What's new to streaming this week? (Sept. 12, 2025)
Looking for something great to watch at home? Streaming subscribers are spoiled for choice between Hulu, Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+, Apple TV+, Prime Video, Shudder, Paramount+, Peacock, and more. And that's before you even look at the vast libraries of movies and television programs within each streamer!
Don't be overwhelmed or waste an hour scrolling through your services to determine what to watch. We've got your back, whatever your mood. Mashable offers watch guides for all of the above, broken down by genre: comedy, thriller, horror, documentary, and animation, among others. But if you're seeking something brand-new (or just new to streaming), we've got you covered there, too.
Mashable's entertainment team has scoured the streaming services to highlight the most buzzed-about releases of the week and ranked them from worst to best — or least worth your time to most watchable. Whether you're hankering for side-splitting laughs, spine-tingling chills, heart-warming stories, or pulse-pounding action, we've got something just for you.
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9. Love Is Blind: France, Season 1, and Brazil, Season 5
Love Is Blind has so many international iterations now it's hard to keep up. But the concept remains the same: Strangers looking for love enter an experiment in which they date in pods without seeing each other. If they want to meet IRL, they must propose, committing to further stages of the experiment like a holiday "pre-honeymoon period," moving in together, meeting the family, and getting hitched in the space of about six weeks. Next up is Brazil's fifth season and the first ever season of Love Is Blind: France. You'll start off vaguely interested and end up hooked — just like the experiment. — Shannon Connellan, UK Editor
How to watch: Love Is Blind: Brazil, Season 5, and Love Is Blind: France, Season 1, premiere Sept. 10 on Netflix, with new episodes weekly.
9. The Tech Bro Murders
Silicon Valley is a place of great tech, greater wealth, and some hidden dangers. ID's new weekly true crime series The Tech Bro Murders digs into this dark side. The six-part series delivers shocking murder cases from the early waves of the tech boom, focusing on sex, greed, and envy led to homicide.
Hankering for a new true-crime show to follow? Want a probing look into the highs and lows of Silicon Valley? Retired Palo Alto PD detective Sandra Brown will be your host on this gnarly look at crime and tech bro culture. — Kristy Puchko, Entertainment Editor
How to watch: The Tech Bro Murders premieres Sept. 9 at 10/9c on ID, then HBO Max, with new episodes weekly.
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7. AKA Charlie Sheen
Netflix is taking us all back to the rise and fall of Charlie Sheen, an American movie star turned Emmy-nominated Two and a Half Men lead turned tabloid cover boy. Erratic behavior led to Sheen getting booted from the hit sitcom and baffling longtime fans and even friends. Now, in this Netflix documentary, Sheen sits down with a camera crew to tell his story and, if not clear his name, at least unburden his soul. But fascinatingly, he's not the only interview here. His former co-star John Cryer, his ex-wife Denise Richards, his childhood friend Sean Penn, and the notorious madame Heidi Fleiss will weigh in too. — K.P.
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Denise Richards, Heidi Fleiss, Jon Cryer, Sean Penn, Ramon Estevez, Brooke Mueller, Chris Tucker, and Lola Sheen
How to watch: AKA Charlie Sheen debuts on Netflix on Sept. 10.
6. The Girlfriend
Robin Wright and Olivia Cooke lead Prime Video's new drama, a six-part series that starts as an unhinged meeting-the-parents experience and careens into something else. Based on Michelle Frances' novel and adapted by Naomi Sheldon and Gabbie Asher, The Girlfriend sees Wright as Laura, a gallerist whose luxurious London life becomes unsettled when she meets her son Daniel's (Laurie Davidson) new partner, Cherry (Cooke). To say it's tense is an understatement, as Laura's uncomfortably close relationship with her son means she immediately dislikes Cherry and starts digging. However, Cherry has her own story. The show pivots back and forth between perspectives, following Cherry's drive to keep up appearances and unlocking a compelling power dynamic between the two — and Wright and Cooke are brilliant to watch together. Expect one rollercoaster of a trip to Spain, a fabulous Tanya Moodie as Laura's best friend, and simmering, uh, Oedipal energy. — S.C.
Starring: Robin Wright, Olivia Cooke, Tanya Moodie, Laurie Davidson, Waleed Zuaiter, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Karen Henthorn, Anna Chancellor, Leo Suter, and Francesca Corney
How to watch: The Girlfriend is now streaming on Prime Video.
5. Warfare
After conjuring up a nightmarish vision of a possible future conflict with last year's Civil War, director Alex Garland's latest film, Warfare, takes viewers back to the frontlines of a very real, not-so-distant fight — the Iraq War, circa 2006. It's both a tribute to the bravery shown in the face of battle by a group of young Navy SEALs and a brutal slog that immerses audiences into the gritty reality of war, viscera and all. Co-written and co-directed by Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza, an Iraq War veteran, Warfare follows a group of Navy SEALs played by a compelling cast.
War is hell, and if you had any other such notions, Warfare should help set the record straight. But is that all there is? Maybe I missed some meaning behind the nerve-shattering brutality. Warfare might be so honest as to work as an anti-recruitment film, combating the polished ads the armed forces like to run during sports broadcasts. While it's admirable Mendoza and Garland stitch together this agonizing portrait of the perils of war, its demands on young soldiers, and the merciless reality of combat, I was unsure how to feel about it. It doesn't deliver the rah-rah patriotic highs nor does it critique the Iraq War that led them to that day. After the film ends, there's behind-the-scenes footage of Mendoza and Garland with many of the veterans who survived the ordeal, revisiting their past in a recreated set hundreds of miles away from where they almost met their end. Maybe there can be healing in revisiting the not-too-distant past for these vets, but Warfare doesn't offer the same catharsis for civilian viewers.* — Monica Castillo, Contributing Writer
Starring: D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connor, Finn Bennett, Joseph Quinn, Charles Melton, Noah Centineo, and Michael Gandolfini
How to watch: Warfare is streaming on HBO Max from Sept. 12.
4. Sister Midnight
Writer/director Karan Kandhari's wild debut Sister Midnight is a must-see for the weirdos (hi). Radhika Apte gives a tremendous, unhinged performance as small-town bride Uma, whose arranged marriage to Gopal (Ashok Pathak) reaches levels of weird you could only dream of. Set in Mumbai, Sister Midnight is "a film as strange, hilarious, and unpredictable as its protagonist," as I wrote in my review. The twists are uncanny, the long-simmering thirsts bestial, and the score, by Interpol's Paul Banks, is everything. — S.C.
Starring: Radhika Apte, Ashok Pathak, Chhaya Kadam, and Smita Tambe
How to watch: Sister Midnight is now available for rent or purchase on Prime Video.
3. Only Murders in the Building, Season 5
Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short), and Mabel (Selena Gomez) are back on the case in Only Murders in the Building Season 5. This time around, they're investigating the death of doorman Lester (Teddy Coluca), who passed away in the Season 4 finale. Their sleuthing leads them down a path of Staten Island mobsters, high-stakes casino games, and threatening billionaires, played by Renée Zellweger, Christoph Waltz, and Logan Lerman. Will our trio get to the bottom of the case, or have they played their last hand? The mystery at the heart of Only Murders Season 5 tends towards the overly convoluted.
However, what it lacks on the case front, it makes up for with the constantly delightful dynamic between Charles, Oliver, and Mabel — as well as the new bombshell discoveries they make about the Arconia this season. As I wrote in my Season 5 review, "Only Murders' mysteries may not be hitting the same as they did in the first season, but the show's team of amateur detectives and the building they live in are the TV gift that keeps on giving." — Belen Edwards, Entertainment Reporter
Starring: Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez, Michael Cyril Creighton, Teddy Coluca, Christoph Waltz, Renée Zellweger, Logan Lerman, Téa Leoni, Bobby Cannavale, Beanie Feldstein, Jermaine Fowler, Keegan-Michael Key, Dianne Wiest, Meryl Streep, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Richard Kind, and Nathan Lane
2. Weapons
Barbarian writer/director Zach Cregger's new horror movie has proved popular with audiences and critics alike, racking up an impressive $250 million+ at the global box office and a swathe of positive reviews and reactions. It probably helps that the movie's starting point is so intriguing: An entire class of school children, with the exception of one boy, goes missing on the same night at the exact same time, running out of their homes into the darkness and not coming back.
"The last thing I ever want to do is overhype a movie, but just trust me when I say: You are not ready for Weapons," wrote Mashable's Belen Edwards in her review. "I don't mean that in a 'This is the scariest horror movie you'll ever see!' way, although writer-director Zach Cregger stirs up plenty of frights that had my whole theater hollering. Instead, I mean it more in the sense that Weapons is a wonderfully surprising film. Whatever you think it's going to throw at you, chances are you aren't prepared for what it actually lobs your way." — Sam Haysom, Deputy UK Editor
Starring: Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich, Benedict Wong, Austin Abrams, Amy Madigan, Cary Christopher, June Diane Raphael, Toby Huss, Sara Paxton, Justin Long
How to watch: Weapons is now available for rent or purchase on Prime Video.
1. Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television
"If you're telling Black stories then you need to have Black people tell their own. It's about that legacy." Issa Rae's right with this statement, leading the writer/producer's new two-part HBO documentary, Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television, which explores the history of Black representation on TV — and behind the scenes in the industry itself.
Directed and produced by Giselle Bailey and Phil Bertelsen, the doc takes a look through the decades at the Black artists, writers, and showrunners who transformed the predominantly white TV industry, featuring interviews with game-changing icons like Shonda Rhimes, Oprah Winfrey, Tracee Ellis Ross, Ava DuVernay, and more. The first part offers a historical lens while the second part moves toward the present and future, where Black creators, building on that legacy, are championing the power of Black storytelling and media ownership. It's a must-watch. — S.C.
How to watch: Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television is now streaming on HBO Max.
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Shannon Connellan is Mashable's UK Editor based in London, formerly Mashable's Australia Editor, but emotionally, she lives in the Creel House. A Tomatometer-approved critic, Shannon writes about everything (but not anything) across entertainment, tech, social good, science, and culture. Especially Australian horror.
Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.
Belen Edwards is an Entertainment Reporter at Mashable. She covers movies and TV with a focus on fantasy and science fiction, adaptations, animation, and more nerdy goodness. She is a member of the Critics Choice Association and the Television Critics Association, as well as a Tomatometer-approved critic.
