November 2025 TV Preview

New Comedy Series
Premieres November 2 on HBO and HBO Max

Created by and starring Rachel Sennott (Shiva Baby, Bottoms), HBO's new comedy centers on a codependent group of friends in Los Angeles. (We'd tell you more, but that's about all that has been revealed so far.) In addition to Sennott, the series stars Josh Hutcherson, Jordan Firstman, True Whitaker, and Odessa A'zion, while guest stars include Elijah Wood, Moses Ingram, Leighton Meester, Tim Baltz, and Josh Brener. The first season runs eight episodes, which arrive weekly through December 21.

New Drama Series
Premieres November 4 on Hulu

Ryan Murphy's latest series is a legal procedural centering on a trio of L.A. divorce attorneys (Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash-Betts, and Kim Kardashian) who leave their male-dominated firm to form their own practice. Glenn Close, Teyana Taylor, and Murphy regular Sarah Paulson also star, while other familiar faces this season include Brooke Shields, Ed O'Neill, O-T Fagbenle, Elizabeth Berkley, Grace Gummer, Judith Light, and Jessica Simpson. Murphy co-created the series (along with his Doctor Odyssey team of Jon Robin Baitz and Joe Baken) and also directs. The first three episodes will stream at launch.

Limited Drama Series
Premieres November 6 on Peacock

Succession's Sarah Snook heads the cast for an eight-episode adaptation of the 2021 novel by Andrea Mara. Jake Lacy, Abby Elliott, Dakota Fanning, Michael Peña, Sophia Lillis, and Jay Ellis also star. Snook plays a mother who goes to pick up her young son from a playdate with a new friend, only to be greeted at the otherwise empty home by a person she doesn't recognize—and who has no knowledge of her son or his whereabouts. The first four episodes stream on day one, followed by two more on each of the following two Thursdays.

Limited Drama Series
Premieres November 6 on Netflix

Sure, we can all recite the same basic facts about President James Garfield that we learned in school: He loves lasagna, hates Mondays, and was always arguing with Speaker of the House Nermal. Or perhaps this: He was shot by an assassin just four months after taking office, eventually dying from his wounds two months later despite the work of experts across multiple scientific disciplines. Netflix's four-part series (produced by the Game of Thrones team of David Benioff and D.B. Weiss and adapted from Candice Millard's book Destiny of the Republic) details that assassination, with Michael Shannon playing the president and Matthew Macfadyen starring as his killer, Charles Guiteau. Nick Offerman, Bradley Whitford, Betty Gilpin, and Shea Whigham also star.

Streaming Movie
Premieres November 7 on Netflix

The latest take on Mary Shelley's oft-filmed story comes from director Guillermo del Toro, who also penned the screenplay. Oscar Isaac stars as Victor Frankenstein while Jacob Elordi plays his monster; also starring are Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz, Charles Dance, Felix Kammerer, and Lars Mikkelsen. Netflix has so graciously allowed the film to play in a few genuine movie theaters over the past few weeks, and critics have responded with mostly positive reviews, with some critics even calling it del Toro's best feature to date (but a few others deeming Frankenstein too lifeless to be fully successful).

Want more del Toro? Also streaming this month on Netflix (beginning November 21st) is Sangre Del Toro, a documentary about the career of the acclaimed Mexican filmmaker.

New Drama/Sci-Fi Series
Premieres November 7 (but likely really November 6 at 9p ET) on Apple TV

If Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul creator Vince Gilligan is back with his first new series in a decade, it's a major event—even if much of what the new show is about is unknown, for now. The ambitious, darkly comedic, and "genre-bending" Pluribus is once again based in New Mexico (but also, thanks to Apple's endless funding, features additional scenes filmed across the globe) and reunites Gilligan with one of the Emmy-nominated stars of the latter series, Rhea Seehorn, who takes the lead here as the driving force of the series.

Their new project has been shrouded in mystery since it was announced in 2022—even the title was a secret until this summer—and Apple has embargoed all reviews and most plot details until the first two episodes stream the evening of November 6th (though the few hints that have slipped out on the internet have been positive). What we do know is this: One of the genres being bent is sci-fi, something that Gilligan has extensive experience in from his days as a writer and producer on The X-Files. And Pluribus is set in a seemingly utopian world where, thanks to the discovery of a mysterious extraterrestrial signal, everyone on the planet is suddenly happy and completely conflict-free—everyone, that is, except for Seehorn's character, the author Carol Sturka, who is now the most (and only) miserable person on Earth. And she doesn't seem to be very happy about that.

Karolina Wydra (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) also stars in this nine-episode first season, and Apple has already committed to a second season.

New Comedy Series
Premieres November 7 on NBC and November 8 on Peacock

Created by the sister-brother team of Liz Astrof (2 Broke Girls) and Jeff Astrof (Trial & Error), NBC's latest mockumentary-style, single-camera comedy is set in the world of competitive junior-college cheerleading. Jenn Lyon and Taran Killam head the cast, while Kristen Chenoweth has a recurring role. And real-life cheerleading coach Monica Aldama (you've seen her on the Netflix series Cheer) serves as a producer.

Limited Drama Series
Premieres November 13 on Netflix

An eight-episode thriller from writer Gabe Rotter (The X-Files), producer Howard Gordon (Homeland), and director Antonio Campos (The Staircase), Beast follows an acclaimed author (Claire Danes) who suffers from writer's block as she continues to deal with the death of her young son. But she finds unlikely inspiration for her next book in the form of her new neighbor (Matthew Rhys), a famous real estate mogul who was once suspected of murdering his wife. The excellent cast also includes Brittany Snow, Natalie Morales, and Jonathan Banks.

New Drama Series
Premieres November 13 on Netflix

Shogun meets Squid Game in this series adaptation of Shogo Imamura's Ikusagami novels (and related manga series). Set in late 19th century Japan, the six-episode Netflix series finds 292 skilled warriors competing in a lethal battle royale-style race from Kyoto to Tokyo with the goal of winning a 100-billion-yen grand prize. Expect a lot of action and a massive cast led by Junichi Okada, the Japanese star (and former boy-band member) who also serves as fight choreographer for the series.

New Drama Series
Premieres November 14 on Prime Video

Amazon's twisty British revenge thriller from the singular James Wood (Rev) finds Jack Whitehall playing a charismatic tutor who first charms the wealthy Tanner family (including the husband and wife, played by David Duchovny and Carice Van Houten) while they are on vacation in Greece. He then manages to get invited into their London home, where he begins to turn the family members against each other while plotting the Tanners' downfall. All six episodes stream at launch.

Streaming Movie
Premieres November 14 on Netflix

Prolific director Richard Linklater's first French-language feature (and second film of 2025 following the also-just-released Blue Moon) is shot in black-and-white. Specifically, it is filmed in the style of Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 French New Wave masterpiece Breathless, and it fictionalizes the making of that film—though it does so in the form of a "hangout comedy," according to Justin Chang's review for The New Yorker following Nouvelle Vague's Cannes premiere. Reviews at that festival were generally positive, but don't expect anything quite on the level of Godard's film. (That's probably good advice in general.) Guillaume Marbeck stars as Godard alongside Aubry Dullin and Zoey Deutch as Breathless stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg.

Returning Comedy Series
Premieres November 20 on Netflix

Netflix's acclaimed detective comedy re-teaming The Good Place creator Mike Schur and star Ted Danson returns for a second season that adds Danson's real-life wife Mary Steenburgen to the cast. And that's not the only change: With Danson's Charles taking on a new case this season, the setting (now a liberal arts college instead of a retirement home) and much of the cast is new. Also joining the show are Jason Mantzoukas, Jill Talley, Max Greenfield, Lisa Gilroy, David Strathairn, and Gary Cole, among others. But Stephanie Beatriz, Lilah Richcreek Estrada, and Mary Elizabeth Ellis do return from Season 1.

Streaming Movie
Premieres November 21 on Netflix

It was one of the best-reviewed films at this year's Sundance and now appears to be a potential Best Picture contender for Netflix. Also playing in theaters in limited release in November, this adaptation of Denis Johnson's novella of the same name comes from Jockey director Clint Bentley, who co-wrote the screenplay with recent Oscar nominee Greg Kwedar (Sing Sing). The period drama takes a decades-long look at the life of Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), a day laborer building the railroads of the Pacific Northwest at the start of the 20th century. Felicity Jones, Kerry Condon and William H. Macy also star, while Will Patton narrates.

Limited Documentary Series
Premieres November 26 on Disney+

Originally airing as a six-part miniseries in 1995 and later expanded several times (with two additional episodes) for subsequent physical releases, this comprehensive look at one of the better rock bands to emerge from Liverpool in the past few centuries has now been expanded once again for its streaming debut, but in a rather meta way. When it streams today on Disney+, the newly remastered series will have a ninth episode with new footage of the surviving band members gathering in 1994 and 1995 to work on ... The Beatles Anthology.

Returning Drama/Horror Series
Premieres November 26 on Netflix

Are the "child" actors now old enough to be the parents of their own characters? Perhaps, but your favorite Netflix series is finally back for its fifth and final season after a three-year wait. Picking up 18 months after the events of S4, the new episodes are set in 1987—you know it better as the peak Spuds MacKenzie era—as Hawkins is placed under military quarantine and our heroes attempt to locate and destroy Vecna. New cast members this year include Linda Hamilton, Alex Breaux, Nell Fisher, and Jake Connelly.

But you'll only get to see four episodes this month. (And despite earlier reports to the contrary, they aren't quite feature-length, though three of them exceed 60 minutes.) Another three stream on Christmas Day, while the nearly two-hour series finale (in which we find out that the characters were actually cake all along) streams—and screens in movie theaters—the night of December 31st. But that won't be the end of the Stranger Things universe: An animated spinoff (Stranger Things: Tales From '85) is in production and should air next year, while a separate live-action spinoff series is in the early stages of development.

Streaming Movie
Premieres November 28 on Netflix

Co-written and produced by Anora Oscar-winner Sean Baker, Left-Handed Girl marks the solo directorial debut for Shih-Ching Tsou, who produced most of Baker's features and co-directed 2004's Take Out with him. The Taiwanese submission for Best International Feature Film follows a single mother and her two daughters in contemporary Taipei after they relocate from the countryside. Along the way, three generations of family secrets begin to unravel. Reviews were positive following the film's Cannes premiere in May, and the film heads to Netflix at the end of the month following a limited Oscar-qualifying run in a few theaters beginning November 14th.

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