4 improbable new Netflix exhibits to binge-watch this weekend (October 2-4)

Buckle up for October, folks, as Netflix revs as much as drop a bunch of big returning shows on us, together with new seasons of The Diplomat (October 15), Kristen Bell and Adam Brody’s Nobody Wants This (October 22), and a brand new Lupin(!) heist on October 23. There’s additionally a extremely anticipated documentary from Judd Apatow about comedy nice Norm Macdonald (October 16).

Ah, however you got here right here for one thing to look at now, did not you? Well, if you have not already been testing Florence Pugh’s East of Eden, which is climbing the charts, U.S. subscribers have a stack of newly added sequence to tear by means of this weekend, with my prime decide (on mortgage from Paramount+) touchdown on Monday. Let’s get to it.

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The Great British Baking Show (Collection 14)

Nigella Lawson is within the tent, y’all!

Noel Fielding—one of many sensible comedic minds behind certainly one of my favourite comedy exhibits, The Mighty Boosh—will perpetually dwell rent-free in my thoughts because the frosting-covered face of the moon. So it is not misplaced on me that, as one of many stalwart hosts of the insanely in style Great British Baking Show, he is typically surrounded by the candy cake masking. But for Collection 14 of the present, now streaming on Netflix, most eyes can be targeted some place else: on the debut of cookbook icon Nigella Lawson, who joins Paul Hollywood on the judges’ desk.

Known as The Great British Bake Off within the U.Ok., the hunger-inducing competitors present places 12 bakers, from all generations and all walks of life, by means of themed weeks that concentrate on an ingredient, method, or period. In every episode, the bakers compete in three challenges—a Signature bake of their very own, a Technical shock bake assigned by the judges, and a ultimate Showstopper.

Fielding and British TV presenter Alison Hammond preserve the present enjoyable and rolling alongside as hosts whereas Lawson and Hollywood flow into the tent, checking in on the bakers’ progress. Cake Week debuted on September 25, with Biscuit Week touchdown as we speak (October 2). New episodes drop each Friday.

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Doc

An excellent physician wakes up lacking eight years of reminiscence

Netflix added season 2 of this Fox hit sequence on September 22, and it is nonetheless sitting within the streamer’s Top 10. Adapted from the Italian drama Doc – Nelle tue mani (“Doc – In Your Hands”), Doc is a captivating medical drama, made all of the extra attention-grabbing as a result of it is impressed by the lifetime of an actual physician. House of Cards actress Molly Parker performs Dr. Amy Larsen, the chief of inside drugs at a Minneapolis hospital, who loses eight years of her reminiscence after a automotive crash.

Reduced to the position of a medical intern on the hospital, the once-fierce Larsen has to rebuild her profession utilizing the abilities she will be able to keep in mind, typically taking up the grunt work she’d pawn off on her subordinates. Meanwhile, her private life additionally wants rehab—she has to deal with a teenage daughter she nonetheless footage as a baby, an ex-husband, Dr. Michael Hamda (Omar Metwally), and a boyfriend she will be able to’t keep in mind. Two seasons and 32 episodes that run 45 minutes every can be found for an bold weekend binge that may require a physician afterward.

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NCIS (Seasons 20-22)

Mark Harmon’s Gibbs is gone, however the group carries on

LL Cool J and Scott Caan, forged members of the upcoming new NCIS spin-off NCIS: New York, joked on stage on the 2026 Emmys last month about the truth that nobody actually is aware of what the acronym really means. With Season 24 premiering on CBS October 6, it’s time for a reminder—NCIS stands for Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and the long-running present continues to be the flagship of an epic franchise that started as a JAG spin-off in 2003.

Since then, the ecosystem has stretched from Los Angeles to Sydney, and now features a prequel about Mark Harmon’s iconic Gibbs character. But for followers of the OG sequence, seasons 20 to 22 are actually streaming on Netflix. They decide up within the post-Gibbs period, that bagan with Harmon’s Season 19 exit, as ex-FBI agent Alden Parker (Office Space‘s superb Gary Cole) takes over the group that features Timothy McGee (Sean Murray), Nick Torres (Wilmer Valderrama), and Jessica Knight (Katrina Law).

In every episode, the elite group investigates main crimes, from homicide to espionage, involving the Navy and Marine Corps. Its case-of-the-week format is simple to binge, and season 21’s strike-shortened 10 episodes make it even simpler.

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Mayor of Kingstown (Season 1-4)

Don’t cross Jeremy Renner in his jail city

Mayor of Kingstown is certainly one of Paramount+’s darkest and hottest sequence, so it is good to see its 4 intense and riveting seasons land on Netflix … however you are going to have to attend until Monday to start out binging. It’ll be value it, although. Co-created by Taylor Sheridan and Hugh Dillon—a Canadian rock star and actor who grew up in Kingston, Ontario, a real-life jail city—this crime thriller takes place within the equally named fictional Michigan city whose macro economy runs nearly solely on its prisons.

At the middle of this macro economy is Mitch McLusky (Kyle Chandler), the city’s unofficial “mayor,” who retains the peace between the prisons’ guards, cops, gangs, and varied factions of inmates. But when Mitch is killed, his brother Mike (Jeremy Renner) takes over, but in addition inherits all the issues, wars, and shady offers that include it. It’s violent, brutal, and Renner is a pressure of nature as Mike.

Speaking of Renner, season 3 marks his comeback after his near-fatal 2023 snowplow accident, and season 4—which introduced on four-time Emmy-winning Sopranos and Nurse Jackie actress Edie Falco as new jail warden Nina Hobbs—earned an ideal 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Somewhat style of October earlier than the storm comes

October guarantees to be a stable month for Netflix TV exhibits, and this lineup launches the month properly with a light-weight dusting of flour, some fast-paced investigation drama, lives at stake within the hospital, and certainly one of Paramount+’s best sequence on mortgage. Stay tuned to How-To Geek’s streaming part for the very best what-to-watch suggestions this facet of the web.