What’s New on Hulu in September 2021

Hollywood seems to have the comic book movie down, but when it comes to adapting graphic novels as TV series, it’s still very much a mixed bag. For every The Umbrella Academy, there’s a Jupiter’s Legacy. For every Doom Patrol, there’s an Iron Fist. For every The Walking Dead, there’s the later seasons of The Walking Dead.

In September, yet another long-gestating graphic novel adaptation escapes from development hell and arrives on FX on Hulu, and while it’s still too soon to say whether it will be worth the wait, the trailer looks pretty dang promising.

As you probably gleaned, Y: The Last Man (Sept. 13), based on the 60-issue mid-aughts comics created by Brian K. Vaughan (Saga) and Pia Guerra, is one of them post-apocalyptic jobbies—said apocalypse in this case being the sudden, unexplained death of every living thing on Earth with a Y chromosome (sucks to be me). The surviving women—the cast includes familiar faces like Diane Lane, Olivia Thirlby, and Amber Tamblyn—struggle to bring order to a suddenly chaotic world while piecing together what happened, a mission made all the more fraught by the sudden appearance of the last dude on the planet, Yorick (Ben Schnetzer) and his pet monkey Ampersand. How did these guys survive? Well, that’s the big why, isn’t it? (You see what they did there, of course.)

Y: The Last Man was justifiably acclaimed in its day, but like any story so focused on gender and sexual politics, it hasn’t all aged well—never mind its status as a feminist text; the book sidesteps questions of the place of transgender men in its brave new world—but these are matters the creators of the series have vowed to address. For one thing, a significant transgender character has been added to the cast. Here’s hoping it does the job well, as the trailer seems to indicate they’ve gotten the rest of the adaptation right.

The month’s other big premiere is a Hulu Original: The Premise (Sept. 16), a half-hour anthology series created and hosted by The Office writer/star B.J. Novak. The streamer bills it as “bold and provocative,” promising “the curated collection of character-driven episodes challenges our shared morality tales, choosing art over argument, as it engages with the most relevant and meaningful issues of the modern era.” If that sounds mega-pretentious to you, perhaps you read Novak’s collection of New Yorker-approved short stories. Still, I’ll give it a go.

What’s coming to (and leaving) Hulu in September 20201

What’s coming to Hulu in September

Arriving September 1

• 50/50 (2011)
• A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
• Anaconda (1997)
• Angel Unchained (1970)
• The Apparition (2012)
• At the Earth’s Core (1976)
• Blue City (1986)
• Bull Durham (1988)
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
• Cannon For Cordoba (1970)
• Cellar Dweller (1988)
• Cold Creek Manor (2003)
• Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)
• Crazy Heart (2009)
• The Dunwich Horror (1970)
• Edward Scissorhands (1990)
• El Dorado (1967)
• Election (1999)
• Exterminator 2 (1984)
• Free Willy (1993)
• Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (1995)
• Free Willy 3: The Rescue (1997)
• Free Willy: Escape From Pirate’s Cove (2010)
• Friday the 13th – Part III (1982)
• Friday the 13th – Part IV: The Final Chapter (1984)
• Fright Night (1985)
• Gattaca (1997)
• Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
• The Glass House (2001)
• Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
• Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)
• Hoosiers (1986)
• I Spit On Your Grave (2010)
• I Spit On Your Grave 2 (2013)
• I Spit On Your Grave 3 (2015)
• Internal Affairs (1990)
• The Interview (2014)
• Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
• Just Between Friends (1986)
• The Killer Elite (1975)
• Kiss the Girls (1997)
• The Last Castle (2001)
• Magic Mike (2012)
• The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
• The Mexican (2001)
• McLintock! (Producer’s Cut) (1963)
• Miss You Already (2015)
• Mommy (2015)
• Mosquito Squadron (1970)
• Mr. North (1988)
• Much Ado About Nothing (2013)
• New Year’s Eve (2011)
• Nixon (1995)
• Office Space (1999)
• The Omen (1976)
• The Patsy (1964)
• Phase IV (1974)
• The Possession (2012)
• Priest (2011)
• Raising Arizona (1987)
• The Ring (2002)
• Road to Perdition (2002)
• Salvador (1986)
• Secret Admirer (1985)
• Shaun The Sheep Movie (2015)
• Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
• Solace (2016)
• Stephen King’s It (1990)
• Sucker Punch (2011)
• Tears Of The Sun (2003)
• The Tenant (1976)
• Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (2005)
• Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys (2008)
• Under Fire (1983)
• Vantage Point (2008)
• Volcano (1997)
• The Wedding Plan (2016)
• The Wrestler (2008)
• The X-Files (1998)

Arriving September 2

• Trolls: TrollsTopia: Complete Season 4
• Death in Texas (2021)
• The Unthinkable (2021)

Arriving September 3

• The D’Amelio Show: Complete Season 1
• What We Do in the Shadows: Season 3 Premiere
• Bolden (2019)
• Undine (2021)

Arriving September 4

Arriving September 8

• Wu-Tang: An American Saga: Season 2 Premiere
• La La Land (2016)

Arriving September 10

• The Killing of Two Lovers (2020)
• Transporter 3 (2008)

Arriving September 11

Arriving September 13

• Y: The Last Man: Three-Episode Series Premiere
• Colette (2018)

Arriving September 15

• Dark Side of the Ring: Season 3A
• Joseph: King Of Dreams (2000)
• Love, Simon (2018)
• Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)

Arriving September 16

• The Premise: Series Premiere
• Stalker (2021)
• On Chesil Beach (2018)
• Riders of Justice (2021)

Arriving September 18

• Dark Side of Football: Complete Season 1

Arriving September 20

Arriving September 21

• 9-1-1: Season 5 Premiere
• The Big Leap: Series Premiere
• Dancing with the Stars: Season 20 Premiere
• Ordinary Joe: Series Premiere
• The Voice: Season 21 Premiere

Arriving September 22

• New Amsterdam: Season 4 Premiere
• Our Kind of People: Series Premiere
• The Resident: Season 5 Premiere

Arriving September 23

• A Million Little Things: Season 4 Premiere
• Alter Ego: Series Premiere
• Chicago Fire: Season 10 Premiere
• Chicago Med: Season 7 Premiere
• Chicago P.D.: Season 9 Premiere
• The Conners: Season 4 Premiere
• The Goldbergs: Season 9 Premiere
• Home Economics: Season 2 Premiere
• The Masked Singer: Season 6 Premiere
• The Wonder Years: Series Premiere
• The Eric Andre Show: Complete Season 5
• Funhouse (2021)

Arriving September 24

• Law & Order: Organized Crime: Season 2 Premiere
• Law & Order: SVU: Season 23 Premiere
• An American Haunting (2006)

Arriving September 25

Arriving September 27

• Bob’s Burgers: Season 12 Premiere
• Celebrity Wheel of Fortune: Season 2 Premiere
• Family Guy: Season 20 Premiere
• The Great North: Season 2 Premiere
• The Rookie: Season 4 Premiere
• The Simpsons: Season 33 Premiere
• Supermarket Sweep: Season 2 Premiere

Arriving September 28

• The Good Doctor: Season 4 Premiere
• Felix and the Hidden Treasure (2021)
• Home Run (2013)

Arriving September 29

• La Brea: Series Premiere
• Minor Premise (2021)

Arriving September 30

What’s leaving Hulu in September 2021

Leaving September 1

• The Iron Lady (2011)
• Our Family Wedding (2009)
• Young Adult (2011)

Leaving September 2

• Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (2016)

Leaving September 23

• An American Haunting (2006)

Leaving September 29

• Destination Wedding (2018)
• Larry The Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006)
• Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)
• One For The Money (2012)

Leaving September 30

• 2012 (2009)
• 50/50 (2011)
• A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
• A Hard Day (2014)
• A Perfect Day (2006)
• The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
• Anaconda (1997)
• Anaconda 3: Offspring (2008)
• Anacondas: Trail Of Blood (2009)
• Angel Unchained (1970)
• The Assassin (2015)
• At the Earth’s Core (1976)
• Australia (2008)
• Bad Teacher (2011)
• Beasts Clawing At Straws (2020)
• Better Living Through Chemistry (2014)
• Big Fish (2003)
• Black And White (2000)
• BOY (2010)
• Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
• Breakdown (1997)
• Bruno (2009)
• Bull Durham (1988)
• Burning (2018)
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
• Caddyshack (1980)
• Caddyshack II (1988)
• Cannon For Cordoba (1970)
• Cellar Dweller (1988)
• Charles and Diana: 1983 (2020)
• Charlotte’s Web (1973)
• The Chumscrubber (2005)
• The Condemned (2007)
• Contagion (2011)
• Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)
• Coyote Ugly (2000)
• Dangerous Minds (1995)
• Daredevil (2003)
• Desperate Measures (1998)
• Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings (2018)
• Don’t Think Twice (2016)
• Dumb & Dumber (1994)
• Dumb And Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003)
• The Dunwich Horror (1970)
• Eliminators (2016)
• Exterminator 2 (1984)
• Fired Up! (2009)
• Foxfire (1996)
• Fred Claus (2007)
• Fright Night (1985)
• From Paris with Love (2010)
• Galaxy Quest (1999)
• Grandma (2015)
• Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
• The Grudge (2004)
• Gundala (2019)
• Hard Romanticker (2011)
• Hideaway (1995)
• Himalaya (1991)
• House of the Dead (2003)
• House of the Dead 2 (2006)
• Housesitter (1992)
• I Do…Until I Don’t (2017)
• I Wish I Knew (2010)
• Ice Age (2002)
• In The Cut (2003)
• Indignation (2016)
• Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
• It’s Kind Of A Funny Story (2010)
• Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
• Johnny English (2003)
• Just Between Friends (1986)
• The Killer Elite (1975)
• Knowing (2009)
• Lady Vengeance (2005)
• Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2018)
• Lost in Hong Kong (2015)
• Machines (2016)
• The Man From Nowhere (2010)
• Maximum Risk (1996)
• Mercury Rising (1998)
• Mosquito Squadron (1970)
• Mountains May Depart (2015)
• Mr. North (1988)
• The Nightingale (2013)
• Nixon (1995)
• Old Stone (2016)
• The Omen (1976)
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)
• Open Water (2004)
• Open Water 2: Adrift (2006)
• Places In The Heart (1984)
• The Polar Express (2004)
• Pop Aye (2017)
• R.L. Stine: Mostly Ghostly (2008)
• R.L. Stine’s Monsterville: The Cabinet Of Souls (2015)
• R.L. Stine’s Mostly Ghostly: Have You Met My Ghoulfriend? (2014)
• R.L. Stine’s Mostly Ghostly: One Night In Doom House (2016)
• R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour: Don’t Think About It (2007)
• Raising Arizona (1987)
• Reno 911!: Miami: The Movie (2007)
• The Ring (2002)
• Rookie of the Year (1993)
• Salvador (1986)
• Scent of Green Papayas (1993)
• Secret Admirer (1985)
• Sk8 Dawg (2018)
• Sleeping With The Enemy (1991)
• Sleepwalkers (1992)
• The Soloist (2009)
• Somewhere (2010)
• Sorority Row (2009)
• Space Jam (1996)
• The Stepfather (2009)
• Sunshine (2005)
• Super Troopers (2002)
• Sweet Bean (2015)
• Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
• Take Shelter (2011)
• Taken (2009)
• This Means War (2010)
• Thunderheart (1992)
• Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (2005)
• Tokyo Rising (2020)
• Tooth Fairy (2008)
• Train to Busan (2016)
• Tyler Perry’S The Family That Preys (2008)
• Under Fire (1983)
• Universal Soldier (1992)
• Virtuosity (1995)
• The Wailing (2016)
• Whip It (2009)
• Wilde (1998)
• Wings Of Courage (1995)
• The Woman Who Left (2016)
• Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)