What to Watch in August: 17 Notable TV Shows & Streaming Movies

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – July 28, 2022

Here be dragons! The month ahead will bring HBO's long-awaited Game of Thrones prequel, the latest Marvel and Star Wars shows, the return of Beavis and Butt-Head, and more. 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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74 The Patient: Season 1

Miniseries debuts August 30 on Hulu

The latest TV project from The Americans creators Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg is an FX-produced psychological thriller starring Steve Carell as a psychotherapist who finds himself held captive by one of his patients. The latter, a serial killer played by Domhnall Gleeson, demands to be cured of his homicidal urges. David Alan Grier, Linda Emond, Andrew Leeds, and Laura Niemi also star. The first three half-hour episodes stream on day one, followed by seven additional weekly installments.

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