Streaming TV Shows and Movies to Look Forward to in August: Ted Lasso, The Last House, Sterling Point

If you ever feel like you’re the last to know about a new TV show or movie that’s streaming, our What to Stream articles are for you. We’ve gathered our picks of movies, TV series, and new seasons premiering on various streaming platforms in August that you’ll definitely want to watch.

This month, you can check back in with the Pogues on the final season of Outer Banks, spend a summer in Mallorca with Ry and Julian on The Last Sunrise, or travel to Australia in the 1900s to meet Sybylla as she tries to avoid societal conventions and carve her own path on My Brilliant Career. 

Here are our picks for what to stream in August:

Ted Lasso Season 4 (Apple TV) – August 5

It’s time to head back to Richmond and gear up for another season of football and Ted Lasso-branded positivity. Ted Lasso Season 4 premieres with one episode on August 5 on Apple TV with new episodes releasing weekly.

Season Description: Ted returns to Richmond, taking on his biggest challenge yet: coaching a second division women’s football team. Throughout the course of the season, Ted and the team learn to leap before they look, taking chances they never thought they would.

Sterling Point (Prime Video) – August 5

After the death of her grandfather, Annie gains an unexpected inheritance and has a summer to remember. Sterling Point premieres with all episodes on August 5 on Prime Video.

Series Description: Sterling Point is a heartfelt, coming-of-age drama led by 17-year-old Annie Jacobson (Ella Rubin). Raised in New York City with her twin brother (Keen Ruffalo) and loving adoptive father (Jay Duplass), Annie’s life takes a turn when she inherits her mysterious grandfather’s island in Canada. There, she finds new friends, budding romances and untold family secrets. The cast also includes Amélie Hoeferle, Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie, Daniel Quinn-Toye, Bo Bragason, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Nikko Angelo Hinayo, Mabel Strachan, Elle-Maija Talifeathers, and Missi Pyle.

The Last House (Netflix) – August 7

This sci-fi thriller follows a family that becomes trapped inside their home by a mysterious threat. The Last House premieres on August 7 on Netflix.

Film Description A family of four are suddenly sealed inside their home with no way out, and must work together to survive against both their dwindling resources and the mysterious, looming threat that is keeping them trapped.

Reacher Season 4 (Prime Video) – August 12

Reacher finds himself embroiled in another conspiracy after encountering a woman on the subway. Reacher Season 4 premieres with three episodes on August 12 on Prime Video with new episodes releasing weekly.

Season Description: Based on the 13th book in Lee Child’s global best-selling series, Gone Tomorrow, in the fourth season of the action-packed series, when a chance encounter with a distraught stranger on a subway goes horribly wrong, Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson) is drawn into a complex and deadly game that pits him against ruthless foes from the highest echelons of power. New to the cast this season are Chris Marquette, Sydelle Noel, AGNEZ MO, Anggun, Kevin Weisman, Marc Blucas, Kevin Corrigan, and Kathleen Robertson.

My Brilliant Career (Netflix) – August 13

All Sybylla wants is to be a writer, but society has other expectations for her. Will she be able to find a way to get her independence, or is marriage in the cards for her after all? My Brilliant Career premieres with all episodes on August 13 on Netflix.

Series Description: Sybylla is a shockingly modern young woman with one searing ambition – to be a writer, while her family is determined to marry her off. With an irrepressible taste for fun, Sybylla breaks every convention of 1900 Australia as she searches for a story that will allow her to write her way to independence. For her, the choice between adventure or marriage seems easy, until she falls in love. Will Sybylla marry, or will she risk it all for a creative life?

Outer Banks Season 5 (Netflix) – August 20

The Pogues are back for one last season. Their mission is clear: avenge JJ and secure their futures. Outer Banks Season 5 premieres with all episodes on August 20 on Netflix.

Season Description: Season 5 finds the Pogues at their absolute breaking point following the tragic loss of JJ in Morocco. Stranded far from home and mourning the heart of their crew, they’ve lost the Blue Crown and continue to face a gauntlet of familiar threats. With Chandler Groff still at large, Dalia and the Corsairs closing in, and the Kooks ensuring the Pogues have no home to return to, John B, Sarah, Kiara, Pope, and Cleo must rely on their scrappy instincts—and an uneasy alliance with Rafe—to keep from falling apart for good. Their mission is now a desperate race to reclaim their future and finally win the freedom they’ve been chasing since the beginning. It’s the Pogues against the world as they seek to avenge their best friend and bring it on home…one final time.

The Last Sunrise (Prime Video) – August 26

Summer can be a magical time where you get to escape from your real life and potentially even fall in love, and that seems to be exactly what is in store for Ry. The Last Sunrise premieres on August 26 on Prime Video.

Film Description: Based on the beloved novel, The Last Sunrise follows Ry (Maia Reficco), a college student with a chronic illness, on a summer escape to Mallorca with her mother (Eva Longoria). As she unexpectedly falls for Julián (Fernando Lindez) and begins to embrace living in the moment, her worsening condition and long-hidden family secrets threaten to unravel everything before the summer ends.

Dark Matter Season 2 (Apple TV) – August 28

Just when the Dessens thought they were safe, they’re forced to go on the run again. Dark Matter Season 2 premieres with one episode on August 28 on Apple TV with new episodes releasing weekly.

Season Description: Hailed as one of the best sci-fi novels and celebrating the 10th anniversary of its release this year, Dark Matter is a story about the road not taken. In season one, the series followed Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton), a physicist, professor and family man who — one night while walking home on the streets of Chicago — is abducted into an alternate version of his life. Wonder quickly turns to nightmare when he tries to return to his reality amid the mind-bending landscape of lives he could have lived. Season two picks up with the Dessens as they settle into a quiet life in a world that finally seems safe until the unimaginable forces them to run once again. As Jason’s obsession with the Box deepens, Daniela’s (Jennifer Connelly) growing paranoia pushes her to the brink, threatening to tear their fragile stability apart. Elsewhere, Amanda (Alice Braga) and Ryan (Jimmi Simpson) join forces in a desperate attempt to find their way home. With Blair (Amanda Brugel) determined to stop him, Leighton (Dayo Okeniyi) relentlessly chases his grand vision of creating a perfect world.

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