Q Wave’s Watchlist: September 2026
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Neagley (Prime Video)
Reacher fans, your patience is about to pay off. Neagley pulls the most reliable supporting player in the Reacher universe into the spotlight, handing Frances Neagley her own series. Maria Sten returns as the sharp, unshakeable former military investigator, now working as a private detective in Chicago. When a friend from her past dies in what looks like a suspicious accident, she refuses to let it go, and the search for answers drags her toward something far bigger and nastier than a single death.
What makes this spinoff interesting is how deliberately it steps out of Reacher’s shadow. Rather than adapting a Lee Child novel, the writers built an original story around Neagley, leaning into the fact that she’s a very different animal from her old mentor: less wanderer, more relentless professional with roots and a life of her own. Alan Ritchson does turn up as Jack Reacher to bless the proceedings, but this is Sten’s show, and she has always been one of the franchise’s quiet MVPs.
All eight episodes drop at once on September 16, landing the same day as the Reacher season four finale, so you can roll straight from one into the other. If you like your action lean, competent, and driven by someone who does not miss, clear an evening for this one.
You’d like this if you enjoyed: Reacher, Jack Ryan
Runtime: 8 episodes
Genre: Action, crime thriller
Brothers (Apple TV+)
Twelve years after they hunted a killer together in the first season of True Detective, Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson are back on screen together, this time playing exaggerated versions of themselves. Brothers is a comedy built on their real-life friendship, spinning off a genuine bit of Hollywood lore: the long-running theory, based on a family story, that the two might actually be related. When that decades-old secret surfaces, their easy friendship gets thrown into delightful chaos.
The setup is loose and warm. After Woody’s daughter’s engagement falls apart, he packs up the family and descends on Matthew’s Texas ranch for an extended stay, and the two settle into the kind of needling, affectionate chemistry you can’t manufacture. Holland Taylor plays Matthew’s mother, whose loose lips set the whole “wait, are we brothers” question in motion. The show comes from Lee Eisenberg, a key writer behind The Office, which bodes well for the comedic timing.
This is easygoing, character-driven comfort viewing with two movie stars clearly having a blast. It premieres September 23 with two episodes, then rolls out weekly through early November. If you’ve ever wanted to watch these two just hang out and bicker for eight episodes, here you go.
You’d like this if you enjoyed: Ted Lasso, Shrinking
Runtime: 8 episodes
Genre: Comedy
The Gentlemen (Netflix)
Guy Ritchie’s slickest crime series is back, and Eddie Horniman is no longer the reluctant one. The Gentlemen returns for a second season with Theo James’s aristocrat-turned-crime-boss fully at home in the underworld he once tried to escape. A year on from teaming up with the cool, ruthless Susie Glass, played by Kaya Scodelario, Eddie is hungry to expand the operation, pushing beyond the cannabis empire under the family estate and out into continental Europe.
The pleasures here are exactly what made the first season click: sharp suits, sharper dialogue, and Ritchie’s knack for making violence feel like choreography. The tension this time comes from above, as Eddie and Susie start to question the increasingly reckless calls made by her imprisoned father Bobby, played with lazy menace by Ray Winstone. Giancarlo Esposito and Vinnie Jones return, and a raft of new faces join the fun as the stakes go international.
All eight hour-long episodes land at once on September 3, so it’s built for a weekend binge. If you like your crime stories stylish, funny, and just violent enough, few do it with more swagger than this.
You’d like this if you enjoyed: Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen (film), Lupin
Runtime: 8 episodes
Genre: Crime, action comedy
Furious (Disney+)
If you spent the summer hearing people rave about Furious and never got around to it, now is the moment: the full first season is complete and ready to binge in one go. This was one of the sleeper hits of the season, a slick crime thriller that grew its audience week over week and earned a second-season renewal before the finale even aired. The premise is a cat-and-mouse hook done well: Emmy Rossum plays Alice Black, an FBI agent chasing a mysterious, calculating female serial killer.
The twist is that the show refuses to keep those two women neatly on opposite sides. As the hunter and the hunted circle each other, their lives start to bleed together and the line between justice and obsession blurs. Lola Petticrew is magnetic as the killer, and the series comes from Elizabeth Meriwether, the creator behind New Girl and Dying for Sex, who brings a surprising amount of wit and character depth to what could have been a standard procedural.
Loosely inspired by the 1987 film Black Widow, this is the kind of twisty, character-first thriller that’s perfect for a weekend where you want to disappear into a full season. All eight episodes are streaming now. Come for the manhunt, stay for the two performances at its center.
You’d like this if you enjoyed: Killing Eve, The Fall
Runtime: 8 episodes
Genre: Crime, thriller
Backrooms (Crave)
One of the year’s genuine box-office surprises finally comes home to streaming. Backrooms began as a viral YouTube series and became the highest-grossing film in A24’s history, all from a 21-year-old first-time director, Kane Parsons. The story follows Clark, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor, a struggling furniture-store owner who discovers a hidden doorway in his basement that opens onto an endless, humming labyrinth of empty yellow rooms, a place that should not exist and does not want to let him leave.
What makes the film work is its commitment to dread over jump scares. The Backrooms concept, all fluorescent buzz and physics-defying liminal space, is built to unsettle on a deep, almost primal level, and Parsons wrings genuine unease out of the emptiness. Renate Reinsve plays the therapist who ventures in after him, grounding the surreal horror in something human. It’s a striking, confident piece of filmmaking that earned its runaway success.
This is the rare horror hit that broke through on pure originality rather than a familiar brand, and it lands on streaming September 25, right on time for spooky-season kickoff. If you like your scares atmospheric and strange, step through the door.
You’d like this if you enjoyed: Skinamarink, Talk to Me
Runtime: 1 hour 50 minutes
Genre: Horror, sci-fi