6 Upcoming Miniseries You Can't Miss

Image via Prime Video Published Sep 9, 2026, 5:34 AM EDT Sign in to your Collider account Television is having a great year in 2026, but the best is yet to come. The second half of the year is where things are getting interesting, especially when it comes to miniseries. The format has taken off in the last couple of years, since it has just enough room to tell ambitious stories without dragging the viewers along for several seasons. That sweet spot has made it the perfect medium for just about every genre out there, and 2026 might just be the year miniseries go all out. That’s because more creators are using the format to take bigger creative swings and experiment with structure, rather than just using it as a shorter version of regular television. This is a list of six upcoming miniseries that are pushing that ambition even further and absolutely cannot be missed. 1 ‘East of Eden’ (October 1) Image via Netflix Netflix’s East of Eden has a lot going for it before a single episode has even dropped. The series adapts John Steinbeck’s massive 1952 novel and will follow Florence Pugh as Cathy Ames, whose life becomes intertwined with generations of the Trask family, particularly brothers Adam (Christopher Abbott) and Charles (Mike Faist). The story spans from the Civil War era to World War I and includes Ciarán Hinds, Hoon Lee, Martha Plimpton, Tracy Letts, Joseph Zada, and Joe Anders in the ensemble cast, which already has the fans excited beyond measure. Not just that, but the show is helmed by Zoe Kazan, the granddaughter of Elia Kazan, who directed the famous 1955 East of Eden movie starring James Dean. However, instead of simply remaking the film, Kazan is going back to the much larger novel and giving its multigenerational story plenty of room to breathe. East of Eden premieres on Netflix on October 1, 2026, and might easily become one of the year’s biggest literary adaptations. 2 ‘The Good Daughter’ (November 12) Image via Peacock The Good Daughter, based on Karin Slaughter’s bestselling novel, is an upcoming Peacock thriller series that follows estranged sisters Charlotte (Meghann Fahy) and Samantha Quinn (Rose Byrne), whose lives came crashing down after a violent attack 20 years earlier. Charlotte stayed in their hometown of Pikeville and became a lawyer like their father, Rusty (Brendan Gleeson), while Samantha built a very different life away from everything that happened. Things take a turn when Charlotte happens to be the first witness at the scene of another shocking attack in town. The investigation quickly leads to the Quinn family’s past and forces both sisters to confront secrets that they have spent years trying to bury. The mystery itself is obviously exciting, but the bigger deal is that Slaughter is writing the adaptation herself. The author has full freedom to expand and rework her story in any direction without compromising on its essence. The stacked supporting cast of the series includes Olivia Williams, Michael Dorman, Harper Steele, and Paula Malcomson, which is another reason to tune in. The real draw, though, is that The Good Daughter sounds like more than another small-town thriller. The sisters’ dynamic is at the heart of everything, and this emotional conflict has the potential to elevate The Good Daughter to something great. Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you'd actually make it out of alive. 💊The Matrix 🔥Mad Max 🌧️Blade Runner 🏜️Dune 🚀Star Wars TEST YOUR SURVIVAL → 01 You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one. APull on every thread until I understand the system — then figure out how to break it. BStop asking questions and start stockpiling — food, fuel, weapons. Questions don't keep you alive. CKeep my head down, observe carefully, and trust no one until I know who's pulling the strings. DStudy the patterns. Every system has a rhythm — learn it, and you learn how to survive it. EFind the people fighting back and join them. You can't fix a broken galaxy alone. NEXT QUESTION → 02 In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires. AKnowledge. If you understand the system, you don't need resources — you can generate them. BFuel. Everything else — movement, power, escape — runs on it. CTrust. In a world of fakes and informants, a truly reliable ally is rarer than any commodity. DWater. And after water, information — the two things empires are truly built on. EShips and credits. The galaxy is big — you survive it by being able to move through it freely. NEXT QUESTION → 03 What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you're honest about what you're actually afraid of. AThat reality itself is a lie — that everything I experience has been constructed to keep me compliant. BA raid. No warning, no mercy — just the roar of engines and then nothing left. CBeing identified. Once someone with power decides you're a problem, you're already out of time. DBeing outmanoeuvred — losing a political game I didn't even know I was playing. EThe Empire tightening its grip until there's nowhere left to run. NEXT QUESTION → 04 How do you deal with authority you don't trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything. ASubvert it from the inside — learn its rules well enough to weaponise them against it. BIgnore it and stay out of its reach. The further from any power structure, the better. CAppear to comply while doing exactly what I need to do. Visibility is the enemy. DManoeuvre within it carefully. You can't beat a system you refuse to understand. EResist openly when I have to. Some things are worth the risk of being seen. NEXT QUESTION → 05 Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn't just tactical — it's physical, psychological, and very much about where you are. AUnderground bunkers and server rooms — cramped, artificial, but with access to everything that matters. BOpen wasteland — brutal sun, no shelter, constant movement. At least the threat is honest. CA dense, rain-soaked city where you can disappear into the crowd and nobody asks questions. DMerciless desert — extreme heat, no water, and something enormous living beneath the sand. EThe fringe — backwater planets and busy spaceports where the Empire's attention rarely reaches. NEXT QUESTION → 06 Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are. AA tight crew of believers who've seen behind the curtain and have nothing left to lose. BOne or two people I'd trust with my life. Any more than that and someone talks. CNobody, ideally. Alliances are liabilities. I work alone unless I have no choice. DA community bound by shared hardship and mutual survival — people who need each other to last. EA ragtag team with wildly different skills and total commitment when it counts. NEXT QUESTION → 07 Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they're actually made of. AI won't harm the innocent — even the ones who'd report me without hesitation. BI do what I have to to protect the people I've chosen. Everything else is negotiable. CThe line shifts depending on who's asking and what's at stake. DI draw a long-term line — nothing that compromises my people's future, even if it'd help now. ESome lines, once crossed, can't be uncrossed. I know which ones they are. NEXT QUESTION → 08 What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another. AWaking others up — dismantling the illusion so no one else has to live inside it. BFinding somewhere — or someone — worth protecting. A reason to keep moving. CAnswers. Understanding what I am, what any of this means, before time runs out. DLegacy — shaping the future in a way that outlasts me by generations. EFreedom — for myself, for others, for every world still living under someone else's boot. REVEAL MY WORLD → Your Fate Has Been Calculated You'd Survive In…Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for. The MatrixYou took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You're a systems thinker who can't help but notice the seams in things. You're drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it. You'd find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines' worst nightmare. You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it. The Matrix built an airtight prison. You'd be the one probing the walls for the door. Mad MaxThe wasteland doesn't reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That's you. You don't need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon. You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you're good at all three. You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider. In the wasteland, that distinction is everything. Blade RunnerYou'd survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely. You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer. In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional. You're not a hero. But you're not lost, either. In Blade Runner's world, that distinction is everything. DuneArrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards. Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they're survival tools. You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory. Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You'd learn its logic and earn its respect. In time, you wouldn't just survive Arrakis — you'd begin to reshape it. Star WarsThe galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn't have it any other way. You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion. You'd gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire's grip can be broken. You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn't something you're capable of. In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference. ↻ RETAKE THE QUIZ 3 ‘The Altruists’ (November 19) Image via Netflix The Altruists is adapting a story that feels too ridiculous to be real. The eight-episode Netflix miniseries follows FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (Anthony Boyle) and former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison (Julia Garner), who became romantically involved while building an enormous crypto empire. At its peak, FTX made Bankman-Fried one of the most famous faces in cryptocurrency. However, it didn’t take long for the whole thing to collapse and expose the misuse of billions of dollars in customer funds. This eventually put both Bankman-Fried and Ellison at the center of a criminal case that followed. The title of the show is important because it will dig into the concept of effective altruism, which influenced Bankman-Fried and others in his circle. That gives The Altruists a much better angle than simply spending eight episodes explaining crypto wallets and balance sheets. The interesting contradiction is how a group of people who talked about maximizing their positive impact on humanity ended up creating one of the biggest financial disasters of their generation. Netflix is also putting the relationship between Sam and Caroline right at the center to explore how ambition, ideology, money, and love became tangled together as FTX spiraled out of control, and the casting makes that approach all the more promising. The Altruists premieres on Netflix on November 19, 2026, and gives the world a never-before-seen peek into a story that took over the world back in 2022. 4 ‘Blade Runner 2099’ (November 25) Image via Prime Video Blade Runner 2099 is reviving one of the most important sci-fi franchises in pop culture, and that alone makes this miniseries a pretty big deal. The eight-episode Prime Video show is set 50 years after Blade Runner 2049 and returns to Los Angeles after another major shift in the balance between humans and Replicants. The story follows Cora (Hunter Schafer), a fugitive who takes on one final identity in an attempt to stop running. She becomes a Blade Runner, and her new job forces her to partner with Olwen (Michelle Yeoh), a Replicant who only has days left to live. Together they hunt a runaway carrying information powerful enough to destabilize the entire city. The interesting part here is that the human-Replicant relationship in this series has taken quite a turn after an uprising. That means the series is flipping the entire power structure to present a completely new take on this world that fans of the Blade Runner franchise are already familiar with. That’s not all, though. Silka Luisa, who created Shining Girls, serves as showrunner, while Shōgun director Jonathan van Tulleken directs the first two episodes, and both Ridley Scott and Blade Runner 2049 co-writer Michael Green are executive producers, which pretty much sets the upcoming series up for global success. 5 ‘Pride and Prejudice’ (TBD) Image via Netflix Pride and Prejudice doesn’t have a shortage of adaptations, so Netflix had to give audiences a pretty convincing reason to go back to Longbourn again. Thankfully, the six-part miniseries already has plenty. The series stars Emma Corrin as Elizabeth Bennet opposite Jack Lowden as Mr. Darcy, with Olivia Colman as Mrs. Bennet and Rufus Sewell as Mr. Bennet. The story itself remains faithful to Jane Austen’s 1813 novel and follows as Elizabeth’s sharp first impressions of the wealthy and painfully reserved Darcy slowly begin to unravel. Netflix is openly describing the upcoming series as a faithful, classic adaptation that will pay homage to Austen’s comedy, family dynamics, and romantic tension. The other big reason to pay attention to the series is the fact that it is written by Everything I Know About Love author Dolly Alderton, while Heartstopper director Euros Lyn directs all six episodes. If done right, Pride and Prejudice has the potential to become the blueprint for romantic comedies, packed with class anxiety, classic misunderstandings, and a level of yearning that Austen’s works are known for. 6 ‘The Future Is Ours’ (TBD) Image via Netflix Latin America The Future Is Ours is easily the most interesting sci-fi show on Netflix’s upcoming slate. The eight-episode limited series is based on Philip K. Dick’s 1956 novel The World Jones Made, but the adaptation moves the story into a distinctly Latin American future set in 2047 after an ecological collapse. As a response, South American countries have formed FedSur, an authoritarian coalition taking increasingly extreme measures to deal with hunger, violence, and environmental disaster. Then a mysterious voice begins spreading across the internet with one rather useful talent: being able to predict the future. Police officer Hugo Crussí discovers that the voice belongs to a young preacher named Jonás Flores, but arresting him completely backfires. Jonás becomes a continental spiritual leader almost overnight as he promises his followers the collapse of FedSur, victory over the climate crisis, and a brand-new future. Now, this setup is classic Philip K. Dick. His stories have always played with paranoia, authoritarianism, and unstable realities, but The Future Is Ours is filtering those ideas through climate collapse and contemporary Latin American politics, which gives it real weight. The cast for Netflix’s first Spanish-language adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel is led by Enzo Vogrincic, Emiliano Zurita, Delfina Chaves, Marleyda Soto, and Marco Antonio Caponi, and is definitely one to watch out for. The Good Daughter Release Date November 12, 2026 Network Peacock Cast Meghann Fahy Charlotte Quinn