New on HBO Now: All the Movies and TV Coming in October
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2017 is flying by, and with its next chapter comes a fresh batch of movies and TV shows arriving and departing on HBO Now. Time to find out what’s going to capture our eyeballs and ear drums in October.
First and foremost, we’re looking forward to Larry David’s triumphant return in season nine of Curb Your Enthusiasm. The long-running comedy will return all of its core cast members, including Cheryl Hines, Jeff Garlin, Susie Essman and J.B. Smoove, and if its recent trailer is any indication, L.D. will be as delightfully irascible as ever in Curb’s reunion, which means we’re in for a pretty, pretty, pretty good season. Beyond that, HBO’s incoming original programming for October doesn’t lack for interesting entries, such as the Oct. 7 debut of Spielberg, an in-depth, career-spanning documentary on the eponymous director, as well as the Oct. 20 return of Emmy-winning sketch-comedy series Tracey Ullman’s Show, and the season one finales of both the Duplass brothers’ anthology series Room 104 (Oct. 13) and David Simon’s already-renewed porn-industry drama The Deuce (Oct. 29).
Just in time for Halloween, HBO is adding a couple of freaky films to its arsenal, including American horror story The Purge: Election Year, David F. Sandberg’s directorial debut Lights Out, M. Night Shyamalan’s shocking return to form Split, and Fifty Shades Darker (Unrated Version), which is freaky in an entirely different way. Other movies soon to stream on HBO Now include unbelievably underrated naval epic Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, action trilogy middle child John Wick: Chapter 2, and a pair of stone-cold classics in The Terminator and The Sandlot.
As for what’s leaving HBO in October, you still have time to catch Spike Lee classic Do the Right Thing, John Hughes’ indispensable teen tales The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles, Spielberg’s razor-sharp Philip K. Dick adaptation Minority Report, early-’90s Clint Eastwood Western Unforgiven, and one of the best unintentional comedies ever made: Shymalan’s The Happening. Get to it, streamers.
See HBO Now’s full slate of incoming and outgoing programming below.