One thing I love about streaming entertainment is that, unlike the seasons, it never winds down. Our favorite platforms are here to make sure of that.
Over the next few days, as you dive into all the new releases of the week, expect a lingering taste of the Halloween season, Scarlett Johansson battling dinosaurs, some widely talked-about international series, a wildly surreal Colin Farrell flick, a new season of The Witcher, and a reimagining of a classic Henrick Ibsen play. You can also expect a slew of documentaries on topics ranging from social issues to true crime—one of which tells the tale of American serial killer queen Aileen Wuornos. There’s even a twisted new nature documentary that’ll blow your mind … or disturb it.
Here are 11 new shows and movies to watch on HBO Max, Netflix, Prime Video, and more this weekend, in order by release date.
1
The Asset
If you’re a Netflix junkie like me, you already know about The Asset, which became the streamer’s top show globally just 24 hours after its premiere earlier this week.
A noteworthy Danish production, The Asset follows a washed-out police cadet as she’s given one last chance. After being painfully molded into an undercover agent for Denmark’s national security and intelligence agency, Agent Tea Lind (Baby Fever’s Clara Dessau) infiltrates a criminal gang tied to the biggest cocaine dealer in the country. To gain intel on Miran (Afshin Firouzi, of Boundless), she poses as a luxury jeweler and befriends his materialistic girlfriend, Ashley (Maria Cordsen, of Fredløs). However, Tea’s mission quickly shifts when she witnesses the danger that Ashley and her daughter are in, and she finds herself risking everything to help her new friend.
The six-episode series features a thrilling narrative full of twists and turns amid powerful, complex characters with hidden motivations and layers so deep, you’ll need a trail of breadcrumbs to find your way out.
The Asset premiered on Monday, October 27, 2025, and is currently streaming on Netflix.
The Asset
Release Date
October 27, 2025
Network
Netflix
2
Nightmares of Nature: Lost in the Jungle
Nightmares of Nature: Lost in the Jungle is not your average mesmerizing nature documentary. In some ways, it’s better. In others, not so much. In every way, though, it’s extremely intense and thrilling, captivating in its presentation of nature’s danger, drama, and dark beauty—at least from the perspective of its prey.
Narrated by Stranger Things’ Maya Hawke, the six-episode docuseries comes from the studio that brought us The Purge. It exposes you to chilling tales of survival, like a bachelor raccoon, a pregnant mouse, and a traumatized froglet all seeking shelter in—wait for it—a cabin in the woods. Boom. This time, as we explore nature, we’re going to a place where nightmares are reality, where the trees have eyes and anything that moves doesn’t last long.
Nightmares of Nature: Lost in the Jungle premiered Tuesday, October 28, 2025, on Netflix.
3
Don’t Date Brandon
Modern-day romances aren’t always what they seem to be. Some fly right off the train tracks, headed straight for a target full of games, lies, and deceit. Case in point: Don’t Date Brandon, a new nail-biting docuseries from Paramount + that will make you think twice before engaging in digital dating.
Ladies, I promise you, if there is such a man as Prince Charming, you won’t find him online. One woman named Amber learned this the hard way when she started dating a man she was sure filled her fantasy. Brandon seemed like a catch, for the most part, but when Amber connects with his ex-wife, her idyllic world is shattered. It seems Brandon has been lying and hiding some sinister secrets … from both women. After comparing notes, Amber and Athena start a podcast to expose their man, discussing in depth the red flags they saw at the beginning of their respective relationships with him but chose to ignore. Once the podcast airs, shocking details emerge about Brandon as women come out of the woodwork with their stories.
Don’t Date Brandon premiered all three of its installments on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, and is currently streaming on Paramount+.
4
Country Doctor
HBO Original Documentary Short Country Doctor casts a big, fat, beaming spotlight on rural America’s biggest economic challenge: giving and receiving proper healthcare.
Since 2010, more than 140 hospitals in rural America have closed, leaving just one doctor for every 2,500 people. That’s insane. Country Doctor follows Dr. James Graham in Fairfax, Oklahoma, as he and his team fight to provide adequate care for their community of over 1,200 people. With a severe lack of medical facilities in these areas, Dr. Graham spends his time moving between Fairfax Hospital, a nursing home, and three medical clinics—one of which is 60 miles away and serves four counties. He also makes house calls for the poor and uninsured.
Having traveled to the Oklahoma State Capitol to lobby for more governmental assistance, Dr. Graham expresses concern for medical staff and patients as they face an uncertain future, thanks even more to the hospital’s illegal billing practices. When a new buyer for the hospital emerges, the good doctor remains cautious but hopeful about this powerful crisis as it’s observed through a fierce but fragile lens.
Country Doctor premiered on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, on HBO Max.
5
Down Cemetery Road
Apple TV’s Down Cemetery Road is a creepy new British thriller series adapted from award-winning author Mick Herron’s novel of the same name from his Zoë Boehm series. The eight-episode TV show is adapted by Morwenna Banks, who has also written four previous episodes of Apple TV hit Slow Horses, which Herron created, and which just wrapped up its fifth season.
Down Cemetery Road follows Zoë Boehm, played by Dame Emma Thompson, of Dead of Winter, a private investigator who is enlisted to solve the mystery of a missing girl. When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb, a young girl disappears in the aftermath. As a result, restoration expert Sarah Tucker (The Affair’s Ruth Wilson) becomes obsessed with finding her and turns to Boehm for help. As the two team up, they find themselves in a complex military conspiracy, where they discover that people who are long-believed dead are actually still alive.
Cast members also include Tom Riley (Murder Is Easy), The Great’s Adam Godley, Aiysha Hart, of We Are Lady Parts, The Winter King’s Ken Nwosu, Fehinti Balogun (A Gentleman in Moscow), Fool Me Once’s Adeel Akhtar, Culprit’s Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Sinead Matthews (Hullraisers), Darren Boyd (The Outlaws), and Tom Goodman-Hill, of Baby Reindeer.
Down Cemetery Road premiered Wednesday, October 29, 2025, on Apple TV.
Down Cemetery Road
Release Date
October 29, 2025
Network
Apple TV+
Showrunner
Carlton Cuse, Ryan J. Condal
6
Hedda
An edgy, provocative, emotional reimagining of Henrick Ibsen’s renowned stage play from 1891, Hedda is about a woman looking to escape boredom by manipulating the attention and affection of those in her social orbit.
Set in1950s England, Hedda (Tessa Thompson, of Creed III) finds herself torn between the lingering heartache over a past love and the gnawing pain resulting from the quiet suffocation of her present-day life. She’s recently married and bored, and her desire for more wealth has landed her academic husband into serious debt.
As the illegitimate daughter of the late General Gabler, who also exhibits many of the same characteristics as a psychopath, Hedda harbors an intense love for two things: guns and toying with peoples’ emotions. When she plans a party to help her husband get promoted, her ex-lover shows up, who has been gender-switched to female in DaCosta’s film. As Hedda engages in a psychological cat-and-mouse game to make her ex look bad, her best-laid schemes blow up in her face when she chooses social status over love.
Hedda premiered on Wednesday, October 29, 2025, on Prime Video.
Hedda
Release Date
October 22, 2025
Runtime
107 minutes
Director
Nia DaCosta
7
Ballad of a Small Player
Expect a wild ride on a kinetic pathway that leads from rock bottom to new life in Colin Farrell’s latest, Ballad of a Small Player.
Based on Lawrence Osborne’s 2014 novel of the same name, the film is set amidst Macau’s flashy casinos and seductive atmosphere. Farrell stars as Lord Doyle, a heavy-drinking gambler running from his past and his many, many debts. As he’s coming down from his wildly surreal spree, unable to tell right from wrong and good from bad, he steps deep into a fresh nightmare when he meets an enigmatic woman at the baccarat table and becomes fascinated with her.
The film is an illusory, neon-heavy experience with messages about human appetites—i.e., addictions—and their destructive tendencies, which often place us at the mercy of dangerous people. Can Lord Doyle see beyond his own selfish perspective to find his way out of this hell he’s created for himself?
Ballad of a Small Player premiered Wednesday, October 29, 2025, and is currently streaming on Netflix.
8
The Witcher (Season 4)
A TV show based on a video game, Netflix’s The Witcher returns for its penultimate season four, and it boasts a major change: Liam Hemsworth, of The Hunger Games franchise, has replaced Man of Steel’s Henry Cavill as our stoic hero Geralt. Don’t worry—the transition between actors in the show is extremely smooth.
The new season sees our trio of protagonists separated by a raging war, forced to traverse the volatile Continent and face its many demons and countless enemies alone. The straight-forward odysseys find an injured Geralt on a stumbling search for Ciri (Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ Freya Allan), who has adopted a new family in “the Rats” on her journey as a monster hunter, while Yennefer (Anya Chalotra, of Two Neighbors) works to recruit any woman with magical powers to help her take down Vilgefortz (Mahesh Jadu, of Home and Away).
The Witcher, Season Four, premiered Thursday, October 30, 2025, on Netflix.
The Witcher
Release Date
December 20, 2019
Network
Netflix
Showrunner
Lauren Schmidt Hissrich
9
Jurassic World Rebirth
Scarlett Johansson stars as Zora Bennett, a covert-ops expert, in Jurassic World: Rebirth, which made its streaming premiere this week.
Set five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, the planet’s ecology has proven largely unkind to and unlivable for dinosaurs. Any who exist remain in an isolated equatorial environment—i.e., a research facility—with climates resembling the one in which they used to thrive. Zora is contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure genetic material from dinosaurs, whose DNA has the power to provide life-saving benefits to humankind.
When her operation intersects with a civilian family, they all find themselves stranded as they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that has intentionally been kept hidden from the world for decades. Starring alongside Johansson are Jonathan Bailey (Bridgerton), Luna Blaise, of Manifest, Anatomy of a Scandal’s Rupert Friend, Ed Skrein (Rebel Moon), and Mahershala Ali, of Leave the World Behind.
Jurassic World: Rebirth made its streaming premiere on Thursday, October 30, 2025, on Peacock.
10
Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers
Perhaps the most notorious American female serial killer is Aileen Wuornos, who emerged with a story so horrifying that it’s being revisited in a new Netflix true-crime documentary.
Between 1989 and 1990, Wuornos killed seven men across central Florida. After a tumultuous childhood wrought with abandonment, abuse, and foster care, Aileen thumbed her way to Florida, where she earned money as a sex worker who also dabbled in petty crime. When she was arrested for the string of murders in 1991, her case drew obsessive attention. Not only did the perp not fit the typical profile, but her troubled past and transient lifestyle ignited a cultural debate about the events that led to her crimes, as well as the media’s portrayal of her life.
Through a series of interviews with those who knew Aileen best, and through interviews with Wuornos herself, Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers explores the nature of circumstances that shaped her life and offers new insights into her crimes while examining broader questions about her criminal motivations and the justice system’s response. It also utilizes archival footage from former Dateline correspondent Michelle Gillen.
Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers premiered Thursday, October 30, 2025, on Netflix.
Charlize Theron portrayed the queen of serial killers in 2003’s hit movie Monster. Her searing performance earned her an Academy Award, a Critics Choice Award, a Golden Globe Award, and more.
