Dexter's Back Friday, The Godfather's Gone Saturday: The Week Ahead in Streaming, Movies and Culture

1. New on Streaming This Week

Netflix

• Tuesday Oct 27 — The One About Matthew Perry (documentary series, 3 parts). The Friends star's rise, his addiction fight and his death, told by the family and friends who lived it with him. Likely the most talked-about documentary of the week.
• Tuesday Oct 27 — Zainab Johnson: Toxically Optimistic (stand-up special). A new hour from the Upload star.
• Friday Oct 30 — Beat Luke Littler (live event). Netflix's live-darts experiment: 20 amateurs each get one leg against world No. 1 Luke Littler with a £501,000 prize on the table, hosted by Gary Lineker.
• Friday Oct 30 — the international batch: Akka (Indian crime thriller — Keerthy Suresh vs. Radhika Apte in a women-ruled kingdom), Dead-End Job (Korean horror-thriller), A Couple of Lies (Swedish psychological thriller — a home-swap between rich couples turns toxic), and SCTV: The Greatest Show You've Never Heard Of, a reunion documentary celebrating the Canadian sketch institution.
• Sunday Nov 1 — the library lands: Whiplash, Bridesmaids, Looper, The Mummy, Resident Evil and Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Insidious: Chapter 2 and Chapter 3, Stand By Me, Air Force One, Fury, The Croods and the complete Rectify (Seasons 1–4).

Hulu

• Monday Oct 26 — The Mob (series premiere). Parker Posey hosts a celebrity reality competition from the producers of The Traitors: famous faces in an Italian villa running mob-movie "jobs," with one chosen Don controlling the money and the eliminations — and $250,000 at the end.
• Thursday Oct 29 — Love Island: Australia, Complete Season 8.
• Sunday Nov 1 — the library lands: Aliens (1986), The Devil Wears Prada, The Banshees of Inisherin, Don't Breathe, The Meg and Meg 2: The Trench, The Last Duel, and Percy Jackson and the Olympians Seasons 1–2.

Max

• Tuesday Oct 27 — Kordell Stewart: Slash & Burn (HBO documentary). The former Steelers quarterback nicknamed "Slash" tells his own story — including the rumor that upended his life and career. From NFL Films and Skydance Sports.
• Thursday Oct 29 — Cannibal Poet (HBO documentary series). True crime: the Mexico City killer José Luis Calva Zepeda.
• Sunday Nov 1 — The Gilded Age, Season 4 premiere. Julian Fellowes' HBO drama returns for eight Sunday episodes — Carrie Coon, Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon and Morgan Spector back in the drawing rooms. The headline of Max's whole November.
• Sunday Nov 1 — the library lands, and the pivot is instant: the day after Halloween, Christmas moves in — Elf, A Christmas Story, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, The Polar Express — alongside Scream (1996) and Jerry Maguire.

Disney+

• Tuesday Oct 27 (US evening drop) — VisionQuest, Episodes 5 & 6. The mid-season double-drop of Marvel's WandaVision follow-up: Paul Bettany's Vision, with James Spader's Ultron back across the table. The week's only Marvel event.
• The honest fine print: the rest of Disney+'s week is new kids' episodes. VisionQuest is the premiere.

Prime Video

• Friday Oct 30 — Last One Laughing: Halloween, Episode 4 (finale). Jimmy Carr hosts; this season the rule is laugh or scream and you're out. Jack Dee, Daisy May Cooper, Phil Wang and Reece Shearsmith are among the last comedians standing.
• Sunday Nov 1 — iZombie, the complete series (Seasons 1–5), plus a 100-plus-film library drop: Good Will Hunting, Mean Girls (2004), Elf, Scrooged, Some Like It Hot, Annie Hall, No Hard Feelings and Blink Twice.

Apple TV

• Friday Oct 30 — Nocturne, Episodes 1 & 2 (series premiere). Liev Schreiber is an ex-soldier turned homicide detective; Stephen Graham is the serial killer hunting him; Zazie Beetz is the FBI agent caught in between. Based on Lars Kepler's The Sandman. Ten episodes, weekly to Christmas.
• Friday Oct 30 — Dark Matter, Season 2 finale (Episode 10, "No Quiet Life").

Paramount+

• Friday Oct 30 — Dexter: Resurrection, Season 2 premiere (Premium plan). See the top of this page — the week's biggest returning franchise, timed to Halloween on purpose. Uma Thurman and Jack Alcott return; Krysten Ritter guests; Gabriel Luna joins as a killer of his own.
• Sunday Nov 1 — a 120-plus-film library drop: Gone Girl, Breakfast at Tiffany's, An Officer and a Gentleman, Footloose (1984 and 2011), Dreamgirls, Coach Carter and It's a Wonderful Life.

Peacock

• No new original premiere lands on Peacock this week — plainly a gap week for originals, with Crystal Lake (the Friday the 13th prequel, up since Oct 15) as the service's Halloween-season binge.
• Sunday Nov 1 — the library lands, and it's where this week's "leavings" move to: Beetlejuice, The Princess Bride, Fargo, Love Actually, It's a Wonderful Life — plus the first five Fast & Furious films, Nightcrawler and American Sniper, all arriving the morning after they leave Netflix.
• Live this week: ISU Grand Prix Skate Canada, Friday through Sunday, and on Sunday the Premier League (Liverpool v. Arsenal) and the NBA (Celtics vs. Magic).

2. Last Chance — Leaving This Week

This is the section to act on. "Gone after" means that day is your last full day to watch. Halloween — Saturday Oct 31 — is the week's cliff edge.

Netflix

• Gone after Tuesday Oct 27 — Gossip Girl, Seasons 1–6. The complete run leaves midweek. If it's your comfort binge, the clock is already running.
• Gone after Saturday Oct 31 — the Fast & Furious seven: The Fast and the Furious, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious, Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6 and Furious 7. Marathon them now — the first five resurface on Peacock Sunday, but 6 and Furious 7 don't. (The eighth film, The Fate of the Furious, stays on Netflix.)
• Gone after Saturday Oct 31 — Broadchurch, Seasons 1–3. David Tennant and Olivia Colman, the complete Dorset murder mystery.
• Gone after Saturday Oct 31 — Nightcrawler. Jake Gyllenhaal's career-best turn as an LA crime-news hustler. It lands on Peacock Sunday — but if Netflix is your service, Saturday is it.
• Gone after Saturday Oct 31 — also: Selma (Ava DuVernay's MLK drama), Speed (plus Speed 2), The Warriors (1979), American Sniper (moves to Peacock Sunday), 13 Going on 30, Jumanji (1995), 42, Black Adam, Hitch, Minions, Starship Troopers, Under the Skin, Moonage Daydream (the Bowie documentary) and The Grey.
• The Halloween marathon that vanishes with Halloween: all six Chucky films — Child's Play 2, Child's Play 3, Bride of Chucky, Seed of Chucky, Curse of Chucky, Cult of Chucky — gone after Saturday night.

Prime Video

Prime's deadlines bite early: most of these expire at 9 p.m. Pacific on their last day, not midnight. Do not start a long movie at 8 p.m.

• Gone after Friday Oct 30 — the Universal Monsters originals: Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), The Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man (1933) and Creature from the Black Lagoon, plus Army of Darkness and The Visit. A ready-made Halloween-eve monster marathon — gone before Halloween itself.
• Gone after Saturday Oct 31 — the Godfather trilogy: The Godfather, The Godfather Part II and Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone. Nobody fits all three in one night — pick your favorite and start before dinner.
• Gone after Saturday Oct 31 — also: Pulp Fiction, Interstellar, The Silence of the Lambs (and Hannibal), L.A. Confidential, Raging Bull, Rain Man, The Great Escape, Munich, Collateral, Cape Fear (1991), Bridesmaids, Chef, Warrior, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Don't Breathe, Evil Dead (2013), The Purge: Anarchy and Hostel Part II.

Max

• Gone after Saturday Oct 31 — The Departed. Scorsese's Best Picture winner — DiCaprio, Damon, Nicholson. It only arrived on Max on Oct 1; a month later it's already leaving.
• Gone after Saturday Oct 31 — Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. The $690 million animated sequel, gone months before the trilogy's finale.
• Gone after Saturday Oct 31 — Talk to Me. A24's possession horror — one of the scariest films of the decade, with the most Halloween deadline imaginable.
• Gone after Saturday Oct 31 — also: Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson; Tom Cruise's Oscar-nominated turn), Misery (Kathy Bates' Oscar winner), Men (Alex Garland) and War of the Worlds (2005) — which also leaves Peacock the same night but stays on Paramount+.

Paramount+

• Leaving Monday Oct 26 — Confess, Fletch. Jon Hamm's charming, under-seen Fletch revival. Watch it Sunday night or Monday at the latest.
• Gone after Saturday Oct 31 — the Abrams batch: Overlord (WWII Nazi-zombie carnage), 10 Cloverfield Lane (arguably the best Cloverfield film) and Super 8.

Peacock

• Leaving Monday Oct 26 — The Boston Strangler: Unheard Confession. A true-crime documentary re-examining Albert DeSalvo's confession through 16 hours of previously unreleased audio.
• Gone after Saturday Oct 31 — Saving Private Ryan. Spielberg's D-Day landmark. (It stays on Paramount+ for now — this is a Peacock-only loss.)
• Gone after Saturday Oct 31 — War of the Worlds (2005) — see Max, above.

The quiet services

Hulu announced no departures for this week. Disney+ announced none either. And Apple TV's originals don't rotate off — what's there stays there. We'd rather tell you that straight than pad this list.

One honest caution: Netflix's November departure list is preliminary — streamers sometimes extend a licence at the last minute. The list above is the verified list as of Sunday Oct 25; if a title gets a reprieve, we'll update this page.

3. In Theaters Friday (Oct 30)

The honest shape of the weekend: no new studio tentpole opens Friday — it's an expansion, horror and limited weekend, a week after Clayface and Wildwood. Here's what's actually worth the trip.

• Wicker (expanding nationwide). Olivia Colman as a fisherwoman who commissions a husband woven from wicker — Alexander Skarsgård — with Peter Dinklage and Elizabeth Debicki. The weekend's strangest and most interesting wide option.
• Christmas at the Kringles (wide). A holiday horror-comedy: Ron Livingston and Rachel Bilson move next to a family that celebrates Christmas year-round and tries to hypnotize them into it. From the director of Willy's Wonderland — a Christmas movie released for Halloween, on purpose.
• Stiletto (wide). Eli Roth's Horror Section slasher: on the anniversary of her sister's murder, an exotic dancer hunts the masked killer targeting strip-club performers.
• Sight & Sound Presents: JOSHUA — Live! (nationwide). A filmed live-stage biblical epic of Jericho from Sight & Sound Theatres.
• In limited release: The Mongoose — Liam Neeson as a falsely accused war hero leading police on a cross-country chase, with Marisa Tomei and Ving Rhames. The Mosquito Bowl — Peter Berg's war-sports drama (Nicholas Galitzine, Bill Skarsgård), in theaters ahead of its Nov 25 Netflix debut. Gentle Monster — Léa Seydoux and Catherine Deneuve, a Cannes Palme d'Or nominee. Queen at Sea — Juliette Binoche and Tom Courtenay in a Berlinale prize-winner about dementia and who gets to decide.

4. Podcast Bookings

The honest version: nothing to announce yet. As of Sunday night, none of the shows Culture tracks have posted this week's guests — Drink Champs, Million Dollaz Worth of Game and Club Shay Shay all announce midweek, and we'd rather leave this space empty than fill it with rumors.

Where the shows stand: Drink Champs' newest episode (Ep. 520, with Glasses Malone & JasonMartin) landed Friday Oct 23 — it's today's Conversation pick on our Culture page. Million Dollaz Worth of Game's latest is Ep. 401 with BabyChiefDoit (Oct 18), and Club Shay Shay's latest full episode is Ep. 237 with Nuri Muhammad (Oct 21). When this week's bookings post, this section updates with them.

5. Culture Calendar

• Monday Oct 26 — Headrush, Jeshi. The UK rapper's new album, and the week's first drop.
• Tuesday Oct 27 — Gotham Film Awards nominations. The 36th Gothams open awards season; the ceremony follows Nov 30 in New York.
• Friday Oct 30 — album day:
  • BigXthaPlug — BETTER OVER TIME. His fourth album, loaded: Lil Yachty, GloRilla, Leon Thomas, Fridayy, BabyFace Ray and Ava Max, led by the single "LITE."
  • Daddy Yankee — LA POSTAL. His 13th studio album and his first concept album — 15 tracks, led by "BOTZ (Bésame Otra Vez)."
  • Kirk Franklin — I Am What I Am. His 14th studio album, with GloRilla and Karen Clark Sheard; lead single "This Time."
  • JENNIE — Fallen Angel (EP). Six songs, including "HEAVEN."
  • BKTHERULA — N5ON and Sampa the Great — Nu Zamrock — the Atlanta rapper's new one, and a reimagining of Zambia's 1970s Zamrock through hip-hop and soul.
  • Also Friday: new albums from Nickelback (Everything Under the Sun) and Queens of the Stone Age (Perfecth), and Mariah Carey's Glitter (25th Anniversary Edition).
• Saturday Oct 31 (Halloween) — the sneaker drops: the Air Jordan 14 "Forest Green" ($215, SNKRS and select retailers — the first retro of the 2005 colorway), Nike's Ja 4 High "Zombie" ($180, the first high-top Ja signature) and the Nike Caitlin 1 "Jinx," Caitlin Clark's Halloween colorway.

The Week Ahead runs every Sunday. Everything above was checked against the services' own announcements and at least one second source on Oct 25, 2026 — arrivals, departures and dates change, and when they do, this page changes with them.