Wondering which series you can stream on Showmax in September 2023? Keep on reading to find out. There’s something for everyone in the ninth month of the year!
Here Are Series Can You Stream on Showmax in September 2023
1883 – Available to stream on Showmax from 18 September 2023
Set in the aftermath of the Civil War, Yellowstone origin story 1883 follows the Dutton family as they flee poverty on a journey west through the Great Plains towards the last bastion of untamed America.
Oscar nominee Sam Elliott (The Contender, A Star Is Born, The Hero) won a 2023 Screen Actors Guild Award as wiry cowboy Shea Brennan, while Isabel May won at the Women’s Image Network Awards for her breakthrough role as Elsa Dutton.
Also look out for Grammy-winning country music stars (and real-life couple) Faith Hill and Tim McGraw as Margaret and James Dutton, as well as guest appearances from Oscar winners Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Hanks.
1883 has an 8.7/10 score on IMDb and an 83% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Taylor Sheridan (Yellowstone co-creator, Sicario) won Best Episodic Drama at the 2022 Writers Guild of America Awards and 1883 was nominated for three Emmys last year – one for its musical score and two for its cinematography.
Check out the trailer for the show below:
Tulsa King – Available to stream on Showmax from 4 September 2023
Tulsa King stars three-time Oscar nominee Sylvester Stallone (aka Rocky Balboa) as New York mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi, who’s just been released from prison after 25 years, only to find himself exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Realising that his mob family may not have his best interests at heart, Dwight sets out to build a criminal empire of his own, starting with an unlikely new crew.
Exec-produced by Oscar-nominated creator Taylor Sheridan (Yellowstone) and Oscar-nominated co-writer Terence Winter (The Sopranos, The Wolf of Wall Street, Boardwalk Empire), Tulsa King was nominated for two 2023 Critics Choice Super Awards – Best Action Series and Best Actor in an Action Series (Stallone) – as well an Emmy for its stunt coordination.
Already renewed for a second season, Tulsa King has an 8/10 score on IMDb, with IndieWire saying, “Stallone playing a fish out of water who’s also a bull in a china shop proves perpetually entertaining,” and London Evening Standard saying, “This is Stallone dialled up to 11, exhibiting the kind of towering, megawatt, likeable-and-funny-even-when-
White House Plumbers – Available to stream on Showmax from 11 September 2023
One of Rotten Tomatoes’ most anticipated series of 2023, White House Plumbers tells the true story of how Richard Nixon’s own political saboteurs and Watergate masterminds accidentally toppled the presidency they were trying to protect.
Triple-Oscar nominee Woody Harrelson (True Detective, Triangle of Sadness) stars as CIA officer E Howard Hunt, with Emmy winner Justin Theroux (The Leftovers) as White House lawyer G Gordon Liddy.
Daily Telegraph (UK) says, “Americans may find it depressing – but for everyone else, it is a period hoot begging to be binged.”
Based on the book Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White House by Egil “Bud” Krogh (who served time for his role in the Watergate scandal) and his son Matthew Krogh, the five-part HBO series is helmed by a team of Emmy-winning Veep alums – writer-creators Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck, and director David Mandel.
White House Plumbers dominated the nominations in the Supporting Actress category at this year’s Hollywood Critics Association Awards, with Judy Greer (Leah Askey in The Thing About Pam, Ant-Man’sMaggie Lang, Karen in Halloween and Halloween Kills, Karen in Jurassic World), multiple-Emmy nominee Lena Headey (Game of Thrones’ Cersei Lannister) and Oscar nominee Kathleen Turner (The Kominsky Method) all vying for the award.
Perry Mason Season 2 – Available to stream on Showmax from 11 September 2023
Reluctant private investigator Perry Mason (Emmy winner Matthew Rhys from The Americans) is now an attorney, defending two Mexican brothers accused of the brutal murder of the son of a powerful oil family.
Up for 2023 Emmys for its 1930s era production design and costumes, S2 of Perry Mason has an 84% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with ABC News hailing the HBO series as “haunting and hypnotic.” They even compare it to the film noir classic Chinatown. “Yup, it’s that good,” they say.
Juliet Rylance (The Knick) and Chris Chalk (When They See Us, 12 Years A Slave) are back as Della Street and beat cop Paul Drake, while new cast this season include Oscar nominees Paul Raci (Joe in Sound of Metal) and Sean Astin (Bob Newby in Stranger Things, Samwise Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings trilogy), Emmy nominee Hope Davis (Succession’s Sandi Furness, Sandy Borden in Asteroid City, Gina Baxter in Your Honor), and Teen Choice nominee Katherine Waterston (Tina in the Fantastic Beasts movies, Daniels in Alien: Covenant).
Fire Country – Available to stream on Showmax from 18 September 2023
Fire Country follows Bode Donovan (Max Thieriot from SEAL Team and Bates Motel). A young convict seeking redemption, he joins an unconventional prison release firefighting programme in Northern California, where he and other inmates are partnered with elite firefighters to extinguish massive, unpredictable wildfires.
It’s a high-risk, high-reward assignment, and the heat is turned up when Bode is assigned to the programme in his rural hometown, where he was once a golden all-American son.
Executive-produced by Jerry Bruckheimer (the Oscar-nominated and 10-Emmy-winning producer behind mega-franchises like Pirates of the Caribbean, Bad Boys, Top Gun, and the hit CSI shows), Fire Country was co-created by Thieriot and Emmy-nominated Grey’s Anatomy writers Joan Rater and Tony Phelan.
Fire Country’s cast includes award winner Kevin Alejandro (Lucifer’s Dan Espinoza), Jordan Calloway (Black Lightning’s Khalil Payne aka Painkiller), and Billy Burke (9-1-1: Lone Star’sBilly Tyson and The Twilight Saga’s Charlie Swan).
The Suspect – Available to stream on Showmax from 15 September 2023
Based on Michael Robotham’s bestselling novel, The Suspect stars Empire Award winner Aidan Turner (aka Ross in Poldark, Kili in The Hobbit trilogy, and Glenn Lapthorn in Fifteen-Love) as clinical psychologist Dr Joseph O’Loughlin.
With a devoted family, a successful practice, a publishing deal and hero status in the media, Joe’s life seems near perfect. But even the most flawless existence is only a loose thread away from unravelling …
When the body of a young woman is found in a shallow grave in a West London cemetery, veteran police officer Vince Ruiz (BAFTA nominee Shaun Parkes from Small Axe) and his young partner Riya Devi (Anjli Mohindra from Vigil) call on Joe’s expertise to help them understand her disturbing death. But it soon emerges that Joe is closer to the case than anyone imagined.
In their 4-star review, The Guardian said, “Aidan Turner cranks the creepiness up to 11 in [this] fun, sadistic thriller.”
Turner was nominated for Best Actor for the role at the Irish Film and Television Awards. The five-episode series also stars BAFTA winner Sian Clifford (Fleabag’s Claire).
The Bay Season 4 – Available to binge on Showmax from 8 September 2023
In Season 4 of popular British crime drama The Bay, DS Jenn Townsend (Marsha Thomason from Lost), Morecambe Police’s family liaison officer, must gain the trust of a broken family to uncover the truth behind an arson attack.
Back at home, Jenn has troubles of her own as she tries to get to grips with the realities of having a blended family full of teenagers.
BAFTA nominee Barry Sloane and Daniel Ryan return as Chris and DI Tony Manning respectively. Joe Armstrong (Gentleman Jack’s Samuel Washington, and Gildas in Britannia) joins the cast this season as Dean Metcalf.
The Bay has picked up nominations at the BAFTAs in both Scotland and Wales, as well as an Irish Film and Television Award nomination for series co-creator and writer Daragh Carville. A fifth season is on the way.
Avenue 5 Season 2 – Available to stream on Showmax from 25 September 2023
Captain Clark’s space cruise ship has been thrown off course, making its eight-week scenic flip around Saturn a life-threatening, years-long journey back home to Earth.
As Season 2 begins, Avenue 5 is on course for a close encounter with the sun, while the captain is still trying to work up the courage to tell his passengers the truth about their “adjusted” ETA. Meanwhile, back on Earth, Judd Mission Control is under threat, and a planned rescue mission drums up less support than a TV dramatisation of the events aboard the ship.
Ten-time Emmy nominee Hugh Laurie (House M.D.) stars as Clark, opposite the likes of Kids’ Choice winner Josh Gad (Olaf in Frozen), Screen Actors Guild nominee Zach Woods (The Office, Silicon Valley) and Nigerian-born BAFTA nominee Nikki Amuka-Bird (Knock at the Cabin, Old). BAFTA nominee Leila Farzad (Naomi in I Hate Suzie) joins the cast this season as Clark’s love interest, Elena.
From Oscar-nominated creator Armando Iannucci (Veep), Avenue 5’s Season 2 has an 89% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with Decider praising the show’s “manic absurdity” and “stream of jokes hurling along at roughly the speed of light”.
Totally Completely Fine – Coming to Showmax on 6 September 2023
Critics Choice nominee Thomasin McKenzie (Last Night In Soho, Jojo Rabbit, The Power of the Dog) stars in Totally Completely Fine as Vivian, who inherits a cliffside property only to discover it’s a suicide site and she’s tasked with rescuing lost souls on the verge.
Totally Completely Fine has a rare 100% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with The Guardian saying, “McKenzie … imbues the lead role with a compelling, slightly dangerous and volatile energy, as if parts of her psyche could combust at any moment.”
The quirky Aussie comedy also stars Rowan Witt (Spreadsheet) as her brother, John, and the likes of Critics Choice winner John Noble (Fringe, Sleepy Hollow).
The Sydney Morning Herald calls it, “one of the most ambitious Australian series of the streaming age.”
Nolly – Available to binge on Showmax from 4 September 2023
Two-time Oscar nominee Helena Bonham Carter (The Crown, The King’s Speech) stars in Nolly, the new series from BAFTA winner Russell T Davies (It’s a Sin, Years and Years, A Very English Scandal).
As flame-haired widow Meg Richardson in the long-running UK soap opera Crossroads, inimitable star Noele Gordon (Nolly to her friends) was one of the most famous people in Britain.
Then in 1981, at the height of the show’s success and the peak of Nolly’s fame, she was axed without ceremony, without warning and with no explanation. With the boss’s words “all good things must come to an end” ringing in her ears, Noele found herself thrown out of the show that had been her life for more than 18 years.
Nolly is a bold exploration of how the establishment turns on women who refuse to play by the rules, the women it cannot understand and the women it fears. A love letter to a legend of TV – and to the madcap soap she starred in – Nolly is an outrageously fun and wildly entertaining ride through Noele Gordon’s most tumultuous years, and a sharp, affectionate and heart-breaking portrait of a forgotten icon.
Directed by BAFTA winner Peter Hoar (The Last of Us, It’s A Sin, The Umbrella Academy), the three-part series has a 100% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with The Guardian saying, “Helena Bonham Carter is brilliantly camp in Russell T Davies’s impeccable drama… It’s a joy to watch this warm, thoughtful tribute to soaps, fabulous older women – and showbiz itself.”
Dreamland – Already available to binge on Showmax
Based on Sharon Horgan’s 2018 BAFTA-winning short, Dreamland is a story of sun, sea and secrets from the makers of the 2023 Emmy nominee Bad Sisters.
Eldest sister Trish (Freema Agyeman from New Amsterdam and Doctor Who) is pregnant for the third time. This time, she’s decided: it’s going to be a girl. Her two sisters, their mum and their Margate- legend nan rally around her, “manifesting” a little girl at Trish’s ‘mani-festival’. But when their other sister, Mel (Grammy nominee Lily Allen in her TV debut), makes an unexpected reappearance back into their lives, her return threatens to destabilise the entire family. A knock on their door and their ‘Dreamland’ is no more…
Set in the British seaside town of Margate, the Sky Original has an 86% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In their four-star review, The Evening Standard calls Dreamland “a breath of fresh sea air in more ways than one”, adding that watching the sisters “bicker and squabble and show up for each other is a real joy” and that “the performances pack a punch”.
Maternal – Available on Showmax from 4 September 2023
Maternal follows three female doctors returning to post-pandemic frontline medicine after maternity leave and trying to balance the intense demands of life on the ward and motherhood.
Paediatric registrar Dr Maryam Afridi (Teen Choice nominee Parminder Nagra from Bend It Like Beckham and ER) is full of doubt that she can cope with the emotional demands of treating children now that she has her own. Catherine MacDiarmid (Critics Choice nominee Lara Pulver from Sherlock) is a single mother and successful surgeon determined to be one of the boys in the macho world of surgery.
And Dr Helen Cavendish (Lisa McGrillis from Mum) is a registrar in Acute Medicine, who is wrestling with a self-prescribed role that sees her mothering everyone in her life.
The British medical drama has a 100% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with The Guardian saying, “This wonderful drama about doctors going back to work after having children is a spot-on exploration of female friendship – and how to survive in a system stacked against you.”
Well, there you have it, a list of series that you can stream on Showmax in September 2023. If you don’t have an account yet, sign up HERE.
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