because you’ve got a computer chip recording at 4-8K, and you can run it for 45 minutes. It’s not costing you anything. So, if you’ve got, say, an explosion, you’ve not only got to start the camera, but you’ve got to get your crew out before the explosion. And if you’re shooting the explosion with high-speed cameras, you’ve only got a very short time before you’re running out of celluloid. I’m sure it’s happened many times—they run out of film just before the main action happened on camera. Now, you don’t have to worry about things like that.

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MH: Mad Max: The Wasteland has been mentioned as something you’ve got ready to go if you get the opportunity. What more can you share about that?

GM: I always prefer not to talk about it until we’re making it. But certainly I would like to—if Furiosa works well enough, I would certainly look towards it.

MH: You and Edgar Wright have both talked about how you met and he recommended Anya Taylor-Joy for Furiosa. How did you know that she would be game for all the stunts and intensity that the role entails?

GM: I could see it in her work. Edgar was insistent that she’s got it all—she’s got everything that an actor needs. Actors have to be physically athletic, they have to be intellectually athletic, and they have to be emotionally athletic. They’re warriors, in a way, particularly to do these films. Anya is someone who studied ballet from the age of 3, and up to the age of 15—I’ve worked with dancers, and I’ve realized how they have this relaxed discipline, and the precision is really important. She was almost hard-wired for this because of that. I could see it in the work she did, and it proved to be the case.

She worked incredibly hard, she did a lot of her own stunts. She’s got that ability. Again, she’s very, very physically and emotionally agile.

MH: How does Chris Hemsworth’s work in Furiosa compare to his work as Thor, and elsewhere?

GM: This is different. Chris Hemsworth—I had one meeting with him, and I realized there’s way more than meets the eye. He’s a guy of many dimensions, incredibly wise for someone so young. And when I got to know his history, and his family, I realized where they came from. Again, physically athletic, emotionally athletic, and he can bring that all together. A little bit like any athlete.

You know, you’re like a football coach when you’re a director. People have got the basic talent, and then you hone those talents, and you help them get the best of it. You help put together a team, and you have to plan, and you prepare. But in the moment of the game, it’s all handed over to the instinctive response. They can’t think about ‘I’m going to do this and that.’ They can’t think about it. All the preparation has prepared them for that, and then they pull off the moves, and when it really works, it really works. You almost don’t know how it comes together. Working with Chris, I saw that over and over again. It blew me away. I had no idea he could do the kind of stuff he was doing on screen.

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