What’s coming to Netflix in October? The new TV series and films to watch from The Good Nurse to Barbarians
As we head further into autumn there’s no better time to curl up on your sofa and indulge in some cosy weekends. And Netflix has you covered for viewing material: from the much-hyped Luckiest Girl Alive to the Halloween classics Sleepy Hollow and Final Destination, there’s plenty to get stuck into this month.
Here’s our round-up of what’s coming up in October.
Original content
Hasan Minhaj: The King’s Jester (2022)
Hasan Minhaj, who hosted the award-winning talk show Patriot Act for six seasons, now returns to Netflix for a new one-man comedy special. He just finished touring the show in Europe, too, with two dates in London and a night in Paris.
Oct 4
Bling Empire (Season 3)
If you love reality TV but haven’t yet caught up on Bling Empire, this show could be for you. Described as real-life Crazy Rich Asians (Jon M. Chu’s highly-acclaimed comedy film about the ultra-rich in Singapore) the series focuses on the lives of a cast of lavishly wealthy Asian Americans in the US. “It is a kaleidoscope of diamonds, couture and power. And its stars exhibit the kind of spending muscle Real Housewives can only dream of,” said The Telegraph.
Oct 5
The Joys and Sorrows of Young Yuguo (2022)
An incredibly sweet premise, 16-year-old Yuguo is passionate about Eastern European romantic poetry and so leaves his home in China to visit to Romania.
Oct 6
Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes (Season 1)
A couple of weeks ago Netflix released the true crime drama Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, which was based on the story of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Now, Netflix is releasing even more Dahmer with this documentary series. It pieces together bits of the story (Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys between the late Seventies and early Nineties) using real interviews and clips from the killer’s trial.
Oct 7
Luckiest Girl Alive (2022)
There are just a couple of days left to wait until this buzzy thriller starring Mila Kunis is released. Kunis plays Ani Fanelli, a 28-year-old editor at a glitzy magazine in New York, whose past starts to catch up with her. It’s based on Jessica Knoll’s 2015 New York Times bestselling novel, so there’s a tonne of anticipation around how director Mike Barker (whose credits include The Sandman and The Handmaid’s Tale) has adapted the book for the silver screen.
Oct 7
Sue Perkins: Perfectly Legal (Season 1)
It’s a joy to watch Sue Perkins doing almost anything. Here, she goes on lots of adventures through Latin America, which are, as Netflix teases, “shockingly legal”.
Oct 13
The Watcher (Limited Series)
The Watcher is a series about a couple who move into their dream house in New Jersey but start being harassed by someone who was also interested in buying the property. Created by Ryan Murphy (American Horror Story, The Politician) and Ian Brennan (Glee, Scream Queens) and starring Naomi Watts, Bobby Cannavale and Mia Farrow, it’s a genuinely creepy premise that is sadly based on a true story.
Oct 13
Waffles + Mochi’s Restaurant (Season 2)
Who doesn’t adore Michelle Obama? And what could be better than seeing the former first lady have a laugh with Waffles (a waffle) and Mochi (a mochi ball) on this cooking show? Sure, it’s for children, but it’s so sweet that parents and guardians are likely to enjoy it too.
Oct 17
Unsolved Mysteries (Volume 3)
Back for a third series, each episode of this documentary show investigates a new perplexing mystery. This season there are ghost sightings and the death of a White House employee to contend with. There’ll be three ‘episode drops’ - on October 18, October 25 and November 1.
Oct 18
The School for Good and Evil (2022)
From director Paul Feig, who also made 2011’s Bridesmaids, 2015’s Spy and 2019’s Last Christmas, this fantasy film is about two friends who are kidnapped and taken to a School for Good and Evil. Their friendship is put to the test when they are separated and put on opposite sides of the training school.
Oct 19
28 Days Haunted (Season 1)
Three teams spend 28 days in haunted locations across America. “Once we go in here, we’re never going to be the same,” says someone in the trailer. It’s all extremely dramatic, with moving shadows, an exorcism, swinging lightfixtures, lots of night vision shots, crying, people “tapping out”, shouting, and jump-scares. One for people who love both drama and the supernatural.
Oct 21
Barbarians (Season 2)
Depicting the 20-year Roman occupation of Germania (which covered modern-day Germany, Poland, parts of Scandanavia, Switzerland and Eastern France) this German TV drama shows the Germanic people’s resistace to the oppressive Empire’s forces and heavy taxes. It follows the story of Arminius, a member of the Germanic Cherusci tribe who was brought up Roman, as he returns to lead to his people.
Oct 21
Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities (Season 1)
The Oscar-winning director has been working with different filmmakers and writers to produce this eight-part anthology horror series. Collaborators include David Prior, Jennifer Kent, Guillermo Navarro, Panos Cosmatos, Catherine Hardwicke and Vincenzo Natali while Del Toro has written two of the stories himself. Each episode will be released daily from October 25.
Oct 25
The Good Nurse (2022)
Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne star in this crime drama based on the 2013 book by Charles Graeber. Amy is struggling as both a single-mum and a nurse working long hours; she befriends new nurse Charlie Cullen. But it’s revealed that there have been a series of suspicious patient deaths, and it looks like Cullen could be the perpatrator. Truly chilling, the trailer alone is enough to make your hair stand on end: a killer nurse really is the stuff of nightmares.
Oct 26
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
It seems like there’s been a tonne of World War One films recently, but All Quiet on the Western Front is coming at the war from the German perspective. A young man lies about his age so he is able to join the war effort, and he suddenly finds himself in a wretched trench, surrounded by death, coming to terms with the realities of war. The film stars Daniel Brühl and Albrecht Schuch.
Oct 28
Non-original content
Pixie (2020)
This British black comedy has Olivia Cooke (who has recently found international fame playing Queen Alicent in House of the Dragon), Ben Hardy (The Voyeurs) and Daryl McCormack (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande) as three people who ended up having to band together when a heist goes wrong. It’s set in Ireland and they are chased by gangster priests (with Alec Baldwin playing Father Hector McGrath). A lot of fun.
Oct 1
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
A true classic landing on Netflix just in time for Halloween, this film by Tim Burton stars Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci and Michael Gambon and tells the story of a series of murders in 1799 that seem to have been committed by a headless horseman.
Oct 1
The Final Destination (2009)
Another Halloween addition, The Final Destination is the fourth film in the well-loved American horror franchise. Following a similar format to the previous instalments, Nick O’Bannon has a premonition about a fatal accident at a racetrack. He and his friends avoid dying that day, but as per susual, death can’t be evaded and they all start to meet bloody ends.
Oct 1
The Last Vermeer (2019)
Starring Claes Bang, Guy Pearce and August Diehl, and with a screenplay by John Orloff (who penned 2001’s critically-acclaimed Band of Brothers) The Last Vermeer is about an artist who makes millions selling forgeries of Johannes Vermeer paintings to the social elite in the Thirties and Firties, including to high-ranking Nazis such as Göring. It’s all based on the true story of infamous art forger Han van Meegeren.
Oct 1
Peaky Blinders (Season 6)
The sixth season of the blockbuster series is finally landing on Netflix. Set in 1933, with the Second World War looming, the main cast (Cillian Murphy back as Tommy Shelby, Paul Anderson as Arthur Shelby, Finn Cole as Michael Gray) is back, picking up where Season 5 left off.
Oct 3
High: Confessions of an Ibiza Drug Mule (2022)
This five-episode miniseries is Michaella McCollum’s own account of her failed attempt to smuggle £1.5m worth of cocaine through Lima airport and of becoming entangled in the world of drug trafficking as a teenager.
Oct 21
