Wondering what to watch tonight? From Jilly Cooper’s Rivals endgame on Disney+ to Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw back in Netflix’s Black Doves – with Nicola Coughlan in Channel 4’s returning I Am… anthology – the best new TV shows land thick and fast this November, Stephen Graham’s serial killer and an Apple TV heist among them. Here is everything worth watching this winter, and where to stream it.
Top of the list of must-see new TV shows on Disney+ this November is the conclusion of Jilly Cooper’s bonkbuster Rivals: the second season’s six final episodes land from 11 November, three at launch and then weekly to a finale on 2 December. The first run set ratings records on the platform and turned heads at the BAFTAs, and the follow-up has raised the stakes considerably – Hayley Atwell stars as Rupert’s ex-wife Helen and Rupert Everett joins as her husband Malise, alongside David Tennant as Lord Tony Baddingham, Aidan Turner as Declan O’Hara, Danny Dyer as Freddie Jones and Alex Hassell as Rupert Campbell-Black.
Set once again in the lush Cotswolds of the late 1980s – see where Rivals was filmed for the real-life locations – this final stretch turns up the heat on the corporate, romantic and political warfare that made the original so compelling, as Venturer’s battle for Tony’s TV franchise reaches its climax against the general election and the Great Storm. Expect more shoulder pads, more affairs, more televisual sabotage – with a Hunt Ball, Bonfire Night and a Christmas party before the end. Read our interview with Hayley Atwell.
Disney+,new episodes from 11 November (three at launch, then weekly; finale 2 December)
London’s busiest spies and assassins are back in business: Black Doves returns to Netflix for series 2, all six episodes streaming now – perfectly timed for a weekend binge. Keira Knightley is Helen Webb, political wife and professional secret-seller, whose husband Wallace is now closing in on Downing Street – and when her handler Mrs Reed (Sarah Lancashire) is caught in a plot and Black Doves agents start turning up dead, Helen reunites with Ben Whishaw’s Sam, her best friend and eternally melancholy assassin.
Knightley is brilliant as Helen, whose polished charm hides a ruthless streak and Whishaw gives Sam’s killings a deep sadness that is hard to shake. Sarah Lancashire is formidable as handler Reed, Gabrielle Creevy and Ella Lily Hyland return as the young killer-duo with most of the best lines, and new faces Ambika Mod, Neve Campbell and Sam Riley thicken the plot. The series mixes gunfire with deadpan British comedy, and many argue this season betters the first, and the capital, as so often in the best TV shows set in London, plays a starring role.
Netflix,streaming now (all six episodes)
A Scandi thriller transplanted to small-town America, Nocturne adapts The Sandman – the fourth of Swedish duo Lars Kepler’s Joona Linna novels – for Apple TV, with Liev Schreiber as Jonah Lynn, an ex-soldier turned homicide detective who swaps Philadelphia for quiet Pennsylvania and finds a serial killer waiting there with unfinished business. Stephen Graham is that killer, Jurek Walter, and Zazie Beetz the FBI agent Lynn half-raised, now drawn into the hunt for Walter’s last missing victim.
Graham is the reason to watch: fresh from Adolescence, he delivers another study in stillness and threat, and even where critics have quibbled with the plotting, nobody argues about the performances – Bill Camp, Rory Culkin and Chrissy Metz deepen the bench. Schreiber and Graham circling each other is the heart of it, two heavyweights given a whole winter to do it in – and if it whets an appetite for the real thing, our edit of the best Nordic noir TV shows runs deep.
Apple TV,streaming now (weekly on Fridays; finale 25 December)
The anthology that gave Kate Winslet her BAFTA-winning I Am Ruth returns: I Am Helen stars Nicola Coughlan, who developed the story with writer-director Dominic Savage, as a woman watching a five-year relationship curdle as her boyfriend – Joe Cole – is pulled into the manosphere and towards control and aggression. Told through Helen’s eyes across two consecutive nights, it is Coughlan’s furthest step yet from Bridgerton and the world of the most captivating period dramas.
The strand has drawn remarkable work from its leading women – Suranne Jones in I Am Victoria, with Samantha Morton, Vicky McClure, Gemma Chan, Lesley Manville and Letitia Wright before her, each story developed with its star and largely improvised. Coughlan has said the filming was intense enough that she considered walking away – expect an uncomfortable and raw, but very important piece of television, likely to be talked about long after transmission.
Channel 4,16 and 17 November (two parts, consecutive nights)
East Berlin, 1982: a 24-year-old deep-cover MI6 agent must hold her nerve – and her cover – as the Stasi’s new head of counter-espionage closes in, while she is drawn into a dangerous love triangle with him and a CIA operative posing as an East German. Honey comes from Sid Gentle Films, the team behind Killing Eve, written by Extraordinary creator Emma Moran, with Ann Skelly as agent Martha Schmitt and Rory Kinnear among the British contingent.
The whisper exciting spy-watchers – widely reported, not yet confirmed by the BBC – is that Martha may be a young Carolyn Martens, Fiona Shaw’s imperious Killing Eve spymaster, which would make this a prequel hiding in plain sight. Either way, a Cold War Berlin of checkpoints and double lives is a world worth disappearing into.
BBC One and iPlayer,from 14 November (Saturday nights at 9pm)
Twelve months to plan, twelve hours to execute, twelve days to escape: that is the arithmetic of 12 12 12, Apple TV’s new heist thriller, in which a crew raids a bank vault beneath the streets of Zurich and every episode braids all three timelines together. Anthony Mackie is the disgraced FBI agent giving chase; Jamie Dornan is the career criminal worth chasing, with Agathe Rousselle and Kali Reis among the crew, in a cat-and-mouse that runs across Europe.
Kari Skogland, of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, directs, and the structure is the hook: the plan, the job and the unravelling run side by side, so the show can spring its surprises from any of the three timelines. Mackie and Dornan produce as well as star, so the cat-and-mouse is personal on both sides of the camera – and the finale lands on Christmas Day.
Apple TV,from 13 November (two episodes at launch, then weekly on Fridays)
Three friends in their mid-twenties are turfed out of their London flatshare by their landlord, and things – as the title has already warned you – get worse. The comedian Leo Reich writes and stars in It Gets Worse, an A24 comedy for Channel 4 with a cast list that explains the buzz around it: Lena Dunham, Andrew Scott and Amelia Dimoldenberg make guest appearances, and the whole thing is narrated by Zadie Smith.
Those who know Reich’s stand-up special Literally Who Cares?! will recognise the register – monstrous millennial self-regard played at full tilt, here spread across a flatshare of equally unbearable twentysomethings. It premiered at the London Film Festival in mid-October before its broadcast run. Stream all six episodes from day one, or take it weekly on Thursday nights like a traditionalist.
Channel 4,22 October (all episodes streaming from 22 October; weekly on TV at 10.05pm)
A tech CEO who calls himself an ‘inventor of the future’ blackmails his own performance psychologist into covering up a data-exploitation scandal: that is the engine of The Audacity, a pitch-black Silicon Valley satire arriving in the UK trailing strong American word of mouth. Billy Magnussen plays the founder; Sarah Goldberg – Barry’s Sally – is the therapist dragged under with him.
Zach Galifianakis and Lucy Punch fill out a cast of the morally compromised, and nobody on screen is remotely likeable – which is both the point and the fun. It aired in America in the spring and was renewed for a second season before the first had even premiered, so its October UK premiere is a catch-up window worth taking. Episodes arrive weekly on HBO Max, exclusively in the UK and Ireland.
HBO Max,22 October (weekly episodes)
Four years into his prison sentence, Assane Diop has renounced his gentleman-thief alter ego and wants only to serve his time – until a statement signed in Lupin’s name announces a string of simultaneous museum heists, and the evidence somehow points to a man behind bars. Omar Sy returns in Lupin with a copycat to unmask and, for once, his own name to clear.
The pleasure of the series has always been the mechanics – the switch revealed in flashback, the disguise you didn’t clock – and a rival Lupin doubles the trickery on offer. Ludivine Sagnier returns as Claire, and the whole cat-and-mouse arrives in a single drop – the pick of what’s new on Netflix this October, and best devoured over a weekend.
Netflix,23 October (all eight episodes)
The most anticipated new British drama of the autumn, War pits Dominic West and Sienna Miller against each other as a tech entrepreneur and his film-star wife whose divorce sets London’s two most ruthless law firms at war. Created by George Kay, the writer behind Lupin and Hijack, the eight-part series follows two rival firms, Cathcarts and Taylor & Byrne, as they square up over the marriage of a tech entrepreneur and his film-star wife – a split so scandalous that every secret, settlement and society dinner in the capital becomes ammunition. What starts as a negotiation escalates, episode by episode, into open war fought through the courts, the press and their friends.
Phoebe Fox, James McArdle, Pip Torrens, Nina Sosanya, Nick Mohammed and Celia Imrie fill out a formidable ensemble, and Sky has already commissioned a second season, built around a defamation case and starring Marisa Tomei, Kelly Macdonald and David Harewood. Filmed across the capital, it makes a star of London too – the South Bank, the political grandeur of Westminster around Smith Square and the glass towers of Canary Wharf all feature heavily – to discover more shows set in the capital, see our edit of the best TV shows set in London. Sharp, glossy and very now, this is one of the best new TV shows everyone will be talking about.
Sky Atlantic&NOW, 2 October (weekly episodes)
Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren reunite for the second season of MobLand, Guy Ritchie’s gangster drama about the Harrigan crime family and their fixer, Harry Da Souza. Following an explosive first-season finale, the ten-part run sees the Harrigans struggling to present a unified front as rising rivals threaten their already fractured empire, with Harry forced to walk an increasingly dangerous line as tensions at the top boil over. Brosnan and Mirren’s Irish accents remain laughable, but the Harrigans’ internecine warfare is as compulsive as ever.
Paddy Considine, Joanne Froggatt, Lara Pulver and Anson Boon return, joined by Johnny Flynn, Janet McTeer and Toby Jones as a corrupt retired detective with an “exciting development” to report. MobLand is now one of Paramount+’s biggest hits – and if the drama on screen is gripping, off screen it’s even more so: earlier this year, altercations between Hardy and the producers, rumours of a feud with his co-star Mirren and a reshot final episode only sharpened the appetite. With Hardy now confirmed for a third season, Harry Da Souza lives to fix another day – the only question is how much of the Harrigan empire will still be standing by then.
Paramount+, streaming now (weekly episodes until 20 November)
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Florence Pugh takes on one of American literature’s great villains in East of Eden, Netflix’s seven-part adaptation of John Steinbeck’s 1952 epic. Pugh plays Cathy Ames, the beautiful, amoral woman who marries into the Trask family and tears it apart, with Christopher Abbott as her husband Adam and Mike Faist as his brother Charles. Spanning the Civil War to the First World War and moving from Connecticut to California’s Salinas Valley, it follows the Trasks across three generations, with Joseph Zada and Joe Anders as the twin sons whose rivalry echoes Cain and Abel.
The series is written by Zoe Kazan, whose grandfather Elia directed the 1955 film that made a star of James Dean – a neat piece of family symmetry – and Garth Davis (Lion) directs the opening episodes, with Ciarán Hinds, Tracy Letts and Martha Plimpton in support. Shot on location in New Zealand, it’s the season’s great literary epic, and all seven episodes drop at once. If it whets your appetite, discover more of the best period dramas to stream now.
Netflix, 1 October
One of the BBC’s biggest dramas of last year returns with its lovers on the run: Michael and Diana have fled to Spain, but the death of cocaine supplier Ricardo has followed them there in the shape of his cartel brother Felipe – played by Money Heist’s Álvaro Morte. James Nelson-Joyce and Hannah Onslow lead the returning cast of This City Is Ours, with the Phelan firm in Liverpool still reeling behind them.
Shaun Evans joins as Ozzie Thompson, a gangster of the old school newly out of prison and convinced the firm owes him – a combustible addition to a show that thrives on debts coming due. Of everything returning to British television this October, this is the drama with the most to prove, and the Sunday-and-Monday double scheduling shows the BBC’s confidence – with iPlayer holding the rest should a cliffhanger demand it.
BBC One & BBC iPlayer,25 October (Sundays and Mondays at 9pm; all eight episodes on iPlayer from day one)
A break-up is bad enough without a six-month lease. Jess Bray’s Break Clause, Channel 4’s sharpest new comedy of the autumn, follows Ben and Lil, fresh out of university and newly arrived in London from Leeds – she for a first job at an architecture firm, he, it turns out, with a confession about what he got up to while she was away. The relationship ends in episode one; but the tenancy does not. What follows is six months of two people who cannot bear to be in the same room dividing up a fridge.
Lara Ricote, the Mexican-Venezuelan comic whose stand-up won her the Edinburgh Best Newcomer award, is a find as Lil, who has moved down from Leeds for her first job at an architecture firm. Samuel Bottomley (How To Have Sex) makes Ben just likeable enough that you understand why she ever said yes. John Thomson and Lucy Black are his parents, Alan and Deb; Hammed Animashaun is the estate agent who will not budge on the six-month lease; Charly Clive is the neighbour who hears everything through the wall. Each of the six episodes covers a month, from August to the following February, so the flat gets colder as the atmosphere does – and the whole series is available to stream from the first night.
Channel 4, 1 October (Thursdays at 10pm; full series streaming)
David Harewood has been waiting a long time for a part like this. In Pierre, Channel 4’s six-part legal drama, he plays Pierre Jeffreys, a West London duty solicitor – charming, funny, and under pressure from his job, finances and relationship – whose practice is being hollowed out by legal aid cuts when one of his clients, a young Black man called Michael, is found dead. The police say he was a criminal. Pierre says otherwise, and the series follows him into the kind of institutional rot that does not take kindly to being looked at.
Written by Roy Williams and John Donnelly, two of the sharpest playwrights in British theatre, it has dialogue that is quick and precise. Jason Flemyng is DS Ronnie Miller, Pierre’s oldest friend and a serving police officer, which is going to become a problem, while his partner at the firm and his wife at home are both watching him take on more than he can handle. Each episode also carries a separate case through the firm, so it works as both a slow-burn thriller and a portrait of a profession on its knees. Watch it every Monday night on Channel 4, or stream all six episodes in one go.
Channel 4, 5 October (Mondays at 9pm; full series streaming)
Mike Flanagan, the writer-director behind The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass, has adapted Stephen King three times already, and for Carrie, King’s first novel and the one everybody thinks they know, he has done the brave thing and changed it. This Carrie White has been raised in near-total isolation; when her father dies and the state discovers a household nobody knew existed, she is sent to Ewen High School for the first time, wide-eyed and trusting, with a telekinetic gift she does not yet understand. The bullying arrives via an anonymous Instagram account, and the series opens with the 911 calls from prom night, so you know how it ends. You just do not know how it gets there.
Newcomer Summer H. Howell is Carrie and Samantha Sloyan is her mother Margaret, with Matthew Lillard as the principal and Heather Graham among the guest stars. King is an executive producer, which tells you he approves – and with Chris Hargensen’s cruelty played out online rather than in the corridors, it is a reimagining rather than a remake. Stream all eight episodes of the strongest horror television of the year so far; and if you want to go back to Brian De Palma’s 1976 original movie, read our guide to thebest classic horror films.
Prime Video, 7 October (all eight episodes)
Jimmy McGovern has said this will probably be the last Time, and he is going out where the system is at its most frightening: a young offenders institution, where the inmates are boys. David Tennant is Bobby Bailey, a custodial manager who has seen everything and says little; Siobhan Finneran is Marie-Louise O’Dell, the prison chaplain who arrives on the day something goes badly wrong. Bailey knows more about it than he is letting on. Around them, two teenagers form the kind of friendship that only happens inside, each hiding a truth the other cannot know.
The first series, in 2021, put Sean Bean behind bars as a teacher who killed a man while drunk at the wheel and Stephen Graham in uniform as the officer being blackmailed to look the other way; it won the BAFTA for best mini-series, and Bean for best actor. The second moved to a women’s prison where Jodie Whittaker, Bella Ramsey and Tamara Lawrance gave three of the performances of the year – Ramsey and Lawrance both won RTS awards for it. Finneran’s chaplain is the one thread through all three. The three episodes aired on BBC One between 11 and 18 October, and the whole series is available to watch now on iPlayer.
BBC One& BBC iPlayer, 11 October (three episodes: Sunday 11, Monday 12 and Sunday 18 October; boxset on iPlayer)
Set in Belfast and created by former journalists Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson, Blue Lights follows the response officers of Blackthorn station as they police a city where the peace is fragile, paramilitary loyalties run deep and organised crime has filled the vacuum. The BAFTA-winning BBC police drama has become an autumn fixture since 2023, and in series four its rookies face their biggest test yet: three years in, Grace (Siân Brooke), Tommy (Nathan Braniff) and Annie (Katherine Devlin) are stretched to their limits by a threat the police can barely contain.
Meanwhile, the murder trial of Gerry Cliff, whose death has haunted the show since series one, threatens to expose a dangerous secret, with Richard Dormer returning as Gerry in a storyline the BBC says will “answer important questions from the past”. Martin McCann, Michael Smiley and Cathy Tyson are also back, and with all three constables facing major decisions about their futures, this is the best British crime drama to binge this autumn – the full boxset lands on BBC iPlayer from 29 September.
BBC One & BBC iPlayer, 29 September, 9pm (all six episodes on iPlayer from 6am)
Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson play fictionalised versions of themselves in Brothers, Apple TV’s new comedy built on a real-life mystery. Friends for three decades and co-stars in True Detective, the pair have long suspected they might actually be half-brothers – McConaughey’s mother has hinted at a liaison with Harrelson’s father around the time Matthew was conceived, Harrelson is convinced by how alike they are, and McConaughey has so far refused a DNA test on the grounds it would leave him with rather too much to unpack. That predicament became the show.
After Woody’s daughter’s wedding falls apart, he packs up his family for an extended stay at Matthew’s Texas ranch, only for Matthew’s mother, Ma Mac (Holland Taylor), to accidentally reveal the decades-old secret. Created and run by The Office producer Lee Eisenberg, the eight-episode, semi-scripted comedy leans hard into the pair’s easy chemistry while asking what happens when a lifelong bromance gets recast as something more complicated. It’s a gentle, warm-hearted premise from two actors who clearly don’t take themselves too seriously – and the easiest, sunniest watch of the season.
Apple TV, 23 September (weekly episodes until 4 November)
Sharon Horgan returns to HBO with Youth, a new comedy from her production banner Merman, in which she stars as Alex, a 50-year-old London literary agent navigating divorce, ageing parents and a troubled teenage son. Rupert Friend co-stars as Patrick, a Scotsman better suited to something casual than the commitment Alex is quietly craving, while the series also follows her son Ruari (Aran Murphy) as he’s drawn into distorted, online ideas of masculinity.
It’s Horgan’s first series for HBO since Divorce, and by her own account the show she’s wanted to make for years: an unflinching, funny look at midlife womanhood, with the same mix of dark comedy and emotional honesty that made Catastrophe and Bad Sisters so beloved. Sharlene Whyte and Robbie Gee also star. The opener sets the tone: Alex’s jaw locks mid-meeting, her actor ex-husband arrives at their son’s graduation with a new partner and news of a move to Canada, Ruari hijacks the ceremony with a protest, and a mistyped text to an old flame ends the night rather better than it began. Bawdy, tender and very funny, it may be the comedy of the year.
HBO Max & NOW, streaming now
Ritu Arya and Sanjeev Bhaskar lead The Split Up, the BBC’s spin-off from Abi Morgan’s hit legal drama The Split, which trades London’s divorce courts for the high-stakes world of Manchester’s family law circuit. The six-part series centres on the Kishans, a family of divorce lawyers who dominate the city’s legal scene, mining the same rich vein of professional rivalry and domestic fallout that made the original such a success. Arya plays Aria Kishan, the daughter poised to inherit the firm until her mother’s death upends the succession, with Aysha Kala, Arian Nik and Danny Ashok as the rest of the family and Lenny Henry, Jane Horrocks and Jameela Jamil among the guest stars.
Created by Ursula Rani Sarma, with Abi Morgan as executive producer, it has been described by Morgan as a chance to build a new family of dynamic lawyers “spilling over with all the messiness of life”, and with the Kishan name now standing where the Defoes once did, this looks like a worthy continuation of The Split’s legacy – and, with War following in October, the first of two very different divorce dramas to book into this autumn.
BBC One & BBC iPlayer, 20 September, 9pm (two-night launch on Sunday and Monday; full boxset on iPlayer)
Gary Oldman is back as the brilliantly cantankerous Jackson Lamb for a sixth outing of Slow Horses, Apple TV’s darkly funny spy drama about the MI5 agents banished to the disgraced ranks of Slough House. Adapting Mick Herron’s novels Joe Country and Slough House, the new season sees MI5 boss Diana Taverner (Kristin Scott Thomas) draw the Slow Horses into what Apple describes as a “fatally high-stakes game of retaliation and revenge”, forcing the team onto the run from the most dangerous enemies they’ve faced yet: professional assassins with scores to settle.
Jack Lowden, Christopher Chung, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar and Jonathan Pryce all return, alongside Hugo Weaving as the menacing Frank Harkness and newcomer Lenny Rush. With a BAFTA, an Emmy for its writing and a seventh season already confirmed, Slow Horses remains one of the sharpest, funniest espionage series on television – and Oldman’s shambling, chain-smoking Lamb the best character on any streamer. Season six runs to six episodes, all now streaming on Apple TV, and this run puts its ragtag heroes in more danger than ever.
Apple TV,streaming now
One of the most gripping new thrillers on Apple TV, Last Seen stars Patrick Brammall – best known here as the hapless brewery owner in Colin from Accounts – in a very different register, as Ian Ridley, a former detective whose life collapsed 11 years ago when his young daughter Maggie vanished without trace. His marriage has failed, his career has shrunk to a police dispatcher’s headset, and the only thing keeping him going is his refusal to believe she is gone. Then a distress call comes in from a teenage girl he is certain is Maggie – and Ian will stop at nothing, and no one, to find her.
Adapted by Kris Mrksa from Ryan David Jahn’s novel The Dispatcher and directed by Christian Schwochow (The Crown), the six-part Australian drama co-stars Maxine Peake and Brendan Cowell as Jenna and Henry Reid, the couple whose remote property may hold the answers, with Daniel Henshall as Henry’s brother. What begins as a rescue turns into a reckoning, as Ian’s obsession collides with a family that has its own reasons for keeping the outside world at bay.
Apple TV, streaming now
Theo James and Kaya Scodelario return as Eddie Horniman and Susie Glass in the second season of Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen, Netflix’s cannabis-empire caper that has been one of the most-watched new TV shows on Netflix this autumn. A year on from joining forces with Susie’s incarcerated father Bobby (Ray Winstone), Eddie is no longer the reluctant aristocrat finding his feet in the criminal underworld; he’s actively expanding it, taking the operation from a farm buried beneath the family estate to lakeside villas in Italy.
Ray Winstone, Joely Richardson, Vinnie Jones and Giancarlo Esposito all return, joined by a striking list of new arrivals including Hugh Bonneville, Michele Morrone, Benedetta Porcaroli and boxer Chris Eubank Jr. As Eddie’s ambition grows and Bobby’s decisions start to look increasingly reckless, the season asks how far Eddie is willing to go to protect what he’s built. All eight episodes are streaming now, so it’s the one to binge this weekend.
Netflix, streaming now
Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall return for a third and final series of Colin from Accounts, the Australian romantic comedy on BBC iPlayer that began with a car accident and a border collie with wheels for back legs, and became one of the most loved comedies of recent years. Three years on from the proposal that closed series two, Ashley and Gordon have split, moved on and settled into relationships they’ve convinced themselves are stable – until Gordon books a check-up at the clinic where Ashley now works, and the old chemistry proves harder to ignore than either would like.
Gordon is about to move in with his new girlfriend, Ashley has a partner of her own, and Colin, as ever, does the heavy lifting of keeping the two in each other’s orbit. Written by and starring the real-life married couple, the eight-episode run keeps the show’s trademark mix of filth, warmth and fast, overlapping dialogue while asking the question fans have dodged for two series: are these two actually good for each other, or is the dog the only thing they have in common? Brammall has said they didn’t want to “flog a dead horse”, and it shows – this is a proper ending, and the funniest series yet.
BBC iPlayer,streaming now
Joel Edgerton returns as physicist Jason Dessen in the second season of Dark Matter, Apple TV’s adaptation of Blake Crouch’s multiverse thriller. Abducted into a mysterious box a year ago, Jason hasn’t stopped trying to find his way home since – the box turns out to be a machine capable of crossing into infinite parallel realities, and he keeps colliding with alternate versions of his own life, including the other Jason who took over his world while he was gone.
The Dessens are trying to build a quiet life in the world Jason fought his way back to, but the peace doesn’t hold: Jason can’t leave the Box alone, Daniela (Jennifer Connelly) grows increasingly paranoid, and a new threat forces the family back through the doors between realities – while, in worlds beyond, old allies search for a way home and an old enemy pursues his own idea of a perfect one. If the first run was about the shock of the impossible, this one asks what happens once the impossible becomes normal – and whether Jason can ever settle on which life is really his.
Apple TV, streaming now (weekly episodes until 30 October)
Main image: Ben Whishaw, Keira Knightley in Black Doves, Season 2. Courtesy of Matthew Towers/Netflix © 2026
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