11 Best New Shows on Netflix: October 2025’s Top Upcoming Series to Watch
This October, Netflix is treating subscribers to top-notch content all month long. While it’s always hard to say goodbye to the titles leaving Netflix, you won’t feel down for long once you get a good look at the impressive array of Netflix Original series coming to the platform to take their place. With everything from premiering titles to long-awaited continuations of fan favorites, Netflix’s diverse and delightful October 2025 premieres are sure to have something for everyone.
The streamer is set to help you celebrate the new month with premieres from highly anticipated continuations of established hit series across several different genres (so there’s truly something for everyone), like Nobody Wants This: Season 2 and The Witcher: Season 4.
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There are also plenty of exciting brand-new shows that will begin streaming exclusively on Netflix starting this month. Keep an eye out in particular for Monster: The Ed Gein Story, True Haunting, and Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, which are all already looking to be some of the most promising new releases out of October’s entire streaming lineup.
So what makes the cut for our top 11, and which of them have what it takes to be in the Netflix Top 10? Keep reading to treat yourself to the greatness that is the list of streaming standouts for October 2025.
Released October 23
CAST: Kristen Bell, Adam Brody, Justine Lupe, Timothy Simons, Jackie Tohn, Michael Hitchcock, Stephanie Faracy, Leighton Meester, Miles Fowler, Alex Karpovsky, Arian Moayed, Paul Ben-Victor, Tovah Feldshuh, Sherry Cola, D’Arcy Carden
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: Last year’s breakout rom-com series Nobody Wants This returns after an exciting Season 1 finale that ended on a bit of a cliffhanger as new lovebirds Joanne (Bell) and Noah (Brody) shared a passionate kiss and chose to continue pursuing a relationship with one another. Going into Season 2, they will have to face uncertainty head-on as career challenges, family drama, and religious differences present various obstacles to their happy ending.
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Released October 30
CAST: Liam Hemsworth, Freya Allan, Anya Chalotra, Mahesh Jadu, Bart Edwards, Joey Batey, Meng’er Zhang, Frances Pooley, MyAnna Buring, Laurence Fishburne, Sharlto Copley, James Purefoy, Danny Woodburn
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: After Henry Cavill’s departure, The Witcher is coming back for a fourth season with a whole new look as Liam Hemsworth replaces Cavill as the titular monster hunter “witcher,” Geralt of Rivia. Season 4 of this Netflix Original fantasy drama series sees Geralt, Yennefer (Chalotra), and Ciri (Allan) continue to embark on their separate journeys, making different allies along the winding road to reconciliation and reunion in the midst of a turbulent ongoing war.
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Released October 3
CAST: Charlie Hunnam, Laurie Metcalf, Suzanna Son, Tom Hollander, Vicky Krieps, Olivia Williams, Joey Pollari, Tyler Jacob Moore, Charlie Hall, Will Brill, Mimi Kennedy, Robin Weigert, Lesley Manville, Addison Rae
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: Ryan Murphy’s Netflix Original biographical crime-drama anthology series Monster continues with a new season revolving around the 20th-century serial killer and body snatcher, Ed Gein. Beginning in 1950s rural Wisconsin, Monster: The Ed Gein Story tells the story of Gein’s descent from a seemingly mild-mannered farmboy to a vicious, body-mutilating monster whose crimes and legacy would go on to inspire the characterizations of some of Hollywood’s most notorious horror movie antagonists.
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Released October 16
CAST: Keri Russell, Rufus Sewell, Allison Janney, David Dyasi, Ato Essandoh, Bradley Whitford, Ali Ahn, Aidan Turner, Rory Kinnear
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: The Diplomat: Season 3 picks up with our titular diplomat, US ambassador to the UK Kate Wyler (Russell) as she attempts to navigate crises and maintain diplomacy in the wake of President Rayburn’s (Michael McKean) death. With Vice President Grace Penn (Janney) now stepping into the title of President of the United States, Kate and her allies must deal with this sudden changing of the guard as well as the deadly international conspiracy that their new president sits at the center of.
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Released October 7
CAST: N/A
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: Get in the Halloween spirit with this five-episode Netflix Original docuseries that uses both candid interviews and in-depth reenactments to depict real-life paranormal encounters. True Haunting tells the stories of bona fide frights from the point of view of the very people who experienced them.
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Released October 28
CAST: Maya Hawke
RATING: TV-PG
DESCRIPTION: From Blumhouse Television and Plimsoll Productions comes the second season of Netflix’s spine-tingling docuseries Nightmares of Nature, all about the everyday thrills and challenges of animals trying to survive the Central American rainforest. Maya Hawke narrates this title that details the hazards, drama, and haunting beauty of life (and death) in nature from the perspective of an opossum, iguana, and other prey.
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Released October 8
CAST: Pio Marmaï, Olivier Gourmet, Alice Isaaz, Louis-Do De Lencquesaing, Camille Razat, Yann Gael, David Talbot, Lili-Rose Carlier Taboury, Max Baissette de Malglaive, Noam Morgensztern
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: This French historical action drama series set in 1504 takes place in the South of France and follows the titular cynical assassin, Néro (Marmaï), in the wake of a betrayal by a longtime mentor and ally. With ruthless enemies and evil entities now on his tail, Néro must find, reconnect with, and protect his estranged daughter from becoming collateral damage while they’re both on the run.
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Released October 9
CAST: Miles Heizer, Liam Oh, Vera Farmiga, Max Parker, Cedrick Cooper, Ana Ayora, Angus O’Brien, Dominic Goodman, Kieron Moore, Nicholas Logan, Rico Paris, Blake Burt, Logan Gould, Zach Roerig, Johnathan Nieves, Brandon Tyler Moore, Ivan Hoey Jr., Anthony Marble, Joy Osmanski, Brett Dalton, Jack Kay, Troy Leigh-anne Johnson
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: Inspired by former US Marine Greg Cope White’s memoir The Pink Marine, Boots is a Netflix Original comedy drama set against the backdrop of the 1990s US Marine Corps. The show follows a bullied, closeted teen named Cameron Cope (Heizer) as he and his best friend Ray (Oh) impulsively join the Marines, where they unexpectedly find a sense of purpose, acceptance, and brotherhood amongst a ragtag crew of recruits.
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Released October 22
CAST: Marco Bullitta, Valentino Mannias, Francesca Olia, Liliana Bottone, Giacomo Fadda, Antonio Tintis, Giordano Mannu
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: This Italian crime thriller centers on the real-life case of the titular Monster of Florence, a serial killer who took the lives of 16 people, including many young couples in the midst of intimate moments. Over the course of four episodes, this Netflix Original series explores how a 1968 criminal case was the key that led authorities to eventually track down the elusive murderer who ran rampant within the province of Florence between 1968 and 1985.
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Released October 14
CAST: Liev Schreiber, Janet Varney, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Joel Oulette
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: Based on the Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell video game franchise, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch is a Netflix Original adult animated spy thriller series that revolves around legendary black ops field commander Sam Fisher (Schreiber) as he’s pulled back into the fray to help a fresh recruit take on a complex international conspiracy.
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Released October 1
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CAST: Kartika Malavasi, Samuele Carrino, Edoardo Miulli, Lorenzo Ciamei, Eugenia Cableri, Melissa Di Pasca, Joseph Figueroa, Duccio Orlando, Andrea Arru
RATING: TV-PG
DESCRIPTION: RIV4LRIES is a Netflix Original Italian comedy drama that offers fun for the whole family this October as it follows two seemingly opposite groups of middle schoolers in Pisa as they navigate the ups and downs of first loves, big aspirations, and self-discovery. When a girl named Terry (Malavasi) transfers in from Rome, she shakes things up with her new group of friends, the Outsiders, who quickly earn themselves the title of rival against the Insider squad led by Claudio (Carrino), the most popular boy in school. Find out if these two groups can overcome the figurative (and, eventually, literal) wall between them in RIV4LRIES on Netflix.
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