November Preview: 19 TV Shows & New Movies to Watch at Home

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – October 30, 2020

In the gallery above, our editors have selected the coming month's most promising TV shows (including limited series and specials) as well as movies available to watch at home through VOD and digital purchases, listed in order by premiere date. Many of these titles haven't been reviewed yet (and we haven't seen them), but they are the most intriguing new releases on paper, at least, arriving in November.

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85 Between the World and Me

TV special debuts November 21 on HBO. In 2018, the massively acclaimed best-seller by Ta-Nehisi Coates, in which he explores America's racist underpinnings through the prism of his own life, was adapted into a stage show at the Apollo Theater. For its jump to television—and dictated in part by covid restrictions—portions of that production will be combined with documentary and archival footage as well as new animation. HBO has also gathered an impressive cast that includes (among many others) Mahershala Ali, Angela Bassett, Oprah Winfrey, Phylicia Rashad, MJ Rodriguez, Jharrel Jerome, Janet Mock, Wendell Pierce, T.I., Courtney B. Vance, activist Angela Davis, and Coates himself.

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