This week is a TV finale-thon: Our Flag Means Death season 2, Invasion season 2, and the final season of Billions are all airing their last episodes this week. But don’t let all those departures worry you: There’s tons of TV to watch as the fall season continues to ramp up into premiere season.
We’ve got Pluto, the highly anticipated anime based on Naoki Urasawa’s acclaimed sci-fi manga (in turn based on Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy), premiering this week on Netflix. The third season of American Horror Stories (dubbed this year’s “Huluween Event”) debuts this week with four new episodes on Hulu. The second seasons of 30 Coins and The Gilded Age arrive this week on Max, while the new historical romance drama Fellow Strangers airs its first episode on Paramount Plus. That’s not even mentioning the new season of the Letterkenny spinoff Shoresy, or the debut of the new paranormal documentary miniseries The Enfield Poltergeist on Apple TV Plus.
Here are the most notable TV premieres to look out for this week:
Genre: Nature documentary
Release date: Oct. 25
This eight-episode nature documentary series from executive producer Steven Spielberg explores the many beautiful environments and species of Earth. As if the series’ impressive hybrid of computer-generated imagery and stunning live-action footage weren’t enough, the series is narrated by Morgan Freeman. What’s not to like?
Genre: Sci-fi action thriller
Release date: Oct. 26 with all episodes
Showrunner/creator: Toshio Kawaguchi
Cast: Shinshū Fuji, Yoko Hikasa, Minori Suzuki
Set in a future where humans and robots live side by side, this eight-episode anime adaptation of Naoki Urasawa’s 2003 manga follows a robot detective investigating a brutal series of robot and human
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