11 Best New Shows on Netflix: September 2025’s Top Upcoming Series to Watch
This September, Netflix is teaching us what top-notch content looks like 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 September 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 Wednesday: Season 2, Part 2 and Alice in Borderland: Season 3.
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 Black Rabbit, Haunted Hotel, and Wayward, which are all already looking to be some of the most promising new releases out of September’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 September 2025.
Released September 3
CAST: Jenna Ortega, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzmán, Isaac Ordonez, Emma Myers, Joy Sunday, Moosa Mostafa, Georgie Farmer, Victor Dorobantu, Hunter Doohan, Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo, Steve Buscemi, Billie Piper, Evie Templeton, Owen Painter, Noah B. Taylor, Jamie McShane, Fred Armisen,
RATING: TV-14
DESCRIPTION: The wait for more Wednesday is finally over! Early in September, look forward to streaming the final four episodes of a sophomore season that sees macabre teen Wednesday Addams (Ortega) feeling vulnerable after losing control of her psychic powers. The pressure is on as Wednesday fights to regain her abilities before she can lose Enid (Myers) or anyone else at Nevermore Academy forever.
Released September 18
CAST: Jude Law, Jason Bateman, Cleopatra Coleman, Amaka Okafor, Sope Dirisu, Dagmara Domińczyk, Chris Coy, Troy Kotsur, Abbey Lee, Odessa Young, Robin de Jesús, Amir Malaklou, Don Harvey, Forrest Weber, Francis Benhamou, Gus Birney, John Ales, Steve Witting, Morgan Spector
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: This Netflix Original drama miniseries follows successful New York City restaurateur, Jake Friedken (Law), as his life is turned upside down by the reemergence of his chaotic brother, Vince (Bateman). As Vince tries to escape the loan sharks chasing him down, he drags Jake into New York’s criminal underworld, putting the rising culinary star and everything he has built for himself in danger.
Released September 25
CAST: Kento Yamazaki, Tao Tsuchiya, Hayato Isomura, Ayaka Miyoshi, Katsuya Maiguma, Koji Ohkura, Risa Sudou, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Tina Tamashiro, Kotaro Daigo, Hyunri, Sakura Kiryu, Yugo Mikawa, Joey Iwanaga, Akana Ikeda, Kento Kaku
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: The Japanese sci-fi thriller drama series based on Haro Aso’s manga of the same name returns to Netflix for a gripping third season that raises the stakes like never before. When Usagi (Tsuchiya) is kidnapped and left unconscious back in Borderland, Arisu (Yamazaki) must survive perilous new games and a mysterious Joker’s schemes in order to bring her home to their world in one piece.
Released September 19
CAST: Will Forte, Eliza Coupe, Skyler Gisondo, Natalie Palamides, Jimmi Simpson
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: From Rick and Morty writer Matt Roller comes this adult animated horror comedy series that revolves around single mother Katherine (Coupe) as she struggles to run the titular haunted hotel, Undervale, that she inherited from her late brother, Nathan (Forte). But when Nathan’s ghost enters the picture, Katherine receives some inside knowledge and tips on how to cater to the high-maintenance paranormal patrons, with plenty of mayhem and hilarity ensuring along the way.
Released September 18
CAST: Lakshya, Sahher Bambba, Bobby Deol, Raghav Juyal, Anya Singh, Mona Singh, Gautami Kapoor, Manoj Pahwa, Rajat Bedi, Manish Chaudhari, Vijayant Kohli, Rohit Gill, Shah Rukh Khan
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: The BA***DS of Bollywood is a Netflix Original adventure comedy-drama series out of India that pays homage to (and some good-natured pokes fun at) Hindi cinema as it follows the highs and lows of an ambitious outsider trying to find success and a place for himself in the unpredictable and exciting world of Bollywood.
Released September 25
CAST: Mae Martin, Toni Collette, Sarah Gadon, Sydney Topliffe, Alyvia Alyn Lind, Brandon Jay McLaren, Tattiawna Jones, Isolde Ardies, Joshua Close, Patrick J. Adams, Patrick Gallagher, Gage Munroe, Byron Mann
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: Canadian thriller series Wayward takes a closer look at the idyllic town of Tall Pines, where dark truths threaten to swallow the community whole. After students Abbie (Topliffe) and Leila (Lind) escape from a school for troubled teens, they join forces with newly-arrived police officer Alex Dempsey (Martin) to look into the school and its sinister secrets. As strange events occur around town, Alex suspects that the school’s offbeat leader, Evelyn Wade (Collette), might be the root of the crime and corruption in Tall Pines.
Released September 7
CAST: Yoshinori Nakayama, Honoka Inoue, Kikunosuke Toya, Koki Uchiyama, Hiiro Ishibashi, Aya Yamane, Rio Tsuchiya, Saku Mizuno, Shino Shimoji, Yoko Hikasa, Ryōtarō Okiayu,
RATING: TV-PG
DESCRIPTION: Based on Saka Mikami’s ongoing manga series of the same name, The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity is a Japanese romantic-comedy anime that revolves around the unlikely bond that forms between the intimidating-looking Rintaro Tsumugi (Nakayama) and open-minded Kaoruko Waguri (Inoue). Despite attending very different rival high schools whose students have historically disliked one another, Rintaro and Kaoruko find surprising common ground that gives way to a romance that tries to bloom amidst the outside influence trying to sever their connection.
Released September 11
CAST: Crystle Stewart, Taylor Polidore Williams, Ricco Ross, Amber Reign Smith, Xavier Smalls, Julian Horton, Steven G. Norfleet, Richard Lawson, Terrell Carter, Shannon Wallace, Charles Malik Whitfield, Debbi Morgan
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: Beauty in Black returns to Netflix to drop the first half of its second season this September. After a finale that saw Bellarie patriarch and leader Horace (Ross) shock and infuriate the resst of his wealthy family by marrying Kimmie (Williams) so that she is left with his inheritance, Season 2 picks up with the former sex worker as she uses her newfound power and influence to rise up the ranks at the major beauty brand and show the backstabbing Bellarie family who’s boss.
1670: Season 2
Released September 17
CAST: Bartłomiej Topa, Katarzyna Herman, Martyna Byczkowska, Michał Sikorski, Michał Balicki, Andrzej Kłak, Dobromir Dymecki, Kirył Pietruczuk
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: After the first season premiered in December 2023, this mockumentary satirical comedy series from Poland is finally back with a brand new batch of episodes that continue to follow the exploits of the szlachta noble family leader Jan Paweł Adamczewski (Topa) during the 17th century. 1670: Season 2 takes viewers back to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as Jan and his family attempt to fill the power vacuum caused by a sudden death, causing chaos and amusing mishaps in the process.
Released September 11
CAST: Cel Spellman, Kate Fleetwood, Rob Rackstraw, Nina Barker-Francis, Paterson Joseph, Samuel Anderson, Tom Rhys Harries, Chris Lew Kum Hoi, Georgia Lock
RATING: TV-PG
DESCRIPTION: Based on Curtis Jobling’s Wereworld book series, Wolf King tells the story of a 16-year-old boy named Drew Ferran (Spellman) who discovers that he is the last of a long lineage of werewolves. The second and final season of this Netflix Original animated epic fantasy-adventure show follows Drew as he fights for his place as king while navigating the heavy burdens that come with the crown.
Released September 12
STREAM You and Everything Else ON NETFLIX
CAST: Kim Go-eun, Park Ji-hyun, Kim Gun-woo
RATING: TV-14
DESCRIPTION: You and Everything Else is a stirring South Korean romantic-drama series that follows the highs and lows of two women (Go-eun and Ji-hyun) over the course of a friendship that stretches from their tight teen years to frayed and tense adult ones. But when one of the women asks the other to be at her side in the last days of her life, they attempt to seal the rift caused by growing apart, all as their time together runs out for good.
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