As the air starts to get a little chilly, it's high time you tucked yourself in for some true crime, drama, and mystery. Here are our best picks for this September.
Impeachment: American Crime Story, FX
September 7th
The third installment of Ryan Murphy’s anthology true crime franchise takes on arguably the biggest political-news story of the 1990s: the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky scandal. Lewinsky is producing and the cast is filled with notables, including Beanie Feldstein (as Lewinsky), Sarah Paulson (as Linda Tripp), Clive Owen (as Bill Clinton), and Edie Falco (as Hillary Clinton).
Scenes From a Marriage, HBO
September 12th
A modern adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s classic Swedish series of the same name, Scenes from a Marriage re-examines the dilemmas probed by the original, exploring love, hatred, desire, monogamy, marriage, and divorce through the lens of a contemporary American couple. Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty) and Oscar Isaac (HBO’s Show Me a Hero) star as Mira, a confident, ambitious tech executive left unfulfilled by her marriage, and Jonathan, an accommodating, hyper-intellectual philosophy professor desperate to keep their relationship intact. The new version was developed, written, and directed by Hagai Levi, creator of The Affair, so, yeah, expect some drama.
The Morning Show season two, Apple TV+
September 17th
At the end of the first season of this flawed but undeniably addictive series, The Morning Show co-hosts Alex Levy (Jennifer Aniston) and Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon) appeared on live television and accused their network of enabling workplace misconduct. Season two picks up from there and examines the fallout from that moment of Me Too honesty.
Sex Education season three, Netflix
September 17th
By the end of season 2 Jean Milburn (Gillian Anderson) discovered she was expecting a baby, Otis Milburn (Asa Butterfield) realised he still loved Maeve Wiley (Emma Mackey). A huge twist occur when his love rival Isaac (George Robinson) deleted the voice message Otis left on Maeve’s phone, but will the pair have patched things up? The students of Netflix’s teen sex
comedy were already creating enough messes for themselves, but now they have Girls’ own Jemima Kirke as their school’s new headmistress. Although more stern than the characters she usually plays, she’s trying to set the school on the right path after the events of season two.
Cinderella, Amazon Prime
September 3rd
In a new adaptation of a classic fairytale, Camila Cabello stars in Cinderella. Alongside the "Havana" singer, the all-star classic includes Billy Porter, Idina Menzel, Pierce Brosnan, and Minnie Driver, as well as newcomer Nicholas Galitzine who plays the charming Prince Robert.
The Premise, Hulu
September 16th
From the mind of The Office's B.J. Novak comes The Premise, a star-studded anthology series that uses comedy to engage with the biggest issues of our unprecedented modern era. The series includes appearances by Tracee Ellis Ross, Lucas Hedges, Kaitlyn Dever, Lola Kirke, Ben Platt, Jermaine Fowler, and more.
Worth, Netflix
September 3rd
The film follows the real-life story behind the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. Feinberg (Michael Keaton) is an attorney and mediator appointed by Congress to lead the fund. Feinberg and his team are faced with the impossible task of determining what a life is worth to the families who lost them, as the nation still reels from the insurmountable aftereffects of 9/11. Amy Ryan stars as Camille Biros, the firm's head of operations, with Stanley Tucci starring as a community organizer who lost his wife in the attacks. Rounding out the cast are Tate Donovan, Shunori Ramanathan, Talia Balsam, Laura Benanti, Marc Maron, Ato Blankson- Wood, Chris Tardio, Carolyn Mignini, and Victor Slezak.
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