If you’re a fan-fav of TV shows, then the list is for you.
We’ve put together a list of TV Shows you should be streaming this month.
The list is of trending shows that are available stream on a number of platforms including Netflix, YouTube, Apple TV, and Showmax.
BMF: Black Mafia Family S1
(STARZ)
Release Date: Now Streaming
If you enjoyed watching POWER, Power Book II and III, then indulge in this Curtis Jackson-produced series. BMF follows the Black Mafia Family, a drug and money laundering organization.
The series is inspired by the true story of two brothers who rose from the decaying streets of southwest Detroit in the late 1980s and gave birth to one of the most influential crime families in this country.
The series premiered on September 26, 2021, on Starz. In September 2021, the series was renewed for a second season.
Squid Game S1
(Netflix)
Release Date: Now Streaming
The most popular watch right now! Squid Game, an imaginative, unorthodox story in which 456 contestants risk their lives in a mysterious survival game for a chance to win 45.6 billion won.
Driven to desperation and gathered at an unknown location, the 456 participants play one game each day as they race towards the prize of 45.6 billion won. The price of failure is death, and only one contestant can survive to claim the prize. How did this diverse group of people end up here, and who is the mastermind behind these games? The striking juxtaposition between the pandemonium and the colorful, nostalgic art direction of Squid Game further heightens anticipation for the distinctive visuals and story of this show.
Alice in Borderland
(Netflix)
Release Date: Now Streaming
Inspired by a manga of the same name, Alice in Borderland is similar to Squid Game in that it follows several young people as they survive in Tokyo engulfed in lethal competition.
Revolving around the spine-chilling adventures of a young gamer named Arisu, this manga-based live-action show presents an alternate, apocalyptic version of Tokyo where its inhabitants are forced to compete in dangerous games. Winning lets you live a little longer, losing brings immediate death. Oh, and refusing to play results in death too, but by a laser. Directed by Shinsuke Sato (‘Bleach,’ ‘Death Note‘), this dystopian show, inspired by the lore of ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ explores dark themes of survival, social inequality, existential purpose, and the nature of mankind.
Black Tax Season 2
(BET Africa & Showmax)
Release Date: October 9
The highly anticipated Black Tax Season 2 stars lead Jo-Anne Reyneke who portrays the character of Thuli Dlamini. The first-ever locally co-produced original sitcom with BET Africa and Showmax scooped a SAFTA for Best Scriptwriting in a TV Comedy.
Black Tax is a hilarious, fun and light-hearted sitcom entrenched in the culture of black tax. If you think you’re just earning your way in this world, think again because it’s payback since the first paycheque. The original sitcom follows a black professional, Thuli, who grapples with the unsaid aspect of her community that affects most middle-class African people. Thuli has to deal with the unspoken law that most viewers can resonate with: of paying back to the family and extended family. Season 2 will see Thuli going to night school to up-skill herself, in order to rise above her black tax. Look out for a host of new celebrity cameos as well as returning Season 1 favourites.
Swagger
(Apple TV+)
Release Date: October 29
Apple announced the first season of the highly anticipated drama series, “Swagger” from creator and showrunner Reggie Rock Bythewood, NBA superstar Kevin Durant and Imagine’s Brian Grazer.
The 10-episode first season is inspired by Durant’s experiences, “Swagger” explores the world of youth basketball, and the players, their families and coaches who walk the fine line between dreams and ambition, and opportunism and corruption. Off the court, the show reveals what it’s like to grow up in America.
The new series is led by an ensemble cast of stars including O’Shea Jackson Jr., Isaiah Hill, Academy Award nominee Quvenzhané Wallis, Shinelle Azoroh, Tessa Ferrer, Caleel Harris, James Bingham, Solomon Irama, Ozie Nzeribe and Tristan Mack Wilds.
You S3
(Netflix)
Release Date: October 15
Netflix‘s stalker hit series ‘You’ is returning for season 3, and is slated to premiere on 15th October 2021.
The series is based on the novel series You by Caroline Kepnes, which currently consists of three books, although Variety reported that the upcoming season would not be an adaptation of Kepnes’ third book, You Love Me.
While Season 2 sees Joe move to LA in the hopes of being a better person by putting his stalkerish tendencies behind. He meets Love Quinn who has also killed one-too-many people in the name of passion.
Season 3 will focus on the main character Joe Goldberg as he navigates fatherhood after finding out at the end of the previous season that his girlfriend Love Quinn was pregnant.
Colin in Black & White
(Netflix)
Release Date: October 29
The upcoming new series ‘Colin in Black & White’ is based on Colin Kaepernick’s early years.
Colin in Black & White is six-episode series created by Colin Kaepernick and Ava DuVernay. Michael Starrbury writes and serves as executive producer, alongside DuVernay and Kaepernick who will appear as himself as narrator of the series.
The series will provide an introspective look at Kaepernick’s adolescent years as a Black teen growing up with a white adopted family.
Jaden Michael as Young Colin before reaching the highest levels of American football as an NFL quarterback and becoming a cultural icon and activist; Nick Offerman and Mary-Louise Parker as his well-meaning parents Rick and Teresa; and Colin Kaepernick himself, who appears as the present-day narrator of his own story, guiding viewers through a robust and colorfully presented array of historical and contemporary contextual moments.
Succession S3
(Showmax)
Release Date: October 18
Succession, winner of Best Drama at both the Emmys and Golden Globes in 2020, follows four very rich siblings behaving very badly while trying to win their father’s approval – and control of his company, a global media and entertainment empire.
In Season 3, that already impressive cast is adding Oscar winner Adrien Brody (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Pianist) and Emmy winner Alexander Skarsgård (Big Little Lies, True Blood), not to mention Black Reel winner Sanaa Lathan (The Affair, Love & Basketball), Emmy nominee Hope Davis (Your Honor, Captain America: Civil War) and singer Jihae (Mortal Engines).
Ambushed by Kendall at the end of Season 2, Logan begins Season 3 in a perilous position, scrambling to secure familial, political, and financial alliances. Tensions rise as a bitter corporate battle threatens to turn into a family civil war.
Umakoti Wethu
(Showmax)
Release Date: Now Streaming
Umakoti Wethu sees Fulu Mugovhani give another prize-worthy performance as Khathu, a Venda woman struggling to conceive, who finds herself in crisis when her Zulu husband’s new job takes them back to KwaZulu-Natal, his overbearing mother, and his old flame.
Melusi Mbele (Isibaya) co-stars as her husband Sizwe, with rising star Kwanele Mthethwa (Isithembiso, Abomama S2) delivering a breakthrough performance as Nobuhle, the woman caught in the middle of this love triangle with a twist. Duduzile Ngcobo (Durban Gen, eHostela, Uzalo) also features as Khathu’s disapproving mother-in-law.
Sex Education S3
(Netflix)
Release Date: Now Streaming
The series stars Asa Butterfield as Otis Milburn, Gillian Anderson as Jean Milburn, Ncuti Gatwa as Eric Effiong, Emma Mackey as Maeve Wiley, Kedar Williams-Stirling, Connor Swindells, Aimee-Lou Wood.
“In Season 3, it’s a new year, Otis is having casual sex, Eric (Ncuti Gatwa) and Adam are official, and Jean has a baby on the way,” reads the official synopsis. “Meanwhile, new headteacher Hope tries to return Moordale to a pillar of excellence, Aimee discovers feminism, Jackson (Kedar Williams-Stirling) gets a crush and a lost voicemail still looms. Prepare for commitment animals, alien phenomena, vulva cupcakes, and much more of Madam Groff.
Chucky
(Showmax)
Release Date: Binge episodes 1-3 from October 27, weekly episodes thereafter
A vintage Chucky doll turns up at a suburban yard sale, throwing an idyllic American town into chaos as a series of horrifying murders begins to expose the town’s hypocrisies and secrets in the brand-new series Chucky, which picks up after the events of the seventh film in the horror franchise, Cult of Chucky.
Created by Fangoria Chainsaw Award nominee Don Mancini (Bride of Chucky, Child’s Play), the series stars Oscar nominee Brad Dourif (The Lord of the Rings’ Wormtongue and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’s Billy Bibbit) as the voice of serial-killer-possessed Good Guy doll Chucky, with child actor Zackary Arthur (Transparent) as Jake Wheeler.
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