New in streaming September 2023: Netflix, Prime Video, Disney Plus, Apple TV Plus, NOW, ITVX
From The Morning Show, season 3, with Reese Witherspoon, to the latest Wes Anderson-Roald Dahl film The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, here's the best of September streaming
NOW release date: Thursday 7 September
Since Lovesick on Netflix, Johnny Flynn has become the ideal romantic lead: sweet, charming, non-threatening. But The Lovers sees him as a slightly different subject of desire, one that leans into the morally dubious. And like a darker version of Rose Matafeo’s lovely BBC sitcom Starstruck, David Ireland’s series follows a romance complicated by fame and fortune.
Belfast supermarket worker Janet (Roisin Gallagher) doesn’t care much about anyone, not even herself. But then the dashing and self-centred political commentator Seamus (Flynn) breaks into her life, and they’re drawn to each other… despite him having a celebrity girlfriend.
The Morning Show, season 3, Apple TV+
Apple TV+ UK release date: Wednesday 13 September
Jay Carson and Kerry Ehrin’s newsroom drama The Morning Show launched Apple TV+ but, after four years of better options, it’s grown into one of the least appealing titles. Nevertheless, there’s something undeniably addictive about a series starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon as daytime news presenters with rivalrous friction. It’s also weirdly connective: reality and trash rub against each other as fictional characters face true events. Season one dealt with #MeToo and season two utilised the Covid-19 pandemic.
After recently appearing in Good Omens 2, Jon Hamm joins season three as tech titan Paul Marks. Marks throws everything out of order at The Morning Show when he sets his sights on the parent company UBA, and previous loyalties are tested. Can Alex (Aniston), Bradley (Witherspoon) and Cory (Billy Crudup) survive these changes?
Read our review of season two.
Wilderness, Prime Video
Prime Video UK release date: Friday 15 September
After playing a manipulative ghost in The Haunting of Bly Manor and a gaslighting tech whizz in The Invisible Man, Oliver Jackson-Cohen has become typecast as the attractive but toxic boyfriend. His latest role in Marnie Dickens’ new Prime Video series Wilderness follows the pattern: the adulterous half of a glamorous relationship.
Liv
(the always-brilliant Jenna Coleman) and Will (Jackson-Cohen) appear to have a perfect
life, enjoyed via their New York lifestyle. But when Liv finds out that
Will has betrayed her, the violent cogs of revenge start turning in her mind. To
give their relationship a new start, Will recommends a tour around America’s
National Parks. Liv agrees… but only because it's the perfect setting to unleash her fury.
Sex Education, season 3, Netflix
Netflix UK release date: Thursday 21 September
The good news: Sex Education is returning in September. The bad news: it’s for the last time. It's the right call. The cast looks less and less like teenagers, and many of them are moving on to bigger things (as seen recently with Ncuti Gatwa, Emma Mackey and Connor Swindells starring in the Barbie movie). But it’s still a difficult goodbye to this hilarious sex-positive teen comedy, which has been a vital guide to the nuances of race, gender, sexuality and disability – not only with regard to sex, but also relationships and intimacy. It’s the kind of show most of us needed growing up.
Season four sees a shift from the norm. Moordale Secondary has closed, with awkward sex therapist Otis (Asa Butterfield) and his ebullient best friend Eric (Gatwa) moving to Cavendish Sixth Form College. Unlike Moordale’s former headteacher Hope Haddon, who inflicted a totalitarian state of conservative sexual politics on the school, Cavendish is the complete opposite. Think yoga, think sustainability, think kindness. Meanwhile, Maeve (Mackey) is over in the US studying under the cult author Thomas Molloy (Dan Levy).
Read our review of season three.
Song of the Bandits, Netflix
Netflix UK release date: Friday 22 September
The international curiosity for Korean culture (via Hallyu) has also intensified the fascination in the country itself. Last year’s phenomenal Soo Hugh series Pachinko showed the complicated history between Korea and Japan, painting a detailed picture of what the country has suffered. Much like the United States with Westerns and, by extension, Japan with samurai movies, Song of the Bandits dives into Korea’s past with an action/adventure twang – complete with guns, hats and horses.
Set in the 1920s, the series follows a group of people who end up in a lawless land and unite together. But this place is a breeding ground for all sorts of dangerous factions, including bandits, assassins, Japanese troops, and the Korean Independence Army.
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, Netflix
Netflix UK release date: Wednesday 27 September
Photo: Netflix
Hold on – haven’t we just had a Wes Anderson movie? Indeed, his whimsical sci-fi film Asteroid City was released in UK cinemas in June this year. But The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar – his second Roald Dahl adaptation after The Fantastic Mr Fox – is a 37-minute short. It’s the latest entry in a wider Dahl-iverse produced by Netflix, which includes the five-star Matilda musical.
Starring Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Dev Patel and Richard Ayoade, Henry Sugar tells the story of a rich man who learns of a guru who can see with his eyes closed. Wanting to be a successful gambler (and cheat), he studies the guru’s ability.
The full streaming in September slate:
Friday 1
September
A
Day and a Half (Netflix)
Disenchantment,
part 5 (Netflix)
Friday
Night Plan (Netflix)
Happy
Ending (Netflix)
Why do Men Earn More than Women? (Netflix)
The
Wheel of Time, season 2 (Prime Video)
Sunday 3
September
Is
She the Wolf? (Netflix)
Tuesday 5
September
Love
Rats (Paramount+)
Wednesday 6
September
I
Am Groot, season 2 (Disney+)
Justified:
City Primeval (Disney+)
The
Little Mermaid (2023) (Disney+)
Infamy
(Netflix)
Reporting
for Duty (Netflix)
Scouts
Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America (Netflix)
Tahir’s
House (Netflix)
Decoding
Turner (NOW)
FC
Barcelona, A New Era (Prime Video)
Thursday 7
September
Love
& Death (ITVX)
Dear
Child (Netflix)
Top
Boy, season 3 (Netflix)
Virgin
River, season 5 (Netflix)
What
If? (Netflix)
The
Lovers (NOW)
The
Killing Kind (Paramount+)
Star
Trek Lower Decks, series 4 (Paramount+)
Friday 8
September
The
Changeling (Apple TV+)
A
Time Called You (Netflix)
Burning
Body (Netflix)
Hello
Ghost (Netflix)
Rosa
Peral’s Tapes (Netflix)
Selling
the OC, season 2 (Netflix)
Spy
Ops (Netflix)
80
For Brady (Paramount+)
Sitting
in Bars with Cake (Prime Video)
Tuesday 12
September
Michelle
Wolf: It’s Great To Be Here (Netflix)
Wednesday 13
September
The
Morning Show, season 3 (Apple TV+)
Animals
Up Close with Bertie Gregory (Disney+)
Butter
Man: The Slickest Mexican Thief (Disney+)
Lang
Lang Plays Disney (Disney+)
Welcome
to Wrexham, season 2 (Disney+)
Freestyle
(Netflix)
Tapie
(Netflix)
Wrestlers
(Netflix)
Domina,
season 2 (NOW)
Teen
Mom UK, series 9 (Paramount+)
Thursday 14
September
Ehrengard:
The Art of Seduction (Netflix)
K
Food Show: A Nation of Kimchi (Netflix)
Once
Upon a Crime (Netflix)
Thursday’s
Widows (Netflix)
The
Gold (Paramount+)
Friday 15
September
El
Conde (Netflix)
Love at First Sight (Netflix)
Surviving
Summer, season 2 (Netflix)
Wilderness
(Netflix)
Monday 18
September
Neighbours:
A New Chapter (Amazon Freevee)
Tuesday 19
September
The
Saint of Second Chances (Netflix)
Wednesday 20
September
The
Super Models (Apple TV+)
Thursday 21
September
Crime,
series 2 (ITVX)
Sex
Education, season 4 (Netflix)
Minx,
season 2 (Paramount+)
Friday 22
September
Still
Up (Apple TV+)
Likes
For Sale (Disney+)
No
One Will Save You (Disney+)
Song
of the Bandits (Netflix)
The
Continental: From the World of John Wick (Prime Video)
Monday 25
September
All
Star Shore, series 2 (Paramount+)
Tuesday 26
September
The
Devil’s Plan (Netflix)
Who
Killed Jill Dando? (Netflix)
The
Fake Sheikh (Prime Video)
Wednesday 27
September
This
Fool, season 2 (Disney+)
Forgotten
Love (Netflix)
Street
Flow 2 (Netflix)
The
Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Netflix)
Thursday 28
September
The
Kardashians, season 4 (Disney+)
Castlevania:
Nocturne (Netflix)
The
Darkness within La Luz del Mundo (Netflix)
Love
is in the Air (Netflix)
Friday 29
September
Flora
and Son (Apple TV+)
Marvel
Studios Legends (Disney+)
Nowhere
(Netflix)
Gen
V (Prime Video)
