New Crime Series to Stream During This Holiday Weekend
Moody high-schoolers, stressed politicians, and prolific serial killers
It’s Labor Day weekend! Already?! Yes. The summer goes by too quickly, and each year it goes by faster and faster. I hope you have very fun weekend plans; I, for one, am getting married. I won’t probably be spending this weekend curled up on the couch, relaxing with some new crimey TV shows, but you definitely should. (And mark my words, that’s the first thing I’m doing when all the happy hoopla is over.) We’ve got a good slate of series for ya, and a couple of bonus movies thrown in for good measure.
Happy watching!
Dexter: Resurrection, Season One
I know I told you to watch this already, as a bonus to my last list, but I will sing it from the rooftops: WE HAVE MORE DEXTER. It came out on July 11th, so it’s all ready and waiting for you.
Where to Stream: Paramount+
Chief of War, Season One
Thomas Paʻa Sibbett created this series with Jason Momoa, who stars; it’s the story of the unification the Hawaiian islands from an indigenous perspective.
Where to Stream: Apple TV+
Wednesday, Season 2, Part 1
Jenna Ortega is back as the morbid sleuth daughter of the Addams Family, figuring out all the weird stuff going on at her bonkers boarding school.
Where to Stream: Netflix
Butterfly, Season 1
In this new adaptation of the 2015 graphic novel Butterfly by Arash Amel and Marguerite Bennet, Daniel Dae Kim stars as a former U.S. intelligence operative now based in South Korea who finds he has a hit out on him from a dangerous organization… and the agent they send to do the job is a straight-up psychopath.
Where to Stream: Prime
The Rainmaker, Season 1
In the highly anticipated new series adaptation of John Grisham’s The Rainmaker, John Slattery plays esteemed lawyer Leo Drummond, who goes toe-to-toe in court with an inexperienced lawyer who thinks he has found a conspiracy.
Where to Stream: Peacock
The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, Limited Series
Grace Van Patten stars as the wrongfully convicted American student Amanda Knox in this gripping take on the real story.
Where to Stream: Hulu
Hostage, limited Series
In this excellent British limited series, the new prime minister’s husband is taken hostage, so she turns to the French prime minister (who has also been receiving death-threats) for help!
Where to Stream: Netflix
The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, Season 1
In the spinoff prequel series to The Terminal List, The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, Taylor Kitsch returns as Navy SEAL Ben Edwards.
Where to Stream: Prime
MOVIES
I’ve got a couple BONUS movies for you! Here they are:
Night Always Comes
Vanessa Kirby is a mother who spends one night doing everything she can to raise enough money to save her family’s home.It doesn’t seem like the feel-good film of the year, but Kirby has never not given an amazing performance.
Where to Stream: Netflix
The Thursday Murder Club
It’s finally here! The film adaptation of the first installment of Richard Osman’s wonderful book series.
Where to Stream: Netflix
Olivia Rutigliano
Olivia Rutigliano is an Editor at Lit Hub and CrimeReads. Her other work appears in Vanity Fair, Vulture, Lapham's Quarterly, AirMail, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Baffler, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Politics/Letters, The Toast, Truly Adventurous, and elsewhere. She has a PhD from the departments of English/comparative literature and theatre at Columbia University, where she was the Marion E. Ponsford fellow. She hosts the podcasst "Culture Schlock" at Lit Hub Radio. She is on instagram at @oldebean, twitter at @oldrutigliano, and bluesky at @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social.
