What to Stream: October 9–15, 2026
A decision-ready guide to the October 9–15 Netflix, HBO Max, Apple TV+, and Hulu arrivals, led by Animals, The Housemaid, Hokum and Rage, with current Rotten Tomatoes signals and explicit watch-or-skip verdicts.
Friday, October 9 carries most of this week's arrivals: Netflix releases Ben Affleck's Los Angeles kidnapping thriller, HBO Max adds a Sydney Sweeney box-office hit and the second season of a Spanish dark comedy, and Apple TV+ puts up an action film built from a toy brand. The window runs through October 15, the day Netflix brings a comedy set in the Victorious universe.
This guide covers US arrivals from October 9 through October 15, 2026. The Rotten Tomatoes figures below are a live snapshot checked on October 8, 2026. "Not yet scored" means the title page displayed no percentage at that moment, which is the ordinary state for something that has not opened or aired yet.
The week at a glance
| Title | Service and date | Format and time commitment | Rotten Tomatoes | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animals | Netflix, Oct. 9 | Feature film; 1h 48m; R | No Tomatometer yet; 1 critic review 1 | Watch It |
| Free Leonard Peltier | Netflix, Oct. 12 | Feature documentary; 1h 50m | No Tomatometer yet; 8 critic reviews 2 | Watch It |
| Tyson | Netflix, Oct. 13 | Limited documentary series | No Tomatometer yet; 0 critic reviews 3 | Watch It |
| The Trap | Netflix, Oct. 13 | Season 1; German; TV-MA | No Tomatometer yet; 0 critic reviews 4 | Watch It for subtitled-thriller viewers |
| Love Is Blind Season 11 | Netflix, Oct. 14 | Season 11; reality; Boston | Series: 66% critics (60 reviews); 34% audience 5 | Skip It |
| The Housemaid | HBO Max, Oct. 9 | Feature film; 2h 11m; R | 74% critics (202 reviews); 92% audience (5,000+ verified) 6 | Watch It |
| Rage (Furia) Part 2 | HBO Max, Oct. 9 | Season 2; eight episodes; weekly Fridays; Spanish | No Rotten Tomatoes page yet | Watch It for Spanish-drama viewers |
| Matchbox The Movie | Apple TV+, Oct. 9 | Feature film; 2h 6m; PG-13 | 24% critics (17 reviews); no audience rating yet 7 | Skip It |
| Hokum | Hulu, Oct. 10 | Feature film; 1h 47m; R | 90% critics (209 reviews); 82% audience (1,000+ verified) 8 | Watch It |
| The Lowdown Season 2 | Hulu, Oct. 14 | Season 2; FX drama | Season 1: 98% critics (59 reviews); series audience 77%; season 2 not yet scored 9 | Watch It |
Netflix: a kidnapping in Los Angeles, a fifty-year case, and a German thriller
Animals — October 9
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Mark Kimball and his wife Abigail learn that their son has been kidnapped, then spend the night trying to raise the ransom while deciding how much of their own lives they are willing to expose. Ben Affleck plays Mark and directed the film; Kerry Washington plays Abigail. Gillian Anderson, Steven Yeun, Adriana Paz, Luis Gerardo Méndez, Ray Fisher and Matt Gerald round out the cast. Affleck co-wrote the screenplay, and the film was produced with Artists Equity, the studio he founded with Matt Damon and Gerry Cardinale. 10
The film runs 1 hour 48 minutes and is rated R. It reaches Netflix and a limited number of theaters on October 9. 10 Rotten Tomatoes had logged one critic review by October 8 and displays no Tomatometer and no audience ratings. 1
Kerry Washington and Ben Affleck lead Netflix's Animals, a kidnapping thriller that reaches the service on October 9. Image: Warrick Page/Netflix.
Verdict: Watch It. A recognizable movie star, a single-night story and a runtime under two hours is a low-risk Friday. The reception signal is thin — one published review — so the case rests on the premise and the cast rather than on a score.
Free Leonard Peltier — October 12
Jesse Short Bull and David France direct this documentary on Leonard Peltier, the American Indian Movement member convicted in the 1975 killing of two FBI agents at Pine Ridge and imprisoned for five decades. The film retraces the movement, the shootout and the trial that followed. It runs 1 hour 50 minutes. 2
Rotten Tomatoes had logged eight critic reviews by October 8, displays no Tomatometer, and shows no audience ratings. 2
Verdict: Watch It. The reviews gathered on the site agree that the case earns the runtime and differ on the filmmaking. Ty Burr's review calls it "a solid, stirring account," while Brian Eggert writes that "its sometimes unconvincing execution distracts from the message." 2
Tyson — October 13
A limited documentary series tracing Mike Tyson's rise from a Brooklyn childhood to the youngest heavyweight champion, and the fame, legal trouble and reckoning that followed. Floyd Russ directs, and Bill Simmons, Jim Gray and Ian Orefice are among the executive producers. 3
The full series arrives on Netflix on October 13. Rotten Tomatoes shows no Tomatometer and records zero critic reviews. The platform has not published an episode count. 311
Verdict: Watch It. No critic has weighed in yet, so the case rests on the subject: the most famous heavyweight of his generation, told across a full-series drop by a production team drawn from sports media.
The Trap — October 13
Author Lisa Konrad has stayed inside her house for ten years, since her sister was murdered. When she believes she has seen the killer on television, she leaves for the first time and offers herself as bait. Friederike Becht plays Lisa, with Hans Löw, Naila Schuberth and Stefan Gorski in the cast. Isabel Kleefeld wrote and directed. 4
The German-language season arrives on Netflix on October 13 and is rated TV-MA. Rotten Tomatoes shows no Tomatometer and records zero critic reviews, and the platform has not published an episode count. 4
Verdict: Watch It for viewers who take their thrillers subtitled. One house, one decade-old murder and one risky plan is a tight first season, and the German setting is the part that separates it from the week's other crime titles. Unscored, so this is a bet on the premise.
Love Is Blind Season 11 — October 14
The eleventh season moves the experiment to Boston, where singles get engaged without seeing each other and then test the match in person. Nick and Vanessa Lachey return as hosts, and Chris Coelen created the series and executive produces it. 5
Season 11 begins on Netflix on October 14. 11 Rotten Tomatoes gives the series a 66% critics' average across 60 reviews and a 34% audience average from more than 100 ratings; season 11 carries no score of its own yet. 5
Verdict: Skip It. A 34% audience average across eleven seasons is the number that matters, and a season nobody has reviewed yet inherits that record. Devotees of the format will watch anyway; everyone else can spend the evening elsewhere.
HBO Max: a bestseller thriller and a Spanish comedy of rage
The Housemaid — October 9
Millie, a young woman with a past she wants behind her, takes a live-in housekeeping job with the Winchesters and finds the marriage at the centre of the house more dangerous than the work. Sydney Sweeney plays Millie, Amanda Seyfried plays Nina Winchester, Brandon Sklenar plays Andrew, and Elizabeth Perkins plays his mother. Paul Feig directed, and Rebecca Sonnenshine wrote the screenplay from Freida McFadden's novel. 6
The film runs 2 hours 11 minutes and is rated R. It opened in wide release on December 19, 2025, and grossed $126.1 million in North America; the October 9 arrival on HBO Max follows the theatrical run and an earlier streaming window. 6 Warner Bros. Discovery lists it among the month's HBO Max film premieres. 12
Rotten Tomatoes records a 74% Tomatometer from 202 reviews and a 92% Popcornmeter from more than 5,000 verified ratings. 6
Verdict: Watch It. The audience score runs eighteen points above the critics', and both rest on large samples — a trashy premise that enough people enjoyed, which the site's audience summary calls "juicy and satisfying pop fare." At 2 hours 11 minutes it is the longest film on this list and the safest bet among them.
Rage (Furia) Part 2 — October 9
Félix Sabroso's Spanish series follows women pushed into public humiliation by a market that turns everything into spectacle, and the rage they answer with. Part one premiered in 2025; part two arrives on HBO Max on October 9 with eight episodes and a largely new ensemble. Maribel Verdú and Carmen Maura lead the cast, with María León, Cecilia Suárez, Ana Mena, Clara Sans, Claudia Salas and Ana Torrent. Episodes debut weekly on Fridays. 12 Rotten Tomatoes has no page for the series, so there is no critics' figure to quote. 13
Verdict: Watch It for viewers who like their comedy in Spanish. The New York Times called the first part "brilliant, funny, colourful, and surprising," according to the Alicante daily TodoAlicante, and Spanish critics praised its blend of storylines. 14 Eight weekly episodes make this a habit rather than a binge, and no score exists to check yet.
Apple TV+: one new film, and the rest of October
Matchbox The Movie — October 9
A group of friends who grew up playing with Matchbox cars has its life upended when Sean, a former classmate turned undercover CIA agent, comes home and pulls them into an international chase to save the world. John Cena plays Sean, with Jessica Biel, Sam Richardson, Teyonah Parris and Arturo Castro. Sam Hargrave directed from a screenplay by David Coggeshall, and Apple Original Films produced it with Skydance and Mattel Films. 15
The film runs 2 hours 6 minutes and is rated PG-13. It reaches Apple TV+ on October 9. 15 Rotten Tomatoes records a 24% Tomatometer from 17 reviews and no audience rating yet. 7
John Cena plays the returning CIA agent Sean in Matchbox The Movie, an Apple Original Film that reaches Apple TV+ on October 9. Image: Apple TV+.
Verdict: Skip It. The score comes from 17 reviews that agree with each other, and those reviews name the reason: there was no story here to adapt. The Guardian's one-star review calls Cena "a plasticky, unenthused" lead, and the New York Times writes that the film was "perhaps always doomed." 7
Apple TV+ premieres no other new title this week. Its next originals land later in October: Where's Wanda? Season 2 on October 21 and Nocturne on October 30. 16
Hulu: a folk-horror hit and a Tulsa crime drama
Hokum — October 10
Adam Scott plays Ohm Bauman, a novelist who retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents' ashes and finds the place given over to stories of a witch in the honeymoon suite. Damian McCarthy wrote and directed; his earlier film Oddity won him a following among horror viewers in 2024. David Wilmot, Peter Coonan and Florence Ordesh are also in the cast. 8
The film runs 1 hour 47 minutes and is rated R. It opened in theaters on May 1, 2026, and reaches Hulu on October 10. 817 Rotten Tomatoes records a 90% Tomatometer from 209 reviews and an 82% Popcornmeter from more than 1,000 verified ratings, with a critics' consensus that calls McCarthy "a modern master of horror." 8
Verdict: Watch It. Both scores rest on large samples — 209 reviews and more than 1,000 ratings — and they agree, which the week's premieres mostly do not. A folk-horror film that runs 107 minutes is one evening, and the reviews credit both the atmosphere and the scares.
The Lowdown Season 2 — October 14
Ethan Hawke plays Lee Raybon, a Tulsa citizen journalist who calls himself a truthstorian and keeps getting into trouble for it. Keith David, Betty Gilpin and Tommy Lee Jones are also in the cast, and Sterlin Harjo, who made Reservation Dogs, created the series. 9
Season 2 arrives on Hulu on October 14. 17 Rotten Tomatoes gives season 1 a 98% Tomatometer from 59 reviews and puts the series audience average at 77% from more than 250 ratings; season 2 carries no score of its own yet. 9
Verdict: Watch It. A 98% first season from 59 reviews is the strongest critics' signal any returning title here carries, and the Tulsa setting separates it from the week's other crime titles. Season 2 lands on Hulu on October 14.
Also new this week
- Hollywood Arts (Netflix, Oct. 15) — A comedy-drama set in the Victorious universe, with Daniella Monet returning as Trina Vega to teach at the performing arts school she once attended. Jonathan Judge directs and Jake Farrow writes. Unscored. Watch It for Victorious viewers. 18
- Corregidora: The Darkest Night in Mexican Soccer (HBO Max, Oct. 15) — A three-part HBO Original documentary series about the events of March 5, 2022 at Querétaro's Estadio Corregidora, one of the darkest days in Mexican football. Unscored. Watch It for documentary viewers. 1920
- The Pet Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story (HBO Max, Oct. 11) — A three-part HBO Original documentary series that reopens a 1985 Louisiana cold case, with episodes debuting weekly on Sundays. Unscored. Watch It for true-crime viewers. 12
- Solar Opposites Season 6 (Netflix, Oct. 13) — The final season of the Hulu animated comedy arrives on Netflix. 11 Rotten Tomatoes gives the series a 95% critics' average across 83 reviews and 80% from audiences. Watch It for fans of the show who want the ending. 21
- 100 Days of Deception (Netflix, Oct. 10) — A Korean drama in which a pickpocket takes her most dangerous job yet: going undercover to steal secrets from the Japanese colonial government. Unscored. Watch It for period-K-drama viewers. 11
- Rooster Fighter (Netflix, Oct. 10) — An anime adaptation of Shu Sakuratani's manga, in which a superpowered rooster becomes Earth's last defence against invading monsters. Unscored. Watch It for anime viewers. 11
- Haunted Hotel Season 2 (Netflix, Oct. 9) — The Halloween-themed adult animation returns for a second season. Unscored. Skip It unless the first season was already on your list. 11
- Balaraw: Blood Island (Netflix, Oct. 15) — A Filipino horror-mystery in which a young woman travels to an uncharted island looking for her missing mother and confronts her family's secrets. Unscored. Watch It for horror viewers. 11
What else the week brings
Beyond the premieres, the services fill out their libraries on the same days.
- Netflix adds Transformers One on October 15, Cocaine Bear on October 14, Wayne and Señora Acero on October 12, Save Yourselves! and The First Monday in May on October 10, and Lucky and Rumours on October 9. 11
- Hulu adds all five Hunger Games films on October 14, plus Haikyu!! Season 1 and Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill on October 12. 17
- HBO Max adds High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam on October 14, Regular Show: The Lost Tapes Season 1B on October 11, and new episodes of House Hunters International on October 9. 12
Bottom line
- For the week's biggest swing: Animals on Netflix — Affleck's kidnapping thriller, October 9, unscored.
- For the best-scored film: Hokum on Hulu — 90% critics, 82% audience, 1 hour 47 minutes.
- For a big title with numbers behind it: The Housemaid on HBO Max — 74% critics, 92% audience, 2 hours 11 minutes.
- For a returning series: The Lowdown Season 2 on Hulu — October 14, after a 98% first season.
- For subtitled crime: The Trap on Netflix — a German thriller from October 13.
- For a documentary: Free Leonard Peltier on Netflix — October 12, 1 hour 50 minutes.
- To avoid: Matchbox The Movie on Apple TV+ — 24% from 17 reviews.
The Rotten Tomatoes metrics above reflect live scores recorded on October 8, 2026, and may move as further reviews and ratings arrive. Availability dates come from the platforms' own schedules and press announcements.
References
- 1Rotten Tomatoes — Animals (2026)
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- 2Rotten Tomatoes — Free Leonard Peltier
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- 3Rotten Tomatoes — Tyson
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- 4Rotten Tomatoes — The Trap
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- 5Rotten Tomatoes — Love Is Blind
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- 6Rotten Tomatoes — The Housemaid (2025)
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- 7Rotten Tomatoes — Matchbox The Movie
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- 8Rotten Tomatoes — Hokum
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- 9Rotten Tomatoes — The Lowdown (2025)
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- 11What's on Netflix — What's coming to Netflix in October 2026
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- 13Rotten Tomatoes — Furia
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- 15Apple TV Press — Matchbox The Movie
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- 17Hulu Press — October 2026 schedule
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- 18Rotten Tomatoes — Hollywood Arts
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- 21Rotten Tomatoes — Solar Opposites
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