You don’t typically see many new TV series being dropped in November—but 2025 has been anything but typical, so why not?
Maybe the streaming services are throwing out bonus Q4 content to distract from ever-rising subscription rates and corporate mega-mergers that may eventually result in a single app for everything, like ParamountDisneyWBApplePrime+. Until then, check these out.
I Love L.A. (HBO, HBO Max; premiered Nov. 2, with new episodes on Sundays): Rachel Sennott’s cult-flick résumé as a writer and actor includes shaggy indies like Bottoms and Shiva Baby. Thankfully, the first TV series she’s created feels like an extension of her go-for-broke Gen Y universe, a Charli XCX party banger remixed into eight episodes. (If you had to look up Charli XCX, I Love L.A. might not be for you.) The setup is simple—the messy lives of young Los Angelinos, personified by a cast of up-and-coming comic killers—but I Love L.A. is a plausible Sunday nightcap after HBO’s tonal-whiplash combo of It: Welcome to Derry and The Chair Company.
All’s Fair (Hulu; premiered Nov. 4 with new episodes on Tuesdays): American Horror Story: Delicate proved that Kim Kardashian could pull off a small acting gig as a version of her reality-show self—but now she’s acting alongside Naomi Watts, Sarah Paulson and Glenn Close? All’s Fair is such an over-the-top-of-the-top legal drama from Ryan Murphy and the Doctor Odyssey (R.I.P.) team, the real question is, will she even be noticed? This lush buffet of scenery-chewing follows a firm of women divorce attorneys whose mission is to crush, rend and humiliate The Patriarchy, one stilted case at a time. The results are hilarious, right down to their “clown cervix” of an office.
All Her Fault (Peacock; eight episodes premiered Nov. 6): Marissa (Succession’s Sarah Snook) goes to pick up her 4-year-old son from a play date, only to find a childless house and no one who’s even aware of young Milo. All Her Fault is the stuff of parental nightmares and poolside thriller novel dreams (based on Andrea Mara’s hit 2021 book), fortified with the star power (including Dakota Fanning, Jake Lacy and a dramatically adept Michael Peña) to avoid being reduced to missing-child-Lifetime-movie cheese. The real villain (or villains) of All Her Fault seem apparent at first, but that doesn’t alleviate the series’ tension.
Death by Lightning (Netflix; four episodes premiered Nov. 6): U.S. President James Garfield didn’t die due to lightning, nor did he hate Mondays (but he probably did love lasagna—who doesn’t?). Historical facts and cartoon cat trivia aside, Death by Lightning dramatizes the 1880s assassination of the 20th president, played here by Michael Shannon, who reliably stands out in a sea of power-bearded actors (including Succession’s Matthew Macfadyen as Garfield’s killer, the overly ambitious Charles Guiteau). Death by Lightning reminds us that while American politics has always been cutthroat, at least it was once better-dressed.
Pluribus (Apple TV; premiered Nov. 7 with new episodes on Fridays): Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus reteams him with Better Call Saul’s Rhea Seehorn, whose character here is “the most miserable person on Earth” charged with “saving the world from happiness.” Gilligan’s past as an X-Files writer shows he knows his skewed stuff. Before it premiered, with the first episode revealing that Seehorn’s Carol is one of only a few people immune from an alien “hive mind” situation, I was hoping Seehorn would play a present-day version of Roxanne, the uber-miserable character she played on the 2011–2013 Whitney Cummings sitcom Whitney.
Stumble (NBC, Peacock; premiered Nov. 7 with new episodes on Fridays): Bring It On and the viability of any competitive cheerleading comedies after it were fatally crushed by Jaime Pressly’s singular, masterfully snarled line in 2000’s Not Another Teen Movie: “Oh, it’s already been brought-en!” But now, 25 years later, Stumble dares to step up to make competitive cheerleading (intentionally) funny again—in the Friday night dead zone of broadcast TV, no less. The faces you’ll recognize in Stumble belong to Kristin Chenoweth and Taran Killam, but this mockumentary sitcom probably isn’t a contender in NBC’s potential comedy comeback.
Malice (Prime Video; six episodes premiered Nov. 14): While vacationing in Greece, married couple Nat and Jamie (Carice van Houten and David Duchovny) are charmed enough by new manny Adam (Jack Whitehall) to bring him home to London to hang with the family—good luck enjoying the gorgeous scenery through all those red flags. Like Prime Video’s The Girlfriend before it, Malice is a psychological thriller designed to tap into your brain’s familial fear nugget. However, Whitehall is no Olivia Cooke, and Duchovny is napping through his scenes, so … who to root for? The kids and their new, smarter foster parents, obviously.
