What to Watch in September: 23 Notable TV Shows & Streaming Movies

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

The month ahead will bring the long-awaited Y: The Last Man and Impeachment: American Crime Story, a Billie Eilish special, an unusual anime take on Star Wars, a new sci-fi epic, the return of What We Do in the Shadows, 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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61 Impeachment: American Crime Story

Miniseries debuts September 7 on FX

Debuting this month after a full-year delay, the third season of Ryan Murphy's American Crime Story anthology is set during the later years of the Bill Clinton administration and focuses on the Monica Lewinsky scandal. The real-life Lewinsky serves as a producer and consultant and will be played in the series by Booksmart's Beanie Feldstein, while Clive Owen portrays Bill Clinton, Sarah Paulson plays Linda Tripp, Edie Falco is Hillary Clinton, and Annaleigh Ashford is Paula Jones. Other cast members include Margo Martindale (playing Tripp advisor Lucianne Goldberg), Cobie Smulders (as Ann Coulter), Dan Bakkedahl (as Kenneth Starr), Blair Underwood (as Vernon Jordan), Mira Sorvino (as Lewinsky's mom), and Billy Eichner (as Matt Drudge). Jeffrey Toobin's best-seller A Vast Conspiracy serves as the source material, while the adaptation comes from relative newcomer Sarah Burgess. The 10-episode series kicks off with back-to-back episodes on night one.

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