What to Watch in August: 20 Notable TV Shows & Streaming Movies

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – July 30, 2021

The month ahead will bring new shows like Marvel's What If, Reservation Dogs, Nine Perfect Strangers, and The Chair, plus returning favorites like Brooklyn Nine-Nine and streaming movies including a surprisingly good take on The Suicide Squad. In the gallery on this page, our editors have selected the most interesting TV and movie titles debuting at home in the next month, listed in order by premiere date.

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73 The Chair (2021): Season 1

Dramedy series debuts August 20 on Netflix

For their first series since Game of Thrones (and their subsequent signing of an enormous contract with Netflix), the production team of David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have opted for something very different: a six-episode dramedy set within the English department of a fictional university. Killing Eve's Sandra Oh, playing the newly installed first female head of the department, heads a cast that also features Jay Duplass, Holland Taylor, Bob Balaban, David Morse, Nana Mensah, and Everly Carganilla. Actress Amanda Peet created the series (with Annie Julia-Wyman) and serves as showrunner—it's her debut in those roles—though she doesn't appear in the show.

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