Worth Watching — October 9, 2026

Morena Baccarin brings her real-life husband, Ben McKenzie, on board for the Season 2 premiere of Sheriff Country, with new episodes of Fire Country and Boston Blue also returning to CBS‘ Friday lineup. New streaming movies include Ben Affleck in the kidnap thriller Animals and John Cena in the Mattel-inspired action-comedy Matchbox: The Movie.

Sheriff Country

Having spent years working to clean up crime in Gotham, Ben McKenzie is once again on the right side of the law. He’s guest-starring opposite his wife, series star Morena Baccarin, in the Season 2 opener as neighboring Sheriff Wade, who teams with Sheriff Mickey Fox (Baccarin) to help her on a case involving a criminal operation that poses a threat to Edgewater. Followed by the Season 5 premiere of Fire Country (9/8c), where a massive sinkhole disrupts the Founders’ Day celebration in Edgewater, causing new headaches for Station 42.

Boston Blue

The Blue Bloods spinoff returns for a second season, tackling a case with disturbing echoes of the past. A copycat killer is mimicking the methods of the infamous Boston Strangler of the 1960s, something Danny’s (Donnie Wahlberg) grandfather Henry (Blue Bloods’ Len Cariou) remembers all too well. Henry gives an assist to Danny and Lena (Sonequa Martin-Green) as they track the new menace. In other news, Danny weighs a potentially career-changing promotion, and Lena gets a new lead regarding the attack on her boyfriend, Det. Brian Rodgers (Ryan Broussard).

Animals

Ben Affleck is a political animal facing a personal crisis in a thriller he co-wrote (with Connor O. McIntyre and Billy Ray), starring as ambitious L.A. mayoral candidate Mark Kimball. His campaign is thrown into turmoil when his young son is kidnapped, forcing him and his wife, Abigail (Kerry Washington), to make some tough moral choices. Gillian Anderson co-stars as their enigmatic fixer.

Matchbox The Movie

They can’t all be Barbie. The latest movie inspired by a Mattel toy is a ridiculous but rousing action-comedy with impressive stunt work involving vehicles that spin, flip, and crash — just like we used to do with the Matchbox toy cars of our now-distant childhood. For globe-trotting covert CIA agent Sean (an iron-jawed John Cena), that childhood was back in the late 1990s, when his best friends in Ohio were part of a middle-school “Matchbox gang.” When Sean returns for a nostalgic reunion, he inadvertently involves his pals in international intrigue, getting swept up in a ticking-clock search for a stolen nuclear warhead. Good thing his grown-up gang has special skills: One (Jessica Biel) is a race-car driver, another (Arturo Castro) a science/chemistry teacher, with a helicopter traffic reporter (Teyonah Parris) and her husband, a heavy-equipment operator (Sam Richardson), along for the wild ride.

Anna Pigeon

Just renewed for a second season, the blue-sky mystery series ends its first with park ranger Anna (Tracy Spiridakos) staying behind at Glacier National Park as the season winds down and the rest of the seasonal staff moves on. Manning the station alone, she responds to an unusual S.O.S. call that puts her in the crosshairs of her nemesis, Jeremiah D. Paulson (Sons of Anarchy‘s Kim Coates).