October Preview: 25 TV Shows & New Movies to Watch at Home

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – September 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 October.

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Borat: Gift of Pornographic Monkey to Vice Premiere Mikhael Pence to Make Benefit Recently Diminished Nation of Kazakhstan

Movie debuts sometime in late October on Prime Video. Filmed in secret this year, the sequel to the 2006 hit comedy Borat (which had only a slightly shorter title than the new film) returns Sacha Baron Cohen's most famous character, the Kazakhstani TV host Borat Sagdiyev, first popularized on Da Ali G Show. Little is known about the new film (whose existence wasn't confirmed until a few days ago when a WGA filing with the full title was spotted), though Baron Cohen was seen in character as Borat on multiple occasions this year, including at a pro-gun rally in Washington state and during an aborted interview with Rudy Giuliani which saw the latter calling the police on Baron Cohen/Borat. Other reports suggest that the Donald Trump-Jeffrey Epstein relationship and the pandemic will be among the topics covered (and, presumably, the vice president also factors into the film). Amazon just snapped up the rights to the feature and has promised to stream it at some point in October, probably toward the end of the month.

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