Best Movies and TV Shows on Hulu

The movies and television shows below are the best of what’s coming to Hulu this month—according to me. Because I’m an expert at watching things.

I’m most psyched for English Teacher because I like shows about idealistic educators. I’ll be watching The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives too, because I like trashy, ripped-from-the-headlines reality. Also: I’m going to make a double feature of The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed and How to Die Alone, which take very different approaches to similar subject matter.

There’s a ton more great stuff coming to Hulu in September; check it out:

English Teacher

I have a good feeling about English Teacher. Brian Jordan Alvarez both created English Teacher and stars as Evan, an idealistic gay high school teacher navigating the complex cultural, political, and personal landscape of a high school in 2024 America. It’s earned an 86% on Rotten Tomatoes, a solid B+, and promises a fearless but sensitive look at how we’re all getting along these days.

Starts streaming September 2.

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives

Mormon households have a reputation for being traditional and pious, with husbands working, wives raising babies, and everyone praying all the time. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives rips the lid off that myth by documenting the true story of the Mormon moms of #MomTok, who are into partying hard and swinging like a screen-door. Scandalous!

Starts streaming September 6.

The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023)

Joanna Arnow wrote, directed, and stars in an intimate sex comedy about a depressed woman in her thirties pursuing her interest in BDSM. If you’re into deadpan humor about social isolation, you’re a fan of awkwardness, or you just want to watch something original for a change, check out The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed.

Starts streaming September 13.

How to Die Alone

The hilarious Natasha Rothwell stars in a gentle comedy series that tackles big questions. Rothwell plays Mel, a downtrodden, lonely airline employee whose depressing-but-safe life is turned inside out after a brush with death sets her on a quest for meaning and love. If you like comedies with an emotional core where you’re really rooting for the underdog hero, How to Die Alone is your show.

Starts streaming September 13.

Universal Basic Guys

Fox’s Sunday night lineup launched adult-animated classics The Simpsons, Family Guy, and Bob’s Burgers. Universal Basic Guys aims to pick up the mantle of anything-goes cartoon comedy. The premise: a bunch of small town dude-bros are laid off from a factory and given a basic income with no strings attached. This leaves them free to pursue every stupid idea they’ve ever had.

Starts streaming September 9.

Child Star

We’re in the middle of a cultural reckoning about child stardom. On the heels of HBO’s Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV comes Child Star, a documentary series directed by former child star Demi Lovato. Lovato digs into the highs and lows of being famous before you can drive through archival footage and interviews with ex child stars like Drew Barrymore, Kenan Thompson, JoJo Siwa, Raven-Symoné, and Alyson Stoner.

Starts streaming September 17.

High Potential

In this catch-the-bad-guys series, Kaitlin Olson stars as Morgan, a single mom with an IQ of 160 who works as a cleaning lady. When a seasoned detective uncovers her unique talent for deduction and crime solving, he teams up with her to solve baffling cases. (Yes, this sounds a little like The Cleaning Lady, but it’s actually based on popular French series Haut Potentiel Intellectuel.)

Starts streaming September 18.

Grotesquerie

Horror fans: Hulu sees you. Grotesquerie could be the full-tilt horror show you’ve been waiting for. When a series of gruesome crimes rocks a small town, local detective Lois Tryon starts to suspect that she’s the real target. With no leads to go on, Tryon turns to Sister Megan, a nun with a special insight into the supernatural, and the unlikely pair are led into a maelstrom of evil where they uncover sinister secrets.

Starts streaming September 26.

She Taught Love

This thoughtful film is a modern take on a premise that’s worked for romantic comedies since Shakespeare. Darrell Britt-Gibson and Arsema Thomas play Frank Cooper and Mali Waters, two very different people who fall in love. Cooper is a barely employed actor who fills his time between roles with booze and women. Thomas is a driven career woman on a mission to take over the world. Can these star-crossed lovers learn to embrace each others’ differences and get to their happy ending?

Starts streaming September 27.

Social Studies

This docuseries follows diverse groups of teenagers from different high schools in Los Angeles, digging into a school year of their lives. The subjects have opened their phones as well as their lives, and Social Studies takes a look at the digital habits that are shaping the first generation of online natives as they grapple with beauty standards, sexuality, the future, and more.

Starts streaming September 28.

Last month’s picks

Only Murders in the Building, season 4

How many murders can happen near the main characters of Only Murders in the Building before someone figures out that they’re serial killers? (Not really.) This series stars comedy greats Martin Short and Steve Martin and comedy good Selena Gomez as Charles, Oliver, and Mabel, podcast hosts and amateur detectives. Season 4 finds the trio going to Hollywood where a movie about their podcast is in production.  

Starts streaming August 27.

Dance Moms: A New Era, season 1

I dislike children, stage parents, and overbearing coaches, so I’m not really in the target demographic for Dance Moms: A New Era, but people loved the original, so I’m not going to argue. The reboot introduces hard-charging dance coach Glo Hampton who wants to take her students to the prestigious dance school Studio Bleu. To do it, she’ll have to manage precocious children, scheming moms, and constant drama. Sounds great(?).

Starts streaming August 7. 

Lollapalooza Live Stream

If you can’t make it Chicago for Lollapalooza this year, Hulu is streaming the festival live from August 1 to August 4. This year, the annual rock extravaganza will feature performances from Chappell Roan, Hozier, Reneé Rapp, SZA, Stray Kids, The Killers, Metro Boomin’, Megan Thee Stallion, and about a thousand other artists and bands spanning any genre and style you could think of. 

Starts streaming August 1

Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

As a comedian, Adam Sandler is love-him-or-hate-him, but as a serious actor, he’s undeniably great, especially when paired with director Paul Thomas Anderson. Punch-Drunk Love was Sandler’s first heavy role, and he shocked the world by turning in a nuanced, restrained, heartbreaking performance as Barry Egan, a lonely sad-sack who just barely manages to contain the violence inside him.  

Starts streaming August 1. 

Suitable Flesh (2023)

Director Joe Lynch delivers a Lovecraftian horror flick that’s also sexy—not a common combination. Heather Graham turns in a fearless performance as Elizabeth Derby, a psychiatrist whose devotion to reason is about to be abolished by the supernatural, specifically, a patient who complains that his father is trying to steal his body. It all hurtles toward a delightedly ooey and gooey finale that Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) fans will love. 

Starts streaming August 3. 

Eddie Pepitone: For the Masses (2020)

Don’t worry if you’ve never heard of stand-up comic Eddie Pepitone. He’s not a huge name or anything, but his abrasive, original, old-hipster style of standup comedy and his completely nihilistic outlook is a breath of fresh air. “You’re not gonna hear a lot of shit about dating, and how fun everything is. It’s not fun. We’re in end times,” Pepitone proclaims, which really sets the tone for this comedy show.

Starts streaming August 9.

Killer Lies: Chasing a True-Crime Con Man

This National Geographic-produced series tells the twisted true tale of self-proclaimed serial killer expert, Stéphane Bourgoin. Bourgoin built an international reputation and a large fanbase for his true crime books that describe his tragic life and his encounters with evil. But his fans became suspicious about some of the details in his stories, and started pulling the threads, revealing a complex web of lies. Director Ben Selkow goes beyond the story of a writer who lies all the time to examine the larger context of true crime culture.

Starts streaming August 29.