New TV shows to watch this week: Tune in to 'Cupertino' on CBS, stream 'Carrie' on Prime Video and revisit 'The Haunting of Hill House' on Netflix

Hey, TV watchers! TV critic Michel Ghanem here. Every two weeks, I highlight the shows worth your TV time for Trust Me, I Watch Everything . Whether you prefer sticking to cable, catching the latest on streaming or digging up a hidden gem that slipped through the cracks, I try to curate something for everyone.

Happy spooky month ! If you're a fan of horror, there's lots ahead, whether that's American Horror Story on FX or a new take on Stephen King's iconic Carrie on Prime Video. Otherwise, consider tuning in to two juicy legal dramas: Cupertino on CBS and War on HBO, or stream Netflix's highly anticipated East of Eden adaptation. Finally, it's the perfect time to revisit Mike Flanagan's best miniseries, The Haunting of Hill House , also on Netflix. Let's jump into this week's recommendations.

Why you should watch it: Remember The Good Wife ? The creators of the Emmy-winning drama return with another 20-episode legal drama for CBS. There are few showrunners who are able to craft such engaging, dynamic courtroom scenes as Michelle and Robert King. Cupertino , their latest, is no exception.

This time around, we're not in Chicago but in the depths of Silicon Valley. The series begins when attorneys Michael Price (Mike Colter, who also appeared in The Good Wife , The Good Fight and Evil ) and Olivia Siffre (Rachel Keller) are both fired from the same tech startup. They decide to start a new law firm together, at first to take down their ex-employer, but eventually drawing the attention of other victims of Big Tech who need legal representation.

While the show embraces a case-of-the-week structure, it's also about their new firm getting off the ground, gaining investors and catching the eye of billionaires with deep pockets. Michael and Olivia barely have any money or much of a reputation to get started, but they have the power of the law on their side. It's reminiscent of some of the best David-vs.-Goliath tensions in The Good Wife .

There is also some pretty interesting character development right off the bat: Michael is trying to get out from under the shadow of his wealthy and successful lawyer father, Bayard (Joe Morton), and Olivia is timid and religious, which she's ultimately able to wield to her advantage against unsuspecting clients. You can also look forward to some great recurring appearances by Busy Philipps and Renée Elise Goldsberry.

To Cupertino 's credit, the individual cases are extremely entertaining to follow, which isn't always the case in legal procedurals. Not only are they topical — AI comes up a lot, naturally — but they're approached with curiosity and skepticism, enough to make our protagonists question their own preconceived biases.

In this way, Cupertino is the best of both worlds between The Good Wife and Evil , another show by the Kings that tackled religion rather than technology. This may be one of the best new broadcast shows in recent memory, and thank goodness we have an old-fashioned 20-episode season that will see us until summer.

How to watch: New episodes of Cupertino air every Thursday at 10 p.m. ET on CBS and stream on Paramount+ beginning Oct. 8.

Why you should watch it : Is divorce a battlefield? War seems to think so. In HBO's latest juicy drama, which was created by George Kay ( Hijack , Lupin ), two halves of a married couple take their legal teams to battle in a messy divorce with twists and turns.

It all kicks off when Carla Duval (Sienna Miller), a well-known actor based in London, suspects her husband of 10 years, Morgan Henderson (Dominic West), of having extramarital affairs. To get to the bottom of it, she sends a woman to seduce him after a big night in which he receives an award for Zephyr, the social media platform he created. Unfortunately, it works; he sleeps with the woman, and the divorce kicks off from there.

This is less a drama about a marriage collapsing or even how the public picks apart high-profile divorce cases, and much more a look into the legal process of it all. We spend a lot of time with two legal teams: Taylor & Byrne, led by married couple Nicholas Taylor (James McArdle) and Serena Byrne (Phoebe Fox), who are representing Carla, and Morgan's Cathcarts firm, led by Beatrice Ubosi (Nina Sosanya) and St. John Smallwood (Pip Torrens). This creates a large ensemble cast that is fun to follow over eight episodes as the proceedings pick up steam and we head for the inevitable court case.

A wild card in the series is Johnny Warren (Archie Renaux), a young law school graduate desperate to escape his job waiting tables and succeed in the field. His desire to do this at any cost places him in some precarious (and yet fairly predictable) circumstances.

At times, War could use more punch — debates on how to split up assets can be a bit dry to watch — but things get twistier from the fifth episode onward, and we spend a lot of the season with the tension that the other shoe will drop eventually. It helps that War is extremely sleek — well-shot, costumed and produced overall, with both Miller and West delivering solid performances.

How to watch: New episodes of War air on Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and stream on HBO Max .

American Horror Story : The 13th season of Ryan Murphy's horror anthology is bringing back many of its original actors, including Kathy Bates, Jessica Lange and Angela Bassett, for an all-star edition. The show is pulling lore from its first few seasons in particular, so it's probably not the most beginner-friendly season to dive into. But if you love this campy, chaotic universe, this is one to watch for the spooky season. — New episodes air on Thursday at 9 p.m. ET on FX and stream simultaneously on Hulu .

Tip Toe: A psychological thriller created by Russell T. Davies that aired to polarizing opinions in the U.K. has arrived stateside. It stars The Traitors host Alan Cumming as Leo Struthers, a bar owner in Manchester who develops an antagonistic relationship with his electrician neighbor, Clive (David Morrissey), while anti-LGBTQ rhetoric rises on social media. If you were a fan of Davies's previous politically driven shows like Years and Years or It's a Sin , you'll want to tune in. — New episodes air Fridays at 9:05 p.m. ET on Starz .

Why you should watch it: We all know the Stephen King story of Carrie, the high school student with mysterious powers who was relentlessly bullied in high school, only to be maliciously crowned prom queen and covered in pig's blood during her coronation. There have been many adaptations since the 1974 novel, most notably the 1976 film starring Sissy Spacek. Now comes the latest iteration of Carrie — and it's an exciting new take.

For one, this is the first time this story is being adapted into a television series, stretched over eight episodes. It's also helmed by Mike Flanagan, a veteran of television horror who once produced a season of television for Netflix every year ( The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass are two of his best). Crucially, this version of the story takes place in the present day rather than the '70s, meaning the bullying Carrie (Summer H. Howell) experiences follows her in person and virtually.

If you're already familiar with this tale, there are plenty of scenes that might feel familiar, like Carrie getting her period or Miss Desjardin (Amber Midthunder) punishing her gym class students for picking on Carrie by making them run drills. The role of Carrie's feverishly religious mother, Margaret (Samantha Sloyan), is expanded, and more details are inserted to explain why Carrie is forced to start attending public school after a childhood of homeschooling.

The season's structure is also more reminiscent of the novel, offering a Greek chorus of sorts by featuring police interviews in the aftermath and differing perspectives (I like to think of it as the Big Little Lies narrative device).

Flanagan has a three-season plan for Carrie , and you can see the ways in which he sprinkles in a story that reaches beyond Carrie's high school experience (i.e., introducing other individuals with supernatural abilities). For me, Carrie strikes the perfect balance of clarifying gaps in the original story while being entertaining and a little spooky — absolutely worth the binge this Halloween season.

How to watch: All eight episodes of Carrie will stream on Wednesday, Oct. 7, on Prime Video .

East of Eden : Zoe Kazan's highly anticipated miniseries adaptation of East of Eden has arrived, and it is sumptuous and epic, even when it's dark and miserable. The series stars Florence Pugh as Cathy Ames alongside Christopher Abbott and Mike Faist. This one is an immediate awards contender and one of Netflix's biggest swings in a while, with gorgeous cinematography and heart-wrenching performances. Not a series you'll want to miss. — All seven episodes are streaming on Netflix .

Below : If you liked Widow's Bay , you're in luck: Another spooky seaside horror mystery has arrived. In Below , we're in a small town in Newfoundland, Canada, where fisherman Calvin Penney (Josh Hartnett) encounters a mysterious sea creature. The cast is rounded out by Mackenzie Davis and Charlie Heaton. Expect many frights. — All six episodes will stream on Netflix on Thursday, Oct. 8.

Avatar: Seven Havens: The next series in the animated universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender is finally upon us. Set 225 years after the events of The Legend of Korra , in which the world has been transformed by a cataclysmic apocalyptic event , we follow Avatar Pavi (Saheli Khan), an earthbender living in the city of Ellora, who reunites with her long-lost sister Nisha (Aishu Devan). The Avatar world is one of the richest fictional universes on television, and it's about time creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko continue to grow its lore. — Three new episodes are streaming every Friday starting Oct. 9 on Paramount+ .

Why you should watch it: If you have an interest in horror but haven't yet dipped into the works of filmmaker Mike Flanagan, The Haunting of Hill House is where you should start. It's not a series you'll be able to get out of your head anytime soon.

Hill House routinely ranks at the top of critic lists for the best shows on Netflix, and it's easy to see why. Loosely adapted from Shirley Jackson's chilling 1959 novel of the same name, the series follows the Crain family in 1992 as they move into an old mansion with the hope of flipping it for profit. Over the course of the renovations, the family is exposed to paranormal activity that intensifies until it finally drives them from the mansion.

Twenty-six years later, the five Crain siblings are still processing what happened to them as kids. Steven (Michiel Huisman) has made a career out of publishing semi-autobiographical novels about ghosts; Shirley (Elizabeth Reaser) runs a mortuary with her husband; Luke (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) hasn't been able to move past his childhood experiences and leans on a heroin addiction to cope; Theo (Kate Siegel) is a child psychologist; and Nell (Victoria Pedretti) is found dead at the beginning of the series, bringing the siblings together to mourn her loss.

We flash back and forth between the 1992 and 2018 timelines as the siblings are essentially forced to revisit the paranormal trauma they've each buried or suppressed in their own way. The jump scares in both timelines are bone-chillingly good, and there is a twist about what happened to Nell in the fifth episode that is one of the best in recent television memory — I still get shivers thinking about it.

There's a reason why Hill House has endured as one of Netflix's best. It is extremely evocative, gorgeously crafted and performed, and was absolutely deserving of Emmy nominations it never received. I can't think of a better time to watch it than October.

How to watch: All 10 episodes of The Haunting of Hill House are streaming on Netflix.

That's it for this edition, but there'll always be more TV to watch. I'll be back on Oct. 19 with new recommendations.

Think there's something missing that deserves my TV time? Let me know what else I should have on my radar in the comments below!