Planning a weekend of screen time? These eight new and returning series cover espionage, action, horror, animation, romance, comedy and drama across major streaming services.
For a break between episodes, browse RETROCADE’s arcade news and features, or turn the living room into a games room with an arcade machine.
1. Slow Horses
- Available on: Apple TV
- Genre: Spy thriller
- Episodes: 6
- Cast: Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, Kristin Scott Thomas
Based on Mick Herron’s spy novels, Slow Horses follows the disgraced and error-prone MI5 agents assigned to Slough House. In season six, the team faces a deadly threat as an unknown enemy begins hunting them down one by one.
The series has built a loyal audience through tightly paced mysteries, dry humour and compact six-episode seasons. Its sixth season continues that approach, with Gaby Chiappe serving as head writer after creator Will Smith’s departure following season five.
2. Neagley
- Available on: Prime Video
- Genre: Action
- Episodes: 8
- Cast: Maria Sten, Alan Ritchson, Adeline Rudolph
This Reacher spin-off puts Frances Neagley at the centre of the story. A former army Master Sergeant and private investigator, Neagley investigates the suspicious death of a childhood friend and uncovers a wider conspiracy.
Maria Sten leads the series, while Alan Ritchson’s Reacher-world connection remains part of its appeal. Neagley is presented as a capable investigator stepping out from her famous colleague’s shadow.
3. Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story
- Available on: Netflix
- Genre: Horror
- Episodes: 8
- Cast: Ella Beatty, Vicky Krieps, Charlie Hunnam
Ryan Murphy’s anthology returns with a dramatisation of the notorious Lizzie Borden case. Set in the 1800s, the fourth season explores the story of a woman acquitted after allegedly killing her parents with an axe alongside her maid.
4. City of Blood
- Available on: Disney+
- Genre: Horror
- Episodes: 8
- Cast: Lea Drinda, Bea Hoffmann, Soma Pysall
This German post-apocalyptic series divides Berlin between privileged residents living beneath a climate-controlled dome and people struggling outside it. When two sisters reunite, they discover that vampires are preparing to seize power and subjugate humanity.
5. Stranger Things: Tales from ’85
- Available on: Netflix
- Genre: Animation
- Episodes: 10
- Cast: Brooklyn Davey Norstedt, Elisha Williams, Braxton Quinney
Set between the second and third seasons of the live-action series, Tales from ’85 follows Eleven and her friends through a winter adventure in Hawkins. The group confronts remnants of the Upside Down while forming alliances with new characters.
Its animated format makes it a natural companion for a session with a compact bartop arcade once the episode ends.
6. Plastic Beauty
- Available on: Netflix
- Genre: Drama
- Episodes: 8
- Cast: Mayu Matsuoka, Riisa Naka, Shotaro Mamiya
This Japanese drama enters the competitive world of plastic surgery. Rival surgeons with sharply different views on physical transformation face cases that also raise questions about why patients choose cosmetic procedures.
7. Outlander: Blood of My Blood
- Available on: Starz
- Genre: Romance
- Episodes: 10
- Cast: Jamie Roy, Harriet Slater, Hermione Corfield
The Outlander spin-off follows the romantic lives of the main characters’ parents across two periods. One storyline unfolds in eighteenth-century Scotland amid rival clans, while the other takes place during the upheaval of the First World War.
8. Youth
- Available on: HBO
- Genre: Comedy
- Episodes: 8
- Cast: Sharon Horgan, Rupert Friend, Sharlene Whyte
Sharon Horgan stars as a 50-year-old literary agent and divorcee navigating dating and fresh romantic possibilities in London. The new comedy drama balances the complications of starting over with an adult perspective on love.
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