‘GLOW’ Season 3

Starts streaming: August 9

Geena Davis joins the cast as a former showgirl-turned-entertainment director who hires the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling for an extended residency at the Fan-Tan Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. (The gig kicks off on the day of the Challenger space shuttle explosion — an omen?) The change in scenery brings new plot possibilities for mud wrestling, gambling troubles and of course sexual escapades. There are also power struggles among the team’s producers, as they try to figure out a future for this colorful outfit. Can Ruth (Alison Brie) ever give up acting? Can Debbie (Betty Gilpin) live apart from her kid? Can the show really go on?

‘American Factory’

Starts streaming: August 21

In “American Factory” — the first title from Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions and premiering in partnership with Netflix — the documentary filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar capture a very modern culture clash. A Chinese billionaire opens a new auto-glass factory in Dayton, Ohio; hires thousands of locals to work there; and then — frustrated by the perceived slowness of the American employees — begins replacing them with machines. A winner at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, the film features intense conflict and also a full-blown musical number, staged by the corporation, limning the virtues of efficiency.

‘The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance’

Season Starts streaming: August 30

Jim Henson and Frank Oz’s 1982 cult film “The Dark Crystal” captured the imagination of a generation, and this prequel series — drawn from an ongoing series of companion books — has all the Gelfling dreamfasting, Skeksis feasting and Fizzgig growling that nostalgic fans might expect. When a few young Gelflings discover something awful is happening to their planet Thra, they seek to undo the damage. Can they manage it? The Skeksis’ wheedling Chamberlain (Simon Pegg) doesn’t think so: “Gelfling are weak, Gelfling are small, and Skeksis are forever.”