This weekend’s streaming spotlight includes a diverse lineup across major platforms, featuring new series, movies, and season finales. Netflix has released all seven episodes of its adaptation of John Steinbeck’s novel, East of Eden, starring Florence Pugh as Cathy Ames, who is portrayed with more nuance than the original novel’s depiction. On HBO Max, the new legal drama War, created by George Kay, begins its eight-episode run focusing on a high-profile London divorce that entangles rival law firms in scandal and backstabbing. CBS and Paramount+ premiere the second season of Marshals, the Yellowstone spinoff with Luke Grimes reprising his role as Kayce Dutton, blending western action with crime procedural elements.

Among the movies premiering on streaming services, Netflix’s true-crime documentary The Widower: ’Til Death Do Us Part has quickly topped charts with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score. Horror fans can check out HBO Max’s Evil Dead Burn, a gory standalone film in the Evil Dead franchise, and Shudder’s Infirmary, a claustrophobic thriller filmed through body-camera footage set in an abandoned psychiatric hospital. Hulu offers SOULM8TE, a sci-fi thriller about an engineer’s experiment with an AI companion, though it has received mixed reviews. Apple TV debuts the documentary The Last First: Winter K2, which chronicles a dangerous winter ascent of K2 and examines the complex interplay of ambition and commercialism in mountaineering.

In the theatrical realm, Tom Cruise stars in the environmental satire Digger, about a tycoon trying to avert catastrophe, but the film struggles with poor critical reception and box office prospects. Another new film, Verity, starring Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway, is a thriller about a struggling writer who uncovers dark family secrets. Both films show the challenges of translating star power and intriguing premises into critical and commercial success. Meanwhile, the Warner Bros. / Ketchup Entertainment release Coyote vs. Acme, a live-action/animated comedy featuring Wile E. Coyote taking legal action against the Acme Corporation, is now available for digital rental and purchase.

Returning TV shows of note include HBO Max’s Lanterns wrapping up its first season with a finale on October 4, Apple TV’s critically acclaimed spy drama Slow Horses continuing its sixth season, and Paramount+ delivering the second season of MobLand, featuring Tom Hardy in an intense crime family saga. Additionally, Apple TV’s comedy Brothers pairs Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as fictionalized versions of themselves, while the highly anticipated return of American Horror Story: 13 on FX presents a “greatest hits” season starring both veteran and new cast members. These highlights offer something for a wide range of tastes, from sharp dramas and dark thrillers to lighthearted comedies and horror classics.