There is a lot of entertainment out there these days, and a lot of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror titles to parse through. So we’re rounding up the genre shows coming out each month.
November brings some exciting new animated shows to Amazon Prime, including the long-awaited Mighty Nein adaptation, and a Batman series all about the family life. Additionally, the first part of the last season of Stranger Things slides in at the end of the month.
Pluribus — Apple TV+ (November 7)
A romance author learns that for some reason, she’s randomly immune to a new virus that’s making all of humanity insufferably cheerful. The rest of society is determined to “fix” her, so that she can join their blind optimism, but she’s not so sure that she wants to join the happiness horde.
Bat-Fam — Amazon Prime (November 10)
This new Batman animated series puts a spin on the caped crusader. This time, he’s a family man, raising his son Damian—and also opening his house to rehabilitate some former villains. Alfred Pennyworth’s grandniece Alicia is spearheading the efforts to help turn around these bad guys. The show is a spinoff from the Merry Little Batman Christmas special, also available on Amazon Prime.
The Mighty Nein — Amazon Prime (November 19)
The Mighty Nein is based off the much beloved second campaign from Dungeons & Dragons live-play web series Critical Role. The new show follows a group of chaotic misfits drawn together to save their world. It takes place 20 years after the first campaign—which was also adapted into Amazon Prime animated show, The Legend of Vox Machina—in the same world. The original web series cast reprises the roles of their player characters, with a bunch of exciting guest stars like Ming-Na Wen, Alan Cumming, and Lucy Liu joining.
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory — Netflix (November 20)
(Season 4) Netflix’s animated Jurassic Park spinoff comes to a close in its fourth and final season. The show is a direct sequel to Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, which originally followed a group of teenagers stranded on a dinosaur-infested island. (Y’know, the typical Jurassic Park schtick). Chaos Theory sees the original gang in their college years, as they unravel a global conspiracy theory and discover one of their friends might still be alive.
WondLa — Apple TV+ (November 26)
(Season 3) WondLa is based off Tony DiTerlizzi’s children’s trilogy. A girl named Eva has been raised in an isolated bunker by a robot caretaker for her whole life. But after an attack on her bunker, she’s forced to enter the outside world. She teams up with a group of aliens to figure out what to do next. This third season wraps up the show.
Stranger Things — Netflix (November 26)
(Season 5, Part 1) At long last, the Stranger Things finale is here. Well, part one of three anyway. The fifth and final season takes place a year after the fourth one. The core cast wants to team up and finally kill Vecna, especially after Rifts into the Upside Down open up all over Hawkins. But things grow complicated when the United States Military busts into town, on the hunt for Eleven.
November is shaping up to be a very good month for entertainment. I liked the story and the character of the second campaign of Critical Role a lot more then the first, so I am very excited about The Mighty Nein.
It will be very interesting to see if Netflix can actually stick the landing with Stranger Things. Season 4 was amazing, but so much time has past since then that I fear for them overthinking this and trying to please everyone, it’s always best to focus on the story you want to tell.
One thing I’m very excited about next month is The Last Samurai Standing, battle royal with Samurai and not made by Hollywood, sign me up.
My number one thing for November however has to be the new Harry Potter Audiobooks. It will be so interesting to get a preview into the new voices for Harry, Ron and Hermione before the show comes out. The rest of the cast is filled with some very talented people as well. I really enjoy the old audiobooks made with Stephen Fry, but the scale of this adaptation has me very excited. I think they have made a very smart decision to release one every month for the next seven months, it will keep the momentum up through the year and hopefully help lift the show as well.
All of this fills me with optimism for the show. If they can manage a one season per year release, it might just be a Game of Thrones level success. The fandom is there and while the movies where good, they changed and left out to many things.