What’s New on Netflix in October 2021

The funny thing about Netflix’s original streaming content: All of it basically ceases to exist roughly one week after it drops on the service.

Oh, all of it is still there, of course, but when you’re spending $17 billion a year on content (and also thinking of it as “content”), that’s, well, a lot of content. Especially when you’ve trained your audience to expect every episode to drop at once, everything becomes about what’s New and Next and In the Zeitgeist as the old stuff drops out of the algorithm.

Which is fine when your show is new. But usually when a show makes a splash, Netflix likes to immediately announce a second season. And because Netflix gets to define what a “splash” looks like given that they don’t release viewing numbers, it seems like lots of stuff gets picked up for a second or third season right away. And then it takes a year or more for that new season to actually get produced, and by the time it arrives on Netflix, well, the first season that caught 120 seconds of everyone’s attention has since ceased to exist. (See above.)

In October, Netflix is dropping new seasons of a bunch of those shows that have ceased to exist since last year. It will be interesting to see how many of them exist again. The Baby-Sitters Club (Oct. 11—my daughter is excited about this one, at least), Another Life (Oct. 1—remember how Katie Sackhoff was cast in another sci-fi show, except this one is apparently rather bad?), You (Oct. 15—this Lifetime castoff is probably still going strong, actually), and Locke & Key (Oct. 22—I love these comics and yet totally forgot the show existed) will all test the fidelity of your long-term memory soon.

Of course, I know you didn’t forget about Sexy Beasts, and not only because the first season is less than four months old. One doesn’t just forget a dating show that might as well have the tagline “Tell me you’re a furry without telling me you’re a furry.” (No offense to furries. Everyone deserves a hot dating show.) Where’s what else you can expect from Netflix soon.

What’s coming to Netflix in October 2021

Coming in October (no date announced)

• A World Without — Netflix Film
• An Astrological Guide for Broken Hearts — Netflix Series
• Call My Agent: Bollywood — Netflix Series
• Encounters: Season 1
• House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths — Netflix Documentary
• Inspector Koo — Netflix Series
• The Raincoat Killer: Chasing a Predator in Korea — Netflix Documentary

Arriving Oct. 1

• A Sinister Sect: Colonia Dignidad — Netflix Documentary
• Diana: The Musical — Netflix Special
• Forever Rich — Netflix Film
• The Guilty — Netflix Film
• MAID — Netflix Series
• Paik’s Spirit — Netflix Series
• Scaredy Cats — Netflix Family
• The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed by Light — Netflix Anime
• Swallow — Netflix Film
• A Knight’s Tale
• An Inconvenient Truth
• Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Season 1
• As Good as It Gets
• Awakenings
• B.A.P.S.
• Bad Teacher
• The Cave
• Desperado
• The Devil Inside
• Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
• Double Team
• The DUFF
• Eagle Eye
• Endless Love
• Ghost
• Gladiator
• Hairspray (2007)
• The Holiday
• Jet Li’s Fearless
• The Karate Kid (2010)
• Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
• Léon: The Professional
• Malcolm X
• Observe and Report
• Once Upon a Time in Mexico
• Project X
• Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
• Rumor Has It…
• Seinfeld: Seasons 1-9
• Serendipity
• Spy Kids
• Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
• Spy Kids 3: Game Over
• Step Brothers
• The Ugly Truth
• Till Death
• Titanic
• Tommy Boy
• Unthinkable
• Waterworld
• Zodiac

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• In for a Murder / W jak morderstwo — Netflix Film

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• We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

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• King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

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• Roswell, New Mexico: Season 3
• Sex: Unzipped — Netflix Series

Arriving Oct. 27

• Begin Again
• Hypnotic — Netflix Film
• Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight: Part 2 — Netflix Film
• Sintonia: Season 2 — Netflix Series
• Wentworth: Season 8

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What’s leaving Netflix in October 2021

Leaving Oct. 1

• Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
• Tales From the Hood 2

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• Cheech & Chong’s Still Smokin

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• Containment: Season 1
• Free Fire

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• Rango
• Shine On with Reese: Season 1

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• The 12th Man
• Zack and Miri Make a Porno

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• 60 Days In: Season 5
• Angels & Demons
• Battle: Los Angeles
• Beowulf
• Billy on the Street: Seasons 1-5
• Catch Me If You Can
• The Da Vinci Code
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
• Forged in Fire: Season 6
• The Heartbreak Kid
• The Impossible
• Inception
• Legally Blonde
• Mile 22
• Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
• Reckoning: Limited Series
• Snowden
• Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
• Yes Man